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Journal articles on the topic "Malawi handle"
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Van Pelt, Inger Sofie, and Anne Ryen. "Self-efficacy in protecting oneself against HIV transmission." Journal of Comparative Social Work 10, no. 2 (2015): 138–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v10i2.130.
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This article deals with the complexity of health behaviour from a self-efficacy perspective, and shows the naivety in assuming knowledge as the main guide to better protection against HIV. The authors accentuate the importance of local knowledge when developing health strategies as in the case of protection against HIV, in this case for female university students in Malawi. Being part of a transition period, these students have to handle complex and at times opposing expectations. This makes HIV protection into a complex social- and health issue. However, the close association between universities and rational thinking has for long made public health see self-efficacy as one of the main determinants in general health behaviour. By seeing health behaviour as complex, this study explores into how female university students perceive their own self-efficacy in protecting themselves against HIV in Malawi with a HIV score of approximately 12%. The study is based on data from Chancellor College in Zomba, Malawi. The authors point to the potential of a closer collaboration between social work and public health in issues of both a social and a health nature, as in the case of HIV protection.
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Tembo, Memory Jayne, and Siv Oltedal. "Social work and families in child welfare in Malawi." Journal of Comparative Social Work 10, no. 1 (2015): 50–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v10i1.122.
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This article discusses professional discretion in relation to placing a child outside the family, as understood by Malawian social workers. The article is a product of an exploratory study covering different aspects of social work practice with children and families in Malawi. It is based on focus group discussions with practicing social workers that were conducted using a vignette. This article describes how social workers handle child protection cases, in which a child has to be placed outside the home or family. The article points out different solutions and the reasoning behind certain decisions on placing children outside their home. The study explores issues of patriarchy, intervention methods into families and the cooperation between social workers, community members and other professionals when helping families. The study found that a number of different factors affect the decision of placing a child outside the home. Social workers in this study put an emphasis on the importance of helping children within the immediate- and extended family to help cope with the lack of financial resources that would provide alternative options.
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de Thézy, Albane, Baptiste Caparros, and Tristan Cudennec. "27. Lève-malade et chirurgie de hanche." Soins Gérontologie 22, no. 125 (2017): 45–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sger.2017.03.010.
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Clapuyt, P. "La hanche douloureuse : maladie de legg-perthes-calve." Journal de Radiologie 86, no. 10 (2005): 1269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0221-0363(05)75250-1.
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Dharap, A. S., S. L. Varma, and T. V. R. Chary. "Hair distribution on the phalanges of the hands in Malays." Anthropologischer Anzeiger 52, no. 4 (1994): 315–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/52/1994/315.
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Oremus, Mark, Ronald Postuma, Lauren Griffith, et al. "Validating Chronic Disease Ascertainment Algorithms for Use in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging*." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 32, no. 3 (2013): 232–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980813000275.
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RÉSUMÉNous avons validé sept algorithmes d’évaluation de maladie chronique pour l’usage dans L’Étude longitudinale canadienne (ÉLCV) sur le vieillissement. Les algorithmes ont concerné le diabète type 2, parkinsonisme, obstruction chronique de flux d’air, ostéoarthrite de main, ostéoarthrite de hanche, ostéoarthrite de genou, et la maladie cardiaque ischémique. Notre recrutement de cible était 20 cas et contrôles par chaque maladie. Quelques cas ont été utilisés comme contrôles avec certaines maladies. Tous les participants ont répondu à des questionnaires au sujet des symptômes de la maladie et d’utilisation de médicaments. Les cas et les contrôles de diabète ont subi le test de jeûne de glucose et les cas et les contrôles de l’obstruction chronique de flux d’air ont subi le test de spirométrie. Pour chaque maladie, nous avons utilisé l’algorithme adapté pour classifier si les participants étaient positifs ou négatif pour la maladie. Nous avons également calculé la sensibilité et la spécificité utilisant le diagnostic de médecin comme norme. L’échantillon final a fait participer 176 participants, qui ont été recrutés dans trois villes canadiennes entre 2009 et 2011. La plupart des sensibilités et spécificités étaient 80% ou plus, indiquant que les sept algorithmes peuvent correctement identifier des personnes avec les maladies.
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Griffet, Jacques. "La maladie de Legg-Perthes-Calvé (ostéochondrite primitive de la hanche)." Revue de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Réparatrice de l'Appareil Moteur 93, no. 7 (2007): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0035-1040(07)79369-8.
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Langlais, T., J. C. Leonard, C. Ursu, and C. Morin. "Dysplasie de hanche de l’adolescent et maladie de Charcot-Marie-Tooth." Archives de Pédiatrie 24, no. 7 (2017): 675–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcped.2017.04.014.
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van Donge, Jan Kees, and Athumani J. Liviga. "Tanzanian Political Culture and the Cabinet." Journal of Modern African Studies 24, no. 4 (1986): 619–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00007230.
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THIS article aims to clarify the national political culture of Tanzania through an analysis of one important institution — the Cabinet. Although attention to the norms and rules that regulate political behaviour in formal and informal ways can reveal insights that are not disclosed by other approaches, political culture has been a neglected field in the study of African politics.By way of contrast, class analysis has been a popular approach to African politics in past decades.1 It has been shown, for instance, that those in government positions siphon off surplus from the peasantry through the marketing of agricultural produce. This has happended in countries as diverse as Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Malawi, and Tanzania, 2 where there are enormous differences in economic performance, as well as with respect to the way in which political conflicts are handled. People n similar class positions can act in a variety of ways – this is a matter of culture – because there is more than one possible logic with which to perceive and defend interests.
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Roitg, I., S. Borg, B. Jamard, et al. "Algodystrophie de hanche à bascule chez un patient atteint d'une maladie de Lobstein." Revue du Rhumatisme 73, no. 10-11 (2006): 1151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rhum.2006.10.343.
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Goliati, Tiyamike Harold. "Desafios dos profissionais de saúde do Malaui sob a política neoliberl = migração e falta de enfermeiros no setor público de saúde do Malaui 1993-2008." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285958.
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Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: A falta de enfermeiras do setor público de saúde de Malaui está afetando a habilidade das enfermeiras remanescentes para executarem seus deveres eficientemente. Essa escassez tem sido exacerbada pela existência de migração de enfermeiras e outros profissionais ligados à saúde. A deterioração do setor público de saúde combinada ao ambiente pobre de trabalho e salários reais em queda repele a migração de enfermeiras do setor público de saúde do país para organizações privadas e países desenvolvidos ao perceberem que têm uma boa remuneração e um ambiente de trabalho ideal para seus funcionários. A implementação de políticas neoliberais no país contribuiu com o declínio dos gastos sociais com a saúde e com outros serviços sociais que tem uma implicação direta no desenvolvimento social. Metodologia: A pesquisa visou entender a migração e a falta de enfermeiras no setor público de saúde no contexto de desafios contemporâneos para os profissionais de saúde em Malaui sob as políticas neoliberais. Ele empregou uma abordagem mista de desenho. Os dados foram analisados usando o pacote de estatísticas para ciências sociais (SPSS) versão 15.0 para Windows. Dados qualitativos foram feitos por análise de conteúdo e então, analisados posteriormente pelo SPSS. Resultados: As enfermeiras de Malaui encontram desafios multilaterais. Eles incluem baixos salários, baixos benefícios de aposentadoria, acomodação inadequada, nenhum acesso aos empréstimos do governo para enfermeiras de cabeceira, recursos/enfermeiras insuficientes, a sobrecarga de trabalho, as condições precárias de trabalho, as escassas oportunidades de treinamento, ambiente inseguro de trabalho. Conclusão: A situação, no entanto, está mudando lentamente devido ao crescente comprometimento do governo com relação ao setor de saúde, juntamente com medidas Keynesianas na economia. O desgaste das enfermeiras tem estado sob uma tendência descendente; as saídas de enfermeiras de instituições de treinamento têm aumentado; indicadores econômicos e sociais têm sido positivos; e o pacote de remuneração, as condições de trabalho e o ambiente de trabalho têm melhorado. Salários em termos reais têm subido em uma tentativa de reverter os salários reais em queda que balançaram o Mercado de trabalho desde que as políticas neoliberais encontraram seu espaço na política de Malaui<br>Abstract: Shortage of nurses in Malawian public health sector is affecting the ability of the remaining nurses to discharge their duties effectively. This scarcity has been exacerbated by existence of migration of nurses and other health-care personnel. Deterioration of the public health sector combined with the poor working environment and decreasing real wages repel the out-migration of nurses from the country?s public health sector to private organisations and developed countries perceived to have good remuneration package and ideal working environment for their employees. The implementation of neoliberal policies in the country contributed to decreasing social spending for health and other social services that have a direct implication on social development. Methodology: The research was aimed at understanding the migration and shortage of nurses in the public health sector in the context of contemporary challenges for health-care professionals in Malawi under neoliberal policies. It employed a mixed design approach. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 15.0 for Windows. Qualitative data were done by content analysis and then analysed further by SPSS. Results: Malawian nurses face multilayered challenges. These include, low salaries, low retirement benefits, Inadequate accommodation, No access to Government loans for bedside nurses, insufficient resources/nurses, Work overload, Poor working conditions, scarce training opportunities, unsafe working environment. Conclusion: the situation, however, is slightly changing due to increased government commitment towards health sector coupled with Keynesian measures in the economy. Nurses? attrition has been on a downward trend; outputs of nurses from training institutions have been rising; social and economic indicators have been positive; and remuneration package, working conditions and working environment have been improving. Salaries in real terms have been rising in an attempt to reverse the decreasing real wages that rocked the labour market since neoliberal policies found its space in the Malawian policymaking<br>Mestrado<br>Economia Social e do Trabalho<br>Mestre em Desenvolvimento Econômico
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Fisher, Sarah Marie. "The Design and Evaluation of a Durable and Cost-Effective Handle for the LifePump™." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu155537322622029.
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McNamee, Cameron. "The hunger trap ganyu labor and agricultural output in Malawi /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4263.
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Thorold, Alan Peter Hereward. "The Yao Muslims : religion and social change in southern Malawi." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/226813.
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The African Muslim minority in Malawi has been identified with one particular linguistic group, the Yao. The dissertation begins with the problem of their conversion and adherence to Islam in the face of seemingly adverse circumstances. In exploring-solutions to this problem the emergence of a Yao identity is outlined and the politics of conversion are described. The narrative then moves on to the transformations of the Yao Muslims in the hundred years since their conversion. A model of religious change is developed that attempts to account for both the dynamics of change and the contemporary situation of Islam in southern Malawi. The Yao Muslims are shown to be divided into three competing and sometimes hostile factions that are termed the Sufis, the sukuti or 'quietist' movement and the new reformists. The appearance of these movements and their interaction with one another is described in relation to the questions of identity and religious practice. The model proposes a three phase scheme of Islamic change (appropriation and accommodation followed by internal reform and then the new reformist movement) that is defined in part by the relationship of the Yao Muslims to writing and the Book. It is suggested that a certain logic of transformation is endogenous to Islam as a religion of the Book and that the scripturalist tendencies of the reformist movement give it an advantage over the followers of Sufi practices, especially in the context of modern systems of communication and education. The general approach is that of an historical anthropology, linking notions of structured change to anthropological concerns with ritual and practice. The analysis concludes by raising questions about the nature of religious change in the context of an increasingly volatile world system and the place of the anthropology of religion in the understanding of modernity.
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Quinn, Ann-Lise. "Working on the Protestant ethic : life in a Presbyterian community in Malawi." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272568.
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Kamwamba-Mtethiwa, Jean Tiyamika. "Sustainable irrigation development : the adoption of small-scale pumped irrigation in Malawi." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2016. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10005.
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There has been an increased interest on small-scale pumped irrigation (SSPI) in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), however little is known on the adoption processes behind this technology. Moreover, the conditions for successful SSPI adoption remain largely unexplored. This research aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the present adoption processes to inform future policy. The thesis was framed around the diffusion of innovations model (Rogers 2003), using the systematic review methodology and field surveys. Interviews involving 212 farmers and 25 other stakeholders were conducted between 2013 and 2014 within 3 districts in Malawi. The responses were analysed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. The systematic review revealed that evidence relating to pump performance in SSA was limited, lacked standards and confined within particular regions. The field surveys identified that four different pumped systems have been adopted by farmers in Malawi; group treadle, individual treadle, group motorized and individual motorized. Farmers generally prefer individually managed pumps that are easy to operate and fit in with their existing farming practices. Adoption is driven either by the attributes of self-motivated farmers or by incentives such as free or subsidized pumps. While adoption by self-motivated farmers is consistent with Rogers (2003) model, adoption due to incentives shows differences. The research proposes a modification to the Rogers (2003) model and revised definition of success in SSPI adoption, leading to a new framework showing pathways of success. This framework identifies the routes taken by farmers who successfully adopt or discontinue using pumps. Incentive farmers are typically the poorer; these need continued external support to survive the learning curve. For self-motivated farmers, their higher socio-economic status supports successful adoption. To ensure sustainability, SSPI promoters need to offer continued support to incentive farmers and/or reduce barriers to accessing the pumps for self-motivated farmers.
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Chidanti-Malunga, Joseph Fred. "Wetland farming and small-scale informal irrigation in Malawi : the case of Shire Valley." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2009. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/4457.
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Historically, Malawi has depended on rain-fed agricultural systems. It is reported that the frequent droughts and unreliable rainfall since early 1990s have caused many small-scale farmers to turn to the wetlands as alternative sites for crop production. There they use low-cost farming methods and various forms of ‘informal’ irrigation. This study, to better understand the water management practices and the socioeconomic characteristics of the wetland farmers, was carried out in the Shire Valley, at the southern tip of Malawi. This covers about 600,000ha and supports around 250,000 farming families. More than half is wetland, characterized by a network of small streams, rivers, and swamps, and a mosaic of many very small farms separated by bush. Phase I mainly documented the agriculture technologies and socioeconomic characteristics of wetland farming and small-scale informal irrigation systems. 200 farmers and other key informants were interviewed. Phase II aimed to define and measure the benefits of the current systems. The major farming systems groups were identified using cluster analysis and focus group discussions were carried out with 7 to 10 members of each. The results were assessed using gross margin analysis. The results show that flood recession agriculture, river diversion and treadle pumps were the commonest water management technologies among the farmers interviewed. Most preferred flood recession and river diversion to treadle pump, citing capital requirements and running costs as major obstacles. However, the government and NGOs were promoting treadle pump technology (mostly) and river diversion, but not recession agriculture. Motorized pumps, introduced under various schemes, were no longer in use due to farmers’ inability to meet fuel costs and repairs. Farmer access to land was largely under the control of individual farmers who pass on ownership to their children under traditional custom. This finding is contrary to the documented land policy which describes chiefs as custodians of the land. Many farmers viewed group farming as a surrender of their land ownership rights. However, team work was seen to be common in river diversion technologies where a committee was usually chosen to manage a main canal traversing several farms. Even under these circumstances, farmers still preferred to manage their plots individually. The economic analysis showed low farmer-benefits, except where flood recession agriculture was used to grow sweet potatoes, although this receives no attention from government or NGOs. Among the problems were the farmers’ inability to afford inputs, promotion of unsuitable technologies, and government controlled market prices. The study found that the increased wetland use was partly a livelihood diversification strategy linked to droughts and the worsening of the economic situations caused by structural adjustments in the early 1990s. This study encourages government or NGOs to promote the technologies that are acceptable to the farmers and seen to benefit them under the local socioeconomic conditions. Locally, these include flood recession agriculture and small river diversions. Reducing production costs and increasing yields through more efficient water use and improved extension services should be encouraged, and subsidizing input costs and freeing market prices would also help.
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Ahn, Tyler. "Children of Malawi the impact of agricultural technology on educational attainment and child labor hours /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4174.
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Putter, C. "Unfolding tragedies : the impact of a mother's death on her kin and community : an ethnography from Southern Malawi." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2003. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7474.
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In examining the specific impact of a mother's death on her surviving family and community, the thesis highlights the social devastation resulting from such an event. Crucially, it argues that the increased frequency of maternal death associated with the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the associated increase in numbers of orphaned children, have the potential to provoke full-scale destruction of traditional kinship structures and coping mechanisms. The study contributes to a gendered study of death and the resultant coping mechanisms as well as emphasizing the importance of sibling bonds in Malawian kinship. Furthermore, it provides an analysis of the current trends relating to orphan care, and suggests how these goals could be improved within the specific cultural context. The findings are based on 14 months of in situ fieldwork, during which time a totla of 78 interviews were conducted with 66 individuals, 46 of whom are case studies. Further interviews were conducted with hospital personnel, workers with orphans, and teachers, i.e. those in positions to provide social commentary. Nudist N4 software was used for data management of the interview transcripts and fieldnotes, and facilitated access to the coded data as analysis proceeded. An historical understanding of Malawi's cultural context is outlined in the introductory chapter and the entire discussion is grounded within this context. More detailed anthropological data is provided in the chapter on kinship, which emphasizes the importance of maternal kin in looking after orphans subsequent to a mother's death. Chapters on HIV and death outline how communities are besieged by illnesses surrounding HIV-infection, and how the increased death rates associated with HIV have undermined the traditional bereavement processes, and, hence, the associated coping mechanisms. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the kinds of orphan care currently available in Malawi, followed by recommendations on how the needs of orphans could better be met by development initiatives that are more suited to working with community-based organizations.
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Marandet, Elodie. "Governing through freedom, ruling at a distance : neoliberal governmentality and the new aid architecture in the AIDS response in Malawi." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7657.
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In this thesis, I critically analyse power relations between donors and the government of Malawi (GoM) under the new aid architecture and argue that this new configuration represents a shift away from domination, with donors attempting to impose policies, and towards more subtle interactions, through which donors seek to transform the GoM into a self-disciplined, entrepreneurial, neoliberal subject by shaping its aspirations and promoting specific norms of conduct, ‘truths’ and policy-related techniques. The research focuses on funding for AIDS and draws on forty interviews with representatives from the GoM, donors and civil society, conducted in Malawi 2008, as well as discursive analysis of secondary sources. I use Foucault’s concept of governmentality, a form of productive power focused on the care of the population and working through individuals’ subjectivities, and extend it to the relation between donors and the GoM. I show that the agency of the GoM is both elicited by the principle of country ownership, and re-worked through the increased involvement of donors in the policy sphere. I explore how these interactions are legitimised by a discourse that presents donors and the GoM as equals, while casting the GoM as technically deficient and requiring donors’ intervention. I analyse how donors instrumentalise dialogue with the GoM to instil an ethos of self-responsibility.I also investigate how AIDS funding has been made reliant on public financial management reforms, which re-code social domains according to an economic logic, by subordinating government activities to macroeconomic imperatives and creating new undemocratic accountabilities based on market rationalities. I argue that by restructuring the GoM according to this neoliberal rationality, the new aid architecture has programmatic effects, allowing donors to rule at a distance. I also examine avenues for resistance, particularly the potential residing in the intrinsic contradictions of this rationality.
Books on the topic "Malawi handle"
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Gowan, Richard. European Involvement in United Nations Peacekeeping. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0050.
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European soldiers played a major part in United Nations peacekeeping during the cold war, and were heavily involved in missions in the Balkans and Africa in the early 1990s. The disasters of Rwanda and Srebrenica led most European states, with exceptions such as Ireland and Sweden, to limit their role in blue-helmet peacekeeping missions. European multinational forces and EU-flagged missions have, however, backed up UN missions in cases such as Sierra Leone, and Europeans returned to UN peacekeeping in cases including Lebanon and Mali. Officers used to NATO and EU standards remain wary of UN command and control, medical evacuation, and intelligence gathering. When Europeans deploy in UN missions, they often find their non-Western comrades ‘exotic’. Nonetheless, since the end of major operations in Afghanistan, a number of European countries have taken UN operations more seriously, especially as a tool to handle threats of terrorism and uncontrolled migration from Africa.
Book chapters on the topic "Malawi handle"
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Kawaye, Floney P., and Michael F. Hutchinson. "Maize, Cassava, and Sweet Potato Yield on Monthly Climate in Malawi." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_120.
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AbstractClimate change and climate variability in Malawi have negatively affected the production of maize, a staple food crop. This has adversely affected food security. On the other hand, there have been increases in growing area, production, yield, consumption, and commercialization of both cassava and sweet potato. Factors behind these increases include the adaptive capacity of these crops in relation to climate change and variability, structural adjustment programs, population growth and urbanization, new farming technologies, and economic development. Cassava and sweet potato are seen to have the potential to contribute to food security and alleviate poverty among rural communities.This study used a simple generic growth index model called GROWEST to model observed yields of maize, cassava, and sweet potato across Malawi between 2001 and 2012. The method can be viewed as a hybrid approach between complex process-based crop models and typical statistical models. For each food crop, the GROWEST model was able to provide a robust correlation between observed yields and spatially interpolated monthly climate. The model parameters, which included optimum growing temperatures and growing seasons, were well determined and agreed with known values. This indicated that these models could be used with reasonable confidence to project the impacts of climate change on crop yield. These projections could help assess the future of food security in Malawi under the changing climate and assist in planning for this future.
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Mohammed Katagum, Yahaya, Hayati Binti Kadir Shahar, Faisal Bin Ibrahim, Anisah Baharom, and Rafee Baharudin. "Using an Educational Training Module to Increase Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Malaria among Medicine Vendors in Yobe, Nigeria." In Current Topics and Emerging Issues in Malaria Elimination. IntechOpen, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98512.
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This training module focuses on providing basic guidance on the current recommended approaches regarding malaria basic information, signs/symptoms, case detection, treatment, referral, and effective prevention strategies. The module can be used for in-service training programs on malaria or to assist in improving other health educator’s work as well as serve as referral handbook for practicing health professionals. It can thus be used as a stand-alone training or together with modules dealing with other aspects of malaria control, prevention and elimination. The module uses a problem-solving approach to facilitate understanding and thereby motivate trainees on improved malaria case management. In essence, the training aims to generally improve the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of the most common handlers of malaria cases in this part of the world, the training module is then expected to improve services obtained by the majority of patients on malaria. On completion of training using this module, trainees will have acquired appreciable knowledge and skills on malaria basic-information, signs/symptoms, case detection/differentials, recommended drug treatment/appropriate dosing, indication for referral of complicated cases, effective prevention methods and the need to sensitise communities to stand up against malaria.
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Davies, Stephen. "The Parallel Worlds of Seafarers." In Meeting Place. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390847.003.0007.
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In the godowns, shipping offices, chandleries and dockyards a medley of voice did business in a multiplicity of languages and dialects. The goods they handled, shipped in from all over the world, represented as many ways of seeing and being, eating and dressing, living and dying. Yet there were disconnections as well as connections in this interface of interfaces. This chapter describes how the colonial government set apart seamen of different ethnic backgrounds by issuing different sets of regulations for seamen’s boarding houses according to whether they were lascars (Indians, Malays and others from South and Southeast Asia), Chinese or Westerners. Deepening the divides was the strong native-place and dialect-basis principle under which Chinese boarding houses were organized, indicating a certain degree of segregation among the Chinese themselves. The separateness is also shown in the different church missions, which ministered to seamen according to their ethnic origins.
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Heinz, Andreas. "Introduction." In A New Understanding of Mental Disorders. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036894.003.0001.
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In the introduction, a philosophically informed concept of mental disorders is presented. In order to define a clinically relevant mental malady, it suggests to focus on functional impairments relevant for human survival and the individually harmful consequences resulting from these dysfunctions. While this approach generally defines what can count as a mental disorder, it does not help to understand the neurobiological underpinnings of specific disorders. Traditional disease categories, on the other hand, do not reflect current neurobiological research. With respect to neurobiological lay based disease classifications, it is suggested to assess alterations of basic mechanisms of decision making and reward related learning, which cut across established nosological boundaries. For example, dopamine-dependent reinforcement learning is altered in psychotic, affective and addictive disorders.
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Rasche, Axel. "Approaching Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Systems Biology." In Handbook of Research on Systems Biology Applications in Medicine. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-076-9.ch022.
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We acquired new computational and experimental prospects to seek insight and cure for millions of afflicted persons with an ancient malady. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex disease with a network of interactions among several tissues and a multifactorial pathogenesis. Research conducted in human and multiple animal models has strongly focused on genetics so far. High-throughput experimentation technics like microarrays provide new tools at hand to amend current knowledge. By integrating those results the aim is to develop a systems biology model assisting the diagnosis and treatment. Beside experimentation techniques and platforms or rather general concepts for a new term in biology and medicine this chapter joins the conceptions with a rather actual medical challenge. It outlines current results and envisions a possible alley to the comprehension of T2DM.
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Willford, Andrew C., and S. Nagarajan. "The Law’s Betrayal." In Tamils and the Haunting of Justice. University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824838942.003.0009.
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This chapter focuses on the professionals of the Tamil population. A cultural displacement, as experienced by the Indian middle class, has produced its own narrative that was subsequently hijacked by Malay “extremists.” This sense of betrayal among the Indian middle class is important because their narrative of victimization takes cohesive ideological shape in a form that disseminates to the working class through the work of activists, politicians, writers, NGOs, and lawyers. Through this, one sees an important class dialectic within the Indian community that is divisive, as well as signs that recent legal decisions and events have exacerbated a sense of insecurity. Ultimately, a deep sense of political betrayal within this elite class is producing nostalgia for a nonracialized Malaysia on the one hand, and a consolidation of Indianness on the other.
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Fox, Eleanor M., and Mor Bakhoum. "West Africa." In Making Markets Work for Africa. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190930998.003.0004.
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This chapter details how eight nations of Western Africa—Senegal, Mali, the Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Guinea Bissau—transformed from government-controlled economies to market economies. The French West African states have adopted laws to open markets and protect competition, often at the behest of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, the project has been set back by political and economic instability, the lack of human and financial capital, and regional preemption of domestic competition law. It is a striking fact that there is virtually no competition law enforcement in French West Africa and no merger control law. The obstacles may ultimately be overcome with focus, leadership, will, and a reset of the institutional environment to allow national law to work hand in hand with regional law.
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Kostka, Joanna, Małgorzata Koziarska-Rościszewska, and Tomasz Kostka. "Special situations in the elderly: sport, physical activity, and travel." In ESC CardioMed. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198784906.003.0719.
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The number of physically active and travelling older people is gradually increasing. Regular physical activity can bring significant health benefits to people of all ages. On the other hand, due to concomitant chronic disease and age-related changes, older athletes are at higher risk of both acute adverse events and overuse injuries. Therefore, general medical and cardiovascular evaluation is recommended before initiation of a training programme. Similarly, it is necessary to perform a medical assessment of older subjects concerning fitness for travel and possible medical consequences. A pre-travel visit should allow individual physical and mental limitations for travel to be discussed and provide a patient with necessary prophylaxis, such as vaccinations or malaria prevention. Special problems in older athletes and travellers with chronic diseases should be taken into consideration (e.g. the risk of venous thromboembolism during prolonged exercise or travel in hot environment). Older adults with concomitant co-morbidities constitute a growing percentage of subjects participating in sports or undertaking travel. Although they are at higher risk of cardiovascular complications, a general recommendation to ‘avoid inactivity’ may be nowadays be put forward.
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Kostka, Joanna, Małgorzata Koziarska-Rościszewska, and Tomasz Kostka. "Special situations in the elderly: sport, physical activity, and travel." In ESC CardioMed. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198784906.003.0719_update_001.
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The number of physically active and travelling older people is gradually increasing. Regular physical activity can bring significant health benefits to people of all ages. On the other hand, due to concomitant chronic diseases and age-related changes, older athletes are at higher risk of both acute adverse events and overuse injuries. Therefore, general medical and cardiovascular evaluation is recommended before initiation of a training programme. Similarly, it is necessary to perform a medical assessment of older subjects concerning fitness for travel and possible medical consequences. A pre-travel visit should allow individual physical and mental limitations for travel to be discussed and provide a patient with necessary prophylaxis, such as vaccinations or malaria prevention. Special problems in older athletes and travellers with chronic diseases should be taken into consideration (e.g. the risk of venous thromboembolism during prolonged exercise or travel in hot environment). Older adults with concomitant co-morbidities constitute a growing percentage of subjects participating in sports or undertaking travel. Although they are at higher risk of cardiovascular complications, a general recommendation to ‘avoid inactivity’ may nowadays be put forward.
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Bove, Vincenzo, Chiara Ruffa, and Andrea Ruggeri. "Blue Helmets’ Diversity." In Composing Peace. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790655.003.0003.
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This chapter addresses the question of whether it is better or worse to have many troops from multiple national armies within a United Nations peacekeeping mission. On the one hand, high levels of diversity create obvious organizational challenges and coordination problems. On the other, high levels of diversity produce a mix of complementary perspectives, skills, and solutions. Through case study analysis, the chapter traces the connections between field diversity and mission outcomes as they appear in three missions: UN missions in Lebanon (UNIFIL II), in Mali (MINUSMA), and in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Using statistical analysis, the chapter shows that high levels of field diversity have a substantial effect on the protection of civilian lives and reduces the number of battle-related deaths.
Conference papers on the topic "Malawi handle"
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Krumkamp, R., and M. Zimmermann. "Malaria Elimination mittels synchronisierter Massenverabreichung – ein mathematisches Modell." In Gemeinsam forschen – gemeinsam handeln. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1605997.
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Krumkamp, R., B. Hogan, D. Eibach, et al. "Co-diagnoses in hospitalised children – revealing the cause of admission in a malaria endemic area." In Gemeinsam forschen – gemeinsam handeln. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1605873.
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Wei, Peng, Guoliang Hua, Weibo Huang, Fanyang Meng, and Hong Liu. "Unsupervised Monocular Visual-inertial Odometry Network." In Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Seventeenth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-PRICAI-20}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/325.
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Recently, unsupervised methods for monocular visual odometry (VO), with no need for quantities of expensive labeled ground truth, have attracted much attention. However, these methods are inadequate for long-term odometry task, due to the inherent limitation of only using monocular visual data and the inability to handle the error accumulation problem. By utilizing supplemental low-cost inertial measurements, and exploiting the multi-view geometric constraint and sequential constraint, an unsupervised visual-inertial odometry framework (UnVIO) is proposed in this paper. Our method is able to predict the per-frame depth map, as well as extracting and self-adaptively fusing visual-inertial motion features from image-IMU stream to achieve long-term odometry task. A novel sliding window optimization strategy, which consists of an intra-window and an inter-window optimization, is introduced for overcoming the error accumulation and scale ambiguity problem. The intra-window optimization restrains the geometric inferences within the window through checking the photometric consistency. And the inter-window optimization checks the 3D geometric consistency and trajectory consistency among predictions of separate windows. Extensive experiments have been conducted on KITTI and Malaga datasets to demonstrate the superiority of UnVIO over other state-of-the-art VO / VIO methods. The codes are open-source.
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Zimelis, Agris, Santa Kaleja, and Sergey Ariko. "Evaluation of productivity and costs of Malwa forest machine in sanitary fellings in Latvia." In Research for Rural Development 2020. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/rrd.26.2020.009.
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The topicality of the study is determined by the increasing demand for sanitary felling services currently mainly provided by manual work. Harvesting using hand-held motor instruments is a physically hard work whose costs are increasing rapidly, but labor availability is declining. In sanitary cuttings, additional complications are caused by the use of conventional machinery in harvesting, which necessitates the creation of wide (4 m) technological corridors and significantly increases the proportion of damaged remaining trees in a stand (according to past studies, a set of middle-class forest machines in thinning of spruce stands results in 4–5% of damaged trees, but in pine stands – in approximately twice less damaged trees than in spruce stands). The compact class forest machines in thinnings result in mechanical damage to not more than 1% of remaining trees. During field trials in sanitary felling 9329 trees were felled. The average productivity working in one shift is 5.35 m3 h-1 with average stands 10 cm. The cost of harvester’s productive hour is 92 € but of a forwarder it is 78. The compact class forwarder creates significantly smaller impact on the soil by reducing ruts depth and soil compaction, which is especially important in sanitary fillings and extraction of seed trees in regenerated areas.
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Doudican, Brad, Wyatt Elbin, and Bethany Huelskamp. "Lead From Behind: Enabling Partnerships to Bring Clean Water to Caliche, Honduras." In ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2012-87435.
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The common model for engineers’ engagement in philanthropic development work is to find a community with a technical need, design the solution, raise funds for the solution, construct the solution, and hand the solution over to the community. While this approach has yielded many completed projects around the world, there are limits to the efficacy, sustainability, and long-term enabling potential to this approach. The Dayton Service Engineering Collaborative, or DSEC, takes an alternative approach to philanthropic community development which is demonstrated via a case study in bringing clean water for drinking and agricultural purposes to Caliche, Honduras. Caliche, an impoverished village of approximately 350 people located in central Honduras, had access to a mountain spring as a source of water until a 2009 earthquake sent the spring’s flow underground. As of late 2011, the village did not have a clean source of drinking water, utilizing collected rainwater and surface water ponds for all of their water needs. Waterborne illness and malady was prevalent, with severe consequences to the young and the elderly. After a survey of the geography, the resources of the local people, and partner institutions, a community-scale biosand filtration system with requisite delivery structures was proposed, accepted, and brought to design fruition. Design and implementation of a solution to the technical problem of water delivery and treatment, while rigorous and complex, is not out of the realm of practice for technical groups working in communities such as Caliche. The innovation in this project, however, was the “lead from behind” approach in the context of a best practice called asset-based community development. A multi-partner initiative led first and foremost by the community leadership, and through local institutions and power structures, was managed from distance. In addition to DSEC, partners in this project included a multi-national non-governmental organization (NGO), a financial investor, the Honduran government, several missionaries, the Caliche Water Council, a local landowner, the Caliche leadership known as the Patronado, and the local church. DSEC provided technical leadership and project oversight, ensuring that not only were the technical obstacles overcome, but that the community and local authorities were empowered to tackle future development projects with independent vision. It is through this enabling approach that impact beyond the immediate project is attained, and where DSEC believes the leadership potential of the engineer is fully realized.