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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Zaire"”.
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Energy in Central Africa : with special reference to Zaire
… 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 country of the region the resource potential and the ability to …
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Antibody-based diagnostics and therapeutics for Zaire ebolavirus and Burkholderia pseudomallei
Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Burkholderia pseudomallei are the causative agents of Ebola virus disease (EVD) and melioidosis, respectively. Early diagnosis is critical for halting the spread of the disease or providing treatment of the disease. Current diagnosis for EBOV includes polymerase chain …
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Quest for political change : popular struggles for regime transition in former Zaire
Includes bibliographies.
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Bundibugyo Versus Zaire Ebolaviruses: Examination of the Polymerase Complex as a Therapeutic Target
… ebolavirus overlap in geographic distribution: Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV), Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), and Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV). EBOV and BDBV are distinctly different in case-fatality rate, disease course, and clinical presentation in both humans and non-human primates, but the reasons for …
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“Better Unmentioned:” An Assessment of Reagan Administration Aid to Pakistan, Panama, and Zaire.
… the Mobutu dictatorship in what was then called Zaire, and the regime of Zia ul-Haq in Pakistan, by stating that it was necessary to overcome the Soviet Union. While the alliances with these regimes did help to bring about the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, each of these three regimes also …
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Social Influence As A Component of Contextual Effects: A Study of Diarrheal Treatment in Zaire
… and applied to survey data that was collected in Zaire using a cluster sampling method. As respondents from the same cluster (community) live geographically close or in the same neighborhood, it is assumed that if social influence is affecting individual respondents, their behavior will be …
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Apologizing and complaining in Ciluba, French, and English : speech act performance by trilingual speakers in Zaire
Most studies of pragmatic aspects of language learning have dealt mainly with two languages, a native language and a second or foreign language. None of these studies has investigated a multilingual situation where there is interaction among three different languages spoken by one person. Neither …
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The creation of a national identity: construction and representations with a case study of Mobutu's Zaire
… The shift to independence from Belgian Congo to Zaire marked the reclamation of not only an African identity but the African voice. While his rule was characterised by patronage politics and corruption, Mobutu effectively developed a counterhegemonic discourse on the Congo through the twin …
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The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo
… by the Maniaanga of BesiNgombe region, Bas-Zaire, Zaire. The data are referred to as palavers. These consist of three complex speech events namely, wedding, bereavement and reconciliation viewed as instances of `conflict' management. Each of them is taken not only as a speech event but also …
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Optimal currency pegs for primary producing countries
… rate. Data over the period 1973-1983 for Zaire, Zambia, Chile and Peru are used to compare the lowest variance exchange rate pegs that are obtained by: a) using different formulas to calculate the indexes of exchange rate variability, b) using different types of weights in the formulas …
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Exploring the oligomeric state of TLR4 and downstream regulators RIPK1 and RIPK3
… by LPS as well as non-LPS ligands such as the Zaire ebolavirus glycoprotein. Key regulators in the TLR4 pathway are RIPK1 and RIPK3, which are essential during programmed cell death, and therefore, signalling via TLR4 is key in the decision between pro immunity or cell death during infection. …
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Decolonisation Through ‘Development Films’: Constructing and Re-Constructing the Zairian Spirit on Film
… politics, on film, of the Second Republic of Zaire (1965-1997), now the Democratic Republic of Congo, the research explores the portrayal of the national image on film. This study identifies a particular mode of filmmaking that contributes to nation-building through the concept of ‘development …
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Molecular and evolutionary analysis of a gene conserved in most Orthopoxviruses
… as the other two monkeypox viruses. The Zaire strains were identical to one another and different from the West African strains. Like the West African strains, they contained the two 24bp deletions and single base pair deletion. In place of the large deletion they had three smaller …
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Millennium Bugs and Weapons of Mass Fear: Dialogs Between Science and Popular Culture in the 1990's
… the actual 1995 outbreak of this disease in Zaire, which occurred a full 19 years after the most recent previous outbreak. Mass media, including the news, do not simply reflect reality, but also create it through the deployment of language and imagery. The signification of emerging infectious …
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Intraspecies typing of orthopoxviruses
… who had become infected in the same area of Zaire. All the isolates had previously been characterized biologically as being monkeypox virus. DNA was prepared from the squirrel isolate and from two human isolates from about the same time and district. No difference could be detected in the …
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An assessment of morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties of soils derived from volcanic deposits in Rwanda
… volcanos situated along the Rwandan border with Zaire and Uganda. The objectives of this study were to assess soil properties at different elevations and among soils developed from volcanic materials differing in petrological composition and age, and to compare soils under the native vegetation …
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Catalysts of conflict : how refugee crises lead to the spread of civil war
… militant actions of the Rwandan Hutu refugees in Zaire eventually sparked two international wars that led to further massive population displacement in the region. The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises, prompts the following three questions: 1) How widespread is the phenomenon of …
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Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation
… as strategic resources that Ethiopia, Zaire (now D.R.C.), and Uganda have mobilized in intra-alliance bargaining with the US.</p> <p>The central puzzle of this work coheres around two questions: How do these states deploy these resources, shape US perceptions of the value of these …
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