Flexible Lévy-Based Models for Time Series of Count Data with Zero-Inflation, Overdispersion, and Heavy Tails by Confort Kollie, Philip Ngare, Bonface Malenje

“…The model’s flexibility is illustrated through applications to rainfall data in Guinea from 2008 to 2023, and the number of NSF funding awarded to academic institutions. …”
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Analysis of Essential Elements for Plants Growth Using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis by R. L. Njinga, M. N. Moyo, S. Y. Abdulmaliq

“…In this study, a total of ten essential elements for plants growth in the Guinea savanna region of Niger State in Northern Nigeria have been identified in the soils using instrumental neutron activation analysis. …”
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Ebola: Impact of hospital's admission policy in an overwhelmed scenario by Mondal Hasan Zahid, Christopher M. Kribs

“…A recent case occurred in West Africa in 2014 when an Ebola virus outbreak overwhelmed facilities in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. In such scenarios, how many patients can hospitals admit to minimize disease burden? …”
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ETNOZOOLOGI: STUDI KEARIFAN LOKAL MASYARAKAT ADAT KAMPUNG NAGA TASIKMALAYA by Yustika Ayu Sekartaji, Diana Hernawati, Vita Meylani

“…The results of the study found that the people of Kampung Naga have local wisdom regarding the control of agricultural pests, the main pests are brown planthopper, walang sangit, rats and birds as well as animal maintenance including chickens, goats, fish, guinea pigs and rabbits. This study aims to describe the study of ethnozoological studies of the people of Kampung Naga, Neglasari Village, Salawu District, Tasikmalaya Regency as a source of learning biology in the form of a booklet. …”
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Diversity, Distribution, and Evolution of Bioluminescent Fungi by Brian A. Perry, Dennis E. Desjardin, Cassius V. Stevani

“…With the caveat that most regions of the world have not been extensively sampled for bioluminescent fungi, the areas with the most known species are Japan (36), South America (30), North America (27), Malesia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia (26), Europe (23), Central America (21), China (13), Africa (10), Australasia, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia (11), and the Pacific Islands (5). …”
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Migration humaine et diffusion de variétés de riz by Mathieu Fribault

“…In a 1955 article, Roland Portères proposed a hypothesis about the origin of the Baga people, a society living on the coastline of Guinea. The Baga people, who were famous rice growers, used a variety of African floating rice, which the author identified simultaneously in the region of Mopti (Mali). …”
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The potential impact of a prophylactic vaccine for Ebola in Sierra Leone by Erin N. Bodine, Connor Cook, Mikayla Shorten

“…The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was multinational and of an unprecedented scale primarily affecting the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. One of the qualities that makes EVD of high public concern is its potential for extremely high mortality rates (up to 90%). …”
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Protein tyrosine kinase but not protein kinase C inhibition blocks receptor induced alveolar macrophage activation by K. Pollock, M. T. Withnall

“…The selective enzyme inhibitors genistein and Ro 31-8220 were used to assess the importance of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) and protein kinase C (PKC), respectively, in N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) induced generation of superoxide anion and thromboxane B2 (TXB2) in guinea-pig alveolar macrophages (AM). Genistein (3–100 μM) dose dependently inhibited FMLP (3 nM) induced superoxide generation in non-primed AM and TXB2 release in non-primed or in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (10 ng/ml) primed AM to a level > 80% but had litle effect up to 100 μM on phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) (10 nM) induced superoxide release. …”
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Role of lysosomal enzymes released by alveolar macrophages in the pathogenesis of the acute phase of hypersensitivity pneumonitis by J. L. Pérez-Arellano, M. N. Barrios, T. Martín, M. L. Sánchez, J. M. González Buitrago, A. Jiménez

“…An experimental study on AM lysosomal enzymes of an HP-guinea-pig model was performed. The results obtained both in vivo and in vitro suggest that intracellular enzymatic activity decrease is, at least partly, due to release of lysosomal enzymes into the medium. …”
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Tropical Atlantic Hurricanes, Easterly Waves, and West African Mesoscale Convective Systems by Yves K. Kouadio, Luiz A. T. Machado, Jacques Servain

“…Finally, a dipole in sea surface temperature (SST) was observed with a positive SST anomaly within the region of H generation and a negative SST anomaly within the Gulf of Guinea. This SST anomaly dipole could contribute to enhance the continental convergence associated with the monsoon that impacts on the West African MCSs formation.…”
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Counterterrorism Planning in the Shipping Industry Leveraging Competitive Intelligence by Anastasios-Nikolaos KANELLOPOULOS, Anthony IOANNIDIS

“…Key threats such as piracy in Somalia and the Gulf of Guinea, ship-borne terrorism, and attacks on ports are examined, highlighting the limitations of existing measures like the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. …”
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De l’inégalité parmi les chimpanzés : Sexe, drogues et individuation by David Jaclin

“…Leaving behind bubble baths and expensive wardrobes, she entered biomedical research and became a guinea pig for more than 10 years. She now lives in Quebec in a sanctuary that founder Gloria Grow describes as a curious mix of “a maximum security prison, a Zen retreat, an old folk’s home, and a Montreal Deli during the lunchtime rush”. …”
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Assessing the Capabilities of Three Regional Climate Models over CORDEX Africa in Simulating West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation by A. A. Akinsanola, K. O. Ogunjobi, I. E. Gbode, V. O. Ajayi

“…Results show that two of the RCMs (RCA and REMO) simulated the main features of the rainfall climatology and associated dynamics over the three subregions (Guinea Coast, Savannah, and Sahel) of West Africa. …”
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Basic fibroblast growth factor helps protect facial nerve cells in a freeze-induced paralysis model. by Shinji Iwata, Hiroyuki Yamada, Masato Teraoka, Takemichi Tanaka, Takuya Kimura, Tomonori Joko, Yasuhiko Tabata, Hiroyuki Wakisaka, Naohito Hato

“…A severe facial paralysis model was induced in Hartley guinea pigs by freezing the facial canal. Animals were divided into two groups: one group was treated with gelatin hydrogel impregnated with bFGF (bFGF group) and the other was treated with gelatin hydrogel impregnated with saline (control group). …”
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EBOLA AND COVID-19 EPIDEMICS: A DISCOURSE ON NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY RESPONSES by BARILEDUM KIA, CALISTUS N DUMLE

“…These include setting up of screening and monitoring Centre at the nation’s Airports, facilitated the setting up of a regional solidarity fund, in which countries made contributions, initiated actions that adjudged Ebola epidemic as not only national and regional but also international emergency, donated huge sum to worst affected states like Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. For COVID -19, In the case of Covid-19, Nigeria collaborated with major powers.  …”
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Passive Immunoprophylaxis for the Protection of the Mother and Her Baby: Insights from In Vivo Models of Antibody Transport by Yanqun Xu, Iftekhar Mahmood, Lilin Zhong, Pei Zhang, Evi B. Struble

“…Our work is focused on better understanding the safety and efficacy determinants of IgG antibody preparations when used during pregnancy to benefit the mother and her baby. Using pregnant guinea pigs, we demonstrated that biodistribution of administered IgG to the fetus increases with gestation and results in lower maternal and higher fetal antibody concentrations as pregnancy progresses. …”
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Evaluation of CMIP5 Global Climate Models over the Volta Basin: Precipitation by Jacob Agyekum, Thompson Annor, Benjamin Lamptey, Emmannuel Quansah, Richard Yao Kuma Agyeman

“…For the annual cycle of the monthly total, the CESM1-BGC, the MPI-ESM-MR, and the NorESM1-M were able to simulate the peak of the observed rainy season well in the Soudano-Sahel, the Sahel, and the entire basin, respectively, while all the models had difficulty in simulating the bimodal pattern of the Guinea Coast. The ensemble mean shows high performance compared to the individual models in various timescales.…”
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Phylogenomic and mitogenomic data can accelerate inventorying of tropical beetles during the current biodiversity crisis by Michal Motyka, Dominik Kusy, Matej Bocek, Renata Bilkova, Ladislav Bocak

“…Using constrained mtDNA analysis, we identified the spatial structure of species diversity, very high species-level endemism, and a biodiversity hotspot in New Guinea. We suggest that focused field research and subsequent laboratory and bioinformatic workflow steps would substantially accelerate the inventorying of any hyperdiverse tropical group with several thousand species. …”
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Prion meeting 2023: implications of a growing field by Tiago F. Outeiro, Tuane C. R. G. Vieira

“…The history of human prion diseases began with the original description, by Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and by Alfons Maria Jakob, of patients with a severe brain disease that included speech abnormalities, confusion, and myoclonus, in a disease that was then named Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD). Later, in Papua New Guinea, a disease characterized by trembling was identified, and given the name “Kuru”. …”
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Effects of Banditry and Illegal Logging on Conservation in Kainji Lake National Park, Nigeria by S. M. Ayeni, P. N. Meduna, A. A. Babatunde

“…The animal species includes Grim duiker, Guinea fowl, Bushbuck, Rabbit etc. The effects of banditry and illegal logging on wildlife conservation in Kainji Lake are destruction of habitat (45.1%) and decline in wildlife population (38.1%) recorded the highest percentages, followed by loss of biodiversity (11.5%) while climate change is the least with 4.4%. …”
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