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Assessing Microfinance for Water and Sanitation: Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Scaling Up
The objective of this study, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is to assess the potential market for using microfinance in the water and sanitation sector, and to identify specific opportunities for potential learning, investment, and support. This report focuses on these opportunities and suggests measures that are needed for sustainable scaling up, which can be supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other development institutions
The BCS-BEC Crossover
This chapter presents the crossover from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS)
state of weakly-correlated pairs of fermions to the Bose-Einstein condensation
(BEC) of diatomic molecules in the atomic Fermi gas. Our aim is to provide a
pedagogical review of the BCS-BEC crossover, with an emphasis on the basic
concepts, particularly those that are not generally known or are difficult to
find in the literature. We shall not attempt to give an exhaustive survey of
current research in the limited space here; where possible, we will direct the
reader to more extensive reviews.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures. This article will be published as Chapter 9 in
"Quantum gas experiments - exploring many-body states", edited by P. Torma
and K. Sengstock, Imperial College Press, London, to be published 201
North Americaâs Uphill Battle on Climate Change and Its Implications for the North American Trading System
Freihandelszone; AuĂenhandel; KlimaverĂ€nderung; Nordamerika
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