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Greening the environment: do climate-related development finances and renewable energy consumption matter? An African tale

Carbon Management, 2023
With the rise in global food insecurity, pollution, and wildlife extinction caused by climate change, development policies are now tailored toward addressing this quagmire.
Sulemana Mumuni, Yaya Deome Hamadjoda Lefe   +1 more
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DEVELOPMENTAL STATE AND THE QUESTION OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Journal of Social Political Sciences, 2023
In South Africa, despite what appears to be a perfectly designed political system underpinned by the separation of powers, there seemingly is a lack of accountability of public officials that has its roots in the proportional representation (PR ...
Vusimuzi Gumbi, Keaobaka Tsholo
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Development and Evaluation of an Immuno-Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay to Quantify the Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (Mccp) Protein in Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP) Vaccine

Veterinary Medicine International, 2020
An effective contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) vaccine is essential for the increased production of healthy goats in a cost-effective manner and the prevention of animal-to-animal transmission for both domestic animals and wildlife.
Jean de Dieu Baziki, Bodjo S. Charles, Nick Nwankpa, Naomi Maina, Ethel Chitsungo, Cisse Rahamatou Moustapha Boukary, Takele A. Tefera, Rume Veronica Nwankpa, Nduta Mwangi   +8 more
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SINO-AFRICAN COOPERATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

Kwanissa
Sino-African cooperation has been highly debated, with some viewing China's involvement as exploitation and others as a solution to Africa's underdevelopment.
Policarpo Gomes Caomique, Ezequiel Allen
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Dynamic Credit Quality Evaluation with Social Network Data

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2019
We investigate the filtering problem where the borrower’s time varying credit quality process is estimated using continuous time observation process and her (in this paper we refer to the borrower as female and the lender as male) ego-network data.
Stanley Sewe, Philip Ngare, Patrick Weke
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MicroRNA and Alternative mRNA Splicing Events in Cancer Drug Response/Resistance: Potent Therapeutic Targets

Biomedicines, 2021
Cancer is a multifaceted disease that involves several molecular mechanisms including changes in gene expression. Two important processes altered in cancer that lead to changes in gene expression include altered microRNA (miRNA) expression and aberrant ...
Rahaba Marima, Flavia Zita Francies, Rodney Hull, Thulo Molefi, Meryl Oyomno, Richard Khanyile, Sikhumbuzo Mbatha, Mzubanzi Mabongo, David Owen Bates, Zodwa Dlamini   +9 more
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Development and Evaluation of Monoclonal Antibodies against CBPP Antigen with the End Goal of Developing an ELISA Kit

Veterinary Medicine International
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an infectious and contagious bacterial respiratory disease that affects cattle with significant economic losses to the African animal industry.
Lorato Ramathudi-Dunbar, Emmanuel Awosanya, Sanne Bodjo Charles, Ethel Chitsungo, Cisse Rahamatou Moustapha Boukary, Nick Nwankpa, Hassen Gelaw, Yebechaye Tessema, Gelagay Melesse A., Richard Rayson Sanga, Adorbley Bright, Jean de Dieu Baziki   +11 more
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Partial Sequence Analysis of Commercial Peste des Petits Ruminants Vaccines Produced in Africa

Veterinary Sciences
Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), which is the only member of the Morbillivirus caprinae species and belongs to the genus Morbillivirus within the Paramyxoviridae family, causes the highly contagious viral sickness “Peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
Boubacar Barry, Yebechaye Tessema, Hassen Gelaw, Cisse Rahamatou Moustapha Boukary, Baziki Jean de Dieu, Melesse Ayelet Gelagay, Ethel Chitsungo, Richard Rayson Sanga, Gbolahanmi Akinola Oladosu, Nick Nwankpa, S. Charles Bodjo   +10 more
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Solar‐Driven Bifunctional Adsorption‐Storage Films for Ultra‐Fast Dehumidification and Freshwater Supply in Low‐carbon Buildings

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Bifunctional adsorption‐storage films enable autonomous indoor humidity regulation and freshwater harvesting, rapidly decreasing relative humidity from 90.7% to 21.6% within one hour while producing 1.1 kg·m−2·day−1 of water, offering a passive route towards energy‐efficient humidity control and sustainable indoor environments. ABSTRACT Indoor humidity
Yuechao Chao, Junwei Liu, Zhihua Zhou, Yahui Du, Hailu Wei, Haibin Yang, Xueqing Yang, Cheng Wang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Hongzhi Cui, Jinyue Yan   +10 more
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A Non-Inferiority Evaluation of YAHE 4.0, an Alphacypermethrin-PBO Insecticide-Treated Net Against Pyrethroid Resistant Anopheles arabiensis in Experimental Huts in Moshi, North-Eastern Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
A new generation of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that incorporate the synergist piperonyl butoxide (PBO) has been shown to restore susceptibility to pyrethroids where P450 enzymes are the primary mechanism conferring the resistance.
Johnson Matowo, Njelembo J. Mbewe, Salum Azizi, Robert Kaaya, Oliva Moshi, Baltazari Manunda, Emmanuel Feston, Ezekia Kisengwa, Agness Msapalla, Steve Crene, Oscar Sizya, Benson Mawa, Godwin Sumari, Boniface Shirima, Silvia Mwacha, Felister Edward, Amandus Joram, Filemoni Tenu, Neema Kaaya, Naomi J. Lyimo, Franklin Mosha   +20 more
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