VIRGO CHALLENGES THE CALIFORNIA GRASSROOTS

Local Government and the Challenges of Grassroots Development in Nigeria

The rural Nigeria has the largest number of citizens with not less than 75% of the country’s total population living in the rural areas. It is the collective desire of this vast majority of the Nigerian population to access development irrespective of political, economic and social status. The local government is the most veritable agent of developing the rural areas. This is informed by the lo...

The VIRGO injection system

The VIRGO injection system, designed to provide a stable single-frequency 20 W laser to the VIRGO interferometer, is under commissioning. All functions have been demonstrated to work close to requirements, and the integration of all of them is in progress.

The Status of Virgo

The commissioning phase of the fullVirgo gravity-wave interferometric detector started in September 2003, and is still progressing. This activity is intended to achieve a stable operation of the detector, at its design strain sensitivity, in the frequency bandwidth extending from about 10 Hz up to a few kHz, with a value of a few 10−23 around 500 Hz. In October 2004 the interferometer was locke...

GIS Implementation in the Grassroots

Sieber 15 Introduction Increasingly nonprofits are following the lead of public agencies and private industry by implementing a GIS. They are drawn to a GIS because it can combine large amounts of data from disparate sources and on different media, order them into layers or themes, and analyze or display various relationships. The greater promise of the technology, to nonprofits such as grassro...

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