the importance and the necessity of huge investments in oil section, legal and financial frameworks adjusting the relationship between great investor companies and oil countries have long been important issues. the history of oil investment from colonial period endeavors to investigate the general frameworks defining the relationship between governments receiving the investment and companies. a...

BACKGROUND A significant challenge in research translation is that interested parties interpret and apply the associated terms and conceptual frameworks in different ways. The purpose of this review was to: a) examine different research translation frameworks; b) examine the similarities and differences between the frameworks; and c) identify key strengths and weaknesses of the models when they...

Background Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical to facilitating learning and providing accountability to stakeholders. As part of an inter-agency effort to develop recommendations on MHPSS monitoring and evaluation, this scoping review aimed to identify the terminology and focus of monitoring and evaluation frameworks in this field. ...

Intel Corporation set itself a goal to reduce its global-warming greenhouse gas footprint by 20% by 2012 from 2007 levels. Through the use of sustainable IT, the Intel IT organization is recognized as a significant contributor to the company’s sustainability strategy by transforming its IT operations and overall Intel operations. This article describes how Intel has achieved IT sustainability b...

Hydrological models are created for a wide range of scales and intents. The Catchment Modelling Framework (CMF) extends the Python programming language with hydrology specific language elements, to setup specific hydrological models adapted to the scientific problems and the dominant flow processes of a particular study area. CMF provides a straightforward method to test hydrological theories a...

The fractional weak discrepancy wdF (P ) of a poset P = (V,≺) was introduced in [5] as the minimum nonnegative k for which there exists a function f : V → R satisfying (i) if a ≺ b then f(a)+1 ≤ f(b) and (ii) if a ‖ b then |f(a) − f(b)| ≤ k. In this paper we generalize results in [6, 7] on the range of wdF for semiorders to the larger class of split semiorders. In particular, we prove that for ...

The fractional weak discrepancy wdF (P ) of a poset P = (V,≺) was introduced in [6] as the minimum nonnegative k for which there exists a function f : V → R satisfying (i) if a ≺ b then f(a)+1 ≤ f(b) and (ii) if a ‖ b then |f(a) − f(b)| ≤ k. In this paper we generalize results in [7, 8] on the range of the wdF function for semiorders (interval orders with no induced 3+ 1) to interval orders wit...