Regional Integration and Development in Africa: Between the Rock and a Hard Place by Aworawo, Friday

“…The reality of the Post-Cold War international economic world order also stimulates the intensification and fine-tuning of existing regional arrangements leading to the establishment of a supra-national organization and capacity building institutions to address the problems of underdevelopment in Africa.As a consequence, numerous integration groupings have been reorganized and created but their achievements have largely been modest due to inappropriate integration approaches.It is against this background that this article examines the interlocking nexus between regional integration and development in Africa, and maintains that Africans need to adjust their orientation as well as take a major shift towards economic complementary among member states of integration blocs for the actualization of laudable development.It concludes that inward looking and the involvement of all Africans in the regional integration processes would be the best approach for regional integration to foster development.…”
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Importance of Wine Tours and Cultural Activities in Events Organized in Canada and Slovakia Wineries by Mazurek, Marica

“…The study deals with wine tourism in two countries namely Canada and Slovakia, and the discussion is focused on answering the question of how important wineries are for tourism by arranging wine tours with wine tasting and visits to cultural attractions. …”
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Assembly Line Efficiency Improvement by Using WITNESS Simulation Software by Ahmad Shah Hizam, Md. Yasir, N. M. Zuki, N. M.

“…The proposed design plan has shown an increase in yield and productivity compared to the current arrangement. This research has been carried out in company XYZ, which is one of the automotive premises in Pahang, Malaysia.…”
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V-I characteristics of a coreless ironless electric generator in a closed-circuit mode for low wind density power generation by A. R., Razali, F. R. M., Romlay, Yap, Wee Leong, Mohd Razali, Hanipah, Mohd Azri Hizami, Rasid

“…A confinement technique is proposed to confine and focus magnetic flux by introducing opposing permanent magnets arrangement. The generator was fabricated and experimentally validated to qualify its loaded characteristics. …”
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Advanced in carbon membrane by relating to coating-carbonization-cycles for oxygen performance by Norazlianie, Sazali, W. N. W., Salleh, N. H., Ismail, K., Kadirgama, M. H. D., Othman, Z., Harun

“…This work discusses the creation and assessment of rounded carbon membrane arranged from P84 co-polyimide mixes with Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC). …”
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Fragmentation techniques for ideal performance in distributed database - a survey by Sharifah Hafizah, Syed Ahmad Ubaidillah, Noraziah, Ahmad, Odili, Julius Beneoluchi

“…Distributed processing is an operative way to improve the performance of the distributed database systems and thus showing the effectiveness of computational intelligence. A specific arrangement of distributed processing through distributed database, where a logically integrated database is physically scattered over several distinct but linked through the computing facilities. …”
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Fabrication of display unit for electrical and electronic wire harness of single cylinder four stroke engine for teaching purpose by Mohd Hassnun Saiffuddin, Mohd Mustafa

“…This project is design base on the sketching from the computer software and manual sketching to place the electronic component of the motorcycle which will ease the user to understand the arrangement of the wire harness in the motorcycle. Understanding the problem of user to identify each component, it has been label and each of them had been described as simple as possible. …”
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Design, Development and Performance Test of Two-Axis Solar Tracker System by Muhammad Ikram, Mohd Rashid, Nik Fadhil, Nik Mohammed, Suliana, Ab Ghani

“…In this paper, an automatic solar tracking system has been designed and developed using DC motor on a mechanical structure with gear arrangement. The movements of two-axis solar trackers for the elevation and azimuth angles are programmed according to the mathematical calculation by using the Borland C++ Builder. …”
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Precision positioning using a novel six axes compliant nano-manipulator by Akbari, Samin, Pirbodaghi, Tohid

“…Undesired deflections, while operating in a specific DOF, are restricted by the aid of distinctive design of flexure hinges and actuators’ arrangements. The compliant mechanism is actuated by thermo-electro-mechanical actuators, as they could be integrated and exert large forces in a nanometer resolution. …”
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Mechanical signatures of microbial biofilms in micropillar-embedded growth chambers by Chew, S. C., Kundukad, B., Teh, W. K., Yang, L., Rice, S. A., Kjelleberg, S., Doyle, Patrick S

“…Pressure from the biofilm is transferred to the micropillars via the extracellular matrix, and reduction of major matrix components decreases the magnitude of micropillar deflections. The spatial arrangement of micropillar deflections caused by pressure differences in the different biofilm strains may potentially be used as mechanical signatures for biofilm characterization. …”
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Time-resolved, dual heterodyne phase collection transient grating spectroscopy by Dennett, Cody Andrew, Short, Michael P

“…In this letter, an optical configuration is presented which allows for collection of TGS measurements at two heterodyne phases concurrently through the use of two independently phase controlled interrogation paths. This arrangement allows for complete, heterodyne amplified TGS measurements to be made in a manner not constrained by a mechanical actuation time. …”
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Quantitative Comparison of Vernier Permanent-Magnet Motors with Interior Permanent-Magnet Motor for Hybrid Electric Vehicles by Iyer, K. Lakshmi Varaha, Sinkular, Jasmin Jijina, Lee, Christopher, Bhalla, Krishan, Iyer, K., Lee, Ho Tin, Angle, Matthew G, Bhalla, Krishan Kant, Qasim, Mohammad Mowafaq, Mei, Jie, Mohammadiyangijeh, Sajjad, Kirtley Jr, James L

“…Owing to employment of toroidal-winding arrangement, the OR-VPM and the OR-CP-VPM motors can enjoy better material utilization and easier manufacturing process than its IR-VPM counterpart. …”
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3D nanofabrication by volumetric deposition and controlled shrinkage of patterned scaffolds by Oran, Daniel David, Rodriques, Samuel Gordon, Gao, Ruixuan, Asano, Shoh, Skylar-Scot, Mark A., Chen, Fei, Tillberg, Paul W., Marblestone, Adam H., Boyden, Edward S.

“…We present a strategy for the direct assembly of 3D nanomaterials consisting of metals, semiconductors, and biomolecules arranged in virtually any 3D geometry. We used hydrogels as scaffolds for volumetric deposition of materials at defined points in space. …”
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Redox-dependent rearrangements of the NiFeS cluster of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase by Wittenborn, Elizabeth Charlot, Drennan, Catherine L

“…Combined with supporting spectroscopic data, our structures reveal that this novel, oxidized cluster arrangement plays a role in avoiding irreversible oxidative degradation at the C-cluster. …”
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The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events: Status and Prospects by Norman, Eric, Alduino, C., Alfonso, K., Artusa, D. R., Avignone III, F. T., Azzolini, O., Banks, T. I., Bari, G., Beeman, J. W., Bellini, F., Bersani, A., Biassoni, M., Branca, A., Brofferio, C., Bucci, C., Camacho, A., Caminata, A., Canonica, Lucia, Cao, Xu, Capelli, S., Cappelli, L., Carbone, L., Cardani, L., Carniti, P., Casali, N., Cassina, L., Chiesa, D., Chott, N., Clemenza, M., Copello, S., Cosmelli, Carlo, Cremonesi, O., Creswick, R., Cushman, J. S., D'Addabbo, Antonio, Dafinei, I., Davis, C. J., Dell'Oro, Stefano, Deninno, M. M., Di Domizio, S., Di Vacri, M. L., Drobizhev, A., Fang, D. Q., Faverzani, M., Fernandes, G., Ferri, E., Ferroni, F., Fiorini, E., Franceschi, M. A., Freedman, S. J., Fujikawa, B. K., Giachero, A., Gironi, L., Giuliani, A., Gladstone, Laura, Gorla, P., Gotti, C., Gutierrez, T. D., Haller, E. E, Han, K., Hansen, Eric Calvin, Heeger, K. M., Hennings-Yeomans, R., Hickerson, K. P., Huang, H. C., Kadel, R., Keppel, G., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Leder, Alexander Friedrich, Ligi, C., Lim, K. E., Ma, Y., Maino, M., Marini, L., Martinez, M., Maruyama, R., Mei, Y., Moggi, N., Morganti, S., Mosteiro, P. J., Napolitano, T., Nones, C., Norman, E. B., Novati, V., Nucciotti, A., O'Donnell, T, Ouellet, Jonathan L, Pagliarone, C. E., Pallavicini, M., Palmieri, V., Pattavina, Luca, Pavan, M., Pessina, G., Pettinacci, V., Piperno, G., Pira, C., Pirro, Stefano, Pozzi, S., Previtali, E., Rosenfeld, C., Rusconi, C., Sangiorgio, S., Santone, D., Scielzo, N., Singh, V., Sisti, M., Smith, A. R., Taffarello, L., Tenconi, M., Terranova, Francesco, Tomei, C., Trentalange, S., Vignati, Marco, Wagaarachchi, Sachi, Wang, B. S., Wang, H., Wilson, J., Winslow, Lindley, Wise, T., Woodcraft, A., Zanotti, L., Zhang, G. Q., Zhu, B. X., Zimmermann, S., Zucchelli, S.

“…The detector is composed of 988 5x5x5-cm 3 TeO 2 crystals of natural isotopic composition arranged in 19 towers of 52 crystals each, all housed in a common dilution refrigerator. …”
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The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change by Almaatouq, Abdullah, Radaelli, Laura, Pentland, Alex, Shmueli, Erez

“…We examine the role of reciprocal ties in inducing more effective peer pressure in a cooperative arrangements setting and find that the directionality of friendship ties can significantly limit the ability to persuade others to act. …”
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Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions by Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James

“…The role of cultural configurations is critical in legitimizing the social arrangements in each path. None of the three different paths we highlight support modernization theory. …”
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Imaging nanoscale Fermi-surface variations in an inhomogeneous superconductor by Wise, W. D., Chatterjee, Kamalesh, Boyer, Michael C., Kondo, Takeshi, Takeuchi, T., Ikuta, H., Xu, Zhijun, Wen, Jinsheng, Gu, G. D., Hudson, Eric

“…Particle–wave duality suggests we think of electrons as waves stretched across a sample, with wavevector k proportional to their momentum. Their arrangement in 'k-space', and in particular the shape of the Fermi surface, where the highest-energy electrons of the system reside, determine many material properties. …”
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Cluster expansion and optimization of thermal conductivity in SiGe nanowires by Chan, Maria K., Reed, J., Donadio, D., Mueller, Timothy K., Meng, Ying Shirley, Galli, G., Ceder, Gerbrand

“…We seek the minimization of κL with respect to arrangements of Si and Ge atoms in 1.5 nm diameter [111] Si1−xGex nanowires, by obtaining κL from equilibrium classical molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations via the Green-Kubo formalism, and parametrizing the results with a coarse-grained cluster expansion. …”
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Molecular and Mesoscale Mechanisms of Osteogenesis Imperfecta Disease by Uzel, Sebastien Guy Marcel, Buehler, Markus J

“…Collagen is a crucial structural protein material, formed through a hierarchical assembly of tropocollagen molecules, arranged in collagen fibrils that constitute the basis for larger-scale fibrils and fibers. …”
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