The energy sector holds the key in accelerating the economic growth of India. To achieve Economic Growth, we need to and have to use more and more energy to increase the pace of development. On the consumption front, the industrial sector in India is a major energy user accounting for about 52 percent of commercial energy consumption. Electrical energy and thermal energy constitutes the major o...

Security of networks depends on reliable key management systems which generate and distribute symmetrical/asymmetrical encryption/decryption keys between communicating parties. Traditionally, in wired networks, a central server is responsible to generate and distribute the keys securely. But because of no central server or fixed infrastructure exists in mobile ad hoc networks, there are many di...

The Crime, Violence and Injury Prevention in South Africa: Developments and Challenges is a biennial publication, which is similar in format to other reviews in the social and health sector in South Africa and is intended as a resource for policymakers, funders and service providers. This review seeks to provide a comprehensive, regular analysis of the crime, violence and injury sector that inc...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how donors and government agencies responded to a proliferation of donors providing aid to Ghana's health sector between 1995 and 2012. METHODS We interviewed 39 key informants from donor agencies, central government and nongovernmental organizations in Accra. These respondents were purposively selected to provide local and international views from the three types of ...

The study suggests that the construction sector plays a leading role in the improvement of socioeconomic conditions and the built environment in every country. The study revealed that the construction sector remains as one of the key sectors in the economy in terms of its share of GDP (i.e. 9.1% for 19932011 period) and the overall industrial output( i.e. 35.9% for 1993-2011 period). Also, the ...

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Islamic banking, as a major center for financial transactions in Islamic societies,plays a key role in the development of Islamic economics. The fundamental essenceof Islamic banking system is based on the fact that although, Islam has forbidden theinterest in transactions, but trade and profit is encouraged and supported. The actualimplementation of the Islamic banking system due to its unique...

The paper will explore the ecological impact of sugar industry, using the Sustainable Process Index (SPI). This evaluation reveals weak points in the conventional sugar process, especially in the energy provision. Modification of the process utilising by-products and farm residues can considerably lower the environmental impact of the sugar sector. This is also interesting from the point of vie...

Despite widespread adoption of IT control frameworks, little academic empirical research has been undertaken to investigate their use. This paper reports upon research to benchmark the maturity levels of 15 key IT control processes from the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) in public sector organisations across Australia. It also makes a comparison against a simi...