Air quality management strategies in Africa: A scoping review of the content, context, co-benefits and unintended consequences by Gabriel Okello, Rebecca Nantanda, Babatunde Awokola, Meelan Thondoo, Deo Okure, Lambed Tatah, Engineer Bainomugisha, Tolu Oni

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Depressive symptoms among Mexican adolescent girls in relation to iron status, anaemia, body weight and pubertal status: results from a latent class analysis by Arli Guadalupe Zarate-Ortiz, Hans Verhoef, Alida Melse-Boonstra, Bo-Jane Woods, Elida Estefania Lee-Bazaldúa, Edith JM Feskens, Angelica Quiroga-Garza, Ana Carla Cepeda-Lopez

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Anemia and the Risk of Cognitive Impairment: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Woon-Man Kung, Sheng-Po Yuan, Muh-Shi Lin, Chieh-Chen Wu, Md. Mohaimenul Islam, Suleman Atique, Musa Touray, Chu-Ya Huang, Yao-Chin Wang

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Improving antimicrobial use through antimicrobial stewardship in a lower-middle income setting: a mixed-methods study in a network of acute-care hospitals in Viet Nam by Vu Thi Lan Huong, Ta Thi Dieu Ngan, Huynh Phuong Thao, Nguyen Thi Cam Tu, Truong Anh Quan, Behzad Nadjm, Thomas Kesteman, Nguyen Van Kinh, H Rogier van Doorn

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Quality of care and respect of human rights in mental health services in four West African countries: collaboration between the mental health leadership and advocacy programme and... by Maria Francesca Moro, Lola Kola, Olawoye Fadahunsi, Edward Munda Jah, Humphrey Kofie, Dawda Samba, Sametta Thomas, Natalie Drew, Emeka Nwefoh, Soumitra Pathare, Julian Eaton, Michelle Funk, Oye Gureje

“…Aims To evaluate the quality of care and respect of human rights in psychiatric facilities in four West African countries, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, using the World Health Organization QualityRights Toolkit. …”
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Unveiling the electrochemical CO oxidation activity on support-free porous PdM (M = Fe, Co, Ni) foam-like nanocrystals over a wide pH range by Belal Salah, Adewale K. Ipadeola, Aslam Khan, Qingqing Lu, Yassmin Ibrahim, Ebrima L Darboe, Aboubakr M. Abdullah, Kamel Eid

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Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Association with Iron Deficiency in African Children by Reagan M. Mogire, John Muthii Muriuki, Alireza Morovat, Alexander J. Mentzer, Emily L. Webb, Wandia Kimita, Francis M. Ndungu, Alex W. Macharia, Clare L. Cutland, Sodiomon B. Sirima, Amidou Diarra, Alfred B. Tiono, Swaib A. Lule, Shabir A. Madhi, Andrew M. Prentice, Philip Bejon, John M. Pettifor, Alison M. Elliott, Adebowale Adeyemo, Thomas N. Williams, Sarah H. Atkinson

“…To evaluate associations between vitamin D and iron status we measured markers of iron status, inflammation, malaria parasitemia, and 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations in 4509 children aged 0.3 months to 8 years living in Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, and South Africa. Prevalence of iron deficiency was 35.1%, and prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was 0.6% and 7.8% as defined by 25(OH)D concentrations of <30 nmol/L and <50 nmol/L, respectively. …”
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Spotlighting Women-Led Fisheries Livelihoods Toward Sustainable Coastal Governance: The Estuarine and Mangrove Ecosystem Shellfisheries of West Africa by Ernest Obeng Chuku, Ernest Obeng Chuku, Elizabeth Effah, Joshua Adotey, Sika Abrokwah, Richard Adade, Isaac Okyere, Isaac Okyere, Denis Worlanyo Aheto, Denis Worlanyo Aheto, Karen Kent, Isaac Kofi Osei, Isaac Kofi Osei, Emmanuel Dami Omogbemi, Alphonse Adité, Kossi Ahoedo, Salieu Kabba Sankoh, Salieu Kabba Sankoh, Yaya Soro, Yaya Soro, Moussa Wélé, Dawda Foday Saine, Brian Crawford

“…We report comprehensively, for the first time, the scale of estuarine and mangrove ecosystem-based shellfisheries across the West African coast (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria), the gender dynamics, and implications for the sustainable management of this small-scale fishery. …”
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Diarrhoeal disease and subsequent risk of death in infants and children residing in low-income and middle-income countries: analysis of the GEMS case-control study and 12-month GEM... by Myron M Levine, ProfMD, Dilruba Nasrin, PhD, Sozinho Acácio, MD, Quique Bassat, ProfMD, Helen Powell, PhD, Sharon M Tennant, PhD, Samba O Sow, ProfMD, Dipika Sur, MD, Anita K M Zaidi, ProfMBBS, Abu S G Faruque, MD, M Jahangir Hossain, MBBS, Pedro L Alonso, ProfMD, Robert F Breiman, ProfMD, Ciara E O'Reilly, PhD, Eric D Mintz, MD, Richard Omore, PhD, John B Ochieng, MSc, Joseph O Oundo, PhD, Boubou Tamboura, PharmD, Doh Sanogo, MD, Uma Onwuchekwa, MS, Byomkesh Manna, PhD, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, PhD, Suman Kanungo, MBBS, Shahnawaz Ahmed, MBBS, Shahida Qureshi, MSc, Farheen Quadri, MBBS, Anowar Hossain, MD, Sumon K Das, MBBS, Martin Antonio, PhD, Debasish Saha, MBBS, Inacio Mandomando, PhD, William C Blackwelder, ProfPhD, Tamer Farag, PhD, Yukun Wu, PhD, Eric R Houpt, ProfMD, Jaco J Verweiij, PhD, Halvor Sommerfelt, ProfPhD, James P Nataro, ProfMD, Roy M Robins-Browne, ProfPhD, Karen L Kotloff, ProfMD

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Recent advances in immunity to human schistosomiasis by Paul Hagan, Fredterico G. C. Abath

“…Recently, the results of studies from Brazil and Kenya, on Shistosoma mansoni and from Zimbabwe and The Gambia on S. haematobium have confirmed the importance of protective immunity. …”
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Spiritual practices predict migration behavior by Daniel Auer, Johanna Gereke, Max Schaub

“…Drawing on panel data from over 10,000 individuals collected over the course of 1 year in The Gambia—a country with one of the highest emigration rates in the world—we show that consulting a local healer for spiritual protection predicts migration outcomes. …”
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A Construal of the Understanding Level of Quality Assurance by Internal Stakeholders in Two Malaysian Universities by Baboucarr Njie, Soaib Asimiran

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Efficacy of insecticide impregnated bed-nets to control malaria in a rural forested area in Southern Cameron by G. le Goff, V. Robert, E. Fondjo, P. Carnevale

“…We performed such a trial in the southern part of Cameroon (using deltamethrin, at 25mg/m*) and obtained similar data to those observed in the Gambia Burkina Faso and Tanzania with a noteworthy reduction of both transmission and high parasitaemia of P. falciparum (respectively 78% and 75%) meaning a drop of malaria morbidity.…”
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Desktop study of the extent to which financial management practices impact on an organization?s Financial performance by Justice Walter Ruwende, Newman Wadesango, Lovemore Sitsha

“…Among others, these sources included journal articles, books, magazines and newspapers in the area of media related to the Gambia. It was discovered that the financial management strategies had a substantial impact on an organisation’s financial performance…”
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Critical analysis for nonlinear oscillations by least square HPM by Muhammad Rafiq, Muhammad Kamran, Hijaz Ahmad, Afis Saliu

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Motivace diplomatické změny vybraných států nově uznávajících Čínu v rámci čínsko-tchajwanského soupeření by Himmer, Michal, Rod, Zdeněk

“…The authors of the article focus on the period between 2016 and 2018, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established its diplomatic ties with Taiwan’s former allies such as Gambia, Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Panama, São Tomé and Príncipe and El Salvador. …”
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An extreme value analysis of daily new cases of COVID-19 for sixteen countries in west Africa by Saralees Nadarajah, Oluwadare O. Ojo

“…We use data from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, covering a period of 37 months. …”
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Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2. by Thye, T, Vannberg, F, Wong, S, Owusu-Dabo, E, Osei, I, Gyapong, J, Sirugo, G, Sisay-Joof, F, Enimil, A, Chinbuah, M, Floyd, S, Warndorff, D, Sichali, L, Malema, S, Crampin, A, Ngwira, B, Teo, Y, Small, K, Rockett, K, Kwiatkowski, D, Fine, P, Hill, P, Newport, M, Lienhardt, C, Adegbola, R

“…We combined two tuberculosis genome-wide association studies from Ghana and The Gambia with subsequent replication in a combined 11,425 individuals. rs4331426, located in a gene-poor region on chromosome 18q11.2, was associated with disease (combined P = 6.8 x 10(-9), odds ratio = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.13-1.27). …”

Variation at the capsule locus, cps, of mistyped and non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates. by Salter, S, Hinds, J, Gould, K, Lambertsen, L, Hanage, W, Antonio, M, Turner, P, Hermans, P, Bootsma, H, O'Brien, K, Bentley, S

“…A set of pneumococcal samples and non-pneumococcal streptococci from Denmark, the Gambia, the Netherlands, Thailand, the UK and the USA were sequenced at the cps locus to elucidate serologically mistyped or non-typable isolates. …”

Bed-nets (mosquito-nets) and morbidity from malaria. by Bradley, A, Greenwood, B, Greenwood, A, Marsh, K, Byass, P, Tulloch, S, Hayes, R

“…A study was undertaken in the Farafenni area of The Gambia to determine the relation between morbidity from malaria in children and the use of bed-nets (mosquito-nets). …”