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Investigating Disparities in Access and Returns to Endowments between Male and Female Headed Households in Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Boniface Ngah Epo --- Department of Economics and Management, Yaoundé Francis Menjo Baye --- Department of Economics and Management, Yaoundé Nadine Teme Angele Manga --- Department of Economics and Management, YaoundéThis paper investigates disparities in access and returns to endowments between male and female headed households in Cameroon using the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition and the 2007 Cameroon Household Consumption Survey. In particular, synthetic variables for education and health constructed by the... -
Uptake of voluntary counselling and testing for HIV by pregnant women in a prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission programme at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: HadizaS Galadanci Zubairu Iliyasu Jamilu Tukur Mariya Muktar-Yola SolomonI AdelekeMother-to-child transmission is the main mode of HIV infection among children in developing countries. In 2003, as a result of government policy, a prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) programme was introduced at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. The aim of this study... -
Reproduction in the viviparous South African clinid fish Fucomimus mus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: HG MoserDescription of the reproductive anatomy, histology and seasonality of reproduction of the viviparous clinid fish, Fucomimus mus, was based on a collection of 227 specimens from various intertidal localities off the south-east coast of South Africa. Males produce sperm throughout... -
Comparative embryogenesis of Australian and South African viviparous clinid fishes (Blennioidei, Teleostei)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L Fishelson --- Department of Zoology, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Israel O Gon --- , South AfricaThe study follows the embryogenesis of 16 species of viviparous clinid fishes (Clinidae, Teleostei), from the Cape south coast of South Africa and from Australia, with comparative remarks on the development of juveniles in oviparous species. The sperm intromitted into... -
Hotel rate parity in the focus: Is there a need for change in the relationship between hotels in Berlin and their wholesale partners?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Bastian Rashek --- School of Hospitality Management, The Netherlands Radu Mihailescu --- School of Hospitality Management, The NetherlandsRecent developments in revenue management at hotels in Berlin have brought a lot of challenges in upholding rate parity, particularly in the wholesale segment. Little research has been done on this topic, especially with regard to the advantages and disadvantages... -
Prevalence and predictors of Implanon uptake in Ugu (Ugu North Sub District) 2016/17
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Anudha Moodley --- Discipline of Public Health Medicine, South Africa Ozayr Mahomed --- Discipline of Public Health Medicine, South AfricaBackground: The contraceptive implant (Implanon) has been recognised as one of the most effective family planning methods and is a healthier choice for women in Africa due to its efficacy and convenience. Despite the evidence of effectiveness and safety of... -
Assessing multiple mating and reproductive skew in three species of clinid fishes (Blenniiformes: Clinidae: Clinini), in reference to multiple mating in viviparous teleosts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MJ Scheepers --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa G Gouws --- National Research Foundation–South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (NRF–SAIAB), South AfricaThis study investigated multiple mating in three species of intertidal klipfishes (family Clinidae): super klipfish Clinus superciliosus, bluntnose klipfish Clinus cottoides, and nosestripe klipfish Muraenoclinus dorsalis. These species display the rare reproductive mode of female vivipary with superfetation, a phenomenon... -
All washed up: spatial and temporal variation in the wash-up and fate of chondrichthyan egg cases along a section of the Garden Route, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: S Schmöle --- , The Netherlands M Brown --- , South Africa M Witteveen --- , South AfricaWashed-up chondrichthyan egg cases were collected along three different sandy beaches around Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, between April 2016 and March 2017. GPS location was recorded upon collection, and, after being soaked in fresh water for 12 hours, egg cases... -
Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927 (Reptilia: Lacertidae) is live bearing: the only viviparous African lacertid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Gary K Nicolau --- Rhodes University, South Africa Emily A Jackson --- Rhodes University, South Africa Adriaan Jordaan --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaViviparity has evolved independently multiple times within squamate reptiles. In the Lacertidae, two genera and several species from the Northern Hemisphere are known to be viviparous. However, although viviparity is present in many African reptiles, all African lacertids were considered... -
Phylogenetic relationships of African caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): Insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- The Natural History Museum, UK DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK JonathanA. Sheps --- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK BernardL. Cohen --- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UKAfrica (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies have not included any caecilians from the African mainland. Partial 12S and 16S... -
A visceral synapomorphy of Scolecomorphus Boulenger, 1883 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UK DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- University of Basel, Switzerland Hendrik Müller --- Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, GermanyWe describe the distinctive but previously overlooked shape and position of the fat bodies of some scolecomorphid caecilians. Anteriorly positioned, finger-like fat bodies projecting into the coelom from narrow bases in the genital mesenteries are found in both sexes of... -
New parity results for 3-regular partitions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Olivia X.M. Yao --- Suzhou University of Science and Technology, P.R. ChinaLet bt (n) count the number of t-regular partitions of n. In recent years, congruence properties of bt (n) have received a lot of attention and a number of infinite families of congruences modulo 2 for bt (n) have been... -
Gender disparity in livelihood diversification among rural households in Osogbo Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) Zone of Osun State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olaide K. Akintunde --- , Nigeria Khadijat O. Olanrewaju --- , Nigeria Timothy O. Agboola --- , Nigeria Ahmed O. Busari --- , NigeriaLivelihood diversification is a coping strategy that functions as a cushioning effect owing to dwindling income from agriculture. This study examined the significant differences in income between males and females before and after livelihood diversification. The multi-stage sampling procedure was... -
Congruences modulo powers of 5 for the crank parity function
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Dazhao Tang --- Chongqing Normal University, P.R. ChinaIn 1988, Andrews and Garvan introduced the partition statistic “crank” in order to give combinatorial interpretation for Ramanujan’s celebrated partition congruence modulo 11. In 2009, Choi, Kang and Lovejoy established congruences modulo powers of 5 for the crank parity function... -
Climate adaptation, geopolitics, and structural exclusion in South African agriculture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Michael J Savage --- South African Journal of Plant and Soil,Southern African agriculture stands at a critical intersection of accelerating climate risk and entrenched structural inequality. While climate change increasingly shapes global research and policy agendas, other intersecting forces—such as the divide between large-scale commercial agriculture and smallholder farming, the... -
Buried voices, hidden languages: The (in)visibility of indigenous South African languages in the South African Journal of African Languages (SAJAL) from 1994 to 2023
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mlamli Diko --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThe South African Journal of African Languages was officially established in 1981 to advance the visibility and intellectualisation of indigenous South African languages as outlined in its aims and scope. Regrettably, greatly entrenched imperialist ideologies obstruct these languages’ comprehensive visibility... -
Optimizing real-time stereo image retargeting for AR/VR: Lightweight disparity CNNs on AI-Driven edge architectures
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mahendra T. Jagtap --- University of South Florida, Muma College of Business (Sarasota-Manatee Campus), USA Bhuvan Unhelkar --- University of South Florida, USA Pravin R. Kshirsagar --- JD College of Engineering and Management, India Nitin Rakesh --- Symbiosis Institute of Technology, India R. Thiagarajan --- VelTech multiTech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College, India Vishal Patil --- Loknete Gopinathji Munde Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik and SPPU, IndiaReal-time stereo image retargeting for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) necessitates precise per-pixel depth estimation and ultra-low latency performance on resource-limited edge devices. Current disparity convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and retargeting pipelines are unable to meet these demanding...