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'The BEBC should pressure the governments in the sub-region to have special rates on landing rights,' he said.

The technocratic capacity embodied in the BEBC is similarly weak, having just a small office in Kota Kinabalu that operates on a very small budget, a rotating presidency (hence lacking continuity of leadership), member chambers which represent mostly SMEs rather than big business, and the lack of engagement with several important chambers or associations from the sub-region such as the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Bubble chambers were divided into two categories (hydrogen and heavy liquid bubble chambers); the former ones (like the "80 cm" BEBC, 15-foot Flab, Argonne 30 inches, etc.) had the advantage that the target was well defined and static; the latter ones (Gargamelle, BP3, 15-foot Bubble Chamber, SKAT, etc.) had a bigger stopping power and were particularly suited to identify the nature of the secondary produced particles like electrons, gamma rays, and pions and kaons decays.

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