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

“…The Middle East in Africa - Countries from the Middle East have been involved in Africa for many years. Their involvement ranged from using Africa as a base for attacks on rebels in Yemen to infrastructure development (ports and airports) and investment in food and IT projects. …”
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Lane formation and aggregation spots in a model of ants by Bruna, M, Burger, M, de Wit, O

The future of IPTV: adding social networking and mobility by Mirlacher, T., Montpetit, Marie-Jose, Klym, Natalie

“…Driven in large part by the near-ubiquitous IP-based communication services, the TV experience has been extended over the years to embrace many of the same ancillary services provided by web applications. …”
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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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Artificial Intelligence and the US-China Balance of Power by Chang, Benjamin Angel

“…Finally, the third essay exploits supply chain datasets to assess each side’s ability to bring AI-enabled autonomous weapons to bear in future conventional conflicts. I find that control over the production of advanced AI chips by the United States and allies almost certainly means the United States would better exploit such weapons, if they emerged as decisive in modern warfare, within at least the next ten years. …”
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Quad's India problem : no different from Beijing by Gupta, Sourabh

“…Australia, Japan and the US should first get New Delhi to revise its UNCLOS-related rules and regulations, which bear far greater similarity with Beijing’s than that of its Quad partners.…”
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Material characterization of additive manufactured metal parts for failure analysis by Seow, Mei Qi

“…In the recent years, the usage of Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technology has been on a rise in the manufacturing industry due to the capabilities of allowing manufacturers to fabricate parts with higher complexity and lower part count as compared to conventional manufacturing. …”
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Large eddy simulations of turbulent circular wall jets by Zhang, Shuai, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung, Zhao, Bing

“…Most of the previous studies focus on the kinematic characteristics of the jet flows, while the mixing characteristics including the scalar transport have not been well examined. The current study performs a comprehensive investigation of the turbulent circular wall jet including both the flow and mixing characteristics using the large eddy simulations (LES) approach with proper near-wall modelling. …”
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De novo genome sequence assembly of the RNAi-tractable endosymbiosis model system Paramecium bursaria 186b reveals factors shaping intron repertoire by Leonard, G, Jenkins, BH, Savory, FR, Kilias, ES, Maguire, F, Varma, V, Milner, DS, Richards, TA

Detailed turbulent structures investigation around piers group induced flow by Ikani, Nima, H. Pu, Jaan, Zang, Shuyan, Hussein Al-Qadami, Ebrahim Hamid, Razi, Adib

“…The result reveals that the log-law layer near wall has been enhanced by the installation of pier. …”
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Plasmonic properties of two-dimensional metallic nanoholes fabricated by focused ion beam lithography by Zhu, Shaoli, Zhou, Wei

“…The difference between the design and the experimental results may be caused by the conversion between the near field and the far field. The near field electric field distribution on the surface plasmonic nanoholes was measured by a near-field scanning optical microscope. …”
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Theoretical and experimental study of semiconducting iron disilicide and its applications to thin film solar cells by Tan, Khing Hong

“…Transition metal silicides have been studied extensively for many years due to their potential technological importance and applications. …”
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A review on fall detection systems in bathrooms: challenges and opportunities by Ramanujam, E., Perumal, Thinagaran, Shankar, K.

“…The share of the aged population over and above 65 years increased from 6% in 1990 to 9% in 2019. The percentage of the aged population might increase further to 16% by 2050. …”

Presence of host-seeking Ixodes ricinus and their infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Northern Apennines, Italy by Ragagli, C, Mannelli, A, Ambrogi, C, Bisanzio, D, Ceballos, LA, Grego, E, Martello, E, Selmi, M, Tomassone, L

Biovalorisation of brewer's spent grain (BSG) and sensory evaluation of BSG bread by Goh, Luo Lin

“…Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is the largest by-product of beer production, generating over an approximate 38 billion kg annually. …”
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Clouds and hazes in Saturn's troposphere and stratosphere by Merlet, CTC

“…The haze physical and optical properties can however be independently retrieved from VIMS near-infrared spectra at shorter wavelengths in the 0.8-3.5 <em>μ</em>m spectral range. …”

Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…For states seeking to catch up, the acquisition and assimilation of frontier technology has always been paramount (Abramovitz, 1986).</p> <p>Multinational firms based in industrialized countries have long been seen as sources of technology (Evans, 1979). …”

Enhancing the corporate image of a statutory board through a public communication campaign : the PUB story. by Tan, Amy Kheng Im.

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Storage and eruption of silicic magma across the transition from dominantly effusive to caldera-forming states at an arc volcano (Santorini, Greece) by Druitt, Timothy H., Fabbro, Gareth N., Costa, Fidel

“…We analysed textures, zoning patterns, trace element compositions, and crystal residence timescales calculated at pre-eruptive conditions (near-liquidus residence timescales; NLRT) of plagioclase and orthopyroxene phenocrysts from two eruptive units on Santorini: an ∼2 km3 sequence of dacitic lavas erupted between 39 and 25 ka (the Therasia dome complex), and a caldera-forming dacitic eruption that occurred no more than 2800 ± 1400 years after the last Therasia lava (the 21·8 ka, >10 km3 Cape Riva eruption). …”
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What is to reproduce? On the overlap, development, and persistence account of reproduction by Palacios-González, C

“…Her account seems able to answer the question of whether reproduction takes place, and who reproduces, when we employ biotechnologies that bear little to no resemblance to naturally occurring human sexual reproduction. …”