JUXTAPOSING ADHERENCE TO COVID-19 REGULATIONS AND PRACTISING PROPER BURIAL RITES: A CASE STUDY OF ZULU TRADITIONAL RELIGION

Juxtaposing adherence to COVID-19 regulations and practising proper burial rites: a case study of Zulu Traditional Religion

The recent COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm.The rate of infection and prevalence of death struck fear in the hearts of many across the globe.The high likelihood of infection required continual testing whilst the trauma of bereavement Face Masks left many distraught.For traditionalists, a principal concern was whether they would be permitte

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Text classification in memristor-based spiking neural networks

Memristors, emerging non-volatile memory devices, have shown promising potential in neuromorphic hardware designs, especially in spiking neural network (SNN) hardware implementation.Memristor-based SNNs have been successfully applied in a wide range of applications, including image classification and pattern recognition.However, implementing memris

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Reassessing breeding investment in birds: class-wide analysis of clutch volume reveals a single outlying family.

Reproductive investment is typically considered in terms of size and number of propagules produced.Compared with a thorough understanding of the overall patterns and ecological correlates of avian clutch size, egg size has received less attention and the total effort invested in laying a clutch of eggs is rarely considered.We used clutch volume as

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