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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa [PDF]
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional ...
Bertocchi, Graziella
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Contraband, free ports, and British merchants in the Caribbean world, 1739-1772
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2013 This article examines the evolution of contraband to legitimate trade in the eighteenth century Caribbean world during the War of Jenkins’ Ear and Seven Years’ War.
Nadine Hunt teaches African History at York University, Canada. She is co-editor, with Olatunji Ojo of Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: a history of enslavement and identity since the 18th century, London, I.B. Tauris, 2012.
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 The ancient Ethiopian Christian empire was an emergent and notable power in Eastern Africa and influenced its surrounding regions. It was itself influenced both religiously and politically. The ancient Christian narrative of North Africa has been deduced
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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KDM7A and KDM1A inhibition suppresses tumour promoting pathways in prostate cancer
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Treatment resistance is a major challenge for patients with advanced prostate cancer. This study examined an alternative approach to target the major prostate cancer‐promoting pathway by targeting epigenetic factors, whose levels are higher in tumours.
Jennie N Jeyapalan +16 more
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Social entrepreneurship in the selected neo-Pentecostal churches: A holistic salvation
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 Pentecostalism is a Christian tradition known for personal salvation, baptism in the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, divine healing and personal encounter with God through the work of the Holy Spirit.
Mookgo S. Kgatle +1 more
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A new species in the major malaria vector complex sheds light on reticulated species evolution [PDF]
, 2019 Complexes of closely related species provide key insights into the rapid and independent evolution of adaptive traits. Here, we described and studied Anopheles fontenillei sp.n., a new species in the Anopheles gambiae complex that we recently discovered ...
Akone-Ella O. +11 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Here, we demonstrate that HS1BP3 interacts with Cortactin through a proline‐rich region (PRR3.1) and show that this interaction, and HS1BP3 itself, promote cancer cell proliferation and invasion. Inhibition of this interaction leads to build‐up of TKS5 in multivesicular endosomes and altered secretion of CD63 and CD9, providing an explanation for the ...
Arja Arnesen Løchen +9 more
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Gold Mining and Economic and Social Change in West Africa [PDF]
, 2015 Economic theory often suggests that social institutions are strongly influenced by specific geographic features of regions. The history of gold mining in West Africa, however, suggests that the relationship between mineral resources and social ...
Kevane, Michael
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Translational cancer research and its implementation through competitively selected Comprehensive Cancer Centers across Europe should be the primary policy focus for addressing the increasing cancer burden in Europe and counteract the present main strategy to convert cancer to a chronic disease.
Manuel Heitor +2 more
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Ethiopian Christianity: A continuum of African Early Christian polities
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 The 4th century CE was definitive for Early Christianity as there emerged an imperial orthodoxy establishment. This was the inception of an era of a Christian polity characterised by symbiotic ties between the imperial establishment and a developing ...
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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