Fifty Hausa Folk-Talks

Advice to the Expectant Mother: Fifty Antenatal Talks

The doctor who finds difficulty in eliminating the less essential facts and in simplifying his knowledge sufficiently for presentation to the average working-class mother will be helped by this small book. All the important advice necessary for a woman during pregnancy is contained in the fifty outline talks designed to cover the 40 weeks of pregnancy. The majority of the talks are simple and s...

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

Recent studies have interpreted patterns of remotely sensed tree cover as evidence that forest with intermediate tree cover might be unstable in the tropics, as it will tip into either a closed forest or a more open savanna state. Here we show that across all continents the frequency of wildfires rises sharply as tree cover falls below ~40%. Using a simple empirical model, we hypothesize that t...

Règles de formation des noms en hausa (Formation rules of names in Hausa) [in French]

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Dans la perspective du traitement automatique des langues africaines, nous avons décrit quelques caractéristiques du fonctionnement lexical du haoussa. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux règles de formation de mots à partir des racines où une racine est un mot auquel on ajoute quelqu...

Plenary Talks

Invited Talks

In 2009, Peter Cameron introduced a common generalization of various classes of combinatorial designs such as balanced incomplete block designs, resolvable designs and orthogonal arrays. Generalized covering and packing designs can be defined in analogous way. These objects bring into this framework further classes of designs, including covering and packing arrays, Howell designs, monogamous cy...