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Madagascar: Programs
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Madagascar is a test-driven package. Test-driven development is not only an agile software programming practice but ... a way of bringing scientific foundation to geophysical research that involves numerical experiments. Bringing reproducibility and peer review, the backbone of any real science, to the field of computational geophysics is the main motivation for Madagascar development. The package consists of two levels: low-level main programs (typically developed in the C programming language and working as data filters) and high-level processing flows (described with the help of the Python programming language) that combine main programs and completely document data processing histories for testing and reproducibility. Experience shows that high-level programming is easily mastered even by beginning students that have no previous programming experience.
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All activities in Madagascar are coordinated by Chris Birkinshaw and Fidy Ratovoson and all work in conducted in collaboration with the Centre National d'Applications et des Rescherches Pharmaceuticques (CNARP). Typically the fieldwork team is composed of one botanist from MBG, two botanists from CNARP, and one botanist and one guide from Conservation International. Associate Program 1 of the ICBG has two main responsibilities in Madagascar:
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MCC and Madagascar have designed a rigorous budget and control system to ensure fiscal accountability. Funds control for the MCA Program will be managed by a separate fiscal agent identified using a competitive process. Madagascar's recently written procurement law will be the basis for governing procurements in the Compact. Disbursements will be made periodically based on performance, projected cash requirements, and compliance with provisions in the Compact and related documents.
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National Park (RNP), a larege area of primary rain forest in southeastern Madagascar, was established in 1991. Dr. Patricia Wright, ICTE Director and Study Abroad Program, paved the way for the Park's creation by the discovery of a previously unknown primate, the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), in 1986.
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The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) grant to Madagascar will support a program designed to raise incomes by bringing the rural population from subsistence agriculture to a market economy. The program includes three projects that will work together to help rural Malagasy secure formal property rights to land, access credit and protect savings, and receive training in agricultural production, management and marketing techniques. This integrated three-pronged approach will provide the rural population with the necessary conditions to use the land productively, to build profitable businesses and help ensure environmental sustainability.
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There are two medical schools in Madagascar - one in Antananarivo and one in Mahajunga. Together, they graduate 250 physicians each year. There is no shortage of physicians, but there is a lack of supplies, equipment and other support services. The University of Antananarivo sponsors postgraduate training programs in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery, Gynecology, Pulmonary Medicine and Anesthesia.
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