Browsing by Subject "Africa"
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(2019-08-14)Lions are a flagship species, meaning that as a large, charismatic carnivore, research and conservation for the lion influences many other species that share its habitat. Proper management requires understanding of a ...
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(2021-07-20)In the region of northwestern Namibia, the desert elephants’ population has been reduced to a total of 81 remaining as of 2019. Their population has been on a steady decline due to poaching, wars in the region, increasing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)This research is directed toward analyzing and assessing the impact of climatic conditions on residential structures and their cryptoclimate. Through such an analysis one can design the structure properly, taking into ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The ecology of southern mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula fulvorufula) and Chanler's mountain reedbuck (r. F. chanleri) was described from observations in six populations of the southern subspecies and three populations ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)Physicochemical properties of starch and endosperm were characterized for several sorghumcultivars. A small scale laboratory method was developed for cooking to in acid and alkali media using 9.5 g sorghum flour. Testing ...
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(2014-08-10)Two experiments were conducted in four agro-ecosystems of Ghana: the coastal savannah, forest, forest-guinea savannah transition and guinea savannah. Experiment one assessed the effect of three tillage and four cropping ...
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(2020-03-30)This dissertation examines three essays on factors affecting human capital development, using quasi-experimental research designs. The first essay “Exposure to Negative Shocks and Child Development: Evidence from Boko ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Microsatellites are repetitive DNA characterized by tandem repeats of short motifs (2 â 5 bp). High mutation rates make them ideal for population level studies. Microsatellite allele genesis is generally attributed ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Large scale and planned introduction of maize (Zea mays) in southern Africa was accomplished during the last 100 years. Since then, smallholder farmers and breeders have been selecting varieties best adapted to their ...
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(2009-06-02)At the beginning of the twenty-first century Germany geopolitics can be characterized by its grand strategy as a civilian power. Germany has come to depend on a civilianized international system based on multilateralism, ...
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(2017-06-27)The biogeographical history of the Afro-tropical Guineo-Congolian lowland forests during the Plio-Pleistocene is characterized by pervasive fragmentation-coalescence cycling due to global climatic oscillations. Vicariance ...
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(2016-03-22)Ambassador Hank Cohen discusses what has helped and what has hindered economic development and democracy in Africa since the end of colonization. Inspired by his book "The Mind of an African Strongman: Conversations with ...
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A Multi-Decadal Precipitation Evaluation for Namibia Using Satellite, Model, and Ground-Based Data (2019-06-18)Precipitation in southern Africa exhibits high variability with rain often falling in an intense deluge or not at all. Considerable research has gone into understanding what drives precipitation in southern Africa and how ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Bats of the genus Scotophilus are distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa, parts of southern and Southeast Asia, a majority of the Indomalayan Islands, Reunion Island, and Madagascar. The genus is composed of 14 recognized ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)This study was designed to determine the possibility of utilizing physical properties as a tool to interpret portions of the geologic history of the west African continental margin. The properties measured were: bulk ...
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(2020-07-28)In a 2005 essay titled “Bye-Bye Babar,” Taiye Selasi coined the term “Afropolitanism” to name a material and conceptual space inhabited by cosmopolitan Africans. The essay recounted her encounters with Africans of mixed ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)An agent based-model of mobility of pastoralists was developed and applied to the semi-arid rangeland region extending from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. This model was used to investigate temporal adaptation of ...
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(2015-08-12)Soil quality enhancements will be a vital link to food security as world populations are projected to swell by 2 billion people over the next 30 years. Efficient and productive agronomic practices will be essential for the ...
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(2020-04-19)Most societies throughout history have instituted ways of dealing with criminals, including the penalty of death. How such a penalty is carried out or wherever it ought to be carried out at all is an ongoing discourse. My ...