Senegal: A Typically African Country?

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

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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

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Can social-ecological systems inhibit invasive species control? A study of acacia mearnsii control in the Golden Gate Highlands National park of South Africa

Considered to be an important source of water, energy and biological diversity, mountains are a critical component of livelihoods because of the ecosystem goods and services they provide to montane communities.In South Africa, mountain ecosystems are under threat from invasion HAIR THICKENER AND VOLUMIZER by alien species, posing considerable press

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