Optimisation de la biométhanisation des effluents de manioc issus de la filière de fabrication de l’attiéké (semoule de manioc)

Cette étude s’est penchée sur les conditions optimales de biodigestion des effluents de manioc de la filière attiéké (semoule de manioc). Ces effluents proviennent de la fabrique d’attiéké d’Azito (village Ebrié de la commune de Yopougon dans le district d’Abidjan). Les six digesteurs expérimentaux utilisés, ont été alimentés comme suit : 1) effluent de manioc; 2) effluent + bouse de vache; 3) effluent + urine ; 4-5 et 6) effluent + urine + différentes quantités de bouse de vache. Aux résultats, les digesteurs ont fonctionné de façon mésophile avec des températures comprises entre 24,0 et 35,6 °C. Les digesteurs sans urine ont un pH variant entre 3 et 4 durant l’expérimentation. Pour ceux contenant de l’urine humaine, le pH a oscillé entre 6,46 et 10,29. Concernant le volume de gaz produit, il est significativement plus important dans les digesteurs contenant de l’urine que dans les digesteurs sans ajout d’urine. Le test d’inflammabilité du gaz produit est positif sauf pour le premier digesteur. Dans l’ensemble, les résultats de l’étude montrent que l’ajustement du pH avec l’urine humaine avant le démarrage du traitement des effluents de manioc issus de la filière de fabrication de l’attiéké par digestion anaérobie, est nécessaire pour l’optimisation du processus de biométhanisation.Mots clés: Digestion anaérobie, effluents de manioc, bioga

Hypotyposis in Candide (Voltaire): Table-Description or Description of Table?

Die „Tableau-Beschreibung“ unterscheidet sich von der „Beschreibung des Tableaus“ durch die Tatsache, dass die zweite sich auf die Stimme beschränkt, die man dem Tableau verleiht, um sich auszudrücken, während die erstere ihrerseits die Erörterung in eine Suche nach der Wirkung einleitet. Darin sollte sich eine von Intensitätsbetreibern dynamisierte Erörterung entwickeln, die von einer parataktischen Syntax geleitet wird, mit welchen funktionelle Prädikate kombiniert werden. Dieses System ist der Hypotyposis durch die Wirkung auf den Hörenden ähnlich. Gegen- sätzlich neigt die „Beschreibung des Tableaus“ dazu, sich zu befähigen, um ein hermetisches Tableau zu erklären. In diesem Fall verschwindet der diegetische Zweck, um die Darstellung von festen Zeiten zu verwirklichen. Hier geht es um die attributiven Prädikate, die zeitlich-räumlichen Organisatoren, die in der Beschreibung entwickelt werden. Jede dieser Beschreibungen wird in einigen auszügen von Candide erwähnt, aber die „Tableau-Beschreibung“ oder Hypotyposis ist von ihm beauftragt, den Schmerz der Menschheit im 18. Jahrhundert zu aktualisieren.The “table-description” differs from the “description of table” in that whereas the latter is limited to table’s voice to express, the former, in itself, is concerned with the discursive in quest for the table effect. Manifest in the table-description is the discursive item energized by intensity operators, which a paratactic syntax can drive, and which is combined with functional predicates. This device approximates the hypotyposis through the effect produced on the listener. In contrast, the “description of table” tends to become autonomous so as to explain a hermetic table. In this case, the diegetic purpose disappears in order to consolidate the representation of captured moments. Here, the attributive predicates and the spatiotemporal organizers are developed in the description. Voltaire makes use of each of these descriptions in some extracts of Candide, but the “table-description” or hypotyposis is given the task of updating the pain of humanity in the 18th century

Reflexion Sur Les Enjeux Epistemologique Et Methodologique De L’approche Anthropologique Sur La Maladie Chronique En Contexte Africain A Travers L’exemple Du VIH/Sida

Our practical experience of anthropology in the field of HIV/AIDS and many researchers’ commitment in such scientific programs showed that social sciences’ approach of chronic disease in African cultural context includes relevant epistemological and methodological issues. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of these issues while showing the contribution of the anthropological approach to the comprehension of the health phenomena related to the AIDS in the African environment. The approach to this was to review the literature on fieldwork already done on HIV / AIDS in the social sciences. The results of our analysis indicate that medical research on HIV / AIDS in African cultural context has mobilized social sciences mainly anthropology in its various specialties which alongside Biology, Epidemiology and Clinic have led to the development of an inclusive approach of the disease. This interactive approach between social sciences and medical sciences allowed fulfilling the limits of medicine’s quantitative approaches and thus to grasp the AIDS pandemic in these epidemiological, behavioral and representational aspects

Library Tools at the Nurses\u27 Station: Exploring Information-Seeking Behaviors and Needs of Nurses in a War Veterans Nursing Home

Objectives: Analyze the information-seeking practices and identify the information and education needs of nurses in a war veterans nursing home. Develop an online toolkit for use at the nurses’ stations to meet nurses’ health information needs. Methods: Investigators employed mixed methods to determine the health information needs of the participating nurses at the skilled nursing facility using an online questionnaire and in-person observations. Resulting data was compared to determine how nurses’ self-reported data corresponded with investigator observations. Results: Twenty-seven out of a total of thirty-five nurses responded to the online questionnaire. The study principal investigator also observed a total of twelve nurses working across all shifts. The online questionnaire asked nurses to identify when they need health information for an acute clinical scenario. Nurses self-reported feeling most confident in assessing falls and pain, followed by medication adherence and skin integrity. Issues most frequently encountered during observation of nurses were falls, interventions surrounding cognitive ability or dementia, and use of antibiotics. Nurses reported and were observed to consult colleagues most frequently, followed by drug handbooks and relying on nursing experience. Conclusion: Nurses in skilled nursing facilities will benefit from ready online access to current drug handbooks as well as information resources surrounding commonly encountered clinical issues and stated needs. An outcome of this project is an online toolkit site using a LibGuide created specifically for this purpose. Researchers purchased laptop computers that were installed at each of the nurses’ stations to provide ready access to the toolkit site

We\u27re Virtually There: Providing Health Sciences Education and Wellness Through Virtual Reality Experiences

This is a presentation by Gail Kouame for the MLA 2022 Annual Meeting. This presentation describes two virtual reality projects undertaken by the Greenblatt Library at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. The first project is one that her two co-authors, Jenn Davis and Lachelle Smith, initiated. Jenn is the Data and Scholarship Librarian and Lachelle is the Allied Health Sciences Librarian. They wanted to figure out a way to introduce concepts surrounding data literacy and data management in a more engaging way. The primary objective of this project is to instruct graduate students in the health sciences disciplines on how to ethically manage data. The second project is a collaboration between the Greenblatt Library and the Medical College of Georgia, as well as the Augusta University School of Computer and Cyber Sciences and the Computer and Game Design and Development program at Kennesaw State University. Faculty members from the Medical College approached Mrs. Kouame to inquire about the possibility of designating a space in the library as a virtual reality room. They had been developing some virtual reality experiences to integrate into the curriculum for undergraduate medical students. These experiences are geared primarily to build empathy surrounding patients with vision impairments such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, or physical limitations resulting from Parkinson’s Disease or a stroke

CROYANCES COLLECTIVES ET DISCONTINUITE DU SUIVI PRENATAL EN MILIEU URBAIN IVOIRIEN (ABIDJAN / COTE D’IVOIRE)

Antenatal care (ANC) is an activity allowing the medical care of pregnant women so as to prevent possible complications with pregnancy and birth, which may cause diseases to the extent of the death of the mother. However, that activity is irregularly carried out by pregnant women in the Ivorian urban environment, while they are subject to important stimulus affecting attitude. In view of that situation, the present study is to analyze the influence that has the level of knowledgeof antenatal care components on compliance with said components in pregnant women (analyzes of 1st trimester, prenatal visits and ultrasounds). Therefore, an indirectly administrated questionnaire was administered to a sample of one thousand three hundred and fifty two (1,352) women from seven (7) to nine (9) months of pregnancy selected on the basis of antenatal consultations statistics in seven (7) governmental general hospitals. Data were analyzed using the chi square of Pearson. It results that the discontinuity in antenatal care, perceptible through the realization of tests prescribed during the first antenatal visit, regular antenatal visits and ultrasounds checks is related to collective beliefs elaborated based upon the level of knowledge about prenatal care components

The application of some second language teaching/learning principles in multimedia language design : a case study of a multimedia approach to an undergraduate course in Swahili

Bibliography: leaves 68-70.This study investigates aspects of the learning process that takes place in the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) classroom in the Department of Linguistics and Southern African Languages at the University of Cape Town. It also studies how a small sample of students make adjustments in language learning with the help of the multimedia Swahili programme. The sample comprises four UCT learners (mixed Ll 's) studying a (CD-ROM) multimedia Swahili language programme

Ethnographie Des Pratiques De Sécurisation De L’accès Aux Ressources Agropastorales Dans Un Contexte De Conflits Entre Agriculteurs Et Migrants Eleveurs A Dianra (Côte d’Ivoire)

Climate variability and dwindling agro-pastoral resources are considered a threat to the stability of nations. Their environmental, economic, social and policies consequences on people behind this threat. The conflict farmers and ranchers is one of the consequences. In the northern Ivory Coast in general and in particular Dianra, the conflict between farmers and herders is not new. It is recurrent and sometimes violent. In this context of conflict and dwindling resources, one of the challenges is access to agropastoral resources, because despite these conflicts, indigenous farmers and migrant herders always co-operate the same space. There have been many writings on conflict farmers and ranchers. They aimed to understand the causes. In this study, our interest is less conflict. But the analysis we make is, how in the context of conflict, the user groups manage to secure access to resources. The study, conducted with fifty four (54) persons shows that in this context of conflict, access to resources is part of a dynamic interaction mobilizing various strategies to control and maintain access to resources: change of rules by the institutions of the dynamic layout, arrangements, handling of identity or professional referral and multiple use. If people develop coping strategies to different challenges offered by the changing context of their environment, it should be noted that these strategies highlight the social values of current changes in this environment

Determinants of Regional Disparities in Under Age five Mortality in Cote d\u27Ivoire

ABSTRACT Background: The launch of the Millennium Development Goal4, in 2000 and the national and international mobilization it spurs results to a decline of child under age five mortality rate from 90 per 1000 living birth in 1990 to 40 per thousands in 2012. That decline however is not evenly distributed across the globe and the majority of countries in the Sub-Saharan African region continue to experience a higher rate of under age five mortality than expected in 2013. Within country disparities in child mortality and it determinants was suggested to account for the lagging of those countries to reduce their under age five mortality rate. Objective: the study examined the variation in child mortality across statistical regions in Cote d’Ivoire and the community level factors that can explain those variations after controlling child, the mothers and the household characteristics. Method: The study used data obtained from the 2011-2012 Cote d’Ivoire’ Demography Health Survey. The study population consisted of 7511 children born within the 5 years preceding the survey. Frequency tables were created to show the distribution of the selected child mortality determinants across regions in Cote d’ivoire and three Logistic models were run to measure the association between the under age five mortality and the selected determinants. Results: The proportion of under age five mortality in the study population was 8.52%. There was a statistically significant variation in child mortality across regions. At the community level, the proportion of mothers with a least a secondary education was associated with under-age five mortality risk (OR=0.99, CI=0.98-0.99). There was no significant association between child mortality and the other selected community factors included in the study. Conclusion: This study reveals a significant variation of under age five mortality rate across region in Cote d’Ivoire, even after controlling or child, mother and household level factors. The findings of this study suggest a need for further exploration of the factors that can explain those differences