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Measuring African Development : Past and Present
The chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region, Shanta Devarajan, delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article "Africa's Statistical Tragedy". Is there a "statistical tragedy" unfolding in Africa now? If so, it becomes important to examine the roots of the problem as far as the provision of statistics in poor economies is c
Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World by Lena Jayyusi and Anne Sofie Roald
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A film on identity & hydropolitics in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. Majdal Shams is a Syrian village in the Golan Heights, a water rich plateau located between Israel and Syria. The Syrian citizens of Majdal Shams and four other villages have been under Israeli occupation since the October war in 1973. After 40 years their on-going resistance is in the form of refusing Israeli citizenshi
The ignored role of civil society in the Syrian War
Prosthetic and Orthotic Rehabilitation Service in Madagascar - the Staff´s Experience at two Rehabilitation Centres
BACKGROUND Madagascar is the fourth biggest island and one of the poorest countries in the world, with more than 75 % of the 24 million inhabitants living under poverty line. The health care system in the country is under development, as well as the field of rehabilitation services and the area of prosthetic and orthotic services in specific. There is very limited published research concerning reh
Implication of Manufacturing Errors on the Layout of Stabilization System and on the Field Quality in a Drift Tube Linac - RF DTL Error Study
The field flatness and the layout of the stabilization system in a drift tube linac are strongly dependent on the manufacturing errors that affect the local resonant frequency. In this paper a methodology is presented to study, firstly, the sensitivityof the resonant frequency and of the field flatness to each geometrical parameter of the drift tubes; then a set of tolerances for each parameter is
Evidence based policy or policy based evidence? : Supply and demand for data in a donor-dominant world
The Wealth and Poverty of African States : Economic growth, living standards and taxation in Africa since the Nineteenth Century
Global standards and local measures : A comment on “Indicators and the Problem of Translation: Measuring Child Rights in Tanzania”
Kan Trump lösa Israel–Palestina-konflikten?
Trace elements in patients on continuous renal replacement therapy
Purpose: Intensive care patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) are at great risk for disturbances in plasma levels of trace elements due to the underlying illness, AKI, and dialysis. This study was performed to increase our knowledge regarding eight different trace elements during CRRT. Methods: Thirty one stable patients with AKI, treated
Rehabilitation of Historical Qanats in Syria and Iraq
Digital anthropological fieldwork; investigating the role of digital video in the Syrian uprisings
“”- abstract accepted for the March 15-16, 2016.
We used to be killed in the dark, now we are killed in the light; videos of violence in Syria
War, memories and Little Waterfall; a Syrian village that is no more
The use of YouTube videos documenting human rights atrocities in Syria for future war crime tribunals
Angeläget om brutala krigsövergrepp
Recension av Miriam Gebhardt, När soldaterna kom. Våldtäkterna mot tyska kvinnor vid andra världskrigets slut.