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Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson +5 more
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Numerous pests and diseases of yams are perpetuated from season to season through the use of infected seed material. Developing a system for generating healthy seed material would disrupt this disease cycle and reduce losses in field and storage. The use
Abiodun Olufunmilayo Claudius-Cole +2 more
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DO HOUSEHOLDS FULLY SHARE RISK? EVIDENCE FROM GHANA [PDF]
Intrahousehold analyses provide new insights into how households make economic decisions. Much of the work in economics has traditionally treated the household as a single economic actor, but a number of studies are providing evidence that the dynamics ...
Doss, Cheryl R.
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The role of agriculture in the Nigerian economy since independence [PDF]
The Nigerian agricultural sector deserves to be studied not less for the contribution of such knowledge to our understanding of the past, and present, but more for the usefulness of such knowledge in shaping the sector. The role that agriculture plays in
Ntukidem, Anametti
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Abstract Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) is one of the neglected root crops with great potential for ensuring food security. Nigerian taro genetic diversity has been rarely reported, particularly using single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers.
Girma Haile Alelign +4 more
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Friday Facts, May 31, 2013, Vol. 176 [PDF]
Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion part of the Iowa Department of Public Health produces of weekly newsletter about the Iowa WIC Program for the State of Iowa ...
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Graphical Overview of Protein quality characterization of velvet and African yam beans. ABSTRACT The increasing demand for plant‐based foods has intensified research in alternative protein sources. This study assessed the chemical composition, functional properties, and biological qualities of velvet bean (VB) and African yam bean (AYB) flours to ...
Chiemeziem Adanma Obike +4 more
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Neural Representations for Sensory-Motor Control, II: Learning a Head-Centered Visuomotor Representation of 3-D Target Position [PDF]
A neural network model is described for how an invariant head-centered representation of 3-D target position can be autonomously learned by the brain in real time.
Bullock, Daniel +3 more
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ABSTRACT This study explored the reciprocal associations between maternal physical discipline and children's externalizing problems across childhood, distinguishing between trait‐like (i.e., between‐person) and state‐like (i.e., within‐person) differences.
Yena Kyeong +9 more
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