ENGENDERING CHANGE WITHIN A WATER INFRASTRUCTURE CLIENT ORGANISATION: A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH

Engendering Change within a Water Infrastructure Client Organisation: A Participatory Action Research Approach

Continuing demands by stakeholders for improved service delivery has caused Infrastructure Client Organisations (ICO) in the UK to embark upon organisational restructuring.It is expected that such restructuring would enhance cost-effectiveness and quality in asset management and service delivery.However, this change, if not properly managed and sus

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Recycling of Cellulosic Waste in the Energy Sector

Biomass is Spatulas one of the Earth’s most abundant and precious resources.It offers not only food but also energy, materials used for construction, chemicals and much more.Biomass has always been used for generating energy since fire was discovered.The term of biomass covers a wide range of products, derived products and waste obtained from

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Early warning and predicting of COVID-19 using zero-inflated negative binomial regression model and negative binomial regression model

Abstract Background It is difficult to detect the outbreak of emergency infectious disease based on the exiting surveillance system.Here we investigate the utility of the Baidu Search Index, an indicator of how large of a keyword is in Baidu’s search volume, in the early warning and predicting the epidemic trend of COVID-19.Methods The daily numb

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Achieving high thermal conductivity of Al–50Si alloy through heat treatment and its microstructural evolution

Al–50Si alloys were prepared by powder extrusion and characterized for electronic packaging.The optimization of powder size, extrusion temperature, and heat treatment parameters was performed to enhance the microstructure and thermo-physical properties.The alloy exhibits a high relative density >99 %, a low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE)

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