HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT: A THEMATIC REVIEW by Abdulrasheed Abdulyakeen

“… Political thinkers in Africa saw colonial imperialism and racial inequality as related issues that needed a coordinated approach on a continental level. …”
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Anticariogenic Potential of Tabernaemontana Divaricata by Mini K. John, David Z. Cheriyan

“…It includes assessing the leaves’ antibacterial activity, acid production of bacteria in the presence of the study sample, Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), minimum bacterial concentration (MBC) and colony forming units (CFU) levels in the presence of the leaf extract. …”
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Benjamin’s gamble: commodifying life in the age of heroic demise by Stephanie Polsky

“…He associated the rise of fascist terror with a breakdown of the threshold that separated the living from the dead, a threshold that had become increasingly ambiguous with the modern advent of global colonial warfare and the attendant call for the total mobilisation of entire civil populations. …”
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Adivasi Marginality and the Vicissitudes of Violence in Rejina Marandi’s Becoming Me by Sayan Chatterjee

“…Moreover, the withdrawal of these indigenous people from modern paradigms and values made them stand out as the perennial “other” for both the colonial rulers and mainstream Indian society. The issues regarding Adivasi identity and existence are even more complicated and nuanced in Northeast India since the politics of identity and belonging are more intense and layered in this region because of its multi-ethnic structure. …”
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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…He identifies with the plights of a person with a disability, they are mostly victims of poverty, hunger, and crimes in the Post-colonial Nigerian society; and treats all the fictional characters with dignity and honor in line with Yorùbá thoughts and beliefs.  …”
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Les agglomérations de Nyon, Lausanne et Yverdon (Suisse) : trois exemples de l’ouest du plateau suisse entre Antiquité tardive et haut Moyen Âge by Clément Hervé

“…It is particularly the case of the old colony of Nyon-Noviodunum which is not crossed off the map, even if it loses its importance for its neighbour Genève-Genava at the end of the 3rd c. …”
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On the Difficulty of Refuting or Confirming the Arguments about the Caste System by Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan

“…It is not only the quest for more data, which is expected to save the ‘theories’ of the caste system, but also a struggle to match the thus collected field data with the claims about the caste system that unites the colonial and modern writers on the caste system. This paper suggests that the failure of caste scholars to account for field data is not a result of the complexity of the field, but rather an outcome of the kind of entity that the ‘caste system’ is. …”
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Effects of Hydrogen-rich Water on Cariogenic Bacteria by Zhibin Liu, Eungyung Kim, Su-Hyung Hong, Kirim Kim, Eun-Kyong Kim, Myoung-Ok Kim

“…Materials and Methods: To test the bactericidal and anti-biofilm formation effects of EHW on Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus, bacterial growth curves, colony-forming unit (CFU) counts, and crystal violet staining of biofilms were examined after exposing the bacterial pellets to EHW or tap water as a control for one minute. …”
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HACIA UNA PEDAGOGÍA EN CLAVE DECOLONIAL: ENTRE APERTURAS, BÚSQUEDAS Y POSIBILIDADES by Cristhian James Díaz M.

“…Como se presenta en el texto, pensar una pedagogía en clave decolonial implica, la comprensión crítica de la historia, el reposicionamiento de prácticas educativas de naturaleza emancipatoria y el descentramiento de la perspectiva epistémica colonial. En consecuencia, las reflexiones desarrolladas en torno a estos tres aspectos pretenden contribuir a una posible agenda reflexiva que abra nuevos horizontes de problematización y discusión sobre lo que significa confrontar la colonialidad del poder y del saber en el ámbito educativo.…”
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La Provincia del Darién y el Istmo de Panamá: Siglos en el corazón de las disputas por la expansión del capitalismo by Ivonne Suárez Pinzón

“…Mucha documentación hasta ahora no explorada, da luces sobre esta región histórica aún mal conocida y sobre los procesos de su devenir colonial y nos ayudan a comprender algunas de las razones del conflicto actual.…”
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Multi-Focus Image Fusion Using Energy Valley Optimization Algorithm by Harun Akbulut

“…The obtained experimental results are compared with the well-known Genetic Algorithm (GA), Differential Evolution Algorithm (DE), and Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm (ABC). The experimental results show that EVOA can compete with the other block-based multi-focus image fusion algorithms.…”
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MONUMENTOS CONMEMORATIVOS EN HOMENAJE A LOS MÁRTIRES (1976-1983) & (1998-2013) by Tamir Sorek

“…Con la modernidad occidental colonial llegaron también las instancias de referencia por excelencia para conmemorar la memoria nacional, donde lo palestino no tuvo cabida sino hasta 1976, con la aparición de siete monumentos analizados. …”
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'n (N.G.) gemeente in "Het kamp te Bloemfontein" gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1900-1903 by R. M. Britz

“…It was ministered to by a number of Dutch Reformed clergymen appointed by the new colonial government. The two Lutheran pastors of Bloemfontein (Grosskopf and Arndt) also served the church in the camp. …”
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Isolation, Characterization, and Identification Candidate of Probiotic Bacteria Isolated from Wadi Papuyu (Anabas testudineus Bloch.) a Fermented Fish Product from Central Kalimant... by Yulistia Budianti Soemarie, Tiana Milanda, Melisa Intan Barliana

“…The number of microbial colonies growing on MRS agar and MHA was 22 in total, while after purification and characterization it was observed only 4 different microbial isolates. …”
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Path Planning for Coal Mining Masonry Robots Combined With Trajectory Optimization by Xingyi Qian, Yan Wang

“…Additionally, trajectory optimization with PSO, considering joint posture constraints, reduces operation time by approximately 13% compared to ant colony optimization. This research provides key technical insights for improving the efficiency and safety of masonry robots in coal mining.…”
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La tradition de la cueillette du miel est-elle un frein au développement de l’apiculture dans l’Aire de Conservation de l’Annapurna (Népal) ? by Samuel Perichon, Chet Bhatta

“…The honey gathering from the colonies of the giant Himalayan honeybee (Apis laboriosa) in the Annapurna mountains of Nepal has been the subject of many reports and documentaries. …”
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Militanza, “impegno” e critica sociale dell’antropologia sulla base di intense etnografie. Le intenzioni trasformative e i giudizi politici dell’antropologo by Antonino Colajanni

“…Starting from a brief analysis of the main responsibilities of anthropology in the colonial era, a particular attention is devoted to the origins and developments of the american orientation of the “engaged anthropology”, from the late years ’70. …”
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Cooperative Search Optimization of an Unknown Dynamic Target Based on the Modified TPM by Kaixin Cheng, Di Wu, Tao Hu, Jinjin Wei, Zhifu Tian

“…Then, the distributed ant colony (ACO) algorithm and the artificial potential field (APF) algorithm are combined to generate and optimize the UAV swarm search result and return path with the goal of maximizing task execution efficiency. …”
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Los animales ante la muerte del hombre: (tecno)biopoder y performances de la (des)domesticación by Iván Darío Ávila Gaitán

“…En un primer momento, se argumenta que el ideal de Hombre moderno-colonial guarda una relación directa con el despliegue del biopoder característico de las sociedades de normalización. …”
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Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…The article analyzes the mobilization around this issue in the English-speaking Caribbean, the “reparative justice” agenda put forward by the CARICOM Reparations Commission- mainly composed by former British colonies in the Caribbean-, and the demands directed against European governments. …”
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