MANDATO DE LA BLANQUIDAD: RACISMO Y PRIVILEGIO RACIAL EN CALI by Gustavo A. Santana-Perlaza

“…Por tanto, desde una perspectiva autoetnográfica sobre mi experiencia como no-blanco, desplazado y víctima del conflicto en Cali, propongo una lectura crítica sobre los privilegios raciales que agencia el racismo y sus repercusiones en los cuerpos racializados, cosificados, dando origen a lo que denominaré el mandato de blanquidad, para analizar el régimen normativo de los privilegios y sus manifestaciones como marco de sociabilidad inscrito en la estructura social del proyecto moderno/colonial de la blanquidad.…”
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Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography by Adetayo Alabi

“…The paper argues that what operates at the background of Soyinka’s group’s project of repatriating Orí Olókun from Brazil to Nigeria is the communal spirit of Yoruba and African nationalism that cuts across colonial geographical boundaries.  The paper considers the role of Soyinka, Yai, Isola, and Abimbola in the attempt to repatriate Orí Olókun back to Nigeria.  …”
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John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Brian Smith

“…Abolitionists centralized the anti-slavery elements inherent to his social contract theory – natural liberty, self-ownership, and the necessity of express consent – while pro-slavery apologists foregrounded his entanglements in colonial politics, specifically his role in composing the Carolina constitution. …”
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Three thousand years of oyster fisheries: a view from Southeast Queensland, Australia by Tam Smith

“…Historical accounts provide insights into observed collection practices in the early colonial period, as well as the persistence of First Nations oystering and other marine resource exploitation in the mid-late 19th century in response to participation in the wider economy of early Brisbane. …”
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Narraciones poscoloniales. La escritura autobiográfica de Edward Said y Stuart Hall by Damián Gálvez González

“…El texto coloca especial énfasis en el ejercicio narrativo autobiográfico de Said, previo a su exilio del mundo árabe a Estados Unidos, y en la doble condición diaspórica de Hall, jamaiquino en un contexto colonial británico, como un recurso metodológico de máximo valor para el adecuado estudio de sus obras más relevantes.…”
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Role Of Political Parties In Resolving The Challenges Confronting Nigeriafrom 1960-1966 by Mas’ud Bello, Sani Ibrahim

“… Shortly after Nigeria attained its independence on the 1st October, 1960 it experienced numerous challenges of Nation-building, this is because, the conquest and imposition of colonial rule with its divide and rule tactics and other attendant consequences has set different ethnic groups in Nigeria at logger beads, mistrust has gained ground in the body polity of the Nation, couple with devastated economy, poor infrastructural facilitates. …”
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Iconografía musical: nuevas luces y perspectivas sobre el arte de la escuela cusqueña de los siglos XVII y XVIII by Bertrand Wilfredo Valenzuela Rocha

“…A través del estudio de las fuentes iconográficas musicales en las pinturas de la llamada escuela cusqueña de los siglos xvii y xviii, la presente investigación expone las diversas correspondencias entre la pintura y las prácticas reales de las capillas musicales del virreinato peruano, así como las vinculaciones del arte de esta escuela con la realidad circundante, el pensamiento y la sensibilidad de la sociedad colonial, más allá de estereotipos y formulismos derivados del arte europeo. …”
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Nyege Nyege Music Festival in Uganda: A Growing Leisure Activity with a Moral Dilemma by Amos, Ochieng, Brenda, Bonabaana, Francis Akena, Adyanga

“…We argue that unregulated embracement of festivals expose society to foreign cultural influences of the so-called progressive contemporary neoliberal post-colonial leisure economy. This paper contributes to the body of knowledge on leisure and tourism with implications for unraveling its potential for diversification of tourism products in Uganda and the moral dilemmas that come with it.…”
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Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species by Daniel J. Becker, Kristin E. Dyer, Lauren R. Lock, Beckett L. Olbrys, Shawn A. Pladas, Anushka A. Sukhadia, Bret Demory, Juliana Maria Nunes Batista, Micaela Pineda, Nancy B. Simmons, Amanda M. Adams, Winifred F. Frick, M. Teague O'Mara, Dmitriy V. Volokhov

“…We here describe novel (and in some cases panmictic) hemoplasmas and bartonellae across three colonies of Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric bat species. …”
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Path Optimization of Mobile Sink Node in Wireless Sensor Network Water Monitoring System by Fan Chao, Zhiqin He, Aiping Pang, Hongbo Zhou, Junjie Ge

“…Then, according to the characteristics of sensor nodes with a certain range of wireless signal coverage, the angular bisection method is introduced on the basis of the traditional ant colony algorithm to plan the path of UAV, which further shortens the length of the mobile path. …”
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Genetic Diversity of Melipona mandacaia SMITH 1863 (Hymenoptera, Apidae), an Endemic Bee Species from Brazilian Caatinga, Using ISSR by Elder Assis Miranda, Henrique Batalha-Filho, Priscila Santos Oliveira, Rogério Marcos Oliveira Alves, Lucio Antonio Oliveira Campos, Ana Maria Waldschmidt

“…In order to evaluate the genetic diversity and structure of Melipona mandacaia, we analyzed 104 colonies collected in 12 localities in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil, using ISSR-PCR. …”
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Different Meta-Heuristic Optimized Radial Basis Function Neural Network Models for Short-Term Power Consumption Forecasting by Dhivagar Shanmugam, V Ramana

“…These optimizers include Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), Advanced Gray Wolf Optimization (AGWO), Moth-Flame Optimization Algorithm (MFO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Multi-Verse Optimizer (MVO), and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC). The results indicate that the RBF combined with AGWO performs optimally and shows lower error values compared to other optimizers. …”
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TERPENES OF Melipona quadrifasciata GEOPROPOLIS by Marta S. D. Freitas, Matheus H. O. de Sousa, Alexandre Piccinini, Luiz Antonio Mendonça Alves da Costa, Neusa F. de Moura

“…The study aimed to identify the terpenes present in geopropolis collected from Melipona quadrifasciata colonies located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to establish a geographic profile that enhances the understanding of the phytochemical composition of geopropolis from southern Brazil. …”
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Ship Pipe Layout Based on Grid Normalized Astar Algorithm by LIN Yan, ZHANG Qiaoyu, LOU Jiandi

“…Finally, the GNAstar proposed is compared with the traditional Astar in a simulation case, and different pipe systems in ship engine room are taken as cases to further compare with the ant colony algorithm and particle swarm-Astar. The results show that the GNAstar proposed can obtain effective engineering solutions, and designers can obtain the corresponding layout result by setting the normalized weight coefficients of different targets.…”
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Characterization of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Isolated from the Testis by Letizia De Chiara, Elvira Smeralda Famulari, Sharmila Fagoonee, Saskia K. M. van Daalen, Stefano Buttiglieri, Alberto Revelli, Emanuela Tolosano, Lorenzo Silengo, Ans M. M. van Pelt, Fiorella Altruda

“…Here, we confirm that colonies derived from human testicular cultures, with our isolation protocol, are of mesenchymal origin and do not arise from spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs). …”
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16S rRNA gene sequencing of non-lactic acid bacteria cultures from lait caillé in Burkina Faso by Geoffroy Romaric Bayili, Clarisse S. Compaoré, Bréhima Diawara, Lene Jespersen, Hagretou Sawadogo-Lingani

“…Man Rogosa Sharp (MRS) and M17 agar plates previously inoculated with traditional lait caillé were used to screen for gram-negative (catalase-positive or -negative) and gram-positive catalase-positive bacteria. Pure colonies were selected, then the penta-GTG oligonucleotide (GTG)5-based rep-PCR fingerprinting followed by cluster analysis and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene was performed to identify the isolates. …”
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An ACOA-AFSA Fusion Routing Algorithm for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network by Huafeng Wu, Xinqiang Chen, Chaojian Shi, Yingjie Xiao, Ming Xu

“…Due to intrinsic properties of aqueous environments, routing protocols for underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) have to cope with many challenges such as long propagation delay, bad robustness, and high energy consumption. Basic ant colony optimization algorithm (ACOA) is an intelligent heuristic algorithm which has good robustness, distributed computing and combines with other algorithms easily. …”
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Preparation and Efficacy of Microemulsion Carvacrol-Based Fruit and Vegetable Cleaner and Its Application on Cherry Tomatoes by Yanshuo Wang, Dianjun Sun, Yinghan Zhang, Yichong Zhou, Ruyi Jin, Xiaoli Peng, Jian Li

“…The cleaning effectively inhibited microbial colonies and the decay rate of cherry tomatoes during storage at 4 °C. …”
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Analysis and Implementation of Optimization Techniques for Facial Recognition by Justice Kwame Appati, Huzaifa Abu, Ebenezer Owusu, Kwaku Darkwah

“…For the purpose of performance comparison, the resultant features were also optimized with the genetic algorithm (GA) and the artificial bee colony (ABC). The optimized features were used for the recognition using Euclidean distance (EUD), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), and the support vector machine (SVM) as classifiers. …”
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Symbolization and domesticity in the Andean home: A phenomenological approach to dwelling in Coporaque, Peru by Gonzalo Ríos-Vizcarra, Luis Enrique Calatayud-Rosado, Aleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez

“…To achieve this objective, we focused on the Peruvian Andes, specifically on Coporaque, an Indigenous village founded in the 16th century during colonial times. In this locality, qualitative research was carried out using the phenomenological approach, prioritizing the lived experience of the native inhabitants in their daily “life world” through in-depth interviews and direct observations. …”
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