The purpose of our work is to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of retrieving sea surface wind speeds from C-band cross-polarization (herein vertical-horizontal, VH) Chinese Gaofen-3 (GF-3) SAR images in typhoons. In this study, we have collected three GF-3 SAR images acquired in Global Observation (GLO) and Wide ScanSAR (WSC) mode during the summer of 2017 from the China Sea, which i...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria, in 2006 and 2010, recommend parasitological confirmation of malaria before commencing treatment. Although microscopy has been the mainstay of malaria diagnostics, the magnitude of diagnostic scale up required to follow the Guidelines suggests that rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) will be a large component. This stu...

Green finance (GF) has been gaining significant attention in recent literature, owing to the rise global actions against climate change. It is conceptually ambiguous, with no conclusive agreement among researchers on its meaning. Therefore, main purpose of study identify bankers’ perception various dimensions GF, and major challenges affecting implementation Bangladesh. Besides, this also revea...

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We have the money, we have the commitment — now what do we do? This is the unusual question that will be facing AIDS, TB and malaria programme managers over the next few months. The reason? The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is ready to spend its first moneys. The fund is a new international financing mechanism championed by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the UN, to tackl...