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Water governance and justice in Cape Town: An overview
The drought that drew the world's attention to Cape Town in early 2018 was the worst on record, threatening to cut off household taps for 4 million people.
Johan P. Enqvist, Gina Ziervogel
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Variations on Birkhoff's theorem [PDF]
The relation between the expanding universe and local vacuum solutions, such as that for the Solar System, is crucially mediated by Birkhoff's theorem.
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Name-Changes and Everyday Self-Fashioning in the Toledo Inquisition, 1575–1610
This article surveys more than a thousand relaciones de causa (summaries of cases) from the Toledo tribunal of the Spanish Inquisition to examine the uses of names in early modern Iberia.
Spencer J. Weinreich
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Mohammed Al-Hariri,1 Ahmed Alsunni,1 Mohammad Habeeb Shaikh,1 Tharwat Gamal Eldin,1 Kholoud Al Ghamdi,1 Abdulelah Fawzi Alharbi,2 Hussain Alhawaj,3 Shahanas Chathoth4 1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University,
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The Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) represents the amount of energy for a sample of air. The sample departs vertically within the atmosphere and through these values the potential energy to predict the extreme weather conditions such as ...
Osama T. Al-Taai, Zainab M. Abbood
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Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015–2017
In the period 2015–2017, the Western Cape region has suffered from three consecutive years of below average rainfall—leading to a prolonged drought and acute water shortages, most prominently in the city of Cape Town. After testing that the precipitation
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Retrieval of convective available potential energy from INSAT-3D measurements: comparison with radiosonde data and their spatial–temporal variations [PDF]
Convective available potential energy (CAPE) is a measure of the amount of energy available for convection in the atmosphere. The satellite-derived data over the ocean and land are used for a better understanding of the atmospheric stability indices.
U. V. Murali Krishna+3 more
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IN Prof. Moseley's account of his visit to the Cape of Good Hope (“Notes of a Naturalist on the Challenger,” p. 153), the following sentence occurs:—“Again, there are tracks of the Ichneumon (Herpestes), called by some name sounding like ‘moose haunt.’”
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The classification of fresh fruits according to their visual ripeness is typically a subjective and tedious task; consequently, there is a growing interest in the use of non-contact techniques to automate this process.
Wilson Castro+5 more
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