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Revealing Nanostructures through Plasmon Polarimetry.
Polarized optical dark-field spectroscopy is shown to be a versatile noninvasive probe of plasmonic structures that trap light to the nanoscale. Clear spectral polarization splittings are found to be directly related to the...
Anonymity, Systems Characteristics, and Feedback Provision in Online Learning Communities
The growing ubiquity of the Internet has attracted various studies on the various issues concerning online communities for education. These studies assume that systems characteristics do not play any major role in the behaviours...
David Hume, Adam Smith, and William Hamilton of Bangour
Felix Waldmann
Jan 10, 2019
National Library of Scotland, MS 23159.7 is a thirty-two line poem in the hand of David Hume (1711–76), the philosopher. The poem is conserved within a collection of manuscripts devised to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1838...
The Mystery of Pandora
Domestic violence against women has been a serious social and public health problem faced by contemporary society. This type of violence has grown in recent years, placing the woman not only as a victim of the aggressor but also...
Collaborative Filtering Recommender System for Timely Arrival Problem in Road Transport Networks Using Viterbi and the Hidden Markov Algorithms
In this study, a timely arrival recommender system (TARS) using Viterbi and hidden Markov Model (HMM) was developed. Ratings from current road users were used as inputs and trained to provide recommendations to prospective road...
JOHN LOCKE AND THE TOLERATION OF CATHOLICS
JC WALMSLEY, Felix Waldmann
Mar 25, 2019
AbstractThe following Communication presents a newly discovered manuscript by John Locke. The manuscript dates from 1667–8 and it deserves notice as the most significant example of Locke's...
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
Spaces for contestation
Across mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly common for mining companies to support development schemes in host communities where resource extraction takes place. The negotiation of so-called ‘community...
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone

In recent years, governments, donors and policy makers across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have increasingly realised the potential of formalizing and supporting artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low tech, labour-intensive...

The promise and reality of decentralization
Felix Marco Conteh
Jan 01, 0001
Post-war reconstruction in Sierra Leone was accompanied by an ambitious donor-promoteddecentralization programme aimed at making delivery of the country’s failing social servicesmore efficient. A decade after the...
Heterostructures formed through abraded van der Waals materials.
To fully exploit van der Waals materials and their vertically stacked heterostructures, new mass-scalable production routes which are low cost but preserve the high electronic and optical quality of the single crystals are...
Money from nothing. Indebtedness and aspiration in South Africa
Felix Stein
Jun 02, 2016
This is the accepted manuscript. The final version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12231/abstract.
Fetal Ossification and Staining in the Chick Embryo
This 32 page thesis examines fetal ossification and staining in the chick embryo, including development, incubation, formation of the mesoderm and skeleton and methods for removal and fixation.
Published by: Ursinus College
Artisanal mining and the rationalisation of informality

Across sub-Saharan Africa, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) represents a major source of direct and indirect employment. Yet, despite the livelihood benefits and the growing interest from governments, donors and policy...

Use and effectiveness of lapse prevention strategies among pregnant smokers.
Little is known about the use of lapse prevention strategies to help smokers manage situation-triggered urges to smoke. Pregnant smokers (N = 174) participating in an intervention trial reported use of cognitive-behavioural...

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