Africa Digest : Trends and issues in business Vol. 18 by Burger, Johan

“…This report addresses some events prior to the pandemic. 4. The Middle East in Africa - Countries from the Middle East have been involved in Africa for many years. …”
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The Caliphate at War: Ideology, War Fighting and State-Formation by Hashim, Ahmed Salah

“…History is given short shrift, often leading to misjudgments. If Iraq's past had been better understood, some mistakes might have been avoided. …”
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Empirical investigation on container port competition and cooperation by Aw, Bing Zong

“…For the past few decades, East and South East Asia container ports are slowly edging out Europe‟s and America‟s container ports to be the top 20 busiest container ports in the world. …”
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Investment outlook for the medium range tanker segment from the perspective of a ship financier from 2011 to 2015 by Han, Peinan.

“…This research aims to provide the freight market outlook for MR product tanker in the East of Suez from 2011 to 2015 and determine whether investors should invest in MR tanker shipping equities. …”
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Predicting wealth score from remote sensing satellite images and household survey data using deep learning by Shekhar, Shashank, Singh, Pratibha, Mishra, Rashmi, Kumar, Sunil

“…The most exigent call of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable goals is to end poverty everywhere by 2030. Unlike in the past, when poverty was measured based on data collected through ground-level surveys, the new technology adopted by many developing and developed countries is to estimate the poverty index using remote sensing satellite images with the help of machine learning techniques. …”
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The Islamic opposition in Malaysia : new trajectories and directions? by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid

“…The shattering defeat of PAS in the 2004 general elections, while holding on to the reins of government in the state of Kelantan by a tiny majority, heralded an era of introspection for party leaders and strategists. …”
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When Islamists play by the rules yet change the game by Chan, Wen Ling

“…The recent upgrading of the PAS Supporters Club to a legal entity, complete with party constitution amendments that recognize the new wing, not only makes the PAS promise of “PAS for all” selffulfilling, it provides the party an opportunity to lead the change away from race-based politicking.…”
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Temporal Telepresence: Immersive Interfaces for TeleAbsence by Pillis, D.

“…To store the past in a simulation may enable greater understanding of ourselves, our stories, and our histories. …”
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The Accident / by Pavone, Chris, author 656312

“…In Copenhagen, Hayden Gray, a veteran station chief, wary of the CIA's obsession with the Middle East, has been steadfastly monitoring the dangers that abound in Europe. …”

Enhanced monsoon-driven upwelling in Southeast Asia during the Little Ice Age by Chen, Mengli, Martin, Patrick, Ren, Haojia, Zhang, Run, Samanta, Dhrubajyoti, Chen, Yi-Chi, Hughen, Konrad A., Phan, Kim Hoang, Vo, Si Tuan, Goodkin, Nathalie Fairbank

“…Our data indicates a link between surface ocean nutrient supply and the East Asian Summer Monsoon strength in an economically important marginal sea. …”
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Modal tense: if and wish by Crowley, Paul

“…This paper is concerned with uses of certain morphemes, most notably the past, to represent meanings of distance from reality in modal expressions. …”
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Genomic insights into Vibrio cholerae O1 responsible for cholera epidemics in Tanzania between 1993 and 2017 by Hounmanou, Yaovi Mahuton Gildas, Leekitcharoenphon, Pimlapas, Kudirkiene, Egle, Mdegela, Robinson H., Hendriksen, Rene S., Olsen, John Elmerdahl, Dalsgaard, Anders

“…We studied the evolution of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated in Tanzania during the past three decades. Methodology / Principal findings: Genome-wide analysis was performed to characterize V. cholerae O1 responsible for the Tanzanian 2015-2017 outbreak along with strains causing outbreaks in the country for the past three decades. …”
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Putting distance through cleansing : the mediating role of temporal distancing on the embodiment of moral purity by Nurul Mira Fatin Abdulkahar

“…More specifically, it is hypothesized that compared to individuals who do not clean their hands, those who do so after recalling a past immoral act would be more likely to temporally distance their present selves away from their past immoral selves so as to preserve favorable self-view, and hence are more likely to perceive their past moral transgressions as less severe than they would have normally believed. …”
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Contraceptive experience and factors associated with desire for postpartum family planning among pregnant women of the nkongsamba health district, Littoral Region, Cameroon by Ajong, AB, Yakum, MN, Mangala, FN, Bekolo, CE, Agbor, VN, Waffo, LM, Kenfack, B

“…This study aimed to evaluate past contraceptive experience and identify factors associated with the desire for postpartum family planning among women in late pregnancy. …”

Modeling downward counterfactual events : unrealized disasters and why they matter by Lin, Yolanda C., Jenkins, Susanna F., Chow, Jun Rui, Biass, Sébastien, Woo, Gordon, Lallemant, David

“…Disaster risk research’s reliance on past events has proved inadequate when it comes to extreme events. …”
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Malaysia’s opposition alliance at the crossroads : beginning of the end? by Yang Razali Kassim

“…The Malaysian Pakatan Rakyat opposition alliance is at a crossroads following the recent crisis over the Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Selangor: Whether the three partners, PKR, DAP, PAS, part ways or remain together depends on how the surprising turmoil within the Islamist party PAS is resolved…”
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100 news @ wall projection by Sun, Zhongyinan

“…Then a word frequency analysis scheme was incorporated to interpret the top 100 keywords for the past hour and retrieve the related pictures and news stories for each keyword. …”
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Une lecture du texte hébreu by Joosten, J

“…Il s’agit sans conteste d’un des morceaux les plus puissants que contient la Bible hébraïque, ce qui n’est pas peu dire. Mais l’impact, affectif et intellectuel, du récit ne conduit pas tous les lecteurs à la même interprétation. …”

An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…Results: A total of 132 epitopes were identified, with the majority of them found to be conserved across the bat CoVs, pangolin CoVs, endemic coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). …”
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Investigation of effects of supercavitation on flow by Yeo, Chee Siang

“…The simulation results obtained in this study are in good agreement with the past research papers. The disagreement of the data only occurred at 60° cavitator. …”
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