in this study, the reliability of the primary gold mineralization exploration using multispectral etm+ imagery was investigated in lahroud region, northwest iran, which was conducted by integration of alteration and structural indicators. co-occurrence of the clay minerals and iron oxides is an important criterion in gold deposit exploration; therefore, their alteration zones were mapped using ...

In developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. This situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose ...

Abstract. To enable the development of automated support for design, a challenge is to model and analyse dynamics of design processes in a formal manner. This paper contributes a declarative, logical approach for specification of dynamic properties of design processes, supported by a formal temporal language. This language is used to specify dynamic properties of a design process as a whole, or...

AIM This paper is a description of inductive and deductive content analysis. BACKGROUND Content analysis is a method that may be used with either qualitative or quantitative data and in an inductive or deductive way. Qualitative content analysis is commonly used in nursing studies but little has been published on the analysis process and many research books generally only provide a short desc...

It is argued that the flow process analysis essentially provides two new options for improvement of production: elimination or reduction of non value adding activities (also called waste) in flow processes and increase of output value from the customer point of view. The typical categories of waste and value loss in a construction project are analyzed in this framework, and the corresponding im...

Process capability indices are widely regarded as a flexible means of evaluating the quality and performance of a process. Accreditation by the Quality System Requirement QS9000 requires an agent to conduct a global evaluation on the process capability over the entire product family from a plant. Generally, the process capability of the whole product family is an important reference for evaluat...

We analyze the Rosenblatt process which is a selfsimilar process with stationary increments and which appears as limit in the so-called Non Central Limit Theorem (Dobrushin and Major (1979), Taqqu (1979)). This process is non-Gaussian and it lives in the second Wiener chaos. We give its representation as a Wiener-Itô multiple integral with respect to the Brownian motion on a finite interval and...

Despite the growing literature on this topic almost no independent critical analysis or evaluation has been available. This paper attempts to fill that gap. In particular we will be reflecting on experience with the Marvel environment from Columbia University. Marvel is the paradigm case of the software process modelling approach to building software development environments. In this paper we e...

Paper outlines current trends in environmental information management in the Czech Republic specifically in the field of environmental reporting systems. The paper also presents selected results of two research projects “Analysis and Design of Environmental Data Models and External Czech Environmental Information System Interfaces Compatible with the EU” and “Proposal of Communication Framework...

Helping end users build and check process models is a challenge for many science and engineering fields. Many AI researchers have investigated useful ways of verifying and validating knowledge bases for ontologies and rules, but it is not easy to directly apply them to checking process models. Other techniques developed for checking and refining planning knowledge tend to focus on automated pla...