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Global health and clinical research this week features 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, with journals including PLoS ONE, The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, and JACC. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, birth defects as a growing cause of child deaths in LMICs, growth faltering in HIV-exposed South African children, and BMI missing central obesity in Malawian diabetes patients.

This week in global health and clinical research, we feature 10 studies, including several African-led works, with journals cited. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, prioritizing birth defects in LMICs, HIV growth trajectories in South Africa, BMI vs. waist-to-height ratio in Malawi, and more.

This week in interdisciplinary scholarship, we feature 10 studies, with 8 African-led and 2 global, all from open-access journals. This week: machine learning for sex estimation in forensic anthropology, apartheid South Africa and Israel as US outposts, post-repatriation conservation in Nigeria, and the rhetoric of Brahmanical ritual in early Buddhism.

This week’s education research digest covers 10 studies, 6 African-led and 4 from global settings, with journals cited throughout. This week: adult literacy textbook evaluation in Ethiopia, instructional leadership and teacher motivation in West Hararghe, andragogy in Ethiopia’s adult education programme, Nigerian medical students’ teaching-method preferences, and the unit circle method for trigonometry.

This week’s multidisciplinary digest features 10 studies, with 8 African-led and 2 global, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: machine learning for sex estimation in South African forensics, apartheid and Israel as US Cold War outposts, post-repatriation conservation of Nigerian heritage, and hermeneutical reparations in philosophy.

Education research is the focus this week, with six African-led studies from Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Rwanda and three global studies, all cited with their journals. This week: Ethiopian adult literacy textbooks missing adult-learning principles, instructional leadership linked to student performance in West Hararghe, uneven andragogy in Ethiopia’s IFAE programme, Nigerian medical students’ teaching-method preferences, and a Rwandan framework for lecturer effectiveness.

This week’s digest covers 10 papers from astrophysics, biophysics, and sociology, with 6 African-led studies in journals like Biotechnology and Bioengineering and The European Physical Journal C. This week: glycoengineered A1AT matches natural protein, quantum curvatures in black holes, sex-specific stress gene in flies, and new quantile regression for causal inference.

This week’s agricultural and environmental science digest features 5 African-led studies and 4 global studies, with journals including Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Poultry Science, and Current Biology. This week: legume trees clean mercury, AI predicts radiation doses, water hyacinth becomes chicken feed, and termite evolution reshapes tropical decomposition.

This week’s digest covers 10 papers (6 African-led, 4 global) from journals like SLAS TECHNOLOGY, Next Sustainability, and Information Fusion. This week: smartphone glucose biosensor, green hydrogen feasibility in Nigeria, enhanced OFDM modulation, surfactant adsorption trends, climate forecasting for Nigerian cities, multilingual legal AI for Morocco, Chatlaw legal assistant, HuntGPT for cybersecurity, critique of K-fold cross-validation, and bias in large language models.

This week’s digest covers 10 studies from global health and nutrition, with 6 led by African researchers and 4 global studies, all from peer-reviewed journals. This week: high prevalence of mental disorders in pregnant Ethiopian women, a nationwide cervical screening model in Ghana, a distinct immune signature in Ethiopian HBV cirrhosis, and a global consensus renaming PCOS to PMOS.