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Effect of cowpea flour processing on the chemical properties and acceptability of a novel cowpea blended maize porridge [PDF]

, 2018
Childhood growth stunting is a pervasive problem in Malawi and is in large part due to low quality complementary foods and chronic gut inflammation. Introducing legumes such as cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) into the complementary diet has the potential to ...
Chimimba, Ulema K, Maleta, Kenneth M, Manary, Mark, Mwangwela, Agnes M, Ngoma, Theresa N, Thakwalakwa, Chrissie, Trehan, Indi   +6 more
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Did Anthropogenic Activities Trigger the 3 April 2017 Mw 6.5 Botswana Earthquake?

Remote Sensing, 2017
On 3 April 2017, a Mw 6.5 earthquake occurred in Botswana, representing the second-strongest earthquake registered since 1949. Such an intraplate event occurred in a low seismic hazard area and was suspected to be an artificial earthquake induced by ...
Matteo Albano, Marco Polcari, Christian Bignami, Marco Moro, Michele Saroli, Salvatore Stramondo   +5 more
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An experimental exploration of Marsaglia's xorshift generators, scrambled

, 2016
Marsaglia proposed recently xorshift generators as a class of very fast, good-quality pseudorandom number generators. Subsequent analysis by Panneton and L'Ecuyer has lowered the expectations raised by Marsaglia's paper, showing several weaknesses of ...
Vigna, Sebastiano
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Histological and molecular responses of Vigna angularis to Uromyces vignae infection

BMC Plant Biology, 2022
Abstract Background To advance the understanding of adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) resistance to infection with the rust-causing fungus Uromyces vignae (Uv), we comprehensively analyzed histological events and the transcriptome of Uv-infected adzuki bean.
Xiwang Ke, Jie Wang, Xiaodan Xu, Yongxia Guo, Yuhu Zuo, Lihua Yin   +5 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun, Bastin, Bellwood, Bingham, Blanchon, Blanchon, Blench, Blench, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bunkheti, Clist, Crane, Daeleman, de Filippo, De Grauwe, de Maret, de Rop, de Rop, de Schryver, Fontaney, Gossweiler, Greenberg, Hagendorens, Hamon, Hannan, Hubau, Hulstaert, Hulstaert, Kabinda, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Kouarata, Latham, Lejju, Linton, MacGaffey, Maniacky, McCann, Mouandza, Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Neumann, Pasch, Philippson, Phillipson, Raponda-Walker, Ricquier, Ricquier, Schwartz, SPIAF, Storrs, Thornell, van Everbroecke, Van Neer, Vansina, Vansina   +57 more
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Traditional Knowledge and use of Wild Cowpeas (Vigna unguiculata) in Selected Communities of Tanzania

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Wild cowpeas are utilized as food, medicine, and nutritious fodder. However, there are limited reports on the cultural significance of wild cowpeas across different agroecologies of Tanzania.
John Godlove, Liberatus Dominick Lyimo, George Muhamba Tryphone, William Hamisy, Maarten van Zonneveld, Sognigbé N’Danikou   +5 more
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Vein networks in hydrothermal systems provide constraints for the monitoring of active volcanoes

Scientific Reports, 2017
Vein networks affect the hydrothermal systems of many volcanoes, and variations in their arrangement may precede hydrothermal and volcanic eruptions. However, the long-term evolution of vein networks is often unknown because data are lacking.
Luigi Cucci, Francesca Di Luccio, Alessandra Esposito, Guido Ventura   +3 more
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The Causative Fault of the 2016 Mwp 6.1 Petermann Ranges Intraplate Earthquake (Central Australia) Retrieved by C- and L-Band InSAR Data

Remote Sensing, 2018
On 21 May 2016, an Mwp 6.1 earthquake occurred along the Petermann Ranges in Central Australia. Such a seismic event can be classified as a rare intraplate earthquake because the affected area presents low seismicity, being at the center of the Indo ...
Marco Polcari, Matteo Albano, Simone Atzori, Christian Bignami, Salvatore Stramondo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficient Optimally Lazy Algorithms for Minimal-Interval Semantics

, 2016
Minimal-interval semantics associates with each query over a document a set of intervals, called witnesses, that are incomparable with respect to inclusion (i.e., they form an antichain): witnesses define the minimal regions of the document satisfying ...
Boldi, Paolo, Vigna, Sebastiano
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Association Studies and Legume Synteny Reveal Haplotypes Determining Seed Size in Vigna unguiculata. [PDF]

, 2013
Highly specific seed market classes for cowpea and other grain legumes exist because grain is most commonly cooked and consumed whole. Size, shape, color, and texture are critical features of these market classes and breeders target development of ...
Cisse, Ndiaga, Close, Timothy J, da Silva Vinholes, Patricia, Drabo, Issa, Ehlers, Jeffrey D, Huynh, Bao-Lam, Lucas, Mitchell R, Roberts, Philip A   +7 more
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