Models for supporting forest management in a changing environment

Supporting Autonomy for Information Systems in a Changing Environment

In the development of information systems, object-oriented speciication (e.g. Troll 4]) is useful for conceptually modeling of the universe of discourse. Viewing an information system as a collection of communicating objects is close to the intuitive perception of such systems on a conceptual level. Nowadays complex information systems (e.g. knowledge bases) have to be exible to accommodate for...

Quality Management in a Changing Organizational Environment

a new approach to credibility premium for zero-inflated poisson models for panel data

هدف اصلی از این تحقیق به دست آوردن و مقایسه حق بیمه باورمندی در مدل های شمارشی گزارش نشده برای داده های طولی می باشد. در این تحقیق حق بیمه های پبش گویی بر اساس توابع ضرر مربع خطا و نمایی محاسبه شده و با هم مقایسه می شود. تمایل به گرفتن پاداش و جایزه یکی از دلایل مهم برای گزارش ندادن تصادفات می باشد و افراد برای استفاده از تخفیف اغلب از گزارش تصادفات با هزینه پائین خودداری می کنند، در این تحقیق ...

Potato Early Dying: Management Challenges in a Changing Production Environment

The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) had its start in the Andean highlands of South America, where archeological evidence indicates it has been cultivated for at least 8,000 years (72). Today it is grown on all continents except Antarctica. Serving as a primary food source to indigenous people when the Spanish explorers arrived in Peru in the mid-1500s, the potato traveled the globe as a valuable ...

Forest management scenarios in a changing climate: trade-offs between carbon, timber, and old forest.

Balancing economic, ecological, and social values has long been a challenge in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, where conflict over timber harvest and old-growth habitat on public lands has been contentious for the past several decades. The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted two decades ago to guide management on federal lands, is currently being revised as the region searches for a balance be...