The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“…Thus, the Yorùbá system was reconstructed in the New World than some of its more localized counterparts in the Bight of Benin and Biafra regions, specifically the Kangas of modern Liberia, whose religious practices are more localized. …”
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Real-time Classification and Hepatitis B Detection with Evolutionary Data Mining Approach by Asadi Srinivasulu, Goddindla Sreenivasulu, Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde

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Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes by Ifeanyi Sunday Onah, Obiora Cornelius Collins

“…It poses a serious health challenge around the world today, especially in West African countries like Ghana, Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. In this work, we formulate a multiple-patch Lassa fever model, where each patch denotes a socioeconomic class (SEC). …”
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Orality in War Novels: Different Aspects of Swear Words in Henri Barbusse’s and Ahmadou Kourouma’s works by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…Although Barbusse’s First World War soldiers do not use the same vocabulary as Kourouma’s child soldiers who took part in the fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s, their language is characterized by the same abusive use of swear words. …”
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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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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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Enhancing Monkeypox Detection through Data Analytics: A Comparative Study of Machine and Deep Learning Techniques by Kinjal A. Patel, Asadi Srinivasulu, Kuntesh Jani, Goddindla Sreenivasulu

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Drivers of Financial Inclusion and Effect of Covid-19 on Electronic Payments in West Africa by Paul Adjei Onyina

“…It used the World Bank’s Global Findex 2021 data collected at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic with 1000 respondents each from Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Liberia and Cameroon and model logit regression to investigate the drivers of financial inclusion and how COVID-19 affected it. …”
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An extreme value analysis of daily new cases of COVID-19 in Africa by Saralees Nadarajah, Adamu Abubakar Umar, Adamu Abubakar Umar

“…The sharpest and weakest of the downward trends with respect to location were for Mali and Liberia, respectively. The sharpest and weakest of the downward trends with respect to scale were for Egypt and Libya, respectively. …”
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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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Cultivating a thriving agricultural sector: Unveiling the drivers of farmer participation in agricultural development interventions in Ghana by Magdalene Aidoo, Stephen Prah, Irene Serwaa Asante, Charles Kwame Sackey, Bright Owusu Asante

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Genetic Artificial Hummingbird Algorithm-Support Vector Machine for Timely Power Theft Detection by Emmanuel Gbafore, Davies Rene Segera, Cosmas Raymond Mutugi Kiruki

“…It utilizes 7,270 rows of labeled historical electricity consumption data from the Liberia Electricity Corporation over 15 independent runs. …”
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The Effect of Delay Techniques on a Lassa Fever Epidemic Model by Ali Raza, Eugenio Rocha, Emad Fadhal, Rashid I. H. Ibrahim, Eman Afkar, Muhammad Bilal

“…According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria, and West Africa are the most affected countries with Lassa fever. …”
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Predictors of hospitalization, death and incomplete/non-recovery from SARS-CoV-2 in an ambulatory global population by Sarah L. Pett

“…Methods: We enrolled SARS-CoV-2-positive ambulatory adults in the cohort studies, ICOS (47 sites, 5 continents), and PCOS (Liberia) and followed for 28-days. Kaplan-Meier estimates of percentage of those hospitalized or died were derived. …”
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Evaluation of waning of IgG antibody responses after rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP and Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo Ebola virus disease vaccines: a modelling study from the PREVAC randomized trial by Simon Valayer, Marie Alexandre, Mélanie Prague, Abdoul Habib Beavogui, Seydou Doumbia, Mark Kieh, Brian Greenwood, Bailah Leigh, Marie Poupelin, Christine Schwimmer, Samba O. Sow, Irina Maljkovic Berry, Jens H. Kuhn, Daniela Fusco, Natasha Dubois Cauwelaert, Deborah Watson-Jones, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Yves Lévy, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Laura Richert, Edouard Lhomme

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Consolidating Medical Education in Sudan During War by Mohamed H. Taha, Nazik E. Husain, Wail Nuri Osman Mukhtar, Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla

“…Case studies from Ukraine, Liberia, and Iraq were included for a comprehensive understanding. …”
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Bosques tropicales estacionalmente secos son importantes para ganaderos en el noroeste costarricense by Florent Godinot, Eduardo Somarriba, Bryan Finegan, Diego Delgado-Rodríguez

“…[Metodología]: Se administraron 43 entrevistas semiestructuradas a ganaderos del cantón de Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. [Resultados]: Los ganaderos padecían de la pérdida de rentabilidad de la ganadería debido a sequias, incendios y robo de ganado. …”
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Late initiation of antenatal care visit amid implementation of new antenatal care model in Sub-Saharan African countries: A multilevel analysis of multination population survey dat... by Kusse Urmale Mare, Gashaye Gobena Andargie, Abdulkerim Hassen Moloro, Ahmed Adem Mohammed, Osman Ahmed Mohammed, Beriso Furo Wengoro, Begetayinoral Kussia Lahole, Tesfahun Simon Hadaro, Simeon Meskele Leyto, Petros Orkaido Mamo, Abdulhakim Hora Hedato, Beminate Lemma Seifu, Temesgen Gebeyehu Wondmeneh, Oumer Abdulkadir Ebrahim, Kebede Gemeda Sabo

“…<h4>Results</h4>The pooled prevalence of late antenatal care visit among pregnant women in SSA was 53.8% [95% CI: 46.2% - 61.3%], ranging from 27.8% in Liberia to 75.8% in Nigeria. Women's age and education, working status, partner's education, health insurance coverage, birth order, household wealth, age at marriage, decision on health care, residence, and community-level women's illiteracy were the factors associated with late antenatal care visit.…”
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Valorization of mixed blackwater/agricultural wastes for bioelectricity and biohydrogen production: A microbial treatment pathway by G. Plason Z. Plakar, Abdulsalami S. Kovo, Kanayo L. Oguzie, Emeka E. Oguzie

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A prospective, multi-site, cohort study to estimate incidence of infection and disease due to Lassa fever virus in West African countries (the Enable Lassa research programme)-Stud... by Suzanne Penfold, Ayola Akim Adegnika, Danny Asogun, Olufemi Ayodeji, Benedict N Azuogu, William A Fischer, Robert F Garry, Donald Samuel Grant, Christian Happi, Magassouba N'Faly, Adebola Olayinka, Robert Samuels, Jefferson Sibley, David A Wohl, Manfred Accrombessi, Ifedayo Adetifa, Giuditta Annibaldis, Anton Camacho, Chioma Dan-Nwafor, Akpénè Ruth Esperencia Deha, Jean DeMarco, Sophie Duraffour, Augustine Goba, Rebecca Grais, Stephan Günther, Énagnon Junior Juvénal Prince Honvou, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Christine Jacobsen, Lansana Kanneh, Mambu Momoh, Aminata Ndiaye, Robert Nsaibirni, Sylvanus Okogbenin, Chinwe Ochu, Ephraim Ogbaini, Énagnon Parsifal Marie Alexandre Logbo, John Demby Sandi, John S Schieffelin, Thomas Verstraeten, Nathalie J Vielle, Anges Yadouleton, Emmanuel Koffi Yovo, Enable Protocol authorship group

“…<h4>Method</h4>We are conducting a prospective cohort study in Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria (three sites), and Sierra Leone from 2020 to 2023, with 24 months of follow-up. …”
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