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Arsenic removal from household drinking water by biochar and biochar composites: A focus on scale-up
No full textArsenic (As) is a metalloid present in environmental matrixes worldwide. Arsenic concentrations vary in natural waters and depend on local factors such as geology, hydrology, and geochemical characteristics of the aquifer (Akter et al., 2005). The WHO recommends a maximum arsenic concentration 10μg L 1 for drinking water or less, but natural groundwater concentrations of >10μg L 1 have been reported in over 120 countries, with the highest concentrations in Argentina, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Mexico, Nepal, Romania, Taiwan, Vietnam, and USA. The occurrence, distribution, and origin of As in water have received a lot of attention in the last two decades, including comprehensive books and papers.Fil: Alchouron, Jacinta. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Cátedra de Botánica General; ArgentinaFil: Bursztyn Fuentes, Amalia Lara. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas. Centro de Tecnología de Recursos Minerales y Cerámica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Centro de Tecnología de Recursos Minerales y Cerámica; ArgentinaFil: Musser, Abigail. Mississippi State University; Estados UnidosFil: Vega, Andrea Susana. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Cátedra de Botánica General; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Mohan, Dinesh. Jawaharlal Nehru University; IndiaFil: Pittman, C. U.. Mississippi State University; Estados UnidosFil: Mlsna, T. E.. Mississippi State University; Estados UnidosFil: Navarathna, C.. Mississippi State University; Estados Unido
Emerging contours of financial regulation: challenges and dynamics.
No full textThe current ongoing financial crisis is attributed to a variety of factors such as the developments in the subprime mortgage sector, excessive leverage, lax financial regulation and supervision, and global macroeconomic imbalances. At a fundamental level, however, the crisis also reflects the effects of long periods of excessively loose monetary policy in the major advanced economies during the early part of this decade. The theory and belief of efficient and rational markets have been severely discredited by the current crisis. There is, therefore, a growing agreement for much strengthened, and perhaps, intrusive regulation and supervision in the financial sector. Hitherto unregulated institutions, markets and instruments will now have to be brought under the regulatory framework. A more developed macroprudential approach will be important. Once the current financial crisis is beyond us, minimum regulatory capital requirements would need to be signifi cantly above existing Basel rules, with emphasis on Tier I capital, and supported by a maximum gross leverage ratio. Liquidity regulation and supervision must be recognised as of equal importance to capital regulation, reinforced by an effective global liquidity framework for managing liquidity in large, cross-border fi nancial institutions. The issue of remuneration in the fi nancial sector would require reforms on an industry-wide basis so that improved risk management and compensation practices by some systemically important firms are not undermined by the unsound practices of others. Whereas the suggested reform principles are being increasingly well accepted, many challenges will arise on their modes of implementation, and their practicality. For instance, once normalcy returns, the fi nancial industry will do its utmost to resist the requirements for higher capital at that time. From the point of view of emerging market economies (EMEs), the volatility in capital flows – mainly the outcome of extant monetary policy regimes in developed countries – has led to severe problems in both macro management and financial regulation. This will remain a challenge since there is little international discussion on this issue. Finally, as the global economy starts recovery, a calibrated exit from the prevalent unprecedented accommodative monetary policy will have to be ensured to avoid the recurrence of the financial crisis being experienced now.
Entretien en reviviscence stimulée : Mohan au musée zoologique de Strasbourg
No full textMohan visite le Musée zoologique en compagnie de son amie. Il aperçoit le squelette du singe qu'il compare au squelette humain et construit l'idée que l'homme ne peut avoir d'ancêtre commun avec le singe. Son amie en revanche pense que certes il y a des différences "mais que c'est presque la même chose". Apercevant le morse, Mohan se dit que c'est un faux car il est bien trop grand "aussi grand qu'une moitié de baleine"
Mohan Siṅgh : une poétique de l’ambivalence
No full textInternational audienceMohan Siṅgh (1905-1978), que nous avons croisé comme nouvelliste au chapitre V, recueillit l’héritage des grands poètes des années 1920-1930 rencontrés aux chapitres II et IV, et il le transcenda, créant un idiome poétique divers, résolument moderne et ouvert à toute l’expérience humaine dès les trois recueils qu’il publia avant 1947 : Sāve pattar « Feuilles vertes » (1936), Kasumbhaṛā « Carthame » (1939) et Adhvāṭe « À mi-chemin » (1944). Avec Mohan Singh apparaît une poésie en panjabi d’auteur sikh dans laquelle le sikhisme est présent seulement comme l’une des composantes de la vie panjabie : le lien est désormais radicalement défait entre écriture poétique et apologétique. Le grand thème de Mohan Siṅgh est l’amour, et pour le chanter sa poésie s’empare en un harmonieux chant du monde de tout ce qui fait la réalité du Panjab, des paysages aux activités de la vie rurale et aux rapports sociaux. Sur le plan politique, Mohan Siṅgh a fait le choix du socialisme, comme nombre des écrivains de son temps, au premier rang desquels, parmi les sikhs, Sant Siṅgh Sekhoṃ. Mais il faudra longtemps pour que l’amour et l’espérance deviennent deux dimensions indissociables de son écriture. Lorsque paraît Adhvāṭe en 1943, l’horizon socialiste est encore, nous l’avons vu, subordonné dans la poésie de Mohan Siṅgh à l’expérience amoureuse : son narrateur n’en fait pas un choix actif, un combat ; le monde tel qu’il est lui convient, puisqu’il parvient, par l’amour, à y connaître le bonheur
From hospital contributory schemes to health cash plans: mutualism in health care in the post-war period.
No full textThe article traces the post-war history of the British hospital contributory schemes, which had developed during the inter-war years to the point where, through the accumulation of small weekly contributions from a mass membership, they provided substantial proportions of hospital income. A minority of contributory schemes remained in existence post-1948, but their subsequent development has received little attention. Some evolved into provident associations offering private health insurance; others remained committed to the provision of low-cost benefits to a blue-collar clientele, and continued to be known as hospital contributory schemes. This article outlines the principal features of the contributory schemes' contemporary history. We first explore why many schemes decided to continue in existence. The next section uses national and individual scheme records to delineate the market niche which they captured and to investigate their role in post-war health provision, relative to the state system. In particular we trace the decline of convalescent home benefit, and the gradual trend towards a more uniform benefit package, of which optical and dental grants were the most popular. We then survey patterns of membership and account for the main trends in support for cash plan products since 1950. Finally, we ask to what extent the schemes were able to retain their character as a ‘movement’ with distinctive mutualist and charitable features, particularly in the more competitive environment of the later twentieth century
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
No full textThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
Refinement of solutions to the linear complimentarity problem
No full textNash equilibrium;game theaory;matrices
Pyricularia de trigo en Paraguay : Compendio de Investigación
No full textLa enfermedad Pyricularia del trigo o brusone (en portugués), causada por Pyricularia oryzae (telemorfo Magnaporthe oryzae), se ha convertido en una seria restricción para aumentar el área y la producción del cultivo, especialmente en las regiones tropicales del Cono Sur de América del Sur. Identificada por primera vez en 1985, en el estado de Paraná en Brasil, se ha convertido en una enfermedad endémica en la región de Santa Cruz, Bolivia; el sur y nordeste de Paraguay y el centro y sur de Brasil. El material fue editado por Alice Rocío Chávez y Man Mohan Kohli.CONACYT – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaPROCIENCI
Los sacerdotes muiscas y la paleontología lingüística
No full textDesde hace algunos años he venido manejando algunos documentos coloniales sobre la lengua muisca y he encontrado con sorpresa que en dicha lengua existían diferentes denominaciones para designar aquel personaje religioso que los escritores coloniales llamaron indistintamente, jeque, mohan, ministro del demonio, brujo, hechicero, etc., sinónimo españoles que parecían designar a un posible chamán o sacerdote muísca
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