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Mars climate engineering using orbiting solar reflectors [PDF]
, 2009 The manned mission is seen as a first step towards a Mars surface exploration base-station and, later, establishing permanent settlement. The location and use of Mars's natural resources is vital to enable cost-effective long-duration human exploration ...
C. Sagan +17 more
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Energy and Built Environment, 2022 Solar lighting technologies can lead sunlight into indoor actively, which has been proved that has great potential to reduce electric lighting consumption and create a healthy visual environment.
Chao Shen +5 more
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International Experiences of Water Transfers: Relevance to India [PDF]
, 2008 Water transfer has and continues to be a complementary water management strategy for promoting socioeconomic development in water-scarce regions. Over 2,500 years ago, the Babylonians, the Roman Empire and the Chinese constructed extensive canal networks,
Francis Gichuki, Peter G. McCornick
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A novel porous channel to optimize the cooling performance of PV modules
Energy and Built Environment, 2022 This paper dealt with a series of numerical investigations on a new porous cooling channel applied to PV/T systems in order to improve the insufficient heat transfer in the conventional channel.
Yingbo Zhang +5 more
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Fate Control and Human Rights: The Policies and Practices of Local Governance in America's Arctic [PDF]
, 2014 The loss of territoriality over lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act had adverse impacts for Alaskan tribal governance. Despite policy frameworks that emphasize the value of local governance at an international, regional, and ...
Kimmel, Mara
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Human Settlement Systems: Spatial Patterns and Trends [PDF]
, 1982 The papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference on the analysis of human settlement systems held at IIASA. This meeting closed an IIASA research activity, started in 1975, that had the goals of identifying functional urban regions in
Kawashima, T., Korcelli, P.
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Baseline study for SWM in Mardan, Pakistan [PDF]
, 2012 Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste is ignored in the study area as it’s been ignored throughout the country whereas MSW management has the largest budget among the corresponding departments but it always lack skilled staff.
Government of Pakistan +2 more
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Telecom traffic and investment in developing countries : the effects of international settlement rate reductions [PDF]
Developing countries, which received about $35 billion in net settlement payments from the United States telecom carriers between 1985 and 1998, were upset by the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to slash rates, because lower rates mean
Wallsten, Scott J.
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Stable Isotope Analysis from a Burial at the Pipe Site (41AN67) in Anderson County, Texas [PDF]
, 2012 In this article, we present the findings of stable isotope analysis (carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen) from an analysis of human remains from a burial at the Pipe site (41AN67).
Perttula, Timothy K. +2 more
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground Family Planning (FP) is a requirement of global and national legal instruments to ensure its full provision to both men and women. Male involvement in FP is internationally streamlined to ensure it is achieved in resource-constrained countries.
Fabiola H. Odira +2 more
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