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Climate change is causing extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, heat waves, and heat stress, which are threatening sectors such as food security, access to drinking water, and public health....
The proposed monograph aims explore the following constructs, ‘alliances’, ‘coalitions’, ‘umbrella groups’ and ‘proxy’s’ in the context of the law of conflict classification. These notions...
This project aims to develop a comprehensive framework for characterizing traditional clay and mud-based structures in African archaeological contexts. The project addresses the critical challenge of distinguishing...
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development by the United Nations emphasizes the need to “protect the planet from degradation……” (UN, 2015). In this resolution, Sustainable Development...
From January 2022 to August 2024, a total of 45,652 cases and 1492 deaths were reported in 12 African countries. The Mpox outbreak and the previous COVID-19 pandemic point to the devastating potential...
As the global population is projected to rise from 8.2 to 10.2 billion by century’s end—driven largely by growth in sub-Saharan Africa—historians and demographers are re-examining the colonial and...
We study the chemical biology, physiology, and therapeutic effects of nitric oxide (NO) and related reactive nitrogen oxides. NO is a central signaling molecule involved in the regulation of cardiovascular...
My project explores the aesthetics, ethics and politics of literary witnessing in five auto/biographical texts from the S-21 detention centre in Cambodia in relation to the politics of representation and...
A primary challenge to 21st century global climate predictability is understanding the ocean’s role as a heat and carbon sink or source to the atmosphere. The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica absorbs...
This research project returns to and reconsiders the many representations of prison experience by political prisoners under apartheid, comparing them to new memoirs published since 2000. These include...
We will use di0erent approaches to clarify what initiates an autoimmune disease and to devise better treatment:
In autoimmune diseases B- and T-cells are directed against our tissues. We will sequence...
The abnormal processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP), aggregation of Aβ, Tau hyper phosphorylation and propagation of these abnormally folded proteins have been collectively recognized as hallmarks...