Thanks to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Vaccine Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the global health community has made enormous progress in providing already existing vaccines to developing countries. However, there still exists a gap to develop vaccines for which there is no market in the Western world, owing to low economic incentives for the privat...

In this paper we compute for paths and cycles certain graph domination invariants like locating domination number, differentiating domination number, global alliance number etc., We also do some comparison analysis of certain parameters defined by combining the domination measures and the second smallest eigen value of the Laplacian matrix of all connected graphs of order 4.While discussing app...

Finding reliable data to inform decisions about technology for global development remains a challenge. Easily accessible "Knowledge platforms” are a way to curate and standardize information about technology for development. Three collaborators, Engineering for Change, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) are working toge...

It was a revolt against the king of Spain who was later also king of Portugal that created the Dutch Republic. Success at sea through the application of various aspects of nautical science, including shipbuilding and navigation, generated prosperity in the small state and ensured its survival. Dutch mariners and shipwrights owed a great debt to their Iberian counterparts. Even though the late s...

The current employment rate of youth in West Africa is at a very high proportion compared to many other economic region of the world. African governments have attempted to address this problem, but always coming up short. Finding solutions to poverty problems will rid global society of its major problem. One of the enduring barriers to prosperity in an open-market economy is the failure to mast...