Institute for Energy and Environmental Research

Institute for Environmental Research

Energy Optimization of Power Station for a Small Research Institute

Renaissance University, Agbani has a research institute with internet facility that accommodates 200 computers for student training, research and browsing. This facility becomes impossible to run due to the inability of the public utility to provide steady, reliable and efficient power. A 250KVA generating set was denoted by the school Administration and latter installed for this facility. Afte...

Environmental Resources Research Institute Annual Technical Report FY 2000

In the base grant project, Impact of Stream-Subsurface Exchange on Fine Sediment Dynamics in Streams funded through Drexel University, the objectives were to examine the complex interactions between high sediment loadings, downstream transport of suspended sediment, stream-subsurface exchange and siltation of stream beds. Results demonstrate that stream-subsurface exchange delivers suspended se...

Information Architecture of Research Institutes’ Website, Case Study: Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology’s Website

Purpose: As mission-oriented organizations, research institutes have the task of answering community questions in specialized areas, and should therefore be able to effectively present their outputs to their target users. Achieving such a goal requires the proper use of information architecture principles to properly organize the information platform in which the research institutes interact wi...

Institute for Research on Poverty

We examine the effect of macroeconomic performance on poverty in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Our study advances research on this issue in a variety of ways: we utilize variation across the states rather than relying on over-time trends for the country as a whole; we analyze cross-state variation in both levels and change over time; we disentangle the impact of three different ...