• Brazil’s aid to developing countries is expanding, with the country set to overtake smaller DAC donors and even to catch China and India. • Lessons from other emerging donors and from trilateral cooperation could help Brazil to address the political, institutional and technical constraints to its aid programme. • The Brazil example shows the need for evidence on the quality, impact and value-...

The summary and key ideas of a technical paper is textual in the form of keywords, abstracts, introductions and conclusions. More can certainly be done to improve the presentation of information in long papers, especially ones with long sentences. We present representations of a technical paper at three granularities the document level, the paragraph level, and the sentence level, to aid in the...

Aid workers increasingly face risks when working in crisis regions. In order to improve effectiveness and safety of humanitarians, it is of great importance to provide a well thought out real-time socio-technical support. Thus, new policies and innovative technological solutions need to be developed and integrated into humanitarian workflows. For the requirements elicitation process to realize ...

Introduced marine species can have a large impact upon small countries that are reliant on marine tourism. Non-governmental organisations, such as the World Conservation Union (IUCN), are working with technical experts to implement capacity building and awareness programs that transfers introduced marine species knowledge to countries in need of aid. The Republic of Palau is reliant on tourism ...

The developmental importance to humans of the human-constructed physical environment, including myriad modified natural objects or manufactured objects, is well recognized. The importance of the physical dimension of the constructed niche has also been recognized in nonhuman animals with respect to dwellings (e.g., beavers’ dams, birds’ nests, and bees’ hives), but has not previously been appli...