Preamble This paper continues the task of linking together various strands of argument arising from the Social Policy in Developing Contexts (SPDC) research programme at Bath. It is a third attempt. The two earlier incarnations have been 'Regimes, Mixes And Ground Realities: A Synthesis Paper' (Gough and Wood March 2000) and my earlier 'Social Policy and the Peasant Analogue'. This present pape...

Efficient recipes for performing integer arithmetic are indispensable as they are widely used in several algorithms in diverse areas such as cryptology, computer graphics and other engineering areas. Hence our first object of study would be the most basic integer operations namely addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will start off with algorithms that are typically referred t...

INTRODUCTION Excavations at the site of Pievina (Tuscany, Italy) were conducted under the direction of Kim Bowes, Marielena Ghisleni, and Emanuele Vaccaro (under the auspices of Cornell University and Universitá di Grosetto) in 2009. The focus was to examine remains of smaller-scale settlements, presumably those related to peasant (or at least lesselite) occupation. The area underwent periods o...

We propose an adaptive reversible data hiding method with superior visual quality and capacity in which an adaptive generalized difference expansion (AGDE) method is applied to an integer-to-integer subband transform (I2I-ST). I2I-ST performs the reversible subband transform and the AGDE method is a state-of-the-art method of reversible data hiding. The results of experiments we performed objec...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity among under-five children in Sub Saharan Africa. To understand the factors associated with malnutrition among under-five children, a study was conducted in Nakaseke and Nakasongola districts of Uganda. METHOD Cross sectional secondary data of 104 underfive children in Nakaseke and Nakasongola districts was used. Epi...

A growing literature has identified agricultural expansion by small farmers in the tropics as an important cause of global forest clearing, yet institutional factors affecting small farmers' decisions have rarely been taken into account in empirical analyses. We examine the influence of context on household land use/cover change (LUCC) decisions and estimate a multilevel model of LUCC for fores...

A study was conducted in western Ethiopia--in two districts of Oromia state and four districts of Beneshangul Gumuz state--to determine the seroprevalence of foot and mouth disease and the associated risk factors, using multistage random sampling. A 3ABC blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to measure antibody against the non-structural protein of foot and mouth disease virusto d...

Information on the traditional tick control methods used in Keffa, Illubabor and Wellega Provinces in western Ethiopia was obtained from 86 veterinary clinics and 865 peasant farmers through a questionnaire survey. Latexes of Euphorbia obovalifolia and Ficus brachypoda, juice of crushed leaves of Phytolaca dodecandra and Vernonia amygdalina, fruit juice of Solanum incanum, crushed seeds of Lepi...