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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"Bantu"”.
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Bantu medical folk-lore
… and record of the Medical Folk Lore of the Bantu Tribes; which was becoming more and more difficult of attainment as time went on; owing to the fact that the true unsophisticated native was rapidly becoming a thing of the past, or if one may put it so, becoming contaminated by the advance of …
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Bantu pottery of Southern Africa
The Bantu people of Southern Africa entered this region from the North in successive migratory waves and advanced to the regions which they, now inhabit. The first of the immigrants crossed the Zambezi at about the beginning of the Christian era. Pottery of a type belonging to the earliest Iron Age …
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Tuberculosis in the Bantu of Southern Rhodesia
In many African territories tuberculosis is an increasing problem. southern Rhodesia is no exception to this rule . The great difficulty is the very ide front on ihich it needs to be faced; the claims of indust on the .African , overcrowding in tons, inadequate nutrition, lack of education and …
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The Syntax and Typology of Bantu Relative Clauses
… complementizer-type relative clauses in the Bantu languages, focusing on strong correlations between points of variation. The facts I discuss concern co-variation between agreement in the C-T domain and subject-verb inversion as well as co-variation between object agreement and resumption and …
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The role of clostridia in Bantu beer fermentations
… occurrence of clostridia in various stages of Bantu beer production was investigated in order to determine their significance as spoilage organisms in the brewing process and in the final product. 2. The ecology of clostridia was studied by investigating the selective factors of the environment …
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Performing Bantu: Narrative Constructions of Identity in Diaspora
… to the United States as a part of the Somali Bantu resettlement in 2004. The study begins with a trajectory analysis of the people now known as Somali Bantu, beginning with their forced migration to Somalia and the various factors shaping their status in the country. The analysis continues …
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Non-verbal predication and copular variation in Eastern Bantu
… of non-verbal predication in five Great Lakes Bantu languages, namelyKihavu (JD52), Mashi (JD53), Kinyamulenge (JD61a), Kirundi (JD62), and Kifuliiru (JD63). Ishow that the form of the copula in these languages is sensitive to particular environmental factors,resulting in similar patterns of …
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An Element-geometry Approach to Depressors in Bantu & Chinese
… dialects have attracted much less attention than Bantu languages. The directionality of depressor-tone interactions in Chinese Wu is surprisingly interesting, which is rare in Bantu languages that have depressor effects. Therefore, this thesis aims to bridge this gap through a cross-linguistic …
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The Clause Structure of the Shimaore Dialect of Comorian (Bantu)
"In my dissertation, I argue that lexical subjects in Shimaore are actually in topic position, and that subject and object markers are markers of agreement, rather than being pronominal in nature. I argue for the relational nature of this agreement, not relying on an agreement phrase in the clause …
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Studies bearing on: (1) The nutrition of Bantu infants and young children and (2) The metabolism of calcium and iron by Bantu children and adults
… 270 million persons of whom about 60 million are Bantu. They dwell mainly south of the Equator. South African Bantu number about 11 million persons, of whom under a third are urbanised, and over a third each work on farms of Whites or live in the Native Reserves. These local Bantu are comprised of …
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Steve Bantu Biko: Politician, 'Historian' and 'Proponent' of African Traditional Religion
The topic is "Steve Bantu Biko: Politician, 'Historian' and 'Proponent' of African Traditional Religion". It is known by everybody that Steve Bantu Biko was a politician. This has been revealed by his teachings, what his contemporaries have written and by his commitment to the course of the …
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BantuBERTa : using language family grouping in multilingual language modeling for Bantu languages
It was researched whether a multilingual Bantu pretraining corpus could be created from freely available data. Here, to create the dataset, Bantu text extracted from datasets that are freely available online (mainly from Huggingface) were used. The resulting multilingual language model (BantuBERTa) …
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Akurasi penggunaan polygraph sebagai alat bantu pembuktian menurut hukum acara Peradilan Agama
INDONESIA: Polygraph merupakan salah satu produk ilmu pengetahuan dan trend perkembangan teknologi. Polygraph yang dibuat pertama kali oleh William Marston awalnya dipakai sebagai pendeteksi kebohongan oleh departemen kepolisian serta agen-agen rahasia seperti FBI dan CIA. Alat ini akan melacak …
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Pharmacogenetics of Efavirenz response in Bantu-speaking South African HIV/AIDS patients
Efavirenz (EFV) is used in first-line antiretroviral (ARV) therapy of HIV-infected patients, and is principally metabolised by CYP1A2, CYP2A6, CYP2B6, CYP3A4/5 and the drug transporter ABCB1. Genetic variability in the above genes may contribute to differences in EFV plasma concentrations which …
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The nature and significance of bride wealth among the South African Bantu
… topic in the whole field of South African Bantu ethnography is that of the institution known variously as lobola (Zulu-Xhosa), bohadi, boxadi, bohali (Sotho) or mala (Venda). In its simplest form it can be defined as the handing over of some consideration, usually cattle, by the father of …
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Ontology verbalization in agglutinating Bantu languages: a study of Runyankore and its generalizability
… healthcare NLG systems cannot be reused for Bantu languages due to the complex grammatical structure, nor can the generated text be used in machine translation systems for Bantu languages because they are computationally under-resourced. This research aimed to verbalize ontologies in …
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Keberkesanan model "elektromagnetik trip" sebagai alat bahan bantu mengajar (ABBM) bagi subjek pendawaian elektrik
Alat Bahan Bantu Mengajar (ABBM) merupakan keperluan dan kelengkapan yang digunakan untuk membantu guru dalam penyampaian dan pemahaman maklumat. Satu model “Elektromagnetik Trip” telah dibangunkan untuk membantu guru dalam pembelajaran dan pemudahcaraan (PdPc). Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menguji …
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