Policy has long been considered one of the major driving forces for land-use/cover change. However, research on the interactions between land-use/cover change (LUCC) and relevant policies remains limited. The agropastoral ecotone is a typical area of policy implementation and LUCC. Therefore, this study integrates the use of multisource and multiresolution remote sensing and topographic and fie...

By the repeated use of the doubly labeled water method (DLW), this study aimed to investigate (1) the extent of changes in energy expenditure and physical activity level (PAL) in response to increased agricultural work demands, and (2) whether the seasonal work demands induce the changes in the fairly equitable division of work and similarity of energy needs between men and women observed in ou...

Understanding the processes that led to the recent evolution of Mediterranean landscapes is a challenging question that can be addressed with paleoecological data. Located in the White Mountains of Crete, Asi Gonia peat bog constitutes an exceptional 2000-years-long sedimentary archive of environmental change. In this study, we document the making of the White Mountains landscape and assess hum...

in this study, a robust controller is designed for fuzzy network control systems (ncss) using the static output feedback. delay and data packet dropout affect on the stability of network control systems, and therefore, the asymptotic stability condition is established considering delay and data packet dropout. delay is time-varying while the lower and upper bounds for delay is defined, and the ...

this survey is carried out with the major objective of studying various water treatment plants in iran. the emphasis was on the plants being fed by surface water resources; also the clarification unit was taken as the major one among treatment processes. in this way 25 water treatment plants located in different cities of iran were studied from the point of view of technical specifications chem...

Abstract The emergence of socio-political differentiation is a core theme in world prehistory, and the West African archaeological record offers unique insights into range pathways towards increasing complexity origins socio-economic inequalities. During second half millennium BC, Tichitt-Oualata escarpments southeastern Mauritania witnessed development societies with monumental funerary archit...

Desertification is one of the most serious current environmental problems and corresponds to impoverishment decrease moisture in sandy soils located regions with a sub-humid, arid semiarid climate, its main causes related climatic variations resulting negative impacts human activities. Studies show that Brazilian especially Caatinga biome have been suffering an intense process desertification d...

the chronic exposure to elf-emf (extremely-low frequency electromagnetic field) has been shown as an effective factor at biological systems. in order to determine the possible effects of whole-body exposure to emf on plasma levels of testosterones and corticosterone, weight gain and testicular gene expression of gstt1 of male rats, the present study was performed by the following procedure: thi...