Building upon previous projects from the first phase of collaboration with the Luce Foundation, the Berkley Center’s Religion and Global Development Program and World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) are exploring key religion and development work at the country level in Bangladesh, Senegal, Kenya, and Guatemala. A team of researchers, under the leadership of Katherine Marshall, will draw fro...

Justin Marshall is Professor of Neurobiology and Marine Biology at the University of Queensland in Australia within The Queensland Brain Institute. He can be labelled a visual ecologist as he studies comparative eye design and how this is guided by the physics of light. He has co-written a book called “Visual Ecology”, co-edited a book called “Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments”, is co-...

Pavement rutting is one of the most common and destructive pavement distresses being observed in flexible pavements, which is primarily due to axle loads that exceed legal limit and high ambient temperatures, and also poor mix design is one of the cause of rutting. The drastic increase in traffic volume during last few decades has resulted in premature pavement failures of almost the whole road...

3 M. C. Shaw, "Mechanical Activation-a Newly Developed Chemical Process," J. Appl. Mech., 15, 37 (1948). 4 W. R. Backer, E. R. Marshall, and M. C. Shaw, "The Size Effect in Metal Cutting," Trans. A.S.M.E., 74, 61 (1952). 5 A. H. Cottrell, chap. ii of B. Chalmers (ed.), Progress in Metal Physics, Vol. 1 (New York: Interscience Publishers, 1949). 6 E. R. Marshall and M. C. Shaw, "Forces in Dry Su...

The New World genus Lepidosina Marshall & Buck gen. n. is described including nine new and two previously described species: L. angusticercus Marshall & Buck sp. n. (Caribbean, Central and South America), L. argentinensis Marshall & Buck sp. n. (Argentina), L. cubensis Marshall & Buck sp. n. (Cuba), L. evanescens Marshall & Buck sp. n. (Central and South America), L. gibba (Spuler) comb. n. (Fl...

This paper outlines and analyses the behaviours of small and medium enterprises with respect to the evaluation of electronic commerce investments, and the subsequent realisation of the anticipated benefits from those investments. The responses of executives who participated in the study suggested that on-going involvement in electronic commerce did not come cheaply. Nonetheless, our study sugge...

Attempts have been made to define new classes of distributions that provide more flexibility for modeling data is skewed in nature. In this work, we propose a family namely the Marshall-Olkin Half Logistic-G (MO-HL-G) based on generator pioneered by [Marshall and Olkin , 1997]. This allows flexible fit real from several fields, such as engineering, hydrology, survival analysis. The structural p...

A large variety of synaptic plasticity rules have been used in models of excitatory synaptic plasticity (Brown et al., 1990). These rules are generalizations of the Hebbian rule and have some properties consistent with experimental data on long-term excitatory synaptic plasticity, but they also have some properties inconsistent with experimental data. For example, the BCM rule (Bear et al., 198...