Bayesian Estimation of True Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors for Leptospira spp. Among Slaughterhouse Workers and Slaughtered Cattle in the Bahr El Ghazal Region of South Sudan [PDF]
Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 73, Issue 3, Page 181-190, May 2026.ABSTRACT Introduction Leptospirosis is a major but under‐reported zoonotic disease, and epidemiological data from South Sudan remain limited. This study estimated the true prevalence of Leptospira spp. exposure and identified associated risk factors among slaughterhouse workers and slaughtered cattle in Western Bahr El Ghazal. Methods A cross‐sectional
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Cohort profile: a community‐based prospective cohort study of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF]
Alzheimer's &Dementia: Behavior &Socioeconomics of Aging, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract INTRODUCTION The Étude du Vieillissement Cognitif et de Démence en République Démocratique du Congo (EVCD‐RDC) launched in 2024 to investigate socio‐environmental and biological determinants of dementia in Kinshasa. METHODS The study recruited 1000 adults aged ≥65 years across four diagnostic groups – cognitively unimpaired (CU), mild ...
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Cultural Threads: An Afrocentric Paradigm for Integrating Social Justice Principles in the Practice of Family Therapy in Africa [PDF]
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Family therapy has been slowly but steadily growing on the African continent. Considering Africa's rich yet complex economic, political, and sociocultural history, it is essential for family therapy practitioners to integrate social justice (SJ) principles into their research, training, and practice of family therapy.
Ronald Asiimwe +3 more
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1563, Issue 1, September 2026.We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe spread of food production in sub-Saharan Africa involved multi-directional dispersals of domesticated plant and animal species, often associated with major migrations.
Steven T Goldstein +16 more
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History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity [PDF]
Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa.
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Molecular and serological prevalence of Leptospira spp. among slaughtered cattle and associated risk factors in the Bahr El Ghazal region of South Sudan [PDF]
BMC Veterinary ResearchIntroduction Leptospirosis is a neglected emerging and zoonotic disease reported worldwide. This study sought to determine the molecular and serological prevalence of Leptospira spp.
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Western Invitational Jazz Festival
, 2016 Recorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 21, 1987, 7:30 p.m., the 272nd concert of the School of Music's 1986-1987 season.University Jazz Orchestra ; guest artists, Dave ...
Western Michigan University. Jazz Orchestra
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Morpological stratification in Dinka
Studies in African Linguistics, 1992 Dinka is a Western Nilotic language with three contrastive degrees of vowel length, two contrastive voice qualities in vowels, and three contrastive tones. Although to a large extent a monosyllabic language, Dinka has an elaborate morphology.
Torben Andersen
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Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2012 North African populations are distinct from sub-Saharan Africans based on cultural, linguistic, and phenotypic attributes; however, the time and the extent of genetic divergence between populations north and south of the Sahara remain poorly understood ...
Brenna M Henn +11 more
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