INTRODUCTION Mephedrone and MDPV are both b-ketophenethylamine derivatives of cathinone, a compound isolated from the East African plant Catha edulis (khat, qat). Mephedrone is commonly referred to as plant food, MCAT, 4-MMC, meow meow, meph, and drone; MDPV is commonly called MTV, MDPK, Magic, and Super Coke. Both are structurally similar to amphetamines, with mephedrone sharing close similari...

Between 1985 and 1988, the cestodes of 1,252 wild birds (174 species) from the Ivory Coast (West Africa) were collected and studied. Of these birds, 15.7% were parasitized by an estimated 95-100 species of tapeworms, 55 of them having been determined or described. Most of the parasites were found in new hosts, and numerous new geographical records are reported. In general, both the prevalence a...

An online tool based on dialectometric methods, DistGraph, is applied to a group of Kru languages of Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Burkina Faso. The inputs to this resource consist of tables of languages x linguistic features (e.g. phonological, lexical or grammatical), and statistical and graphical outputs are generated which show similarities and differences between the languages in terms of the...

Linguist’s Assistant (LA) is a large scale semantic analyzer and multi-lingual natural language generator designed and developed entirely from a linguist’s perspective. The system incorporates extensive typological, semantic, syntactic, and discourse research into its semantic representational system and its transfer and synthesizing grammars. LA has been tested with English, Korean, Kewa (Papu...

A new species Orphinus geiseri sp. n. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from Ivory Coast (Mt. Nimba) is described, illustrated and compared with similar species. The differs congeners by the structure of antennae male genitalia.

This paper briefly reviews studies of thermospheric neutral wind dynamics over the African region. The literature includes a review observations winds five locations using Fabry–Perot Interferometer (FPI), and comparison between FPI predictions horizontal model (HWM-14). So far, there are reports measurements in South Africa Morocco representing mid-latitude regions southern northern hemisphere...