Access to energy is among the key pillars to socioeconomic and improved life style.The East African Community (EAC) countries, also members of sub-Saharan Africa, are among countries with enough energy resources but still struggling with low electricity access, and the lower proportion of citizens with electricity access challenges such as expensiv
U-Pb geochronology of large detrital zircons populations is a powerful tool for interpreting sandstone provenance.Here, it is applied to three Middle Cambrian sandstones from the Precordillera of Argentina with the purpose of using the provenance interpretations to test paleogeographic and paleotectonic models proposed for the Cuyania or Precordill
BACKGROUND:Nearly all newly infected children acquire Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) via mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) during pregnancy, labour or breastfeeding from untreated HIV-positive mothers.Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the standard care for pregnant women with HIV.However, evidence of ART effectiveness and harms in infants and c
The horizontal wave pressure on the front wall of the caisson protected by armor blocks on the rubble-mounted core is investigated by carrying out physical experiments.There have been few previous studies regarding this type of structure, and the characteristics of horizontal wave pressure on the structure are still unclear.Considering this, a seri