solar irrigation pumps a reality in India. It is only a matter of time before governments begin aggressive promotion of solar irrigation pumps. Several players are already in the market offering a range of solar pumping solutions. This note is inspired by a field visit to some of the solar pumps installed by Claro Energy in Bihar. Its cost structure which is high on fixed costs and low on varia...

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has recently received increasing attention from the research community. Its intriguing properties, including identity/location split, in-network caching and multicast, have turned it into the primary paradigm for many recent internetworking proposals. Most of these are mainly concerned with core architectural issues of ICN including naming, routing, and scal...

O n 29 August, 2011, I had the honour and pleasure to witness and facilitate the creation of the African Federation of Public Health Associations. It was a landmark event attended by all Ministers of Health of the African region, during which we committed to work together to support Governments and communities to address the public health challenges that we face at regional and country levels. ...

This study attempted to assess the situation of Iranian pistachio and its export distribution channels. The main purposes of this study were to determine the most important strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities facing the distribution channels of export of pistachio in Kerman province and to suggest appropriate strategies for the current situation. For this purpose, an experimental a...

rising global financial crisis and the necessities of facing its negative effects and taking advantage of opportunities rendered by crisis, should be noticed by economic authorities. in order to achieve above-mentioned purpose, this essay, in addition to present roots of financial crisis in the world economy, also will consider the crisis from theoric and economic aspects. considering dimension...