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Affirmative action : a view from the global South
(SUN MeDIA, 2014)Affirmative Action: A View from the Global South provides insight into a range of aspects of the affirmative action policies in seven countries from Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. In addition to these ... -
After Fukushima : the precautionary principle revisited
(AOSIS Publishing, 2012-12-06)Etienne de Villiers, more than other theologians, elaborates on basic elements of a Christian ethics of responsibility. He distinguishes between retrospective and prospective responsibility. The prospective aspect attracted ... -
Age-dependent effects of UCP2 deficiency on experimental acute pancreatitis in mice
(PLoS, 2014-04-10)Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis (AP) for many years but experimental evidence is still limited. Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2)-deficient mice are an accepted model ... -
Anaemia at antenatal care initiation and associated factors among pregnant women in West Gonja District, Ghana: a cross-sectional study
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2019-08-27)Introduction: anaemia in pregnancy remains a critical public health concern in many African settings; but its determinants are not clear. The purpose of this study was to assess anaemia at antenatal care initiation and ... -
Annotation-based feature extraction from sets of SBML models
(BioMed Central, 2015-04-15)Background: Model repositories such as BioModels Database provide computational models of biological systems for the scientific community. These models contain rich semantic annotations that link model entities to concepts ... -
Anti-inflammatory effects of reactive oxygen species : a multi-valued logical model validated by formal concept analysis
(BioMed Central, 2014-09)Background: Recent findings suggest that in pancreatic acinar cells stimulated with bile acid, a pro-apoptotic effect of reactive oxygen species (ROS) dominates their effect on necrosis and spreading of inflammation. The ... -
An approach to reduce the blindness burden in sub-Saharan Africa : special focus on childhood blindness
(African Sun Media, 2020)Sub-Saharan Africa is afflicted with high levels of blindness burden, affecting the quality of life and productivity of its people. While cataracts account for over 40 per cent of blindness, uncorrected refractive error ... -
The archaeology of teaching and the evolution of Homo docens
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-4)Teaching is present in all human societies, while within other species it is very limited. Something happened during the evolution of Homo sapiens that also made us Homo docens—the teaching animal. Based on discussions ... -
Associations between the severity of obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms and care-seeking behavior in rural Africa : a cross-sectional survey from Uganda
(Public Library of Science, 2017)Background: Global estimates indicate that by 2018 2.3 billion individuals worldwide will suffer from lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), with 1.1 billion having LUTS related to bladder outlet obstruction (BOO). Left ... -
Breaking down the silos of Universal Health Coverage : towards systems for the primary prevention of noncommunicable diseases in Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)►African countries are not on track to achieve global targets for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention, driven by an insufficient focus on ecological drivers of NCD risk factors, including poor urban development ... -
Causal cognition, force dynamics and early hunting technologies
(Frontiers Media, 2018)With this contribution we analyze ancient hunting technologies as one way to explore the development of causal cognition in the hominin lineage. Building on earlier work, we separate seven grades of causal thinking. By ... -
Celebrity health promotion messaging : novel opportunities to engage youth in the developmental origins of health and disease
(African Sun Media, 2020)This chapter is a personal view seen from disparate viewpoints of age and culture. Two proponents of health promotion, one a Ugandan youth with firsthand experience of the burden of illness among African children and the ... -
Cell-autonomous role of GFRα1 in the development of olfactory bulb GABAergic interneurons
(The Company of Biologists, 2018-05-18)GFRα1, a receptor for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), is critical for the development of the main olfactory system. The olfactory bulb (OB) of Gfra1 knockout mice shows significant reductions in the ... -
Cerebral lateralization and religion : a phenomenological approach
(MDPI, 2019)Both animal ethology and studies of the attentional styles of the two cerebral hemispheres in human subjects suggest that there is a degree of specialization, with the left hemisphere tending to focus more narrowly on ... -
The challenges of breastfeeeding in poor urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)Optimal breastfeeding has the potential to prevent more than 800 000 deaths in children younger than five years; 500 000 neonatal deaths; and 20 000 deaths in women every year. Despite these benefits, evidence from ... -
Childhood obesity in urban Ghana : evidence from a cross-sectional survey of in-school children aged 5–16 years
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019-11-26)Background: Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern in many low-income urban settings; but its determinants are not clear. The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of childhood obesity and associated ... -
Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa : some ethical perspectives
(African Sun Media, 2020)"This book addresses different challenges that endanger the lives of children in South Africa from an ethical perspective. The text is meant to position itself as a resource for specialists (and practitioners) in ethics ... -
China in a global world
(African Sun Media, 2020)This chapter provides an overview of the growth of China as a political, military and economic power since its emergence as an independent communist state in 1949. China became a notable political force during the era of ... -
COMODI : an ontology to characterise differences in versions of computational models in biology
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-11)Background: Open model repositories provide ready-to-reuse computational models of biological systems. Models within those repositories evolve over time, leading to different model versions. Taken together, the underlying ... -
Competition between silicifiers and non-silicifiers in the past and present ocean and its evolutionary impacts
(Frontiers Media, 2018)Competition is a central part of the evolutionary process, and silicification is no exception: between biomineralized and non-biomineralized organisms, between siliceous and non-siliceous biomineralizing organisms, and ...
