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Conflicts and governance over local waters: A case-study in Kiru Valley, Tanzania

The availability of water is decreasing around the world and we are facing a global water crisis.This water crisis, however, is not only a consequence of decreasing waters or population increase; it is also a consequence of ineffective water governance.The difficulty to cooperate over borders and between different stakeholders and interests are the main obstacle.

Advanced Content In State E-Government: Criteria for Evaluation

This study analyzes the use of five types of advanced content in state e-government: audio and video content, RSS feeds, podcasts, blogs, and participative services. State government portals and governors’ websites were reviewed to determine if and how they implemented any of the five evaluation criteria.

Fast Solvers for Models of Fluid Flow with Spectral Elements

We introduce a preconditioning technique based on Domain Decomposition and the Fast Diagonalization Method that can be applied to tensor product based discretizations of the steady convection-diffusion and the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. The method is based on iterative substructuring where fast diagonalization is used to efficiently eliminate the interior degrees of freedom and subsidiary subdomain solves.