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Estimation of the coherence time of stochastic oscillations from modest samples
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
‘Quasi-periodic’ or ‘solar-like’ oscillations can be described by three parameters – a characteristic
frequency, a coherence time (or ‘quality factor’) and the variance of the random
driving process. This paper is concerned ...
La migration ouvrière dans le secteur agricole sud-africain
(Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, 2013)
En Afrique du Sud, le système de production agricole,
concentré dans les mains des fermiers blancs, repose toujours
sur l’utilisation des migrations des ouvriers agricoles.
Si la fin de l’apartheid a permis la création ...
Matrimony relations and business in a fishing migrant community (periphery of Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville)
(l'Association des amis de la Revue de Géographie de Lyon, 2013)
This paper examines the entrepreneurial activities of female migrants in the informal artisanal
fishing sector along the coastal line of Congo-Brazzaville. It shows the extent to which these
women have achieved an insertion ...
The effect of weak lensing on distance estimates from supernovae
(American Astronomical Society, 2013)
Using a sample of 608 Type Ia supernovae from the SDSS-II and BOSS surveys, combined with a sample of
foreground galaxies from SDSS-II, we estimate the weak lensing convergence for each supernova line of sight.
We find ...
Trends and risk factors for childhood diarrhea in sub-Saharan countries (1990 2013): assessing the neighborhood inequalities
(Co-Action Publishing, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Diarrheal diseases are a major cause of child mortality and one of the main causes of medical
consultation for children in sub-Saharan countries. This paper attempts to determine the risk factors and
neighborhood ...
Multi-year trend analysis of childhood immunization uptake and coverage in Nigeria
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
As a leading indicator of child health, under-five mortality was incorporated in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with the aim of reducing the rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Under-five mortality in ...
HerMES: The contribution to the cosmic infrared background from galaxies selected by mass and redshift
(American Astronomical Society, 2013)
The cosmic infrared background (CIB), discovered in Far
Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) data from the
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE; Puget et al. 1996;
Fixsen et al. 1998), originates from thermal ...
Associated risk factors of STIs and multiple sexual relationships among youths in Malawi
(PLoS, 2015)
Having unprotected sex with multiple sexual partners (MSP) is the greatest risk factor for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among youths. Young people with MSPs are less ...
An assessment of the age reporting in Tanzania population census
(Academic Research Publishing, 2012)
The objective of this paper is to provide data users with a worldwide assessment of the age reporting in the Tanzania Population Census 2012 data. Many demographic and socio-economic data are age-sex attributed. However, ...
More on the nature of the variable star UNSW-V-760
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
The results of two multicolour time-series photometric observing runs, separated by about two
months, are presented. The same periodicities previously detected in photometry of UNSWV-
760 are still present, albeit at ...