Conflicts between national and local governments over land use in floodplains have been well documented in the US and elsewhere.The US National Flood Insurance Program offers subsidized flood insurance to communities that agree to prevent further development in floodplains, but the requirements are poorly enforced and local governments are commonly

Background: Pregnant women inhabiting urban slums are a "high risk" group with limited access to health facilities.Hazardous maternal health practices are rampant in slum areas.Barriers to utilization of health services are well documented.Slums in the same city may differ from one another in their health indicators and service utilization rates.Th

A luxurious set of spinning implements was discovered as part of the furnishings in the grave of a woman, unearthed in the surroundings of ancient Viminacium.A unique amber distaff with the upper part modelled in the form of a female bust stands out as the most important part of the grave assemblage.Similar artefacts were often misinterpreted, but

Abstract Cylindrical braneworlds have been used in the literature as a convenient way to resolve click here co-dimension-two branes.They are prevented from collapsing by a massless worldvolume field with non-trivial winding, but here we discuss another way of preventing collapse, which is to rotate the brane.We use a simple microscopic field theory