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Annual Research Review: Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 417-439, April 2025.
Low socioeconomic status (SES) is negatively associated with children's cognitive and academic performance, leading to long‐term educational and economic disparities. In particular, SES is a powerful predictor of executive function (EF), language ability, and academic achievement.
Divyangana Rakesh, Paris Anne Lee, Amruta Gaikwad, Katie A. McLaughlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

'It's like these scientists own the rains': indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi. [PDF]

Disasters
Kita SM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenges of safeguarding national interest in negotiating private investment contracts in Africa: case study on Malawi

, 2014
Chitsanzo Ivy Zingano
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Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross‐national analysis

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Increasing evidence suggests that climate change, along with its cascading impacts on ecosystems, societies, and communities, has significant effects on both physical and mental health. However, less is known about how exposure to excessive heat early in life may influence the development of foundational skills that shape lifelong ...
Jorge Cuartas, Lenin H. Balza, Andrés Camacho, Nicolás Gómez‐Parra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Repeated biannual cross-sectional surveys in primary schools set baseline seasonal and spatial surveillance for malaria and schistosomiasis in the Shire Valley Transformation Programme (SVTP), Malawi. [PDF]

Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis
Kapolo P, Chiepa B, Mbewe RB, Kapumba B, Kambewa E, Kaunga L, Coleman S, Chirombo J, Mzilahowa T, Jones CM, Stanton MC, Russell Stothard J.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Freshwater fishes of the Waterberg aquatic ecoregion, South Africa: Diversity, taxonomic conflicts and conservation concerns

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Southern Africa is a region denoted by both high levels of fish diversity, some of it cryptic and unrecognised by current taxonomy, and severely threatened freshwater ecosystems. The Waterberg, a key aquatic ecoregion of the greater Limpopo River basin in South Africa, represents an area with high terrestrial conservation value but is lacking ...
Darragh J. Woodford, Mandla Magoro, Wilbert T. Kadye, Martinus Scheepers, Yonela Sithole, Tadiwa I. Mutizwa, Tholoana Ntokoane, Albert Chakona   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incident hypertension among adults on ART in Malawi: a nested cohort study. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Nyirenda OM, Moyo B, Divala T, Buchwald A, Nampota N, Mungwira R, Nyangulu W, Mkandawire F, Mwinjiwa E, Mallewa J, Laurens MB, Laufer MK, van Oosterhout JJ.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Land Policy Reform: The Role of Land Markets and Women's Land Rights in Malawi

, 2006
Stein T. Holden, Randi Kaarhus, Rodney Lunduka   +2 more
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Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent molecular studies have advanced our knowledge of the taxonomic diversity and generic placement of the slender stonebashers, previously placed in the genus Hippopotamyrus, in southern Africa. These fishes were recently transferred to the genus Heteromormyrus whose range encompasses the Kwanza, Kunene, Okavango, Zambezi, Pungwe and Buzi ...
Tadiwa I. Mutizwa, Wilbert T. Kadye, Pedro H. N. Bragança, Albert Chakona   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

2022-'23 Malawi rapid mortality mobile phone survey (RaMMPS) dataset. [PDF]

Data Brief
Amadi D, Romero-Prieto J, Muthema F, Saikolo J, Chasukwa M, Banda J, Jamali M, Souza E, Bhattacharjee T, Tlhajoane M, Helleringer S, Reniers G, Dulani B.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source