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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2012 The South African local government sector has undergone changes in the post-apartheid era as policy makers have sought to improve basic services provided to disadvantaged local communities.
Gert van der Westhuizen +2 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of local government competition and environmental regulation intensity on regional innovation performance and its regional heterogeneity.
Jinqian Deng +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Phototrophs evolved light‐harvesting systems adapted for efficient photon capture in habitats enriched in far‐red radiation. A subset of eukaryotic pigment‐binding proteins can absorb far‐red photons via low‐energy chlorophyll states known as red forms.
Antonello Amelii +8 more
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo +2 more
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SAGE OpenThe rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into organizational processes presents both opportunities and challenges for human resource management (HRM), yet a systematic understanding of its scholarly development remains limited.
John William Kasubi +2 more
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Peptide‐based ligand antagonists block a Vibrio cholerae adhesin
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The structure of a peptide‐binding domain of the Vibrio cholerae adhesin FrhA was solved by X‐ray crystallography, revealing how the inhibitory peptide AGYTD binds tightly at its Ca2+‐coordinated pocket. Structure‐guided design incorporating D‐amino acids enhanced binding affinity, providing a foundation for developing anti‐adhesion therapeutics ...
Mingyu Wang +9 more
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Assessing the Energy Crisis in South Africa: The Socio-Economic Implication and Challenges Ahead [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis paper examined the socio-economic implications caused by the current energy crisis South Africa is facing. Although the crisis is not at its worst stage when compared to other countries in Africa, there are still challenges ahead if the crisis at ...
Kazeem Oyedele Lamidi +1 more
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Local self-government or local co-governance?
Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2010 The article discusses “local self-government”, a core concept in a charter of the Council of Europe, and departs from a debate in the Norwegian Parliament about constitutional protection of local self-government. Newly, such a change was voted down, and this serves as an opportunity to question the idea about local self-government in a time when there ...
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Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government [PDF]
, 2006 Inspired by the best-selling "Reinventing Government", governments at all levels have decentralized programs and services and introduced market-based competition into operations.
Mildred Warner
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The Financing of Local Government in China: Stimulus Loan Wanes and Shadow Banking Waxes
Journal of Financial Economics, 2017 The upsurge of shadow banking is typically driven by rising financing demand from certain real sectors. In China, the 4 trillion yuan stimulus package in 2009 was behind the rapid growth of shadow banking after 2012, expediting the development of Chinese
Zhuo Chen, Zhiguo He, C. Liu
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