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• GL utilizes industry standard algorithms such as Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Analysis (POLQA) and Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) to objectively measure the voice quality of your communication experience.
• “GL's Voice Quality Testing (VQT) software actively supports the next generation of voice quality testing standards for fixed, mobile, and IP-based networks.
• This enhancement allows for the analysis of thousands of voice files within minutes, effectively evaluating the quality of voice communication across various applications, including VoIP, Mobile, and PSTN networks.
• GL, as one of the Test & Measurement manufacturers, has incorporated POLQA/P.863 in its Voice Quality Test solution.

• Ex Libris Alma and Ex Libris Primo VE , both part of Clarivate, will provide Yale with a solution that integrates AI (artificial intelligence) and Linked Data to simplify the process for students, researchers and faculty.
• The cloud-based platform will help Yale elevate the user experience and enhance services within the library ecosystem.
• Ex Libris Alma will streamline workflows, improve the user experience, and facilitate better collaboration among library staff, ultimately benefiting all of the Yale community."
• Our library and discovery services platforms are easy to implement and they work together to provide a cohesive and streamlined user experience that will benefit Yale University's library ecosystem."

• PASADENA, Calif., June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With mixed emotions, Hahn & Hahn LLP has announced the retirement of Partner Scott Jenkins effective June 30, 2023.
• For over 38 years, Jenkins has practiced business and real estate law with the firm and is a former Managing Partner.
• "Hahn and Hahn will continue to uphold the traditions of dedication and excellence which Scott has lived by example throughout his career."
• Hahn & Hahn LLP, a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise, is a leader in the California business and legal communities.

• As a historian focusing on the impact of abolitionism, I have studied this history and the founding of modern Sierra Leone.
• Sierra Leone’s role in the story shows, however, to enforce that abolition, the British navy had to rely on the support of African states and polities that had already turned against the slave trade.
• Africans played an overlooked role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.

The founding of Sierra Leone

• From 1763 onwards, the number of enslaved people shipped annually from the Sierra Leone coast by British, Portuguese and French traders rarely fell below 1,000 and was often closer to 4,000.
• And yet from 1808, it was Sierra Leone – rather than one of the other sites of slave trading – that became the site of British anti-slavery operations.
• This was because by then, Sierra Leone was the site of an established and growing colony made up of members of the black British diaspora, many formerly enslaved.

The settlement grows

• In 1791, another group arrived in the colony and sought out a new treaty of settlement.
• A new organisation, the Sierra Leone Company, took over the management of the colony from London.

African role in ending slavery

• As I found in my research, it was African demand that was shaping the success of the colony and its mission to shift the coast’s commerce away from the slave trade.
• He also worried that this was happening with “SLC” cloths.
• And a Susu leader’s deputy launched a verbal attack against the slave traders, telling them:
  It is you slave traders who cause all our palavers.
• The British based an anti-slave trade naval patrol in the colony, as well as a court for processing captured slave ships.

Conclusion

There is a misconception that Britain was the first to abolish the slave trade and that it brought enlightened anti-slavery ideas to Africa. This misconception was used to justify the spread of colonial rule in the 19th century. But the history of Sierra Leone shows that, in order to enforce their abolition decrees, the British had to rely on African states and polities that had already turned against the slave trade.