Selection of suitable sites for wind power plants is one of the most important decision on wind resources development. Site selection for the establishment of large wind power plants requires spatial evaluation taking technical, economic, and environmental considerations into account. This study has applied a combination of PROMETHEE and Fuzzy AHP methods in a geographical information system en...

Data presented in this study were gathered in 1998 through a national mail survey of 3000 randomly selected osteopathic physicians. Of 979 (33.4%) questionnaires returned, 955 (97.5%) were usable for analysis. The use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) was determined for primary care physicians and specialists. Osteopathic manipulative treatment specialists and family physicians provid...

Although returns distributions are complex, they can’t avoid manipulation in any form. We propose a new methodology, the Intelligent Portfolio Selection & Optimisation System – IPSOS that takes into account hidden information within the extended accounting data and financial statements, among other values incorporates them on a new Jordan Elman hybrid network to provide safer financial evaluati...

In this paper, an account of various aspects related to buffalo reproduction are given. Fundamental concepts of the reproductive physiology as well as manipulation of the reproductive function will be presented. This will include an overview of the most recent developments of the oestrous cycle and the ovulation control, new strategies of reproductive management for the improvement of genetic g...

XML has become the most important technique to exchange data in World Wide Web. As consequence, an interest to native XML databases has surfaced. Concurrency control methods for traditional databases are not adequate for XML databases, because they do not capture the specific of XML data model. In this paper we propose a locking mechanism, developed in Sedna, which allows to achieve a high degr...

The policy dismantling framework was developed to account for processes involving the reduction or termination of existing policies, especially in so-called advanced democracies. However, is model proposed by scholars applicable contexts democratic backsliding such as Bolsonaro’s Brazil? Do those offer new elements their analytical model? This article addresses questions analyzing case Brazil u...

This paper proposes a DNA algorithm for solving an NP-complete problem (The Shortest Common Super-string Problem) by manipulation of biomolecules, and presents partial results of the experiment that implements our algorithm. We also discuss practical constraints that have to be taken into account when implementing the algorithm, propose a coding system as a solution to these practical restricti...

Many electoral control and manipulation problems—which we will refer to in general as “manipulative actions” problems—are NP-hard in the general case. Many of these problems fall into polynomial time if the electorate is singlepeaked, i.e., is polarized along some axis/issue. However, real-world electorates are not truly single-peaked—for example, there may be some maverick voters—and to take t...