There has been a tremendous interest in making the current Internet architecture capable of supporting diverse requirements for emerging valueadded service-oriented applications such as bandwidth on-demand, multimedia teleconference and telemedicine. However, to our knowledge, all of the currently proposed ‘application-level’ service architectures, for example, [7], [9], [10], [13], [16], are r...

Reliable and continuous operation of ships is vitally important to the decision-makers. Driven by rising cost newbuilding ships, maintenance actions are needed on existing ensure safe enduring service beyond their initial design life. Extending ship life can provide economic operating profit promote sustainability. Meanwhile, during extended may involve higher failure risk additional expenditur...

The major purpose of this study was to identify factors influencing the design of agriculturaladvisory service network in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. The population of thisresearch consisted of consultants who provided services to farmers. By using a Cochranformula, 306 respondents were selected. The results showed that consultants faced manyobstacles such as lack of necessary facilit...