The geographical distribution of the four human malaria parasite species–Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae and P. ovale is variable and is dependent on a number of factors such as season, endemicity and vector distribution. P. vivax is the most widely distributed and the most common species observed in temperate regions of the world, while P. falciparum is the most widespread through...

The oceanic subsurface variability off East Africa in the tropical western Indian Ocean plays a crucial role ocean dynamics and living resources as well weather climate variability. A regional model is applied to understand interannual Africa. region with highest sea surface temperature (SST) offshore lies adjacent strong variations located between 30 130 m corresponding thermocline depth. weak...

The high cost of fish feed has affected the culturing tilapias and sharptooth catfish in Africa. However, Africa is well endowed with terrestrial insects that can potentially replace fishmeal diets fish. In this paper, nutritional index, availability, selected insect meals are compared. SOLVER function Excel was used to formulate least-cost Musca domestica, Gryllotalpa africana, Schistocerca gr...

Dominoes is a popular and well-known game possibly dating back three millennia. Players are given a set of domino tiles, each with two labeled square faces, and take turns connecting them into a growing chain of dominoes by matching identical faces. We show that singleplayer dominoes is in P, while multiplayer dominoes is hard: when players cooperate, the game is NP-complete, and when players c...

Dr Anne Merriman is the founder of Hospice Africa and Hospice Africa Uganda. She is presently Director of Policy and International Programmes. Here she tells the story of how HAU was founded. Dr Richard Harding is an academic researcher working on palliative care in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper described Dr Merriman's experience in pioneering palliative care provision. In particular it examin...