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The verbal phrase in Mandinka. [PDF]

, 1972
The aim of this thesis is to offer a description of the verbal phrase in Mandinka in terms of its two main constituents, the verb and the verbal operator, and to give an account of the functions of the members of the class of operators. After a short introduction to the Mandinka people and their language (Chapter One) and an outline of the phonology ...
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Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers

American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Objectives Human childrearing is cooperative, with women often able to achieve relatively high fertility through help from many individuals. Previous work has documented tremendous socioecological variation in who supports women in childrearing, but less is known about the intracultural correlates of variation in allomaternal support.
John H. Shaver, Radim Chvaja, Laure Spake, Anushé Hassan, Jainaba Badjie, Andrew M. Prentice, Carla Cerami, Rebecca Sear, Mary K. Shenk, Richard Sosis   +9 more
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Copulas in contact: Kriyol, Upper Guinea Creoles, and their substrate

Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019
The present paper aims to describe copulas in Kriyol from a semantic-syntactic perspective and to compare them to copulas in the other Upper Guinea Creoles and certain substrate languages.
Chiara Truppi
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“Le loup dans la bergerie”: Narrations et identités des Bijaa, sujets conquéreurs de l’ancien royaume de Kasa en Sénégambie. Hommage à Stephan Bühnen (1950-2015)

Varia História
Resumé Cet article présente des narrations bijaa (balanta mané) sur le peuplement, les identités et les divisions territoriales du pays ajaa sur la rive gauche du fleuve Cacheu (Guinée-Bissau) et dans le Balantakunda (Sénégal).
Cornelia Bernhardette GIESING
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‘Some anti-malarials are too strong for your body, they will harm you.’ Socio-cultural factors influencing pregnant women’s adherence to anti-malarial treatment in rural Gambia [PDF]

, 2016
Background Despite declining prevalence of malaria in The Gambia, non-adherence to anti-malarial treatment still remains a challenge to control efforts.
C Gryseels, C Pell, Charlotte Gryseels, E Stokes, EV Andrew, F Nosten, Fatou Jaiteh, GD Shanks, H Boene, H Tagbor, HA Williams, HK Heggenhougen, HR Bernard, J Mwesigwa, JM Ribera, Julie Balen, K Banek, K Grietens, Koen Peeters Grietens, KP Grietens, L Brabin, L Conteh, L Manderson, L Spencer, M Tefler, N White, R Ndoyomugyenyi, R Tolhurst, S Hausmann Muela, S Scott, Sarah O’Neill, SC McCombie, SJ Ceesay, Susan Dierickx, Susana Scott, TK Hartman, Umberto D’Alessandro, WHO   +37 more
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“Roots”: The Significance, Impact, and Legacy of an ABC Miniseries

Zarządzanie Mediami
This paper explores the cultural, historical, and social significance of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots.
Rafał Kuś
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Luso-African trade and settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau regions, 16th-19th centuries [PDF]

, 1980
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 24This paper examines the economic, social, and cultural influences of Luso-Africans living along the Gambia River and in the Guinea-Bissau region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in terms of two ...
Brooks, George E.
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"Chiamo uomo chi \ue8 padrone delle sue lingue". modelli di plurilinguismo da Lampedusa in su. [PDF]

, 2015
Il plurilinguismo dei nuovi migranti viene analizzato insieme al ruolo della lingua nella costruzione di modelli di societ\ue0 inclusiva e ...
Bensaude, E, Davis, L, Drew, T, La Rocca, SA, Paton, D, Raue, R, Sandvik, T, Steinbach, F, Strong, R, Turner, J, Vangeel, I   +10 more
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NeuroBooster Array: A Genome‐Wide Genotyping Platform to Study Neurological Disorders Across Diverse Populations

Movement Disorders, Volume 39, Issue 11, Page 2039-2048, November 2024.
Abstract Background Commercial genome‐wide genotyping arrays have historically neglected coverage of genetic variation across populations. Objective We aimed to create a multi‐ancestry genome‐wide array that would include a wide range of neuro‐specific genetic content to facilitate genetic research in neurological disorders across multiple ancestral ...
Sara Bandres‐Ciga, Faraz Faghri, Elisa Majounie, Mathew J. Koretsky, Jeffrey Kim, Kristin S. Levine, Hampton Leonard, Mary B. Makarious, Hirotaka Iwaki, Peter Wild Crea, Dena G. Hernandez, Sampath Arepalli, Kimberley Billingsley, Katja Lohmann, Christine Klein, Steven J. Lubbe, Edwin Jabbari, Paula Saffie‐Awad, Derek Narendra, Armando Reyes‐Palomares, John P. Quinn, Claudia Schulte, Huw R. Morris, Bryan J. Traynor, Sonja W. Scholz, Henry Houlden, John Hardy, Sonya Dumanis, Ekemini Riley, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Andrew Singleton, Mike Nalls, Janina Jeff, Dan Vitale, on behalf of the Global Parkinson's Genetics Program (GP2) and the Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias (CARD)   +34 more
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A prospective registry study of the epidemiology and management of childhood cancer in the Gambia—The first year experience

Health Science Reports, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2024.
Abstract Background and Aim Globally, over 180,000 children develop cancers yearly, with about 80% residing in low‐ or middle‐income countries where cancer‐associated mortality is also high. In The Gambia, cumulative incidence rate of 27.6 childhood cancers/million population was reported between 2002 and 2011.
Samuel Adegoke, Cherno Jallow, Olufunmilola Ogun, Wuday Camara, Musa Jaiteh, Peter Mendy, Gabriel Ogun, Ousman Leigh, Barry Pizer   +8 more
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