Analysis and standardization of marker genotype data for DNA fingerprinting applications

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Multi-objective parallelization of efficient global optimization

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The impact of transaction costs on the participation of smallholder farmers and intermediaries in the banana markets of Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda

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Systematic conservation planning and South Africa's Forest Biome: An assesment of the conservation status of South Africa's forest and reccomdentations for their conservation by Berliner Derek David

“…An index of subsistence resource use of forests was modelled using population density, extent of electrification, forest accessibility and the buffering effect of plantations and woodlots. …”
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Dominance, social organisation and cooperation in the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius) by Rat, Margaux Emilie Therese

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Measuring the social costs of coal-based electricity generation in South Africa

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Predictive Maintenance of Wind Turbines: Remaining Useful Life Estimation Using a BPSO-Optimized Attention-Based CNN-BiLSTM Approach by Hawas, Eman Khaled

“…The proposed solution also utilizes Bayesian optimization to select specific hyperparameters, including the number of filters in the convolutional layer and the activation functions used in the dense layer of the fully connected layer. …”
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Digging deeper for benefits: rural local governance and the livelihood and sustainability outcomes of devils claw (Harpagophytum spp.) harvesting in the Zambezi Region, Namibia by Lavelle, Jessica-Jane

“…Second, to remove unnecessary and inefficient bureaucratic layers through re-evaluating the social scale at which natural resource management would work best and scale-up in responsibility as required to match ecological and functional scale. …”
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The pattern, frequency and suitability of informal day care provision for pre-school children in Khayelitsha by Lines, Linda Rosalind

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In-Stream water quality modelling and optimisation by mixed-integer programming : simulation and application in actual system

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A System-Wide Model for Solid Waste Separation and Food Waste Discharge to Sewer Systems by Angula, Shalongo

“…The emergence of the circular economy, together with the changing paradigms in resource and environmental management, has resulted in a call to (1) convert wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to water resource recovery facilities (WRRF) and (2) diversion of organic waste (i.e., food waste) from landfills. …”
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The influence of rockmass properties on the seismic response to miming in a deep level gild mine

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Penile allotransplantation for total phallic loss due to ritual circumcision: Proof of concept by Van der Merwe, Andre

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Color symbolism in Islamic book painting by Abaza, Imane Sadek

“…Many believe that the use of color was indeed a practical function of beautifying buildings or objects, but perhaps it was neglected based solely on misconception. …”
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Efficiency calibration of a gamma-ray detector for measuring environmental radiation by Bulala, Avuyile Sisanda

“…Efficiency calibration parameters (power fit function) for the volume sources were determined from experimental and simulated data; a = 2.58; b = -0.75 experimental and a = 1.01; b = 0.65 simulated (100 mL pill bottle) and a = 2.07; b = -0.75 experimental and a = 1.61; b = 0.66 simulated (1 L Marinelli beaker). …”
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Phenotypic and whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) characterization of Mozambican indigenous cattle breeds

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The performance of beef cattle bulls in the Vrede district of Mpumalanga, South Africa

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Evaluation of the competitive performance of an indigenous eicosapentaenoic acid producing microalgal isolate by Smit, Monique

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Development and application of a multi-criteria decision-support framework for planning rural energy supply interventions in low-income households in South Africa by Dzenga, Bruce

“…The framework developed includes a multi-objective optimisation technique that produced an approximation of a Pareto front linked to an a priori aggregation function and a value function to select the best alternatives. …”
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