Comment sécuriser l'accès au foncier pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire des populations africaines : éléments de réflexion by Florence Brondeau

“…The denounced effects of land attributions on a large scale and the urgency to guarantee the food supply of the populations cause the promotion of alternative systems of production (revival of the contract farming, development of short circuits), but the security of the access to land conditions partially the capacities of family agricultures to contribute to the security of the food circuits of supply. …”
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Improved GOA-based fuzzy PI speed control of PMSM with predictive current regulation. by Taochang Li, Ang Li, Limin Hou

“…The improved GOA is then employed to optimize the contraction-expansion factor of the variable universe fuzzy PI controller, achieving enhanced control performance for PMSMs. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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Viewing the African Political Leadership Challenge through the Lens of Music Drama: Reflections on Duro Ladipo’s Ọba Kòso by Kayode Samuel

“…Thematic exploration of the opera was carried out to establish the linkages between leaders’ (characters’) traits and styles as portrayed in the play, and Nigeria’s political leaders’ engagement and responses to social contracts with their citizens. By comparing the outcomes of the actions, inactions and (in) decisions of Nigeria’s political leaders and the attendant consequences on their subjects with those found in the opera. …”
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Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…The art world has indeed become a benchmark of production and management for the business world which praises its ever-youthful energy, its inventiveness, hipness, and sense of freedom, its flexible working hours and short-term or zero-hour contracts. Following the success of the creative industries, private companies have been keen to embrace this post-Fordist work model and link it to the global neoliberal market economy. …”
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Euler’s Numerical Method on Fractional DSEK Model under ABC Derivative by Fareeha Sami Khan, M. Khalid, Omar Bazighifan, A. El-Mesady

“…According to this theory, we will define two operators based on Lipschitzian and prove that they are contraction mapping and relatively compact. Ulam-Hyers stability theorem is implemented to prove the fractional DSEK model’s stability in Banach space. …”
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A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Two-Dimensional Shock Wave Modeling by W. Lai, A. A. Khan

“…Applications include circular dam break with shock, shock waves in channel contraction, and dam break in channel with 45∘ bend. …”
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THE NIGERIAN OIL RESOURCEAND SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND: AN INTERROGATION by Joshua DANJUMA

“…Findings reveal poor political institutions, corruption and lack of accountability, weak executive control of oil resource governance with apparent inadequate checks and balances, and the resultant conflicts and clashes of interests, manipulations, and inflation of oil contracts with favouritism in allocating oil blocs to cronies.Therefore, this articleshades in a newlight by interrogating the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure optimal benefits of oil wealth to all citizenry; it submits that measures must be adopted in building political institutions, reforming the Niger Delta Development Commission; diversification, building a welfare state, equitable distribution of oil wealth and the imposition of direct tax. …”
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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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A case of thyrotoxic paralysis caused by consumption of Iodocaseine by Antonio Villa, Gabriella Nucera

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What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940 by Theo Engelen

“…The analysis is based on the LINKS dataset which currently includes almost 2 million marriages that were contracted in seven Dutch provinces: Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Holland, Zeeland and Limburg. …”
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The Cyclicality of Loan Loss Provision in Brazilian Commercial Banks by Antônio Maria Henri Beyle de Araújo, Paulo Roberto Barbosa Lustosa, José Alves Dantas

“…The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between banks’ provisioning for credit losses and business cycles in Brazil, in an attempt to confirm its nature, a condition capable of avoiding potentiating the effects of economic contraction or expansion. Using an econometric model with accounting and macroeconomic variables, the survey involved 91 commercial banks in the period from 2001 to 2012. …”
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A Novel k-out-of-n Oblivious Transfer Protocol from Bilinear Pairing by Jue-Sam Chou

“…Therefore, when used in certain applications, such as mental poker games and fair contract signings, some extra mechanisms must be combined to ensure the security of the protocol. …”
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Evolution of concept of esophageal motor disturbances in pathogenesis of gastroesophageal reflux disease by V. T. Ivashkin, A. S. Trukhmanov

“…There are several components of TLESR mechanism: decrease of the lower esophageal sphincter pressure, modulated by inhibiting impulses; decrease of compression by crures of diaphragm; intensive contraction of longitudinal muscles of the esophagus; relaxation of circular musculature layer at its distal part. …”
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Applications of Matrices to a Matroidal Structure of Rough Sets by Jingqian Wang, William Zhu

“…Then some characteristics of the matroid are presented through the representable matrix mainly. Secondly, contraction and restriction operations are applied to the matroid through the representable matrix and approximation operators of rough sets. …”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF STATE AND CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY IN DEMOCRACY: A FOCUS ON THE FOURTH REPUBLIC by Lambe Emmanuel Oyewole

“… The state is a creation of the people through the social contract. However, the Nigerian state seems to have been hijacked by a few, who use the authority inherent to serve and protect their interests. …”
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A Report of Two Cases of Age-Related Changes in Cervical Morphology in Postmenopausal Women with Vaginal Adenosis by Marguerite B. Vigliani

“…Several decades of annual exams showed these stigmata of DES exposure gradually disappear as the upper vagina progressively contracted. After menopause the upper vagina in both cases transformed into what appeared to be a normal cervix with all adenosis involuted into a normal endocervical canal. …”
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Negotiated coexistence and environmental governance in protected nature areas of Peru by Mattias Borg Rasmussen

“…An argument is developed about the consolidation of a social contract for conservation understood as the process that allows the establishment of reciprocal recognition between the protected area institution and local organizations. …”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…Empirical data proves that, in Germany, the majority of flexibility risks in the labour market (such as fixed-time contracts, temp work, unemployment etc.) are taken by the young generation and by unskilled workers. …”
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Application of blockchain in urban rail traffic edge computing network by Gaochang XIE, Hua LU, Qinqin TANG, Han ZHU, Chenghao LIANG, Wen WEN, Renchao XIE

“…Multi-access edge computing (MEC) can provide high-quality service capabilities for computing-intensive services and delay-sensitive services in urban rail traffic.However, many edge facilities in rail traffic edge computing network are exposed to an open environment, and their privacy protection and transmission security are facing great challenges.Blockchain has functional characteristics such as distributed ledger, consensus mechanism, smart contract, and decentralized application.Therefore, the use of blockchain can build a systematic security protection mechanism for the distributed rail traffic edge computing network to ensure network security and data security and realize high-quality urban rail traffic services.Firstly, the basic concept of the blockchain and the urban rail traffic edge computing network architecture were introduced.Then, the structure and application content of the rail traffic edge computing network security protection mechanism integrated with the blockchain was discussed in detail.Finally, the open research issues and challenges of the security protection mechanism were analyzed.…”
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