New methodology for sanitation projects in Northern Province by Limpho Klu, Kate Roper

“…The first stage of implementation (Phase A) comprised of training committee members, builders, a storekeeper, quality controller and bookkeeper. …”
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Reform of the water supply institution of Aceh Province, Indonesia by Dara Johnston, Jefry Budiman

“…The water supply companies (PDAM) of the province of Aceh are undergoing a revitalization following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami of December 2004. …”
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How to peak carbon emissions of provincial construction industry? Scenario analysis of Jiangsu Province by Dezhi Li, Guanying Huang, Shiyao Zhu, Long Chen, Jiangbo Wang

“…Taking Jiangsu province as an example, the single and multiple scenario settings with increasing R&D investment, promoting energy-saving buildings and implementing carbon trading from 2016 to 2030 was carried out, indicating that: 1) Without any carbon emission reduction measures, the CECI would maintain an annual growth rate of 5.58% to reach 530.61 million tons by 2030, and the indirect and operational CECI account for the majority of total with an average annual growth rate of 8.02% and 2.79% respectively. 2) All three measures had good carbon reduction effects, which would reduce the total CECI by 26.46% 21.68% and 10.68% respectively by 2030, but only when implemented simultaneously can CECI peak before 2030, 308.77 million tons at 2029. …”
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Factors associated with catch‐up growth in early infancy in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal analysis of the women's work and nutrition study by Rebecca Pradeilles, Tom Norris, Elaine Ferguson, Haris Gazdar, Sidra Mazhar, Hussain Bux Mallah, Azmat Budhani, Rashid Mehmood, Saba Aslam, Alan D. Dangour, Elizabeth Allen

“…A longitudinal study of mother‐infant dyads (n=1161) was conducted in rural Sindh province, with enrolment between December 2015‐February 2016 (infants aged 0.5‐3 months) and follow‐up (n=1035) between November 2016‐January 2017 (infants aged 9‐15 months). …”
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Sustainability in domestic defluoridation by J.P. Padmasiri

“…These defluoridators have advantages such as simple in design, easy operation by villagers, absence of any maintenance, availability of the freshly burnt bricks in the locality and frequency of changing bricks in an average of four months for a fluoride content of well of 2.5mg/l. …”
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Irrigation project evaluation, Takeo, Cambodia by Ian K. Smout

“…In June 1990, Oxfam initiated the Takeo Irrigation Structures Project (KAM 215) in Takeo Province, southern Cambodia, to increase the technical skills of provincial level irrigation technicians; support locally managed irrigation schemes; and develop contacts with local communities which would enable Oxfam to develop other community-based programmes. …”
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Water treatment with Chulli improved cooking stove in rural areas of Pakistan by P. Shaban Daud, Rangaiya Kanaganathan, Nicolas Villeminot

“…This reduces the need for firewood, itself an inhibitory cost of these poverty stricken communities that results in many not treating their water in any way. The trial was done for 5.000 households in Sindh with a focus on water quality, flow, fuel consumption, time and a cost analysis. …”
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Multi-village water systems sustainability: the case of Chomba system in Mueda Plateau by Cristina Mecerreyes, Alejandro Jimenez

“…Sustainability is one of the key challenges of rural water supply. In Sub-Saharan Africa, only two out of three water points in the continent’s rural areas are functional at any given time. …”
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Sneaker Wave by John Atkin

“…My use of satin polished stainless steel and marble animates the alternate surfaces of the sculpture creating a colour and change in material break when reading the forms of the artwork: but at the same time retaining the idea of robust energy and momentum. …”
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City-scale hydrodynamic modelling of urban flash floods: the issues of scale and resolution by Yun Xing, Qiuhua Liang, Gang Wang, Xiaodong Ming, Xilin Xia

“…With the recent advance in high-performance computing technologies, GPU-accelerated hydrodynamic models are now capable of performing high-resolution simulations at a city scale. This paper presents a multi-GPU hydrodynamic model applied to reproduce a flood event in a 267.4 km2 urbanised domain in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. …”
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Efficiency and competition analysis in nine Asian banking industries by Zeyi Yu

“…And we find that the SCP-Lerner approach may fail to identify the strength of competition and may not always unambiguously distinguish between the market power and the efficiency explanations of market concentration. …”
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Sullage - irrigated household latrine woodlots by Parvin Wanjala

“…Within two years from August 2001, more than 400 refugee households in each of the three Dadaab Refugee camps, in North Eastern Province of Kenya, will begin to cater for their own wood pole requirements for pit latrine superstructure construction and other shelter – related needs. …”
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Female solidarity based on Chinese social media Weibo during COVID-19 by Chenyao Zhang

“…This study found three key factors for the successful implementation of digital female activism: establish a well-structured framework and a common goal to mobilise the empathy of the members and an appreciation for the contribution of the members; establish the cohesion of the female on social media to develop the female solidarity; the formation of a strong community to establishment of a new identity and trust for females. …”
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Contested states and the politics of sport: the case of Kosovo – division, development, and recognition by Richard Giulianotti, Holly Collison, Simon Darnell, P. David Howe

“…© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis paper provides the first detailed analysis of the politics of sport in the small, post-conflict, contested state of Kosovo, located in the Western Balkan region of Europe. A former province of Yugoslavia, Kosovo endured a bloody civil war in the late 1990s between Serbian-led Yugoslav forces and Kosovo Liberation Army. …”
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Placemaking through Mandela's graphic heritage by Celeste McKenzie, Yolandi Burger, Robert G. Harland

“…The film may be viewed as an accompaniment to the Placemaking through Mandela's graphic heritage: The UX Sprint of the Umsuka platform account of developing a digital prototype.…”
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Cultural readjustment in the RAF following the Nimrod XV230 crash by Matt Whitehead

“…On 2 September 2006, RAF Nimrod XV230 was on a routine mission over Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan in support of NATO and Afghani ground forces, when she suffered a catastrophic mid-air fire, which led to the total loss of the aircraft and the death of all 14 personnel on board. …”
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SCULPTURE: Zhengzhou Twister 5.5 meter tall carved granite sculpture by John Atkin

“…I was the Invited International Artist .As well as CAD models of my sculpture, I produced a 70cm tall scale-maquette, used to guide skilled craftsmen who physically carved the sculpture in China. …”
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Do librarians like to learn online? by Debbi Boden, Ruth Stubbings

“…Information skills, academic literacy, information fluency and information literacy – the terminology have caused considerable debate in the UK, but in what ever guise information literacy appears it is having a huge impact on the role of librarians. It is now seen as one of the major keys to problem solving and life long learning. …”
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Individual, social, and environmental factors associated with physical activity and walking by Christine Cameron

“…Findings suggest that within countries like Canada, with a relative abundance of supportive environments, more specific and detailed measures of the perceived and objective physical environment may be required in order to achieve sufficient variation.…”
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Debris flow modelling for enhanced geohazard evaluation along the Bailong River corridor, Gansu, China by Kristine Thorkildsen Jarsve

“…The model was validated against Takahashi et al. (1992) flume experiment and a sensitivity analysis of the key parameters of the model was performed. …”
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A comparative assessment of communal water supply and self supply models for sustainable rural water supplies: a case study of Luapula, Zambia by Koji Kumamaru

“…The research was conducted in the Luapula Province of Zambia using a concurrent triangulation strategy to offset the weakness inherent within one method with the strengths of the other. …”
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Slipstream by John Atkin

“…The mirror polished surfaces capture the light, colour and movement of the surroundings, adding to the concept of a barely discernible breath of air. …”
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Household biogas systems in low income rural regions by Sören Säf

“…In fact, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) regarded biogas as a ―promising approach to decentralised rural development‖ as early as the 1970’s (DaSilva, 1979) and SNV (the Netherlands’ development organisation), in the late 2000’s, say that ―SNV firmly believes households raising livestock are able to benefit from domestic biogas plants for the production of sustainable cooking fuel and potent organic fertiliser‖ (van Nes, 2005: 2). …”
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Social entrepreneurship opportunities in China: a critical realist analysis by Xiaoti Hu

“…My research findings show that SE opportunities develop in all of the three domains defined by critical realism. …”
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The present situation of endemic arsenism in China by Sun Guifan, Kyaw M. Yap, Pengxin Liu, Guojun Dai, Cong Qian

“…Fluorosis distributes over all provinces, cities and autonomous regions except Shanghai in China. …”
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Nationalism and reunification: a case study of the inter-Korean border area by Jeong-Bae Son

“…The boundary and its surrounding areas are restricted due to security reasons and the border area is less developed area compared to other provinces in South Korea. On the other hand, the border area could become an area of economic cooperation between North Korea and South Korea and a milestone of economic integration of the two Koreas. …”
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