Water resources management reform in developing countries has tended to overlook community-based water laws, which govern self-help water development and management by large proportions, if not the majority, of citizens: rural, small-scale water users, including poor women and men. In an attempt to fill this gap, global experts on community-based water law and its interface with public sector i...

We describe the slim approach for making presentations using mind maps, which is particularly useful to assist the “slide maker” while thinking about and structuring her presentations. As presentations become larger, like for teaching purposes when creating and updating a course, we believe this approach to be particularly effective, and that common tools like PowerPoint fail to provide support...

The aqueous solubility of 39 insecticidal and related compounds was determined at 20 +/- 1.5 degrees C, using a previously described shaking and centrifugation method. Fenamiphos, fenthion and methidathion produced values substantially less than those reported in the literature whereas, aminocarb, diazinon, dicapthon, pirimiphos-ethyl and pirimiphos-methyl gave solubilities substantially greate...

Environmental informatics applications often analyze data collected from various sources. Both data collection and data analysis benefit from expert knowledge. However, if applications are to be used by a broader range of users with less expert knowledge, applications will need to include a deeper understanding of the data used and analysis performed. We present the Tetherless World Constellati...

This paper introduces a divide and conquer approach for organizing the adaptation of distributed applications in a potentially large number of interacting middleware instances. In such an environment, a centralistic and static adaptation reasoning i) is inadequate and ii) gives the same priority to all applications. The divide and conquer method aims at minimizing the interference between runni...

BACKGROUND Oral tobacco (snuff) is taking a large market share in Scandinavia, especially with young users. However, long-term health effects are unknown. Small studies show association between snuff and reduced endothelial function, representing an early stage of vascular injury that often precedes manifest cardiovascular disease by several years. We therefore determined the associations betwe...

Quasar-galaxy associations, if they result from the effect of gravitational lensing by foreground galaxies, depend sensitively on the shape of the quasar number counts. Two kinds of quasar number-magnitude relations are predicted to produce quite different properties in quasar-galaxy associations: the counts of Boyle, Shanks and Peterson (1988; BSP) provide both positive and “negative” associat...