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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 +5 more
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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 +1 more
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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
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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 +9 more
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Inter‐Model Feature Fusion for Robust Low‐Resource Speech Recognition
Applied AI Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2026.Our Self‐Supervised Feature Fusion (SSF‐FT) method enhances low‐resource speech recognition by adaptively combining features from self‐supervised models trained with Contrastive, Predictive, and Reconstruction objectives. This attention‐weighted ensemble delivers robust performance, particularly in acoustically challenging conditions, extending current
Ussen Kimanuka +2 more
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Alzheimer's &Dementia: Behavior &Socioeconomics of Aging, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract INTRODUCTION The Étude du Vieillissement Cognitif et de Démence en République Démocratique du Congo (EVCD‐RDC) launched in 2024 to investigate socio‐environmental and biological determinants of dementia in Kinshasa. METHODS The study recruited 1000 adults aged ≥65 years across four diagnostic groups – cognitively unimpaired (CU), mild ...
Jean Ikanga +24 more
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 289-306, March 2026.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Health Expectations, Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2024.Abstract Introduction Disparities in the uptake of routine and COVID‐19 vaccinations have been observed in migrant populations, and attributed to issues of mistrust, access and low vaccine confidence. Participatory research approaches and behaviour change theory hold the potential for developing tailored vaccination interventions that address these ...
Alison F. Crawshaw +10 more
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The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Medicinal plants used for wound healing in Lubumbashi have yet to be discovered. Inventory or profile of their taxa has yet to be established. The present study was carried out to survey the plants used in traditional medicine in Lubumbashi to treat wounds and to define their ethnomedical characteristics.
Bashige Chiribagula Valentin +7 more
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DNA methylation patterns associated with konzo in Sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]
Clin Epigenetics, 2022 Kocher K +6 more
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