a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Habitat suitability model Brown bear Geographical information system GARP The paper describes the procedure for constructing a habitat suitability model from the distribution maps of a modelled species. If exact locations are not available, old and present thematic maps indicating species distribution can be used instead. We developed this procedure to create the...

The Irano-Touranian biogeography region is exposed to degradation because of anthropogenic activities and overgrazing. One of the important indirect applications of this ecosystem is Apiculture, which can be considered for reduce degradation of land and over coming for indigenous people, that were live in this area. It is possible to increase Apicultural ability in an appropriate area by identi...

We propose a three step iterative and interactive visual text mining process to assist users in exploring document collections. In the proposed approach (i) topics are automatically extracted from a document collection , (ii) users explore a similarity-based document map and its related topics, while refining a topic list, and (iii) map quality itself and topic list definition can both be impro...

In this paper, methods are shown how to adapt invertible two-dimensional chaotic maps on a torus or on a square to create new symmetric block encryption schemes. A chaotic map is first generalized by introducing parameters and then discretized to a finite square lattice of points which represent pixels or some other data items. Although the discretized map is a permutation and thus cannot be ch...

The objective of this study is to produce suitability maps for potential rainwater harvesting techniques (RWHT) in the West Bank (WB), Palestine. These aim reduce water scarcity, which a major problem conservation resources area. Based on literature reviews and expert recommendations, seven RWHts were selected (runoff basin system, contour ridges, cisterns, eyebrow terrace, check dam, on-farm p...

Researchers of CSIRO Land and Water in Griffith in Australia have found a way to repeatedly reuse drainage water to grow crops. In the process the system will concentrate the salt in the water to a manageable level which can then be used or stored in an environmentally friendly manner. The process, known as sequential biological concentration, is based on a novel system for Land, based treatmen...

Background: To make the best use of written information in education pamphlets, suitability criteria developed for instructional materials. Moreover, client satisfaction with the quality of written materials provided in hospitals for patients needs to be taken into account. Aim: Therefore, the present study aimed to assess the suitability of patient education pamphlets and patient satisfaction...

For estimating the states or outputs of a Markov process, the symbol-by-symbol maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm is optimal. However, this algorithm, even in its recursive form, poses technical diiculties because of numerical representation problems, the necessity of non-linear functions and a high number of additions and multiplications. MAP like algorithms operating in the logarithmic doma...

Studies and research on land suitability for the localization of economic industrial activities in cities are attracting academics local policies concerned with urban planning organization order to make areas more accommodating. The current paper aims demonstrate ability visualization simulation techniques assist planners preserving real estate by combining Delphi method one multi-criteria hier...