Financial Structure, Firm Size and Financial Growth of Non-Financial Firms Listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange
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David Haritone Shikumo, Oluoch Oluoch, Joshua Matanda Wepukhulu
A significant number of the non-financial firms listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) have been experiencing declining financial performance and financial growth, which deter …
Temporal patterns of gelatinous zooplankton distribution and environmental drivers in the south-western Mediterranean Sea.
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Ghollame Ellah Yacine Khames, Aldjia Kherchouche, Zakia Alioua
are the most abundant species. The nMDS and ANOSIM analysis reveal significant differences in the ecological community structures between the Habibas Islands and Sidi Fredj. …
AN ANALYSIS OF POLICIES AND LEGISLATION RELATING TO CHILD PARTICIPATION BY CHILDREN IN ALTERNATIVE CARE IN SOUTH AFRICA
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Ulene Schiller, Marianne Strydom, Antoinette Lombard
Worldwide, children in the care of the state constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in society. They are often not heard, or their views …
Determinants of tuberculosis treatment support costs to the treatment supporters in rural Ghana
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Robert Bagngmen Bio, Patricia Akweongo, Augustine Adomah-Afari
Background: The Ghana Health Service has been implementing the Directly Observed Therapy Short Course (DOTS) strategy for decades now, to cure and reduce the transmission …
Combating coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in rural areas of Malawi: Factors affecting the fight
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Winner Dominic Chawinga, Wales Singini, John Phuka
BACKGROUND: Owing to their detachment from urban areas, people living in rural areas of Malawi are on the receiving end of health services and socio-economic …
“A disease that God has given me” patients and caregivers’ perspectives on diabetes in southeastern Tanzania
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Emmy Metta
BACKGROUND: Prompt diagnosis and appropriate management of diabetes has the potential of improving survival and patient health outcomes. Yet many diabetes patients present themselves to …
Deriving lexical statistics for psycholinguistic research on isiXhosa
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Robyn Berghoff
Psycholinguistic research on isiXhosa and related Bantu languages is scarce. For research on lexical processing in particular, a prerequisite is data on lexical properties that …
Potential clinical utility of plasma D-dimer levels among women with cervical cancer in Lagos, Nigeria
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Lucky E Tietie, Kehinde S. Okunade, Adaiah P Soibl-Harry
The link between plasma D-dimer levels and underlying malignancy has been established.How this translates in clinical practice as a marker of detection and prognosis of …
Expression of Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) Gene in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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Nahla A M Hamed, Ashraf El Ghandour, Reham Abo Elwafa
BACKGROUND: Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2) is the catalytic subunit of the chromatin modifying enzyme polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). As a complex, these …
Investigation of Point Refractivity Gradient and Geoclimatic Factor at 70 m Altitude in Yenagoa, Nigeria
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Yusuf Babatunde Lawal, E. Omotoso
The quality of services provided via Inter-Terrestrial radio communication links such as GSM networks, Wide Area Network (WAN), Radio and TV broadcasts is largely influenced …
Socio-economic factors correlating with illegal use of giraffe body parts
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Arthur Muneza, Bernard Amakobe, Simon Kasaine
Abstract Unsustainable hunting, both illegal and legal, has led to the extirpation of many species. In the last 35 years giraffeGiraffaspp. populations have declined precipitously, …
The changing meaning of ‘home’ in the work of South African women academics during the pandemic-enforced lockdown
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Cyrill Walters, Linda Ronnie, Jonathan D. Jansen
This article shows how the meaning of home and 'working from home' were fundamentally transformed by the pandemic-enforced lockdown for women academics. Drawing on the …
Purification and characterization of thrombin from camel plasma: interaction with camel tick salivary gland thrombin inhibitor
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Mahmoud A. Ibrahim, Hassan M.M. Masoud
BACKGROUND: Thrombin is the most important enzyme in the hemostatic process by permitting rapid and localized coagulation in case of tissue damage. Camel thrombin is …
Effect of soil solarization on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) growth and impact on native microbial diversity of farm soil in Nigeria
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Olumide Ekundayo Omotayo, Adebisi Mary Eegunranti
Abstract Background Tomato plant leaves can be wilted by the presence of various species of soil-residing bacteria, especially Ralstonia solanacearum. Soil solarization has proven to …
Tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) in Ethiopia: a scoping review and narrative synthesis
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Terefe Gelibo, Tyryn Carnegie, Selam Abraham Kassa
Background Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) has been shown to increase tobacco use in both adults and young people. In Ethiopia, TAPS is recognised …
Effect of monopolar capacitive resistive radiofrequency in treating stress urinary incontinence: A pilot randomized control trial
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Eman A. Elhosary, Hamada Ahmed Hamada, Fatimah Ali AlMubali
Objective To assess the effectiveness of 448 kHz monopolar capacitive resistive radiofrequency (MCRR) in the treatment of females with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Materials and …
Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among blood donors from December 2020 to June 2021 in Koutiala district, Mali
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Fara Wagbo Temessadouno, Jean Gilbert Ndong, Etienne Gignoux
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus associated with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). At the time of the study, little data on the …
A proposed protocol for identifying native-alien populations
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Takalani Nelufule, Mark P. Robertson, John R. Wilson
It is important for regulators and managers to effectively distinguish native from alien taxa.However, a taxon can have both native and alien populations within the …
Establishment of an invasive snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) in a Sahelian urban reservoir in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Idrissa Ouédraogo, Noëllie W. Kpoda, Adama Ouéda
Human land-use plays an important role in the distribution of aquatic invasive species.The establishment of these species may have an unpredictable impact on their new …
First record of an African grass-feeding wasp (Tetramesa; Eurytomidae) on the invasive grass Eragrostis curvula (African lovegrass; Poaceae) in Australia
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Guy F. Sutton, Clarke J. M. van Steenderen, Liam D. Yell
An undescribed phytophagous wasp belonging to the Tetramesa genus (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), that is native to South Africa, is currently being investigated as a potential weed …