In this article, a decision-making process for the potential location of new wastewater treatment units with wide community participation and acceptance is suggested. The main scientific contribution of this work is the elaboration of an independent decision-making tool, which can be used in site selection of wastewater treatment units. Specifically, at a first level, it acts as an intermediary...

Abstract In 1981, Furniture and Life magazine commenced publication in the city of Xi'an People’s Republic China. By late 1980s, it had become a well-known furniture home-making magazine, read for its DIY guides, advice columns, home stories. Each issue discussed how to beautify homes turn Chinese Communist Party’s vision ‘socialist material civilization’ into practice lived experience. This ar...

Introduction: After Independence, the managers of the Indian economy took very cautious steps. They found the world sharply divided into two blocs: the one led by the capitalist economies (the US in particular) and other led by the communist economies, primarily the then USSR. There was a cold war between these two blocs. Lessdeveloped economies had no option than to join either of the two and ...

The 2007 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP2007), the 12th ISAP, sponsored by the Communication Society of the IEICE and held at the Niigata Convention Center “TOKI MESSE” in Niigata, Japan, on August 20 through 24, 2007 was a great success. This symposium provided an international forum for attendees to present and discuss the progress of research and development in ante...

The International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) in its series has become one of the most important events in the areas of antennas, wave propagation, and electromagnetic theory, being widely considered as the representative conference in Asia Pacific region in parallel with the IEEE APS International Symposium in USA and also the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (E...

After the disintegration of former Soviet Union in 1989, debate started among the intellectuals as well as policy makers in USA about the future shape of world politics and role of the US in it. In this regard, early voice was Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” which focused on political ideologies as the main unit of analysis. To him, after the end of cold war, western liberal democracy h...

The IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Transactions on Electronics announces a forthcoming special section on Recent Progress in Electromagnetic Theory and Its Application to be published in January 2018. The purpose of this special section is to present a collection of original papers that give an overview of recent progress of research and development in...