After a slow start in the 1980’s and 1990’s empirical applications of the capability approach have gained significant momentum in recent years, thanks in large part to technical and methodological advances in the multidimensional measurement of poverty (Alkire & Foster, 2011; Bourguignon & Chakravarty, 1999; Duclos, Shan, & Younger, 2006). As we progress in this direction, we come across an inc...

Abstract Given the threatening consequences of anthropogenic climate change, it is vital to modify energy-intensive daily routines minimize individual energy consumption. However, changing challenging due their abstract, future-oriented nature and comfort they provide. Interactive technologies can play a crucial role in facilitating this process. Instead relying on rhetorical persuasion through...

The case for an assessment of poverty considering multiple deprivations has been well argued for a long time (e.g. Sen, 2001, 2009). While there is a broad consensus about the multidimensionality of poverty, there is a debate as to whether the multiple indicators of deprivations should be brought together into a composite index or not (e.g. see Ravalion, 2010). On the other hand, it seems that ...

There is currently a wave of enthusiasm for “building resilience” in the international humanitarian and development sectors. This has coincided with a number of attempts to both define what resilience is and devise ways of measuring it. However, rather than comprehensively reviewing these attempts, the paper presents Oxfam GB’s own approach for both understanding and measuring resilience. It be...

With constraints on data availability and for study of power system stability it is adequate to model the synchronous generator with field circuit and one equivalent damper on q-axis known as the model 1.1. This paper presents a systematic procedure for modelling and simulation of a single-machine infinite-bus power system installed with a thyristor controlled series compensator (TCSC) where th...

BACKGROUND Intravascular fluid shifts, mechanical ventilation and inhalational anesthetic drugs may contribute to intraoperative lung injury. This prospective observational study measured the changes in respiratory impedance resulting from inhalational anesthesia and mechanical ventilation in adults undergoing transurethral resection of bladder tumors. The components of respiratory impedance (r...

In this study, a novel antenna design is proposed for designing frequency-reconfigurable wide-angle beam scanning and applied to squarely modulated reactance surface leaky wave antenna. The angle electronically steered with discretely (rough scan) continuously (precise by controlling the antenna’s modulation period at any fixed frequency, respectively. procedure provided using unit cell compose...