TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL MUD HUTS IN AFRICA: FORMS, AESTHETICS, HISTORY AND PRESERVATION IN SOUTH-EASTERN NIGERIA

Traditional architectural mud huts in Africa: Forms, aesthetics, history and preservation in South-eastern Nigeria

The article explores indigenous architectural mud huts in Africa.Based on research, it assessed forms, aesthetics, history, and designs enshrined in the huts.Centered in Igbo land, south-eastern Nigeria, the paper draws from the fact Necklace that in contemporary times, old living structures are fast being erased to make room for modern infrastruct

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Implicit multisensory associations influence voice recognition.

Natural objects provide partially redundant information to the brain through different sensory modalities.For example, voices and faces both give information about the speech content, age, and gender of a person.Thanks to this redundancy, multimodal recognition is fast, robust, and automatic.In unimodal perception, however, only part of the informa

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Learning curve of achieving competency in emergency endoscopy in upper gastrointestinal bleeding: how much experience is necessary?

Objectives The management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) has seen rapid advancements with revolutionising innovations.However, insufficient data exist on the necessary number of emergency endoscopies needed to achieve competency in haemostatic interventions.Design We retrospectively analysed all oesophagogastroduodenoscopies with signs o

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