the objective of this study was to assess the level of knowledge of the turkish farmers with regard to fertilizer usage. farmers in the kazova district of turkey's tokat province were interviewed regarding their soil maintenance practices. the interview was based on a standardized questionnaire the answers being recorded at the time of interview. simple random sampling method was used to de...

Discrete choice models have played an important role in transportation modeling for the last 25 years. They are namely used to provide a detailed representation of the complex aspects of transportation demand, based on strong theoretical justiications. Moreover, several packages and tools are available to help practionners using these models for real applications, making discrete choice models ...

in recent decades, large investments have been made to introduce soil conservation methods, but most of these efforts have had limited success in achieving the goals. as a result, attempt to identify the factors deterring or promoting adoption of soil conservation practices is important. therefore, this study aimed to investigate factors affecting adoption of soil conservation practices by rain...

the present study aim is to offer a systematic method of assessing the credit risk of banks and also to identify key indicators using decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) technique as well as using logit regression in order to predict the credit risk of listed banks. the population of the study consists of the legal clients of the bank (ansar bank, bank saderat iran, bank m...

one of the really important challenges facing agricultural producers is the choice of their product distribution channels. the present study is aimed at investigating the citrus marketing channel strategy and its determinants among citrus orchardists of mazandaran using a nested logit model. some two hundred and fifty two orchardists from 15 cities of mazandaran were taken as the study samples....

capacity of garden productions in iran is such that is accounted as a country that produces thirteen garden products in the world but despite excellent condition in iran for producing garden products, natural disasters damage production of fruits in the country therefore farmers incur a loss. pistachio tree has been in danger of destruction and dryness. thus, in order to reduce loss incurred on...

Previous research identified that a review of the current industry New Zealand lamb survival trait was necessary as its recording accuracy was reliant on farmers notifying their Sheep Improvement Limited bureau of lamb deaths. This paper reports the decision rules and genetic parameters for a new lamb survival trait for the New Zealand sheep industry. These rules define the new lamb survival tr...

In recent years, there have been important developments in the simulation analysis of the mixed multinomial logit (MMNL) model as well as in the formulation of increasingly flexible closedform models belonging to the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) class. In this paper, we bring these developments together to propose a mixed spatially correlated logit (MSCL) model for location-related choices. ...