GLOBALIZATION, POST-COLONIZING MIGRATION AND NEO-SLAVERY: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AFRICAN STATES by Jonathan C. Madu

“…My paper argues that the process of decolonization, especially in Africa was incomplete and that former colonies were excluded from key economic decisions that came to have severe implications for their future attempts at developing their economies, which got worse with globalization. …”
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Landscape architecture education and democracy by Zydi Teqja, Albert Karaj

“…A good association between the number of landscape architecture programs and democracy index is verified for former communist countries. The analysis showed that the progress of democracy institutions and civil rights create the necessary environment for the development of the landscape architecture profession.…”
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COVID-19 Pandemic and Dental Practice by Anuraj Singh Kochhar, Ritasha Bhasin, Gulsheen Kaur Kochhar, Himanshu Dadlani

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L’abbaye de Lisle-en-Barrois (Meuse) : opportunités et contraintes spatiales d’un temporel cistercien frontalier by Christophe Wissenberg

“…Although Lisle-en-Barrois abbey, a former short-lived canonical foundation, now profits by an edition of its 12th century charters, its spatial approach gaps have led to a re-examination of the corpus and, above all, its extension to the entire voluminous cartulary. …”
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Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature in the West Bank, Palestine by Ayah Helal, Zahraa Zawawi

“…This study explores the relationship between land cover (built-up and unbuilt areas) and soil type in these cities across benchmark years 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2021. In addition to the former, the paper argues that the expansion and increase of the built-up area and the change in soil type of the aforementioned cities in the West Bank, Palestine, are leading to changes in the land surface temperature (LST). …”
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Brief Exposition of Religious Experience in Semitic Religion by Ahmad Nabil Amir, Tasnim Abdul Rahman

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Synodality as a return to the origins of Christianity and the way of building the God’s Kingdom by Sebastian Zygmunt

“…And one of the given solutions was the necessity of the return to the former way of exercising power by the college of bishops united around the Saint Peter’s Successor. …”
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Transplantation Tolerance Induced in Humans at the Fetal or the Neonatal Stage by Jean-Louis Touraine, Kamel Sanhadji

“…The latter tolerance relies upon clonal deletion from the T-cell repertoire, and it results from the contact between thymocytes of donor origin and dendritic cells or macrophages also deriving from donor stem cells. The former tolerance does not imply clonal deletion of T-cells with host reactivity. …”
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The Islamic State" in the Context of Political Changes in the Middle East by A. A. Kuznetsov

“…Sunni tribes of Northern Iraq and former Baath party members were the driving forces of the revolt but then Jihadi extremists hijacked this revolt. …”
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On Modelling and Comparative Study of LMS and RLS Algorithms for Synthesis of MSA by Ahmad Kamal Hassan, Adnan Affandi

“…Our findings point to higher accuracies in approximation for synthesis of MSA using RLS algorithm as compared with that of LMS approach; however the computational complexity increases in the former case.…”
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Reliability Evaluation of Pavement Life-Cycle Assessment Model by Jiale Huang, Fei Xiao, Yang Zhang

“…Two sources of uncertainty, data quality and model, were identified. The former was captured by converting the deterministic value to probability density function using beta distribution according to the evaluation matrix of data quality; the latter was assessed by prescribing variation interval through defining uncertainty factor. …”
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Experiments on Detection of Voiced Hesitations in Russian Spontaneous Speech by Vasilisa Verkhodanova, Vladimir Shapranov

“…However, ASR systems often work less efficiently for spontaneous than for read speech, since the former differs from any other type of speech in many ways. …”
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A new method for recognizing geometric parameters of industrial robots by Bin Kou, Yi Zhang

“…We compared our improve PSO algorithm with commonly used particle swarm algorithms, and the results showed that the former had a higher accuracy of convergence on average. …”
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Císařská volba a korunovace ve Frankfurtu nad Mohanem roku 1612 a česká účast na těchto událostech by Petr Vorel

“…He cames to conclusion that Lobkowitz‘s extraordinary position in the royal suite was closely related to the political interests of the Spanish court and it was perhaps one of the conditions that were necessary to be done to change former negative Spanish attitude towards Matthias´ imperial candidacy. …”
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The Rulemaking Authority of the Executive Branch of Government – An Analysis of Slovenian and American Theory, Legislation and Case Law by Iztok Rakar

“…It could be said that the American approach is pragmatic and flexible, while the Slovenian approach is dogmatic and rigid. In the former, the delegation of rulemaking authority to the executive branch is not problematic provided adequate mechanisms for legal and political oversight are in place; of these mechanisms, special emphasis is placed on the procedure for shaping secondary legislation and the public’s participation therein. …”
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Wpływ powstania styczniowego na losy rodziny Morgiewiczów z Hanelek w powiecie lidzkim guberni wileńskiej by Dariusz Tarasiuk

“… The article presents the impact of the January Uprising on the fate of a Polish noble family in the lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which had been involved in the independence uprising of 1863. …”
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Costanzo Festa’s (?) motet ‘O altitudo divitiarum’ re-examined: new suggestions regarding its source context, attribution and function by Wojciech Odoj

“…What Llorens apparently missed is the fact that the former, with the text Gaude felix Florentia and attributed to Andreas de Silva – who probably wrote it in honor of Pope Leo X on the occasion of his election in 1513 – appears in the manuscript RomeV 35-40 (the Vallicelliana Manuscript). …”
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Development and Application of a ZigBee-Based Building Energy Monitoring and Control System by Changhai Peng, Kun Qian

“…Two typical applications of ZBEMCS such as subentry metering and household metering of building energy are presented. The former includes lighting socket electricity, HVAC electricity, power electricity and special electricity. …”
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CFD algorithm for moving boundary problems of isothermal drying and shrinkage: Case of prunes by Lentzou Diamanto, Templalexis Charalampos, Boudouvis Andreas G., Karathanos Vaios, Xanthopoulos Georgios

“…The surface resistance is accounted as the sum of the peel and the diffusive boundary layer resistances, the latter being negligible compared to the former. The estimated peel resistance decreased by 86% as the drying temperature increased from 45 °C to 65 °C and by 44% as the drying temperature increases from 55 °C to 65 °C. …”
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Des zones humides pas si sauvages que cela : apport des données historiques et paléo-environnementales à la réflexion sur la gestion des paysages de la chaîne des Puys (France)... by Christèle Ballut, Yves Michelin

“…The Chaîne des Puys presents a large number of wetlands or former wetlands (maar, volcanic lakes or dams) whose current aspect gives them a “wild” appearance. …”
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