This article evaluates Japanese foreign aid policy in light of the World Commission on Environment and Development’s concept of sustainable development by focusing on Japanese official development assistance (ODA) to energy sectors in the global South. The analysis reported here finds two fundamental weaknesses in Japanese ODA policy on the energy sector: first, its premise of the compatibility...

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)-Bari, Italy Universitá and INFN di Bari, and Center of Innovative Technologies for Signal Detection and Processing, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Siena and INFN-Cagliari, Italy Struttura Dipartimentale di Matematica e Fisica, Università di Sassari and INFN-Cagliari, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Torino, Italy Dipartimento ...

So far, many methods have been presented to solve the rst-order di erential equations. But, not many studies have been conducted for numerical solution of high-order fuzzy di erential equations. In this research, First, the equation by reducing time, we transform the rst-order equation. Then we have applied Adams-Bashforth multi-step methods for the initial approximation of one order di erentia...

1 Theoretical Physics Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. 2 INFN, Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy. 3 Department of Energetics, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy. 4 Experimental Physics Department and NIS Centre of Excellence, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. 5 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova), Italy. 6 Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR, Arcetri (Fire...

Like in other NLP tasks, it has been claimed that advances of machine learning (ML) based approaches to relation extraction (RE) are hampered by the imbalanced distribution of positive and negative instances in the annotated training data. Usually, the number of negative instances is much larger than that of the positive ones and such skewness also exists in the test data. In this paper, we aim...

1 Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Milano/Merate, Italy 2 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterr. Physik, Garching, Germany 3 Liverpool John Moores Univ., Liverpool, U.K. 4 CEA Saclay, Service d’Astrophysique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 5 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., U.S.A. 6 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy 7 Physics Department, University of Durham, U.K....

1 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Biophysics Dept., Bucharest, Romania 2 National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering NIPNE-HH Bucharest, Romania 3 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy 4 Dip. di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche per l’Ingegneria, Università di Catania, Italy 5 Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, ...

In the heteronuclear coordination polymer, {[CuNa(C(9)H(2)NO(8))(H(2)O)(7)]·4H(2)O}(n), the Cu(II) atom is coordinated by six O atoms from five water mol-ecules and one 5-nitro-benzene-1,2,3-tricarboxyl-ate ligand in a slightly distorted octa-hedral geometry. The Na(+) cation is surrounded by six water mol-ecules in an irregular trigonal-prismatic geometry. The Cu and Na atoms are connected by ...

CsgD and cyclic-3',5'-di-guanylate are key regulators of biofilm formation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Our results show that polynucleotide phosphorylase and NlpI oppositely altered expression of CsgD. Polynucleotide phosphorylase and NlpI also had opposite effects on the expression of yjcC, which codes for a cyclic-3',5'-di-guanylate phosphodiesterase affecting CsgD expression.

In the title complex, {[NaNi(C(9)H(2)NO(8))(H(2)O)(7)]·4H(2)O}(n), the Ni(II) atom has a distorted octa-hedral coordination, defined by five O atoms from five water mol-ecules and one O atom from one 5-nitro-benzene-1,2,3-tricarboxyl-ate ligand. The Na cation is coordinated by six water O atoms in an irregular trigonal-prismatic geometry. There are seven coordinated water mol-ecules in the asym...