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Implications of land use change in tropical northern Africa under global warming
... While the climate is only marginally influenced by the type of land cover change, some small changes in the desert fraction between simulations are found. Higher crop frac- tion leads to less water usage; therefore, the ...
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The importance of rare, high-wind events for dust uplift in northern Africa
... 70 northern Africa stations, stored in the Met Of fi ce Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) SYNOP database for the period 1984 – ...of Africa, which have high wind speeds only marked at 10 knot ...
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Knowledge gaps on paediatric respiratory infections in Morocco, Northern Africa
... Regarding the monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibil- ity, some data are available for Streptoccoccus pneumo- niae . Active laboratory surveillance was held from 1994 onwards in the microbiology laboratory of University ...
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... tropical Africa precipitation increased in the early to mid- Holocene which produced the well-documented greening of the Sahara and Sahel, and large lakes of the Holocene have now disappeared in the ...
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The peopling of the last Green Sahara revealed by high coverage resequencing of trans Saharan patrilineages
... of Africa, its sister clade, A3-V5912, is more widespread, arriving as far as southern Europe (more specifically, Sardinia) (Additional file 1: Table ...sub-Saharan Africa or northern ...eastern ...
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Geographic distribution and ecological niche of plague in sub-Saharan Africa
... southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; Figure ...in Africa (Fig- ure ...sub-Saharan Africa appearing unsuitable for plague are the desert areas ...
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Volume 9 | Issue 4 - 2019
... Among males, lung cancer is the leading cause of passing in most nations in Eastern Europe, Western Asia (eminently within the previous Soviet Union), Northern Africa, and particular n[r] ...
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Megalake Chad impact on climate and vegetation during the late Pliocene and the mid-Holocene
... over northern Africa, found a similar negative feedback of MLC over its surface, but suggested that at larger scale, these surface conditions locally more than doubled the simulated precipitation rates ...
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Satellite retrieval of aerosol microphysical and optical parameters using neural networks: a new methodology applied to the Sahara desert dust peak
... in Northern Africa is used for network training and validation, and the optimal network architecture for each input parameter combination is identified with reference to the lowest mean squared er- ...
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Climate change in Africa and the Middle East in light of health, ubuntu and Islam
... in northern Africa and the Middle East tend to be of Arab descent (setting aside glaring exceptions such as Israel and Iran) and to practise ...in northern Africa and the Middle ...
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Fine-Scale Human Population Structure in Southern Africa Reflects Ecogeographic Boundaries
... southern Africa are distinct from all other African populations and have remained largely isolated during human prehistory until 2000 years ...the Northern Cape, analyzed in conjunction with 19 additional ...
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New synonyms and combinations in Drimia Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae) in southern Africa
... Note: Manning and Goldblatt (2018), in their recent monograph of Drimia in Southern Africa, included in their circumscription of D. vermiformis the material segregated as Austronea linearis by Martínez-Azorín et ...
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Indoor collections of the Anopheles funestus group (Diptera: Culicidae) in sprayed houses in northern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
... Natal Province in South Africa [1,2]. In KwaZulu-Natal, An. parensis has previously been found resting indoors in formerly insecticide sprayed localities (insecticide not mentioned, but DDT traditionally used for ...
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Ebola in the context of conflict affected states and health systems: case studies of Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone
... of Northern Uganda (2000-2001) and West Africa (2014-15) and other work in progress in the two countries with which the authors are associated, which is building an understanding of the specificities of the ...
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An investigation to determine the cause of haemorrhagic enteritis in commercial pig grower units in the northern parts of South Africa
... Over the past years, pig farmers in South Africa with good management systems have reported to consulting veterinarians that some of their grower pigs die acutely without prodromal signs. South African pig ...
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A preliminary survey of primitive crops cultivated in the northern Transvaal of South Africa
... Together with Sesamum indicum, this crop is grown almost exclusively in Gazankulu (by 60% of the families interviewed) and in immediately adjoining areas of Lebowa and Venda. This suggests a later introduction into South ...
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Witchcraft and policing : South Africa Police Service attitudes towards witchcraft and witchcraft-related crime in the Northern Province
... South Africa Mpondo, accusations of witchcraft mostly take place between mothers- and daughters-in-law and between neighbours, and that among the East African Nyakyusa, accusation of witchcraft mainly take place ...
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Structural Organization and Tectono Metamorphic Evolution of the Pan African Suture Zone: Case of the Kabye and Kpaza Massifs in the Dahomeyide Orogen in Northern Togo (West Africa)
... In northern Togo, the Dahomeyide segment (Figure 2) corresponds to a series of west verging nappe and slice piles belonging to the external, suture and internal zones ...
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Combating Violent Conflicts and Terrorism in Nigeria: Some Considered Measures
... West Africa would appear to be a blessing in disguise because of its tendency to ignore the material and sociological root of terrorism and throw up more vicious, violent and radical ...
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Antimicrobial evaluation of plants used for the treatment of diarrhoea in a rural community in northern Maputaland, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
... interactions against five of the seven pathogens studied (organic extracts) having a mean (across all pathogens) ΣFIC value of 0.30. The most significant interaction was against S. aureus where MIC values for individual ...
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