______________________ Dr. Omar Shahabudin McDoom is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. This report has benefited from suggestions by the WDR 2011 core team, as well as from the World Bank’s Rwanda country office. Comments were received from Gérard Prunier, Peter Uvin (Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School), and Scott Straus (Ass...

the date of receipt and acceptance should be inserted later Abstract. We present UBV RIz 0 photometry of the gra-vitational lens candidate CLASS B1152+119 obtained with the Nordic Optical Telescope. The two QSO components are resolved in the B, V , R, I and z 0 bands connrming the lensing nature of the system. The z = 0:44 lens galaxy is clearly detected in B, R, I and z 0 and its position is f...

We summarize the results from analyzing six clusters of galaxies at 0.14 < z < 0.40 observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys. We derive deep composite luminosity functions in B, g, V, r, i and z down to absolute magnitude of ∼ -14 + 5 log h mag. The luminosity functions are fitted by a single Schechter function with M∗ BgV riz = −19.8, −20.9, −21.9, −22.0, −21.7, and...

L’autosuffisance en riz poursuivie par l’État du Sénégal depuis l’Indépendance a motivé des investissements colossaux dans le Delta fleuve Sénégal, au nord pays. Cet article évalue la contribution Projet de promotion partenariat rizicole (3PRD) aux dynamiques organisationnelles et techniques. L’importance ce projet repose sur public-privé, un paradigme récent monde développement l’agriculture i...

Phenol and phenolic compounds are environmental pollutants present in industrial wastewaters such as coal tar, oil refineries and petrochemical plants. Phenol removal from industrial effluents is extremely important for the protection of environment. Usually, phenol degradation is carried out by physicochemical methods that are costly and produce hazardous metabolites. Recently, phenol biodegra...

Through alternative promoter usage, human retinoblastoma protein-interacting zinc finger gene RIZ encodes two different protein products, RIZ1 and RIZ2, which have been identified to be a tumor suppressor and a proto-oncoprotein, respectively. Structurally, the two protein products share the same amino acid sequences except that RIZ2 lacks an N-terminal PR domain with methyltransferase activity...

A new method is developed for a fast identification of the stability situation of industrial processes. The proposed method includes two factor ratios of the control constants for the upper and lower control limits to process these constants. An indication ratio is then defined as the ratio of the maximum data range value to the difference between the maximum and average values for individual d...

The isoquinoline alkaloids and their biosynthetic relatives include many compounds which show important physiological properties in animals: dopamine, mescaline, morphine, papaverine, and narcotine are pertinent examples. The biosynthetic routes to the members of this family start from the essential aminoacids tyiosine or phenflalanine. Decarboxylation gives a phenethylamine building block (C,-...