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Journal articles on the topic "Nile Basin Initiative"
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Purnomo, Muhammad Aditya. "Hydrosolidarity di Sungai Nil: Peran Nile Basin Initiative dalam Manajemen Sungai Lintas Batas." Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional 18, no. 1 (June 27, 2022): 55–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.26593/jihi.v18i1.4362.55-73.
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Daerah aliran sungai lintas batas merupakan sumber air yang penting bagi kehidupan sebanyak 2 milliar jiwa di seluruh dunia. Aliran air tersebut memenuhi kebutuhan air domestik, air minum, irigasi, agrikultur, industri, serta pembangkit listrik. Di wilayah timur-laut Afrika, sungai Nil memegang peran penting tersebut bagi sebanyak sebelas negara di wilayah alirannya. Selain sebagai sungai terpanjang di dunia, sungai Nil mendukung kehidupan sebanyak lebih dari 300 juta penduduk, dimana jumlah tersebut diestimasikan mengalami peningkatan pesat pada tiga hingga empat dekade mendatang. Meningkatnya populasi akan berpengaruh pada ketersediaan air dikarenakan meningkatnya permintaan di sektor agrikultur, domestik, serta industri. Negara-negara wilayah sungai Nil menyadari bahwa langkah terbaik dalam penggunaan, perlindungan, serta manajemen sungai tersebut secara berkelanjutan dan terintegrasi adalah melalui kerjasama internasional bersama. Pada tahun 1999 terbentuk Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) yang beranggotakan negara-negara wilayah sungai Nil yang bertujuan memfasilitasi diskusi kerjasama terkait manajemen sungai tersebut. Tulisan ini bertujuan menunjukkan pentingnya peran NBI dalam manajemen sungai lintas batas. Tulisan ini menggunakan pendekatan hydrosolidarity. Hasil pembahasan mendukung argumen penulis bahwa NBI berperan penting dalam manajemen sungai Nil, yakni sebagai sebuah struktur institusi yang mendukung kerjasama, sebagai pendukung partisipasi pemangku kepentingan, mendukung penyebaran data dan pengetahuan antar negara anggota, serta mendukung adanya integrasi dan perhubungan. Kata kunci: Hydrosolidarity; Nile Basin Initiative; Sungai Nil; Sungai Lintas BatasTransboundary basins are important water resources for 2 billion lives across the world. Those basins fulfil domestic water, drinking water, agriculture, industry, and electric generator needs. In north-east of Africa, Nile river plays the important role for its eleven riparian states. Nile river, being the longest river in the world, supports the lives of more than 300 million people, and the number is estimated to rise greatly in three to four decades in the future. The increase of population will affect the availability of water as the demands of agriculture, domestic, and industry grow. Nile riparian states realized that the best option in using, protecting, and managing the river in a sustainable and integrated manner is through international cooperation. In 1999, Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) was established with Nile riparian states as its member, with the purpose of facilitating discussions of cooperation regarding the management of the river. The purpose of this paper is to show the important roles of NBI in transboundary river management. This paper uses hydrosolidarity approach. The discussion supports the writer’s argument that NBI has important roles in Nile river management, namely in the creation of a cooperative institutional structure, supporting stakeholder participations, supporting data and knowledge sharing, and supporting integrations and linkages.Keywords: Hydrosolidarity; Nile Basin Initiative; Nile River; Transboundary River
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Whittington, Dale, Xun Wu, and Claudia Sadoff. "Water resources management in the Nile basin: the economic value of cooperation." Water Policy 7, no. 3 (June 1, 2005): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2005.0015.
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Since 1999 a multilateral effort termed the Nile Basin Initiative has been underway among the Nile riparians to explore opportunities for maximizing the benefits of the river's waters through cooperative development and management of the basin. However, to date there has been virtually no explicit discussion of the economic value of cooperative water resources development. We believe that a serious discourse among Nile riparians about the economics of Nile cooperation is both inevitable and desirable, and that this discourse will not diminish the importance of environmental, social, or cultural issues that new infrastructure on the Nile will entail. To initiate such a discussion, in this paper we present the results of the first economic model designed to optimize the water resources of the entire Nile basin. Total (potential) annual direct gross economic benefits of Nile water utilization in irrigation and hydroelectric power generation are estimated to be on the order of US$7–11 billion. This does not account for the costs of building or operating the infrastructure.
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Alemayehu, Asabeneh. "Conflicts and Treaty over the Nile Basin. A Critical Review." East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources 7, no. 1 (January 7, 2024): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajenr.7.1.1673.
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The Nile, which flows through ten river basin nations, is the most crucial water channel in Africa's north-western region. The river receives its water from two key rivers: the White Nile in Burundi and the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. The Atbara River, which commences in Sudan and runs north of Khartoum, connects the two rivers. The Nile River is the foundation of life and conflict. Conflicts between riparian countries that rely upon this common freshwater source have grown as a result of the river's deterioration and problems with water scarcity in the basin. The bilateral agreement that governs the allocation of water among the nations allocates the majority of the Nile river's flow to Egypt, which is the downstream country, and the remaining portion to Sudan, leaving the other nations that make up the Nile catchment deprived of determined shares. Although there is a chance for conflict amongst Nile riparians, current attempts to forge an all-encompassing regional agreement to control the river's use encourage riparians to work together rather than compete for water in the future. The Nile River would not have caused conflict amongst its riparian countries if it had been apportioned evenly. For millennia, the Nile's countries that border it have worked cooperatively to overcome problems throughout the basin in order to utilize the resource for the benefit of future generations. Various forms of international technological cooperation have been signed to halt conflicts and bring sustainable management to the Nile basin. This review addresses the conflicts and treaties in the Nile Basin between the Nile riparian countries. It also describes international collaboration, emphasizing the latest Nile Basin Initiative as an example of successful multilateral cooperation that could avert future conflicts over the Nile
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Mohammed Jungudo, Maryam. "The role of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in nation building." Journal of Nation-building & Policy Studies 2, no. 2 (December 12, 2018): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-3132/2018/v2n2a4.
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Swain, Ashok. "The Nile River Basin Initiative: Too Many Cooks, Too Little Broth." SAIS Review 22, no. 2 (2002): 293–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sais.2002.0044.
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Abdullah, Adam Muhammad Ahmed, Celia Dyduck, and Taha Y. Ahmed. "Transboundary Water Conflicts as Postcolonial Legacy (the Case of Nile Basin)." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 20, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 184–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-1-184-196.
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It is not shortage or lack of water that leads to conflict but the way how water is governed and managed. It is said that water will be, much more than oil, the major geopolitical issue of the 21st century. Although it is difficult to demonstrate this, it is clear that the increasing scarcity of the resource, on the one hand, and the configuration of its availability, on the other, are conflict-generating. In the particular case of the African continent, the large catchment basins of the Nile, Niger and Chad, shared by many states of unequal power, are the scene of inefficient hydro-diplomacy. Indeed, north to south, the Nile Delta is 161 km long and covers the coastline of Egypt from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east. Egypt with 100 mln population is de facto the principal hydro-hegemon state in the Nile basin. Nevertheless, a couple of riparian states, as Ethiopia (105 mln population), have taken measures in order to challenge this status quo: the signature and launching of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), the signature of Cooperative Framework Agreement (CFA), the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the signing of the Declaration of Principles Agreement. The article attempts to analyse the urgency of the problem of water resources allocation in Africa with particular focus to the Nile basin and the complexity of agreements regulating the issue dating back to the colonial era. The study also emphasizes the difficulties bilateral and multilateral aids faced while trying to solve a conflict. As Nile for many states is not just a source of water, it is the host of a fragile ecosystem, essential for maintaining the environmental and ecological balance of North-East Africa.
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Belay, Alebel Abebe, Henry Musoke Semakula, George James Wambura, and Labohy Jan. "SWOT Analysis and Challenges of Nile Basin Initiative: An Integrated Water Resource Management Perspective." Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment 8, no. 1 (March 2010): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10042857.2010.10684960.
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İLKBAHAR, Hasan. "Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) In the Context of Water Security." Alternatif Politika 15, no. 3 (July 21, 2023): 550–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.53376/ap.2023.21.
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İklim değişikliği, insanoğlunun karşılaştığı en önemli sorunlardan biri olarak kabul edilmiştir. Bu nedenle iklim değişikliğine yönelik acil çözümler küresel siyaset gündemini meşgul etmiştir. Kyoto Protokolü ve Paris İklim Anlaşması önemli gelişmeler olarak kabul edilmiştir. Bununla birlikte, bölgesel örgütler de iklim değişikliğinin ele alınmasında önemli rol oynamışlardır. Bu bağlamda, 1999’da kurulan Nil Havzası Girişimi (NHG) genellikle bölgedeki adil su paylaşımı, kullanımı ve yönetimi ile ilgilenmiş olsa da, iklim değişikliği ve bunun havzadaki su, gıda ve enerji güvenliği üzerindeki olumsuz etkilerini de gündemine almıştır. Bu nedenle, NHG’nin yeni oluşturulan stratejileri çoğunlukla su güvenliği temelinde iklim değişikliğine uyum ve azaltım konularını içermektedir. Bununla birlikte NHG’nin bu politikalarının yeterince başarılı olmadığı gözlenmiştir. Bu bağlamda çalışma, NHG tarafından yayınlanan politika belgeleri, dokümanlar ve raporlar ile üye devletlerin politikaları üzerinden söz konusu başarısızlığın nedenlerini analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır.
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Ayehu, Getachew, Tsegaye Tadesse, and Berhan Gessesse. "Monitoring Residual Soil Moisture and Its Association to the Long-Term Variability of Rainfall over the Upper Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia." Remote Sensing 12, no. 13 (July 3, 2020): 2138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12132138.
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Monitoring soil moisture and its association with rainfall variability is important to comprehend the hydrological processes and to set proper agricultural water use management to maximize crop growth and productivity. In this study, the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) soil moisture product was applied to assess the dynamics of residual soil moisture in autumn (September to November) and its response to the long-term variability of rainfall in the Upper Blue Nile Basin (UBNB) of Ethiopia from 1992 to 2017. The basin was found to have autumn soil moisture (ASM) ranging from 0.09–0.38 m3/m3, with an average of 0.26 m3/m3. The ASM time series resulted in the coefficient of variation (CV) ranging from 2.8%–28% and classified as low-to-medium variability. In general, the monotonic trend analysis for ASM revealed that the UBNB had experienced a wetting trend for the past 26 years (1992–2017) at a rate of 0.00024 m3/m3 per year. A significant wetting trend ranging from 0.001 to 0.006 m3/m3 per year for the autumn season was found. This trend was mainly showed across the northwest region of the basin and covers about 18% of the total basin area. The spatial patterns and variability of rainfall and ASM were also found to be similar, which implies the strong relationship between rainfall and soil moisture in autumn. The spring and autumn season rainfall explained a considerable portion of ASM in the basin. The analyses also signified that the rainfall amount and distribution impacted by the topography and land cover classes of the basin showed a significant influence on the characteristics of the ASM. Further, the result verified that the behavior of ASM could be controlled by the loss of soil moisture through evapotranspiration and the gain from rainfall, although changes in rainfall were found to be the primary driver of ASM variability over the UBNB.
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Katumba, Daniel Isaac. "Benefits of using diplomatic means of conflict resolution in South Sudan." Kampala International University Interdisciplinary Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (August 17, 2020): 172–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.59568/kijhus-2020-1-2-12.
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The study was conducted in order to establish the benefits of using diplomatic means of conflict resolution in South Sudan. The research was carried out through a cross-sectional and survey research design, and obtained relevant data from 78 respondents. The researcher found out that the use of diplomatic approach in handling political differences has been systematically handled through negotiations and mediated talks. This has enabled the conclusion of peace treaties between the warring factions within the SPLA/M that is SPLA/M and SPLA/M-IO. This has helped to keep the fighting forces. Diplomacy is vital in the promotion and sustenance of good governance, peace and tranquility in the country. The researcher recommended that South Sudan should maintain cordial working relations with regional peace brokers, mainly IGAD, East African Community (EAC), South African Development Community, Nile Basin Initiative and others in order to proliferate regional corporation and peace. This will guarantee peace and stability in the country for future political, social and economic prosperity.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nile Basin Initiative"
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Merrill, John C. "Water management and decisionmaking in the Nile Basin : a case study of the Nile Basin Initiative." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002344.
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Mbaziira, Rashid. "The Nile Basin Initiative : towards a regime of cooperation?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440699.
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Merrill, John C. "Water Management and Decision-Making in the Nile Basin: A Case Study of the Nile Basin Initiative." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/402.
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The management of international waterways presents riparian nations with a challenging set of political, economic, environmental, and geographic difficulties. Historically, the Nile Basin has exemplified many of these problems as witnessed by inter-basin conflict, devastating floods, crippling drought, and unstable political and economic development. Despite their tumultuous past the ten riparian nations of the Nile Basin established a supranational water management institution in 1999, the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), in order to develop collective solutions to their common water related problems. However, serious challenges to the cooperative process threaten to derail the NBI and enflame underlying causes of conflict. This thesis seeks to determine how the NBI has affected water related decision making in the Nile Basin. This will be achieved by examining patterns of decision-making before and after the establishment of the NBI. Specifically, the impact of the NBI will be tested by examining patterns of decision-making within three measures of conflict, namely the allocation of water resources, the sharing of technical data and expertise, and the financing of water related projects and programs.
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Okoth, Simon. "A 'Seat at the Table': Exploring the relationship between pluralist structures and involvement in decision-making—The Case of the Nile Basin Initiative." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1963.
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The goal of this study was to explore the relationship between pluralist structures and involvement in decision-making of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). To establish this relationship the study asked two primary questions: What are the characteristics of power structures of the NBI as they relate to stakeholder involvement in Ethiopia? For those not involved in the decision-making process, what constraints prevent them from getting a ‘seat at the table’?” Two secondary questions were also asked: Do the power structure characteristics in Ethiopia relate to pluralism and, if so, how? To what extent are conditions in Ethiopia compatible with the prerequisites of pluralism? The study focused on one issue-area, the Water Resources Planning and Management Project. Qualitative data were collected primarily from NGOs in Ethiopia during the month of December, 2008. Background information was collected in Entebbe, Uganda, the home to the NBI Secretariat. Data sources included in-depth key informant interviews (n=30), archival, geographical, historical, and scientific accounts. The findings show that 1) the characteristics of power structures of the Nile Basin Initiative in Ethiopia are both pluralistic and elitist; 2) the level of involvement in the Water Resources Planning and Management Project by nongovernmental stakeholders is low; 3) the framework for involvement is limited and restricted to invitations to selected meetings in which the role of the NGOs is that of the observer; 4) political factors are the leading constraints to involvement, followed by lack of capacity of the NGOs and the NBI, structural limitations, and lack of information and awareness. The study concludes that, even though there is consistent theoretical link between pluralist structures and stakeholder involvement, the mere presence of pluralist structures does not guarantee involvement. It all depends on how well those structures function. The findings thus leads this study to hypothesize that the pluralist structures and elite power structures exist side by side, at least in the context of Ethiopia. Through the pluralist structures, organized groups are formally recognized while the elite power structures determine the process and who makes the decisions.
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Abdalla, Iskandar Boctor Christine. "Le développement durable et le droit de l'environnement : La sécurité nationale hydraulique au Moyen-Orient." Thesis, Artois, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ARTO0301/document.
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Le concept de la sécurité nationale hydraulique (SNH) est le résultat de l’évolution du concept dela sécurité d’une sécurité militaire en sécurité multi facettes. La méthode traditionnelle de gestionde cette sécurité nationale hydraulique est une façon non-durable. Cette sécurité nationalehydraulique doit connaître une nouvelle évolution qui prend en compte non seulement les défisquantitatifs et qualificatifs mais aussi les défis environnementaux. Une version durable de cettesécurité nationale hydraulique s’intéresse à l’intérêt commun de tous les riverains des troisfleuves : Nil, Jourdain, Tigre et Euphrate. En outre, le concept du développement durable doitconnaître une évolution hydraulique afin d’atteindre une gestion durable de la sécurité nationalehydrauliqueThe concept of National Hydraulic Security (NHS) is the result of changing the concept ofsecurity from military security to multi-faceted security. The traditional method of managing thisnational hydraulic security is a way hydraulic unsustainable. The National Hydraulic Securityneeds to know a new hydraulic evolution that takes into account not only the qualitatif andquantitatif challenges but also the environmental challenges. A version of this sustainablenational hydraulic security interest to the hydraulic common interests of all riparian countries ofthe three rivers: Nile, Jordan, Tigris and Euphrates. In addition, the concept of SustainableDevelopment must grow significantly to obtain a hydraulic sustainable management of theNational Hydraulic Security
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MORSI, Reem. "The role of the World Bank in the Nile Basin Initiative : potential scenario of successful cooperation." Doctoral thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/39067.
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Initiative, Nile Basin. The Nile Basin Initiative regional bibliography. Entebbe, Uganda: Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat, 2014.
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Initiative, Nile Basin. Bridging the Nile: Unity and growth through the Shared Vision Program. Entebbe, Uganda: Nile Basin Initiative, 2009.
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Initiative, Nile Basin. Tanzania & the Nile Basin Initiative & benefits of cooperation. 2nd ed. Entebbe - Uganda: Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat, 2011.
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Initiative, Nile Basin. Rwanda & the Nile Basin Initiative & benefits of cooperation. 2nd ed. Entebbe - Uganda: Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat, 2011.
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Secretariat, Nile Basin Initiative. Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat: Strategic plan 2012-2016. Entebbe, Uganda: Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat, 2011.
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Secretariat, Nile Basin Initiative. Sudan & the Nile Basin Initiative: Benefits of cooperation. 2nd ed. Entebbe - Uganda: Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat, 2011.
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Initiative, Nile Basin. Securing Nile waters: Delivering nature's benefits for everyone. Entebbe: Nile Basin Initiative, 2010.
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Initiative, Nile Basin. Nile Basin Initiative: Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project (NTEAP) : official launch & inauguration of the Project Management Unit. Khartoum, Sudan: Nile Basin Initiative, 2004.
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Brown, Richard N. Fresh fruits and vegetables: Some characteristics of the U.S. market for nine selected imports, 1975-85. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agriculture and Trade Analysis Division, 1988.
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Karen, Bellenir, ed. Infectious diseases sourcebook: Basic consumer health information about non-contagious bacterial, viral, prion, fungal, and parasitic diseases spread by food and water, insects and animals, or environmental contact, including botulism, E. coli, encephalitis, Legionnaires' disease, Lyme disease, malaria, plague, rabies, salmonella, tetanus, and others, and facts about newly emerging diseases, such as hantavirus, mad cow disease, monkeypox, and West Nile virus, along with information about preventing disease transmission, the threat of bioterrorism, and current research initiatives, with a glossary and directory of resources for more information. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2004.
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Peichert, Henrike. "The Nile Basin Initiative: a Catalyst for Cooperation." In Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 761–74. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55854-2_48.
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Görgün, Haluk. "Turkish Defense Industry, Embargoes, Nationalization Studies and Aselsan." In National Technology Initiative: Social Reflections and Türkiye's Future, 453–64. Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Yayınları, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53478/tuba.978-625-8352-17-7.ch23.
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Türkiye encountered the first embargo targeting the defense industry during the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation. The applied arms embargo has revealed the importance of independence and national production in the supply of defense technologies and the satisfaction of military communication needs in Türkiye more than ever before. As a result of the lessons learned and negative experiences received after the operation, ASELSAN was established to meet the needs of military communications and electronics without depending on any country under the leadership of the Ground Forces Strengthening Foundation to support the domestic and national defense industry. ASELSAN has reached a global size with its original designs developed, more than nine thousand employees as of 2021, companies in which it has shares at home and abroad, thousands of square meters of campuses and exports to 78 countries within 46 years. The sanctions of the countries against Türkiye have continued in the recent past. It is aimed that the sanctions imposed will have an impact on the Turkish defense industry on the basis of systems, subsystems, components, especially in critical technologies. As a result of the sanctions, many countries and companies around the world have acted contrary to contracts in their relations with Turkish defense industry institutions and companies. ASELSAN represents Türkiye in the world with independent defense technologies on many platforms and systems today with its nationalization activities in order to reduce external dependence and supply risks in the defense industry, and it can offer many products that cannot be obtained from outside due to embargoes to its users. ASELSAN carries out nationalization activities in order to increase the proportion of domestic materials in its systems in order to reduce external dependence and supply risks in the defense industry. ASELSAN has reached the level that developed countries in the defense industry, where technology is kept under strict control between countries, have reached with intensive work within a century, within a few decades.
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Omambia, Andrew. "Smart Ideas for Smart City Development." In Digital Solutions and the Case for Africa’s Sustainable Development, 83–96. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2967-6.ch006.
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The concept of smart city is a burgeoning strategy that is fast becoming popular as a strategy that will be able to mitigate the problems emanating from the uncontrolled population growth and urbanization. Academicians have turned their attention to the smart city concept, but an in-depth understanding of the concept is still required. There is a dearth of information on the concept and hence the phenomenon is not well understood. This study, therefore, aims to fill the gap in literature regarding smart cities and propose a framework for grasping the concept further. Based on exploratory studies on the concept of smart cities, this chapter focusses on nine key factors that will form the framework for smart cities and the smart cities initiatives. These nine critical factors include the management, organization governance, technology, people, policy, economy, natural environment, built environment, and the implications of big data on smart cities. These factors provide the basis for the development of an integrative framework that can be employed to examine the manner in which governments around the world, including Kenya, are envisioning smart city initiatives. The framework provides the agendas and directions for smart approaches that can be implemented in cities and a road map for the attainment of smart cities.
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Páscoa, Carlos, José Tribolet, and Miguel Correia. "Cyberlearn." In Exploring Cyber Criminals and Data Privacy Measures, 94–123. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8422-7.ch006.
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Cybersecurity is growing in importance, with recent cyberattacks showing an exceptional level of impact in organizations. This chapter presents a cybersecurity capability building proposal for organizations that the authors designate cybersecurity learning framework (CyberLearn). The chapter discusses cybersec initiatives in Portugal, in the European Union, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the United States of America, introducing the NICE framework as a basis to develop the CyberLearn framework and the concept representation considering functions, roles, and work roles and the knowledge units related to each role area. This framework has been applied in Portugal by Técnico to meet business needs on this domain.
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Simeon, Daphne, and Jeffrey Abugel. "What to Expect when Starting Psychotherapy." In Feeling Unreal, 189–98. 2nd ed. Oxford University PressToronto, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197622445.003.0011.
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Abstract This chapter reviews the steps involved in evaluating patients who may have depersonalization/derealization disorder (DDD), along with basic psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic principles that facilitate the initiation of treatment. Nine topics that often come up at the start of psychotherapy with DDD patients, and are very helpful to address early on, are formulated and discussed. These are labeling and normalization; knowing what depersonalization/derealization (dpdr) is and is not; the question of what “caused” it; addressing the seeming physicality of dpdr symptoms; the sense of loss of control; the fear of passing on dpdr to one’s offspring and pregnancy; symptom monitoring and the use of a diary; dpdr-related obsessions and compulsions; and meaning making, especially in the case of drug-induced dpdr.
Conference papers on the topic "Nile Basin Initiative"
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Jiang, Tingxue, Haitao Wang, Hu Liu, Hua Duan, and Shuangming Li. "The Integrated & Dynamic Geo-Engineering Fracturing Technology for Deep Shale Gas Play in Southeast Sichuan Basin, China." In 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. ARMA, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.56952/arma-2023-0514.
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ABSTRACT There is a large amount of deep shale gas in Sichuan basin, China. However, its complex geological environment leads to inadaptability of fracturing techniques used in middle-deep shale gas play or in North America deep shale gas play. A novel integrated & dynamic geo-engineering fracturing technology is put forward in the paper. In the method, the horizontal wellbore fracability index is evaluated by considering the storage capacity, gas content and fluxility firstly. The characteristics of the fractures initiation and propagation, the proppant dynamic transportation in fractures are analyzed based on geologic characteristics. Then parameters optimization of fracturing treatment is carried out based on geological model to maximize EUR. Several key formation parameters such as horizontal stress difference, rock mechanics parameters, et., can be recovered in real time from the fracturing data and treatment pressure curve. A new post-frac evaluation method is established to evaluate multistage complex fracture network. A modified slick water is developed to coordinate the implementation of integrated & dynamic geoengineering fracturing technology. By adopting above technologies, several deep shale gas wells achieved the yield breakthroughs, a 30% to 50% higher than ever before in comparable adjacent wells. Introduction The deep shale gas resources with TVD （true vertical depth）3500-4500m is rich in China (Wei Z.,2015;Nie HK et al.,2020;Xinhua MA et al.,2020). According to researches (Chenglin Z et al., Baoping LU et al.; Yang L et al.,2020), the deep shale gas resources (TVD>3500m) is accounted for more than 65% of the total shale gas resources. As in the Sichuan basin, the deep shale gas resources is as high as 4612×108m3 (Zhiliang HE et al.,2020;Cao X et al.,2020). Therefore, successful development of the deep shale gas has a great significance to promote the effective use of unconventional gas in China.
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Jalobeanu, Mihai stanislav. "A 43 YEARS HISTORY, PASSING FROM THE GUTENBERG PROJECT INITIATIVE TO THE OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES MOVEMENT ." In eLSE 2014. Editura Universitatii Nationale de Aparare "Carol I", 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-14-298.
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When Michael Hart initiated his ambitious Gutenberg project of computer re-writing essential literature books, in 1971, sure it was very difficult to imagine our today dependency of digital devices and social media. To type on the those time typewriter devices the basic scholarly novels it was a difficult option for a 24 years man, proven a visionary thinking to the people future access. It was ten years before the lunching the IBM PC's, and Internet Protocols, in a time of the firsts text editors... Twenty years before the first World Wide Web real demo ... But Michael Hart succeeded to build a community of volunteers, delivering free the project results, digital books (through floppies, diskettes, tapes, and later on CD-ROM, or DVDs. Gutenberg project arrived as a model for many libraries to save their depots and manuscripts. Networking and Internet services (email and FTP) already gave new solutions for distribution and visibility of Gutenberg project, for access to digital books. For scientists it was another need, the better access to the scientific publications, an easier way to publish their results. Consequently, quite in the same time when CERN accepted to finance the Tim Berners Lee proposal, the firsts signs of a movement for open access publications are registered. As a nice example, PACS Review (Public Access Computer Science Review), at the Houston University, prepared and announced in 1989, with its first 3 numbers in 1990. A journal delivered as ASCII file, by email, later through a Gopher server, and finally-from 1995 on-line, through the Houston University Web server (HTML, or ASCII format). PACS Review publication stops in 2000. Since 1995 a really peer revue, quality, open journal was launched by Cristian Calude, Herman Maurer, Arto Salomaa at Graz University, called JUCS - ,,Journal of Universal Computer Science". A journal with very regular publication till now. There are, of course, a lot of other interesting examples of electronic (digital) open access journals, in different fields. A new step in this evolution was done through the development of the open source tools for the management of such digital journals into the Web server infrastructure. It was done by the initiative and efforts of John Willinsky, through his PKP - Public Knowledge Project - a multi-university initiative developing free open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing. PKP was founded in 1998 at the Education Faculty of UBC, with the aim to improve the research quality. Another important steps necessary to count of are the 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the MIT university decision to publish their course materials, generating the corresponding consortium. As an answer to Budapest Open Access Initiative, it is the developing of an on-line catalog of Open Access Journals - DOAJ (build and maintained by Lars Bjornshauge from 2003 until 2013 at the Lund University, recently moved at Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association - OASPA. Into this catalog there are included now about 10.000 Open Access Journals. Of course that in such a paper it isn't possible to escape the competition, more a less a battle between Online Open-Access journals and traditional ones. As well to discus the issue of fake publishers or publishers not living up to reasonable standards both in terms of content and of business behavior. Does all this Open Access movement change a bit the perspectives concerning the transformation of the teachers role in the "Web 2.0 Era" ?
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Howell, John. "Using Project-Based Education and Interactive Web Resources in Undergraduate Heat Transfer." In ASME 2001 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2001/ts-23416.
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Abstract Two approaches to increasing student retention and interest have been implemented in the undergraduate heat transfer course at The University of Texas at Austin. The first approach, under a Department-wide initiative in Project Based Education, is to assign a semester-long project that requires most of the basic material in the traditional heat transfer course to examine a practical engineering system. Three projects used to date will be briefly discussed. Second, a series of web-accessible interactive modules has been constructed. The objective is to develop intuitive understanding of phenomena generally taught in the undergraduate heat transfer course. These modules allow students to vary the important aspects of a problem and immediately see the result. For example, one module demonstrates the characteristics of fins added to a surface to improve heat loss. Envision the handle on a frying pan; the student can vary the handle material, the cooling of the handle by increasing air flow velocity over it, etc. and see the temperature that results along the handle length. Such effects are difficult to show with chalk and talk. The instructor may also use the modules in class with computer projection to demonstrate these effects. Nine modules have been developed to date. These demonstrate heat transfer by conduction through planar and cylindrical walls; heat transfer from materials with internal energy generation; fins; conduction in two-dimensional systems (under development); transient conduction in semi-infinite and finite-width slabs; convective heat transfer in flow over flat plates; convective heat transfer for flow in pipes; heat exchangers; and radiation in rectangular enclosures. Modules are programmed in JAVA for interactive use using any browser (Netscape or Explorer), and do not require a particular platform.
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Gurian, Jordana Gaudie, Maria Ondina Machado Diniz, Amanda Nascimento Bispo, Aline Boaventura Ferreira, Fernando Elias Borges, and Marco Túlio Araújo Pedatella. "Case report: ischemic stroke in a young woman." In XIV Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.141s1.344.
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Introduction: Ischemic stroke is responsible for about 62% of all stroke cases. The lifetime risk of having a stroke is approximately 25%. Worldwide, stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability. The causes are diverse, and the etiology must always be investigated in order to initiate specific treatment and adequate prophylaxis. Objectives: To report a case of ischemic stroke in a young woman after bronchoscopy with endotracheal tube replacement on an elective basis. Methods: Information was obtained through clinical follow-up in a neurology ward. Results: Patient, female, 27 years old, married, brown, with a history of polytrauma in 2015, after a bicycle accident, with the need for hospitalization in the intensive care unit, remaining intubated for nine days. Neurosurgical intervention was not necessary. The patient was discharged without any device, remaining functional, but two months later, she evolved with dyspnea, being diagnosed with tracheal stenosis, thus, a tracheostomy was necessary. In an outpatient routine, she was hospitalized for endotracheal tube replacement in October 2022. In the immediate postoperative period, she presented desaturation, requiring orotracheal intubation, sedation and breathing on mechanical ventilation. As she woke up weakly after ceasing sedation, a neurological investigation was initiated, being diagnosed with multiple areas of ischemic infarcts and identifying patent foramen ovale (PFO), moderate-grade paradoxical transseptal shunt as the most likely cause of the ischemic stroke. Conclusion: Young patient with PFO submitted to mechanical ventilation, after an elective procedure, evolving with worsening of the right-to-left shunt, resulting in ischemic stroke with a high degree of disability.
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Schrage, Daniel, and Srujal Patel. "Vertical Lift Aircraft Design through the Georgia Tech Integrated Product and Process Development Approach For Over the Past 30 Years." In Vertical Flight Society 75th Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0075-2019-14732.
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If you have considerable experience from industry and government in developing complex systems, one thing nice about being a Professor at a leading technical university is being able to help implement improvements in the education and development of complex systems, especially Vertical Lift Aircraft (VLA) systems. This is particularly true if you have the opportunity to participate as a member of major national efforts to implement improvements; as well as if you have the opportunity to serve on independent "red teams" reviewing industry proposals for complex system development. Fortunately, I have had these opportunities in my 35 years as the rotorcraft design professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech and as the Director for the Georgia Tech national Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) for the past 33 years. The particular area I have pursued is development and implementation of an Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) methodology that has evolved from the Quality Engineering Revolution of the early 1990s. This IPPD methodology has served as the basis for the Georgia Tech Graduate Program in Aerospace Systems Design, which has become the largest of its kind in the world. It also has served as a research foundation area for a number of PhD student theses. It has also been used to support major DoD initiatives, such as the Concept Development and System Engineering Phase for the Army’s Future Combat Systems, the Air Force-Navy Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) Independent Assessment and the front end decision process for the Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Program. A wake up call for the use of IPPD was given in the author’s 1999 AHS Nikolsky Lecture (Ref.1), although I don't believe that the VLA government and industry have really responded. This paper will start with an overview of the Quality Engineering Revolution and the emphasis on use of IPPD and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs). Some examples of IPPD use at Georgia Tech for aircraft design and on major programs will then be provided. It will end with another call for its use on forthcoming VLA programs.
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Davis, John C., Mike Jones, and John Roderique. "Planning for Greater Levels of Diversion That Including Energy Recovery for the Mojave Desert and Mountain Recycling Authority, California Region." In 17th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec17-2342.
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The Mojave Desert and Mountain Recycling Authority is a California Joint Powers Authority (the JPA), consisting of nine communities in California’s San Bernardino County high desert and mountain region. In August 2008 the JPA contracted with Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) to prepare the Victor Valley Resource Management Strategy (Resource Management Strategy). Working with RRT Design and Construction, Inc. (RRT), GBB prepared a coordinated forward-looking strategy to guide the JPA’s future program and facilities decisions. The Resource Management Strategy focused on the Town of Apple Valley, population 70,092, and the City of Victorville, population 107,408, the two largest JPA member communities, which have a combined total of more than 130,000 tons per year of material entering the JPA’s recycling system and the Victorville Landfill. The Resource Management Strategy is underpinned by a characterization of waste loads delivered to the Victorville Landfill. A visual characterization was carried out by RRT in September/October 2008. RRT engineers identified proportions of materials recoverable for recycling and composting among all loads collected from residential and non-residential generators for a full week, nearly 300 loads total. The JPA financed and manages the operations contract for the highly automated Victor Valley Material Recovery Facility (MRF). The MRF today receives and processes an average of 130 tons per day (tpd), five days per week, of single stream paper and containers and recyclable-rich commercial waste loads. The waste characterization indicated that as much as 80 percent of loads of residential and commercial waste currently landfilled could be processed for recycling and composting in a combination manual and automated sorting facility. Residue from the MRF, which is predominated by paper, would provide potential feedstock for an energy recovery project; however, the JPA has two strategies regarding process residue. The first strategy is to reduce residue rates from existing deliveries, to optimize MRF operations. An assessment of the MRF conducted by RRT indicated that residue rates could be reduced, although this material would continue to be rich in combustible materials. The second strategy is to increase recovery for recycling by expanding the recyclable-rich and organics-dense waste load deliveries to the MRF and/or a composting facility. The Resource Management Strategy provided a conceptual design and cost that identified projected capital and operations costs that would be incurred to expand the MRF processing system for the program expansion. Based on the waste composition analysis, residue from a proposed system was estimated. This residue also would be rich in combustible materials. The December 2008 California Scoping Plan is the roadmap for statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts. The Scoping Plan specifically calls out mandatory commercial recycling, expanded organics composting (particularly food residue), and inclusion of anaerobic digestion as renewable energy. The Resource Management Strategy sets the stage for JPA programs to address Scoping Plan mandates and priorities. California Public Resources Code Section 40051(b) requires that communities: Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal. For wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled, or composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of those practices. Moreover, Section 41783(b) only allows transformation diversion credit (10 percent of the 50 percent required) if: The transformation project uses front-end methods or programs to remove all recyclable materials from the waste stream prior to transformation to the maximum extent feasible. Finally, prior to permitting a new transformation facility the California Integrated Waste Management Board is governed by Section 41783(d), which requires that CIWMB: “Hold a public hearing in the city, county, or regional agency jurisdiction within which the transformation project is proposed, and, after the public hearing, the board makes both of the following findings, based upon substantial evidence on the record: (1) The city, county, or regional agency is, and will continue to be, effectively implementing all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting measures. (2) The transformation project will not adversely affect public health and safety or the environment.” The Resource Management Strategy assessed two cement manufacturers located in the high desert region for their potential to replace coal fuel with residue from the MRF and potentially from other waste quantities generated in the region. Cement kilns are large consumers of fossil fuels, operate on a continuous basis, and collectively are California’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Resource Management Strategy also identified further processing requirements for size reduction and screening to remove non-combustible materials and produce a feasible refuse derived fuel (RDF). A conceptual design system to process residue and supply RDF to a cement kiln was developed, as were estimated capital and operating costs to implement the RDF production system. The Resource Management Strategy addressed the PRC requirement that “all feasible source reduction, recycling and composting measures” are implemented prior to approving any new “transformation” facility. This planning effort also provided a basis for greenhouse gas reduction analysis, consistent with statewide initiatives to reduce landfill disposal. This paper will report on the results of this planning and the decisions made by the JPA, brought current to the time of the conference.
Reports on the topic "Nile Basin Initiative"
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Atkinson, E. A. Regional mapping and qualitative petroleum resource assessment of the Magdalen Basin, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Natural Resources Canada/CMSS/Information Management, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/331452.
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The Geological Survey of Canada conducted a broad regional study of the Magdalen Basin in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of the Marine Conservation Targets initiative. MCT is a national initiative to protect more of Canada's offshore areas, and resource assessment and related regional mapping are part of the review process. This study assembled a large seismic and geologic database that allowed new regional mapping of several key horizons in this basin. Digital seismic data was donated by industry, and reprocessing undertaken both in-house and with contractors. Wells were correlated and tops from literature were used to indentify regional reflection packages. Regionally consistent two-way time interpretations add to confidence. Depth conversion used regional time-depth functions from literature, which were developed from refraction data, with a residual correction for the water column. Nine regional depth maps and eight isopach maps were produced, including Pre-Horton Basement, Horton Group Isopach, Base Windsor Group, Top Salt, Top Bradelle Formation, Bradelle / Cumberland Isopach, and Top Cable Head Formation. These maps illustrate that the Pre-Horton basement is about 15 km deep in the centre of the basin. Two main trends are visible in the Horton Grabens, which may relate to basin formation, and no significant reactivation of deeper Appalachian structure is observed. In the basin centre, the more robust Base Windsor Unconformity horizon reaches about 12 km deep, and a key reservoir and source sequence in the Bradelle Formation reaches 7 km. These maps are useful for considering regional stratigraphy. The new mapping also constrained basin models and became the input for our Qualitative Petroleum Potential map. Basin modelling reveals scenarios where oil may be preserved. The petroleum potential of the region is highest north of Îles de la Madeleine and southeast of Îles de la Madeleine and northwest of Cape Breton.
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Fact sheet of the international experiences on the formulation and implementation of transboundary climate change adaptation strategies. Vientiane, Lao PDR: Mekong River Commission Secretariat, January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.52107/mrc.ajg7v3.
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The fact sheet provides an overview of international experiences on the formulation and implementation of transboundary climate change adaptation strategies, including for the Amazon region, ASEAN, Danube River Basin, Neman River Basin, Nile Basin Initiative, and Rhine River Basin.