Over the past two decades aid agencies have radically altered their approach to aid delivery. Aid allocations are now largely based on attained policy performance rather than on promises of policy change, and delivery modalities have shifted from projects to budget support. In countries where economic governance and government capacity are already reasonably strong these changes are probably a ...

Introduction: Hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. Using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. This research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic cross-s...

Hearing loss can be caused by a number of different pathological conditions. Some of them can be successfully treated, mainly by surgery, depending on the individual's disease process. However, the treatment of chronic sensorineural hearing loss with damaged cochlear structures usually needs hearing rehabilitation by means of technical amplification. During the last two decades tremendous impro...

Current trends in humanitarian accountability are unpacked through the examination of an system put place after 2010 monsoon floods Pakistan. Humanitarian accountability, when narrowly understood as a technical and procedural tool, can undermine local self-advocacy efforts, silence community dissent supress broader equity claims. Reframing political ethical project inspire innovation, support f...

Non-Abelian statistics can be achieved by exchanging two vortices in topological superconductors with each grabbing a Majorana fermion (MF) as zero-energy quasi-particle at the cores. However, in experiments it is difficult to manipulate vortices. In the present work, we propose a way to braid MFs without moving vortices. The only operation required in the present scheme is to turn on and off l...

Risk Aversion in Travel Mode Choice with Rank-Dependent Utility MATTHIEU DE LAPPARENT a & MOSHE BEN-AKIVA b a Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux-IFSTTAR, Université Paris-Est , France b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA Published online: 03 Nov 2014.

Curvature and torsion of linear transports along paths in, respectively, vector bundles and the tangent bundle to a differentiable manifold are defined and certain their properties are derived.