The herringbone parlour, a mechanical milking technology, was invented in 1908, but took over 70 years to be adopted by the majority of British farmers. Among the reasons were the need to improve original designs, the need for complementary institutional changes such as management systems, new labour contracts and suitable herd sizes. These determinants are analysed by means comparison of regio...

In developing countries, many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) collapse due to complex factors. Knowledge shortage and fragmented information are their key challenges as a result of obsolete technology and exposure. However, the Government of Uganda plans to establish nationwide knowledge service centres in its Vision 2035 [9]. Viable solutions are at stake for developing countries. However,...

Stability is proven for an implicit-explicit, second order, two step method for uncoupling a system of two evolution equations with exactly skew symmetric coupling. The form of the coupling studied arises in spatial discretizations of the Stokes-Darcy problem. The method proposed is an interpolation of the Crank-Nicolson Leap Frog (CNLF) combination with the BDF2-AB2 combination, being stable u...

The importance of distributed generation (DG) has increased recently as a result the growth in commercial and industrial loads, which put more pressure on conventional energy sources utilities. Alternative power methods that can handle massive load without endangering environment are therefore urgently needed. installation Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) may give substantial opportunity to enhanc...

A numerical scheme utilizing a grid which is staggered in both space and time is proposed for the numerical solution of the (2+1)D Dirac equation in presence of an external electromagnetic potential. It preserves the linear dispersion relation of the free Weyl equation for wave vectors aligned with the grid and facilitates the implementation of open (absorbing) boundary conditions via an imagin...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. The Pacific Islands Region 4. Domestic and International Telecommunications in the Pacific Region 5. Internet in the Pacific and the GII 6. "Public Service" Networks in the Pacific 7. Barriers to a Pacific Information Infrastructure 8. Pacific Information Infrastructure An Agenda for Policy Makers 9. Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography Figure 1 (57 k) Figure 2 (55 k...