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Aboveground phytomass productivity and morphological variability of Tunisian accessions of Cenchrus ciliaris L.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Khalil Mseddi Lobna Mnif Mohamed Chaieb Mohamed Neffati Maurice RouxThis study assessed the aboveground aerial phytomass produced by 47 accessions of Cenchrus ciliaris L. locally collected in the arid zone of Tunisia and classified into six eco-geographic groups. The extent of genetic variation in five morphologic parameters was examined... -
Agronomic evaluation of herbaceous legumes in a subhumid zone of Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: P. Lusembo --- , Uganda M.A. Mohamed‐Saleem --- , Ethiopia T. Abate --- , Ethiopia E.N. Sabiiti --- Department of Crop Science, UgandaSixteen promising forage legume accessions (15 species) were selected from small plot observation trials for agronomic evaluation over three years in a subhumid zone of Uganda. Macrotyloma axillare (Archer) significantly out yielded all other accessions in terms of annual dry... -
Editorial
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South Africa Sandy Lazarus --- University of Western Cape, South Africa -
Still Photography Provides Data for Community-Based Initiatives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences, Loni Baadjies Ashley van Niekerk Thoko MdakaWe use community psychology's accent on methodological pluralism and giving voice to the marginalised as a platform to critically examine the utility and outcome of photography as a data collection and community engagement method. Accordingly we focus on two community... -
Community Counselling: Values and Practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa and University of Western Cape, South Africa Donna Baptiste --- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article focuses on community counselling, specifically in African contexts. A community psychology approach is used as a framework for this discussion. This approach, linked to a critical perspective, highlights the importance of going beyond individualist assessments and interventions towards... -
Community Counselling in African Contexts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa & University of Western Cape, South Africa Donna Baptiste --- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article explores community counselling as a form of professional practice for psychologists, with a particular focus on practices that are relevant in African contexts. The discussion identifies and discusses various models of practice identified in community psychology, including an... -
Community Engagement: Conceptualisation, Methods and Illustrations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South Africa Shahnaaz Suffla --- Medical Research Council, South Africa -
Community Engagement as Liberal Performance, as Critical Intellectualism and as Praxis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article aims to illustrate that engagement is a dynamic and evolutionary process, moulded by contesting ideological, social actor and contextual forces. For purposes of illustration, I draw on a university-affiliated, participatory enactment of community engagement as a case example... -
Community-Based Participatory Research a Low-Income Setting: An Illustrative Case of Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Naiema Taliep --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Abdulsamed Bulbulia --- University of South Africa, South Africa Shaun Phillips --- Hearts of Men, Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in a low-income setting. Using the SCRATCHMAPS project as a case example and with literature control, we show that CBPR is influenced by dynamics relating to knowledge and power, resources and... -
The Philosophical Assumptions, Utility and Challenges of Asset Mapping Approaches to Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sherianne Kramer --- University of South Africa, South Africa Taryn Amos --- University of South Africa, South Africa Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa, South Africa Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis literature review is a discussion of asset-based approaches to community engagement. Following a literature search, we identified several asset mapping approaches: Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); Participatory Inquiry into Religious Health Assets, Networks and Agency (PIRHANA); Community Health Assets Mapping... -
Community Centred Learning: A Pathway to Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lebogang Lorraine Phiri --- University of South Africa, South Africa Natasha Hendricks --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaWe report on the experiences of participants on a course which represented a pathway to community engagement. The 76 participants (20 males, 46 females), from two low-income South African communities, were part of a multi-lingual group representing English, Africans, isiZulu... -
Subclasses of Multivalent Functions Involving the Liu-Owa Operator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: MohamedK. Aouf --- Faculty of Science, Egypt Teodor Bulboacă --- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, RomaniaUsing the method of differential subordination, we investigate inclusion relationships among certain subclasses of analytic and p-valent functions, which are defined here by means of the Liu-Owa operator Qptp. -
On a Diophantine equation of Ayad and Kihel
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed El Bachraoui --- Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, UAE Florian Luca --- Instituto de Matemáticas, MéxicoLet f(n) denote the number of relatively prime sets in {1, … , n}. This is sequence A085945 in Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Motivated by a paper of Ayad and Kihel [1], we show that there are at... -
Nesting phenology and breeding performance of the Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei in Sfax salina, Tunisia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohamed Ali Chokri --- Unité de recherché UR-11ES86, Biodiversité et valorisation des bio-ressources en zones arides, Tunisia Slaheddine SelmiIn 2010, nine colonies of Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei bred at Sfax salina in south-eastern Tunisia totalling 7 912 breeding pairs. This amounted to >50% of the breeding population for the entire Mediterranean region. Colony initiation and egg laying occurred... -
Exploring foundation phase school teachers’ perceptions of learning difficulties in two Johannesburg schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Zaakirah Mohamed --- Psychology – School of Human and Community Development, South Africa Sumaya Laher --- Psychology – School of Human and Community Development, South AfricaObjectives: According to the 2001 census (StatsSA 2001), approximately 12% of the population in South Africa are intellectually disabled and 7% of the population have a communication disability. Early diagnosis and intervention is vital for optimum functioning in later life... -
Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in Sudan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour --- School of Business and Economics, UNU-MERIT, the NetherlandsThis paper uses both descriptive and comparative approaches to discuss science, technology and innovation policies in Sudan. Differing from the studies in Sudanese literature, a novel element of our analysis is that we examine innovation, science and technology policies after... -
Effect of garlic, black seed and Biogen as immunostimulants on the growth and survival of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Teleostei: Cichlidae), and their response to artificial infection with Pseudomonas fluorescens
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AhmedS Diab SalahM Aly George John Yasser Abde-Hadi MohamedF MohammedThree dosage levels of black seed, garlic and commercial Biogen were administered for three months in summer and six months in winter to test their stimulation effect on growth, survival and response to challenge infection in Oreochromis niloticus. At the... -
Migration et hivernage de quelques passereaux au Maroc: Mise au point à partir des données de baguage-reprise
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Hamid Rguibi Idrissi Mohamed Dakki Franz BairleinMorocco plays a major role in the migration and wintering of several Palaearctic-African passerines, because of its geographical position and great diversity of wetlands used as stopover sites. These have been studied on the basis of recovery data stored at... -
Rôle de la côte Atlantique marocaine dans l'hivernage des limicoles (Aves, Charadrii)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Abdeljebbar Qninba Mohamed Dakki Abdelaziz Benhoussa Mohammed-Aziz El AgbaniAn analysis of the distribution of wintering waders in Morocco showed that 91% were found on the Atlantic coast, where their preferred habitats (sandy beaches, mudflats, marshlands) are best represented. Waders in Morocco can be grouped into three categories based... -
Breeding biology of the Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis in west-central Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohammed Znari Mohamed Aourir Mohamed Radi Jean-Michel MelinAspects of the breeding biology of the Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis were investigated in an arid area of west-central Morocco in the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Back-dating clutches and broods indicated that successful nesting lasted 13–18 weeks from mid-April to... -
On Almost f-Algebras
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Ali ToumiFor an Archimedian vector lattice A and a Dedekind complete vector lattice B, it is shown that if a positive bimorphism ψ0 from A × A to B satisfies the (AF) property (the image of each pair of disjoint elements... -
The need for ‘Good Clinical Practice’ in health care research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: MHR Noorzurani --- Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Malaysia N Aziz --- Department of Family Medicine, Malaysia AF Abdul Aziz --- Department of Family Medicine, Malaysia MZ Abd Hamid --- Department of Paediatrics, Malaysia M Mohamed --- Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Malaysia S Othman --- Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Malaysia N Hussein --- Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, MalaysiaRandomised controlled trials form the foundation for ‘evidence-based-medicine’, but the results of such research can be relied upon only if it was conducted according to principles and standards collectively referred to as ‘Good Clinical Practice’ (GCP). The GCP was established... -
Anti-allergic ophthalmic drugs in general practice: which, why and when?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: N Mohamed --- Division of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, DP Smit --- Division of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences,Ocular allergies present in many different guises. They may vary from self-limiting episodes of acute allergic conjunctivitis, to potentially sight-threatening chronic conditions, such as vernal keratoconjunctivitis. This article provides a brief description of the different ocular allergic conditions to aid... -
Performance Poetry and Political Conscientization in the Horn of Africa: Examples from the Somali Bantu Jareer Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Mohamed A. Eno --- Dept. of African Studies, St Clements University Somalia; & Center for Research and Development, Omar A. Eno --- College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University, Oregon, USA; & Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies,Ever since the arrival of colonialism gained momentum in the country, Somali literature has been approached narrowly from the tutelage of the pastoral culture. Colonial as well as early Somali writers have taken the comfort of disdaining the study of... -
Endoparasites (helminths and coccidians) in the hedgehogs Atelerix algirus and Paraechinus aethiopicus from Algeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mourad Khaldi --- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biology, Algeria Jordi Torres --- Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Span Berta Samsó --- Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Span Jordi Miquel --- Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Span Mohamed Biche --- Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology, Algeria Meryam Benyettou --- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biology, Algeria Ghania Barech --- Laboratory of Ecology, Department of Biology, Algeria Hadj Aissa Benelkadi --- Department of Agricultural and Forest Zoology, Algeria Alexis Ribas --- Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, SpanThe study of endoparasites (helminths and coccidians) in the Algerian (Atelerix algirus) and desert (Paraechinus aethiopicus) hedgehogs was performed between July 2008 and October 2009. The helminth species found included two cestodes, Mathevotaenia erinacei (Anoplocephalidae) and an unidentified cestode larva... -
Dominance rank and self-scratching among wild female Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Stefano S.K. Kaburu --- Centre for Research in Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology, University of Roehampton, U.K. Ann MacLarnon --- Centre for Research in Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology, University of Roehampton, U.K. Bonaventura Majolo --- School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, U.K. Mohamed Qarro --- École Nationale Forestiére d’Ingénieurs, Avenue Moulay Yousseff, BP 511, Morocco Stuart Semple --- Centre for Research in Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology, University of Roehampton, U.K.Measuring rates of self-scratching provides a powerful index of anxiety in non-human primates, and investigating the relationship between self-scratching and dominance rank can shed light on the ‘emotional costs’ of holding different positions in the hierarchy. Here we explored the... -
Metabolic disturbance and hepatic tissue damage induced by Eimeria papillata infection
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mohamed A. Dkhil --- Department of Zoology, College of Science, Saudi Arabia Saleh Al-Quraishy --- Department of Zoology, College of Science, Saudi ArabiaCoccidiosis is a parasitic disease, prevalent all over the world and has a significant impact on poultry production. The current study aimed to investigate the metabolic change as well as the hepatic inflammatory response caused by Eimeria papillata infection. Female... -
The economic importance and impacts of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in Sudan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour --- UNU-MERIT, School of Business and Economics, The NetherlandsThis paper explains the importance of IPRs and examines the factors hindering and those contributing toward enhancing IPRs in Sudan. We find that the inadequacy of IPRs protection in Sudan is attributed to low integration in the international institutions, lack... -
Performance and design optimisation of an apparatus for distilling palm wine (Elaeis guineensis) by controlling thermal operations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Clément Ahouannou --- Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Energy, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Fidèle Tchobo --- Laboratory Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Emile A. Sanya --- Laboratory of Applied Mechanics and Energy, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Christa Lokossou --- Laboratory Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Mohamed Soumanou --- Laboratory Study and Research in Applied Chemistry, Polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, BeninMastery of thermal control in the craft distillation processing operations of fermented wine from Elaeis guineensis is needed to improve and enhance the resulting Beninese alcoholic drink, sodabi. In this study, craft distillation of palm-wines from three municipalities of southern... -
Who is the southern African anthropologist?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kharnita Mohamed --- Department of Anthropology & Sociology, -
The Relation Between Simulated Armyworm Damage and Crop-Loss in Maize and Sorghum
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: E. S. Brown --- E.A.A.F.R.O., Kenya A. K. A. Mohamed --- E.A.A.F.R.O., Kenya -
Effects of Lime on Herbage Production and Chemical Composition of ‘Cynodon IB.8’ and on Some Chemical Properties of the Soil
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: M. A. Mohamed Saleem --- Department of Agronomy, Nigeria H. R. Chheda --- Department of Agronomy, Nigeria L. V. Crowder --- Department of Agronomy, Nigeria -
Effect of Sulphur Coated Urea and Urea on the Productivity and Nitrogen Utilization of Cynodon IB. 8
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: M. A. Mohamed Saleem --- Department of Agronomy, -
Estimate of Optimum Plot Size and Shape for Dura Sorghum (Sorghum Bicolar) Yield Experiments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: A.A.G. Mohamed --- Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait -
Intercroping of Butterfly Pea and Forage Sorghum at Different Planting Patterns and Seed Rates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: R.S. Modawi --- Faculty of Agricultural Science, Sudan A.B. Mohamed --- Faculty of Agricultural Science, Sudan R. Abdelrahman --- Faculty of Agricultural Science, Sudan -
Relationships Between Chemical Composition and in Vitro Dry Matter Digestibility in Five Tropical Grasses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal • Authors: M.A. Mohamed Saleem --- Department or Agronomy, Nigeria M.E. Aken'Ova --- Department or Agronomy, Nigeria I. Ezenwa --- Department or Agronomy, Nigeria -
Improving Health in the EAC Region: The Case for a Robust Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Nazeem Mohamed --- Kampala Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Uganda -
Significant population of Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus found in Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohamed Amezian --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco Rachid El Khamlichi --- Group for Research and Protection of Birds in Morocco (GREPOM/BirdLife Morocco), regional section of Tangier-Tétouan, MoroccoThe Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus population in Morocco has undergone a marked decline since the 1980s to the point of nearing local extinction in the twenty-first century. A field study of some possible sites for Egyptian Vultures was carried out... -
Visual interruptions: a reflection on “Thermal optimum: time, intimacy and the elemental in the first thousand days of life”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kharnita Mohamed --- Department of Social Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South AfricaIn this commentary, Kharnita Mohamed critically assesses Fiona C. Ross and Nicholas Eppel’s photo essay, “Thermal Optimum: Time, Intimacy and the Elemental in the First Thousand Days of Life.” The essay is published alongside this commentary. -
Sexual size dimorphism and morphometric sexing in a North African population of Laughing Doves Spilopelia senegalensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Tasnim Ayadi --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences, Tunisia Abdessalem Hammouda --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences, Tunisia Samia Kididi --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Mohamed Habib Yahyaoui --- Laboratoire d’Elevage et Faune Sauvage, Tunisia Slaheddine Selmi --- Département des Sciences de la Vie, Faculté des Sciences, TunisiaLike the majority of Columbiformes, the Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis is sexually monomorphic in plumage, but seems to be slightly dimorphic in size. However, due to the lack of studies little is known about the sexual size dimorphism in this... -
Alarming decline and range reduction of the highly threatened Great Bustard Otis tarda in Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Juan Carlos Alonso --- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Spain Carlos Palacín --- Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Spain Alejandro Onrubia --- Fundación MIGRES, Spain Rachid Aboulouafae --- SPCDRN/DREFLCD du Rif, Haut Commissariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à la Lutte Contre la Désertification (HCEFLCD), Morocco Mohamed Amezian --- GREPOM Unité régionale Tanger-Tétouan, Morocco Abdelaziz El Idrissi Essougrati --- GREPOM Unité régionale de Rabat, Morocco Rachid El Khamlichi --- GREPOM Unité régionale Tanger-Tétouan, Morocco Mohamed Noaman --- Service de la Conservation de la Flore et de la Faune Sauvage, MoroccoA Great Bustard Otis tarda survey carried out in spring 2015 in Morocco confirmed the decline of this highly endangered population. Bustards were only seen at two of the seven leks occupied ten years ago. The total number of birds... -
Harmful cyanobacteria and their cyanotoxins in Egyptian fresh waters – state of knowledge and research needs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: ZA Mohamed --- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, EgyptCyanobacterial blooms have increased in freshwater ecosystems worldwide in the last century, mostly resulting from eutrophication and climate change. These blooms represent serious threats to environmental and human health because of the production of harmful metabolites, called cyanotoxins. Like many... -
Domination spaces and factorization of linear and multilinear summing operators
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Dahmane Achour --- Universitáe Mohamed Boudiaf-M’sila, Laboratoire d’Analyse Fonctionnelle et Géeoméetrie des Espaces, Algeria Elhadj Dahia --- Universitáe Mohamed Boudiaf-M’sila, Laboratoire d’Analyse Fonctionnelle et Géeoméetrie des Espaces, Algeria Pilar Rueda --- Departamento de Ańalisis Matemáatico Universidad de Valencia, Spain Enrique A. Sánchez-Pérez --- Instituto Universitario de Matemáatica Pura y Aplicada, Universitat Politèecnica de Valèencia, SpainIt is well known that not every summability property for multilinear operators leads to a factorization theorem. In this paper we undertake a detailed study of factorization schemes for summing linear and nonlinear operators. Our aim is to integrate under... -
Clutch, egg and hatchling characteristics in the Souss Valley tortoises, Testudo graeca soussensis Pieh, 2001 (Testudines: Testudinidae) from an arid steppe-land of west-central Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Nawal Hichami --- , , Morocco Mohammed Znari --- , , Morocco Mohamed Naimi --- , , Morocco Salwa Namous --- , , MoroccoClutch, egg and hatchling characteristics in the Souss Valley tortoises Testudo graeca soussensis (Testudinidae) from an arid steppe area of west-central Morocco were investigated in semi captivity in spring–early summer 2011. Mating activity occurs twice in the year, mainly in... -
When do yearling male Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis reach sexual maturation?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohamed Aourir --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco Mohammed Znari --- Laboratory ‘Biodiversité et Dynamique des Ecosystèmes’, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco Mohamed Radi --- Laboratory ‘Biodiversité et Dynamique des Ecosystèmes’, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, MoroccoIn the present study, a histological and morphometric investigation of testes in yearling male Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis was performed during the reproductive period. The trial was conducted on four randomly selected yearling male birds that originated from eggs collected... -
Management for failed back surgery syndrome: three-in-one procedure versus percutaneous spinal fixation alone
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Ahmed Abdalla Mohamed --- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & ICU, Egypt Atef Kamel Salama --- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & ICU, Egypt Ahmed Essam Salem --- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology & ICU, Egypt Ashraf El Gallad --- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, EgyptObjectives: To evaluate the short-term outcome of a 3-in-1 procedure including percutaneous facet radiofrequency, percutaneous spinal fixation and steroid with hyaluronidase enzyme injection versus percutaneous spinal fixation alone for cases with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS). -
On the Poetics and Politics of the Afar Kassow
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Gidey Alemu Muauz --- Department of Political Sciences, South Africa Mohamed Hassan Saleh --- Research and Study Center of Djibouti (CERD), Djibouti RepublicThe Afar people have a rich poetic tradition pertaining to every aspect of their pastoral way of life in the harsh condition of the Afar desert. One of the many genres of Afar poetics is Afar Kassow the folk’s poetized... -
Factors associated with failed spinal anaesthesia for Caesarean sections in Mthatha general hospital, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Adeyinka Abiodun Alabi --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa Oladele Vincent Adeniyi --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa Olukayode Ademola Adeleke --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa Pamela Pillay --- School of Laboratory Medicine & Medical Sciences, Department of Anatomy, South Africa Mohamed Rashid Haffajee --- School of Laboratory Medicine & Medical Sciences, Department of Clinical Anatomy, South AfricaBackground: The use of spinal anaesthesia has increased in the last three decades, given that it is the recommended anaesthetic of choice for better foetal and maternal outcomes in Caesarean section. Failed spinal anaesthesia (FSA) exposes patients to unfavourable experience... -
Ecology and behaviour of Palm-nut Vultures Gypohierax angolensis in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Camilo Carneiro --- Department of Biology and CESAM, Portugal Mohamed Henriques --- Faculty of Sciences, Portugal Castro Barbosa --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas of Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Quintino Tchantchalam --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas of Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Aissa Regalla --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas of Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Ana R Patrício --- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, UK Paulo Catry --- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, PortugalPopulations of many vulture species have undergone substantial declines. In Africa, 82% are threatened and although research on vultures has increased, the biology and ecology of several species is still poorly known. The Palm-nut Vulture Gypohierax angolensis has peculiar ecological... -
Status of birds of prey in Guinea-Bissau: first assessment based on road surveys
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohamed Henriques --- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), Portugal Miguel Lecoq --- BirdLife International, Senegal Hamilton Monteiro --- Coastal Planning Office, Guinea-Bissau Aissa Regalla --- Instituto da Biodiversidade e Áreas Protegidas (IBAP), Guinea-Bissau José P Granadeiro --- Centro de estudos do ambiente e do mar (CESAM), Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal Paulo Catry --- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), PortugalSeveral studies have reported marked declines in populations of birds of prey across the African continent, including West Africa. However, there are still regions of which virtually nothing is known, as is the case for Guinea-Bissau. Because birds of prey... -
Nor-epinephrine versus vasopressin infusion for prevention of spinal-induced hypotension: a placebo-controlled study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Ahmed Abdalla Mohamed --- Department of Anesthesia & ICU and Pain Clinic, Egypt Tamer Fayez Safan --- Department of Anesthesia & ICU and Pain Clinic, EgyptObjectives: To evaluate the prophylactic effect of norepinephrine (NE) and vasopressin (VP) infusion on frequency and severity of spinal anaesthesia-induced hypotension (SAIH). -
A reflection on Paul Weinberg’s book “Traces and tracks”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kharnita Mohamed --- Department of Social Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South AfricaIn this essay, Kharnita Mohamed responds to the book from which Paul Weinberg’s photo essay stems. -
Nest-site characteristics and aspects of the breeding biology of the endangered Timneh Parrot Psittacus timneh in Guinea-Bissau
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Daniel C Lopes --- Faculty of Sciences, Portugal Rowan O Martin --- World Parrot Trust, UK Mohamed Henriques --- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Portugal Hamilton Monteiro --- Coastal Planning Office, Guinea-Bissau Aissa Regalla --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Quintino Tchantchalam --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Bucar Indjai --- INEP – National Institute for Study and Research, Guinea-Bissau Seco Cardoso --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Celestino Manuel --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Manjaco Cunha --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Domingos Cunha --- Institute of Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Guinea-Bissau Paulo Catry --- MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, PortugalTimneh Parrots Psittacus timneh are endemic to the moist forests of West Africa. Concerns over rapid declines in populations due to overharvesting for the pet trade and forest loss prompted the species’ categorisation as Endangered on the IUCN Red List... -
Psychological empowerment and organisational change among hotel employees in Egypt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Mohamed A. Nassar --- Hotel Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, EgyptEmpowering employees can have a significant impact on increasing job satisfaction, efficiency and productivity in the hotel industry. This paper aims to investigate the effect of empowerment on readiness for and acceptance of organisational changes among employees in Egyptian chain... -
The tensor product of f-algebras
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Youssef Azouzi --- Research Laboratory of Algebra, Topology, Arithmetic, and Order, Tunisia Mohamed Amine Ben Amor --- Research Laboratory of Algebra, Topology, Arithmetic, and Order, Tunisia Jamel Jaber --- Research Laboratory of Algebra, Topology, Arithmetic, and Order, TunisiaIn this paper we prove that the Fremlin tensor product of two f-algebras can be endowed with an f-algebra structure and satisfies an appropriate universal property. In particular, the Riesz tensor product of C(X) and C(Y), where X and Y... -
DNA fragmentation damage as a predictive marker for diabetic nephropathy in Type II diabetes mellitus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Nourhan Soliman --- Clinical Pathology Department, Egypt Mohamed El-Shabrawi --- Clinical Pathology Department, Egypt Seham Omar --- Internal Medicine Department, EgyptBackground: Increased production of free radicals and oxidative stress in type II diabetic patients could be one of the probable causes for development of complications. The authors hypothesise that such a mechanism also contributes to the development of diabetic nephropathy... -
Critique of black reason
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kharnita Mohamed --- Social Anthropology Section, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, South Africa -
Plumage development and moult in captive Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis: age and sex variations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohamed Aourir --- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco Mohammed Znari --- Department of Biology, Laboratory «Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics», Faculty of Sciences – Semlalia, Morocco Mohamed Radi --- Department of Biology, Laboratory «Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics», Faculty of Sciences – Semlalia, MoroccoThe sandgrouse, family Pteroclididae, are a group of birds adapted to open, arid habitats and powerful fliers but information on their plumage development and moult is scarce. In this study, the annual cycle of body plumage development, sequence and duration... -
Wives’ career progression among dual-career ethno-cultural couples: Husbands’ perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sumaiyah Fuad Mohamed --- Department of Human Resource Management, South AfricaThis study explored the perspectives of husbands regarding the participation of their wives in professional occupations. The participants included nine South African Indian men in dual-career marriages (ages ranging from 25 to 54 years old). The completed semi-structured, life-story interviews... -
Remediation of salt-affected soil by natural and chemical amendments to improve berseem clover yield and nutritive quality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Zainab Mohamed Abd El-Naby --- Forage Research Department, Egypt Wafaa Abd El-Karim Hafez --- Soil, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Egypt Hanan Ahmed Hashem --- Botany Department, Faculty of Science, EgyptSalinity is a major problem affecting crop production worldwide. The potential of different soil amendments (sulphur, gypsum, compost, and combination of gypsum, compost and sulphur) and two plant-growth stimulators (potassium silicate and calcium carbonate nanoparticles) to alleviate the harmful effects... -
Investigating the informal mode of financing utilized for construction financing in Somalia: Some evidence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mohamed Ibrahim Nor --- Faculty of Management Sciences, Somalia Tajul Ariffin Masron --- School of Management, MalaysiaIntermediation is the main objective of any financial industry. While financing services are provided by formal financial institutions in the advanced world, financing services are provided differently in emerging economies. Hence, various alternative modes of financing are used in these... -
Describing gonad development and gametogenesis in southern Africa’s endemic box jellyfish Carybdea branchi (Cubozoa, Carybdeidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: R Mohamed --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa H Skrypzeck --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa MJ Gibbons --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South AfricaInformation on the reproductive development of species of box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) is poor globally, despite their significance as potent stingers and worrying projections about range expansions. While most species are confined to tropical and subtropical waters, the South African... -
Variations in heavy metal concentrations among trophic levels of the food webs in two agroecosystems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mustafa Soliman --- Entomology Department, Egypt Mohamed El-Shazly --- Entomology Department, Egypt Emtithal Abd-El-Samie --- Entomology Department, Egypt Hamed Fayed --- Zoology Department, EgyptExcessive accumulation of trace metal in soil represents a growing environmental problem posing severe risks to biota, humans and ecosystems. Concentrations of Cd, Pb, Cu and Zn were determined in soil, as well as in representatives of some trophic levels... -
Tolerance to salinity and dehydration in the Sahara Desert blue-eyed turtle, Mauremys leprosa saharica (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from a brackish pond in the Lower Draa basin, southern Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Soumia Loulida --- , , Morocco Mohammed Znari --- , , Morocco Mohamed Naimi --- , , Morocco Safaa Bendami --- , , MoroccoThe marginal populations of the Sahara blue-eyed pond turtle, Mauremys leprosa saharica, in the southern-most species distribution range in the pre-Saharan areas of north-west Africa, are faced with extreme environmental conditions of arid climate and anthropogenic and climate change mediated... -
Spatial distribution and breeding territories of Bonelli’s Eagle Aquila fasciata in the western Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ali Irizi --- Département de Zoologie et Ecologie Animale, Institut Scientifique, Morocco Mohamed Aourir --- Laboratory « Biodiversité et fonctionnement des écosystèmes », Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Morocco Mohammed Znari --- Laboratoire « Biodiversité et Dynamique des Ecosystèmes», Faculté des Sciences – Semlalia, Morocco Mohamed Aziz El Agbani --- Département de Zoologie et Ecologie Animale, Institut Scientifique, Morocco Abdeljebbar Qninba --- Département de Zoologie et Ecologie Animale, Institut Scientifique, MoroccoThe North African population of Bonelli’s Eagle Aquila fasciata (Vieillot, 1822) is limited to the south by the northern fringe of the Sahara Desert. This study provides the first data on the spatial distribution and density of breeding Bonelli’s Eagles... -
The potential impact of dietary supplement adulteration on patient assessment and treatment from a healthcare provider’s perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Gary Gabriels --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Mohamed Irhuma --- Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaDietary supplements have been manufactured and supplied to the market with the objective of enhancing the overall health of the general population and optimising the performance of athletes. The perceived intention of dietary supplementation is to increase the nutritional content... -
The state of costing research for HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Drew B Cameron --- Health Policy and Management, USA Mohamed Mustafa Diab --- Institute for Health Policy Studies, USA Lauren N Carroll --- Institute for Health Policy Studies, USA Lori A Bollinger --- Avenir Health, USA Willyanne DeCormier Plosky --- Avenir Health, USA Carol Levin --- Department of Global Health, USA Benjamin Herzel --- Institute for Health Policy Studies, USA Elliot Marseille --- Health Strategies International, USA Lily Alexander --- Department of Global Health, USA Sergio Bautista-Arredondo --- Division of Health Economics and Health Systems Innovations, Mexico Carlos Pineda-Antunez --- Division of Health Economics and Health Systems Innovations, Mexico Diego Cerecero-García --- Division of Health Economics and Health Systems Innovations, Mexico Gabriela B Gomez --- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom William H Dow --- Health Policy and Management, USA James G Kahn --- Institute for Health Policy Studies, USAThe past decade has seen a growing emphasis on the production of high-quality costing data to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of global health interventions. The need for such data is especially important for decision making and priority setting across... -
Developing the Global Health Cost Consortium Unit Cost Study Repository for HIV and TB: methodology and lessons learned
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Willyanne DeCormier Plosky --- Avenir Health, USA Lori A Bollinger --- Avenir Health, USA Lily Alexander --- Department of Global Health, USA Drew B Cameron --- Department of Health Policy and Management, USA Lauren N Carroll --- Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, USA Lucy Cunnama --- Health Economics Unit, South Africa Gabriela B Gomez --- Centre for Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Carol Levin --- Department of Global Health, USA Elliot Marseille --- Health Strategies International, USA Mohamed Mustafa Diab --- Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, USA Mariana Siapka --- Centre for Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom Edina Sinanovic --- Health Economics Unit, South Africa Anna Vassall --- Centre for Health Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom James G Kahn --- Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, USAConsistently defined, accurate, and easily accessible cost data are a valuable resource to inform efficiency analyses, budget preparation, and sustainability planning in global health. The Global Health Cost Consortium (GHCC) designed the Unit Cost Study Repository (UCSR) to be a... -
An annotated checklist of the leech (Annelida: Hirudinida) species of the Moulouya River basin, Morocco, with several new distribution records and a historical overview
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Younes Mabrouki --- Université Mohamed Premier, Morocco Raja Ben Ahmed --- Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, LR18ES41 Ecologie, Biologie et Physiologie des organismes aquatiques, Tunisia Abdelkhaleq Fouzi Taybi --- Université Mohamed Premier, Morocco Juan Rueda --- Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva (ICBiBE-UV), SpainA historical overview of the leech fauna of Morocco, based on both literature data, museum collections and new material, sampled in more than 100 sites in the Moulouya River basin (eastern region of Morocco), is provided. Twenty species from five... -
Geometrical representation theorems for cylindric-type algebras
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Khaled --- Bahcesehir University, Turkey Tarek Sayed Ahmed --- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, EgyptIn this paper, we give new proofs of the celebrated Andréka-Resek-Thompson representability results of certain axiomatized cylindric-like algebras. Such representability results provide completeness theorems for variants of first order logic, that can also be viewed as multi-modal logics. The proofs... -
Revegetation of marginal saline rangelands of southern Tunisia using pastoral halophytes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Abderrazak Tlili --- , Tunisia Emna Ghanmi --- , Tunisia Naziha Ayeb --- , Tunisia Mounir Louhaichi --- , Jordan Mohamed Neffati --- , Tunisia Mohamed Tarhouni --- , TunisiaRevegetation of marginalised rangelands using pastoral halophytes is considered an appropriate scientific and environmental approach to rehabilitation. Atriplex halimus L. (Amaranthaceae), A. mollis Desf. (Amaranthaceae), Cenchrus ciliaris L. (Poaceae) and Lotus creticus L. (Fabaceae) are promising species for arid rangeland... -
Community diversity, functional traits and adaptation of Stipa tenacissima L. under different grazing regimes in a North African arid montane rangeland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Jamila Msadek --- , Tunisia Abderrazak Tlili --- , Tunisia Marwa Moumni --- , Tunisia Mounir Louhaichi --- , Tunisia Mohamed Tarhouni --- , TunisiaThe mountain rangeland chain of Matmata (southern Tunisia) is characterised by an arid Mediterranean climate with severe droughts and high temperatures, combined with substantial human disturbance. In order to withstand these harsh conditions, plants have developed adaptive strategies and functional... -
Larvicidal activities of local Bacillus thuringiensis isolates and toxins from nematode bacterial symbionts against the Rift Valley fever vector, Aedes caspius (Diptera: Culicidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Ashraf M Ahmed --- , Saudi Arabia Talat A El-Kersh --- , Saudi Arabia Hamdy I Hussein --- , Saudi Arabia Tahany H Ayaad --- , Saudi Arabia Hanan A El-Sadawy --- , Egypt Mohamed S Ibrahim --- , Saudi Arabia Mikky A Amoudi --- , Saudi Arabia Ghaleb M Aseery --- , Saudi ArabiaMosquito resistance to insecticides has recently increased the burden of the majority of mosquito-borne diseases, and controlling the spread of these diseases should mainly rely on vector control measures. The present study aimed to investigate the toxicity of locally isolated... -
Computation of L ⊙ in the Tribonacci base
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Imen Ben Salah --- , Tunisie Mohamed Hbaib --- , TunisieThe purpose of this paper is to study the quantities L ⊕ (resp. L ⊙) defined respectively as the maximal finite length of the β-fractional part appearing when one adds (resp. multiplies) two β-integers. -
Quality assessment of surface water using the Nile Chemical Pollution Index (NCPI) and microbiological pollution of the Rosetta Branch (Nile River, Egypt)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Amal A Othman --- , Egypt Afify DG Al-Afify --- , Egypt Amaal M Abdel-Satar --- , Egypt Mohamed F Ramadan --- , EgyptThe Rosetta Branch (Nile River, Egypt) is one of the main sources of freshwater for drinking, agricultural, and industrial activities in the Nile Delta. However, this water supply is compromised because it receives heavy loads of domestic, agricultural and industrial... -
Correlates of persistent electrocution-related mortality of raptors in Guelmim-Oued Noun province, Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ali Irizi --- , Morocco Mohamed Aourir --- , Morocco Mohamed Aziz El Agbani --- , Morocco Abdeljebbar Qninba --- , MoroccoElectrocution on poorly designed power pylons is one the most important human-related causes of large bird mortality worldwide. Raptor mortality caused by 22 kV distribution power lines was studied in south-west Morocco. We surveyed 323 pylons (53.5 km) and collected... -
A pilot study on the use of DNA metabarcoding for diet analysis in a montane amphibian population from North Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ana Pereira --- Universidade do Porto, Portugal Mohamed Amine Samlali --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Abderrahim S’Khifa --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Tahar Slimani --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco D James Harris --- Universidade do Porto, PortugalAlthough dietary studies are essential to design effective conservation strategies for amphibians, non-invasive studies using microscopy assessment of faecal material are known to have limitations. We assessed the use of DNA metabarcoding to determine diet in the Moroccan painted frog... -
Green technology for bioremediation of the eutrophication phenomenon in aquatic ecosystems: a review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Mostafa El-Sheekh --- , Egypt Mohamed M Abdel-Daim --- , Saudi Arabia Mohamed Okba --- , Egypt Samiha Gharib --- , Egypt Asgad Soliman --- , Egypt Hala El-Kassas --- , EgyptEutrophication is a serious phenomenon that leads to vigorous algal blooms that alters the structure of ecosystems. It is caused by non-point sources of nutrients; as nitrogen and phosphorus, and point sources as wastewater effluent. Distinctive algae groups are responsible... -
The Riesz tensor product of d-algebras
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Amine Ben Amor --- , TunisiaIn this work we prove that the Riesz tensor product of two archimedean d-algebras is again a d-algebra. -
Factor structure in Raven’s Progressive Matrices Plus in sub-Saharan Africa – Benin and Djibouti
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David Becker --- , Germany Gerhard Meisenberg --- , United Kingdom Edward Dutton --- , Poland Salaheldin Farah Bakhiet --- , Saudi Arabia Osman Ahmed Mohamed Humad --- , Saudi Arabia Hamissou Arouna Abdoulaye --- , Saudi Arabia Salaheldin Abdelrahman Elrasheed Seed Ahmed --- , SudanA recent meta-analysis identified factor structures in IQ-test results from non-western nations similar to those found in samples from western countries, with mostly strong loadings on a general factor. In this study, we identified the factor structure on Raven’s Standard... -
Assessment of long-term protection on the aboveground biomass and organic carbon content using two non-destructive techniques: case of the Sidi Toui National Park in southern Tunisia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Roukaya Chibani --- , Tunisia Abderrazak Tlili --- , Tunisia Farah Ben Salem --- , Tunisia Mounir Louhaichi --- , Tunisia Azaiez Ouled Belgacem --- , Saudi Arabia Mohamed Neffati --- , TunisiaLong-term protection of arid ecosystems changes the vegetation and soil structures. The quantification of aboveground biomass and carbon content are among the principal indicators to evaluate these changes. Most methods used to quantify these parameters are costly, time consuming and... -
Distribution and breeding numbers of a recently split species, the West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Jan Veen --- Wenum-Wiesel, The Netherlands Ahmed Amarejeyat --- Scientific Institute, Mohammed V University, Morocco Mohamed Aziz el Agbani --- Scientific Institute, Mohammed V University, Morocco Mohamed Camara --- Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania Hanneke Dallmeijer --- Wenum-Wiesel, The Netherlands Yelli Diawara --- Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania Moussa Sega Diop --- , Senegal Abdou Diouf --- , Senegal Eelke Folmer --- , The Netherlands Nicolas Gomis --- , Senegal Valentin Mansali --- , Senegal Hamilton Monteira --- , Guinea Bissau Moussa Samb --- , Senegal Lamin Manneh --- , The Gambia Effoleming Manga --- , Senegal Thor Veen --- Quest University Canada, Canada Wim C Mullié --- , SenegalThis study investigated the distribution, numbers and conservation threats of the West African Crested Tern, which was recently elevated to full species after it was split from the Royal Tern with an American and African subspecies. In the period 1998–2019,... -
A Big Data strategy to reinforce self-sustainability for pharmaceutical companies in the digital transformation era: A case study of Egyptian pharmaceutical companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mahmoud Elsayed Hassanin --- Ahram Canadian University, Egypt Mohamed Ahmed Hamada --- International IT University, KazakhstanThe Big Data-driven economy has emerged, and data is known as the new petroleum of the current century. Big Data (BD) analytics can play an essential role in building a self-sustainable competitive advantage for the pharmaceutical industry by feeding pharmaceutical... -
Genotypic variability in nutrient uptake and use efficiency in chickpea grown under low phosphorus availability in a Mediterranean climate
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Hanine Loucif --- Université Djilali Bounaama de Khemis Miliana, Algeria Brahim Bousalhih --- Université Djilali Bounaama de Khemis Miliana, Algeria Rebiha Chaoui --- Université Djilali Bounaama de Khemis Miliana, Algeria Jean Jacques Drevon --- Université de Montpellier, France Mohamed Farissi --- Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco Mohamed Lazali --- Université Djilali Bounaama de Khemis Miliana, AlgeriaLow phosphorus (P) availability is a major constraint for chickpea production. Consequently, P-efficient genotypes can improve productivity under conditions where the higher application of P is not economical. This study was conducted to characterise four chickpea genotypes for nutrient uptake... -
Compassion or condemnation? South African Muslim students' attitudes to people with HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Zubeda Paruk --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Sitti Djamela Mohamed --- Health Promotion, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Cynthia Patel --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College Campus), Sarojini Ramgoon --- School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College Campus),Given the dearth of literature on the influence of religiosity on attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS, the present study surveyed these variables in a sample of South African Muslim university students using the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) and an attitude... -
The social and clinical characteristics of patients on antiretroviral therapy who are ‘lost to follow-up’ in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a prospective study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Shandir Ramlagan --- University of Natal, Mohamed Salim Khan --- Ladysmith Provincial Hospital, South Africa Bernhard Gaede --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,A significant proportion of those initiating antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV infection are lost to follow-up. Causes (including HIV symptoms, quality of life, depression, herbal treatment and alcohol use) for discontinuing ART follow-up in predominantly rural resource-limited settings are not... -
Further investigations on the two variables second Appell hypergeometric matrix function
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Abdalla --- College of Science, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Hala Abd-Elmageed --- South Valley University, Egypt Mahmoud Abul-Ez --- Sohag University, Egypt Mohra Zayed --- College of Science, King Khalid University, Saudi ArabiaOver the last two decades, special matrix functions have become a major area of study for mathematicians and physicists. The famous four Appell hypergeometric matrix functions have received considerable attention by many authors from different points of view. The present... -
Reproduction of the Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus at the El Maleh Dam reservoir in north-western Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Abdeslam Rihane --- , Morocco Abdelmottalib Nahli --- Hassan II Université Casablanca, Morocco Rhimou El Hamoumi --- Hassan II Université Casablanca, Morocco Mohamed Chlaida --- Hassan II Université Casablanca, MoroccoThe reproduction of the Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus in submerged and dried up thickets of French tamarisk Tamarix gallica at El Maleh Dam reservoir, Benslimane Province, Morocco, was studied through monitoring nests in three successive years (2017–2019). Systematic field... -
A strong law of large numbers for non identically distributed Pettis integrable random sets in a general Banach space
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: M. El Allali --- University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, FSTF, Morocco F. Ezzaki --- University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, FSTF, MoroccoA multivalued version of Cesàro mean convergence theorem is established. As a consequence, various convergence results of strong law of large numbers for pairwise independent Pettis integrable random sets in a Banach space without any additional geometric condition on the... -
Water quality profile and metal pollution indices of the main stream of the Nile River in Egypt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Manar M Hussein --- National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt Mohamed E Goher --- National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt Ahmed H Mangood --- Menofia University, Egypt Ibrahim E Mousa --- University of Sadat City, EgyptThe lower Nile River is a vital drinking and irrigation water source in Egypt. Human activities adjacent to rivers deteriorate the quality of such water resources. The water quality profiles of 23 sites along the Nile were calculated in accordance... -
On common index divisor and monogenity of certain number fields defined by trinomials X 6 + AX + B
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Lhoussain El Fadil --- Sidi mohamed ben Abdellah University, MoroccoFor a number field K defined by a trinomial F (x) = x 6 + ax + b ∈ ℤ[x], Jakhar and Kumar gave some necessary conditions on a and b, which guarantee the non-monogenity of K [25]. In this... -
Chernoff’s inequality in Riesz spaces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Amine Ben Amor --- Tunis-El Manar University, Tunisia Amal Omrani --- Tunis-El Manar University, TunisiaIn this work, we will generalize the moment generating function to Riesz spaces. We will derive some of its properties and use it to prove Chernoff’s inequality inn Riesz spaces. -
Opening keynote address from the 2023 AFAM Conference: Sustainability and Green Management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Mohamed AbdelKarim [cor1] -
Rainfed-based production of Megathyrsus maximus in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of the semi-arid environment of Sudan
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Hussein I Mohamed --- , Sudan Shamseddin M Ahmed --- Water Management and Irrigation Institute, University of Gezira, Sudan Adil D Mohamed --- Water Management and Irrigation Institute, University of Gezira, SudanThe performance of rainfed-based Megathyrsus maximus (syn. Urochloa maxima and Panicum maximum) was investigated in the semi-arid pastures of Sudan. Split-plot complete design experiments with three replications were applied for two consecutive seasons (2020–2021). The treatments were two in situ... -
On the index divisors and monogenity of number fields defined by x 5 + ax 3 + b
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Lhoussain El Fadil --- Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, MoroccoThe main goal of this paper is to provide a complete answer to the Problem 22 of Narkiewicz[24] for any quintic number field K generated by a complex root α of a monic irreducible trinomial F(x) = x 5 +... -
Breeding ecology of the Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor (Glareolidae) on semi-arid grazing land in Souss-Massa National Park, southwestern Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Yassine Teyar --- Ibn Zohr University, Morocco Dimitri Giunchi --- University of Pisa, Italy Mohamed El Bekkay --- , Morocco Widade Oubrou --- , Morocco Mohammed Znari --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Mohamed Aourir --- Ibn Zohr University, MoroccoThis study presents the first data on the breeding ecology of the Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor (family Glareolidae) in a grazed semi-arid steppe in southwestern Morocco. The egg-laying occurred between early May and July, with most nests found between May... -
The effect of phonetic harmony in causative morphemes in Kiswahili
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Hossam Mohamed Ramadan --- Institute of African Researches and Studies, Aswan University, EgyptThis article focuses on the causative morpheme in Kiswahili. It notes that the causative morpheme has many allomorphs. The study explains the relationship between the verb root and the causative form. It also clarifies phonetic harmony through the effect of... -
A note on partial-A-isometries and some applications
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Amine Aouichaoui --- Institute of Preparatory Studies in Engineering of Monastir Tunisia, University of Monastir, TunisiaIn this paper, the concepts of partial isometry and A-isometry are generalized. The inspiration for our investigation comes from [4, 10, 20, 27, 28, 29]. -
When every regular ideal is S-finite
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Chhiti --- University S.M. Ben Abdellah Fez, Morocco Salah Eddine Mahdou --- University S.M. Ben Abdellah Fez, MoroccoIn this paper, we introduce a new class of ring called regular S-Noetherian ring, which is a weak version of S-Noetherian ring property. Any S-Noetherian ring is naturally a regular S-Noetherian ring, and in the domain context, these two forms... -
“The issues still persist”: a roundtable discussion of perpetual crisis, the massification of grief and joyful black futures
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Lwanda Maqwelane --- Rhodes University, South Africa Abongile Nkamisa --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Candice Sehoma --- , South Africa Kharnita Mohamed --- Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa Gcobani Qambela --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa -
Exponential decay of solutions to an inertial model for a wave equation with viscoelastic damping and time varying delay
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Mohamed Berbiche --- Biskra University, AlgeriaIn the present work, we study the global existence and uniform decay rates of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem related to the dynamic behavior of evolution equations accounting for rotational inertial forces along with a linear time-nonlocal Kelvin-Voigt damping... -
Investigating servant leadership and Ubuntu in Nigerian private sector enterprises: A parallel conceptual analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Chimkwanum Okecha --- University of Westminster, UK Mohamed Branine --- Abertay University, UK Aminu Mamman --- University of Manchester, UKThis paper provides an analysis of the relationship between servant leadership as described in the contemporary literature and Ubuntu, which is generally described as a type of African leadership behavior. Previous studies of leadership and management in African enterprises have... -
Parasitoid guild of the citrus leafminer, Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) in Tunisian citrus orchards and a new report of Cirrospilus ingenuus Gahan (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Dorra Mansour --- University of Sousse, Regional Research Centre on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture at Chott Meriem, Institut Supérieur Agronomique de Chott-Mariem, Tunisia Mohamed Braham --- University of Sousse, Regional Research Centre on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture at Chott Meriem, Institut Supérieur Agronomique de Chott-Mariem, TunisiaA survey of the parasitoid species of the citrus leafminer (CLM), Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), a cosmopolitan pest of citrus, was carried out in 2019 and 2020 in the major citrus production area of Tunisia. Four different Eulophidae species... -
Characterisation, prevalence and antibiogram of Aeromonas hydrophila in turtles: insights into virulence factors, antimicrobial resistance genes and innate immunity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ahmed R. Khafagy --- Suez Canal University, Egypt Atef M. Kamel --- Suez Canal University, Egypt El-sayed N. Abou El Ghait --- National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt Nermeen M. Mohamed --- Cairo University, Egypt Nada H. Eidaroos --- Suez Canal University, Egypt Fatma A. Hagag --- National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt Mohamed Fathi --- National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), EgyptBacterial infection poses a significant threat to the health and survival of turtles, both in their natural habitats and in captivity. Notably, the presence and interactions of bacteria, such as those belonging to the Aeromonas genus, have been identified for... -
Diet of a Maghreb Owl Strix mauritanica individual at Kahf Lakhal cave on Jbel Moussa, northern Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Abdeslam Rihane --- , Morocco Abdelmottalib Nahli --- University of Hassan II Casablanca, Morocco EL-Mustapha Laghzaoui --- , Morocco Youssef Dbiba --- , Morocco Mohamed Radi --- , Morocco Mohamed Dakki --- , Morocco El Hassan El Mouden --- , Morocco Rhimou El Hamoumi --- University of Hassan II Casablanca, MoroccoThe diet of a single Maghreb Owl Strix mauritanica (family Strigidae) was examined within its natural habitat at Kahf Lakhal cave on Jbel Moussa, a mountain in northern Morocco. The two distinct batches of pellets collected contained a total of... -
Validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index in the Arab context: Results and implications of a Moroccan study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Manal Lamouine --- University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Morocco Jennifer A. Bugos --- University of South Florida, United States of America Khadija Ouadi --- University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, MoroccoThe Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) is an extensively used self-report measure of musical skills and behaviours; however, to-date, no validated Arabic translation of the Gold MCI exists. This study reports on the Gold-MSI validation in the Moroccan setting. Our... -
First record of a large breeding colony of the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in mainland Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Mohamed Radi --- , Morocco El-Mustapha Laghzaoui --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Aouissa Salek --- , Morocco Rhimou El Hamoumi --- Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco Mohamed Dakki --- , Morocco Abdeljebbar Qninba --- Scientific Institute, Mohamed V University, Morocco El Hassan El Mouden --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Mohamed Aourir --- Ibn Zohr University, MoroccoA breeding colony of the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus was discovered at the Khenifiss lagoon on the Atlantic coast of southern Morocco. In June 2022, 222 nests were counted and, in 2023, 62 nests were present. Nests were built... -
The factor structure of the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-R-20) among South African antiretroviral therapy users
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mohamed Rawoot --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Ashraf Kagee --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaDepression is a significant concern for people living with HIV and AIDS as it is associated with negative health outcomes and suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). To this extent, screening for depression is essential for early detection. The CESD-R-20... -
An empirical investigation of return spillover and volatility dynamics of Indian sectoral indices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Barkha Dhingra --- Maharshi Dayanand University, India Mohit Saini --- Maharshi Dayanand University, India Mohamed Fakhfekh --- Higher Institute of Business and Administration of Sfax, Tunisia Mahender Yadav --- Maharshi Dayanand University, IndiaThis research delves into the interconnectedness and volatility dynamics within sectoral indices amid the COVID-19 pandemic, to determine the most appropriate model for elucidating these dynamics. It addresses the burgeoning interest among investors in comprehending sectoral dynamics within India’s stock... -
Index characterization and monogenity of septic number fields defined by x 7 + ax 4 + b
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Omar Kchit --- Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, MoroccoIn this paper, we calculate the index of any septic number field K generated by a root α of a monic irreducible trinomial F(x) = x 7 + ax 4 + b ∈ ℤ[x]. Our approach is based on Engstrom’s... -
Multiplicatively maximal numerical range-preserving maps
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Abdellatif Bourhim --- Syracuse University, USA Mohamed Mabrouk --- Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi ArabiaLet be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space . For any operator , let W 0(T) be the maximal numerical range of T. We show that two maps φ 1 and φ 2 from... -
Assessing the adoption potential of online currency exchange systems: A case study of currency dealers in Mogadishu, Somalia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mohamed Ibrahim Nor --- SIMAD University, Somalia Abdifatah Farah Ali --- SIMAD University, SomaliaThis study investigates the readiness of currency dealers in Somalia to adopt online currency exchange systems, addressing the research question: What factors influence the acceptance and adoption of online currency exchange platforms in an unregulated market? Using a quantitative approach,... -
Oxidative biomarkers, trace elements, and other biochemical markers among sickle cell patients receiving omega-3 supplements: case-control study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Afraa Salaheldin Obied --- University of Khartoum, Sudan Sahar Gamil --- Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia Abdelrahim O Mohamed --- Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan -
Impact of financial support on the intensity of innovation practices within SMEs – Case of Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Abdelghani Koura --- University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Morocco Mohamed Oudgou --- University Sultan Moulay Slimane, Morocco Abdeslam Boudhar --- University Sultan Moulay Slimane, MoroccoInnovation is at the heart of economic growth and societal progress. It’s a driving force that keeps businesses competitive and economies thriving. However, Moroccan SMEs often struggle with financial barriers that limit their innovative capabilities. Despite government initiatives offering subsidies... -
Wadi estuary sediments on the Moroccan Mediterranean coast: an assessment of the impact of heavy metals using phytotoxicity and genotoxicity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Nadia Belemlih --- Scientific Institute, Mohammed V University, Morocco Ahmed Khadra --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Mohamed Oubane --- Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Tarik Louzizi --- Ibn Tofail University, Morocco Mohammed Fekhaoui --- Scientific Institute, Mohammed V University, MoroccoTo evaluate the genotoxicity in the Loukkos River estuary, chemical and toxicological analyses were performed on water and sediments collected from six wadis. Heavy metal contents (Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn, Cd, Fe, and Pb), germination tests in lettuce, turnip, and... -
Assessment of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and knowledge gaps among healthcare providers in Egypt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Salma M. A. Mansour --- Egyptian Intellectual Property Authority, Egypt Rahma Mohamed --- Cairo University Hospitals HIV Clinic, Cairo University, Egypt Moses Shongwe --- , United Kingdom Eman Raslan --- , Ahmed Cordie --- Cairo University Hospitals HIV Clinic, Cairo University, Egypt Mohamed AbdAllah --- National Research Center, Egypt Shadw Osama Helal --- Cairo University Hospitals, Egypt Kareem Essam Aiad --- Specialised Medical Centers, Egypt Salma Ghoneim --- Cairo University, Egypt Mohamed Khaled Elshirbeny --- Nasser Institute Hospital for Research and Treatment, Specialised Medical Centers, Egypt Mohamed Gamal Ahmed --- Elsahel Teaching Hospital, Egypt Saeed Soliman --- ,Background: Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV (PLHIV) in healthcare settings are significant barriers to achieving Egypt’s 95–95–95 targets and ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Misconceptions among healthcare professionals (HCPs) can negatively affect testing,... -
Do higher education institutes lay a foundation for sustainability education? Perspectives from tourism and hospitality undergraduates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Janith Iddawala --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Mohamed Shaja Mohamed Musthaffa --- NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka Chandima Gayan Yapa --- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) Business School, Sri LankaEducation for sustainable development has transformed from a discretionary to an essential element of consideration in higher education institutes. Nonetheless, limited attempts have been made to uncover the effectiveness and importance of such efforts in research scholarship, particularly in the... -
Pastoralist knowledge and perceptions on land degradation and forage diversity loss: a case study in the Bordj Bou Arreridj semi-arid region, Algeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Lounis Semara --- Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria Sofiane Bensefia --- Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria Farida Belkasmi --- Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi University of Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria Charefeddine Mouffok --- Ferhat Abbas Setif 1 University, Algeria Abdelaziz Bouzegag --- University Centre of Mila, AlgeriaThis study assessed the level of knowledge and perception of pastoralists in the Bordj Bou Arreridj zone in the semi-arid region of Algeria regarding pastureland degradation and loss of forage species diversity. Through group discussions and field surveys, 100 pastoralists... -
Managing land use transitions to safeguard transhumance corridors in arid eastern Morocco: challenges and adaptive strategies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Imane Hamzaoui --- Hassan II Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine Institute, Morocco Mohamed Chikhaoui --- Hassan II Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine Institute, Morocco Nicolas Faysse --- , France Mohamed Taher Sraïri --- Hassan II Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine Institute, MoroccoThe conversion of rangelands and barren lands into agricultural use destabilises fragile pastoralism. This study examines the drivers and impacts of this transformation on pastoralism in Tinghir province, Morocco, using geospatial analysis, semi-structured interviews with pastoralists, discussions with officials and... -
An infinite family of number fields arising from quadrinomials with given p-indices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Omar Kchit --- Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, MoroccoLet be a number field defined by a monic irreducible quadrinomial , where n > m > 1 are positive integers. In this paper, for any prime number p and for some fixed positive integers ip , we provide infinite... -
Exploring the integration of indigenous languages into teaching and learning practices at primary schools in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mousin Omarsaib --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Muvhulawa Matumba --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Patricia Badenhorst --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Ghulam Masudh Mohamed --- Durban University of Technology, South AfricaThis systematic literature review explores the integration of indigenous languages (ILs) into teaching and learning practices at primary schools in South Africa. The authors examine the current state and preparedness of teachers in integrating ILs to enhance learning. The PRISMA... -
Digital advancement in the East African Community: The impact of information and communications technology on economic growth and energy consumption
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abdikafi Hassan Abdi --- SIMAD University, Somalia Abdikarim Abdullahi Hersi --- SIMAD University, Somalia Abdiwahid Abdullahi Khalif --- SIMAD University, Somalia Mohamed Mire Mohamed --- SIMAD University, SomaliaAs the East African Community (EAC) modernizes and grows its digital infrastructure, it is essential to comprehend the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) on productivity and energy consumption to formulate initiatives that foster sustainable growth. Accordingly, this study... -
Life-history traits of the false jacopever Sebastes capensis (Scorpaenidae: Sebastinae) in South African waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Mohamed --- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa CG Attwood --- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South AfricaThe genus Sebastes (rockfishes) of family Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes) contains over 110 species, of which the false jacopever Sebastes capensis is the only one found in South African waters. Although it is a commonly caught linefish along the west coast of...
