energy carriers including electricity play a critical role in human societies development, and as the time passes, their importance in the human socio-economic life rises. therefore, knowing electricity demand and the factors affecting on it could have an effective role in economic decision-making. while dividing electricity demand into different consuming sectors, this study uses economic vari...

A novel design of Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), using only a single resistive plate, was developed and tested. Based on this design, prototype chambers size ranging from 10 cm × to 32 48 were constructed tested with cosmic rays particle beams. The tests confirmed the viability new approach for calorimetric applications where rates do not exceed 1 kHz/cm 2 , such as CALICE digital calorimeter...

Dewey openly admitted that he had not achieved systematic unity in his philosophy, even though it had been a goal of his to develop a coherent philosophy of experience. This lack of systematic unity is encountered in the equivocal nature of much of the interrelation amongst his many arguments and terms resulting in frustration for many, a frustration that may have hindered a deeper understandin...

Various studies on the National Policy on Education (NPE) have concentrated on the cognitive value of pedagogy and learning of the language aspect but few have viewed its importance on the togetherness of the nation - Nigeria. This paper deals with how the language policy can influence and ensure the co-existence of Nigeria in achieving self-actualisation, national unity, social, cultural, econ...

The growth of the Internet has not only greatly simplified the access to existing sources of information but also motivated the creation of numerous new sources. Paradoxically, this growth has made difficult the tasks of finding, extracting, and aggregating relevant information. Gateways, protocols like Object Database Connectivity (ODBC), and standards like eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are...

a Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Kent Buse (e-mail: [email protected]). Recent increases in resources for achieving the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support have given renewed impetus to the longer-standing political commitment for achieving targets in sexual and reproductive health an...