municipalities in developing countries spend the highest proportion of their annual budget on unsatisfactory solid waste management service. until recently, solid waste management services in ethiopia were mainly the responsibilities of municipalities, which culminated in inadequate service provision. thus, the integration of micro and small enterprises (mses) by the government has recently bei...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of female cancer mortality worldwide. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy represents the standard of care for patients with stages IB2 to IVa cervical cancer. Unfortunately radiation therapy capacity is severely limited to non-existent in many Low and Middle-Income Countries. One solution has been to use chemotherapy to reduce tumor size to allow for rad...

South African communities are constantly being developed through new ICT projects which are initiated by individuals, government and private organisations. The problem with these developments is that they are implemented in isolation. This isolation causes limited sharing of resources, duplication, poor-governance of the resources and in worse-case scenarios, failure of project initiatives. Thi...

ABSTRACT Although sleep is known to be the primary activity of the brain especially during early stage of life, the condition of child sleep has been unfavourable in Japan. In 2000, nearly half of young children in Japan were reported to go to sleep at 10 pm or later. In 2002, we designed a web site for promoting an early bedtime and wake-up time, and for providing sufficient sleep duration for...