Remittances as a Game Changer for Climate Change Adaptation Financing for the Most Vulnerable: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ghana
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Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Samuel Weniga Anuga
Abstract Emerging discourses in the field of climate change adaptation finance contend that remittances could complement other sources of financing adaptation given their propensity to …
Cardiovascular Care in Africa – Cost Crisis and the Urgent Need for Contextual Health Service Solutions
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Florence Akumiah, Abdul-Subulr Yakubu, Dzifa Ahadzi
Simplicity Bias in Transformers and their Ability to Learn Sparse Boolean Functions
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Satwik Bhattamishra, Arkil Patel, Varun Kanade
Despite the widespread success of Transformers on NLP tasks, recent works have found that they struggle to model several formal languages when compared to recurrent …
A novel workflow for streamflow prediction in the presence of missing gauge observations
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Rendani Mbuvha, Julien Adounkpè, Mandela C M HOUNGNIBO
Abstract Streamflow predictions are vital for detecting flood and drought events. Such predictions are even more critical to Sub-Saharan African regions that are vulnerable to …
The Study of the Heterogeneity of the Qualities of Argan Oils and Pomaces from Different Cooperatives in the Essaouira Region (Morocco)
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Karima El Kabous, Khadija Atfaoui, Asmaa Oubihi
In this study, a comparison of the intra-regional variation in the quality of Argan oil and pomace collected from 12 cooperatives in the Essaouira region …
Effects of social determinants of health on obesity among urban women of reproductive age
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Dickson A Amugsi, Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene
Obesity is a major global public health problem. It is spreading very fast in low- and middle-income countries and has reached world record levels in …
Euclasta condylotricha flowers essential oils: A new source of juvenile hormones and its larvicidal activity against Anopheles gambiae s.s. (Diptera: Culicidae)
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Roméo Barnabé Bohounton, Oswald Djihinto, Oronce Sedjro-Ludolphe Dedome
The essential oil (EO) of plants of the Poaceae family has diverse chemical constituents with several biological properties. But, data on the chemical constituents and …
Numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer of a wall containing micro-encapsulated phase change concrete (PCC)
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Nour Lajimi, Nour Ben Taher, Noureddine Boukadida
Before planning to equip buildings with energy systems, it is essential to first understand and control the behavior of the premises (via control of heat …
Qualitative study of practices and attitudes towards physical activity among prediabetic men and women in urban and rural Malawi
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Jethro Banda, Christopher Bunn, Amelia C. Crampin
OBJECTIVES: Given the decline in physical activity levels in Malawi, like other sub-Saharan African countries, and its implication for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, this study …
Investigating factors that influence the practice of exclusive breastfeeding among mothers in an urban general hospital in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
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Baaba Dadzie, Fidelis Bayor, Abdul-Razak Doat
BACKGROUND: In Ghana, only 52% of mothers exclusively breastfeed their babies and the rate of increase has been steadily slow across all geographical areas of …
Using crop modeling to find solutions for wheat diseases: A review
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Caroline Fadeke Ajilogba, Sue Walker
Plant diseases have caused serious challenges in the production of food globally. This has led to hunger and food insecurity. Different solutions for crop diseases …
Clinico-epidemiological profile and risk factors of hypertensive crisis among patients attended at a tertiary care hospital in Somalia
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Mohamed Farah Yusuf Mohamud
Hypertensive crisis (HC) is a life-threatening clinical condition in which an abrupt rise in arterial blood pressure can lead to acute damage to vital organs. …
Respiratory Health Effects of Pollution Due to Artisanal Crude-Oil Refining in Bayelsa, Nigeria
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Benson Chukwunweike Ephraim-Emmanuel, Enembe Okokon, Best Ordinioha
Purpose: Artisanal refining of crude oil has been associated with the manifestations of various health problems directly related to the release of particulate matter, including …
Healthcare Workers’ Safety; A Necessity for a Robust Health System
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Nathan Ezie Kengo, Felix Amekpor, Godfred Yawson Scott
It is a prevalent misconception that healthcare professionals are specialists and thus can effectively manage their health. This is probably true, but given recent pandemics …
CUED at ProbSum 2023: Hierarchical Ensemble of Summarization Models
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Potsawee Manakul, Yassir Fathullah, Adian Liusie
In this paper, we consider the challenge of summarizing patients' medical progress notes in a limited data setting.For the Problem List Summarization (shared task 1A) …
DBF4 Dependent Kinase Inhibition Suppresses Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression and Potentiates Anti-Programmed Cell Death-1 Therapy
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Liang Zhang, Jiawei Hong, Wei Chen
The progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a huge clinical challenge, and elucidation of the underlying molecular mechanisms is critical to develop effective therapeutic strategy.Dumbbell …
Barriers to Social Inclusion among Older Adults with Disabilities in Imo State, Nigeria: A Descriptive Phenomenological Inquiry
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Anthony Obinna Iwuagwu, Paulinus Okah, Chinwe U. Nnama‐Okechukwu
Discourses on successful aging in modern times have emphasized older people’s active participation in community life as essential to their independence and sense of fulfillment. …
Gendered conflict in the human family
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David W. Lawson, Sarah Alami, Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun
Sexual conflict is a thriving area of animal behaviour research. Yet parallel research in the evolutionary human sciences remains underdeveloped and has become mired by …
Optimized Position Estimation in Mobile Multipath Environments Using Machine Learning
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Nesreen I. Ziedan
Abstract The positioning accuracy of global navigation satellite system receivers is frequently degraded in urban areas due to reflected signals. A moving receiver faces additional …
The completeness of adverse drug reaction reports in South Africa: An analysis in VigiBase®
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Mafora F. Matlala, Martie S. Lubbe, Hanlie Steyn
BACKGROUND: Spontaneous reporting is regarded as a cornerstone of pharmacovigilance (PV) but presents many limitations, including varying quality and completeness of information, which is essential …