Race, transformation and education as contradictions in a neoliberal South Africa by Isha Dilraj

“…Race has been, and still is, at the forefront of understanding societal inequalities and socio-economic challenges, even though it doesn’t operate in isolation, and relies on the chaotic politics of intersectionality to reveal how power operates in ways which occlude and disguise different kinds of inequalities. In this article, I focus on race as a construct and its deep-rooted significance in South African society, by dissecting conceptualisations of race as a signifier and symbolic, as a structure of division and marker of exclusion, and as a construct of power. …”
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GroupFound: An effective approach to detect suspicious accounts in online social networks by Bo Feng, Qiang Li, Xiaowen Pan, Jiahao Zhang, Dong Guo

“…However, once the spammers disguise the key features, the detection method will soon fail. …”
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Lived Experiences of Repeat Crime Offenders: A Phenomenological Untold Stories by Angelo P. Alob, Jayson A. Dela Fuente

“…The Cry of the Suspect, Light within the Darkness, You Reap what you Sow, Blessing in Disguise, Many are Bad Associates But Few are Good Mentors, and Corruption of the Mind. …”
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Information Factor Color Revolutions and Modern Technology Dismantling of Political Regimes by A. V. Manoylo

“…However, today the world is changing, and technologies of armed coups are replaced by more subtle color revolutions technology that is cleverly disguised as a true revolutionary movement and virtually unopposed from both- countries witch fully developed democracy and of the Oriental type, preserved traditional livelihoods. …”
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Adopting Sustainability: The Role of Motivation and Intention to Forming Green Behavior by Khrisna Vembri Yudanto, Fanny Martdianty

“…Design/methodology/approach: This research uses primary data taken from a survey from a state-owned company in Indonesia running in the energy sector, disguised as XYZ Company. The sample used was 422 employees. …”
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Steganography in Game Actions by Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen

“…Each agent, acting as an encoder, learns a policy to disguise the very existence of hidden messages within actions seemingly directed toward innocent objectives. …”
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Signals of propaganda-Detecting and estimating political influences in information spread in social networks. by Alon Sela, Omer Neter, Václav Lohr, Petr Cihelka, Fan Wang, Moti Zwilling, John Phillip Sabou, Miloš Ulman

“…Propaganda in social networks is disguised as legitimate news sent from authentic users. …”
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Typical forms of counteraction to the investigation of criminal offences related to interference with the activities of public authorities by V. Yu. Popov

“…It is established that other interested persons at the stage of pre-trial investigation of criminal offences of the type under study most often implement the following forms of behaviour to counteract the investigation: exerting influence on participants to criminal proceedings; implementation of actions to conceal crimes, including: staging, falsification, disguise, destruction, etc.; giving false testimony; disclosure of the secret of pre-trial investigation; refusal to provide biological samples or samples of handwriting, voice, etc.; delaying the pre-trial proceedings, delaying the pre-trial investigation, for example, by ignoring the investigator's calls, prolonged familiarisation with the criminal proceedings; failure to appear when summoned; failure to fulfil procedural obligations acquired in connection with obtaining the relevant procedural status in criminal proceedings; hiding from the pre-trial investigation authorities, etc. …”
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The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air environment in India by N. Gupta, A. Tomar, V. Kumar

“…However, as a blessing in disguise, these measures have a positive effect on the environment in terms of reduction in toxic gasses like nitrogen dioxide, aerosols, atmosphere ozone, particulate matter, and improvement in air quality. …”
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Police crime in 1947 in the coverage of the Ukrainian SSR state security agencies by O. N. Yarmysh, V. A. Grechenko

“…There were even more odious cases when a whole group of policemen engaged in robbery, taking products and things from local villagers, while trying to disguise themselves as Banderites (copying the work methods of the KGB agents). …”
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Fundamentals for forage crop breeding and seed production in Russia by V. M. Kosolapov, V. I. Cherniavskih, S. I. Kostenko

“…In addition, imported seeds brought to the Russian market are often disguised as lawn varieties to reduce the cost and simplify their entry to the market. …”
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Advanced characterization of deforestation frontiers in Nigeria utilizing deep learning and Bayesian approaches with sentinel-1 SAR imagery by Isiaka Lukman Alage, Yumin Tan, Ahmed Wasiu Akande, Agus Suprijanto

“…The Bayesian approach improved mapping accuracy by reducing uncertainties in post-deforestation observations and the deforestation temporal clustering indicates disguisable between the study sites: deforestations study site 2 (Okomu) has a higher concentration during the second half of 2023 Coefficient Variation (CV= 1.939), Study site 1 (Akure) Coefficient Variation (CV= 1.786), and temporal distribution in deforestation varies within each year. …”
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TOOLS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A POSTCOLONIAL APPROACH by Eldar Veremchuk, Hennadii Vasylchuk

“…While the former seeks to disguise the colonial influence on business, the progressive branding strategy seeks to promote national and cultural identity by using nationally themed brand names, deleting colonial semantics in naming, and emphasising uniqueness and identity through the use of cultural symbols and motifs. …”
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« Mon seul Shakespeare » by Jacques Nichet

“…He indeed immediately makes stern and  strict decisions. Disguised as a ‘holy friar’, the Duke secretly observes the consequences of such an abrupt enforcement of moral order. …”
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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…Sometimes a loan was disguised as a gift, to which the debtor responded with a gift that was worth more than the sum originally loaned. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…In addition, hidden rationing decisions disguised as futility judgments can fail to recognize the protections we grant to the most vulnerable members of society. …”
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