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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Technology & Engineering (week of 01 September 2026)

This week’s digest covers 10 papers: 5 African-led and 5 global, with journals cited. This week: interconnected retrofitting barriers in Lagos, a new pendulum stability method, melon waste to biofuel membranes, deep-sea sulfur metabolism, and Nigeria’s radio refractivity patterns.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Medical & Health Sciences (week of 31 August 2026)

This week’s digest covers 10 studies from high-impact journals, including 6 with African-led or African-affiliated authors. This week: explainable AI for medical device security, bat virus surveillance, azithromycin for malaria, biofilm wound care, blue light cystoscopy, tire chemical neurotoxicity, TCR-pMHC prediction, and menopause self-help paradoxes.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Environmental Science (week of 29 August 2026)

This digest covers 10 studies: 5 African-led and 5 global, from journals like Sustainability, Hydrobiologia, and Cell Genomics. This week: offshore wind screening, AI scour prediction, drought-war impacts, plastic habitats, parasite effects, waste-to-energy ML, shipping emissions, integrated footprint accounting, dire wolf ancestry, and AI life cycle impacts.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Environmental Science (week of 29 August 2026)

This digest covers environmental sustainability, marine biology, and AI’s ecological footprint, featuring 6 African-led and 4 global studies from journals like Sustainability, Hydrobiologia, and Applied Energy. This week: offshore wind screening in Vietnam, scour prediction for bridges, drought-war impacts on Nairobi households, macroplastics as substrates, parasite effects on fish, waste-to-energy ML models, ship emission mapping, integrated footprint accounting, dire wolf ancestry, and AI training’s full environmental costs.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Law (week of 29 August 2026)

This week’s digest covers 10 papers, with 6 African-led studies and 4 global ones, all from cited journals. This week: smell-based evidence for visually impaired victims, context in hate speech rulings, support scaffolding for public employment, AI liability in healthcare, probate delays in Nigeria, overinterpreted ultraprocessed food trials, DSA transparency gaps, permitless carry crime effects, and climate justice in courts.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Arts & Humanities (week of 30 August 2026)

This digest covers 10 studies from global and African-led research, with journals cited. This week: productive Xhosa noun prefix alternations, three criteria for historical evidence in philosophy of science, cultural significance of Ghanaian ceramics, anger as decolonial intervention in Emezi’s Freshwater, and a meta-analysis linking enjoyment to language learning.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Arts & Humanities (week of 30 August 2026)

This digest covers 10 studies, 6 African-led and 4 global, from journals like Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Synthese, and Sustainability. This week: Xhosa prefix productivity, new criteria for historical evidence, cultural significance of Ghanaian ceramics, anger as decolonial intervention, ethics of belief, archive service quality, Gulf waterfront resilience, standardizing palynomorph naming, enjoyment in language learning, and heritage simulacra.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Agriculture & Life Systems (week of 26 August 2026)

This week’s digest covers 10 studies across agronomy, nutrition, and environmental science, with 7 African-led papers and 3 global, all from peer-reviewed journals. This week: WHO’s updated foodborne disease burden, Moringa’s antidiabetic potential, phosphorus fixation in Kenyan soils, and pollution-linked hybridization in fish.

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FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Technology & Engineering (week of 25 August 2026)

This week’s digest covers engineering and materials science, featuring seven African-led studies and four global contributions, all from peer-reviewed journals. This week: okra fiber extraction for bio-composites, multi-sensor fusion navigation, inverted pendulum stability, nanomaterial biosensors, sustainable membranes from melon waste, green hydrogen optimization, M2SNet for medical imaging, HuntGPT for cybersecurity, LLM agents, and igraph 1.0.

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