Citizenship and the politics of poverty definition during the segregation, apartheid and democratic eras in South Africa: 1910-2010 by Magasela, W

“…</p> <p>In the post-apartheid era with a Constitution that enshrines a Bill of Rights with explicit and specific social and economic rights, and human dignity, social justice and the commitment to improve the quality of life of all citizens as foundational values aimed at addressing extensive multi-dimensional poverty, apartheid era concepts and definitions of poverty (mainly the HSL and MLL) continue. This has been reinforced by the analyses of poverty undertaken by the World Bank in the post-apartheid era. …”

Clouds and hazes in Saturn's troposphere and stratosphere by Merlet, CTC

“…Near-infared VIMS data between 4.5 and 5.1 <em>μ</em>m are mainly sensitive to deeper tropospheric levels down to approximately 5 bar. …”

Profiling the growth conditions and persistent organic pollutants (POPS) tolerance of Phenoliferia glacialis USM-PSY62 by Ain Nur Afifah Azman, Shazilah Kamaruddin, Quay, Doris Huai Xia, Farah Diba Abu Bakar, Noor Haza Fazlin Hashim, Abdul Munir Abdul Murad, Izwan Bharudin

“…This Antarctic yeast enters the stationary phase on day six of incubation under optimum conditions. It appeared mainly as elongated-shape and oval-shaped with budding formation and was found to produce extracellular enzymes such as protease and amylase in the presence of 2% glucose concentration in YM media. …”
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Survivorship and field growth characteristics of four selected bamboo species for the development of bamboo industry in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo by Perumal, Mugunthan, Mohd Hassan, Nurul Husna, Abdullah, Nizam, Omar, Latifah, Zainudin, Johari, Wasli, Mohd Effendi

“…The scientific information and findings from this study would be useful as guidelines for bamboo industry players, managers, nursery practitioners, and policymakers to begin and carry out the development of the bamboo industry, mainly in Sarawak.…”
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English newspaper coverage of financial education on old age savings by Ng, Chooi Fun

“…The FE on OAS Articles did not follow a standard curriculum but were based on current issues emphasizing mainly on Savings. It was found that key stakeholders of the proposed National Financial Literacy Programs were not included as content providers and information provided did not include all financial products and services. …”
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An improved deep neural network algorithm for the prediction of limited proteolysis in native protein by Hashim, Haslina, Hong, Lim Lip, A. Samah, Azurah, Abdul Majid, Hairudin, Ali Shah, Zuraini, Azman, Nuraina Syaza, Azmi, Nur Sabrina

“…With the rise of computational methods in this era, mainly through the successful application of deep learning in various domains, the application of this method in biological data can help to improve predictions to support the experimental methods. …”
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Meta-Heuristic Search Based Test Data Generation Method for Dynamic-Functional Testing in Automatic Programming Assessment (S/O 13793) by Romli, Rohaida, Abd Wahab, Alawiyah, Romli, Rusnida, Yusoff, Nooraini

“…Initially, a comparative evaluation that mainly aims to compare among the most recent MHSTs so as to identify any applicable technique (s) to support automated test data generation in executing a dynamic-functional testing in APA was conducted. …”
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Location Selection for Beekeeping in Optimizing Honey Production using Linear Programming Model (S/O 14038) by Abdul Rahman, Syariza, Benjamin, Aida Mauziah, Omar, Mohd Faizal

“…Meliponiculture is an activity of raising stingless bees to obtain bee products, mainly honey. Honey production by bees varies depending on various factors which also affect its amount and quality. …”
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Part I : Peptide functionalized materials for gram-negative bacteria targeted PDT and LPS sensing. Part II : Small peptide and membrane lipid based self-assembled nanostructures fo... by Liu, Fang

“…The detection mechanism of our rational design is mainly based on the fact that the specific interactions between LPS and neutralizing peptide could break up the π-π stacking conformation of neighbouring PDI molecules on Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticle surfaces, and thus efficiently turn on the self-quenched fluorescence. …”
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A facile approach to nanoarchitectured three-dimensional graphene-based Li–Mn–O composite as high-power cathodes for Li-ion batteries by Zhang, Wenyu, Zeng, Yi, Xu, Chen, Xiao, Ni, Gao, Yiben, Li, Lain-Jong, Chen, Xiaodong, Hng, Huey Hoon, Yan, Qingyu

“…The wider operation voltage window can lead to increased theoretical capacity, e.g., 148 mAh·g−1 between 3 and 4.5 V and 296 mAh·g−1 between 2 and 4.5 V; (3) more importantly, it is found that the attachment of LMO onto graphene can help to reduce the dissolution of Mn2+ into the electrolyte, as indicated by the inductively coupled plasma (ICP) measurements, and which is mainly attributed to the large specific surface area of the graphene sheets.…”
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Si photocathode with Ag-supported dendritic Cu catalyst for CO2 reduction by Gurudayal, Beeman, Jeffrey W., Bullock, James, Wang, Hao, Eichhorn, Johanna, Towle, Clarissa, Javey, Ali, Toma, Francesca M., Mathews, Nripan, Ager, Joel W.

“…Under simulated diurnal illumination conditions photocathodes maintain over 60% faradaic efficiency to hydrocarbon and oxygenate products (mainly ethylene, ethanol, propanol) for several days. …”
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Sequence- and structure-specific probing of RNAs by short nucleobase-modified dsRNA-binding PNAs incorporating a fluorescent light-up uracil analog by Krishna, Manchugondanahalli Shivakumar, Toh, Desiree-Faye Kaixin, Meng, Zhenyu, Ong, Alan Ann Lerk, Wang, Zhenzhang, Lu, Yunpeng, Xia, Kelin, Prabakaran, Mookkan, Chen, Gang

“…The strategy of directly targeting double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) by triplex-formation is relatively underexplored mainly due to the weak binding at physiological conditions for the traditional triplex-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs). …”
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Correlation-oriented complex system structural risk assessment using Copula and belief rule base by Chang, Leilei, Zhang, Limao, Xu, Xiaojian

“…The numerical case is mainly used to explain the knowledge-driven Copula-BRB inferencing framework, and the practical case is conducted in a comparative fashion where three Copula functions are used, namely Clayton, Frank, and Gumbel, and the results are compared with the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and conventional BRB (without consideration of the attribute correlation). …”
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First-principles study of the anisotropic thermal expansion and thermal transport properties in h-BN by Niu, Bo, Zhong, Lixiang, Hao, Wei, Yang, Zhihua, Duan, Xiaoming, Cai, Delong, He, Peigang, Jia, Dechang, Li, Shuzhou, Zhou, Yu

“…And the anisotropic TEC is mainly determined by the anisotropic isothermal bulk modulus and the low-frequency out-of-plane longitudinal phonon modes. …”
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Dual-functional witherite in improving chemical looping performance of iron ore and simultaneous adsorption of HCl in syngas at high temperature by Wang, Haiming, Liu, Guicai, Boon, Yinn Zhao, Veksha, Andrei, Giannis, Apostolos, Lim, Teik-Thye, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…With increasing the inlet HCl concentration, the CLC performance of IO-Ba was further improved mainly because the chlorination process made the witherite particles more porous, which benefits the solid-solid interactions. …”
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In situ metal organic framework (ZIF-8) and Mechanofusion-Assisted MWCNT coating of LiFePO4/C composite material for lithium-ion batteries by Mathur, Priyatrisha, Shih, Jengywan, James Li, Ying Jeng, Hung, Tai-Feng, Thirumalraj, Balamurugan, Kannan Ramaraj, Sayee, Jose, Rajan, Karuppiah, Chelladurai, Yang, Chunchen

“…These excellent results were mainly obtained because of the improvement of lithium-ion transport properties, less polarization effect, and interfacial impedance of the LFP composite cathode materials derived from the synergistic effect of both ZIF-8 and MWCNT coating materials.…”
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Provenance, chemical weathering, and sedimentary environment of the aquifer sediments: Implication for arsenic enrichment in groundwater by Ming, Xiaoxing, Li, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Qiyi, Guo, Huaming, Zhang, Zhuo, Cao, Yongsheng, Shen, Jiaxing, Zhang, Chaoran

“…Shallow aquifer sediments mostly had relatively high ΣREEs contents and negative Eu anomalies, demonstrating that the aquifer sediments were mainly derived from the Yellow River (up to 94.3% ± 5%). …”
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The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks by Kauf, Carina

“…I find that LMs represent linguistic information similarly enough to humans to enable relatively accurate brain encoding and that this alignment is mainly driven by representations of word meanings rather than sentence structure. …”
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Punching shear strength analysis of corroded reinforcement concrete slab by Fu, Yibin

“…In the same year, glass FRP were revealed to greatly increase punching shear resistance in a study by Ahmed [H2]. The research mainly focuses on the improvement of the punching shear behaviour when FRP were used. …”
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无界助人为乐，无私奉献为荣 = Unsung heroes, beyond boundaries. by Song, Huichun.

“…Broad point of view, is a non-governmental organizations have a common purpose and faith of civil society organizations, usually non-profit nature. In this project, we mainly through non-governmental organization workers, four youth and their side view perspective of the people working in this area of ​​the stand by talk. …”
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