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Pour connaître la diversité des insectes terricoles colonisant la galerie forestière du Monastère Notre Dame de l’Assomption et l’effet de facteurs environnementaux sur la structure de ces derniers, une étude exploratoire a été menée. Pour y parvenir, des pots Barber ont été utilisés à côté d’une capture active à la chasse à vue. Ceux-ci ont été piégés de janvier à septembre 2021. Au total, 1880 individus ont été capturés et 21 espèces ont été identifiées à côté d’une espèce d’hémiptères non identifiée. Après analyse, la famille des Formicidae se révèle la plus abondante en individus (soit 43%) et celle des Scarabaeidae en richesse spécifique (soit 23%). Cependant, le test de Student a confirmé que la saison n’a pas influencé les abondances d’insectes. Aussi, la grande partie de la faune recensée était constituée d’espèces de grande taille, traduisant une adaptation dans le milieu. Par ailleurs, les résultats de cette étude attestent que les quatre paramètres environnementaux évalués n’ont pas connus d’effets significatifs (p>0,05) tant sur la richesse spécifique que l’abondance. En outre, ces résultats confirment que l’intensification d’activités anthropiques dans cette galerie forestière pourrait conduire à un effet négatif sur la composition de l’entomofaune terricole de ce milieu. Mots clés : insectes terricoles, galerie forestière, facteurs environnementaux, activités anthropiques

INTRODUCTION: Sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to face an unprecedented growth of cancers including breast cancer. There are indications of a significant burden of aggressive and late stage breast disease among premenopausal women in sub-Saharan Africa; because hormonal status tests are not routinely done, many women are given anti-hormonal therapy empirically. There is paucity of data on breast cancer molecular subtypes and their characteristics among women in sub Saharan Africa. The objective is to determine the prevalence of breast cancer molecular phenotypes among Ugandan women. METHODS: This was a cross sectional descriptive study, conducted at a tertiary hospital in Africa. Eligible participants' formalin fixed and paraffin embedded sections were evaluated. H and E stains and Immunochemistry (Estrogen Receptor (ER), Progesterone Receptor (PR), Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor (HER2))were performed. Ethical approval was obtained. RESULTS: A total of 226 patient samples were evaluated. The mean age was 45 years (SD 14);the prevalence of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) was 34% (77/226), Luminal A 38% (83/226), HER2 positive was 22% (49/226), and Luminal B was 5% (13/226). High-grade (III) tumors were 68%, stage III and IV constituted 75% of presentations. Histological type was mostly invasive ductal carcinoma. Most patients (55%) were from rural areas. CONCLUSION: Ugandan women had an over representation of TNBC and high-grade breast tumors. Underlying reasons ought to be investigated. The empirical use of tamoxifen (anti-hormonal therapy) should be reexamined.

An act of perception may be exteriorised through language in different ways. Drawing on examples taken from narrative fiction in English, this article sets out to explore the grammar of the linguistic expression of perception from the standpoint of the degree of subjectivisation manifest in the percept’s mode of presentation – at one extreme, standard perceptual reports, by which, in association with a verb of perception, the speaker-narrator names or describes an object of perception whilst at the same time predicating it of an origin of perception figuring syntactically within the same utterance (domain of predicated perception); at the other extreme, markedly more subjectivised modes of expression via which, without recourse to a predicate of perception, the sensorial essence of the act of perception as it is experienced by the perceiving subject is given direct linguistic expression (domain of represented perception). After a rapid overview of the main elements participating in the construction of the linguistic representation of the percept specific to each domain, the second part of the article is an attempt at modelising within the theoretical framework of location theory (tope) the process of elaboration of an origin of perception progressively more endowed with subject-of-consciousness type properties, such as is seen to underlie the observed gradient of subjectivisation.