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Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

There have been numerous episodes of widespread adoption of improved seed and long-term achievements in the development of the maize seed industry in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Byerlee, Derek R., Jayne, Thomas S., Smale, Melinda   +2 more
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Evaluation of the treatment guidelines, practices and outcomes of complicated severe acute malnutrition in children aged 0-59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: a study protocol for the SAMAC study

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
INTRODUCTION: In hospitals across Africa, the case fatality rates of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have remained consistently high (over 20%), despite the existence of the WHO treatment guideline.
Janet Adede Carboo, Martani Lombard, Cornelia Conradie, Robin Claire Dolman, Cristian Ricci   +4 more
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Incentive policies and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Exports in general, and agricultural exports in particular, are more responsive to price incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa than in developing countries..
Balassa, Bela
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Introducing virtual microscopy at the University of Ghana during the COVID‐19 pandemic—Identifying and overcoming obstacles in a low‐resource learning environment

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The introduction of new educational technologies into resource‐challenged learning environments is often hindered by several factors, with the lack of infrastructure and computer hardware being only one critical aspect. The COVID‐19 pandemic required a sudden switch to online learning and accelerated the implementation of e‐learning approaches
Nii Koney‐Kwaku Koney, Smart Nana Omenako, David Nana Adjei, Benjamin Arko‐Boham, Michael Hortsch   +4 more
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Economics of Maize and Bean Production: Why Farmers need to Shift to Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Production

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2019
Maize and dry bean are the most important food crops that feed over 85% of Kenyan households. However, the productivity of these crops is low due to the high costs of land preparation and weed control, soil infertility and limited soil moisture under the
Hillary Moses Omondi Otieno, George N. Chemining’wa, Charles K. Gachene, Shamie Zingore   +3 more
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Pro-Growth Alternatives for Monetary and Financial Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

Pro-Growth Alternatives for Monetary and Financial Policies in Sub-Saharan ...
Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Gerald Epstein   +2 more
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Delineating gender/sex‐related studies through bibliometric analysis

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The multidisciplinary and socially grounded nature of Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies poses unique challenges for bibliometric analysis, as it extends beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. This paper makes three key contributions: (1) We propose a novel retrieval method for constructing a corpus of scholarly documents in research areas ...
Natsumi S. Shokida, Diego Kozlowski, Vincent Larivière   +2 more
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Phylogeography and reassortment patterns of human influenza A viruses in sub-Saharan Africa

Scientific Reports
The role of sub-Saharan Africa in the global spread of influenza viruses remains unclear due to insufficient spatiotemporal sequence data. Here, we analyzed 222 codon-complete sequences of influenza A viruses (IAVs) sampled between 2011 and 2013 from ...
D. Collins Owuor, Zaydah R. de Laurent, John W. Oketch, Nickson Murunga, James R. Otieno, Grace Nabakooza, Sandra S. Chaves, D. James Nokes, Charles N. Agoti   +8 more
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Adolescent childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

This article examines whether increased years of schooling exercised a consistent impact on delayed childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa. Data were drawn from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in eight countries over the period 1987-1999.
Neeru Gupta, Mary Mahy
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Methodological challenges in content‐based citation analysis: Expertise, reliability, and the primacy of citance identification

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Content‐based citation analysis seeks to capture the meaning and functions of citations but continues to face unresolved methodological challenges. This study analyzes a stratified sample of library and information science publications to examine how citance segmentation and annotator expertise influence the consistency of classification ...
Zehra Taşkın
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