If protected areas are to remain relevant in our dynamic world they must be adapted to changes in species ranges. In the EU one of the most notable such changes is the recent recovery of large carnivores, which are protected by Natura 2000 at the national and population levels. However, the Natura 2000 network was designed prior to their recent recovery, which raises the question whether the ne...

In this paper, we discuss one aspect of the measurement issue: how to measure endto-end application response time (ART) relative to aggregated “tunable” network latency, or tunable latency. The goal is to enhance our understanding of the relationship between these two metrics for database access applications. Tunable latency is defined as follows: the sum of the “round trip” queuing delay & dat...

owing to the vital effects of future land use changes, it is necessary to predict land use growth pattern before any decision making by the authorities and decision makers. purpose of this research is to model land use change of kohmare scorch plain of shiraz province using ordinary least squares regression (ols) for pre-processing variables and modeling using neural networks. to perform this m...

This work describes FSVC (Fully Scalable Video Codec), a scalable video compression system which is able to generate temporal-, spatialand quality-scalable video streams. FSVC is very suitable for video-on-demand applications where a single version of the compressed video sequence is used. A video server can provide video streams to several clients with different visualization and band-width re...

in recent decades artificial neural networks (anns) have shown great ability in modeling and forecasting non-linear and non-stationary time series and in most of the cases especially in prediction of phenomena have showed very good performance. this paper presents the application of artificial neural networks to predict drought in yazd meteorological station. in this research, different archite...

consecutive droughts in sistan and baloochestan province cause water resources restriction and this isa very significant problem for this region. in this study, in order to forecast the drought cycle in 9climatological stations in the province, we used artificial neural networks. the input data wereaverage of annual rainfall data in all stations and also deciles precipitation index, which the f...