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ABSTRACT The heavy reliance on pyrethroid‐based interventions has largely driven insecticide resistance in malaria vectors, accelerating the spread of resistant strains, including resistant Anopheles funestus strains. The efficacy of insecticide‐based interventions, especially insecticide‐treated nets (ITNs), the cornerstone of malaria control and ...
Talal Al‐Yazeedi +6 more
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Summary Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a secondary metabolite primarily produced by moulds of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. It is most commonly found in foods of plant origin, such as cereals, wine, coffee, spices and various types of fruits and vegetables, green tea, pistachios, figs, raisins, grapes, wine and chestnuts, as well as beer, coffee ...
Sanja Miloš +5 more
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Liberating the Mind: Rastafari and the Theorization of Maroonage as Epistemological (Dis) engagement
This article explores the concept of maroonage (other spellings “maronage,” “marronnage,” and “marronage”) as a process of epistemological engagement and disengagement using the way in which the Rastafari movement constructs, organizes, and legitimates ...
Randy R. Goldson
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Digital Voice as an Alternative Screening Tool to the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Abstract Background The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a commonly used screening tool for cognitive impairment. Despite translation into multiple languages to facilitate broader use globally, there are inherent education and cultural biases that result in variations in cognitive screening accuracies.
Hamzah Anan +18 more
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ABSTRACT Genotype imputation, the inference of missing genotypes using a reference set of population haplotypes, is a cost‐effective tool for improving the quality and quantity of genetic datasets. Imputation is usually applied to large and well‐characterised datasets of humans and livestock, even though it could also benefit smaller natural ...
Hui Zhen Tan +6 more
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The Genetics of Host Plant Acceptance in Pea Aphids
ABSTRACT The evolution of host‐associated sympatric populations in phytophagous insects (so called “host races”) connects adaptive divergence to barriers to gene flow. Pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) host races specialise on legume species, and because host plant choice leads to assortative mating, the genetic basis of host plant acceptance is key to ...
Isobel Eyres +6 more
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Rastafari is an Afro-Jamaican religious and social movement, which has since the 1970s spread outside of the Caribbean mainly through reggae music. This paper contributes to the academic discussion on the localization processes of Rastafari and reggae ...
Tuomas Järvenpää
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ABSTRACT Reliable tools for the identification of genetic sex are invaluable in many fields of biology, but their design requires knowledge of sex‐linked sequences, which is lacking in many taxa. Restriction‐site‐associated DNA sequencing (RADseq) is widely used to identify sex‐linked markers, but multiple distinct strategies are employed, and it is ...
James France +4 more
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The social reproduction of Jamaica Safar in Shashamane, Ethiopia
Since the 1950s, men and women, mainly Rastafari from the West Indies, have moved as repatriates to Shashamane, Ethiopia. This is a spiritually and ideologically oriented journey to the promised land of Ethiopia (Africa) and to the land granted by His ...
Gomes, Shelene
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Towards a New Map of Africa through Rastafari ‘Works’
This paper seeks to broaden the notion of the African Public sphere to include the historical Diaspora by highlighting the works of Mortimo Planno, cultural historian – Rastafari luminary and plenipotentiary – in closing the void between ...
J Niaah, Niaah, J
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