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The European e-infrastructure is the ICT support for research although the infrastructure will be extended for commercial/business use. It supports the research process across funding agencies to research institutions to innovation. It supports experimental facilities, modelling and simulation, communication between researchers, and workflow of research processes and research management. We pro...

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Transportation has historically had a major influence on cities their locations, growth and form. Civil engineers were the leading public servants in construction of railway and transit systems. With diversification of transportation and, particularly, growth of highways, the solutions to urban transportation have become extremely complex. Instead of only building new facilities, it is now nece...

the study analyzed farm households’ access and utilization of government health facilities in kogi state, nigeria. specifically, it described the socioeconomic characteristics of farm households, determined the level of accessibility to health facilities by farm households, and determined the factors that drive farm households’ utilization of government health facilities. a two staged random sa...

The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multidonor technical assistance facility, launched in July 1999 with the purpose of helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private sector involvement. PPIAF supported an activity in Bangladesh with the long-term goal of strengthening the capacity of the private sector and of micro-finance ...

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Clearly, the resources available for tackling deleterious effects of climate change differ starkly within and between cities. Increasing evidence indicates that uneven investments further aggravate these inequalities in cities’ capacities to combat change. This article delves into efforts urban finance (UCF) initiatives – programs seek foster “green investment” spatial relations they forge: How...