THINK TANKS AND DEMOCRATISATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Think Tanks and Democratisation in South Africa

As policy and research institutes, think tanks have advisory and monitoring mandates that could Cooler Bag be channelled towards consolidating democracy.Yet, although South Africa has some well-established think tanks (WETT), their presence has not translated into enhancing race relations and living conditions.There is therefore the need to explore

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Evaluating the scientific credentials of the supporters of public petitions denying anthropogenic climate change

Notwithstanding the extensive media coverage of topics related to climate change, communication initiatives in open contradiction with the scientific understanding Door Stops of climate change as a primarily anthropogenic phenomenon are still widespread.We focus here on a recent such initiative, which gained notoriety between the second half of 201

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CernVM-FS powered container hub

Containers became the de-facto standard to package and distribute modern applications and their dependencies.The HEP community demonstrates an increasing interest in such technology, with scientists encapsulating their analysis workflow and code inside a container image.The analysis is first validated on a small dataset and minimal hardware resourc

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