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Financial Literacy Intervention and the Willingness to Pay for Digital Credits: A Scalable Video‐Based Approach in Kenya

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rapid growth in digital finance has expanded credit access for rural smallholders, yet financial capability has not kept pace with access. Where fee structures are opaque and search is costly, this gap raises the risk of expensive borrowing in digital financial services.
Albert Nsengumuremyi, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff, Daniel Hermann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryptorchestia ruffoi sp. n. from the island of Rhodes (Greece), revealed by morphological and phylogenetic analysis (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae)

ZooKeys, 2017
A new Cryptorchestia species, Cryptorchestia ruffoi Latella & Vonk, sp. n. from the island of Rhodes in south-eastern Greece, can be distinguished on the basis of morphological and phylogenetic data.
Domenico Davolos, Elvira De Matthaeis, Leonardo Latella, Ronald Vonk   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

New Antarctic clawed lobster species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island

Polar Research, 2020
A new species of nephropid lobster, Hoploparia echinata sp. nov., from the James Ross Island in the Antarctic Peninsula is here described and illustrated.
Allysson P. Pinheiro, Antônio Álamo Feitosa Saraiva, William Santana, Juliana Manso Sayão, Rodrigo Giesta Figueiredo, Taissa Rodrigues, Luiz Carlos Weinschütz, Luiza Corral Martins de Oliveira Ponciano, Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The mosquito vectors that sustained malaria transmission during the Magude project despite the combined deployment of indoor residual spraying, insecticide-treated nets and mass-drug administration.

PLoS ONE, 2022
The "Magude project" aimed but failed to interrupt local malaria transmission in Magude district, southern Mozambique, by using a comprehensive package of interventions, including indoor residual spraying (IRS), pyrethroid-only long-lasting insecticide ...
Lucía Fernández Montoya, Helena Martí-Soler, Mara Máquina, Kiba Comiche, Inocencia Cuamba, Celso Alafo, Lizette L Koekemoer, Ellie Sherrard-Smith, Quique Bassat, Beatriz Galatas, Pedro Aide, Nelson Cuamba, Dulcisaria Jotamo, Francisco Saúte, Krijn P Paaijmans   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Influencing the Uptake of Internet Connectivity in Meru Municipality, Meru County in Kenya

Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies, 2020
A research project report submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirement of the award of Degree of Master of Arts in Project Planning and Management of the University of ...
Dominic M Ndeke, Stephen W Luketero, Chandi J Rugendo   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Unmet Needs in Treatment Escalation for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: Findings From the CURE Registry

Allergy, EarlyView.
Appropriate treatment escalation improves CSU disease control. However, only about a quarter of patients achieve a complete response, the main goal of CSU treatment. Approximately one‐third of patients clinically eligible for escalation (UCT < 12) do not receive guideline‐recommended treatment escalation and remain symptomatic on their current ...
Pavel Kolkhir, Pascale Salameh, Magdalena Zajac, Alicja Kasperska‐Zajac, Ana Giménez‐Arnau, Maria Puertolas, Hanna Bonnekoh, Carolina Vera Ayala, Michael Makris, Eleni Chatzidimitriou, Stamatios Gregoriou, Kanokvalai Kulthanan, Andrea Bauer, Mojca Bizjak‐Suran, Daria Fomina, Alexis Bocquet, Joachim Dissemond, Mohamed Abuzakouk, Tara Raftery, Nadine Chapman‐Rothe, Emek Kocatürk, Clive Grattan, Riccardo Asero, Jonny G. Peter, Simon Francis Thomsen, Karsten Weller   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coefficients for charge of raw material in processing of female red king crabs from the Barents Sea

Известия ТИНРО, 2017
The raw material charge coefficients (RCC) are calculated for processing of female red king crabs from the coastal Barents Sea. The percentage outcome for limb clusters is 37.49 % (RCC 2.702), for meat - 19.63 % (RCC 5.163), and for merus - 6.25 % (RCC ...
Alexander G. Dvoretsky, Vladimir G. Dvoretsky   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Redescription of the shallow water calappid Mursia spiridonovi Karasawa, 2018 (Brachyura: Calappidae) from India

Nauplius, 2020
Mursia spiridonovi Karasawa, 2018 known only from the western Indian Ocean, is the smallest species of the genus, measuring only 18 mm in carapace length. The species is redescribed from fresh material collected in Tamil Nadu in southern India.
Suvarna S. Devi, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar, Peter K. L. Ng   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

First Record of Arrhenophagus chionaspidis Aurivillius (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) Parasitizing White Mango Scale in Kenya: Its Potential Distribution and Prospects in Biocontrol

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The white mango scale, Aulacaspis tubercularis Newstead (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), is one of the most destructive pests of mango worldwide. Its current management in most of the invaded areas largely depends on the intensive use of chemical insecticides.
Francis Obala, Abdelmutalab G. A. Azrag, Rehemah Gwokyalya, Shepard Ndlela, Ingo Grass, Georg Petschenka, Sunday Ekesi, Samira A. Mohamed   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source