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Matabaro Joseph Malekera, Damas Mamba Mamba, Gauthier Bope Bushabu, Justin Cishugi Murhula, Hwal-Su Hwang and Kyeong-Yeoll Lee
In 2016, the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, invaded western Africa and rapidly spread in sub-Saharan Africa, causing significant losses in yields of corn, a major food crop in Africa. Although the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a ...
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Pierre-Andre Mans, Parimalaranie Yogeswaran and Oladele Vincent Adeniyi
Background: Despite the widespread availability of ultrasound machines in South African district hospitals, there are no guidelines on the competency in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) use required by generalist doctors in this setting. This study aimed...
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Allan K. Nkwata, Ming Zhang, Xiao Song, Bruno Giordani and Amara E. Ezeamama
Background: Toxic stress (TS), resiliency-promoting factors (RPFs) and their interactions were investigated in relationship to incident dementia in a nationally representative sample (n = 6516) of American adults =50 years enrolled in the Health and Reti...
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Shervin Assari, James Smith, Ritesh Mistry, Mehdi Farokhnia and Mohsen Bazargan
Purpose. This study investigated the effects of objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) indicators on two health behaviors, cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking, among African American older adults. Methods. This community-based study recru...
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Khayen Prentice,László Kónya,David Prentice
The question of why the Great Migration from the South did not begin before the 1910s remains open. The empirical significance of laws outlawing emigrant agents, who could have helped African Americans migrate, has not previously been considered. We anal...
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XiaoHang Liu and Alexis Martinez
Areal interpolation is routinely used when spatial data are unavailable at desired geographical units. While many methods are available, few of them were developed specifically for and tested in highly developed urban cores. Even fewer studied subpopulat...
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William Renda and Charlie H. Zhang
Gunshot detection technology (GDT) has been increasingly adopted by law enforcement agencies to tackle the problem of underreporting of crime via 911 calls for service, which undoubtedly affects the quality of crime mapping and spatial analysis. This art...
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Alana Smith, Gregory A. Vidal, Elizabeth Pritchard, Ryan Blue, Michelle Y. Martin, LaShanta J. Rice, Gwendolynn Brown and Athena Starlard-Davenport
African American women are substantially underrepresented in breast cancer genetic research studies and clinical trials, yet they are more likely to die from breast cancer. Lack of trust in the medical community is a major barrier preventing the successf...
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Zachary W. Taylor
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Although there is a wealth of research to support the notion that the American professoriate is not as racially and ethnically diverse as it could and should be, very little research has focused on the particular academic backgrounds of Higher Education ...
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Jessica Crowe, Constance Lacy and Yolanda Columbus
By analyzing data from focus groups in a poor, mostly African American neighborhood in a large U.S. city, we describe how residents in urban food deserts access food, the barriers they experience in accessing nutritious, affordable food, and how communit...
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