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Bayesian Estimation of True Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors for Leptospira spp. Among Slaughterhouse Workers and Slaughtered Cattle in the Bahr El Ghazal Region of South Sudan. [PDF]

Zoonoses Public Health
ABSTRACT Introduction Leptospirosis is a major but under‐reported zoonotic disease, and epidemiological data from South Sudan remain limited. This study estimated the true prevalence of Leptospira spp. exposure and identified associated risk factors among slaughterhouse workers and slaughtered cattle in Western Bahr El Ghazal. Methods A cross‐sectional
Onafruo D, Klein J, Kostoulas P, Erume J, Kokas I, Jubara A, Sánchez Romano J, Odoch T, Kitale E, Marin P, Sabbath E, Kankya C.   +11 more
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Cultural Threads: An Afrocentric Paradigm for Integrating Social Justice Principles in the Practice of Family Therapy in Africa. [PDF]

J Marital Fam Ther
ABSTRACT Family therapy has been slowly but steadily growing on the African continent. Considering Africa's rich yet complex economic, political, and sociocultural history, it is essential for family therapy practitioners to integrate social justice (SJ) principles into their research, training, and practice of family therapy.
Asiimwe R, McIntosh DL, Nyambura RG, Kasujja R.   +3 more
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Entwined economies of violence: understanding borderland conflict and resource politics in northern Kenya. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract This article explores longstanding conflict between Turkana and Pokot pastoralist communities in northern Kenya, close to the country's border with Uganda. Conflict in this region has consistently defied interventions by both governments and development organisations.
Rogei DS.
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Vowel harmony and vowel alternation in Mayak

Studies in African Linguistics, 1999
Like several other Western Nilotic languages, the Mayak variety of Northern Burun has two sets of vowels distinguished by the feature [ATR], the [-ATR] vowels [I, E, a, i, u] and the [+ATR] vowels [i, e, A, 0, u].
Torben Andersen
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity. [PDF]

Anim Genet
Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
Da Silva A, Ahbara A, Baazaoui I, Jemaa SB, Cao Y, Ciani E, Dzomba EF, Evans L, Gootwine E, Hanotte O, Harris L, Li MH, Mastrangelo S, Missohou A, Molotsi A, Muchadeyi FC, Mwacharo JM, Tallet G, Vernus P, Hall SJG, Lenstra JA.   +20 more
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Inflectional classes in Kipsigis

Glossa, 2022
In this paper, I provide a description and analysis of conjugation classes in Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya). While traditional descriptions discuss two conjugation classes, I show that the morphophonological properties of Class II can be reduced to the ...
Maria Kouneli
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Cephalometric Characteristics of Various Ethnic Groups in Tanzania. [PDF]

Int J Dent
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the craniofacial skeletal profile features of the Tanzanian population with normal occlusion using lateral skull cephalograms, to determine the differences in craniofacial characteristics among various Tanzanian ethnic groups, and to compare the cephalometric norms of Caucasians with those of ...
Hamad AK, Machibya FM, Mlangwa MM, Ngassapa DN.   +3 more
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Patrium amnem: the image of the Nile in Roman art and literature in the late 1st century AD

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
The image of the Nile, formed by Roman authors in the literature of the Flavian era, is compared to the so-called Nilotic scenes embodying a specifically expressed interest in Egyptian culture.
M. S. Chistalev
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Pictorial Workshops in Pompeii. Exploring some Roman Nilotic Paintings

Zephyrus, 2023
From the 3rd century BP onwards, the relationship between Egypt and Rome grew clearer. When the treaty of amicitiawas signed in the year 273 BP, the political, cultural, economic and religious impact on Italian territory was increasingly evident. Also of
Eleonora Voltan
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka

Afrika und Übersee, 2023
Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and ...
Torben Andersen
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