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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Central Africa"”.
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Going further: an organology of Ndara in Central Africa
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Energy in Central Africa : with special reference to Zaire
In this thesis, the energy sector of the Central Africa region is investigated with a special attention to Zaire. The region's political trends, economic performance, demographic and social patterns as well as their implications in the development of the energy sector are presented. For each …
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A clinico-pathological study of schistosomiasis in South Central Africa.
… clinical experience, has not been attempted in Africa outside of Egypt. The most impressive work in Egypt in this connection is that Fairley on the experimental infection of monkeys, which he published in 1920. Elsewhere in Africa, a number of smaller publications dealing with a particular or …
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The diurnal cycle of cloud cover over southern and central Africa
… spatial distribution of clouds over southern and central Africa is poor and the regional processes governing cloud occurrence is only weakly understood. This study seeks to improve the current understanding of cloud diurnal variability over this region by providing a base-line diurnal climatology …
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Quasi-Armies: Obstacles to, or Vehicle for, State-building in Central Africa
… component of state institutions in the Central African sub region. Its aim is to identify whether and to what extent the military has been and can be instrumental to the process of state-building and state formation in the region, and whether and under which conditions it is an obstacle …
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Supermicron-size aerosol particles originating from biomass burning in south-central Africa
During the 2017 & 2018 Observations of Aerosols Above Clouds and their Interactions (ORACLES) field campaign, the NASA P3-Orion was equipped with a 2D-Stereo (2D-S) probe that contains 128 diodes that are 10 µm in size nominally measuring particles with sizes ranging from 5 µm < D < 1280 µm. The …
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Kimberlites, megacrysts and related xenocrysts from southern and Central Africa: geochemistry and petrology
… and related xenocrysts from twelve localities in central and southern Africa have been investigated with particular emphasis on megacryst petrogenesis, the evolution of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) beneath the northeastern Kasai Craton and the petrogenesis and sources of central …
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The Hydroclimate Variability of Central Africa: seasonal cycle, mechanisms, teleconnections and impacts on neighbouring regions
Central Africa is, climatologically speaking, a poorly studied region (Clivar, 2000; Dezfuli and Nicholson, 2012; Nicholson and Dezfuli, 2012; Todd and Washington, 2004). It is considered as a knowledge gap in the understanding of the tropical climate system (Todd and Washington, 2004). Drivers of …
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Sustainable tourism development management in Central Africa: a case study of the tourism industry in Cameroon
The tourism industry in sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing one of the fastest growth rates in the last decade at more than 10% in 2006, +7% in 2007 and +5% in 2008 and 2009 respectively and this positive trend is predicted to continue in future in spite of the present global recession. …
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Geographic patterns of speciation in West and Central Africa: The role of rivers, mountains, and refugia
The tropical rainforests of Africa make up one of the largest rainforest blocks in the world, second only to the Amazon Rainforest of South America. This area hosts an incredible diversity of plants and animals and contains three of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, indicative of both its high …
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The Effectiveness of Protected Areas in Central Africa: A Remotely Sensed Measure of Deforestation and Access
… the deforestation rate in protected areas in Central Africa. Using remote sensing techniques, I measured levels of deforestation in 87 protected areas in five countries in Central Africa from 1990-2000. To examine possible causes of deforestation I also measured the level of access in these …
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Called to mission : Mennonite women missionaries in Central Africa in the second half of the twentieth century
… women missionaries from North America based in Central Africa during the latter half of the twentieth century. The investigation is conducted in two main parts. In the first we investigate the theological-historical distinctives of the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition; in the second part, through …
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Refugee migration stress and family function: A phenomenological study of refugee mothers from East and Central Africa
Refugee families who flee their homes as a result of conflict or persecution and face stressful migration experiences often struggle with trauma that may put them at increased risk for family discord and dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to use an interpretative phenomenological approach …
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The sickle-cell trait: A study of its distribution and effects in some Bantu tribes of South Central Africa
… as to tribe, drawn from a wide area of south Central Africa. The scope of this invest1gs,tion has been determined by the nature of the nmterial; vvbich is in some respects unusual. This will be fully described later, but the important point is that in this population sickle-cell anaemia, if it …
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The sickle-cell trait: A study of its distribution and effects in some Bantu tribes of South Central Africa
… as to tribe, drawn from a wide area of south Central Africa. The scope of this invest1gs,tion has been determined by the nature of the nmterial; vvbich is in some respects unusual. This will be fully described later, but the important point is that in this population sickle-cell anaemia, if it …
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The Effect of Chinese Industrial Investment Projects in Central Africa on the Perception of China’s Commercial Diplomacy in Foreign Policy
… led to the growth of extensive partnerships in Central Africa. Nigeria is the largest most developed economic power in Africa with a vast consumer market and rich in mineral wealth. Due to these factors it makes that country a prime example of the power of long term investment. As time goes on, …
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