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Discipline in the parental home and at school: Instead of the “blame game”, a caring community

Perspectives in Education, 2023
This is an educational-philosophical, more particularly, a societaltheoretical reflection on the “blame game” that is occasionally played between the parental home and the school with respect to the behaviour displayed by children in these societal ...
Johannes L. Van der Walt, Nico A. Broer, Nicholus Mollo, Kgale Mampane, Charl C. Wolhuter   +4 more
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Evolutionary history of rabies in Ghana. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
Rabies virus (RABV) is enzootic throughout Africa, with the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) being the principal vector. Dog rabies is estimated to cause 24,000 human deaths per year in Africa, however, this estimate is still considered to be conservative.
David T S Hayman, Nicholas Johnson, Daniel L Horton, Jessica Hedge, Philip R Wakeley, Ashley C Banyard, Shoufeng Zhang, Andy Alhassan, Anthony R Fooks   +8 more
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Teachers’ perceptions of the psycho-social effects of COVID-19 on learners’ well-being in South African schools

Perspectives in Education, 2023
The lockdown the South African government implemented in 2020 to contain the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in school closures. During this time, and also when learners were allowed to attend school again, the focus was on the physical health and safety of ...
Oliver Gore, Corlia Twine, Johan Botha, Shantha Naidoo   +3 more
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Child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis of demographic and health surveys (2006-2016). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest levels of child malnutrition globally. Therefore, a critical look at the distribution of malnutrition within its sub-regions is required to identify the worst affected areas.
Blessing J Akombi, Kingsley E Agho, Dafna Merom, Andre M Renzaho, John J Hall   +4 more
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa

Nature Communications, 2020
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus ...
B. Amman, B. Bird, Ibrahim A. Bakarr, J. Bangura, A. Schuh, J. Johnny, Tara K Sealy, I. Conteh, Alusine H. Koroma, I. Foday, E. Amara, Abdulai A. Bangura, A. Gbakima, A. Tremeau-Bravard, M. Belaganahalli, Jasjeet Dhanota, Andrew Chow, Victoria Ontiveros, Alexandra A. Gibson, J. Turay, K. Patel, James C. Graziano, Camilla M Bangura, Emmanuel S. Kamanda, Augustus Osborne, Emmanuel Saidu, J. Musa, Doris F. Bangura, Samuel Maxwell Tom Williams, R. Wadsworth, M. Turay, Lavalie Edwin, Vanessa Mereweather-Thompson, Dickson Kargbo, Fatmata V. Bairoh, Marilyn C. Kanu, W. Robert, Victor Lungai, R. G. Guetiya Wadoum, Moinya Coomber, O. Kanu, A. Jambai, S. Kamara, Celine H Taboy, T. Singh, J. Mazet, S. Nichol, T. Goldstein, J. Towner, Aiah Lebbie   +49 more
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Accelerating land cover change in West Africa over four decades as population pressure increased

Communications Earth & Environment, 2020
Rapid population growth in West Africa has exerted increasing pressures on land resources, leading to observable changes in the land cover and land use. However, spatially explicit and thematically detailed quantitative analyses of land cover change over
S. Herrmann, M. Brandt, K. Rasmussen, R. Fensholt   +3 more
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Marching across and beyond West Africa: First record of the stem-galling fly Cecidochares connexa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Central Africa and the implications for biological control of Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae).

PLoS ONE, 2021
The Neotropical invasive plant Chromolaena odorata R.M. King and H. Robinson (Asteraceae) is a serious weed in West and Central Africa and two biological control agents that have been introduced into West Africa to help reduce its impacts on agriculture ...
Pascal O Aigbedion-Atalor, Itohan Idemudia, Medetissi Adom, Ethelyn E Forchibe, Hospice Tossou, David D Wilson, Michael D Day   +6 more
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Subtype-specific differences in Gag-protease replication capacity of HIV-1 isolates from East and West Africa

Retrovirology, 2021
Background The HIV-1 epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is heterogeneous with diverse unevenly distributed subtypes and regional differences in prevalence.
Omotayo Farinre, Kamini Gounder, Tarylee Reddy, Marcel Tongo, Jonathan Hare, Beth Chaplin, Jill Gilmour, Phyllis Kanki, Jaclyn K. Mann, Thumbi Ndung’u   +9 more
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A GCM study of the response of the atmospheric water cycle of West Africa and the Atlantic to Saharan dust radiative forcing [PDF]

Annales Geophysicae, 2009
The responses of the atmospheric water cycle and climate of West Africa and the Atlantic to radiative forcing of Saharan dust are studied using the NASA finite volume general circulation model (fvGCM), coupled to a mixed layer ocean.
K. M. Lau, K. M. Kim, Y. C. Sud, G. K. Walker   +3 more
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Pearl millet genomic vulnerability to climate change in West Africa highlights the need for regional collaboration

Nature Communications, 2020
Climate change is already affecting agro-ecosystems and threatening food security by reducing crop productivity and increasing harvest uncertainty. Mobilizing crop diversity could be an efficient way to mitigate its impact.
B. Rhoné, D. Defrance, C. Berthouly-Salazar, C. Mariac, P. Cubry, M. Couderc, Anaïs Dequincey, Aichatou Assoumanne, N. Kane, B. Sultan, A. Barnaud, Y. Vigouroux   +11 more
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