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Molecular Characterization of Erythrocyte Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Different Ethnic Groups of Blood Donors in Mauritania

Frontiers in Bioscience-Scholar, 2023
Background: Glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most frequent enzymopathy worldwide; it is a genetic disorder that affects red blood cells and causes hemolysis. Here, we conducted a study on G6PD-deficient subjects in Mauritania to
Mariem Taleb, Meryem Bakour, Aminetou Taleb Brahim, Sidi Mohamed Ghaber, Seyid Abdellahi Ebnou Abdem, Aminetou Mohamed, Badiaa Lyoussi   +6 more
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Discours radiophoniques, cartographies épidémiques et représentations locales de la COVID-19 en Guinée

L'Espace Politique, 2022
If COVID-19 epidemics confirmed social sciences’ interest for the study of social media (Lee Hugues et Pale, 2009) and infodemic (Vosoughi et alii, 2018) in epidemic contexts, it also excluded a large part of the population still important in Africa from
Fanny Attas, Moustapha Keïta-Diop, Marie-Yvonne Curtis, Frédéric Le Marcis   +3 more
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L’expression du futur simple et du futur proche en pulaargaa ɓuŋkoore et leurs valeurs sémantiques

Akofena, 2023
Résumé : Cet article est une contribution àl’étude sémantique du temps, plus particulièrement dans les langues africaines. Son objectif principal est de voir comment le futur simple et le futur proche sont exprimés en pulaargaaɓunkoore et de chercher la ...
Moctar BALDE
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Costus afer: A Systematic Review of Evidence‐Based Data in support of Its Medicinal Relevance

Scientifica, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
Costus afer (C. afer) is a plant commonly known as ginger lily, spiral ginger, or bush cane. It is reportedly used in traditional medicine practice (TMP) to treat and manage many ailments including diabetes mellitus, stomach ache, arthritis, inflammation, and gout. These purported ethnomedicinal uses have triggered many research studies on the plant to
Daniel Boison, Cynthia Ayefoumi Adinortey, Godwin Kweku Babanyinah, Olga Quasie, Rosemary Agbeko, Gilbert Kofi Wiabo-Asabil, Michael Buenor Adinortey, Leila Beltrami Moreira   +7 more
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L’association Pulaar Speaking à la croisée des chemins. Dynamiques migratoires et débats autour du sens à donner à l’action communautaire au sein du collectif migrant haalpulaaren (Mauritanie, Sénégal) aux États-Unis

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2019
Research on Haalpulaaren migrations in the United States is seldom. Based on a study of the organization Pulaar Speaking Association (PSA), this paper describes the migratory experiences of people originating from the middle valley of the Senegal River ...
Olivier Leservoisier
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Comparative Medical Ethnobotany of the Senegalese Community Living in Turin (Northwestern Italy) and in Adeane (Southern Senegal)

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012
A medico‐ethnobotanical survey was conducted among the Senegalese migrant communities of Turin (Piedmont, NW Italy) and their peers living in Adeane (Casamance, Southern Senegal), both among healers and laypeople. Through 27 in‐depth interviews, 71 medicinal plant taxa were recorded and identified in Adeane and 41 in Turin, for a total of 315 different
Rachele Ellena, Cassandra L. Quave, Andrea Pieroni, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana   +3 more
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Interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting in African countries

Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 1-155, 2012., 2012
This Campbell systematic review examines the empirical research on the effectiveness of female genital mutilation/cutting (‘FGM/C’) interventions to reduce the occurrence of FGM/C practices in the 28 African countries that carry out FGM/C practices.
Rigmor C Berg, Eva Denison
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Oralité et contemporanéité : la bande dessinée et les défis de la transmission de l’épopée à travers le Samba Gelaajo Jeegi de Cheick Sakho [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé : Cette étude revisite les exploits de Samba Gelaajo Jeegi, un héros incarnant les valeurs idéologiques et guerrières de la société peule, dans une Bande Dessin (BD).
DIOP Hamet Maimouna
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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 1288-1300, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Marginal contrasts and the Contrastivist Hypothesis

Glossa, 2016
The Contrastivist Hypothesis (CH; Hall 2007; Dresher 2009) holds that the only features that can be phonologically active in any language are those that serve to distinguish phonemes, which presupposes that phonemic status is categorical.
Daniel Currie Hall, Kathleen Currie Hall
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