Existence and essence in Venda oral literature

This article analyses two Venda ngano narratives that portray coming-of-age experiences.Viewed in juxtaposition, they express the radical shift from premodern modes of material and symbolic production to the reified consciousness of capitalist relations.This shift implicates the rootedness of local world views and global market forces within coloni

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Integration of Crowdsourced Images, USGS Networks, Remote Sensing, and a Model to Assess Flood Depth during Hurricane Florence

Crowdsourced environmental data have the potential to augment traditional data sources during disasters.Traditional sensor networks, satellite remote sensing Packaging imagery, and models are all faced with limitations in observational inputs, forecasts, and resolution.This study integrates flood depth derived from crowdsourced images with U.S.Geol

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Validation of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis for estimating the diet composition of free-ranging killer whales

Abstract Accurate diet estimates are necessary to assess trophic interactions and food web dynamics in ecosystems, particularly for apex predators like cetaceans, which can regulate entire food webs.Quantitative fatty acid analysis (QFASA) has been used to estimate the diets of marine predators in the last decade but has yet to be implemented on fr

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PREDICTION OF DEFORMATION CAUSED BY LANDSLIDES BASED ON GRAPH CONVOLUTION NETWORKS ALGORITHM AND DINSAR TECHNIQUE

Around the world, the occurrence of landslides has become one of the greatest threats to human life, property, infrastructure, and natural environments.Despite extensive research and discussions on the spatiotemporal dependence of landslide displacements, there is still a lack of understanding concerning the factors that appear to control displacem

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