(n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(2) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(3) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(4) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(5) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
(6) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(7) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
(8) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) Recommendations have been made regarding the development of this specialisation in the South African health care setting.
(11) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(12) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(13) Values obtained by combining Mini-ESR with indices of the African Neonates were 100%, 85% and 94%.
(14) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.
(15) Using what is known about AIDS and what is know about the population structure in African countries, it is possible to model the impact of AIDS on a typical developing country with a population of 10 million.
(16) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(17) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(18) The case of a Black African patient with an annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm of unknown origin is described, and the pathological findings in this condition together with a review of the literature is presented.
(19) In African trypanosomes, calmodulin is encoded by a small family of tandemly repeated genes consisting of three to four units.
(20) (S)-1-[3-Hydroxy-2-(phosphonylmethoxy)propyl]cytosine (S-HPMPC) was able to prevent simian varicella infection in African green monkeys inoculated intratracheally with virus.
Fula
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Bed nets were allocated at random among a group of 16 Fula hamlets, where they were previously rarely used.
(2) This finding, together with the results of a previous study in Nigeria, suggest that Fulas have a predisposition to this condition.
(3) In order to question this opposition, a study was carried out among 100 Haalpulaaren mothers (Tukulors and Fulas), 50 from a village in the Sahelian area along the Senegal River and 50 from an underprivileged suburb of Dakar.
(4) They are thought to be the work of the Macina Liberation Movement (FLM), an Islamist group rooted in the Fula ethnic group.
(5) Among young children splenomegaly and malaria were less prevalent in Mandinkas than in Wollofs or Fulas, suggesting that some genetic or environmental factors protect Mandinka children from this infection.
(6) One class II DQA-DQB combination (serological specificity DQw2) was particularly common among members of the Fula ethnic group.
(7) Comparing Mandinka with Wolof and Fula, there were ethnic differences in net owning and the proportion of children sleeping in beds with a mattress.
(8) A study in the Gambia revealed that, among 3 ethnic groups, Mandinkas children had the lowest prevalence rate because almost everyone used bed nets while 1-6% of people in Fula and Wolof villages did.
(9) Among older children and adults splenomegaly was found most frequently in Fulas.
(10) Mutations in fulA probably confer resistance by lowering ornithine transcarbamoylase, thereby making the normally arginine-specific carbamoyl phosphate pool available for increased uracil synthesis.
(11) In a survey of the Fula Bande, a rural population of Senegal, deaths and causes of death have been registered during an 8-year period.
(12) Both fulA and fulD mutants suppress pyrA mutants which lack the uracil-specific carbamoyl phosphate synthetase.