"Nothing for Us Without Us": A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Acceptability, Feasibility, and Impact of Involving Guardians of Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Tanzania as Public Contributors. [PDF]
Cancer MedABSTRACT Introduction In low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) such as Tanzania, non‐adherence and treatment abandonment are major factors contributing to low childhood cancer survival rates. Providing guardians with reminders and information via an SMS intervention may increase adherence and reduce treatment abandonment.
Chiwanga F +8 more
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Factors Associated With <i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> Infection Among Pregnant Women Admitted for Delivery in Selected Hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]
Biomed Res IntToxoplasmosis is asymptomatic in infected individuals; however, infections acquired during pregnancy pose a significant risk of the development of congenital parasitosis, leading to poor pregnancy outcomes and various degrees of chorioretinitis later in life. This study was therefore designed to determine the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and its
Liponda M, Ng Weshemi S, Munisi D.
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Speech timing metrics as cross‐linguistic markers of Alzheimer's and cognitive decline: Evidence from Kiswahili, Spanish, and Portuguese speakers [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract Background Speech and language assessments are central to research on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's dementia (AD). Relevant measures support screening, diagnostic, monitoring, phenotyping, and prognostic procedures in a non‐invasive, automatable, cost‐efficient fashion.
Garcia A.
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Multilingual Education and Interference: Written Ungrammatical Tag-switching Among Pre-service Teachers of English Language [PDF]
, 2016 This research aims to: (1) show the ungrammaticality of pre-service teachers\u27 (Bachelor III students\u27) written tag-switching models and this is disapproving since these subjects are English teachers-to-be.
Ndayizeye, O. (Oscar)
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Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2019 In Uganda, delays in teaching and learning of Kiswahili in primary schools have been experienced since their establishment in the education systems in the 1920s.
Jjingo, Caesar , Visser, Marianna
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A computerized test of speed of language comprehension unconfounded by literacy [PDF]
, 2001 A computerised version of the Silly Sentences task developed for use with children (Baddeley et al, 1995) is found to be equivalent to the pencil-and-paper version from the SCOLP Test (Baddeley et al, 1992) with UK undergraduates, and is usable by a ...
Alcock +9 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
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La negazione in swahili. Un viaggio nel labirinto della grammatica
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 Verbal negation in Kiswahili. A journey in the labyrinth of grammar. This work presents a description of negation in Kiswahili. After a short exposition of the morphological patterns of negation in Kiswahili, explained in the frame of the Proto-Bantu ...
Marina Castagneto
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The development of reading tests for use in a regularly spelled language. [PDF]
, 2000 Data are presented on the development of tests of reading skill in rural Tanzanian primary school pupils. Instruction in these schools is in Kiswahili, a regularly spelt language.
Alcock, Katie J. +8 more
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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2012 The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired till age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before.
Alcock, Katherine +2 more
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