Grid technologies enable the sharing of a wide variety of distributed resources. To utilize these resources, effective Resource Management systems are needed. Resource Management system performs resource discovery to obtain information about the available resources. However, the complex and dynamic nature of grid resources make sharing and discovery, a challenging issue. Resource Discovery is i...

visitor management is considered important for the sustainable development of protected areas as the presence of visitors may cause negative impacts on wildlife and vegetation. within this framework, visitor impacts and perceptions are considered critical for decision-making and planning of future management regimes. this paper resumes opinions of visitors of the valley of butterflies in rhode...

Due to the high costs and strategic importance of expatriate assignments, performance management (EPM) plays an increasingly important role for multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, research on EPM is still in its infancy. Drawing from convergence/divergence debate international human resource management, this study investigates compares strategies practices across MNEs three different cou...

The prevailing systems for decision-making in many countries tend to separate environmental factors at the policy, planning and management levels, a practice that has important implications for sustainable development. Among many methods, at different decision-making levels, environmental planning and environmental assessment are currently the most widely used in China. This article briefly int...

in recent years, wildlife habitat needs to meet critical requirment (water, food, cover and reproduction sites) on the one hand, and human needs to natural lands for developing agricultural, industrial and residential activities on the other hand, have lead to the serious human-wildlife conflicts. attacks of wolves to human and livestock in hamedan province is an example of these conflicts. dev...

more than 1.5 million people live in the kathmandu valley. the valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. at the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. to address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of nepal has proposed a project of inter- basin transfer of water from melamchi river located 40 km north-east of the kathmandu valley. the project will cover two distric...

Environmental management information systems (EMIS) represent an important contribution for the support of environmental protection by companies. In this contribution a special feature of EMIS will be focused on which supports the documentation and reduction of the considerable amounts of environmental damage caused by industrial production. A presentation of the foundations of EMIS and product...

this paper presents the effect of high environmental heat on behavior of the male charles foster rats. eighty rats were divided into three groups, subjected to (i) acute heat stress (ii) chronic heat stress and (iii) handling control group. animals were exposed to the hot environment in a biological oxygen demand incubator at 38 ± 1ºc (relative humidity 45-50%) for four hours of continuous sing...