Predicting the adoption of improved cassava varieties in Sierra Leone

Factors Influencing Adoption of Improved Cassava Processing Technologies by Rural Women in Enugu State, Nigeria

  T he study examined factors influencing the adoption of improved cassava processing technologies. Interview schedule was used to collect information from 100 rural women involved in cassava processing. The average age of the respondents was 51 years and majority (77%) had formal education. The women’s main source of information on the improved cassava processing technologies was through the W...

The Sierra Leone HIS Case:

In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an enterprise and on challenges faced while building a Health Information Infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main contribution of the paper is the design of a change strategy towards an integrated HIS ...

The trauma of war in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone: the forgotten mortality

T he 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries across West Africa, Europe, and the United States. Sierra Leone is among the predominant three nations affected, alongside Guinea and Liberia. As of 14 December 2014, there have been 8,356 cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone, with 2,417 deaths (1). However, little focus has been paid to the deteriora...

Hantavirus in Bat, Sierra Leone

The molecular masses of the PrPres moieties from the 2 cows were also clearly distinct from those from controls with Land H-BSE (Figure). For samples from animals with H-BSE, enzymatic deglycosylation demonstrated PrPres subtypes, 1 and 2, the latter being a C-terminal PrPres fragment of ≈12–14 kDa (6). To investigate whether the novel PrPres type corresponds to PrPres subtype 2, we compared sa...