Optimal capacitor placement, considering power system loss reduction, voltage profile improvement, line reactive power decrease and power factor correction, is of particular importance in power system planning and control. The distribution system operator calculates the optimal place, number and capacity of capacitors based on two major purposes: active power loss reduction and return on invest...

If you ask most medical school deans if they have a course, program, or center doing bioethics, they will enthusiastically assure you that they do. And their enthusiasm for bioethics grows exponentially in proportion to their interest in showing that they are doing something about managing research ethics issues at their institutions. The same can be said about the entire biomedical research es...

The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the definition of a poverty line at the other end of the distribution. It then considers what can be learned about the proportion classified as ‘rich’ and abou...

We begin the development of a theory of Banach spaces in the definable setting of o-minimal structures. We outline several results which develop the theory of compact embeddings for explicitly given function spaces. One aim is to explain the substantive underpinnings of an important observation used in the proof of the Reparameterization Theorem of Pila and Wilkie in [2]. We place this observat...

Earthquakes can cause catastrophic accidents to the railroads in terms of serious facility damages and large number of passenger fatalities and injuries. To reduce earthquake risk, various safety counter-measures can be employed. Among them, performing an accelerated construction program of track strengthening, retrofitting rail viaducts, installing warning systems, and improving the braking sy...

The tourism sector, which has high inter-industry and cross-country linkages, is well suited to be the leading sector to accelerate regional economic growth and integration. International and domestic tourism are leading economic activities in the world today. Tourism has been known to generate goods and services directly and indirectly, attract foreign currency, stimulate employment, and provi...

iii FOREWORD This report summarizes the results of a Collaborative Programme of a group of international development agencies – AfDB, FAO, IFAD, IWMI and the World Bank – to review the experience of agricultural water investment in sub-Saharan Africa to date and to identify the conditions for successful investment in sustainable, cost-effective agricultural water development. IWMI and the World...