Sub-Saharan AfricaConflict PreventionConflict FactorsRoot causesConflict Prolonging FactorsEscalation PatternsPeace OrderStructural StabilityCurrent thinking on African conflicts suffers from misinterpretations (oversimplification, lack of focus, lack of conceptual clarity, state-centrism and lack of vision). The...
Giving examples, Zhang said that the Boko Haram and the Islamic State have continued to grow in West Africa, and extremist militants have returned and used conflict to launch attacks, thus posing unprecedented threats to regional peace and stability. He further pointed out that the linkage between...
Resource conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria has become hydra-headed despite the amnesty granted by the Federal Government in 2009. Historically, the discovery of oil in commercial quantity and its exploitation rather than become a blessing to the local communities have become a source of worry...
A negative regulator of MAP kinase causes depressive behavior. Nat Med. 2010;16:1328–32. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Labonte B, Engmann O, Purushothaman I, Menard C, Wang J, Tan C, et al. Sex-specific transcriptional signatures in human depression. Nat Med. 2017...
Eating a variety of foods has been recommended in the dietary guidelines of many developed nations, as well as global dietary guidelines. We investigated the potential effect of dietary diversity on the risk of total mortality and major causes of mortality in a large-scale cohort study involving ...
In 2022, the average annual PM2.5 concentration for Peshawar was 92 micrograms per cubic meter of air (µg/m3). PM2.5, particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or less in diameter, causes respiratory and cardiac disease. It’s also the most common air pollutant. Peshawar, Pakistan experienced...
Activation and Function of iNKT and MAIT Cells ShilpiChandra,MitchellKronenberg, inAdvances in Immunology, 2015 2.8.3Leishmaniaspp. iNKT cells participated in protection against theprotozoanparasitesLeishmaniamajorandLeishmania donovani.L. majoris an intracellular pathogen that causescutaneous leishmaniasisand ...
In an attempt to show the breadth of conflict acceleration, I over-emphasized its global versus its personal dimension. From speaking with readers about the post later, the effect had been for them to see this rise in conflict as taking place “on distant shores,” that is, it had little...
A key objective in the field of translational psychiatry over the past few decades has been to identify the brain correlates of major depressive disorder (MDD). Identifying measurable indicators of brain processes associated with MDD could facilitate the
The genotyping was in part funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the Integrated Network IntegraMent (Integrated Understanding of Causes and Mechanisms in Mental Disorders), under the auspices of the e:Med Programme (grants awarded to TGS, MR, and MMN). ...