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Status of Geothermal Exploration in Kenya and Future Plans for Its Development
TL;DR: In order to meet the anticipated growth in demand, The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has embarked on an ambitious generation expansion plan to install additional 1,260 MW of electric power by 2018 from geothermal sources as discussed by the authors.
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First direct measurement of the spatial coherence of sunlight
TL;DR: This work reports the first direct measurement of the spatial coherence of solar beam radiation, achieved with a customized tabletop cyclic-shearing interferometer, with promising ramifications for solar aperture antennas.
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Exploring the agency of global environmental consultancy firms in earth system governance
TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory study on global environmental consultancy firms is guided by the basic research questions on agency in earth system governance: What is agency? How do actors acquire authority and become agents? How can we evaluate the effects these agents generate?
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Explicitly correlated benchmark calculations on C8H8 isomer energy separations: how accurate are DFT, double-hybrid, and composite ab initio procedures?
Amir Karton,Jan M. L. Martin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a set of 45 C8H8 isomers are obtained by means of the high-level, ab initio W1-F12 thermochemical protocol, and performance of a variety of DFT functionals for the isomerization energies is evaluated.
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Ecological implications of heavy metal concentrations in the sediments of Burullus Lagoon of Nile Delta, Egypt
TL;DR: In this article, the spatial and temporal distribution of heavy metals (Fe, Al, Cu, Zn, Mn, Cd, Pb and Ni) from three short sediment cores collected from Burullus lagoon of the Nile delta, Egypt.
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Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social
John A. Maluccio,Rafael Flores +1 more
TL;DR: The impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program was performed by the Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) as discussed by the authors, which evaluated the effectiveness of the program.
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The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research
TL;DR: The advantages and disadvantages of experiments in comparison with other research techniques are examined and the circumstances where randomized trials should be preferred over other methods are described.
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An evaluation of the impact of progresa on pre-school child height
Jere R. Behrman,John Hoddinott +1 more
TL;DR: One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico as mentioned in this paper, which has been shown to have a substantial effect on lifetime productivities and earnings of currently small children.
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Progressing through progresa: an impact assessment of a school subsidy experiment
TL;DR: The authors used a Markov schooling transition model applied to the experimental data to assess the impact of the educational subsidy program along several dimensions, including effects on initial ages of school entry, dropout rates, grade repetition rates, and school reentry rates.
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A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
TL;DR: Conditional cash transfer as discussed by the authors is a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance, that represents an innovative, and increasingly popular channel for the delivery of social services that represents a demand-side complement to the supply of health, and education services.