The Fishermen’s Village: A Case Study of a Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services Project in Bago Aplaya, Talomo, Davao City

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in Development (ESIA/WID) and the Food Systems Program of the East-West Center Resource Systems Institute (RSI). It deals with the Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services (BLISS) project and assesses whether it has lifted the quality of life of the intended beneficiaries. It also hopes to aid planners in improving and modifying strategies towards a greater success.social safety net programs, health sector, social services, livelihood projects

The Fishermen’s Village: A Case Study of a Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services Project in Bago Aplaya, Talomo, Davao City

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in Development (ESIA/WID) and the Food Systems Program of the East-West Center Resource Systems Institute (RSI). It deals with the Bagong Lipunan Improvement of Sites and Services (BLISS) project and assesses whether it has lifted the quality of life of the intended beneficiaries. It also hopes to aid planners in improving and modifying strategies towards a greater success.social safety net programs, health sector, social services, livelihood projects

Evaluation of Nimbus 1 High Resolution Infrared Radiometer /HRIR/ Imagery

Earth terrain and geology analyses using high resolution infrared radiometry from Nimbus satellit

Ricci-flat and Einstein pseudoriemannian nilmanifolds

This is partly an expository paper, where the authors' work on pseudoriemannian Einstein metrics on nilpotent Lie groups is reviewed. A new criterion is given for the existence of a diagonal Einstein metric on a nice nilpotent Lie group. Classifications of special classes of Ricci-flat metrics on nilpotent Lie groups of dimension $\leq8$ are obtained. Some related open questions are presented.Comment: 30 pages, 1 figure. v2: added a comment on a recent example of an Einstein nilpotent Lie algebra of dimension 7; added a remark and a question concerning the characteristically nilpotent case; replaced the "\sigma-compatible" condition with the more general "\sigma-diagonal"; added 3 reference

A recursive-faulting model of distributed damage in confined brittle materials

We develop a model of distributed damage in brittle materials deforming in triaxial compression based on the explicit construction of special microstructures obtained by recursive faulting. The model aims to predict the effective or macroscopic behavior of the material from its elastic and fracture properties; and to predict the microstructures underlying the microscopic behavior. The model accounts for the elasticity of the matrix, fault nucleation and the cohesive and frictional behavior of the faults. We analyze the resulting quasistatic boundary value problem and determine the relaxation of the potential energy, which describes the macroscopic material behavior averaged over all possible fine-scale structures. Finally, we present numerical calculations of the dynamic multi-axial compression experiments on sintered aluminum nitride of Chen and Ravichandran [1994. Dynamic compressive behavior of ceramics under lateral confinement. J. Phys. IV 4, 177–182; 1996a. Static and dynamic compressive behavior of aluminum nitride under moderate confinement. J. Am. Soc. Ceramics 79(3), 579–584; 1996b. An experimental technique for imposing dynamic multiaxial compression with mechanical confinement. Exp. Mech. 36(2), 155–158; 2000. Failure mode transition in ceramics under dynamic multiaxial compression. Int. J. Fracture 101, 141–159]. The model correctly predicts the general trends regarding the observed damage patterns; and the brittle-to-ductile transition resulting under increasing confinement