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Deconstructing the Yield Gap: Behavioral Risk Attitudes and Maize Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

open access: yesAdvances in Agriculture, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Understanding farmers’ risk attitudes is essential for improving agricultural productivity and resilience, particularly in developing countries like Ethiopia. Despite its importance, the role of behavioral factors in shaping farm production decisions remains insufficiently explored in smallholder maize systems.
Yohannes Girma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Y‐chromosome short tandem repeats in forensics—Sexing, profiling, and matching male DNA

open access: yesWIREs Forensic Science, Volume 1, Issue 4, July/August 2019., 2019
STR markers located on the Y chromosome and the Y Chromosome Haplotype Reference Database (YHRD) are used to analyze and interpret DNA evidence in sexual assault investigations. Abstract The analysis of short tandem repeat (STR) markers located on the Y chromosome is an established method in forensic casework analysis. Usually this method is applied in
Lutz Roewer
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2018
This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
doaj   +1 more source

The border as temporal horizon: a borderlands massacre and the contested futures of federalism in eastern Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 415-435, June 2025.
Abstract In 1995, a coalition of former rebel groups redrew Ethiopia's map, establishing an ethnic‐federal system. By 2017, internal border conflicts signalled federalism's potential unravelling. This article analyses expectations about federalism's future among Somalis in Ethiopia, drawing on anthropologies of time to understand how everyday processes
Daniel K. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Migration of Chadic speaking pastoralists within Africa based on population structure of Chad Basin and phylogeography of mitochondrial L3f haplogroup

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009
Background Chad Basin, lying within the bidirectional corridor of African Sahel, is one of the most populated places in Sub-Saharan Africa today. The origin of its settlement appears connected with Holocene climatic ameliorations (aquatic resources) that
Mulligan Connie J   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.
In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
wiley   +1 more source

Cushitic numerals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
More than 30 years ago Andrzej Zaborski (1983; 1987 {1983}) collected and analyzed all Cushitic and Omotic numerals, which were described in his time, and tried to analyze their internal structure.
Blažek, Václav
core   +1 more source

A Bigger Picture of Early Literacy and Biliteracy Acquisition in Abugidas: Perspectives from Asian and African Languages

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 499-513, July/August/September 2024.
Abstract With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018)
Jialin Lai   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
wiley   +1 more source

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic Languages

open access: yes, 2013
The present volume is a selection of the papers presented during the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic languages held in Paris 16-18 April 2008. The book, which contais 14 articles, is organized into three sections: 1.
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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