A Nation of Givers? Social Giving Among South Africans: Findings from a National Survey [PDF]
, 2005 The Centre for Civil Society, the Southern African Grantmakers' Association and National Development Agency are partners in a large research project focusing on the mobilisation of resources for poverty and development initiatives from a wide range of ...
David Everatt, Geetesh Solanki
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Visual teach‐and‐repeat (VTR) navigation allows robots to learn and follow routes without building a full metric map. We show that navigation accuracy for VTR can be improved by integrating a topological map with error‐drift correction based on stereo vision.
Fuhai Ling, Ze Huang, Tony J. Prescott
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Revue Française de Civilisation BritanniqueDuring the time of successive lockdowns due to the COVID pandemic, local organisations faced increased demand for ensuring that residents and businesses were kept informed and supported while simultaneously waiting for guidance to be passed down from ...
Susan Ball
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Disabled People into Employment: Report of a UK Wide Survey of Good Practice in Projects with Disabled People and Employment Informing Ideas for the Development of a Strategic Framework For Action [PDF]
, 1997 DisabledPeopleinEmploymentNo76.pdf: 4123 downloads, before Oct.
Campbell, Sue Maynard, Smyth, Kate
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study employs sc‐RNA sequencing, genetics, and phenotyping to systematically map the cell‐type‐specific immune responses triggered by flg22. It reveals FLS2‐dependent transcriptional reprogramming in epidermal and mesophyll cells, and uncovers crosstalk between immune and hypoxia signaling pathways.
Yaping Zhou +17 more
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Exploring the experiences of persons living with albinism in Ghana
Cogent EducationAlbinism is typically misunderstood, resulting in myths and misconceptions about the condition in different parts of the world. This study explores the misconceptions about albinism in Ghana through the lens of lived experiences of persons living with ...
Andrew Kwame Daklo +1 more
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Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events [PDF]
, 2020 Latin-American countries are characterised by societal problems like violence, crime, corruption, the informality that influence any entrepreneurial activity developed by individuals/organisations. Social innovations literature confront “wicked problems”
Guerrero, Maribel, Urbano, David
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Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang +9 more
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Making Sense of Irish Health Care Management: The Street Level Public Organisation (SLPO).
, 2012 Public service reform in modern economies has placed an emphasis on effective planning and management of service delivery to the citizen-client. This paper draws on the concept of the Street Level Public Organization (SLPO) to examine the problem of government’s top down implementation of planning reform in the delivery of public services.
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