REFUGEE AND DISPLACED WOMEN: 60 YEARS OF PROGRESS AND SETBACKS

Refugee and displaced women: 60 years of progress and setbacks

<p>2011 marks the anniversary of two important events in refugee protection.In 1951, the United Nations adopted the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.Forty years later, in 1991, the Executive Committee of the Office of the Merchandising UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) adopted Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Wo

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Heat Transfer Characteristics and Optimization of a Porous Radiant Air Heater, Using DOM, under the Influence of 2-D Rectangular Radiative Field

This work presents the heat transfer characteristics of a new type of porous radiant air heater that operates on the basis of effective energy conversion method between flowing gas enthalpy and thermal radiation.At each layer, the gas and solid phases are considered in non-local thermal equilibrium, and combustion in the porous radiant burner is mo

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Recent Advances in DSP Techniques for Mode Division Multiplexing Optical Networks with MIMO Equalization: A Review

This paper provides a technical review regarding the latest progress on multi-input multi-output (MIMO) digital signal processing (DSP) equalization techniques for high-capacity fiber-optic communication networks.Space division multiplexing (SDM) technology was initially developed to improve the demanding capacity of optic-interconnect links throug

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