The African Nationalist Idea of Africa by Tlhabane Mokhine Dan Motaung

“…Mamdani made this observation when he stated that in kick-starting the nation-building project after independence, post-colonial elites turned their backs on the history of colonialism and thus on their own history. Instead, they modelled their political imagination on the modern European state, the result being the nationalist dream was imposed on the reality of colonially imposed fragmentation, leading to new rounds of nation-building by ethnic cleansing. …”
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The End of the Old France. <i>Book Review of ‘From Triumph to Disaster: Political and Military Defeat of France in 1940 and Its Origins’ by A.A. Vershinin and N.N. Naumova</i> by V. Sergienko-Soler

“…The authors debunk the popular myth that this defeat allegedly resulted from a shortage of military equipment. They show instead that it was caused by a complex of factors: instability of the Third Republic’s regime, contradictions between political parties, strategic miscalculations of the military and politicians. …”
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Feasibility of Using H3PO4/H2O2 in the Synthesis of Antimicrobial TiO2 Nanoporous Surfaces by Benjamín Valdez-Salas, Ernesto Beltrán-Partida

“…The phenotype configuration strikingly showed that NP7 does not alter the cell morphology, thus proposing a disruptive adhesion pathway instead of cellular lysis. Furthermore, preliminary assays suggested an early promoted osteoblasts viability in comparison to the control material. …”
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Free Vibration Analysis of the Unified Functionally Graded Shallow Shell with General Boundary Conditions by Dongyan Shi, Shuai Zha, Hong Zhang, Qingshan Wang

“…This method can be universally applied to the free vibration analysis of the shallow shell, because it only needs to change the relevant parameters instead of modifying the basic functions or adapting solution procedures. …”
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Matching of Silicon Thin-Film Tandem Solar Cells for Maximum Power Output by C. Ulbrich, C. Zahren, A. Gerber, B. Blank, T. Merdzhanova, A. Gordijn, U. Rau

“…The experimental method allows for optimizing the output power instead of the current. Furthermore, it enables the extraction of the approximate AM1.5g efficiency when working with noncalibrated spectra. …”
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A Time Scales Approach to Coinfection by Opportunistic Diseases by Marcos Marvá, Ezio Venturino, Rafael Bravo de la Parra

“…The secondary disease is instead a short-term infection affecting only the primary infected individuals. …”
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Numerical analysis of repaired wall loss defect pipelines for optimum composite wrap thickness by Muhammed Khaise, Silvio de Barros, Ney Rohem, Maria Banea, Sandip Budhe

“…Additionally, the numerical study on optimization of repair thickness revealed that lower composite repair thickness can also sustain the designed failure pressure (composite repair thickness of 8.4 mm can sustain the same designed pressure instead of 16.1 mm thickness), which implies there is scope to further reduce the composite thickness, which ultimately reduce the repair cost. …”
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Influence of Boundary Conditions on the Simulation of a Diamond-Type Lattice Structure: A Preliminary Study by Patrick Terriault, Vladimir Brailovski

“…If the porous structure’s boundaries are free to deform, then the periodic boundary condition is found to be the most representative, but constraint equations must be introduced in the model. If, instead, the porous structure is inserted in a rigid enclosure, it is then better to use frictionless boundary conditions. …”
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Single‐step geolocation for a non‐circular source in the presence of satellite orbit perturbations by Jiexin Yin, Ding Wang, Fuquan Nie, Nae Zheng

“…It exploits the non‐circular property of signals and a priori information of satellite orbit error distribution to jointly calibrate orbit errors and determine the longitude and latitude of the transmitter based on the ellipsoidal Earth model, which integrates an alternating iteration scheme for the estimation of various unknowns instead of the exhaustive grid search. Additionally, a detailed Cramér‐Rao bound (CRB) derivation is presented for the single‐step satellite geolocation of a non‐circular source on Earth with and without satellite orbit perturbations, and it is proved that these CRBs are lower than the associated CRBs for a circular source. …”
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Native American Voices: Decolonial Perspectives on Selected Texts of Alexie and Momaday by Dr. Sadia Akram, Dr. Sadia Nazir, Saira Akhter

“…This paper, therefore, proposes that the gap between Natives and Euro-Americans may be bridged through literary resistance for reconciliation instead of creating antagonism between them. …”
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South Africa: A Growing Embrace of Feminist Foreign Policy? by Jo-Ansie van Wyk

“…Unlike Sweden, South Africa never adopted or declared a feminist foreign policy due to historical and cultural reasons, and different conceptualisations of women, gender, and feminism. Instead, under the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994, South Africa has diplomatically capitalised on its liberation struggle and human rights credentials; the latter which, to some extent, have for some time superseded a more focused emphasis on women’s rights. …”
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The voice of people’s perspective on the future of health resilience post pandemic hits: A numerically scaled survey in 19 provinces in Indonesia by Nurlaila Ika, Amalya Dewi Meta

“…On the other hand, they were against ignorance and pessimism towards the government’s handling of the pandemic. Instead, they favoured acting on their own free will to defend themselves without making needless motions. …”
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From information to action: modelling social and cognitive factors in health decisions by Jiadong Yu, D. A. Bekerian

“…Notably, fear of COVID-19 did not significantly influence health behaviors. Instead, political ideology and conspiracy beliefs played a more dominant role, emphasizing the importance of integrating socio-political factors into traditional health behavior models. …”
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Satellite Constellation Orbit Design Optimization with Combined Genetic Algorithm and Semianalytical Approach by Tania Savitri, Youngjoo Kim, Sujang Jo, Hyochoong Bang

“…A target area represented by a polygon defined by grid points is chosen instead of using a target point only. The constellation consists of nonsymmetric and circular Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. …”
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Block-Based Mode Decomposition in Few-Mode Fibers by Chenyu Wang, Jianyong Zhang, Baorui Yan, Shuchao Mi, Guofang Fan, Muguang Wang, Peiying Zhang

“…The BMD uses randomly selected sample blocks of the beam images to restore mode coefficients instead of all pixels in the beam images. It allows for blocks of any shape, such as triangles. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…I find that they began to challenge the notion that the empire had cohesive and consistently applied policies to Russify its subjects. Instead, scholars now generally argue that policies were applied on a more ad hoc basis depending on the ethnic and national contexts of individual borderlands. …”
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A Comparison Between the MEWMA and Mahalanobis Distance Control Chart by Kawa Rashid

“…So, linguistic terms can be used instead of the exact value of the continuous random variable. …”
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The Optimal Licensing Contract in a Differentiated Stackelberg Model by Xianpei Hong, Lijun Yang, Huaige Zhang, Dan Zhao

“…Thirdly, the innovator always prefers to license its nondrastic innovation by means of a two-part tariff instead of licensing by means of a royalty; however, with a drastic innovation, the optimal licensing strategy can be either a two-part tariff or a royalty, depending upon the differentiation of the goods.…”
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Constructing Multiple-Objective Portfolio Selection for Green Innovation and Dominating Green Innovation Indexes by Meng Li, Kezhi Liao, Yue Qi, Tongyang Liu

“…However, Nobel Laureate Markowitz emphasizes portfolio selection instead of security selection and accentuates that “A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks.” …”
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Decarbonizing Japan: The role of nuclear energy and environmental taxation in mitigating CO2 emissions by Yasir Habib, Minhaj Ali, Usman Mehmood, Noor Raida Abd Rahman

“…According to the evidence at hand, ET in Japan could become a beneficial tool for enhancing environmental quality instead of a tool for increasing budget capital.…”
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