Search results for "Somalia"
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Somalialaistaustaiset nuoret nimistönkäyttäjinä Itä-Helsingissä
2011
Artikkelin tutkimuskohteena ovat Itä-Helsingissä asuvat somalialaistaustaiset nuoret. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan somalialaistaustaisten nuorten omassa asuinympäristössään käyttämää paikannimistöä sekä nimistöhaastattelujen tavoitteita ja tuloksia. Tutkimuksen aineistona on viiden iältään 12–17-vuotiaan somalialaistaustaisen haastattelut, jotka on tehty vuonna 2008. Haastattelut ovat olleet ryhmähaastatteluja, joissa nuoret keskustelevat omasta asuinympäristöstään. Tukiaineistona on käytetty sekä aikuisten somalialaistaustaisten että suomalaistaustaisten itähelsinkiläisten haastatteluja. Tutkimus liittyy kahteen Suomen Akatemian hankkeeseen: Nimimaiseman muutos Helsingin sosiolingvistisesti…
Conflict in Somalia: impact on child undernutrition
2017
Background: In Somalia, protracted conflict and persistent drought have caused population displacement and livelihood destruction. As a result, there is widespread child malnutrition. We aimed to determine the effects of conflict on wasting and stunting among children aged 6-59 months in Somalia 2007–2010.\ud \ud Methods: Data were from household nutritional surveys from 2007 to 2010, with 1,066 clusters covering 73,778 children, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) project and remote sensing. We used Bayesian hierarchical spatial-temporal regression methods to examine the effects of conflict on wasting and stunting. A preliminary model included individual, household and envir…
Short notes on the legal pluralism(s) in Somaliland
2014
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Co-morbidity of malnutrition with falciparum malaria parasitaemia among children under the aged 6–59 months in Somalia: a geostatistical analysis
2018
Background Malnutrition and malaria are both significant causes of morbidity and mortality in African children. However, the extent of their spatial comorbidity remains unexplored and an understanding of their spatial correlation structure would inform improvement of integrated interventions. We aimed to determine the spatial correlation between both wasting and low mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) and falciparum malaria among Somalian children aged 6–59 months. Methods Data were from 49 227 children living in 888 villages between 2007 to 2010. We developed a Bayesian geostatistical shared component model in order to determine the common spatial distributions of wasting and falciparum mal…
Madura foot: An imported case of a non-common diagnosis
2018
Mycetoma (or "madura foot") is characterized by deformation, cutaneous lesions, infection of tissues extending from the cutaneous layer to the underlying fascia, and an indolent course. A number of fungal or bacterial agents that are introduced through traumatic inoculation can be responsible for the disease, but Actinomadura madurae is among the most common agents of mycetoma occurring worldwide. We report a case of madura foot caused by A. madurae in an immunocompetent young Somali man who was admitted with a diagnosis of skin and soft tissue infection of the left foot with osteomyelitis. The present report emphasizes the importance of the knowledge of this infection, which is sporadic bu…
Ricerche tassonomiche sulle Capparaceae della Somalia: una nuova combinazione nel genere Boscia Lam.
1991
Lo studio dei tipi di Boscia tomentella Chiov. e Maerua mazzocchii (Chiov.) Chiov. ha dimostrato che si tratta di taxa conspecifici, correttamente inquadrabili nel genere Boscia. Sulla base delle regole nomenclaturali, viene quindi istituita la nuova combinazione Boscia mazzocchii (Chiov.) Fici et Kers, comb. nov.
The role of herbaria for taxonomic and distributional studies in Characeae: examples from the Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum (PAL) and the Flor…
2018
Characeae is a taxonomically critical family. Taxonomical uncertainties inevitably affect its distributional data. The role of herbarium specimens, particularly types and original material, is crucial for unravelling taxonomical ‘knots’. Moreover, wet areas have undergone dramatic reduction and modification in the last century and historical herbarium specimens may represent basic documents for the reconstruction of former distributions. Some preliminary data from two different Italian Herbaria are here presented. The Herbarium Mediterraneum Panormitanum (PAL, the standard acronym according to the Index herbariorum, http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ ih) houses four folders of Characeae exsiccata. T…
Louseborne relapsing fever in young migrants, sicily, Italy, july-september 2015
2016
To the Editor: During the early 20th century, at the end of World War I, and during World War II, louseborne relapsing fever (LBRF) caused by Borrelia recurrentis was a major public health problem, especially in eastern Europe and northern Africa (1,2). Currently, poor living conditions, famine, war, and refugee camps are major risk factors for epidemics of LBRF in resource-poor countries, such as those in the Horn of Africa (3,4). Increased migration from resource-poor countries and war/violence create new routes for spread of vectorborne diseases. Recently, several cases of LBRF have been reported among asylum seekers from Eritrea in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany (5–8). All of…
The crime of consumption of alcoholic beverages in the Somali Penal Code
2021
Somalia is a Muslim country whose criminal law has been based on the 1930 Italian penal code to which some changes have been made to try to adapt it to the local context. One of these changes has been to introduce the crime of consumption of alcoholic beverages, a crime that anyway could be committed only by local Somali people due to their religious belief. This chapter analyzes this part of the Somali penal code trying to highlight the issues arising from the text of the law. The analysis is compared to the regime existing in the other Muslim African countries to understand similarities and differences with the Somali regulation. A conclusion is then drawn up also in view of a possible fu…
Interaction among Customary Law, Islamic Law and Colonial Law during the Italian Administration of Somalia
2020
The chapter discusses the presence of customary law, islamic law and colonial law during the period of Italian administration of Somalia (both colonial and during the trusteeship administration under UN mandate) and the interaction among these normative orders.