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The nexus between improved water supply and water-borne diseases in urban areas in Africa: a scoping review protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesAAS Open Research, 2020
Introduction: Currently, an estimated two thirds of the world population is water insufficient. As of 2015, one out of every five people in developing countries do not have access to clean sufficient drinking water.
Nyamai Mutono   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Health Law Governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The field of public health law traditionally focuses on law at the national and sub-national level. National legal systems, however, are inadequate to deal with major threats to humans.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
core   +1 more source

Insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling on the proposed 2030 goal for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) is a parasitic, vector-borne neglected tropical disease that has historically affected populations across West and Central Africa and can result in death if untreated.
Aliee, Maryam   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This perspective provides a reflective account of our personal experiences as African professors and lecturers in diverse fields of environmental sciences encountering the urban Anthropocene. Here, we explain the nature of the unprecedented, potent and hidden changes in our lived environments.
Aliyu Salisu Barau   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐term impact of exposure to Royal Guard, a pyriproxyfen‐based bed net, on pyrethroid‐resistant malaria vectors from Cameroon using DNA‐based metabolic resistance markers

open access: yesPest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2165-2180, April 2025.
We used recently detected P450 DNA‐based markers of pyrethroid resistance in both Anopheles funestus and Anopheles gambiae to demonstrate that although pyrethroid‐resistant mosquitoes have higher ability to survive and live longer after exposure to Royal Guard, this net significantly affects their lifespan, blood feeding ability and interestingly ...
Emilie S Ngongang‐Yipmo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, Water and Sanitation: A Policy Brief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This policy brief identifies some of the major factors that need to be addressed to implement a gender approach to water resources and sanitation management and makes ...

core  

Graphene as a quantum surface with curvature-strain preserving dynamics

open access: yes, 2010
We discuss how the curvature and the strain density of the atomic lattice generate the quantization of graphene sheets as well as the dynamics of geometric quasiparticles propagating along the constant curvature/strain levels.
A. Cortijo   +34 more
core   +1 more source

Different types of peroxisomes in human duodenal epithelium [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Peroxisomes are ubiquitous organelles containing enzyme sequences for beta-oxidation of fatty acids, synthesis of bile acids, and ether phospholipids.
Roels, Frank   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Local Ecological Knowledge Reveals the Distribution of Cryptic Nocturnal Wildlife

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Many nocturnal animals are difficult to study because they are rarely seen, including nocturnal primates, galagos and pottos, in West Africa. Working with over 600 people in 52 villages in southern Guinea‐Bissau, we found that communities frequently recognized galagos by their red eyeshine and distinctive calls, while pottos were not known.
Chloe Chesney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

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