Since 1989 the Bank’s Operational Directive (OD) 4.01 Environmental Assessment and its successor documents OP/BP/G 4.0 have required that affected groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) be consulted as part of the environmental assessment of projects and particularly those with potentially significant impacts (Category A). The primary purpose of this provision is to protect the interes...

ii Management summary This report describes the opportunities and limitations of the holographic storage technology based on the PhenoStor ® storage system developed by Bayer Innovation with regard to its possible use in governmental ID documents. With respect to verification Governmental ID projects are characterized by the two components 'biometric' and 'storage of reference data'. All corres...

this paper is trying to offer a better understanding of relationships between government and nongovernmental organizations in iran. although the constitutional law, development plans, development practitioners have paid more attention to the importance of ngos in the society, but still ngos are not functioning properly. the 1990s has been quite a decade for increasing the numbers of nongovernme...

Assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. In order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. The salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. Due to the dominant role of ...

Special sites or areas that have one or more attributes which distinguish them as somehow extraordinary, usually in a religious or spiritual sense, are called sacred places. They tend to evoke a feeling of some awesome, mysterious, and transcendent power that merits special reverence and treatment. Sacred groves are stands of trees or patches of forest that local communities conserve primarily ...