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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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A concept of a new Swahili-Polish Student Dictionary
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006 This paper presents a concept of a new Swahili-Polish (and Polish-Swahili) student dictionary. Given the growing interest in learning Swahili among Polish students, the fact that Swahili dictionaries are not easily available for purchase in Poland, and ...
Beata Wójtowicz
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, 2003 Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings during which music, dance and song act together to realize performances related to the most important rites of the Swahili communities’ cycle of social life.
Merolla, Daniela
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Embedding-Based Speaker Adaptive Training of Deep Neural Networks
, 2017 An embedding-based speaker adaptive training (SAT) approach is proposed and investigated in this paper for deep neural network acoustic modeling. In this approach, speaker embedding vectors, which are a constant given a particular speaker, are mapped ...
Cui, Xiaodong +2 more
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British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The Chedoke‐McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps (CATCH), a 36‐item scale, is widely used to assess children's attitudes toward peers with disabilities. While recognized for its strong validity and reliability, it was developed nearly four decades ago in Canada for children aged 9 to 13 and no longer fully aligns with ...
Angshuman K. Kashyap +2 more
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Revista Educação e Cultura Contemporânea, 2018 A universidade contemporânea tem se deparado com desafios de ordem social, epistemológica e estrutural que requerem uma profunda reflexão acerca de seu estatuto e função social. No contexto brasileiro, uma série de reformas incompletas agravam ainda mais
Gabriel Swahili Sales de Almeida
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Language Comparison Between Swahili and Malay Languages with Semantic and Pragmatic Problems
REiLA, 2020 The purpose of this study is to explore the similarities and differences of Malay and Kiswahili, which is better known as Swahili. This study intends to investigate the patterns of response from Malays and Kiswahili.
Shintia Dwi Putri
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Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.Introduction Given the prevalence and consequences of unmet social needs in perinatal populations, there is a critical demand for perinatal care that addresses social needs. To better support health systems in providing comprehensive social and perinatal care services, this quality improvement initiative uses the Donabedian model for care quality to ...
Rebecca L. Emery Tavernier +7 more
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What Is ‘Old’ in Old Age? An Inquiry into Swahili Paremia
Nordic Journal of African StudiesThis article is about gerontological proverbs in Swahili folkloric discourses. The question posed in this study is as follows: how is old age depicted according to Swahili paremiology?
Ahmad Kipacha
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The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
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