The European Water Framework Directive establishes a framework for protecting water resources and prescribes a set of environmental objectives which are to be achieved by 2015. The Directive’s implementation will entail decisions which will have to consider multiple, uncertain decision outcomes, and which involve or affect a variety of stakeholders. A raft of methods such as cost benefit analys...

Water resources management has become a field where computer-aided analytical techniques are expected to facilitate a complex process of decision making which involves several stakeholders with varied interests and various socioeconomic objectives of the natural resource development and management strategies. In many ways, the decision-making related to water resource management exhibits a poli...

Water quality monitoring and evaluation are important practices for water resources management. And the major concerns are remote and low-cost information transmission technology and accurate water quality evaluation strategy. Taking these concerns into consideration, a remote monitoring and evaluation system based on wireless sensor networks (WSN) and LS-SVM method was designed in this paper. ...

abstract background: natural delivery is the most painful event that women experience in their lifetime. that is why labor pain relief has long been as one of the most important issues in the field of midwifery. thus, the present study aims to explore the perception of primiparous mothers on comfortable resources for labor pain. materials and methods: in the present study, qualitative content a...

Abstract Markov manpower planning models have extensively been analyzed in the past in order to find an optimal personnel strategy for which the manpower system evolves towards desirable stocks. So far, those models do not take into account interactions among different organizational decision levels. In this paper, a multi-level manpower planning model is presented that considers, besides the d...

Using two MNC dominated electronics clusters in Malaysia, this paper examines the development of human capital from two knowledge and skills acquisition modes – formal education and learning by performing which were dominant in the successful evolution of industrial districts. Ineffective systemic coordination throughout the country from federal institutions has restricted the supply of high te...

The concept of manpower planning is a very important role in Decision making problems. Many mathematical models have been discussed using different kinds of wastages and different type of distributions (see [1], [2]). Since then several authors [7]-[9] contributed to the development of the problem of time to recruitment in a single graded marketing organization involving only one threshold unde...