Heat wave monitoring over West African cities: uncertainties, characterization and recent trends by C. G. Ngoungue Langue, C. G. Ngoungue Langue, C. Lavaysse, C. Lavaysse, M. Vrac, C. Flamant

“…We found that humidity plays an important role in nighttime events; concomitant events detected with wet-bulb temperature are more frequent and located over the northern Sahel. Strong and more persistent heat waves are found in the continental (CONT) region. …”
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Comparative study between intrathecal dexmedetomidine and intrathecal magnesium sulfate for the prevention of post-spinal anaesthesia shivering in uroscopic surgery; (RCT) by Heba Omar, Wessam Adel Aboella, Mohammed Mahmoud Hassan, Amany Hassan, Passaint Hassan, Ahmed Elshall, Dalia Khaled, Maha Mostafa, Pierre Zarif Tawadros, Mona Hossam Eldin, Mai Wedad, Bassant Mohamed Abdelhamid

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133,000 Years of Sedimentary Record in a Contourite Drift in the Western Alboran Sea: Sediment Sources and Paleocurrent Reconstruction by Nieves López-González, Belén Alonso, Carmen Juan, Gemma Ercilla, Graziella Bozzano, Isabel Cacho, David Casas, Desirée Palomino, Juan-Tomás Vázquez, Ferran Estrada, Patricia Bárcenas, Elia d’Acremont, Christian Gorini, Bouchta El Moumni

“…For these particles, the most likely source areas are the Saharan sedimentary basins and deserts, as well as the cratonic basins of the Sahara-Sahel Dust Corridor. The prevalence of these main source areas is shown in the core record, where a noticeable change occurs during the MIS 5 to MIS 4 transition. …”
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Adolescents with hemophilic knee arthropathy can improve their gait characteristics, functional ability, and physical activity level through kinect-based virtual reality: A randomi... by Alshimaa R. Azab, Ragab K. Elnaggar, Ghfren S. Aloraini, Osama R. Aldhafian, Naif N. Alshahrani, FatmaAlzahraa H. Kamel, Maged A. Basha, Walaa E. Morsy

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Deep ocean mass fluxes in the coastal upwelling off Mauritania from 1988 to 2012: variability on seasonal to decadal timescales by G. Fischer, O. Romero, U. Merkel, B. Donner, M. Iversen, N. Nowald, V. Ratmeyer, G. Ruhland, M. Klann, G. Wefer

“…A good correspondence between BSi and dust fluxes was observed for the dusty year 2005, following a period of rather dry conditions in the Sahara/Sahel region. Large changes of all bulk fluxes occurred during the strongest El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in 1997–1999 where low fluxes were obtained for almost 1 year during the warm El Niño and high fluxes in the following cold La Niña phase. …”
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Combining CMIP data with a regional convection-permitting model and observations to project extreme rainfall under climate change by Cornelia Klein, Lawrence S Jackson, Douglas J Parker, John H Marsham, Christopher M Taylor, David P Rowell, Françoise Guichard, Théo Vischel, Adjoua Moïse Famien, Arona Diedhiou

“…We find reconstructed hourly extreme rainfall over the Sahel increases across all CMIP models, with a plausible range of 37%–75% for 2070–2100 (mean 55%, and 18%–30% for 2030–2060). …”
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Mass screening of different rice genotypes to rice striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lep.: Pyralidae), under the field condition by M. Amooghli-Tabari, G. Nouri-Ganbalani, S. A. A. Fathi, A. Moumeni, J. Razmjou, A. R. Nabipour

“…On the other hand, the Tarom-ARG2 genotypes had the highest mean plant height (138.26 cm), Sahel had the highest mean number of tillers per hill (17.6), and Dorfak had the highest mean stem diameter (12.72 mm).There were significant correlations between percent white head and the number of larvae per a whole plant, and between percent white head and number of tillers per hill, but there no significant correlations was found with plant height and stem diameter. …”
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The effects of 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming on Africa in the CORDEX ensemble by Grigory Nikulin, Chris Lennard, Alessandro Dosio, Erik Kjellström, Youmin Chen, Andreas Hänsler, Marco Kupiainen, René Laprise, Laura Mariotti, Cathrine Fox Maule, Erik van Meijgaard, Hans-Jürgen Panitz, John F Scinocca, Samuel Somot

“…Projected changes in annual mean precipitation have a tendency to wetter conditions in some parts of Africa (e.g. central/eastern Sahel and eastern Africa) at both GWLs, but models’ agreement on the sign of change is low. …”
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From injury to rehabilitation: How kinesiology taping helps patients with first metatarsophalangeal joint sprain (turf toe) in pain reduction, gait parameters and functional abilit... by Alshimaa R. Azab, Ragab K. Elnaggar, Sobhy M. Aly, Nourah Basalem, Aiyshah M. Alamri, Ayman K. Saleh, Mohamed N. Ibrahim, Maged A. Basha, Walid Kamal Abdelbasset

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The Effect of Three Different Data Fusion Approaches on the Quality of Soil Moisture Retrievals from Multiple Passive Microwave Sensors by Robin van der Schalie, Richard de Jeu, Robert Parinussa, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Yann Kerr, Amen Al-Yaari, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Matthias Drusch

“…Besides a semi-global analysis, explicit focus was placed on two regions that have strong land–atmosphere coupling, the Sahel (SA) and the central Great Plains (CGP) of North America. …”
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Mapping spatio-temporal patterns in global tree cover heterogeneity: Links with forest degradation and recovery by Wang Li, Wenyong Guo, Yuchu Qin, Li Wang, Zheng Niu, Jens-Christian Svenning

“…The new forest dynamics categories map captures ongoing woody expansion in the Sahel region, forest degradation in the Amazon and central Africa, and widespread forest regrowth in Europe and Asia. …”
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Every drop matters: combining population-based and satellite data to investigate the link between lifetime rainfall exposure and chronic undernutrition in children under five years... by Edmund Yeboah, Naasegnibe Kuunibe, Isabel Mank, Diletta Parisi, Emmanuel Bonnet, Julia Lohmann, Saidou Hamadou, Bernadette T Picbougoum, Kristine Belesova, Rainer Sauerborn, Till Baernighausen, Ina Danquah, Manuela De Allegri

“…Climate change is projected to induce extreme and irregular rainfall patterns in the West African Sahel region, affecting household food security and income. …”
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The effect of high oral loading dose of cholecalciferol in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients. A randomized placebo controlled trial by Amal Ahmed Mohamed, Ahmed Abdel Halim, Sahar Mohamed, Seham Mohamed Mahmoud, Eman Mohamed Bahgat Eldemiry, Rasha Sobh Mohamed, Mahmoud Maamoun Shaheen, Gina G. Naguib, Nashwa M. Muharram, Mona G. Khalil, Salma Saed, Randa Ibrahim, Ahmed Salah Seif, Noha Kamal, Karima Nasraldin, Ali Elsaid Abdelrahman, Radwa El Borolossy

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Evaluating the Impact of Environmental Factors on Women's Sense of Safety (Case study: Sahlabad Neighborhood- Shiraz) by Maryam Roosta, Pardis Ahmadi

“…The lack of significant effect of this index, despite its emphasis on previous research, may be due to the lack of sociable spaces in Sahel-abad neighborhood and, consequently, the lack of experience and understanding of these spaces by the responding women and their inability to assess its impact on the sense of safety.  …”
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The Lake CHAd Deep DRILLing project (CHADRILL) – targeting  ∼ 10 million years of environmental and climate change in Africa by F. Sylvestre, M. Schuster, H. Vogel, M. Abdheramane, D. Ariztegui, U. Salzmann, A. Schwalb, N. Waldmann, the ICDP CHADRILL Consortium

“…<p>At present, Lake Chad ( ∼ &thinsp;13°′&thinsp;N,  ∼ &thinsp;14°&thinsp;E) is a shallow freshwater lake located in the Sahel/Sahara region of central northern Africa. …”
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Multi-decadal aerosol variations from 1980 to 2009: a perspective from observations and a global model by M. Chin, T. Diehl, Q. Tan, J. M. Prospero, R. A. Kahn, L. A. Remer, H. Yu, A. M. Sayer, H. Bian, I. V. Geogdzhayev, B. N. Holben, S. G. Howell, B. J. Huebert, N. C. Hsu, D. Kim, T. L. Kucsera, R. C. Levy, M. I. Mishchenko, X. Pan, P. K. Quinn, G. L. Schuster, D. G. Streets, S. A. Strode, O. Torres, X.-P. Zhao

“…Over major dust source regions, model analysis indicates that the change of dust emissions over the Sahara and Sahel has been predominantly driven by the change of near-surface wind speed, but over Central Asia it has been largely influenced by the change of the surface wetness. …”
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Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Therapy in Children Up To 9 Years of Age: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Trial Study by Mahamoudou Toure, Jeffrey G Shaffer, Daouda Sanogo, Soumba Keita, Moussa Keita, Fousseyni Kane, Bourama Traore, Djeneba Dabitao, Aissata Kone, Cheick Oumar Doumbia, Joseph Keating, Joshua Yukich, Helle H Hansson, Alyssa E Barry, Mahamadou Diakité, Michael Alifrangis, Seydou Doumbia

“… BackgroundSeasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is recommended by the World Health Organization for the sub-Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa for preventing malaria in children 3 months old to younger than 5 years. …”
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Evaluation of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in two areas of intense seasonal malaria transmission: Secondary analysis of a household-randomised, placebo-controlled trial in Houn... by Matthew E Cairns, Issaka Sagara, Issaka Zongo, Irene Kuepfer, Ismaila Thera, Frederic Nikiema, Modibo Diarra, Serge R Yerbanga, Amadou Barry, Amadou Tapily, Samba Coumare, Paul Milligan, Halidou Tinto, Jean Bosco Ouédraogo, Daniel Chandramohan, Brian Greenwood, Abdoulaye Djimde, Alassane Dicko

“…<h4>Background</h4>Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is now widely deployed in the Sahel, including several countries that are major contributors to the global burden of malaria. …”
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The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) decadal prediction system by D. Nicolì, A. Bellucci, A. Bellucci, P. Ruggieri, P. Ruggieri, P. J. Athanasiadis, S. Materia, D. Peano, G. Fedele, R. Hénin, S. Gualdi

“…In terms of precipitation, the skill of the CMCC DPS is significantly higher than that of the historical simulations over a few specific regions, including the Sahel, northern Eurasia, and over western and central Europe.…”
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Contrasting terrestrial carbon cycle responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 extreme El Niño events by J. Wang, J. Wang, N. Zeng, N. Zeng, M. Wang, F. Jiang, H. Wang, Z. Jiang

“…In contrast, anomalously wet conditions occurred in the Sahel and East Africa during 2015/16, which caused an increase in GPP, compensating for its reduction in other tropical regions. …”
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