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Gardner, Susan. "The World of Flora Nwapa." Women's Review of Books 11, no. 6 (March 1994): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4021748.

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Berrian, Brenda F. "In Memoriam: Flora Nwapa (1931-1993)." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20, no. 4 (July 1995): 996–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/495029.

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Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine. "Flora Nwapa and Oguta’s Lake Goddess." Dialectical Anthropology 31, no. 1-3 (June 12, 2007): 253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-007-9017-6.

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Sanjo, Ojedoja. "An ecofeminist study of Flora Nwapa’s ‘Efuru’." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 7, no. 3 (September 10, 2018): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v7i3.11.

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This paper identified the great contribution of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru to ideas of ecological consciousness, and environmental protection, using theory that interlaces ecocriticism cum feminist criticism. The methodology therefore involves the conversation or ideas on the images of women and nature in ‘Efuru’, the association between the oppression of women and exploitation of nature by male chauvinist, thereby enslaving the female and nature in the commercial market value. From an ecofeminist perspective, this paper discovered that Flora Nwapa inculcates her novel with a theme of feminine and natural liberation from domination and violence. Flora Nwapa foresees the establishment of symbiosis, in which there is no male oppression or environment exploitation.Keywords: ecological conscience, male oppression, ecofeminism, domination, interconnectedness
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Asiegbu, Perp’ St Remy. "Forces and Flaws in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru and Idu." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 9, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 99–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v9i1.10.

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Considering her unique position as the premier African woman to publish a novel in English, given, also, her relatively artistic delineation of the African woman’s experience at a time when there is a dearth of female voice on that topic; when works of the male authors generally denigrate women, Flora Nwapa receives a commendable level of attention from critics all over the world. While most of the critics appreciate her for drawing attention to the strength and challenges of the African woman, others fault her for the absence of literary dexterity in her narrative. But for some critics’ romance with Uhamiri, not enough attention, relatively, has been given to the intrinsic and extrinsic forces surrounding Nwapa as a writer and how she manages these forces in plot development. Thus, this paper addresses this concern through the analysis of her foremost works, Efuru andIdu. Certain oversights are, also, noted some of which result from her deliberate or unconscious attempt to handle the forces that influence her. This is to draw attention to a writer’s conscious or unconscious struggle with forces, natural or supernatural, and, also, point to certain flaws, in Nwapa’s narrative, for the advancement of scholarship. The choice of Nwapa and her first two novels derives from the need to approach a relatively new topic from the beginning. Key Words: Forces, flaws, tradition, love, muse, influence.
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Abdelsalam Anwar Mohamed, Reem. "Breaking the Silence: Efuru by Flora Nwapa." مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانیة 88, no. 4 (July 1, 2019): 919–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/fjhj.2019.176757.

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Ike, Onyeka. "The utilization of literary techniques in Flora Nwapa’s Never Again and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun." EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts 7, no. 1-2 (April 15, 2020): 129–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejotmas.v7i1-2.9.

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This research investigates the utilization of literary techniques in two Nigerian historical fictions: Never Again by Flora Nwapa and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie. Nwapa and Adichie are two creative writers belonging to two different generations of Nigerian writers. While the former is of the first, the latter is of the third generation. In their two different novels in focus, it is observed that they deployed diverse literary techniques in variegated fashions to achieve the same goal – creating fictional works that deal with the sensitive issues of the Nigerian Civil War. Using new historicism (NH) as its theoretical anchor, this study uses historical-analytic and literary methods to posit that no two creative writers apply literary techniques in an identical manner even when their subject matter is the same. Rather, the deployment of literary tools is usually a function of talent, training, idiosyncrasies, orientation and propensities of a particular author. It is, of course, the patterns of such deployments that create and confer identity and uniqueness to various writers across the globe, such that when a section of the work of a known author is read, his or her name comes to mind. Using New Historicism as a critical searchlight, this paper evaluates compares and contrasts the utilization of literary techniques in the two novels aforementioned. Both writers have utilized literary elements in various ways to foreground and portray the cancerous issues of corruption, ethnicity, nepotism and avarice – the issues that led to the unfortunate and devastating Civil War, and till today continues to limit the progress of Nigeria. Keywords: Literary techniques, NH, Never Again, Nigerian Civil War, Half of a Yellow Sun
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Cassiano, Tathiana Cristina. "História das Áfricas e Literatura: as mulheres igbos na escrita literária de Flora Nwapa." Revista TransVersos, no. 21 (April 20, 2021): 113–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/transversos.2021.54915.

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Por meio do diálogo teórico com intelectuais das Áfricas e de uma episteme que, oriunda de reflexões dos campos de estudos pós colonial e decolonial, permite emancipar os sujeitos da pesquisa enquanto produtores de conhecimento acerca de si mesmos e da realidade que os cerca, apresento neste trabalho resultados da pesquisa na qual propus construir interpretações acerca da vivência de mulheres igbos evidenciadas na escrita literária de Flora Nwapa, nigeriana e autora da obra Efuru. Dentro da perspectiva de articulação entre História das Áfricas e Literatura apresento possibilidades de utilização das literaturas africanas pós-coloniais na construção de conhecimentos sobre mulheres igbos e os processos históricos ocorridos na Nigéria da primeira metade do século XX, a partir de uma perspectiva africana.
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ya, M. Pri, and M. Angayarkan Vinayaga Selvi. "IGBO Women‟s Resilience and Politics of Survival in One is Enough by Flora NWAPA." International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 5, no. 2 (March 25, 2018): 43–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.14445/23942703/ijhss-v5i2p110.

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Arndt, Susan. "Paradigms of an Intertextual Dialogue: 'Race' and Gender in Nigerian Literature." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 199–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001030.

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In terms of Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the poetics of writing back presents itself as an intertextual dialogue between postcolonial literatures, on the one hand, and the colonialist mentality, its literary manifestations and their influence, on the other. Chinua Achebe is considered a classic of writing back, especially with his novel . However, in the context of literary and social processes of transformation, this showpiece of writing back has become a pre-text of differently oriented intertextual dialogues which likewise increasingly come under the heading of writing back. In this essay, I will take as my point of departure and discuss not only the narrow understanding of writing back in its original orientation, but also two more recent manifestations of this intertextual dialogue in Nigerian literature. With an emphasis on novels by Flora Nwapa and Akachi Adimora–Ezeigbo, I wish to focus on the intertextual dialogue between Nigerian women's writing and both Igbo oral narratives and writings by male Nigerian authors.
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UKO, INIOBONG I. "Womanhood, Sexuality, and Work: The Dialectic of Exploitation (Flora Nwapa, Nawal El Saadawi, and Ama Ata Aidoo)." Matatu 45, no. 1 (2014): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401211093_002.

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Onikoyi, Babatunde. "Onyeka Nwelue. The House of Nwapa. 2016. 85 Minutes. Igbo and English. Blues and Hills Productions. No Price Reported." African Studies Review 61, no. 3 (July 4, 2018): 254–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.59.

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Thielmann, Pia. "Palaver: Geschlechter- und Gesellschaftsdiskurs in Nigeria: Kon/Textuelle Lesung ausgewählter Romane der Igbo-Autorinnen Buchi Emecheta und Flora Nwapa (review)." Research in African Literatures 34, no. 2 (2003): 217–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2003.0049.

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Rodríguez Vázquez, Mar. "Reflejos de supervivencia y rebelión: las mujeres de la guerra de Biafra en las novelas de Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta y Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." Dossiers Feministes, no. 21 (2016): 121–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/dossiers.2016.21.8.

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Naumann, Michel. "NZEGWU Femi, Love, Motherhood and the African Heritage. The Legacy of Flora Nwapa. Dakar, African Renaissance, 2001 [réimpr. 2003], 248 p. - ISBN 1-903625-09-2." Études littéraires africaines, no. 16 (2003): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1041581ar.

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Thielmann, Pia. "BOOK REVIEW: Christiane Fluche.PALAVER: GESCHLECHTER- UND GESELLSCHAFTSDISKURS IN NIGERIA; KON/TEXTUELLE LESUNG AUSGEW�HLTER ROMANE DER IGBO-AUTORINNEN BUCHI EMECHETA UND FLORA NWAPA. Bayreuth: Eckhard Breitinger, 2002." Research in African Literatures 34, no. 2 (June 2003): 217–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2003.34.2.217.

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Courtois, Cédric. "« She was a remarkable woman » : l’héritage afro-féministe d’Efuru (1966) de Flora Nwapa dans Purple Hibiscus (2003) de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie et Sky-High Flames (2005) d’Unoma Azuah." Études littéraires africaines, no. 51 (2021): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1079600ar.

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Nwaka, Solomon. "Interview with Solomon Nwaka." Future Medicinal Chemistry 3, no. 11 (September 2011): 1339–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4155/fmc.11.99.

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MPHAPHULI, N. M., and N. R. Raselekoane. "NWANA WA MME ANGA." South African Journal of African Languages 7, sup2 (January 1987): 115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1987.10586729.

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Winegardner, Amanda K., Emma E. Hodgson, and Adrienne M. Davidson. "Reductions in federal oversight of aquatic systems in Canada: implications of the new Navigation Protection Act." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72, no. 4 (April 2015): 602–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2014-0385.

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The reduction of environmental legislation and regulation has become a common practice for governments looking to reduce government overhead while boosting private sector investment. Following this trend, in 2012 Canada enacted major legislative changes to its environmental policies. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) was overhauled, and related Acts, including the (federal) Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA), saw their regulatory processes reduced. There is a need for aquatic scientists to better understand the potential implications for environmental protection and the systems we study. We provide an overview of changes to the CEAA and NWPA before quantifying the duration and outcomes of NWPA-triggered assessments, as well as the implications of changes to the CEAA and NWPA. We find that 87% of environmental assessments that were triggered by the NWPA in the last 10 years were completed within 2 years and that the majority resulted in project approval. Of the assessments reviewed, 58% were on water bodies that are no longer protected under the new Navigation Protection Act, suggesting that the combination of these changes and new Acts will result in substantial reductions of environmental assessments on aquatic systems.
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McCall, J. A. G. "Comment on the ‘leopard’ killings." Africa 56, no. 4 (October 1986): 441–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1159999.

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Opening ParagraphDr Nwaka, in writing his paper on the ‘man-leopard’ killings of southern Annang, Nigeria, 1943–48, has performed a good public service for Nigeria. During the past few years a number of Nigerians have expressed to me the view that the killings should be written up. Now Dr Nwaka has done just this, and only after a very considerable amount of research, as his extensive references indicate. The fact that I do not accept his main conclusion is not the point. His paper forms the basis for a comprehensive discussion of the circumstances surrounding the killings from 1943 to 1948, and for this we owe him a real debt of gratitude.
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Hodges, K. I., and R. Emerton. "The Prediction of Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Extended Life Cycles by the ECMWF Ensemble and Deterministic Prediction Systems. Part I: Tropical Cyclone Stage*." Monthly Weather Review 143, no. 12 (December 1, 2015): 5091–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-13-00385.1.

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Abstract This study has explored the prediction errors of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Ensemble Prediction System (EPS) for the Northern Hemisphere summer period for five recent years. Results for the EPS are contrasted with those for the higher-resolution deterministic forecasts. Various metrics of location and intensity errors are considered and contrasted for verification based on IBTrACS and the numerical weather prediction (NWP) analysis (NWPa). Motivated by the aim of exploring extended TC life cycles, location and intensity measures are introduced based on lower-tropospheric vorticity, which is contrasted with traditional verification metrics. Results show that location errors are almost identical when verified against IBTrACS or the NWPa. However, intensity in the form of the mean sea level pressure (MSLP) minima and 10-m wind speed maxima is significantly underpredicted relative to IBTrACS. Using the NWPa for verification results in much better consistency between the different intensity error metrics and indicates that the lower-tropospheric vorticity provides a good indication of vortex strength, with error results showing similar relationships to those based on MSLP and 10-m wind speeds for the different forecast types. The interannual variation in forecast errors are discussed in relation to changes in the forecast and NWPa system and variations in forecast errors between different ocean basins are discussed in terms of the propagation characteristics of the TCs.
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Ugochukwu, Françoise. "DIOUF KANDJI (Fatou), Le Vécu de la femme dans les récits de Buchi Emecheta et de Flora Nwapa. Endurance, résistance et lutte pour la survie. Paris : L’Harmattan, coll. Études africaines, Série Littérature, 2015, 594 p. – ISBN 978-2-3430-5501-5." Études littéraires africaines, no. 41 (2016): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1037821ar.

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Sattari, N., L. Whitehurst, K. Vinces, and S. Mednick. "0119 The Role of Aging and Working Memory in Emotional-Long Term Memory Formation." Sleep 43, Supplement_1 (April 2020): A47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.117.

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Abstract Introduction It is widely accepted that “offline” processes during sleep contributes to memory. Working Memory (WM) capacity, which reflects “online” memory processing, is an important factor influencing cognitive functioning, which declines with age. In younger individuals, a positive association is reported between WM-capacity and declarative memory improvement. Methods We examined the relation between WM and long-term memory consolidation, among younger [N=105, 18-25yr] and older adults (N=119, 60-85yr). Subjects completed an OSPAN WM task, encoded a Word-Paired Association (WPA) task in the morning (Test1), and were tested on the WPA in the afternoon (Test2) after a 90-minute polysomnographically-recorded nap or wake. Half of the subjects were exposed to negatively valenced word-pairs (EWPA) while the other half were exposed to neutral word-pairs (NWPA). Subjects rated valence of the word-pairs at Test1 and Test2. We compared the four groups (young-EWPA, young-NWPA, old-EWPA and old-NWPA) on WM and WPA in both wake and sleep. Results In both wake and sleep, in the WPA, ageXword-condition interaction was found (p=.004). Post-hoc analysis revealed that in wake, younger-EWPA had higher performance (p=.03) than younger-NWPA, however, older-EWPA had lower performance (p=.03) than older-NWPA. Additionally, we found an ageXword-condition interaction whereby youngers showed no change in ratings, while older adults rated word-pairs more positively both in wake (p=.03) and sleep (p=.002) at Test 2. Youngers had higher WM performance (p=.007), also their WM performance was positively associated with WPA both for Neutral (p=.03) and Emotional (p=.01). WM and WPA among older adults was not related. In younger-EWPA, Stage2-sleep-minutes was positively associated to WPA improvement (p=.03) where this association was negative among older-EWPA (p=.02). In older-NWPA, Stage2-sleep-minutes was positively associated with WPA (p=.004). Conclusion Our findings indicate an association between WM and emotionally-salient memory formation that is modulated by age. Older adults, but not younger, showed the emotional bias previously reported. WM was higher in younger adults related to memory improvement. Stage2-sleep was related to memory improvement in both groups, but in opposite directions. In sum, the role of sleep in memory consolidation changes with aging and WM may play a role in this process. Support Fenn et al.,2012
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Gehlsen, Gale M., and Joan Karpuk. "Analysis of the NWAA Swimming Classification System." Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 9, no. 2 (April 1992): 141–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/apaq.9.2.141.

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This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the National Wheelchair Athletic Association (NWAA) classification system in swimming events. The NWAA records of freestyle, butterfly, and backstroke in nine classifications of both male and female athletes were used (N=1,256). Each athlete’s speed was calculated from the reported time and distance. There was a significant difference in classification for all events except the paraplegic 50- and 100-m backstroke events. Post hoc data analyses within classification for the 50- and 100-m freestyle events indicated significant differences among all paraplegic classifications. Post hoc data analyses within classifications for the 50-m butterfly event indicated significant differences among all paraplegic classes except Class V and Class VI athletes. Tetraplegic within classification post hoc data analyses indicated significant differences between 1A and both Classes 1B and 1C. Gender differences were statistically indicated for all events. The logic of the medical classification system of the NWAA cannot be totally supported by these data. However, the results do not offer clear direction for any combination of classes.
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Mudau, Ndidzulafhi, Pfarelo Matshidze, Vhonani Netshandama, and Alpheus Masoga. "Reflections on practices of U laya nwana : towards an Afro-sensed approach." African Renaissance 15, no. 1 (March 6, 2018): 181–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/ropo_15_1_18.

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Adesuyi, Adeola Alex, Moses Okafor Ngwoke, Modupe Olatunde Akinola, Kelechi Longinus Njoku, and Anuoluwapo Omosileola Jolaoso. "Assessment of Physicochemical Characteristics of Sediment from Nwaja Creek, Niger Delta, Nigeria." Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 04, no. 01 (2016): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/gep.2016.41002.

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Ugochukwu, Françoise. "Un retour attendu, ou les migrations d’Omenuko dans le roman de Pita Nwana." Études littéraires africaines, no. 36 (2013): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1026334ar.

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Teilanyo, Diri I. "Rhetoric and Rivalry." Matatu 48, no. 2 (2016): 239–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04802001.

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Politics almost always entails opposition and rivalry as individuals and groups compete for power and influence. This essay juxtaposes the use of rhetoric among political rivals in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God with the use of such language among present-day Nigerian politicians. Parallels are drawn between the utterances of such characters as Ezeulu, Nwaka, and Ezidemili in Arrow of God and those of Nigerian political personalities like Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, Ibrahim Babangida, and Atiku Abubakar (the statements of the Nigerian politicians having been gathered from the mass media). Rhetorical strategies such as wit, repartee, innuendo, cynical/wry humour, and outright abuse/imprecations are identified as shared in the two worlds. It is argued that such language of rivalry is common in all political settings, ancient or modern. It is also suggested that literary works such as Arrow of God constitute a source of both political wit and wisdom for politicians to draw on.
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Sanders, Charlotta E. "Review of the Development of the Proposed Yucca Mountain Geologic Repository." Advances in Science and Technology 94 (October 2014): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/ast.94.115.

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It can be said that the nuclear community neglected the issue of final storage of nuclear waste in the first era of nuclear power production, with many nations not looking at this topic until some years into its program. This is a matter that must not be neglected now during the ‘renaissance’ of nuclear if nuclear energy is to have a part on the stage of the play in world energy supplies. In 1982, the United States (U.S.) Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), which outlines the screening process for selecting a national site for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste storage. This paper describes the U.S. nuclear waste policy dilemma and its impact on the selection and development of the nation's first long-term geologic repository for over 70,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. In 1987, the U.S. Congress designated Yucca Mountain, which can be described as the "most studied real estate on the planet", as the repository site to be characterized. However, due to political pressures, the fate and realization of the Yucca Mountain repository is uncertain.
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Fan, Yuting, Huaming Shang, Shulong Yu, Ye Wu, and Qian Li. "Understanding the Representativeness of Tree Rings and Their Carbon Isotopes in Characterizing the Climate Signal of Tajikistan." Forests 12, no. 9 (September 7, 2021): 1215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12091215.

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The juniper tree forest is a critical component of the carbon, water, and energy cycles of Tajikistan. However, to date, long-term information about tree-ring isotopes is limited in this region. Here, we developed tree-ring width (TRW) and tree-ring 13C chronologies for juniper trees (Juniperus seravschanica (Juniperus excelsa subsp.polycarpos (K. Koch) Takht.) and Juniperus turkestanica (Juniperus pseudosabina Fisch. & C. A. Mey)) and investigated their dendroclimatic signals in the northwest of the Pamir-Alay (NWPA) mountains in Tajikistan. Tree-ring ∆13C and TRW of juniper presented different sensitivities to monthly precipitation. Moreover, ∆13C in juniper showed consistently significant relationships with climatic factors in larger seasonal windows than TRW did. Dendroclimatological analysis demonstrates that precipitation has significant effects on tree growth and isotope enrichment. Late summer to early winter temperature is one limiting factor for the TRW chronologies, but previous spring, summer, and autumn temperature and precipitation from the previous July to the current May were the dominant climatic factors accounting for inter-annual variations in the ∆13C chronologies. This verified that the multi tree-ring parameters of juniper in Tajikistan are a promising tool for investigating inter-annual climate variations. Furthermore, the stable carbon isotopes of tree rings have proven to be powerful evidence of climatic signals. The moisture-sensitive tree-ring isotope provides opportunities for complex investigations of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and timing of seasonal rainfall. Our results highlight the need for more detailed studies of tree growth responses to changing climate and tree-ring isotopes to understand source water variations (especially baseflow) of the juniper tree forest.
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Carré, Nathalie. "Nwana (Pita), Omenuko ou le repentir d’un marchand d’esclaves. Premier roman en langue igbo (Nigeria). Traduit et présenté par Françoise Ugochukwu. Paris : Karthala, 2009, 135 p. – ISBN 978-2-8111-0453-5." Études littéraires africaines, no. 35 (2013): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1021743ar.

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Richardson, J. A. "United States high-level radioactive waste management programme: Current status and plans." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy 211, no. 5 (August 1, 1997): 381–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/0957650971537286.

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Commercial reactor nuclear power generation in the United States is produced by 107 units and, during 1996, represented over 21 per cent of the nation's electricity generation in 34 of the 50 states and, through electric power wheeling, between states in most of the 48 contiguous states. Spent fuel is stored in fuel pools at 70 sites around the country and the projected rate of spent fuel production indicates that the current pool storage will be exceeded in the out years of 2000, 2010 and 2020 at 40, 67 and 69 of these sites respectively. The total accumulation projected by the end of 1996 at reactor sites is 33 700 metric tons of heavy metal (MTHM), with projections for increasing accumulations at annual rates of between 1800 and 2000 to produce an end of life for all commercial nuclear reactors of about 86 000 MTHM. There are presently eight facilities in six states with out-of-pool dry storage amounting to 1010 MTHM and this dry storage demand will increase. Based on all current commercial reactors achieving their 40 year licensed operation lifetimes, the dry storage needs will increase to 3128 MTHM at 28 sites and 20 states by 2000 and 11 307 MTHM at 58 sites in 32 states by 2010; the year 2010 is the present scheduled operation date for the federal mined geological disposal repository being characterized by the USDOE at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The enabling statute for the federal high-level radioactive waste management programme is the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) which charges the USDOE with the responsibility for the disposal of HLW and spent nuclear fuel. The Act also charges the utilities with the responsibility for managing their spent nuclear fuel until the USDOE can accept it into the federal waste management system. The funding for the federal programme is also stipulated by the Act with the creation of the Nuclear Waste Fund, through which the electric utilities entered into contract with the USDOE by payment of a fee of 1 mill per kilowatt hour sold and for which the USDOE would start collection of spent fuel from the reactor sites starting 31 January 1998.
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Okonkwo, Uche Uwaezuoke, and Ngozi Anyachonkeya. "Gender Issues in Alcohol Consumption: A Study of Equiano’s Travels, Nwapa’s Efuru and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, August 8, 2019, 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jesbs/2019/v31i430155.

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This paper appraises gender issues in alcohol consumption in Africa, in terms of processing and control using Oladuah Equiano’s autobiography- Equiano’s Travels, Flora Nwapa’s Efuru, and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. These three literary texts are thoughtfully chosen for the study, in view of the fact that Equiano pioneered African literature, and advanced by Flora Nwapa and Chinua Achebe in their debut, Efuru and Things Fall Apart, published in 1966 and 1958, respectively. In Equiano’s Travels, published in 1789, Equiano capture and document the Igbo lifestyle in its nativity. Scholars have attempted to look at the works of these literary titans from several perspectives and themes but, to the best of the knowledge of these researchers, they have not enquired into the Igbo lifestyle in alcohol consumption and given it the desired academic attention as amply presented in the literary works of these literary paragons and pathfinders, as the present study intends to do. While Achebe looks at the traditional humane living of Igbo society in the hinterland in its pre-colonial period, Nwapa discusses the lifestyle and folkways of Igbo Lake people of Oguta. Nwapa presents a segment of this Igbo society, which grants women access to alcoholic drink in the public, in sharp contrast to the rest of Igbo society that restricts women from drinking the same liqueur. Likely, the ample liberty and tremendous respect accorded to the female folk in Oguta Igbo subculture may be responsible for this, coupled with the fact that the river deity of the Lake, Uhamiri goddess, may have provided further evidence to the improved status accorded to women. Thus, Nwapa in the pages of her literary works, especially in Efuru and One Is Enough, brings to our doorstep the lifestyle and folkways of Ogbuide Lake people of Oguta, which enable women to enjoy this unrestricted liberty of self-expression and audacious access to alcoholic drinks at the profane gaze of men, as it was. Equiano, through his travails and escapades of slavery, shows the changing trends in alcohol drinking and culture especially the differences in female drinking cultures based on geography and climate. Today, the ethos of Igbo society has changed remarkably. The paper seeks to investigate these details using Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Nwapa’s Efuru as well as Equiano’s Travels, our texts of focus. The inquiry is essentially literary or library research.
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Lynn, Thomas Jay. "Self-possession and the crisis of post-colony in Achebe’s A Man of the People." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, March 1, 2021, 002198942198908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989421989086.

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Chinua Achebe’s fourth novel, A Man of the People, portrays a wider range of significant female figures than any other fictional narrative by Achebe. The leading female characters defy literary marginalization because the text humanizes their personal predicaments and validates their choices. As a result, their collective voice is as important to the novel’s themes as the male voice expressed through the two protagonists, Odili Samalu and Chief Nanga. Achebe’s novel suggests that its unnamed post-independent African nation will not fulfil its potential without the tangible evolution of women’s self-ownership and leadership roles. What unifies the roles of leading female characters in the novel, such as Eunice, Mama, Elsie, and Edna, is their ability to seize possession, financially and emotionally, of fundamental elements of their own lives. The opposition between women’s aspirations in A Man of the People and the daunting familial and communal restrictions imposed on women mirrors colonial and postcolonial pressures placed on the newly independent African nation. While the nation may have transitioned politically from a colonial entity to an independent state, the female population is pressured to remain dependent and subject to the norms of patriarchy, a far more primal colonial order than that of Western capitalist domination. Even in the post-independence context, most women exist in a state of collective vassalage: they play subordinate and dependent roles in a post-colony stratified by (among other things) gender. In this context, one of A Man of the People’s notable achievements is to dramatize women’s fashioning of independent economic and social realities despite structures that sustain female subjugation. The novel’s theme of female self-possession is shared in the work of two Igbo and Nigerian-born female authors, Flora Nwapa and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Additional West African authors are considered as well.
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Klinck, Kezell, and Sonia Swanepoel. "A performance management model addressing human factors in the North West provincial administration." SA Journal of Human Resource Management 17 (February 13, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajhrm.v17i0.1021.

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Orientation: The article investigated factors from several perspectives using human resources-related issues of governance, legislation, regulation, organisation, administration and communication, workplace sociology variables pertaining to social and psychological relationships and several other factors that have an impact on the complex matrix of determinants for performance improvement in the public service.Research purpose: This article explored the human factors linked to the performance management (PM) processes and its impact on the effectiveness of service delivery in the North West provincial administration (NWPA). The article isolated the strengths and weaknesses of the system of performance assessment from the human relations perspective, technical usage, the structural–organisational and the strategic perspectives, uniformity, legislative compliance and other possibilities envisaged and emerging.Motivation for the study: The study would deliver a successful and carefully crafted PM model that could be used to remedy the current performance situation through improved and effective communication channels, as well as ongoing feedback, leading to a more productive and motivated workforce. This would ultimately yield improved service delivery for the citizens of the North West Province.Research approach/design and method: To answer the main research questions, sub-questions and objectives of this study, several participants (permanent employees and managers) found in the departments within the NWPA had to respond to diverse instruments of inquiry (questionnaires, interview schedules, expert, operational, strategic and grass-roots opinion, etc.). The study took a sequential mixed-methods approach where interpretivist (qualitative) and positivist (quantitative) approaches were applied as the philosophy and descriptive statistics were used.Main findings: The main findings highlighted all the human factors that mitigated against performance improvement in the NWPA. From the evidence gathered, some departments exhibited problematic manager–subordinate relationships, lack of training, no proper feedback, low staff morale leading to low job satisfaction, lack of leadership as well as broken channels of communication.Practical/managerial implications: The findings revealed that it is important for the NWPA management to undertake the necessary efforts in order to adapt a new strategy and comprehensive model for improved performance, which would ultimately lead towards efficient and effective service delivery in the North West Province.Contribution/value-add: This paper explores the salient human factors to be taken into consideration during performance management in the North West Provincial Administration.
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"Funding helps NWAA members accelerate in lean manufacturing." Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology 74, no. 1 (February 2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aeat.2002.12774aab.028.

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Chukwumah, Ignatius. "‘An augury of the world’s ruin’ and the making of the tragic hero in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God." Literator 37, no. 1 (June 30, 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v37i1.1192.

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Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God has been adjudged by critics as a tragic work with Ezeulu as its tragic hero. However, none of these studies has paid detailed attention to the framing of Ezeulu in the historical context of his age. How he appears when compared to a classical Greek tragic hero has also been ignored. A major context giving rise to Ezeulu becoming a tragic hero is the period leading to the synthesis of two contrary histories, juxtaposed discourses and the collision of opposites and contraries in the sociocultural and political sphere of the villages of Umuaro and Okperi. This circumstance is captured by the narrator as ‘an augury of the world’s ruin’, by Nwaka as ‘the white man turned us upside down’ and by Ezeulu as ‘the world is spoilt and there is no longer head or tail in anything that is done’. Allen, an earlier District Commissioner in Things Fall Apart, but textually implicated in Arrow of God, terms it ‘great situations’. The above historical context requires more than mastery and acknowledgement by the tragic figure, in the absence of which he, a self-professed knowledgeable person, becomes a victim of what he failed to take into account. Consequently, he is set aside as a specimen for history and other men. This article will use Hegel’s and Aristotle’s theories of history and of tragedy, respectively, to explicate the above. It concludes that the tragic hero of Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God is substantially the victim of the clash between Umuaro’s history and Hegel’s History.’n Teken van die wêreld se ondergang en die skepping van die tragiese held in Chinua Achebe se Arrow of God. Chinua Achebe se boek, Arrow of God, word deur kritici beskryf as ’n tragedie met die karakter Ezeulu as held. Niemand het egter noukeurige aandag geskenk aan hoe Ezeulu inpas in die gapings van botsende geskiedenisse soos vergestalt in die mens ten opsigte van hulle optredes, houdings, vrese en begeertes nie. Hoe hy voorkom in teenstelling met ’n klassieke Griekse tragiese held, is ook geïgnoreer. ’n Belangrike onderlinge verband wat aanleiding gee tot Ezeulu se status as tragiese held is die tydperk wat lei tot die samevoeging van twee verskillende geskiedenise naas diskoerse en die botsing van teenoorgesteldes in die sosiokulturele en politieke sfeer van die dorpies Umuaro en Okperi. Hierdie omstandighede is deur die verteller uitgebeeld as ’n teken van die wêreld se ondergang: deur Nwaka as: ‘the white man turned us upside down’ en deur Ezeulu as ‘the world is spoilt and there is no longer head or tail in anything that is done’. Allen, ’n vorige distrikskommissaris in Things Fall Apart, wat aansluit by Arrow van God, noem dit ‘great situations’. Bogenoemde historiese konteks vereis meer as die bemeestering en erkenning deur die tragiese figuur, ’n selfverklaarde kundige persoon, in die afwesigheid daarvan dat hy ’n slagoffer word van wat hy versuim het om in ag te neem. Gevolglik word hy tersyde gestel as ’n voorbeeld vir die geskiedenis en ander mans. In hierdie artikel sal Hegel en Aristoteles se teorieë van die geskiedenis en van ’n tragedie, onderskeidelik, gebruik word om bogenoemde uiteen te sit. Die gevolgtrekking is dat die tragedie held van Chinua Achebe se Arrow of God wesenlik die slagoffer van die botsing tussen die geskiedenis van Umuaro en Hegel is.
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