Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by J. J. Kritzinger

“…Although its focus is on the years of Protestant missionary endeavours since the beginning of the 19th century up to about 1960, the subject of the book is inbedded in the whole colonial history since 1652 when the question of the relations between the races became an issue. It is the result of decades of intense, informed and fair scholarship (as its 30 pages Bibliography and 60 pages of Notes show). …”
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"The City’s Charms and Challenges" by P K Leung (translation) by Chris Song

“…In the essay, he also mapped out the early beginnings of Hong Kong literature, its intrinsic roots in Chinese literature, and how it has thrived amidst the socio-cultural and historical changes in Hong Kong in the last few decades. In charting the locality of places, the difference between the urban and the rural living in Hong Kong, Leung highlights the importance to acknowledge the complex layers and dimensions of Hong Kong literature, where both Chinese and English languages and different cultures intersect.…”
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New Caladium Cultivars ‘Dots Delight’ and ‘Wonderland’ by Zhanao Deng, Natalia A. Peres

“…Grower surveys indicated that they planted more acres of lance-leaved cultivars in recent decades to accommodate rising consumer demand. The caladium breeding program at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center has been developing new lance-leaved cultivars that can produce attractive, robust plants with many bright, colorful leaves and improved tuber yield potential. …”
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Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity by A.C. Pieterse

“… Over the past few decades, physicists are seeking a unifying theory that could encapsulate the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics, our understanding of the very big and the infinitesimal small, into one all-inclusive theory. …”
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A Criterion Based Rehabilitation Protocol for ACL Repair with Internal Brace Augmentation by Ahmer Irfan, Stewart Kerr, Graeme Hopper, William Wilson, Lynsay Wilson, Gordon Mackay

“…ACL reconstruction has been the preferred operative management of an ACL rupture for several decades; however, success rates are variable. Recently, interest in arthroscopic primary repair of the ligament has increased. …”
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The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 – Proposed Rule for Preventive Controls for Human Food by Soohyoun Ahn, Keith R. Schneider, Michelle D. Danyluk, Renee Goodrich-Schneider

“…High-profile foodborne outbreaks in the last decade and their impact on public health and the economy have exposed the need for a new, modern food safety system. …”
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Absorptive Capacity in a Public Research Company: from Maturity to Scalability by Tatiane Baseggio Crespi, Priscila Rezende da Costa, Taísa Scariot Preusler, Claudia Brito Silva Cirani

“…In Brazil, the development of new products and processes have led to technological advances in farming, especially in the last decades. In this context, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) has played an important role in the absorption and generation of agricultural knowledge and innovations from research and project development (R&D). …”
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Managing the health and productivity of HLB-affected groves by Tripti Vashisth

“…Based on the scientific and observational information gathered in the last decade a number of tools and strategies are currently available for growers to maintain the health and productivity of HLB-affected trees. …”
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Embracing the Psalter’s imprecatory words in the 21st century by N.L. deClaissé-Walford

“… This article surveys the imprecatory words in the book of Psalms and examines and questions their place in the faith life of the third decade of the 21st-century world, one that is fraught with the impact of a global pandemic, political uncertainties, and racial injustices. …”
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Die problematiek rondom die lied van die NG Kerk: enkele bevindings vanut 'n sosiaal - wetenskapleke invalshoek

“… This article investigates viewpoints regarding the hymn of the Dutch Reformed Church over the lase few decades by way of a document analysis of polemics from Die Kerkbode, the official publication of the DRC. …”
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Sustainability Aspects of Precision Agriculture for Row Crops in Florida and the Southeast United States by Ian M. Small, David L. Wright

“…This technology has been developed over several decades through private sector and university research efforts, with new technologies and applications available every year. …”
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“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…The main subject of my presentation will be an analysis of methods for presenting World War II history in against the background of a theory of memory and postmemory of war’s trauma through the example of picturebooks which were published in Poland during the first two decades of the XXI century. I would like to discuss the main trends in presenting the issues pertaining to the war. …”
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Laboratory modeling of MHD accretion disks by Gissinger, Christophe

“…This review article summarizes two decades of laboratory research aimed at understanding the dynamics of accretion disks, with particular emphasis on magnetohydrodynamic experiments involving liquid metals and plasmas. …”
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Artificial intelligence for chest X-ray image enhancement by Liming Song, Hongfei Sun, Haonan Xiao, Sai Kit Lam, Yuefu Zhan, Ge Ren, Jing Cai

“…The chest X-ray (CXR) imaging has been the most frequently performed radiographic examination for decades, and its demand continues to grow due to their critical role in diagnosing various diseases. …”
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The unexpected role of the STING protein in lipid metabolism by Vila, Isabelle K., Laguette, Nadine

“…Detection of cytosolic pathological nucleic acids is a key step for the initiation of innate immune responses. In the past decade, the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) adaptor protein has emerged as a central platform enabling the activation of inflammatory responses in the presence of cytosolic DNAs. …”
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Sisterhood in Academia - Storying our Experiences in Higher Education by Nereshee Govender, Nonhlanhla Khumalo, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“… Breaking the barriers for women in higher education institutions has been on the global agenda for over a decade. Women's lived experiences in academia has notably focused on issues of inequality and systemic gendered barriers that lead to women opting out of academia. …”
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The symbiotic origin of the eukaryotic cell by López-García, Purificación, Moreira, David

“…Eukaryogenesis represented a major evolutionary transition that led to the emergence of complex cells from simpler ancestors. For several decades, the most accepted scenario involved the evolution of an independent lineage of proto-eukaryotes endowed with an endomembrane system, including a nuclear compartment, a developed cytoskeleton and phagocytosis, which engulfed the alphaproteobacterial ancestor of mitochondria. …”
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Recent advances in chitosan-based active and intelligent packaging films incorporated with flavonoids by Xuanzhuo Liu, Fengfeng Xu, Huimin Yong, Dan Chen, Chao Tang, Juan Kan, Jun Liu

“…Chitosan, a biopolymer with excellent film-forming ability, can act as the carrier for plant-derived bioactive compounds. In the past decade, several studies have reported chitosan-based films incorporated with different classes of flavonoids, including flavones, flavanones, isoflavones, flavonols, flavanols and anthocyanidins. …”
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Florida Pest Management Industry Economic Contributions Report by Hayk Khachatryan, Xuan Wei, Christa D. Court

“…The market share concentration of the Florida pest management industry has increased due to consolidation during the past decade, but the general concentration within the industry has remained relatively low. …”
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Programmable quantum circuits in a large-scale photonic waveguide array by Yang Yang, Robert J. Chapman, Akram Youssry, Ben Haylock, Francesco Lenzini, Mirko Lobino, Alberto Peruzzo

“…Abstract Over the past decade, integrated quantum photonic technologies have shown great potential as a platform for studying quantum phenomena and realizing large-scale quantum information processing. …”
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