“Eternal Bodies”: images of archangels in the upper parts of Nubian buildings by Magdalena Łaptaś

“…Images of archangels and angels, which were painted on the walls, in the upper parts of the buildings and, on their structural elements, were very popular in Christian Nubian painting as attested by the discoveries from Church SWN.BV on the citadel in Old Dongola. These images, which derive from pre-Christian art, depict the eternal nature of the archangels and angels. …”
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New advances in research on pre- and proto-historic settlement of Argi and Letti, Upper Nubia by Piotr Osypiński, Marta Osypińska, Justyna Kokolus, Paweł Wiktorowicz, Roman Łopaciuk, Amel Hassan Gismallah, Karol Standzikowski

“…New fieldwork in Argi and Letti (Southern Dongola Reach) has produced unique data on early Holocene settlement and burial practices. …”
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Expression profiles of lncRNAs and their possible regulatory role in monocrotaline-induced HSOS in rats by Mohammed Ismail, Mohammed Ismail, Xi Zhang, Reham Taha, Muhanad Elhafiz, Qianwen Zhang, Bashir A. Yousef, Xin Huang, Zhenzhou Jiang, Luyong Zhang, Luyong Zhang, Lixin Sun

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Faunal remains from the fortified settlement aroundthe church at Banganarti in Sudan by Marta Osypińska

“…The analysis gaverise to the first ever characteristic of breeding and meat consumption models for a settlement in theKingdom of Makuria, outside the capital located at Old Dongola. Beef and pork proved to havea growing importance in consumption patterns in Banganarti over the ages. …”
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Remote Sensing and Its Uses in Archeology by Abbas Sayed Ahmed Mohamed Ali, Ahmed Abu Al Qasim Al Hassan

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Unearthing a Middle Nile crossroads – exploring the prehistory of the Letti Basin (Sudan) by Piotr Osypiński, Marta Osypińska, Marek Chłodnicki, Justyna Kokolus, Marzena Cendrowska, Roman Łopaciuk, Beata Piotrowska, Jakub Sobko, Huyam Khalid Madani

“…New research on early Holocene settlement and burial practices in the Southern Dongola Reach focused on the key areas of the Letti region, Argi (adjacent to Affad) and the outlets of Wadi el-Melik and Wadi Howar. …”
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Impacts of climate change on Blue Nile flows using bias-corrected GCM scenarios by M. E. Elshamy, I. A. Seierstad, A. Sorteberg

“…These were used to drive a fine-scale hydrological model of the Nile Basin to assess their impacts on the flows of the upper Blue Nile at Diem, which accounts for about 60% of the mean annual discharge of the Nile at Dongola. There is no consensus among the GCMs on the direction of precipitation change. …”
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أثر القدرات الإستراتيجية في تطوير ثقافة التميز علي تحقيق التميز المؤسس ي في الجهاز المصرفي بالولاية الشمالية بالسودان The Impact of Strategic Capabilities (SC) in Developing Cultur... by أسامة معاوية بخيت حسين, محمود عبد المعطي هاشم عبد الحميد

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Field site selection: getting it right first time around by Knols Bart GJ, Fontenille Didier, Girod Romain, Babiker Ahmed, Malcolm Colin A, El Sayed Badria, Nugud Abdel, Benedict Mark Q

“…Two contrasting SIT field sites are examined here: the desert-flanked Dongola Reach of the Nile River in Northern State, Sudan, where malaria is endemic, and the island of La Reunion, where autochthonous malaria is rare but risk is persistent. …”
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Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations. by Nina Hollfelder, Carina M Schlebusch, Torsten Günther, Hiba Babiker, Hisham Y Hassan, Mattias Jakobsson

“…We estimate the admixture in current-day Sudanese Arab populations to about 700 years ago, coinciding with the fall of Dongola in 1315/1316 AD, a wave of admixture that reached the Darfurian/Kordofanian populations some 400-200 years ago. …”
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Phylogenetic analysis of some Newcastle disease virus isolates from the Sudan by N.A. Elmardi, M.A. Bakheit, A.I. Khalafalla

“…The close genetic relationship to the European and African pigeon paramyxovirus type 1 (PPMV-1) suggests a common ancestor. Dongola, GD.S.1 strains were classified into genotype II that comprises non-pathogenic lentogenic NDV strains. …”
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Reference intervals of complete blood count parameters in the adult western Sudanese population by Malak Ibrahim Mustafa, Ibrahim Abdelrhim Ali, Muaath Ahmed Mohammed, Elmutaz Hussien Taha, Kamal Mohamed Awad, Omer Abdelaziz Musa

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Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadr... by Charles Le Moyne, Patrick Roberts, Quan Hua, Madeleine Bleasdale, Jocelyne Desideri, Nicole Boivin, Alison Crowther

“…Following the arrival of Neolithic groups in the 6th millennium BCE, the Northern Dongola Reach of Upper Nubia witnessed a cultural florescence manifested through elaborate funerary traditions. …”
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Association between cholera outbreak and traditional gold mining in Northern State, Sudan 2017 by Mohamed Ali Alzain, Mogahid Hassan Haruwn, Mohamed Osman Abdelaziz, Mohamed Elsheikh, Collins Otieno Asweto, Fahad D Algahtani, Adeniyi Abolaji Adeboye, Najm Eldinn Elsser Elhassan, Ramaiah Itumalla

“…Immigrants in Halfa and Dalgo localities were four times (odds ratio [OR] = 4.031, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.482–6.547) and eight times (OR = 8.318, 95% CI: 5.674–12.193), respectively, at risk of cholera infection compared to immigrants in Dongola locality. The overall case-fatality rate was 1.9%. …”
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Cytomorphometric Analysis of Cervical Papanicolaou Smear for Females with Gynecological Clinical Complaints by Sahar Elderdiri Osman, Ehab Mohammed Elmadenah, Osman Mohammed Elmahi, Mubarak Elsaeed Alkarsani, Lienda Bashier Eltayeb, Hisham Ali Waggiallah

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Evaluating RNA<it>later</it>^®as a preservative for using near-infrared spectroscopy to predict <it>Anopheles gambiae </it>age and species by Peiris Kamaranga HS, Michel Kristin, Wirtz Robert A, Hugo Leon E, Dowell Kayla M, Sikulu Maggy, Moore Sarah, Killeen Gerry F, Dowell Floyd E

“…(CDC and G3) and two strains of <it>An. arabiensis </it>(Dongola, KGB) were reared in the laboratory while the third strain of <it>An. arabiensis </it>(Ifakara) was reared in a semi-field system. …”
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Spatial and temporal distribution of the malaria mosquito <it>Anopheles arabiensis </it>in northern Sudan: influence of environmental factors and implications for vector control by Malcolm Colin A, Benedict Mark Q, Knols Bart GJ, Hassan M'oawia M, Cox Jonathan, Ageep Tellal B, Babiker Ahmed, El Sayed Badria B

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Monthly cross-sectional larval surveys were carried out between March 2005 and May 2007 in two localities (Dongola and Merowe) adjacent to the river Nile. A stratified random sampling strategy based on the use of Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) was used to select survey locations. …”
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Insecticide resistance in Anopheles arabiensis in Sudan: temporal trends and underlying mechanisms by Hiba Abdalla, Craig S Wilding, Luisa Nardini, Patricia Pignatelli, Lizette L Koekemoer, Hilary Ranson, Maureen Coetzee

“…Microarray analysis of the permethrin-resistant population of An. arabiensis from Wad Medani identified a number of metabolic genes that were significantly over-transcribed in the field-collected resistant samples when compared to the susceptible Sudanese An. arabiensis Dongola strain. These included CYP6M2 and CYP6P3, two genes previously implicated in pyrethroid resistance in Anopheles gambiae s.s, and the epsilon-class glutathione-S-transferase, GSTe4. …”
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Enhancing wheat production and food security in Sudan through scaling up improved technologies using innovation platforms by Izzat S. A. Tahir, Hala M. Mustafa, Amani A. M. Idris, Ashraf M. A. Elhashimi, Mohamed K. Hassan, Elmoiez M. Fadul, Abdalla M. A. Kurmut, Salah Mohamed Eltayeb, Sara Meheesi, Alawia O. Hassan, Osman S. Abdalla, Solomon Assefa

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Exploiting Wild Emmer Wheat Diversity to Improve Wheat A and B Genomes in Breeding for Heat Stress Adaptation by Mohammed Yousif Balla, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Nasrein Mohamed Kamal, Nasrein Mohamed Kamal, Modather Galal Abdeldaim Abdalla, Izzat Sidahmed Ali Tahir, Hisashi Tsujimoto

“…We evaluated a diverse set of multiple derivative lines harboring chromosome segments from nine wild emmer wheat parents under four environments: two optimum environments at Tottori, Japan and Dongola, Sudan, one moderate heat stress environment, and one severe heat stress environment at Wad Medani, Sudan. …”
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