Babcock University

Voice-First Mental Health Care for Older Adults in Africa

This Viewpoint proposes voice-first systems as a design hypothesis warranting priority development and evaluation to support mental health care for older adults in Africa.

Spatio-temporal dynamics, clustering, and hotspot evolution of reported foot-and-mouth disease outbreak burden in Nigeria, 2015–2025

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is endemic in Nigeria, yet the national spatio-temporal structure of officially reported outbreaks remains poorly characterised. We analysed the temporal dynamics, clustering, and hotspot evolution of reported FMD outbreaks across Nigeria’s 36 states...

Ionospheric response characterization during geomagnetic disturbances: EISCAT Svalbard Radar analysis (2007)

This work analyses polar cap ionospheric variability and predictive modelling using EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) data from March 2007 to February 2008 during solar minimum. Over four million ESR measurements were combined with ionosonde observations and space weather indices to ch...

Electrocardiographic abnormalities associated with obesity in adolescents and young adults: physiologic variants or true pathology? A cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Obesity is defined by the World Health Organization as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that poses a risk to health. It has reached epidemic proportions globally and carries significant cardiovascular risk, particularly in adolescents and young adults. E...

Access and excess as interacting drivers of antimicrobial resistance in low and middle income countries

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, dominant stewardship frameworks often emphasize overuse, underrecognizing the access–excess dynamic: inadequate access to effective antimicrobials coexisting with inapprop...

Provision is not use: Why digital-resource investment underdelivers in African universities, and what libraries and educators should do

Many African universities have invested heavily in digital resources on the assumption that provision drives use, use builds competence, and competence brings ethical practice. Drawing on evidence concentrated in Nigeria, with other African and comparative studies, this review ex...