CELIK, Y. and K. PEKER, 2009. Benefit/cost analysis of mushroom production for diversification of income in developing countries. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 15: 228-237 This study presents benefit/cost and SWOT analyses of mushroom production in developing countries as diversification of rural income; a case study in Konya, Turkey. Data were obtained through a survey method by application of 33 ques...

Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) is a method to formulate the strategy. Although the SWOT analysis successfully provides the key factors of the problem, it has some drawbacks in selecting appropriate strategy for the evaluation and final decision steps. During recent years, some multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques such as analytic hierarchy pro...

Semantic web technologies are gaining momentum in the WoT (Web of Things) community for its promising ability to manage the increasing semantic heterogeneity between devices (Semantic Web of Things, SWoT) in ambient environments. However, most of the approaches rely on ad-hoc and static knowledge models (ontologies) designed for specific domains and applications. While it is a solution for hand...

Inspired by the competition of sport teams in a sport league, the League Championship Algorithm (LCA) has been introduced recently for optimizing nonlinear continuous functions. LCA tries to metaphorically model a league championship environment wherein a number of individuals, as artificial sport teams, play in pairs in an artificial league for several weeks (iterations) based on a league sche...

Background By acceptance of palliative care as a part of health system of each country and due to increasing prevalence of cancer, special focus on stakeholder's educational needs is of vital importance so that palliative care services are improved and the quality of life of patients is enhanced. This study was conducted to explore the educational needs of stakeholders of palliative care for ca...

Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are deficient of domestic fossil energy sources and depend significantly on imported fuels. Since the oil shock in the 1970s, all three countries have promoted renewable energy as an alternative energy source to improve energy security. Currently, renewable energy is being promoted to build low-carbon economies. This study reviews the development of renewable ener...