the objective of this study is to investigate of climate change in gorgan river-gharesoo basin and these impacts of this phenomenon on regional land use change, as well as provide guidance on the effective management and conservation of natural land area. analysis of climate data including rainfall, average temperature and relative humidity of nine synoptic stations in this area from east to we...

Face clustering is a task to partition facial images into disjoint clusters. In this paper, we investigate a specific problem of face clustering in videos. Unlike traditional face clustering problem with a given collection of images from multiple sources, our task deals with set of face tracks with information about frame ID. Thus, we can exploit two kinds of prior knowledge about the temporal ...

Gameplay in real-time strategy games seems somehow to be confined to a de facto standard where economical micromanagement is equally important as combat strategy, if not more important. To enable stronger combat-oriented gameplay without sacrificing other key aspects of the genre, we propose an automated system for scheduling unit training, which we believe may allow the exploration of new para...

Cowpea leaves are highly perishable seasonal crops with limited utilization in the arid and semi- lands. The instituted coping strategies among households to enhance availability of vegetable for consumption yet be elucidated any documented studies. study sought assess post-harvest handling practices hygiene knowledge lands Kenya. A cross-sectional involving 405 randomly selected was used Taita...

SUMMARY Operational monitoring of vegetative cover by remote sensing currently involves the utilisation of vegetation indices. Vegetation indices are widely used for assessing and monitoring ecological variables such as vegetation cover, above-ground biomass and leaf area index. This study reviewed and evaluated different vegetation indices for estimating vegetation cover in rangelands in Cente...

Large-scale vegetation restoration in China’s Loess Plateau has been initiated by the central government for controlling soil andwater losses in the past three decades. However, there is virtually no guidance for plant species selection for the restoration purpose. We investigated the effects of planting trees and shrubs, land-use conversions from croplands to pastures and native grasslands on ...

The Phoenix metropolitan area (Arizona, USA) provides an excellent case study for examining the sustainability of a rapidly growing urban ecosystem in an arid region, having grown six-fold in population in 50 years (to 3 million in 2000). The example is important, because the world’s urban population will nearly double in 30 years, and most of this growth will occur in warm, arid regions. Urban...

Adam Milewski,* Mohamed Sultan, Ahmad Al-Dousari and Eugene Yan 1 Department of Geology, University of Georgia, 210 Field Street, 306 Geography-Geology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA 2 Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, 1187 Rood Hall, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA 3 Department of Geography, Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait 4 Argonne National Laborator...