نتایج جستجو برای: yoruba culture
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BACKGROUND Depression remains a major public health problem, but little is known about the views and understandings of depression held by many ethnic groups. Aim. To explore views and understandings of depression in three ethnic groups-Yoruba, Sylheti-speaking Bangladeshi and White British-living in South London. DESIGN Qualitative, semi-structured interviews, using vignettes describing depre...
This paper examines surrogate motherhood and its acceptability in Yoruba African society. We discovered that South Africa had already accepted it and there is a law to that effect in their child care act. Though some other countries in Africa also have a child care act, little is said about reproductive technology. This paper examines the acceptability of this technique among the Yoruba in Nige...
This paper examines the tonal behavior of six types of enclitics in Standard Yoruba, and shows that in all six cases, a constraint applies preventing the last syllable of the host and the adjacent clitic syllable from having the same (High or Low) tone. There are no other host+clitic cases in Yoruba for which such a constraint would be relevant. Potential violations of the constraint are avoide...
fulani ecotype chickens (fec) and yoruba ecotype chickens (yec) are the two major types of indigenous chickens in nigeria. they subsist under traditional animal husbandry and are thus liable to indiscriminate mating and consequently to loss of genetic diversity. fulani ecotype chickens (fec) and yoruba ecotype chickens (yec) were investigated to determine genetic variation at transferrin locus ...
BACKGROUND The combination of partial absence of the sacrum, anorectal anomalies, and presacral mass constitutes Currarino syndrome (CS), which is associated with mutations in HLXB9. METHODS We analyzed 5 CS families and 6 sporadic cases for HLXB9 mutations by direct sequencing. Potentially pathologic expansions of HLXB9 GCC repeats were analyzed in patients, 4 general populations [Chinese, J...
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common human enzymopathy and in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a significant cause of infection- and drug-induced hemolysis and neonatal jaundice. Our goals were to determine the prevalence of G6PD deficiency among Nigerian children of different ethnic backgrounds and to identify predictors of G6PD deficiency by analyzing vital signs and h...
Text to Speech system (TTS) cannot be overlooked because of the important roles it performs in enabling the user to access the voice output of the input text. Text To Speech is a system that takes text as input and produces the equivalent natural human voice of the text input. The system has been applied in different native languages outside Nigeria. In this paper, we considered development of ...
In this article we aim to explore the relationship between ancestry and education. We start reviewing some general aspects of ancestor worship in sub-Saharan African cultures. This provides a common ground for approaching Yoruba culture particular analyzing veneration through Egúngún festival. Next, key points are put forward investigate guidelines that concept egúngún understand education trad...
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