Editorial by Sarojini Nadar, Fatima Seedat

“… In June 2016 the South African Commission on Gender Equality declared that a local KwaZulu-Natal municipality’s scheme of “bursaries for virgins” was unlawful, unconstitutional, and discriminatory. …”
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The Association between Negative and Dysexecutive Syndromes in Schizophrenia: A Cross-Cultural Study by H. Ihara, G. E. Berrios, P. J. McKenna

“…The study also examined whether any relationship that exists between the NS and the DES holds equally for British and Japanese subjects. We compared 26 Japanese with 17 British schizophrenic patients, divided into ‘mild’ and ‘severe’ NS groups, on the basis of performance on neuropsychological tests, including the ‘Behavioural Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome’ (BADS). …”
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Heteronormativity, Masculinity and Prejudice in Mobile Apps: The Case of Grindr in a Brazilian City by Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva, Leonardo Tadeu dos Santos, Jefferson Rodrigues Pereira

“…At the same time, it allows discretion in sexual encounters, which only happen between “equals”: white, young, athletic, handsome, and not effeminate men, and all those who differ from this profile are repelled. …”
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A New Method for Isomorphism Identification of Planetary Gear Train based on Improved Hamming Number by Sun Wei, Li Anming, Kong Jianyi, Zuo Huiyan, Wei Sijia

“…The isomorphism identification is one of the indispensable processes in structure synthesis of planetary gear train.It is of great significance for the creation of novel planetary gear train with excellent transmission characteristics.A new method for identifying isomorphism of planetary gear train based on improved Hamming number is proposed.Firstly，a new method for describing the topological diagram of planetary gear train by improved link adjacency matrix is proposed.This matrix contains all the information of the topological structure of planetary gear train and has the uniqueness of description.Then，the basic feature of planetary gear train is represented by the feature code，which is the necessary condition for isomorphism.Then，the principle of improved Hamming number is defined，and the Hamming code is obtained.By distinguishing whether the structural constants of the feature code and the Hamming code are equal，the isomorphism of the planetary gear train is identified.Finally，the validity and reliability of the method are verified by examples.…”
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Water services and climate change: Winning innovations delivering greater resilience by Geneviève Leboucher, Sandrine Oberti

“…To stave off water stress and preserve this vital resource, there is an urgent need to adopt alternative strategies such as groundwater recharging, forward planning to anticipate vulnerabilities in drinking water production systems triggered by climate change, and rolling out frugal solutions that use less water. It is equally vital that sewer systems are reinforced so they can better deal with heavy rainfall and pollution.Read on to discover how these solutions are transforming water management and tackling climate challenges while also working to protect public health.…”
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The Quantization of a Kerr-AdS Black Hole by Claus Gerhardt

“…We apply our model of quantum gravity to a Kerr-AdS space-time of dimension 2m+1, m≥2, where all rotational parameters are equal, resulting in a wave equation in a quantum space-time which has a sequence of solutions that can be expressed as a product of stationary and temporal eigenfunctions. …”
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L’émergence de discours intellectuels islamiques en Allemagne : entre stratégie politique et herméneutique féministe by Jeanette Jouili, Nikola Tietze

“…Two common topics can be discerned: equality between men and women and religious pluralism. …”
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Design of Flexible Constant Force Manipulator based on Metamorphic Mechanism Transform by Chen Xiaodong Deng Zilong Gao Xingjun Hu Siya

“…Constant force can be achieved when the stored energy and released energy are approximately equal. Considering the common advantages of flexible metamorphic principle and constant force mechanism, a flexible metamorphic constant force manipulator is designed. …”
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Lightning Damage to Landscape Palms by Stephen H. Brown, Douglas Caldwell, Ralph Mitchell

“…Coconut palms, royal palms, and Washington palms are particularly vulnerable due to their great heights, but other tall palms may be equally susceptible. This new 6-page publication of the UF/IFAS Environmental Horticulture Department describes and includes many helpful photos of symptoms of lightning damage as well as lightning protection systems. …”
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Visages du Brésil méridional : l´immigration polonaise et italienne au Paraná entre la fin du XIXe et le début du XXe siècle by Márcio de Oliveira

“…The Italians in Paraná were not so numerically important, though they were as equally active within the local society. Italians have shown great vitality in their own cultural organizations in Curitiba, capital city of Paraná, and inside the surrounding colonies so that the consequences of their actions are still recognizable in current times.…”
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A cooperative multicast efficient resource allocation scheme based on limited feedback by Lei CHEN

“…A joint subcarrier and power allocation scheme based on limited feedback for cooperative multicast network was proposed to minimize the consumed power under constrain of QoS requirement.The new scheme worked in two steps.Firstly,subcarriers were distributed to different multicast groups with equal rate assumption according to limited feedback information,where fair subcarrier allocation scheme was used to achieve a tradeoff between power and fairness.Then,a cooperative power iterative scheme was adopted to allocate power effectively,where target rate on each subcarrier was computed by water-filling algorithm in the first place and then a power iterate process was implemented to optimize power allocation.Simulation and comparison results show that the new scheme significantly reduces uplink feedback overhear and the required power and the multicast service outage of cooperative scheme is much less than those of the direct scheme.Besides,cooperative power iterative scheme has lower computational complexity and therefore is suitable for practical system.…”
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THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION IN NIGERIAN NATIONAL INTEGRATION by JIBRIN UMAR OMACHI

“…This study examines the challenges of Development Communication and stresses out the pertinence of Development Journalism in Nigeria as a democratic nation. It equally examines the development communication approaches to enhance national integration and development in the country. …”
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Vaccines, Spas and Yellow Fever: Expert Physicians, Professional Honour and the State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Darina Martykánová, Víctor M. Núñez-García

“…At the same time, it was an era when the Ancien Régime, a plural world of hierarchically organised communities, was morphing into a capitalist society based on equality before the Law and the free competition of goods and ideas. …”
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Analysis the morphometric features of KabirKooh landslide

“…Considering the analyse of this indexs is, : equal to 15/5 ,: 16/06, :15.5,: 300 M,: 300 M, /:0.50, /:51.67, /:26.03 and volume 3908200970 .…”
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Hospitaller Castles and Fortifications in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1136-1291 by Denys Pringle

“…Topics discussed include the order’s contribution to the defence of towns and cities in which they were not the sole or even the major property owner, as well as their own construction and possession of a range of other fortifications from major castles to lesser structures, including towers and maisons fortes. In each case, equal attention is paid to the buildings themselves and to the administrative system of bailiffs and castellans through which they were managed and operated. …”
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A Discourse Coherence Analysis Method Combining Sentence Embedding and Dimension Grid by Lanlan Jiang, Shengjun Yuan, Jun Li

“…We take every dimension as an equal grid and compute its transition probabilities. …”
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Музыка в романе Евгения Водолазкина Брисбен by Tatiana Kopac

“…These techniques perform plot and semantic functions, combine two equal plot plans, and constitute the image of the protagonist and other important characters. …”
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Profession, Emotion, and Hope: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Origins of the Sociology of Gender by María Luisa Jiménez-Rodrigo

“…Gilman also implements an alternative model of sociological practice that is linked to social reform, outreach and social pedagogy to promote women’s emancipation and gender equality.…”
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Calabi-Yau Manifolds, Hermitian Yang-Mills Instantons, and Mirror Symmetry by Hyun Seok Yang, Sangheon Yun

“…We observe that the irreducible spinor representation of the Lorentz group Spin(6) requires us to consider the vector spaces of two forms and four forms on an equal footing. The doubling of the two-form vector space due to the Hodge duality doubles the variety of six-dimensional spin manifolds. …”
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Is There a Diversity of Dependent Capitalisms in Latin America? by Ilán Bizberg

“…Nonetheless, our main presupposition is that although the Latin American countries are all more or less dependent, we cannot characterize them equally. That is why in this article we propose a typology of the different types of capitalism that have been dominant in this continent. …”
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