O cial development assistance (ODA) gross disbursements amounted to US$ 81.88 million on average per year channeling close to half of the disbursements into disaster prevention and preparedness and ood prevention and control (48.7 percent). Over the period 2002 to 2011, the Government of the Philippines’ water-related investments accounted for an estimated 3.0 percent of total government expend...

This study starts with the review on the role of external assistance to fragile states where the state lacks the capacity to provide better quality lives for its people. One of the tools being the Official Development Assistance, this paper focuses on the its disbursement patterns to fragile states that targets women's empowerment and gender equality to verify where donors stand on their action...

image restoration has been an active research area. dierent formulations are eective in high qualityrecovery. partial dierential equations (pdes) have become an important tool in image processingand analysis. one of the earliest models based on pdes is perona-malik model that is a kindof anisotropic diusion (andi) lter. anisotropic diusion lter has become a valuable tool indierent elds...

Despite modern technology provide new tools to measure the world around us, we are quickly generating massive amounts of high-dimensional, spatialtemporal data. In this work, I deal with two types of datasets: one in which the spatial characteristics are relatively dynamic and the data are sampled at different periods of time, and the other where many dimensions prevail, although the spatial ch...

A new facile route for synthesis of 3- (aryl) -8, 9- di (alkyl) thieno [3,2-e] [1,2,4] triazolo pyrimidines derivative from the same starting material, 2- amino - 4,5 -di (alkyl) thiophene-3- carboxamide, has been developed through heterocyclization of the corresponding arylidene-hydrazino -5,6 -di (alkyl) thieno [2,3-d] pyrimidine under refluxing condition with acetic anhydride followed by air...

background: this study was designed to evaluate the correlation between subjective data obtained from a questionnaire and clinical examination among students in shiraz university of medical sciences. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional prospective study, the samples consisted of 200 subjects, with equal distribution between males and females. subjects’ ages ranged from 18 to 30 years...

in this article, a mathematical model describing the growth orterminating myelogenous leukemia blood cancer's cells against naive t-celland eective t-cell population of body, presented by fractional dierentialequations. we use this model to analyze the stability of the dynamics, whichoccur in the local interaction of eector-immune cell and tumor cells. wewill also investigate the optima...

heat stress is a common occupational health hazard at outdoor workplaces especially in a hot-humid climate. overheating of the body can cause a number of problems, including heat rash, heat cramps, dizziness, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. the present study aimed to assess heat stress indices including di, wbgt, and sw req /phs, as a mean to estimate the heat load on the employees of a petro...