BACKGROUND Construction of the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project and flooding of a 450 km(2) area of mountain plateau in south-central Lao PDR resulted in the resettlement of 6,300 people to newly built homes. We examined whether new houses would have altered risk of house entry by mosquitoes compared with traditional homes built from poorer construction materials. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDI...

Humla Province is a remote mountainous region of northwest Nepal. The climate is harsh and the local people are extremely poor. Most people endure a subsistence culture, living in traditional housing. Energy for cooking and heating comes from fuelwood, supplies of which are diminishing. In order to improve the indoor environment and reduce fuelwood use, smokeless stoves are being introduced to ...

Changing this situation requires a great deal of hard work. Vast part of the IS integration is that concerned people are forced to algorithmise the document flows, procedures, and requirements they lay on students and provide this information for IS analysis purposes. Obviously, the whole administrative model cannot be re-written from scratch and the study system cannot be quickly transformed i...