Data on radiocarbon (14C), 137Cs, 210Pb, and 241Am levels in an ombrotrophic peat sequence from a montane site on the east coast of Ireland are compared with data from a similar sequence at an Atlantic peatland site on the west coast. The 14C profiles from the west and east coasts show a broadly similar pattern. Levels increase from 100 pMC or less in the deepest horizons examined, to peak valu...

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing to disentangle the simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income: a change in the remuneration rates of the observed and unobserved earnings determinants, a change in the occupational preferences, and a change in t...

Fires, lights at night and mobile phone activity have been separately used as proxy indicators of human activity with high potential for measuring human development. In this preliminary report, we develop some tools and methodologies to identify and visualize relations among remote sensing datasets containing fires and night lights information with mobile phone activity in Cote D’Ivoire from De...

Recent development of environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis allows us to survey underwater macro-organisms easily and cost effectively; however, there have been no reports on eDNA detection or quantification for jellyfish. Here we present the first report on an eDNA analysis of marine jellyfish using Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) as a model species by combining a tank experiment with spa...

We investigate the relation between performances of speech and of song in the awosi dirge genre of Anyi (Kwa, Côte d’Ivoire). The relation between speech and song prosody has not been extensively studied, in terms of either structure or performance variation. We address phonetic issues of pitch height, tonal prominence, downtrends of speech in relation to melodic trends in song, and the phonolo...

H uman Resources for Health (HRH) are critical to health systems development and functioning, and to patient and population health outcomes (1). Nurses in South Africa, as elsewhere, make up the largest single group of health service providers and their role in promoting health and providing essential health services is undisputed (2). South Africa has three categories of nurses: professional (...

Incorporating the perspectives and insights of stakeholders is an essential component of ecosystem-based fisheries management, such that policy strategies should account for the diverse interests of various groups of anglers to enhance their efficacy. Here we assessed fishing stakeholders' perceptions on the management of Atlantic striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and receptiveness to potential f...

Avicennia L. (Avicenniaceae), one of the most diverse mangrove genera, is distributed widely in tropical and subtropical intertidal zones worldwide. Five species of Avicennia in the Indo-West Pacific region have been previously described. However, their phylogenetic relationships were determined based on morphological and allozyme data. To enhance our understanding of evolutionary patterns in t...

The article outlines how we have identified the cities, city population, strength of social ties among cities, urban mobility in the largest city of Abidjan, and locations of residential and work areas. To deal with otherwise inadequate information contained in the D4D call detail records we introduced some daring assumptions and invented approximation techniques. Although further investigation...

In this paper I argue that Nouchi, a relatively young Ivoirian contact variety, is and should be treated as a full-fledged language distinct from French and its other source languages. Nouchi, an emerging language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire since that late 1970’s (Ayewa 2005), has been treated in the literature as a slang vocabulary or an urban youth dialect of French. Though Nouchi began as a lin...