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Cross-cultural adaptatiion and validation of the stroke specific quality of life 2.0 scale into Hausa language

open access: yesJournal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2018
Background The Stroke Specific Quality of Life 2.0 (SS-QoL 2.0) is a widely used scale that has been cross-culturally adapted to many languages including Yoruba, one of the three major Nigerian languages.
Marufat O. Odetunde   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experiences of parents of children with special needs: Educational services, challenges and recommendations from parents' perspectives

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Parents of children with special needs in Nigeria are faced with several challenges. In most cases, decisions are taken without their active involvement, despite them being the primary carers for their children with special needs. This research utilised a qualitative research design with fifteen participants to understand parents' perspectives
Noah Agbo, Sylvia Yeboah Boamah
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
wiley   +1 more source

A Kushi-English-Hausa Wordlist

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2017
A Kushi-English-Hausa ...
Gian Claudio Batic
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecological networks, there is not yet an approach that can (1) quantify dissimilarity in the global structure of ecological networks that range from ...
Kai M. Hung   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of the Hausa version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale: translation, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation in mixed urban and rural patients with chronic low back pain

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021
Background Catastrophizing has been recognized as an important contributor to chronicity in individuals with chronic pain syndromes including low back pain (LBP).
Aminu A. Ibrahim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

Wyrażanie rozkazu w trzech hausańkich tłumaczeniach Ewangelii według sw. Łukasza

open access: yesAnnales Missiologici Posnanienses, 2010
Hausa in one of the most important and well known African language. It is used in northern Nigeria and in the south of Niger. There were several attempts to translate Bible into Hausa. It is believed that every next translation should be better, because
MAŁGORZATA BOGUSIAK
doaj   +1 more source

Surviving the Post–Biafran War by Navigating the Igbo People's Igba‐Boi Apprenticeship Model of Entrepreneurship

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafrans started from scratch through trades, mostly adopting the igba‐boi apprenticeship system in Nigeria. This paper examines the impact of the igba‐boi entrepreneurship system in post‐Biafra for the survival of the Igbo identity.
Chiemela Victor Amaechi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An efficient Dai-Kou-type method with image de-blurring application [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Optimization
Well-conditioning of matrices has been shown to improve the numerical performance of algorithms by way of ensuring their numerical stability. In this paper, a modified Dai–Kou-type conjugate gradient method is developed for constrained nonlinear monotone
K. Ahmed   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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