ABSTRACT- Maize production, which is ranked after wheat and barely in Fars province, Iran, needs a considerable amount of irrigation water that is not available in scarce water conditions in drought situations. Therefore, proper planting method can improve irrigation water management. The objectives of the present study were to investigate the effects of two planting methods, on-bed and in furr...

Sustainability is a hotly debated topic in science, doctrine, society and politics. We often hear or read that sustainability, although not implemented by various categories of actors, physical legal, widespread thanks to the communication recent years. When addressing this issue, all scholars refer Triple Bottom Line . This article will show how concept now obsolete, as be companies any size, ...

This study sought to understand the experience of "hitting bottom" from the perspective of 32 mothers with serious mental illness. Secondary narrative analysis of 173 stories about experiences related to hitting bottom were identified. Enactment of their perceived mothering roles and responsibilities was compromised when confronted by the worst of illness. Subsequent to women's descent to botto...

Bottom-up attention is a sensory-driven selection mechanism that directs perception toward a subset of the stimulus that is considered salient, or attention-grabbing. Most studies of bottom-up auditory attention have adapted frameworks similar to visual attention models whereby local or global "contrast" is a central concept in defining salient elements in a scene. In the current study, we take...

ost everyone in our field acknowledges that software process improvement cannot succeed unless management is committed to implementing it. Fortunately, the move to SPI can be a two-way street, initiated as easily from the bottom up as from the top down. Taking this bottom-up approach,I present some tricks that practitioners down in the trenches can use to win upper management's approval of and ...

Our goal is to generalize the well known bottom-up, set-oriented query evaluation for deductive databases in two aspects: First, we consider arbitrary clauses as rules in the database, not only Horn clauses or clauses with stratified negation. This allows to represent disjunctive information, in the database as well as in answers to queries. We utilize NF2 relations for modelling sets of disjun...