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Wastewater reuse in agriculture is a widespread practice in developing countries, especially in urban areas where water shortage and poverty encourage people to use that marginal resource. Raw or treated wastewaters are used by farmers, but even treated wa ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

In this paper we give an overview of the AMIDA systems for transcription of conference and lecture room meetings. The systems were developed for participation in the Rich Transcription evaluations conducted by the National Institute for Standards and Techn ...

2012

Towards a New Political Economy of Climate Change and Development

In this article, the authors propose a new political economy of climate change and development in which explicit attention is given to the way that ideas, power and resources are conceptualised, negotiated and implemented by different groups at different s ...

2011

A Developing World Perspective on the Design of Wireless Enabled Humanitarian Relief Services

Alain Wegmann, Anshuman Bahadur Saxena

In the absence of adequate state support, societies in the developing world have long relied on community support for humanitarian relief. Such community networks provide a readily available platform for delivery of humanitarian relief services. Wireless t ...

2011

Within the HMM state mapping-based cross-lingual speaker adaptation framework, the minimum Kullback-Leibler divergence criterion has been typically employed to measure the similarity of two average voice state distributions from two respective languages fo ...

Idiap2011

This paper looks at the efficiency of the parame- terisation of the degrees of freedom within an optimal predictive control algorithm. It is shown that the conventional approach of directly determining each individual future control move is not efficient i ...

2011

Educational disadvantage is an essentially contested, political concept. At the same time there is a ‘phoney consensus’ surrounding the issue, i.e., policy debates on the topic often fail to reflect this contestation. This lack of awareness of the politica ...

2010

The synthesis parameter space of bismuth catalyzed germanium nanowires by chemical vapor deposition is determined. The process window for high aspect ratio nanowires is found to be extremely narrow. The optimal conditions are found to be 300 degrees C and ...

American Institute of Physics2009

Introduction In order to reduce deforestation, the current attitude of conservation programmes and forest politics does no longer ban the local populations from the forests, because such measures present negative consequences for the communities. Today's t ...

EPFL2009

Within the current context of globalisation, trasnationalism has acquired importance as a social phenomenon and an object of study, since it shows the value that the diasporas' own decentralized mechanisms have in promoting development in the countries of ...

2008