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Cis‐Vaccenic Acid as a Compositional Marker for Detecting High‐Oleic Seed Oil Adulteration in Avocado Oil

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid expansion of the global avocado oil market has intensified concerns about economic adulteration with lower‐cost, high‐oleic seed oils that resemble the fatty acid specifications of avocado oil. Cis‐vaccenic acid C18:1 (n−7) occurs at higher proportions in avocado oil than in common seed oil adulterants, making it a promising ...
Donpon Wannasin, Selina C. Wang
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Age heaping in Zimbabwe: Evidence from the 1992, 2002, 2012 and 2022 Censuses

The Dyke
Age misreporting is a prevalent issue in population-related surveys, attributable to various factors. This study assesses the quality of age-sex data by measuring the extent of digit preference and avoidance in census age distribution.
Kudzaishe Mangombe, Charles Lwanga , Sibusiso B Moyo, Farai Lesley Nhire , Naomi N Wekwete   +4 more
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A university‐certified course on dossier assessment for regulatory scientists in Africa—Reporting on our 5‐year experience

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim The shortage of trained clinical assessors in African National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) poses a challenge to effective regulatory decision‐making. Developed in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Competency Framework (WHO‐GCF), a university‐certified short course, Dossier assessment for clinical assessors in Africa, was ...
Stephanie Leigh, Boitumelo Semete‐Makokotlela, Ivana Škrnjug‐Yudov, David Mukanga, Delese Mimi Darko, Eric Karikari‐Boateng, Peter Stonier, Luther Gwaza, Precious Matsoso, Bernd Rosenkranz, Birka Lehmann, Arnold G. Vulto, John G. Woodland, Shabir Banoo, Frieda Shigwedha, Maphutheho Selikane, Unathi Mabona‐Mgoqi, Asare Yeboah, Ntombi Mthembu, Goonaseelan ( Colin) Pillai   +19 more
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A History of Health and Psychiatry Services in Zimbabwe 1890-1980

The Dyke
Colonialism and its associated practices of segregation and subjugation left a lasting impact on the lives of the Africans it aimed to ‘civilise’, despite its role in refining certain aspects of African innovation, particularly in healthcare and ...
Walter Obbie Mangezi , Tinashe Chikafa, Chido Rwafa, Chido Mawoyo, Bazondlile Dube-Marimbe, Lazarus Kajawu, Portia Manangazira   +6 more
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An evaluation of the proposed organisation restructuring at Kadoma city 2015

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
Introduction: restructuring is the corporate management term for the act of reorganizing the legal, operational, or other structures of a company for the purpose of making it more profitable or better organized for its present needs.
Caroline Muringazuva, Daniel Chirundu, Shepherd Shamu, Gerald Shambira, Notion Gombe, Tsitsi Juru, Donewell Bangure, Mufuta Tshimanga   +7 more
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Capacity building in medicines development and regulation in Africa—Overview on recent progress

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Despite advances in health research and digital innovation, many African countries continue to face substantial resource constraints, fragmented capacity‐building efforts and a shortage of skilled professionals in medicines development and regulatory science.
Tirhani Maluleke, Emile Malan, Michael Reid, Patrick Bouic, Haylene Nell, Goonaseelan Pillai, Catriona Waitt, Bernd Rosenkranz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cholera in Zimbabwe

Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2009
Cholera in Zimbabwe remains uncontrolled, with cholera-associated deaths continuing to be reported in 9 of the nation’s 10 provinces. In the 4 months since the outbreak began in August 2008, more than 35,000 suspected cases have been reported, including 1753 deaths. All provinces are affected but Harare sees almost one third of cases.
openaire   +2 more sources

Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
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Factors associated with severe malaria among children below ten years in Mutasa and Nyanga districts, Zimbabwe, 2014-2015

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017
BACKGROUND: severe malaria is a rare life threatening illness. Only a small proportion of patients with clinical malaria progress to this medical emergency.
Faith Mutsigiri-Murewanhema, Patron Trish Mafaune, Gerald Shambira, Tsitsi Juru, Donewell Bangure, More Mungati, Notion Tafara Gombe, Mufuta Tshimanga   +7 more
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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
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