When taken to its logical conclusion, however, this line of argumentation rests on the logic that the way to eliminate maternal mortality is to eliminate pregnancy altogether, rather than to address the social, economic, and health inequities that render pregnancy and childbirth so dangerous for so...
For example, in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, in 2017, ASM communities produced an estimated 50 tonnes of gold – more than 50 percent of legally-declared industrial production – which fetched a market value of US$2.02 billion, the bulk of which was exported from the region illicitly (...
" said Rebecca Toman, vice president of the survey business unit at Pearl Meyer. Among half of the firms saying they are increasing pay budgets, the average is now up to 5.2%, and 25% said they are planning to give pay increases greater than 6%. "Firms ...
Food security is a critical part of the Sustainable Development Goals and government policies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The expression “food security” was introduced in 1974 following famines in the Sahel and Darfur (Gerlach,2015), and was initially focused on the production and availability ...
You choose jelly bean 267 and hold it in your hand, leaving 999 jelly beans on the stump. Then, while you hold onto jelly bean 267, the man removes 998 jelly beans from the stump and tells you that all 998 of them are poisonous. All that’s left on the stump is jelly bean 749....
"This is about the last opportunity for us to do this," said Glebe. "If we can't get it done now, it probably won't ever happen." When asked how she felt about subsequent attempts and the current organization, she said, "There was talk in the 50s, but then the Korean War happene...
Kgaard, Even better are the cultures of Niger and Mali, who make the Mormons seem almost childless by comparison. We should take in more immigrants from those places, to inject some dynamism into our sterile country. Is that where you’re going with this?
The term nanofertilizer indicates that the nanomaterial, which is either a plant nutrient itself (micro- or macro-nutrients) or the carrier of a plant nutrient, is termed a nanofertilizer. Nutrients encapsulated or covered by nanomaterials are also called NFs [24]. NFs can be developed from sy...
us of the impermanence of status and, indeed, the status quo, of the fact not only that we age, but also that we can take nothing for granted (Figure 5). In presenting herself as ‘alien’, Varda is also shaking us out of our conventional ways of seeing; she is defamiliarising the...