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Capturing Wetting States in Nanopatterned Silicon
ACS Nano, 2014Spectacular progress in developing advanced Si circuits with reduced size, along the track of Moore's law, has been relying on necessary developments in wet cleaning of nanopatterned Si wafers to provide contaminant free surfaces. The most efficient cleaning is achieved when complete wetting can be realized.
Xiumei, Xu +15 more
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2021
Following the release of the Public Protector’s State of Capture Report in November 2016, South Africans have been witness to an explosion of almost daily revelations of corruption, mismanagement and abuses by those entrusted to lead the nation. The extent of this betrayal is overwhelming and it is often difficult to distil what actually happened ...
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Following the release of the Public Protector’s State of Capture Report in November 2016, South Africans have been witness to an explosion of almost daily revelations of corruption, mismanagement and abuses by those entrusted to lead the nation. The extent of this betrayal is overwhelming and it is often difficult to distil what actually happened ...
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Freedom from Fear, 2010
In the common understanding, corruption is often referred to either as bribery practice or as major embezzlement/ plundering of public monies. The former type of bribery is usually called administrative or petty corruption, and the latter is grand corruption (which also includes bribes paid at higher level within public tender, for example).
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In the common understanding, corruption is often referred to either as bribery practice or as major embezzlement/ plundering of public monies. The former type of bribery is usually called administrative or petty corruption, and the latter is grand corruption (which also includes bribes paid at higher level within public tender, for example).
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2023
Abstract This chapter begins with Mandela trying to fashion a multiracial success and continues with his good work being undone by two powerful successors—Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma—and by the African National Congress, in which Mandela so fervently believed. As in most of the other countries of southern Africa, corruption prevailed over
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Abstract This chapter begins with Mandela trying to fashion a multiracial success and continues with his good work being undone by two powerful successors—Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma—and by the African National Congress, in which Mandela so fervently believed. As in most of the other countries of southern Africa, corruption prevailed over
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State capture poses a distinctive challenge to democracy in the United States. As well-resourced individuals and interest groups exert ever-increasing influence over public policymaking, the American legal system loses its moorings in majority will and ...
Ferguson, Lucien
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Particle Capture in Solid-State Multipores
ACS Sensors, 2018Utilization of multiple-channel structure is a promising way of accomplishing high-throughput detections of analytes in solid-state pore sensors. Here we report on systematic investigation of particle capture efficiency in Si3N4 multipore systems of various array configurations.
Makusu Tsutsui +7 more
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Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture
South African Historical Journal, 2020A few weeks before he and Pravin Gordhan were fired by Jacob Zuma from the Ministry of Finance, then Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas met with one of the authors, Mark Swilling from Stellenbosch Unive...
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Capturing receptor states with glue
Nature Chemical Biology, 2023Sarah M. Bernhard, Tao Che
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2017
This dissertation investigates the problem of oligarchic state capture in postcommunism. It shifts the analytical emphasis from state capture previously conceptualized as a form of corruption to state capture defined as a form of temporary control established by members of the new wealthy elites (i.e.
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This dissertation investigates the problem of oligarchic state capture in postcommunism. It shifts the analytical emphasis from state capture previously conceptualized as a form of corruption to state capture defined as a form of temporary control established by members of the new wealthy elites (i.e.
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State Capture and Corruption in Transition Economies
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008State capture by industrial lobbyists is a significant obstacle to normal economic development of formerly command (socialist) economies, at both the local and the national levels. It is prevalent in transition economics because of an excessively concentrated industrial structure and low labour mobility, both horizontal and vertical, a high level of ...
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