Nutritional status in young children prior to the malaria transmission season in Burkina Faso and Mali, and its impact on the incidence of clinical malaria by Mariken de Wit, Matthew Cairns, Yves Daniel Compaoré, Issaka Sagara, Irene Kuepfer, Issaka Zongo, Amadou Barry, Modibo Diarra, Amadou Tapily, Samba Coumare, Ismaila Thera, Frederic Nikiema, R. Serge Yerbanga, Rosemonde M. Guissou, Halidou Tinto, Alassane Dicko, Daniel Chandramohan, Brian Greenwood, Jean Bosco Ouedraogo

“…Abstract Background Malaria and malnutrition remain major problems in Sahel countries, especially in young children. The direct effect of malnutrition on malaria remains poorly understood, and may have important implications for malaria control. …”
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Response of African Sorghum Genotypes for Drought Tolerance under Variable Environments by Muhammad Ahmad Yahaya, Hussein Shimelis, Baloua Nebié, Jacob Mashilo, Georgeta Pop

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Agronomic And Biochemical Expression Of Salt Stress In Iranian Rice Cultivars by Momayezi, Mohammad Reza

“…These are Pouya, Shafag, Neda, Kadous, Tabesh, Tarom-e-Hashemi, Sahel, Khazar, Shirodi, Fajr and Nemat and the relationship between the physiological and biochemical parameters; root characteristics, shoot height, dry weight, water content percentage and free amino acids status as affected by salt concentrations and composition were determined at the different rice growth stages. …”
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Global, regional, and national incidence of six major immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study 2019Research in context by Dongze Wu, Yingzhao Jin, Yuhan Xing, Melsew Dagne Abate, Mohammadreza Abbasian, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab Abbasi-Kangevari, Foad Abd-Allah, Michael Abdelmasseh, Mohammad-Amin Abdollahifar, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Aidin Abedi, Vida Abedi, Hassan Abidi, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Hassan Abolhassani, Katrina Abuabara, Morteza Abyadeh, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Kayode Nelson Adeniji, Abiola Victor Adepoju, Miracle Ayomikun Adesina, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Mohsen Afarideh, Shahin Aghamiri, Antonella Agodi, Anurag Agrawal, Constanza Elizabeth Aguilera Arriagada, Aqeel Ahmad, Danish Ahmad, Sajjad Ahmad, Sohail Ahmad, Ali Ahmadi, Ali Ahmed, Ayman Ahmed, Janardhana P. Aithala, Abdullateef Abiodun Ajadi, Marjan Ajami, Mostafa Akbarzadeh-Khiavi, Fares Alahdab, Mohammad T. AlBataineh, Sharifullah Alemi, Adel Ali Saeed Al-Gheethi, Liaqat Ali, Sheikh Mohammad Alif, Joseph Uy Almazan, Sami Almustanyir, Jaber S. Alqahtani, Ibrahim Alqasmi, Ihsan Ullah Khan Altaf, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nelson J. Alvis-Zakzuk, Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi, Hany Aly, Reza Amani, Hubert Amu, Ganiyu Adeniyi Amusa, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Adnan Ansar, Hossein Ansariniya, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, Jalal Arabloo, Reza Arefnezhad, Judie Arulappan, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Tahira Ashraf, Jamila Abdulhamid Atata, Seyyed Shamsadin Athari, Daniel Atlaw, Maha Moh'd Wahbi Atout, Avinash Aujayeb, Asma Tahir Awan, Haleh Ayatollahi, Sina Azadnajafabad, Ahmed Y. Azzam, Alaa Badawi, Ashish D. Badiye, Sara Bagherieh, Atif Amin Baig, Berihun Bantie Bantie, Martina Barchitta, Mainak Bardhan, Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Kavita Batra, Nebiyou Simegnew Bayileyegn, Amir Hossein Behnoush, Uzma Iqbal Belgaumi, Maryam Bemanalizadeh, Isabela M. Bensenor, Kebede A. Beyene, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Sonu Bhaskar, Ajay Nagesh Bhat, Saeid Bitaraf, Veera R. Bitra, Archith Boloor, Kaustubh Bora, João Silva Botelho, Rachelle Buchbinder, Daniela Calina, Luis Alberto Cámera, Andre F. Carvalho, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Endeshaw Chekol Abebe, Fatemeh Chichagi, Sungchul Choi, Tzu-Chieh Chou, Dinh-Toi Chu, Kaleb Coberly, Vera Marisa Costa, Rosa A.S. Couto, Natália Cruz-Martins, Omid Dadras, Xiaochen Dai, Giovanni Damiani, Ana Maria Dascalu, Mohsen Dashti, Sisay Abebe Debela, Robert Paul Dellavalle, Andreas K. Demetriades, Alemayehu Anley Demlash, Xinlei Deng, Hardik Dineshbhai Desai, Rupak Desai, Syed Masudur Rahman Dewan, Sourav Dey, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Daniel Diaz, Mahmoud Dibas, Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, Mengistie Diress, Thanh Chi Do, Duy Khanh Doan, Masoud Dodangeh, Milad Dodangeh, Deepa Dongarwar, John Dube, Arkadiusz Marian Dziedzic, Abdelaziz Ed-Dra, Hisham Atan Edinur, Negin Eissazade, Michael Ekholuenetale, Temitope Cyrus Ekundayo, Noha Mousaad Elemam, Muhammed Elhadi, Ahmed O. Elmehrath, Omar Abdelsadek Abdou Elmeligy, Mehdi Emamverdi, Theophilus I. Emeto, Hawi Leul Esayas, Habitu Birhan Eshetu, Farshid Etaee, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Shahriar Faghani, Ildar Ravisovich Fakhradiyev, Ali Fatehizadeh, Mobina Fathi, Alireza Feizkhah, Ginenus Fekadu, Mohammad Fereidouni, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, João C. Fernandes, Pietro Ferrara, Getahun Fetensa, Irina Filip, Florian Fischer, Behzad Foroutan, Masoud Foroutan, Takeshi Fukumoto, Balasankar Ganesan, Belete Negese Belete Gemeda, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, MohammadReza Ghasemi, Maryam Gholamalizadeh, Tiffany K. Gill, Richard F. Gillum, Mohamad Goldust, Mahaveer Golechha, Pouya Goleij, Davide Golinelli, Houman Goudarzi, Shi-Yang Guan, Yang Guo, Bhawna Gupta, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Rasool Haddadi, Najah R. Hadi, Rabih Halwani, Shafiul Haque, Ikramul Hasan, Reza Hashempour, Amr Hassan, Treska S. Hassan, Sara Hassanzadeh, Mohammed Bheser Hassen, Johannes Haubold, Khezar Hayat, Golnaz Heidari, Mohammad Heidari, Reza Heidari-Soureshjani, Claudiu Herteliu, Kamran Hessami, Kamal Hezam, Yuta Hiraike, Ramesh Holla, Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, Hong-Han Huynh, Bing-Fang Hwang, Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye, Irena M. Ilic, Milena D. Ilic, Arad Iranmehr, Farideh Iravanpour, Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail, Masao Iwagami, Chidozie C.D. Iwu, Louis Jacob, Morteza Jafarinia, Abdollah Jafarzadeh, Kasra Jahankhani, Haitham Jahrami, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Elham Jamshidi, Chinmay T. Jani, Manthan Dilipkumar Janodia, Sathish Kumar Jayapal, Shubha Jayaram, Jayakumar Jeganathan, Jost B. Jonas, Abel Joseph, Nitin Joseph, Charity Ehimwenma Joshua, K. Vaishali, Billingsley Kaambwa, Ali Kabir, Zubair Kabir, Vidya Kadashetti, Feroze Kaliyadan, Fatemeh Kalroozi, Vineet Kumar Kamal, Amit Kandel, Himal Kandel, Srikanta Kanungo, Jafar Karami, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Hanie Karimi, Hengameh Kasraei, Sina Kazemian, Sewnet Adem Kebede, Leila Keikavoosi-Arani, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Himanshu Khajuria, Faham Khamesipour, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Imteyaz A. Khan, Maseer Khan, Md Jobair Khan, Moien A.B. Khan, Muhammad Arslan Khan, Haitham Khatatbeh, Moawiah Mohammad Khatatbeh, Sorour Khateri, Hamid Reza Khayat Kashani, Min Seo Kim, Adnan Kisa, Sezer Kisa, Hyun Yong Koh, Pavel Kolkhir, Oleksii Korzh, Ashwin Laxmikant Kotnis, Parvaiz A. Koul, Ai Koyanagi, Kewal Krishan, Mohammed Kuddus, Vishnutheertha Vishnutheertha Kulkarni, Narinder Kumar, Satyajit Kundu, Om P. Kurmi, Carlo La Vecchia, Chandrakant Lahariya, Tri Laksono, Judit Lám, Kamaluddin Latief, Paolo Lauriola, Basira Kankia Lawal, Thao Thi Thu Le, Trang Thi Bich Le, Munjae Lee, Seung Won Lee, Wei-Chen Lee, Yo Han Lee, Jacopo Lenzi, Miriam Levi, Wei Li, Virendra S. Ligade, Stephen S. Lim, Gang Liu, Xuefeng Liu, Erand Llanaj, Chun-Han Lo, Vanessa Sintra Machado, Azzam A. Maghazachi, Mansour Adam Mahmoud, Tuan A. Mai, Azeem Majeed, Pantea Majma Sanaye, Omar Mohamed Makram, Elaheh Malakan Rad, Kashish Malhotra, Ahmad Azam Malik, Iram Malik, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Lorenzo Giovanni Mantovani, Miquel Martorell, Sahar Masoudi, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Yasith Mathangasinghe, Elezebeth Mathews, Alexander G. Mathioudakis, Andrea Maugeri, Mahsa Mayeli, John Robert Carabeo Medina, Gebrekiros Gebremichael Meles, José João Mendes, Ritesh G. Menezes, Tomislav Mestrovic, Irmina Maria Michalek, Ana Carolina Micheletti Gomide Nogueira de Sá, Ephrem Tesfaye Mihretie, Le Huu Nhat Minh, Reza Mirfakhraie, Erkin M. Mirrakhimov, Awoke Misganaw, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Nouh Saad Mohamed, Faezeh Mohammadi, Soheil Mohammadi, Salahuddin Mohammed, Shafiu Mohammed, Syam Mohan, Anita Mohseni, Ali H. Mokdad, Sara Momtazmanesh, Lorenzo Monasta, Mohammad Ali Moni, Md Moniruzzaman, Yousef Moradi, Negar Morovatdar, Ebrahim Mostafavi, Parsa Mousavi, George Duke Mukoro, Admir Mulita, Getaneh Baye Mulu, Efrén Murillo-Zamora, Fungai Musaigwa, Ghulam Mustafa, Sathish Muthu, Firzan Nainu, Vinay Nangia, Sreenivas Narasimha Swamy, Zuhair S. Natto, Perumalsamy Navaraj, Biswa Prakash Nayak, Athare Nazri-Panjaki, Hadush Negash, Mohammad Hadi Nematollahi, Dang H. Nguyen, Hau Thi Hien Nguyen, Hien Quang Nguyen, Phat Tuan Nguyen, Van Thanh Nguyen, Robina Khan Niazi, Taxiarchis Konstantinos Nikolouzakis, Lawrence Achilles Nnyanzi, Mamoona Noreen, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Ogochukwu Janet Nzoputam, Bogdan Oancea, In-Hwan Oh, Hassan Okati-Aliabad, Osaretin Christabel Okonji, Patrick Godwin Okwute, Andrew T. Olagunju, Matthew Idowu Olatubi, Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa, Michal Ordak, Nikita Otstavnov, Mayowa O. Owolabi, P.A. Mahesh, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Anton Pak, Reza Pakzad, Raffaele Palladino, Adrian Pana, Ioannis Pantazopoulos, Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Shahina Pardhan, Ashwaghosha Parthasarathi, Ava Pashaei, Jay Patel, Aslam Ramjan Pathan, Shankargouda Patil, Uttam Paudel, Shrikant Pawar, Paolo Pedersini, Umberto Pensato, David M. Pereira, Jeevan Pereira, Maria Odete Pereira, Renato B. Pereira, Mario F.P. Peres, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Simone Perna, Ionela-Roxana Petcu, Parmida Sadat Pezeshki, Hoang Tran Pham, Anil K. Philip, Michael A. Piradov, Indrashis Podder, Vivek Podder, Dimitri Poddighe, Elton Junio Sady Prates, Ibrahim Qattea, Amir Radfar, Pourya Raee, Alireza Rafiei, Alberto Raggi, Fakher Rahim, Mehran Rahimi, Mahban Rahimifard, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Md Obaidur Rahman, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Mosiur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Mohamed Rahmani, Shayan Rahmani, Vahid Rahmanian, Premkumar Ramasubramani, Nemanja Rancic, Indu Ramachandra Rao, Sina Rashedi, Ahmed Mustafa Rashid, Nakul Ravikumar, Salman Rawaf, Elrashdy Moustafa Mohamed Redwan, Nazila Rezaei, Negar Rezaei, Nima Rezaei, Mohsen Rezaeian, Daniela Ribeiro, Mónica Rodrigues, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Leonardo Roever, Esperanza Romero-Rodríguez, Aly M.A. Saad, Basema Saddik, Saeid Sadeghian, Umar Saeed, Azam Safary, Mahdi Safdarian, Sher Zaman Safi, Amene Saghazadeh, Dominic Sagoe, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Harihar Sahoo, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Mirza Rizwan Sajid, Sateesh Sakhamuri, Joseph W. Sakshaug, Mohamed A. Saleh, Leili Salehi, Sana Salehi, Amir Salek Farrokhi, Sara Samadzadeh, Saad Samargandy, Noosha Samieefar, Abdallah M. Samy, Nima Sanadgol, Rama Krishna Sanjeev, Monika Sawhney, Ganesh Kumar Saya, Art Schuermans, Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Yashendra Sethi, Mahan Shafie, Humaira Shah, Izza Shahid, Samiah Shahid, Masood Ali Shaikh, Sadaf Sharfaei, Manoj Sharma, Maryam Shayan, Hatem Samir Shehata, Aziz Sheikh, Jeevan K. Shetty, Jae Il Shin, Reza Shirkoohi, Nebiyu Aniley Shitaye, K.M. Shivakumar, Velizar Shivarov, Parnian Shobeiri, Soraya Siabani, Migbar Mekonnen Sibhat, Emmanuel Edwar Siddig, Colin R. Simpson, Ehsan Sinaei, Harpreet Singh, Inderbir Singh, Jasvinder A. Singh, Paramdeep Singh, Surjit Singh, Md Shahjahan Siraj, Abdullah Al Mamun Sohag, Ranjan Solanki, Solikhah Solikhah, Yonatan Solomon, Mohammad Sadegh Soltani-Zangbar, Jing Sun, Mindy D. Szeto, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Mohammad Tabish, Ensiyeh Taheri, Azin Tahvildari, Iman M. Talaat, Jacques J.L. Lukenze Tamuzi, Ker-Kan Tan, Nathan Y. Tat, Razieh Tavakoli Oliaee, Arian Tavasol, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Pugazhenthan Thangaraju, Samar Tharwat, Nigusie Selomon Tibebu, Jansje Henny Vera Ticoalu, Tala Tillawi, Tenaw Yimer Tiruye, Amir Tiyuri, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Manjari Tripathi, Guesh Mebrahtom Tsegay, Abdul Rohim Tualeka, Sree Sudha Ty, Chukwudi S. Ubah, Saif Ullah, Sana Ullah, Muhammad Umair, Srikanth Umakanthan, Era Upadhyay, Seyed Mohammad Vahabi, Asokan Govindaraj Vaithinathan, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Rohollah Valizadeh, Shoban Babu Varthya, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Jorge Hugo Villafañe, Vasily Vlassov, Danh Cao Vo, Yasir Waheed, Abdul Waris, Brhane Gebrehiwot Welegebrial, Ronny Westerman, Dakshitha Praneeth Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Barbara Willekens, Beshada Zerfu Woldegeorgis, Melat Woldemariam, Hong Xiao, Dereje Y. Yada, Galal Yahya, Lin Yang, Fereshteh Yazdanpanah, Dong Keon Yon, Naohiro Yonemoto, Yuyi You, Mazyar Zahir, Syed Saoud Zaidi, Moein Zangiabadian, Iman Zare, Mohammad A. Zeineddine, Dawit T. Zemedikun, Naod Gebrekrstos Zeru, Chen Zhang, Hanqing Zhao, Chenwen Zhong, Magdalena Zielińska, Mohammad Zoladl, Alimuddin Zumla, Cui Guo, Lai-shan Tam

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Soluble iron nutrients in Saharan dust over the central Amazon rainforest by J. A. Rizzolo, C. G. G. Barbosa, G. C. Borillo, A. F. L. Godoi, R. A. F. Souza, R. V. Andreoli, A. O. Manzi, M. O. Sá, E. G. Alves, C. Pöhlker, I. H. Angelis, F. Ditas, J. Saturno, D. Moran-Zuloaga, L. V. Rizzo, N. E. Rosário, T. Pauliquevis, R. M. N. Santos, C. I. Yamamoto, M. O. Andreae, P. Artaxo, P. E. Taylor, R. H. M. Godoi

“…This study assesses the bioavailability of iron Fe(II) and Fe(III) in the particulate matter over the Amazon forest, which was transported from the Sahara desert (for the sake of our discussion, this term also includes the Sahel region). The sampling campaign was carried out above and below the forest canopy at the ATTO site (Amazon Tall Tower Observatory), a near-pristine area in the central Amazon Basin, from March to April 2015. …”
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Economic costs of childhood stunting to the private sector in low- and middle-income countries by Nadia Akseer, Hana Tasic, Michael Nnachebe Onah, Jannah Wigle, Ramraj Rajakumar, Diana Sanchez-Hernandez, Jonathan Akuoku, Robert E Black, Bernardo L Horta, Ndidi Nwuneli, Ritta Shine, Kerri Wazny, Nikita Japra, Meera Shekar, John Hoddinott

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Dry season forage assessment across senegalese rangelands using earth observation data by Adama Lo, Adama Lo, Abdoul Aziz Diouf, Ibrahima Diedhiou, Cyrille Djitamagne Edouard Bassène, Cyrille Djitamagne Edouard Bassène, Louise Leroux, Louise Leroux, Torbern Tagesson, Torbern Tagesson, Rasmus Fensholt, Pierre Hiernaux, Anne Mottet, Simon Taugourdeau, Simon Taugourdeau, Daouda Ngom, Ibra Touré, Babacar Ndao, Mamadou Adama Sarr, Mamadou Adama Sarr

“…Strengthening of feed security in the Sahel is urgently needed given the climate change and growing human population. …”
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Overview of aerosol optical properties over southern West Africa from DACCIWA aircraft measurements by C. Denjean, T. Bourrianne, F. Burnet, M. Mallet, N. Maury, A. Colomb, P. Dominutti, P. Dominutti, J. Brito, J. Brito, R. Dupuy, K. Sellegri, A. Schwarzenboeck, C. Flamant, P. Knippertz

“…The aircraft sampled a wide range of air masses, including anthropogenic pollution plumes emitted from the coastal cities, long-range transported biomass burning plumes from central and southern Africa and dust plumes from the Sahara and Sahel region, as well as mixtures of these plumes. …”
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Effectiveness of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Children under Ten Years of Age in Senegal: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomised Trial. by Badara Cissé, El Hadj Ba, Cheikh Sokhna, Jean Louis NDiaye, Jules F Gomis, Yankhoba Dial, Catherine Pitt, Mouhamed NDiaye, Matthew Cairns, Ernest Faye, Magatte NDiaye, Aminata Lo, Roger Tine, Sylvain Faye, Babacar Faye, Ousmane Sy, Lansana Konate, Ekoue Kouevijdin, Clare Flach, Clare Flach, Ousmane Faye, Jean-Francois Trape, Colin Sutherland, Fatou Ba Fall, Pape M Thior, Oumar K Faye, Brian Greenwood, Oumar Gaye, Paul Milligan

“…<h4>Background</h4>Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) plus amodiaquine (AQ), given each month during the transmission season, is recommended for children living in areas of the Sahel where malaria transmission is highly seasonal. …”
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Human impacts on the world’s raptors by Christopher J. O’Bryan, Christopher J. O’Bryan, James R. Allan, Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, Dobrochna M. Delsen, Ralph Buij, Ralph Buij, Christopher J. W. McClure, Jose A. Rehbein, Munir Z. Virani, Jennifer D. McCabe, Peter Tyrrell, Peter Tyrrell, Pablo J. Negret, Pablo J. Negret, Chris Greig, Chris Greig, Peadar Brehony, W. Daniel Kissling

“…Global “hotspots” of impacted raptor richness are ubiquitous, with core areas of threat in parts of the Sahel and East Africa where 92% of the assessed raptors are potentially impacted per grid cell (10 species on average), and in Northern India where nearly 100% of raptors are potentially impacted per grid cell (11 species). …”
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Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images by Yu Tanaka, Tomoya Watanabe, Keisuke Katsura, Yasuhiro Tsujimoto, Toshiyuki Takai, Takashi Sonam Tashi Tanaka, Kensuke Kawamura, Hiroki Saito, Koki Homma, Salifou Goube Mairoua, Kokou Ahouanton, Ali Ibrahim, Kalimuthu Senthilkumar, Vimal Kumar Semwal, Eduardo Jose Graterol Matute, Edgar Corredor, Raafat El-Namaky, Norvie Manigbas, Eduardo Jimmy P. Quilang, Yu Iwahashi, Kota Nakajima, Eisuke Takeuchi, Kazuki Saito

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Age and multimorbidities as poor prognostic factors for COVID-19 in hemodialysis: a Lebanese national study by Mabel Aoun, Rabab Khalil, Walid Mahfoud, Haytham Fatfat, Line Bou Khalil, Rashad Alameddine, Nabil Afiouni, Issam Ibrahim, Mohamad Hassan, Haytham Zarzour, Ali Jebai, Nina Mourad Khalil, Luay Tawil, Zeina Mechref, Zuhair El Imad, Fadia Chamma, Ayman Khalil, Sandy Zeidan, Balsam El Ghoul, Georges Dahdah, Sarah Mouawad, Hiba Azar, Kamal Abou Chahine, Siba Kallab, Bashir Moawad, Ahmad Fawaz, Joseph Homsi, Carmen Tabaja, Maya Delbani, Rami Kallab, Hassan Hoballah, Wahib Haykal, Najat Fares, Walid Rahal, Wael Mroueh, Mohammed Youssef, Jamale Rizkallah, Ziad Sebaaly, Antoine Dfouni, Norma Ghosn, Nagi Nawfal, Walid Abou Jaoude, Nadine Bassil, Therese Maroun, Nabil Bassil, Chadia Beaini, Boutros Haddad, Elie Moubarak, Houssam Rabah, Amer Attieh, Serge Finianos, Dania Chelala

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Past African dust inputs in the western Mediterranean area controlled by the complex interaction between the Intertropical Convergence Zone, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and tot... by P. Sabatier, M. Nicolle, C. Piot, C. Colin, M. Debret, D. Swingedouw, Y. Perrette, M.-C. Bellingery, M.-C. Bellingery, B. Chazeau, B. Chazeau, B. Chazeau, A.-L. Develle, M. Leblanc, C. Skonieczny, Y. Copard, J.-L. Reyss, E. Malet, I. Jouffroy-Bapicot, M. Kelner, J. Poulenard, J. Didier, F. Arnaud, B. Vannière

“…Clay mineralogy with palygorskite and a clay ratio associated with geochemical data allow us to determine that terrigenous fluxes are almost exclusively related to atmospheric dust deposition from the western Sahara and Sahel areas over this period. High-resolution geochemical contents provide a reliable proxy for Saharan dust inputs with long-term (millennial) to short-term (centennial) variations. …”
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Effect of three years’ seasonal malaria chemoprevention on molecular markers of resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine in Ouelessebougou,... by Almahamoudou Mahamar, Kelsey M. Sumner, Brandt Levitt, Betsy Freedman, Aliou Traore, Amadou Barry, Djibrilla Issiaka, Adama B. Dembele, Moussa B. Kanoute, Oumar Attaher, Boubacar N. Diarra, Issaka Sagara, Abdoulaye Djimde, Patrick E. Duffy, Michal Fried, Steve M. Taylor, Alassane Dicko

“…Abstract Background In 2012, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) was recommended as policy for malaria control by the World Health Organization (WHO) in areas of highly seasonal malaria transmission across the Sahel sub-region in Africa along with monitoring of drug resistance. …”
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The export of African mineral dust across the Atlantic and its impact over the Amazon Basin by X. Wang, X. Wang, X. Wang, Q. Wang, Q. Wang, M. Prass, C. Pöhlker, D. Moran-Zuloaga, P. Artaxo, J. Gu, N. Yang, N. Yang, X. Yang, X. Yang, J. Tao, J. Tao, J. Hong, J. Hong, N. Ma, N. Ma, Y. Cheng, H. Su, M. O. Andreae, M. O. Andreae

“…Observed dust peaks over the Amazon Basin are generally associated with relatively higher African dust emissions (including the Sahara and the Sahel) and longer lifetimes of dust along the transatlantic transport, i.e., higher export efficiency of African dust across the Atlantic Ocean. …”
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A meteorological and chemical overview of the DACCIWA field campaign in West Africa in June–July 2016 by P. Knippertz, A. H. Fink, A. Deroubaix, E. Morris, F. Tocquer, M. J. Evans, C. Flamant, M. Gaetani, C. Lavaysse, C. Mari, J. H. Marsham, R. Meynadier, A. Affo-Dogo, T. Bahaga, F. Brosse, K. Deetz, R. Guebsi, I. Latifou, M. Maranan, P. D. Rosenberg, A. Schlueter

“…The post-onset Phase 2 (22 June–20 July 2016) was characterised by a significant increase in low-level cloudiness, unusually dry conditions and strong northeastward dispersion of urban pollution plumes in SWA as well as rainfall modulation by westward-propagating AEWs in the Sahel. Around 12–14 July 2016 an interesting and so-far undocumented cyclonic–anticyclonic vortex couplet crossed SWA. …”
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Mid-Pliocene West African Monsoon rainfall as simulated in the PlioMIP2 ensemble by E. Berntell, Q. Zhang, Q. Li, A. M. Haywood, J. C. Tindall, S. J. Hunter, Z. Zhang, Z. Zhang, X. Li, C. Guo, K. H. Nisancioglu, K. H. Nisancioglu, C. Stepanek, G. Lohmann, G. Lohmann, L. E. Sohl, L. E. Sohl, M. A. Chandler, M. A. Chandler, N. Tan, N. Tan, C. Contoux, G. Ramstein, M. L. J. Baatsen, A. S. von der Heydt, A. S. von der Heydt, D. Chandan, W. R. Peltier, A. Abe-Ouchi, W.-L. Chan, Y. Kamae, C. J. R. Williams, C. J. R. Williams, D. J. Lunt, R. Feng, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, E. C. Brady

“…Though previous studies of future projections indicate a west–east drying–wetting contrast over the Sahel, PlioMIP2 simulations indicate a uniform rainfall increase in that region in warm climates characterized by increasing greenhouse gas forcing. …”
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Global scale variability of the mineral dust long-wave refractive index: a new dataset of in situ measurements for climate modeling and remote sensing by C. Di Biagio, P. Formenti, Y. Balkanski, L. Caponi, M. Cazaunau, E. Pangui, E. Journet, S. Nowak, S. Caquineau, M. O. Andreae, K. Kandler, T. Saeed, S. Piketh, D. Seibert, E. Williams, J.-F. Doussin

“…Mineral dust aerosols were generated from 19 natural soils from 8 regions: northern Africa, the Sahel, eastern Africa and the Middle East, eastern Asia, North and South America, southern Africa, and Australia. …”
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Global modelling of soil carbonyl sulfide exchanges by C. Abadie, F. Maignan, M. Remaud, J. Ogée, J. E. Campbell, M. E. Whelan, F. Kitz, F. M. Spielmann, G. Wohlfahrt, R. Wehr, W. Sun, N. Raoult, U. Seibt, D. Hauglustaine, S. T. Lennartz, S. T. Lennartz, S. Belviso, D. Montagne, P. Peylin

“…The predicted spatial distribution of soil COS fluxes, with large emissions from oxic (up to 68.2 pmol COS m<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span> s<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span>) and anoxic (up to 36.8 pmol COS m<span class="inline-formula">⁻²</span> s<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span>) soils in the tropics, especially in India and in the Sahel region, marginally improves the latitudinal gradient of atmospheric COS concentrations, after transport by the LMDZ (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique) atmospheric transport model. …”
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Complex refractive index and single scattering albedo of Icelandic dust in the shortwave part of the spectrum by C. Baldo, C. Baldo, C. Baldo, P. Formenti, C. Di Biagio, G. Lu, G. Lu, C. Song, C. Song, M. Cazaunau, E. Pangui, J.-F. Doussin, P. Dagsson-Waldhauserova, P. Dagsson-Waldhauserova, O. Arnalds, D. Beddows, A. R. MacKenzie, Z. Shi

“…The <span class="inline-formula"><i>k</i>(<i>λ</i>)</span> values retrieved for Icelandic dust are at the upper end of the reported range for low-latitude dust (e.g., from the Sahel). Furthermore, Icelandic dust tends to be more absorbing towards the near-infrared. …”
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