Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Robert Agwot Komakech, Thomas Ogoro Ombati
Summary: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has played a significant role in bridging the infrastructure gap and fostering economic growth between Asia, Europe, and Africa. However, it has also faced challenges such as corruption, lack of stakeholder involvement, high compensation prices, labor violations, increasing debts, and environmental hazards.
Article
Business
Isaac Koomson, Chei Bukari, Renato A. Villano
Summary: Mobile money adoption facilitates the sending and receipt of financial support in times of idiosyncratic shocks, particularly benefiting female-headed and rural-located households.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jennifer Nyoni, Christmal Dela Christmals, James Avoka Asamani, Mourtala Mahaman Abdou Illou, Sunny Okoroafor, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Adam Ahmat
Summary: This study conducted a document analysis of 14 health workforce policy/strategic plans, revealing the complexity of developing health workforce strategies and the importance of accurate and comprehensive data collection, strong leadership, and broad stakeholder consultation.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dil Bahadur Rahut, Jeetendra Prakash Aryal, Paswel Marenya
Summary: Climate change is negatively impacting farm households in Eastern and Southern Africa, with drought being the predominant risk. Farm households have adopted various strategies to cope with climate risks, depending on their family characteristics and level of resources. Substantial differences exist among the study countries in terms of the adoption of coping strategies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Stefania Akromah, Neha Chandarana, Stephen J. Eichhorn
Summary: The low productivity of the agricultural sector contributes to the socio-economic struggles in Africa. Producing mycelium composites from agricultural waste can increase farmers' income and incentivize agricultural productivity, as well as create employment opportunities, especially for women and the youth. Mycelium composites can also address environmental and health challenges in Africa.
ADVANCED SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mekuanent Tesega
Summary: This study found a U-shaped relationship between financial globalization and financial development in Africa, indicating a critical threshold for the impact of financial globalization on financial development. Additionally, trade openness, financial freedom, and investment freedom were found to be strongly correlated with financial development in Africa.
Article
Development Studies
Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Sergio Urzua, Marina Bassi
Summary: Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) play a crucial role in skill development and expanding higher education. However, their quality varies greatly within and between countries. This study examines the relationship between program practices and inputs (quality determinants) and student outcomes. The findings show that specific quality determinants, such as teaching numerical competencies and providing job market information, can improve academic and labor market outcomes. These results have implications for designing and replicating high-quality SCPs, regulating them, and developing information systems.
Article
Oncology
Elise M. Garton, Zipporah Ali, Mishka Kohli Cira, Laura Haskins, Paul B. Jacobsen, Anthony Kayiira, Nwamaka Lasebikan, Tonia Onyeka, Yannick Romero, Sylvia Shirima, Zuzanna Tittenbrun, Michelle A. Mollica
Summary: This study examines the inclusion of cancer survivorship-related strategies and objectives in national cancer control plans (NCCPs) of African countries. Results show that all NCCPs include survivorship in their plans, with 202 survivorship-related strategies identified. However, there is a need to extend survivorship objectives beyond palliative care and include measurable indicators.
JOURNAL OF CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Sepehr Ghazinoory, Fatemeh Hoshdar, Maryam Nozari
Summary: Technology development is crucial in the petroleum industry, especially in countries where all oil activities are supervised by the National Oil Company. This requires careful planning and coordination at different levels of the industry to ensure success. The interaction between various factors and stakeholders at different levels of the industry necessitates alignment. This study explores technology planning using roadmapping and quality function deployment techniques and provides a model for ensuring alignment in technology plans, with the Iranian oil industry as a case study.
Article
Ecology
Ines Nolasco, Shubhr Singh, Veronica Morfi, Vincent Lostanlen, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Ester Vidana-Vila, Lisa Gill, Hanna Pamula, Helen Whitehead, Ivan Kiskin, Frants H. Jensen, Joe Morford, Michael G. Emmerson, Elisabetta Versace, Emily Grout, Haohe Liu, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell
Summary: Automatic detection and classification of animal sounds have various applications in biodiversity monitoring and animal behavior. Recent advancements in deep learning have led to strong results in automatic classification. However, bioacoustics encompasses a wide range of small-scale tasks with diverse data characteristics and limited labeled training data. This work introduces a few-shot learning approach for bioacoustic sound event detection and presents open datasets and a public contest to evaluate the performance. The analysis shows that prototypical networks and high time resolution capabilities are effective in this challenge, and few-shot sound event detection outperforms traditional signal processing methods in fine-grained bioacoustic recognition tasks.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Chih-Huang Weng
Summary: In developing countries, the pace of changes in technology, scientific research, economy, environment, and quality of life is accelerating, with a focus on green buildings and the impact of climate change on water resources, air quality, and carbon emissions in international conferences and special journal issues.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
David K. Evans, Fei Yuan, Deon Filmer
Summary: This study presents data on teacher earnings from 15 African countries, revealing that teacher monthly earnings are lower in some countries but hourly earnings are relatively higher. Teachers have advantages in non-pecuniary benefits compared to other workers, and they also work fewer hours. The study also highlights other characteristics of the teacher labor force and variations in teacher contracts.
Review
Oncology
Evangelia Razis, Marie Kassapian, Charitini Andriakopoulou, Yehoda M. Martei, Shalini Jayasekar Zurn, Nazik Hammad, Yannick Romero, Urania Dafni, Andre M. Ilbawi, Dario Trapani
Summary: This study found that there is a lack of global comprehensiveness in national cancer control plans (NCCPs), particularly in policies related to financial hardships and access to cancer medicines. Specification of budget allocations, policy of protection from catastrophic health expenditure, and national treatment guidelines play a role in ensuring consistent policies on essential cancer medicines.
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Johannes J. Fagan, Jeff Otiti, Paul A. Onakoya, Evelyne Diom, Anna Konney, Melesse Gebeyehu, Joyce Aswani, Kenneth Baidoo, Wayne M. Koch
Summary: The AfHNS Head and Neck Fellowship aims to train African surgeons to improve access to appropriate cancer care in Africa, using multiple training centers and international outreach programs.
HEAD AND NECK-JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENCES AND SPECIALTIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yigizie Yeshaw, Tadeg Jemere, Henok Dagne, Zewudu Andualem, Yonas Akalu, Reta Dewau, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Baye Dagnew
Summary: Maternal and neonatal tetanus remains a global public health issue affecting marginalized populations in Africa. This study identified individual and community-level factors associated with births protected against neonatal tetanus in the region. The findings suggest a need to consider multiple factors when developing strategies to reduce neonatal tetanus in Africa.
Article
Oncology
M. Lecornu, M. Silva, V. Barraux, D. Stefan, W. Kao, J. Thariat, C. Loiseau
CANCER RADIOTHERAPIE
(2019)
Review
Medical Laboratory Technology
Valentina Sas, Cristina Blag, Gabriela Zaharie, Emil Puscas, Cosmin Lisencu, Nicolae Andronic-Gorcea, Sergiu Pasca, Bobe Petrushev, Irina Chis, Mirela Marian, Delia Dima, Patric Teodorescu, Sabina Iluta, Mihnea Zdrenghea, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Gheorghe Popa, Sorin Man, Anca Colita, Cristina Stefan, Seiji Kojima, Ciprian Tomuleasa
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Oncology
R. Dendale, J. Thariat, J. Doyen, J. Balosso, D. Stefan, S. Bolle, L. Feuvret, P. Poortmans, J. -M. Hannoun-Levi, P. -Y. Bondiau, M. Micaud, C. Alapetite, V. Calugaru, J. -L. Habrand, M. -A. Mahe
CANCER RADIOTHERAPIE
(2019)
Editorial Material
Oncology
Daniela Cristina Stefan
INFECTIOUS AGENTS AND CANCER
(2019)
Article
Oncology
Sergiu Pasca, Ciprian Tomuleasa, Patric Teodorescu, Gabriel Ghiaur, Delia Dima, Vlad Moisoiu, Cristian Berce, Cristina Stefan, Aaron Ciechanover, Herman Einsele
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Oncology
Jonine D. Figueroa, Brittny C. Davis Lynn, Lawrence Edusei, Nicholas Titiloye, Ernest Adjei, Joe-Nat Clegg-Lamptey, Joel Yarney, Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, Baffour Awuah, Maire A. Duggan, Seth Wiafe, Kofi Nyarko, Francis Aitpillah, Daniel Ansong, Stephen M. Hewitt, Thomas Ahearn, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Louise A. Brinton
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
(2020)
Letter
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Robert Douglas Walter, Seth Wiafe, Udochukwu Oyoyo, Montry Selin Suprono
JOURNAL OF ORAL IMPLANTOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Oncology
Alina-Andreea Zimta, Adrian Bogdan Tigu, Cornelia Braicu, Cristina Stefan, Calin Ionescu, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe
FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
(2020)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ancuta Jurj, Cecilia Pop-Bica, Ondrej Slaby, Cristina D. Stefan, William C. Cho, Schuyler S. Korban, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Margarit-Mircea Nistor, Ionel Haidu, Stefan Dezsi, Cristina Stefan
Article
Oncology
Doratha A. Byrd, Emily Vogtmann, Zeni Wu, Yongli Han, Yunhu Wan, Joe-Nat Clegg-Lamptey, Joel Yarney, Beatrice Wiafe-Addai, Seth Wiafe, Baffour Awuah, Daniel Ansong, Kofi Nyarko, Autumn G. Hullings, Xing Hua, Thomas Ahearn, James J. Goedert, Jianxin Shi, Rob Knight, Jonine D. Figueroa, Louise A. Brinton, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Rashmi Sinha
Summary: The gut microbiota may influence breast cancer development by regulating hormonal, metabolic and immunologic pathways. Associations between fecal bacteria and both breast cancer and nonmalignant breast disease were studied in Ghana, with findings indicating strong and similar correlations with both conditions. This suggests potential microbial mechanisms of breast disease.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
(2021)
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
So Ran Kwon, Shirley Lee, Udochukwu Oyoyo, Seth Wiafe, Samantha De Guia, Caitlin Pedersen, Kelsey Martinez, Joscelyn Rivas, Daniela Chavez, Tom Rogers
Summary: The study found that participants over the age of 75, with a high school education or less, from minority ethnicities, with an income less than $25,000, and with poor reading ability had lower levels of oral health knowledge. It is essential to develop communication strategies to provide equal opportunities for all ethnic groups in educating older adults on oral health.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Oncology
Nontuthuzelo I. M. Somdyala, Debbie Bradshaw, Muhammad A. Dhansay, Daniela C. Stefan
JCO GLOBAL ONCOLOGY
(2020)
Meeting Abstract
Oncology
J. L. Habrand, J. Datchary, P. Dutheil, A. Vela, T. Tessonnier, A. Rozes, P. Lesueur, W. Kao, E. Kammerer, E. Emery, Y. Reznik, O. Minckes, A. Lecoeur, D. Stefan, C. Loiseau, P. Berejny, J. Balosso, J. Thariat
PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER
(2019)
Correction
Oncology
Jennifer A. Geel, Tobias C. Chirwa, Biance Rowe, Katherine C. Eyal, Fareed Omar, David K. Stones, Yasmin Goga, D. Cristina Stefan, Anel Zyl, Barry Emmenes, Oloko Wedi, Manickavallie Vaithilingum, Marc G. Hendricks
PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER
(2019)
