Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh: Seminar on Witchcraft and Healing [PDF]
, 1969 openalex +1 more source
Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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Ultrastructure of astrocytes using volume electron microscopy: A scoping review
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract figure legend A complete overview on astrocyte ultrastructure with volume electron microscopy. The morphology of astrocytes under physiological and pathological conditions plays a role in brain homeostasis, synaptic activity and structural support, but their morphological complexity and heterogeneity are still poorly quantified.
Vanessa Chiappini +7 more
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Witchcraft, territories and marginal resistances in Rio de Janeiro
Mana, 2010 Through their everyday references to witchcraft, allegedly emanating from Afro-Brazilian cults, Evangelical pastors denounce heinous crimes and acts of barbarity that provoke horror and terror in their listeners in church and on radio and television.
Patricia Birman
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Oxychlorine Species on Mars: A Review
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract Oxychlorine species (mainly perchlorate and chlorate) have been identified at multiple locations on the surface of Mars by both orbiter and in situ rovers. They have also been found in martian meteorites. Cl‐isotopes in meteoritic minerals suggest that an oxychlorine cycle has been operating on the martian surface for the last ∼4 billion years.
Kaushik Mitra
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Folklore: Hoodoo—Conjuration—Witchcraft—Rootwork: Beliefs Accepted by Many Negroes and White Persons These Being Orally Recorded Among Blacks and Whites. HARRY MIDDLETON HYATT [PDF]
, 1971 Weston La Barre
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Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 67, Issue 6, November 2025.ABSTRACT The pre‐locomotor version of the Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery (Lab‐TAB) provides one of the most widely used observational measures of fear based on the infant's reactivity to a series of four novel masks. Resulting indicators of facial and bodily fear intensity, as well as latency to exhibit a fearful response, have been ...
Joshua J. Underwood +4 more
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General and Theoretical: Irish Witchcraft and Demonology. ST. JOHN D. SEYMOUR, Witchcraft in Scotland. CHARLES KIRK‐PATRICK SHARPE [PDF]
, 1974 Dorothy Hammond
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Understanding delays in breast cancer diagnosis in Africa: Key insights and contributing factors
International Journal of Cancer, Volume 157, Issue 9, Page 1830-1840, 1 November 2025.What's new? Despite lower incidence rates, Africa has the highest age‐standardized breast cancer mortality rates globally. Using Bronfenbrenner's ecological model to classify multilevel influences on the individual, this scoping review shows that a lack of knowledge about breast cancer is the primary factor contributing to breast cancer diagnostic ...
Liza A. Hoveling +6 more
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