The young nation of West Africa, part of the former French colonial system, has a long history showing a clear integration within the context of the Sahel region.After independence, it followed a particular evolution: BASKETS though its economic and social development was not free of the contradictions and the failures so characteristic for former
Innovation Efficiency of High-Tech SMEs Listed in China: Its Measurement and Antecedents
Innovation efficiency is an important index to measure the innovation performance of high-tech enterprises.Numerous researches have been conducted on innovation efficiency at national, regional, and sectoral levels, while there are Pot Holders comparatively few studies on the innovation efficiency of high-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises (S
Lite-YOLOv5: A Lightweight Deep Learning Detector for On-Board Ship Detection in Large-Scene Sentinel-1 SAR Images
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites can provide microwave remote sensing images without weather and light constraints, so they are widely applied in the maritime monitoring field.Current SAR ship detection methods based on deep learning (DL) are difficult to deploy on satellites, because these methods usually have complex models and huge calc
Can social-ecological systems inhibit invasive species control? A study of acacia mearnsii control in the Golden Gate Highlands National park of South Africa
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