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Effects of improved sanitation on diarrheal reduction for children under five in Idiofa, DR Congo: a cluster randomized trial. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty, 2017
BACKGROUND: The lack of safe water and sanitation contributes to the rampancy of diarrhea in many developing countries. METHODS: This study describes the design of a cluster-randomized trial in Idiofa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, seeking ...
Cha S, Lee J, Seo D, Park BM, Mansiangi P, Bernard K, Mulakub-Yazho GJN, Famasulu HM.   +7 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Sickle cell anemia and pregnancy: Profile of hemodynamic changes in sickle cell pregnant women in Kinshasa

eJHaem, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 977-983, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Pregnancy is accompanied by hormonal changes. These relate mainly to progesterone and placenate growth factor. Hemodynamic changes are also observed. in a sickle cell pregnant woman, all these changes have a direct effect on hypoxia. This is responsible for the polymerization of HbS.
Tite Minga Mikobi, Nelly Ciombo Kamuanya, Emmanuelle Ketsia Bokashanga Mikobi, Thérèse Ilunga Kalela, Pierre Zalagile Akilimali, Prosper Tshilobo Lukusa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Hell to Hell: Central Africans and Catholic Visual Catechesis in the Early Modern Atlantic Slave Trade

Art History, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 946-977, November 2023., 2023
In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García, Cécile Fromont   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergenerational ethics in Africa: Duties to older adults in skipped generation households

Developing World Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 152-161, September 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper examines individual and societal duties to older adults in sub‐Saharan Africa who reside in skipped generation households, which are households in which a young and old generation live together with the middle generation absent. As they age, older adults in skipped generation households may lack the prospect of social and economic ...
Nancy S. Jecker
wiley   +1 more source

Progressive vowel height harmony in Proto-Kikongo and Proto-Bantu [PDF]

, 2019
The systematic comparison of the different types of progressive Vowel Height Harmony (pVHH) attested within the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC) leads to the conclusion that this common Bantu process of long-distance assimilation cannot be reconstructed to
Bostoen, Koen, Goes, Heidi
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun, Bastin, Bellwood, Bingham, Blanchon, Blanchon, Blench, Blench, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bunkheti, Clist, Crane, Daeleman, de Filippo, De Grauwe, de Maret, de Rop, de Rop, de Schryver, Fontaney, Gossweiler, Greenberg, Hagendorens, Hamon, Hannan, Hubau, Hulstaert, Hulstaert, Kabinda, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Kouarata, Latham, Lejju, Linton, MacGaffey, Maniacky, McCann, Mouandza, Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Neumann, Pasch, Philippson, Phillipson, Raponda-Walker, Ricquier, Ricquier, Schwartz, SPIAF, Storrs, Thornell, van Everbroecke, Van Neer, Vansina, Vansina   +57 more
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Event-centrality and the pragmatics-semantics interface in Kikongo : from predication focus to progressive aspect and vice versa [PDF]

, 2015
Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003; Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in Kikongo (Bantu, H16), i.e.
Bostoen, Koen, De Kind, Jasper, de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice, Dom, Sebastian   +3 more
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Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]

, 2016
Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
core   +2 more sources

Historical Linguistics [PDF]

, 2017
Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
core   +1 more source

Use of Insecticide‐Treated Mosquito Net among Pregnant Women and Guardians of Children under Five in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Malaria Research and Treatment, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
Background. Insecticide‐treated mosquito nets (ITNs) are one of the most effective tools for preventing malaria in sub‐Saharan Africa. Objective. This study examined knowledge, attitude, and practice on the use of ITNs in the prevention of malaria among pregnant women and guardians of children under five in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Methods.
Joseph N. Inungu, Nestor Ankiba, Mark Minelli, Vincent Mumford, Dido Bolekela, Bienvenu Mukoso, Willy Onema, Etienne Kouton, Dolapo Raji, Polrat Wilairatana   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source