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The Dynamic Impact of the Energy Transition on Food Security in Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of persistent food insecurity and the global push for the transition toward clean energy in developing countries, understanding the association between clean energy access and food affordability is increasingly important to inform multisectoral policy interventions. Against this background, this study explores the dynamic impact
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Thierry M. Pondie, Aissatou Ndiaye, Götz Uckert, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideophones in Upper Guinea Creoles: a comparative study

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
The Upper Guinea Creoles (UGCs) are a family of closely related Afro-Portuguese languages, comprising three branches: continental (Casamance and Guinea-Bissau), insular (Cape Verde) and ABC (Dutch Antilles).
Nicolas Quint, Noël Bernard Biagui
doaj   +1 more source

Remoção de corante por uso de Aspergillus niger AN400 em reator em bateladas sequenciais

Química Nova, 2011
A sequential batch reactor (4 L) inoculated with Aspergillus niger was operated in order to remove congo red dye (10 mg L-1). The feeding of the reactor was done to each 7 days.
Kelly Rodrigues, Karla Mayara Lima da Silva, Glória Maria Marinho Silva, Paulo Cesar Cunha Lima, Carlos Ronald Pessoa Wanderley, Germana Marinho Silva   +5 more
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Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez, Leticia Gallego‐Valero, Encarnación Moral‐Pajares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic River Masks from Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery: An Automatic Algorithm Using Graph Cuts Optimization

Remote Sensing, 2016
Our knowledge of the spatio-temporal variation of river hydrological parameters is surprisingly poor. In situ gauge stations are limited in spatial and temporal coverage, and their number has been decreasing during the past decades.
Omid Elmi, Mohammad J. Tourian, Nico Sneeuw   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Technological Innovation, Environmental Policy, and Policy Inclusion on Renewable Energy Adoption in Sub‐Sahara Africa

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the factors influencing renewable energy consumption and renewable electricity in Sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) using the Lewbel 2SLS approach, panel quantile regression and Driscoll and Kraay estimator. It focuses on a panel dataset covering 41 countries from 1998 to 2020.
Emmanuel K. Manu, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Do Sovereign‐Environmental, Social and Governance (S‐ESG) Commitments Promote Financial Inclusion?

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the need to respect humanity, the environment, and society, and the progressive development of social responsibility, environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitments and the need for ethical and sustainable finance, this paper aims to examine the impact of sovereign ESG on financial inclusion (FI).
Inès Gharbi, Simplice A. Asongu, Aïda Kammoun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal

Studies in African Linguistics, 2003
Number inflection systems in Western Nilotic languages appear highly complex and diverse. Comparative work on Nilotic and other Nilo-Saharan families has shown that these languages have a morphologically tripartite system with marked plurals and a bare ...
Anne Storch
doaj   +3 more sources

Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐help and Volunteerism in Tanzania in the 1960s: Voluntary Labour, Nation Building and Constructing Modernity

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United Nations has declared 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development. Against that backdrop, this article examines the experience of volunteerism, and specifically self‐help voluntary labour in Tanzania in the early colonial period, to explore the place of volunteerism in the construction of the post‐colonial ...
Michael Jennings
wiley   +1 more source