Abstract Carbon taxes or similar pricing instruments could play a crucial role in helping countries decarbonise their economies. No country has single carbon price that applies to all greenhouse gas emissions. The UK is typical having adopted complex patchwork of policies raise the cost different polluting activities degrees, resulting implied vary greatly across sources We document and quantif...

Investigating the possibility of customizing off-the-shelf tests to provide various kinds of information is becoming increasingly interesting due to high information demands in the current testing environment. Comparing examinee achievement status on a national basis using such tests may provide a cost-effective solution for some practical problems. However, the normative estimates based on cus...

This is the first of two articles dealing with implementation right to education in South Africa and Nigeria. The article examines meaning process as well general nature states’ obligations under international human rights instruments regarding education. measures put place at level towards realizing While this legislative measures, follow-up non-legislative that is, administrative other ensure...

Vol. 19, No. 3 2002 pp. 158–171 158 Alexithymia is a psychiatric term meaning lack of words for emotion (Sifneos, 1967) and it is a relatively recent term, having been coined in the late 1960s. The newness of the concept is reflected in the small number of well-validated assessment instruments in the area (Stephenson, 1996; Taylor, 1984) and the lack of research studies exploring the efficacy o...

This paper presents reflections about the use of techniques and tools used to collect data from educational social fact, which is understood as a fact in its broadest meaning sense. The research was developed framed qualitative paradigm, reason why are methods analysis, synthesis, hermeneutics, holistic dialectic. has been done with purpose understanding object study enabling better application...

This paper aims to review existing energy-sector and hydrogen-energy-related legal, policy, strategy documents in the ECOWAS region. To achieve this aim, current renewable-energy-related laws, acts of parliament, executive orders, presidential decrees, administrative memoranda were analyzed. The study shows that countries have strived design consistent legal instruments regarding renewable ener...

The following describes some recent advances in UV spectroradiometry as required by the optical fiber manufacturing industry. The demands from fiber process engineers have presented some severe challenges in developing accurate and reliable UV measuring instruments. Such instruments are now available to provide both intensity and wavelength data in the form of UV spectral distribution analysis ...