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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Guinea Bissau"”.
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Can they do any better? Elections in Guinea-Bissau
… the opinions of the international community in Bissau and Bissau-Guineans on the countries’ ability to perform elections, as well as their views on post-conflict elections, their contribution to peace and democracy and the motives behind the international community´s presence in Guinea-Bissau. …
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Shape-shifting nature in a congested landscape in Guinea-Bissau
… nature and nature conservation. In southern Guinea-Bissau, space and its history, magic and religion, changes in the landscape and environment, local livelihoods and trade, as well as local relations of power for accessing resources, all shape the social and cosmological terrain of the …
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HIV-1, HIV-2 and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
… HIV-2 prevalence figures have been reported from Guinea-Bissau. While HIV-1 infection almost invariably leads to progressive immune dysfunction and AIDS, HIV-2 infection is characterised by a smaller proportion of individuals with disease progression to AIDS. In order to monitor the long-term …
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Mammal conservation status and prospects for community-based wildlife management in coastal Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
In Guinea-Bissau leiden Wildtiere im Allgemeinen und Säugetiere insbesondere unter zunehmendem Druck, hauptsächlich durch übermäßige Jagd und Habitatrückgang und -fragmentierung. Der Mangel an zuverlässigen Daten über die Verteilung von Wildtierbeständen und über Populationstrends stellt ein …
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Being Mandinga, Being Muslim: Transnational Debates on Personhood and Religious Identity in Guinea -Bissau and Portugal
"The dynamic interplay between Mandinga personhood and religious identity is currently being played out through life course rituals, including the naming of infants, the ""writing-on-the-hand"" ceremony, initiation and circumcision, Islamic healing, pilgrimage, and funerals. It is also creating …
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Zooming in on human-wildlife coexistence: primate community responses in a shared agroforest landscape in Guinea-Bissau
… mosaic at Cantanhez National Park (NP), southern Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). I integrate data from arboreal and terrestrial camera traps with habitat surveys, remote sensing and interviews with local people. For the first part of this thesis I use arboreal and terrestrial camera trap occupancy …
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A necessidade de um regime de cooperação jurídica internacional para a prevenção e o combate ao narcotráfico no estado de Guiné-Bissau
One of the biggest problems in Guinea-Bissau in the last decade is illegal drug tafficking, which is being used to transport concaine and other drugs from Latin America to Europe, thus being considered a Narco-State. Due to the great problems caused to the State, ways of reducing and combating this …
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Alternative care options and social protection policy choices to support orphans and vulnerable children : a comparative study of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau
… particularly in the countries of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, on the role of social protection policies, types of alternative care, and fulfillment of basic needsin ensuring the welfare of this vulnerable population. The goal of the present thesis was to examine the interconnections between …
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HIV-1 evolution, disease progression and molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 single and HIV-1 and HIV-2 dual-infected individuals in Guinea-Bissau
… dual-infected (HIV-1 and HIV-2) individuals from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The main findings was that CRF02_AG represents the most common form of HIV-1 in Guinea-Bissau, and that HIV-1 was introduced into the country on at least six different occasions between 1976 and 1981. Dual-infected …
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Ideologias de linguagem na formação de professores: uma etnografia com estudantes guineenses de letras-língua portuguesa no Brasil
… ideologies articulated in the discourse of Guinean students undergoing professional training in Portuguese language education in Brazil, specifically in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia. It examines how these ideologies are constructed, negotiated, and co-produced based on the values attributed …
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A Preventive Approach to Post-Election Conflicts in Contemporary Africa
… in the Afrobarometer studies: Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, and Senegal. Among these six countries, Ghana and Togo use a majoritarian electoral system, Benin and Guinea-Bissau use a proportional representation electoral system, and Guinea and Senegal use a mixed electoral …
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External Language Spread Policies in Mozambique and Guniea-Bissau at the turn of the 21st Century.
… I examine the case studies of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, in the time frame of the 1990s to the present. In both case studies is visible the pervasiveness of international European languages that has been fostered by the history, structure and functioning of the international system. African …
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Dinámica de las poblaciones de recursos demersales marinos costeros compartidos en el áfrica occidental: Estudio de caso de la especie Pseudotolithus Elongatus (Bowdich, 1825) del ecosistema marino de la República de Guinea Bissau y la República de Guinea
… países de la subregión africana, en particular Guinea-Bissau y Guinea, haya evolucionado considerablemente y produzca importantes beneficios para su economía y seguridad alimentaria. Sin embargo, debido al gran interés mundial por la búsqueda de alimentos sanos, el número de barcos de pesca y …
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Manjako Literacy and Issues in Language of Instruction
<p>Students in Caio, Guinea-Bissau cannot read. This is due largely to the mismatch between the language at home and the language of instruction in schools. Students in Caio speak Manjako, but classes are taught in Portuguese, the official language, which students do not understand. This makes it …
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Technology Roadmapping for Energy Storage using ZEBRA Batteries
… locations were studied: Maine, Texas, and Guinea-Bissau. A Design of Experiments approach was implemented to explore different solutions to supply the electricity demand with Variable Renewable Energy in these locations. A model was built to calculate the energy supply and the cost of it …
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Conservation of vervets, Africa’s most ubiquitous primates
… centre intake). Vervets occupy mangroves in Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Senegal, and, to a lesser extent, Tanzania and Kenya. A potential habitat shift extension has been observed in Côte d’Ivoire where vervets were observed outside their previously described range. Vervets …
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THE WEST AFRICA-LATIN AMERICA DRUG TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC; AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
… continues, most countries, especially Guinea-Bissau, in the region will be plunged into chaos and political instability because they do not have strong institutions to deal with the infestation. In other words, the infiltration of the region by Europe-bound illicit drugs from Latin …
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Building pockets of peace. A case study using the "Veil of Ignorance" methodology
… procedure to implementing two pilot studies in Guinea-Bissau with the United Nations Development Programme. The pilots targeted neighbouring rural villages that were involved in violent disputes related to incompatible land tenure claims and aimed at increasing peaceful coexistence between …
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The development-security nexus and security sector reform
… Reform of Armenia, SSR Afghanistan and SSR Guinea-Bissau highlight respectively: 1) the novelty of concerns raised by SSR and the complexity to categorise concerns on security within a single, even if inclusive, policy discourse. 2) the need to go beyond the narrow view of a militarised view …
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Taxonomía integrativa y colecciones científicas como herramientas en la actualización del conocimiento de los cangrejos marinos africanos (decapoda brachyura)
… tanto en áreas bañadas por el Océano Atlántico (Guinea Bissau o Guinea Ecuatorial) como por el Océano Índico (Mozambique o Islas Mauricio). Esta falta de conocimiento es debida a diversos factores, entre ellos, lo que se conoce como impedimento taxonómico, caracterizado por la escasez de …
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