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Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurship accelerators are increasingly promoted as structural interventions to close gender gaps, yet studies have not established a differential impact of participation for women. This prior evidence—drawn from high‐tech, male‐dominated settings—may overlook how outcomes differ in more feminized domains such as social
Nilanjana Dutt, Sarah Kaplan
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence, Determinants, and Barriers to Reproductive Health Decision-Making Autonomy Among Married Women in Rural Parts of Seden Sodo District, Southwest Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aim In rural Ethiopia, where patriarchal norms prevail, women's limited decision‐making autonomy significantly restricts their reproductive health (RH) service utilization. However, scarcity of data persists. Hence, this study assesses the prevalence, determinants, and barriers to RH decision‐making autonomy among married women ...
Gobena S, Shallo SA, Bekele GG, Tefera EG, Bulto GA.   +4 more
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Women's Off‐Farm Employment and Dietary Quality in Rural Africa

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most households in rural Africa are involved in smallholder farming, but off‐farm employment is an important additional income source for many. Previous research has analysed links between off‐farm employment and well‐being, but mostly at the household level, not considering that household members may be affected differently.
Chrispinus Mutsami, Martin C. Parlasca, Matin Qaim   +2 more
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Risk factors for high anti-HHV-8 antibody titers (≥1:51,200) in black, HIV-1 negative South African cancer patients: a case control study [PDF]

, 2003
Background: Infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the necessary causal agent in the development of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Infection with HIV-1, male gender and older age all increase risk for KS.
BM Friedman, C Boshoff, C Boshoff, D Serraino, D Whitby, DH Kedes, Dimitra Bourboulia, EP Zorrilla, F Sitas, F Vitale, Freddy Sitas, G de-The, G de-The, G Rezza, GR Simpson, H Renwick, J Iscovich, J Ziegler, Janet M Wojcicki, JJ Goedert, JL Ziegler, JL Ziegler, KA Staskus, L Rainbow, Lara Stein, LD Baker, M Dedicoat, Margaret I Urban, Martin Hale, Moosa Patel, P Cook-Mozaffari, P Kellam, Paul Ruff, PS Moore, R Greenblatt, R Newton, R Newton, R Tedeschi, Ranjan Sur, RJ Biggar, Rob Newton, RP Stowe, S Lemeshow, S Plancoulaine, SJ Gao, STATA, Statistics South Africa, TH Bothwell, TH Bothwell, VR Gordeuk, Y Chang, Z Grossman   +51 more
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Genomic Investigations Unveil the Genetic Underpinnings of Environmental Adaptation in African Goat Populations

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study integrates genomics and landscape genetics to analyze African goat environmental adaptation. Analyzing 1591 samples, it finds population structure differentiates geographically into four groups, with gene flow between wild Yura goats and North Africans.
Weifeng Peng, Yihua Wang, Yiyuan Zhang, Lei Gao, Lili Wu, Shuping Wang, Yiyang Gao, Wanlu Shi, Kaixin Lu, Rong Deng, Junting Li, Jing Han, Xiaohui Lu, Yujie Liu, Xiaojiao Tang, Yunxia Zhang, Guoyin Li, Li Huang, Mingsheng Yang, Xiaoyan Li   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of 17th-century Ethiopian Pigments [PDF]

, 1999
International audiencePigments from two master-pieces of Ethiopian art of the 17th c. are analyzed by Raman micro-spectography technic. One is an illuminated manuscript of the Miracles of Mary (BnF Eth Abb 114), the other the mural painting of Abba ...
Wion, Anaïs
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An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Mana Angetu District, South Eastern Ethiopia [PDF]

, 2008
This study documents indigenous medicinal plant utilization, management and the threats affecting them. The study was carried out in Mana Angetu district between January 2003 and December 2004.
Bekele, Tamrat, Kelbessa, Ensermu, Molla, Ermias Lulekal, Yineger, Haile   +3 more
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
wiley   +1 more source

South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source