Intersectional Analysis of Urban Land Corruption in Harare, Zimbabwe by Manase Kudzai, Praise Karuma, Tanaka Mutume, Primrose Hove

“…Consequently, many turn to housing cooperatives, which are rife with corruption and often exploitative. Urban land corruption manifests through bribery, fraudulent allocations, and exploitation, disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups, especially women. …”
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Heuristic Approach to Comparing the Environmental Impacts of Carbon Nanotube Production Methods by Ahmad Atif Fikri, Irham Fadlika, Albarrobi Nabila Saeful, Krisna Dwipa Muhdi, Daniel Febrian Pratama, Nasir Garba Bello

“…Calculating the environmental impact of CNTs production method often has challenges in implementation, because each production process has different systems and needs. …”
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Improving Performance of Integrated Ground-HAPS FSO Communication Links With MIMO Application by Emna Zedini, Yalcn Ata, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

“…Capitalizing on this PDF expression, we present novel results for fundamental performance metrics, including outage probability, average bit-error rate (BER) of on-off keying (OOK) modulation scheme, and ergodic capacity expressed in terms of the Meijer's G function. …”
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Systematic Performance Evaluation of Shield TBM Cutters for Excavating Multiple Soft Rock by Chuyuan Cao, Kui Zhang

“…The evaluation results show that the method has an intrinsic applicability in helping to make a reasonable trade-off between cost and cutting performance during the cutter selection process.…”
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RE-STUDY ON CAM GROOVE PROFILE AND KINEMATICS CHARACTERISTICS BASED ON ROTATING SLEEVE DISTRIBUTING-FLOW SYSTEM by CHENG QianChang, ZHANG HongXin, ZHAO QingHai, ZHANG YanJun, JIANG XiaoTian

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Policy recommendations for community empowerment in climate change adaptation: A study of the Go Green Pandawara Group campaign in Support of SDG 13 Climate Action by Harmono Fendi, Nurhamzah Fachrizal

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El poder del optimismo by José Emilio Palomero Pescador, María Pilar Teruel Melero, María Rosario Fernández Domínguez

“…En este artículo se aborda el optimismo desde una perspectiva descriptiva, partiendo de las diferentes visiones y miradas que nos ofrecen cuatro ensayos sobre el tema, todos ellos interesantes, Optimism, de Hellen Keller (1903), un libro de carácter autobiográfico en el que la autora, sorda, ciega y muda, nos muestra su pasión por la vida, "Candide, ou l'Optimisme" (1759), una fábula irónica en la que Voltaire se burla del optimismo ingenuo, El optimismo inteligente (1998), un ensayo en el que María Dolores Avia y Carmelo Vázquez tratan de acotar el espacio semántico del término optimismo, e Invitación al optimismo (2004), de Miguel Ángel Santos Guerra, un canto esperanzado al poder de la educación. …”
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On the structure of ionizing shock waves in magnetofluiddynamics by A. Aghajani, M. Hesaaraki

“…In this paper, we show that for the above electrical conductivity as well as for limiting cases, that is, when this coefficient is zero ahead of the shock and/or is infinity behind it, ionizing fast, slow, switch-on and switch-off shocks admit structure. This means that physically these shocks occur.…”
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Impact of green finance on poverty reduction: evidence from China by Wei Xu, Xiaoning Wang, Yun Zhang, Feng Wang

“…Integrating environmental sustainability within the financial sector, known as green finance, offers a promising approach to poverty reduction in China. …”
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长洲水利枢纽汛末蓄水策略探讨 by 侯贵兵, 徐爽, 廖小龙, 张丽娜

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OPTIMIZATION RESEARCH OF PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE STRATEGY ON THE CATENARY SYSTEM BASED ON RELIABILITY CONSTRAINTS by LIU Huan, LIU ZhiGang, JIANG Jing

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Enhanced Multi-UAV Path Planning in Complex Environments With Voronoi-Based Obstacle Modelling and Q-Learning by Wenjia Su, Min Gao, Xinbao Gao, Zhaolong Xuan

“…This approach ensures the generation of collision-free paths for multiple UAVs, as validated by simulation results that showcase the algorithm’s effectiveness in learning from past training data. The proposed method offers a robust framework for practical UAV trajectory generation in complex environments.…”
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From PD-1/PD-L1 to tertiary lymphoid structures: Paving the way for precision immunotherapy in cholangiocarcinoma treatment by Fang-Ju Huang, Ye-Ying Fang, Jia-Ying Wen, Jian-Jun Li, Qian Lin, Qin-Yan Su, Yi-Yang Chen, Lei Wang, Jian-Jia Zeng, Bang-Teng Chi, Rong-Quan He, Di-Yuan Qin, Li-Hua Yang, Gang Chen

“…These findings emphasize the pivotal role of immunotherapy in improving survival outcomes for CCA, and they highlight the significance of tertiary lymphoid structures within the tumor microenvironment as a promising target for future research. This study offers a strategic overview of the evolving landscape of CCA immunotherapy, providing valuable insights to guide future scientific endeavors in this domain.…”
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Diversity in Drought Traits among Commercial Southeastern US Peanut Cultivars by Mura Jyostna Devi, Thomas R. Sinclair

“…Commercial peanut cultivars in the USA are often grown under soil and environmental conditions resulting in intermittent periods of water deficit. …”
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双波长等吸收紫外分光法测定玻璃体内苏拉明浓度

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La migration clandestine mexicaine comme un crime : commentaires sur quelques effets de la loi SB. 1070 de l’État de l’Arizona by Philippe Schaffhauser

“…Article strives to show arbitrary (the State of Arizona as all the other States of the Union is not competent for migration) and the artificial construction of the offence attributed to the undocumented. Indeed, make clandestine migration a crime the objective problem to determine who is the real victim of such an Act and, according to the expression by John Stuart Mill, this form of migration appears on moral as philosophy "crime without victims", since the only victim of this offence under the Act it is the entire American society its laws, its standards, its values and its institutions, or an entity abstract in view of which is played every day matter clandestine migration and police control.…”
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Genetic trends and common BRCA1/2 pathogenic sequence variants in black African and Indian breast cancer patients presenting at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, KwaZulu-Nata... by M Makhetha, C Aldous, N Chabilal

“…For non-white patients, common variants are not well understood, and as such, all populations are offered the same test optimised for white patients. …”
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IMPACT OF COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES SAVINGS SCHEME IN RURAL FINANCE: SOME EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA by Onafowokan O. Oluyombo

“… This paper examines the extent to which savings products offered by cooperative societies in some parts of Nigeria meet the financial needs of the rural dwellers. …”
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Experience of Aging in the Ngäbe-Buglé Community in Coto Brus, Costa Rica: A Qualitative Study by Melissa Rallo, Nicholas Leahy, Alexis Vetack, Hima Konduru, Shania Bailey, Lillianna Pedersen, Christine Wan, Wendel Mora, Virginia Rowthorn, Shailvi Gupta, Carlos Faerron Guzmán

“…Introduction: Indigenous communities grapple with unique challenges in the aging process, often encountering amplified barriers to healthcare and resources, possibly due to their remote locations and distinct cultural backgrounds. …”
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Torture, Crimes Against Humanity and the Abuse of International Law by Ronald J. Rychlak

“…While those individuals who are guilty of abuse should be punished, neither they nor the Church officials who dealt with them (or failed to do so) are responsible for torture or crimes against humanity. …”
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