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Showing 1 to 20 of 291 for “"Chad"”.
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Flame and Shadow: Selected Prose by Chad Luibl
<p>The following is a collection of works of fiction set in Kazakhstan during World War II, modern-day Budapest, with one short story taking place in Richmond, Virginia. No characters in this collecting of fiction is meant to depict any real, live person, though some of the settings are real. These …
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The Spectacle of Neoclassical Economics: The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project and Exploitation in the Niger Delta and the Chad Basin
… as ‘governance’. I engage the case of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project (CCPDP) to argue that the neoclassical economic shift is a spectacle or exhibit, irrelevant in important ways to exploitation “on the ground.” Contrary to neoclassical economics and World Bank development …
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Data-Driven Modeling of the Lake Chad Basin Hydrologic Systems
The drying of the Lake, located in Central Africa, is one example of a water crisis, which requires more research and studies. The lake has been progressively shrinking since the 1960s due to climate change and anthropogenic activities. Consequently, the level of this vital lake has rapidly fallen …
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The Crisis of Chad: Men’s Rights Movements and Contemporary Anti-feminism
<p>This thesis analyzes the relationship between the modern incel and manosphere movement, and its historical legacies in anti-feminist discourses in late 20th century men's rights movements. The manosphere is a collection of online videos, forums, blogs, and websites dedicated to raising awareness …
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Satellite-based assessment of invasive vegetation in Lake Chad Basin, West Africa
… weed locally known as ―Kachalla‖ in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) is an example of an invasive species of major concern. This study presents a method to identify and characterize this weed on a large scale using medium resolution LANDSAT, MODIS satellite imagery and high resolution QUICKBIRD …
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Why Oil Production has a Negative Impact on Socioeconomic Development in Chad?
"Oil production in Chad is considered one of the most important Sub-Saharan investments in Africa. In 2000, the World Bank agreed to finance oil production under the condition that oil revenues would be invested in socioeconomic development projects. Furthermore, the World Bank emphasized that oil …
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Preventing the resource curse? : an examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project
The resource curse is a theory which argues that rather than being a conduit for development natural resources can in fact lead to slow growth, civil war and hinder democracy. This thesis focuses specifically on the inverse relationship between dependence on the export of natural resources and slow …
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Proximity and Prenatal Care: Geographic Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities in N’Djamena, Chad
… to healthcare facilities in N’Djamena, Chad, across various transportation modes, as well as the relationship between travel time and adherence to WHO-recommended prenatal care visits. This analysis utilized a mixed-methods approach. A geospatial analysis was conducted to estimate travel …
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Movement patterns of African elephants (Loxodont africana, Blumenbach) in a seasonally variable ecosystem in south-eastern Chad
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) range and numbers have declined over the past century as a result of increasing human populations, agricultural development, and illegal hunting for ivory. Understanding the dynamics of wide-ranging animal migrations is important for the conservation of these …
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Adaptation of the C.H.A.D. Computer Library to Nuclear Simulations
… the documentation in the public domain regarding CHAD is very limited. Therefore, a User's Manual was written for CHAD that is designed to reduce the time required to bring a new CHAD user to a productive level.
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State-society exchange in modern Sahelian Africa: Cultural representation, political mobilization, and state rule (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan).
… Sahelian African region (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan). The model accounts for the political ramifications--state's mode of rule, level and type of opposition mobilization--of each country's ethno-religious configuration. It assumes that trans-national economic (and/or geopolitical) …
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Institutional Counterinsurgency Frameworks in Africa’s Lake Chad Basin and the Operations of the Multinational Joint Task Force Against Boko Haram
… activities extend into neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger in the Lake Chad Basin. Such transnational dimension of the group’s violence and its increasing sophistication necessitated the establishment of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) as a sub-regional coalition to combat it. The …
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Multiscale Study of the Interactions between Climate, Land Use, and Agricultural Productivity in Western Sahel: A Case Study of Chad
… (GES DISC) for area covering all of Southern Chad and extending to the neighboring countries of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan. The geographic coordinates of that area are: North 14.403, West 10.815, East 24.219, and South 7.328. Agricultural productivity country …
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Developing methodologies for sustainable groundwater management in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of the Chad Basin around Maiduguri, Nigeria
… environments in sub-Saharan Africa, taking the Chad basin, Northeastern Nigeria as a case study. The study employed integrated methodological approaches and is divided into three major interrelated phases. The first phase of the study carried out a stakeholder analysis and identified the …
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The Boko Haram Crisis: Responses by State and non-State Actors to a Security Challenge in the Lake Chad Region
… and the regional countries of the Lake Chad Basin (Chad, Benin, Niger, Cameroon) in tackling the violence. Boko Haram has caused severe humanitarian crisis in the region as more than two million people have been displaced. The international community primarily focuses on creating basic …
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I. Total synthesis of sesquiterpene-tropolones II. Dearomative hydroamination and application to the synthesis of aminoglycosides
The student, Chad Ungarean, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-01 at 04:52.
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The use of remote sensing and GIS for water resources management in large semi-arid regions: A case study of the Lake Chad Basin, Africa.
… in large semi-arid regions. In the Lake Chad Basin, Africa, it is demonstrated how remotely sensed data can contribute significantly to a groundwater problem, something which historically has not often been achieved, particularly in semi-arid areas.<br/><br/>In semi-arid areas, water is …
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Brothers in law and arms: a critical analysis of the legal framework for criminalisation, enforcement, and cooperation for combatting terrorism in the Lake Chad basin.
The states of the Lake Chad Basin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, have been experiencing an increased spate of terrorism since 2009. Terrorism in the region is inherently transnational, therefore the states of the region must cooperate to synergise action to prevent terrorism and bring …
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La contribución de la Unión Europea y otros actores internacionales a la seguridad y estabilidad en el Sahel Occidental. La República del Chad: una aportación particular y excepcional y la sostenibilidad de la misma.
… determinante que representa la República de Chad por su compromiso con la seguridad regional en la lucha contra el terrorismo yihadista, a pesar de estar sometida a un régimen dictatorial por su presidente desde su llegada al poder en diciembre de 1990 a través de un golpe de Estado. Para …
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