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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Southeastern Africa"”.
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Statistical analysis and prediction of climate impacts on sugarcane yield in southeastern Africa
… a downward trend in sugarcane yield over SE Africa as signalled by 𝑧 ≈ −4 for FAO time series and 𝑧 ≈ −2 for SASA yield data at 95% level. Time series analysis showed high influence of local climate indices such as PDSI (e.g 𝑟 ≈ +0.7) with global sugarcane yield, and the value increased to 𝑟 …
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A critical analysis of the linguistic and educational challenges facing Border-straddling speech communities, with special reference to the Nyanja-Chewa-Mang'anja cluster of Southeastern Africa
… divided by political borders, and implicitly in Africa almost always applies to perceived 'minority' languages. Such African languages are partially invisible, disguised or hidden by the arbitrary nature of the colonial borders of African states. The dissertation examines some European and some …
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Pushing Marginalization: British Colonial Policy, Somali Identity, and the Gosha 'Other' in Jubaland Province, 1895 to 1925
… numbers of enslaved people were brought from southeastern Africa to work on Somali plantations along the Benadir Coast and Shebelle River. As these southeast Africans were manumitted or escaped bondage, many fled to the west and settled in the heavily forested and fertile Gosha district along …
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Relative Impacts of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole/Zonal Mode on Southern African Rainfall
… rainfall variability over the mainland region of southeastern Africa in relation to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole/Zonal Mode (IODZM) for the period 1950 to 1999. An empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis of OND rainfall field revealed that the north-south …
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An ethnographic study of the well-being of elderly people in a matrilineal society in Malawi, Africa
… group in Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeastern Africa, with the purpose of determining how societal change influences the well-being of the elderly. The study was carried out on the outskirts of the capital city and in a rural area so as to draw a comparison on societal change. …
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Using language similarities in retrieval for resource scarce languages: a study of several southern Bantu languages
… tools. Focusing on six Bantu languages spoken in Southeastern Africa, we first explore how users would interact with search results written in related languages. We conduct a user study, examining the usefulness and user preferences for ranking search results with different levels of …
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Upper ocean variability and tropical cyclones in the South West Indian Ocean
… cause significant social and economic damage in southeastern Africa and Madagascar. To forecast TC intensity more accurately, monitoring upper ocean conditions in the South Indian Ocean is of top priority. Two areas in the relatively poorly studied South Indian Ocean where such upper ocean …