The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 581-594, September 2026.ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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Contemporary Environmental Drivers of European Plant Distributions
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2026.ABSTRACT Aim Understanding the contemporary environmental conditions determining plant species distributions is crucial. Here, we quantified the relative importance of climatic, edaphic, hydrological, topographic, and land use drivers of the European vascular flora and tested whether driver hierarchies vary across species groups and ecological ...
Eléonore Chenevois +17 more
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More Than Regulation: Challenging Habermas on the Future of the Public Sphere
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bernardo Ferro
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, 1968 Discusses recommended pre-accident planning and introduces a three-stage rescue approach for avalanche ...
Perla, Ronald I.
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Design and characterisation of InGaAs high speed photodiodes, InGaAs/InAlAs avalanche photodiodes and novel AlAsSb based avalanche photodiodes [PDF]
, 2012 Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) can provide higher sensitivity, when the noise is dominated by electronic noise, than conventional p-i-n photodiodes due to its internal gain achieved via the impact ionisation process.
Xie, Shiyu
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Construction of Robust Lightweight S-Boxes Using Enhanced Logistic and Enhanced Sine Maps
IEEE AccessSubstitution boxes (S-Boxes) are essential elements of modern block ciphers, serving as non-linear characteristics that enhance the resistance of these ciphers against cryptanalysis.
Phuc-Phan Duong +6 more
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Snow and Avalanche Conditions at Mt. Baldy, California
, 1966 The winter recreation area of Mt. Baldy presents some unusual snow, weather and avalanche conditions. The snow ranger\u27s task of insuring public safety on this part of the Angeles National Forest is compounded by the proximity of the huge Los Angeles ...
Rady, Des F.
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Method of Predicting Avalanche Danger from Snowfall Intensity in the Tien-Shan
, 1969 An examination of various mathematical methods used to determine avalanche ...
Shcherbakov, M.P.; translated by R.I. Perla.
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New Bounds on the Number of Functions Satisfying the Strict Avalanche Criterion
, 1996 : In this paper we present asymptotic expressions for the number of functions satisfying the Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC) with respect to one and two variables, previously developed by O'Connor.
P. Stanica +5 more
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The Snowy Torrents : Avalanche Accidents in the United States, 1910-1966
, 1967 Each winter many snow avalanches fall in the mountains. Some bring destruction to property and terror to those unfortunate enough to be caught in the sliding snow.
Gallagher, Dale, ed.
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