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Local Development Planning and Budgeting in Decentralized Indonesia : Missing Links in the Bottom-up Approach
This paper focuses on the workings of Indonesia\u27s local development planning and budgeting mechanisms after decentralization, where citizen participation becomes a central theme for all stakeholders including policy makers. If real local needs are to be articulated, bottom-up mechanisms needs to be strengthened through its institutionalization in local government structures. At the same time, it can not be overlooked that effective and efficient local planning and budgeting in decentralized administration structure much requires good coordination between higher and lower levels of government (vertical linkages), and between neighboring local governments (horizontal linkages). Indonesia needs to make the best strategic use of matching or earmarked grant to link development plans and budgets at all levels of government. For horizontal linkage, role of provincial governments need to be enhanced to set up a formal coordination system
Aerodynamic investigation of an air-cooled axial-flow turbine. Part 2: Rotor blade tip-clearance effects on overall turbine performance and internal gas flow conditions: Experimental results and prediction methods
Total turbine blade performance was investigated while changing the blade tip clearance in three ways. The internal flow at the moving blade outlet point was measured. Experimental results were compared with various theoretical methods. Increased blade clearance leads to decreased turbine efficiency
Pupillometry, a bioengineering overview
The pupillary control system is examined using a microprocessor based integrative pupillometer. The real time software functions of the microprocessor include: data collection, stimulus generation and area to diameter conversion. Results of an analysis of linear and nonlinear phenomena are presented
Proceedings of the Meeting and the workshop "Algebraic Geometry and Hodge Theory" Vol.I
Meeting:August23-28, 1989, Hokkaido University Workshop:November 28-December 1,1989,Kochi Universit
Simulation of electromagnetically and magnetically induced transparency in a magnetized plasma
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), a phenomenon well known in atomic systems, has a natural analogy in a classical magnetized plasma. The magnetized plasma has a resonance for right-hand polarized electromagnetic waves at the electron cyclotron frequency Omega(0), so that a probe wave with frequency omega(1) = Omega(0) cannot propagate through the plasma. The plasma can be made transparent to such a probe by the presence of a pump wave. The pump may be an electromagnetic wave or magnetostatic wiggler. Simulations and theory show that the physical reason for the transparency is that the beating of the probe wave with the pump wave sets up a plasma oscillation, and the upper sideband of the pump wave cancels the resonant plasma current due to the probe. The theory of plasma EIT derived here extends that found in the earlier work to include the effects of the lower sideband of the pump and renormalization of the plasma frequency and an analysis of the transient response. A detailed comparison of theory to one-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations is presented and estimates for the performance ion accelerator using the EIT interaction are given. The dispersion relation and estimates for the phase velocity and amplitude of the plasma wave are in good agreement with particle-in-cell simulations.open151
Sodium 4-phenylbutylate protects against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury by reducing unfolded protein response-mediated apoptosis in mice
Proceedings of the Meeting and the workshop "Algebraic Geometru and Hodge Theory" Vol.II
Meeting:Augusy 23-28, Hokkaido Univetsity Workshop:November 28-December 1, 1989, Kochi Universit
Appearance of superconductivity in new BiS2 based layered LaO0.5F0.5BiS2
We report here synthesis, structural, DC magnetization, and transport studies
of new BiS2 based layered LaO0.5F0.5BiS2 superconductor [1]. The sample was
synthesized by conventional solid state route via vacuum encapsulation
technique at 800oC for 12h. LaO0.5F0.5BiS2 crystallizes in tetragonal P4/nmm
space group with lattice parameters a = 4.0703(5){\AA}, c = 13.3902(4){\AA}.
Bulk superconductivity is confirmed with superconducting transition temperature
(Tc) of 2.7K by DC magnetization measurements. The Isothermal magnetization
(MH) measurements showed closed loops with clear signatures of flux pinning and
irreversible behavior. The resistivity measurements confirmed an onset Tc of
2.7K. The magneto-transport {\rho}(T,H) measurements showed a resistive
broadening and decrease in Tc ({\rho}=0) to lower temperatures with increasing
magnetic field. The magnetic phase diagram involving upper critical and
irreversibility fields as a function of temperature has been ascertained. Our
DC magnetization and electrical transport measurements confirm the appearance
of bulk superconductivity in LaO0.5F0.5BiS2 superconductor.Comment: 11 pages figures + Text: First observation/approval of LaO/FBiS2
superconductivity: comments/suggestions: [email protected]
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