A5089896127- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- African history and culture studies
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Climate variability and models
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
- Intraocular Surgery and Lenses
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Retinal and Macular Surgery
- Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Travel-related health issues
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Asian Studies and History
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
McGill University
2019-2024
Singapore Management University
2023
Sapienza University of Rome
2023
To compare 2 optical patient interface designs used for femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery.Optimedica Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA, and Centro Laser, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Experimental clinical studies.Laser capsulotomy was performed during surgery with a curved contact lens (CCL) or liquid immersion (LOI). The presence of corneal folds, incomplete capsulotomy, subconjunctival hemorrhage, eye movement laser treatment were analyzed using video coherence tomography....
This article inserts climatic and environmental factors into the history of Unyanyembe, a kingdom located in present-day west-central Tanzania.Widely recognised as one most influential important nineteenth-century kingdoms equatorial eastern Africa, Unyanyembe's prominence has up to now been understood largely political economic terms.By contrast, this argues that its shifting fortunes can partly be terms resilience vulnerability effects drought.This does so firstly by using...
Abstract. This article proposes a novel methodology for reconstructing past climatic conditions in regions and time-periods which there is limited evidence from documentary natural proxy sources. Focusing on present-day inland Tanzania during the period 1856–1890, it integrates qualitative sources with quantitative outputs climate reanalysis global circulation models (GCMs), enables creation of interdisciplinary seasonal time-series rainfall variability three distinct locales. It does so by...
Concepts of slavery and freedom dominate the historiography labour social relations in nineteenth-century East Central Africa. This article argues that such concepts oversimplify complexity other forms servitude. It does so by analysing position people who referred to themselves as ngwana on shores Lake Tanganyika. Ngwana translates from Swahili ‘gentlemen,’ it implies ‘respectability’ ‘freeborn’ status. Yet most could not claim be free, even if they had ceased being slaves. Rather than...
Abstract This article reconstructs the first outbreak of epidemic dropsy recorded in documentary evidence, which occurred Calcutta, Mauritius, and northeastern India Bengal 1877–80. It uses current medical knowledge investigations into wider historical contexts to re-read colonial literature period. shows that policies structures context variable enviro-climatic conditions increased likelihood an would break out, while also increasing vulnerability certain populations infection mortality....
Abstract. This article proposes a novel methodology for reconstructing past climatic conditions in regions and time periods which there is limited evidence from documentary natural proxy sources. Focusing on present-day inland Tanzania during the period 1856–1890, it integrates qualitative sources with quantitative outputs climate reanalysis global circulation models (GCMs), enables creation of interdisciplinary seasonal series rainfall variability three distinct locales. It does so by...
Abstract Most histories of East Africa's precolonial interior only give cursory attention to Islam, especially in present-day west-central Tanzania and the eastern Democratic Republic Congo. converts Islam this context are usually viewed as ‘nominal’ Muslims. This article, by contrast, builds on recent scholarship other regions time periods that questions conceptual validity Muslim. New necessarily questioned their social relationships, ways living, ritual practices through act conversion....
Abstract Climatological data suggest that the key driver of drought in Highland Ethiopia, and wider Indian Ocean World, during early 1780s was an El Niño Southern Oscillation anomaly. Ethiopia this period—an decade zemene mesafint (1769–1855)—endured considerable political instability. The lack documentary evidence over-reliance on Ethiopian Royal Chronicles has led historians to view reports “famine” as indicative severe environmental stress. A more critical reading Chronicles, by contrast,...
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This article assesses the role of David Livingstone (1813-73), a Scottish missionary, in nation-building efforts Scotland and parts western Indian Ocean World. It begins by establishing ways which he became central to national, British imperial, Christian abolitionist movements late-nineteenth early-twentieth centuries. then examines why, despite these ‘colonialist’ associations, remains some aspects present-day Tanzania Malawi. The key focus this context are two nations’ respective...