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Quality research of paintwork of Volkswagen Tuareg car body elements
Appearance is one of the criteria forming the aesthetic perception of a particular vehicle. However, the appearance of the car is a factor determining the consumers’ opinion about the brand of the car.
F. A. Kipriyanov +5 more
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Messages from the past: the petroglyphs of El Hierro Island, Canary Islands
Ancient cultures have frequently made use of stone surfaces to carve and engrave symbols, letters and messages for others. These petroglyphs usually have a lasting character and are frequently preserved well beyond the survival of the culture that produced the petroglyphs.
Mario Guglielmi +3 more
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Géopolitique africaine et rébellions touarègues. Approches locales, approches globales (1960-2011)
The Tuareg situation epitomized by rebellions since the 1960s has generally been considered as a major problem, limited however to the Sahel and southern Sahara.
Pierre Boilley
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Northern Mali: the things we assume [PDF]
Events have developed quickly these last days and weeks in Mali, as fast as an all terrain vehicle can drive in the sand, basically. And although electronic media can go faster than four wheel drives, they can only go as fast as the rumours they feed on.
Lecocq, Baz
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Abstract BACKGROUND The early detection of herbicide resistance in weeds is a key factor to avoid herbicide waste and improve agriculture sustainability. The present study aimed to develop and validate an allele‐specific loop‐mediated isothermal amplification (AS‐LAMP) assay for the quick on‐site detection of the resistance‐endowing point mutation Trp ...
Andrea Milani +3 more
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Sur l’origine de l’écriture libyque. Quelques propositions
A few hypotheses about the origin of the so-called “Libyan” alphabets are presented. Attested in more than a thousand inscriptions from Libya to the Canary Islands in northern Africa, these alphabets are probably the forebears of the current ones used by
Dominique Casajus
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Adaptation of the pastoral farming systems: the example of the periurban dairy camel breeders in the area of Agadez (Niger) [PDF]
Facing to the mutations related to climate change and globalization of the economy, Sahelian pastoralists are not necessarily located on the margins of development, as evidenced by the emergence of peri-urban production systems.
Chaibou, Mahamadou +2 more
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Roving Bandits? The Geographical Evolution of African Armed Conflicts [PDF]
The fighting in some civil wars primarily takes place in a few stable locations, while the fighting in others moves substantially. We posit that rebel groups that do not primarily fight for a specific ethnic group, that receive outside military ...
Arreguin-Toft +59 more
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Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria
Abstract We study the effects of terrorism on political trust and national versus ethnic identification. Making use of unexpected attacks by the extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, which occurred during the fieldwork of a public opinion survey in 2014, we show that even in a context of weak state institutions and frequent terrorist activities ...
Robin Harding, Arinze Nwokolo
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Vagabonds or Elites? The Mobile Lifestyle of Contemporary Tuareg
A large proportion of contemporary Tuareg no longer move in traditional nomadic cycles, but accord- ing to individual choice. Always on the move and in search of making a living, they drift between the Saharan states.
Ines Kohl
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