Clusters are geographically close groups of related companies or institutions related to a certain area which are inherently more efficient than the other companies due to advantages such as being located in one place, networks, external knowledge, variability of human capital, etc. Today, development through clusters plays a pivotal role in the economic and industrial policies of developed...

This paper proposes an in-depth analysis of the branding strategies implemented by agricultural craft breweries in Italy. For small-scale companies operating emerging beer sector, effective play a key role differentiating themselves from their competitors and gaining competitive advantages. The focuses on concept sustainability its relation to Neolocalism. In addition, analyses what extent brew...

The local solid flow structure of gas-solid bubbling fluidized bed was investigated to identify and characterize the particle clusters. Extensive mathematical calculations were carried out using the energy-minimization multi-scale (EMMS) approach for evaluating cluster properties including the velocity, the size and the void fraction of clusters in the dense phase of the bed. The results showed...

clustering technique is one of the most important techniques of data mining and is the branch of multivariate statistical analysis and a method for grouping similar data in to same clusters. with the databases getting bigger, the researchers try to find efficient and effective clustering methods so that they can make fast and real decisions. thus, in this paper, we proposed an improved ant syst...

Four pigeons were given simultaneous discrimination training with visual patterns arbitrarily divided into two sets, with the stimuli in one set designated A1, B1, C1, and D1 and those in the other set designated A2, B2, C2, and D2. In sequentially introduced training phases, the pigeons were exposed to a series of reversals to establish AB and then CD equivalences. In subsequent testing sessio...

Repeat proteins are composed of tandem structural modules in which close contacts do not extend beyond adjacent repeats. Despite the local nature of these close contacts, repeat proteins often unfold as a single, highly coupled unit. Previous studies on the Notch ankyrin domain suggest that this lack of equilibrium unfolding intermediates results both from stabilizing interfaces between each re...

this study presents an overview of the different strategies that persian learners of english employ to deal with initial clusters. while vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread repair strategy to conform such clusters to persian phonotactics, the location of the epenthetic vowel varies. in this paper, we investigate two approaches that seek to explain the epenthetic site. the first o...

Groundwater quality assessment is important for understanding the suitability of groundwater resources various purposes. Although many different methods have been proposed this purpose, few considered spatial variation components during assessments. In study, we to combine self-organizing map (SOM) and entropy-based weight determining method assess quality. Totally, 955 water samples taken from...

  Abstract In order to evaluate morpho-physiological traits of confectionery sunflower under different irrigation regimes, an experiment was carried out under field conditions in Agricultural Research Center of West-Azerbaijan province, Urmia, Iran in 2012. Fifty six confectionery sunflower landraces were arranged in 7 × 8 rectangular lattice design with two replications in each one of well-wat...