District Cooling Systems (DCS) have been widely applied in large institutions such as universities, government facilities, commercial districts, airports etc. The hydraulic system of a large DCS can be very complicated. They often stem from an original design that has had extensive additions and deletions over time. Expanding or retrofitting such a system involves large capital investment. Cons...

Farmers’ right is considered important to farmers for conservation of agro biodiversity and fostering innovations in agriculture. This paper aims to present findings of the stakeholder survey on the perceptions of farmers' rights and conservation of agro biodiversity in Nepal. The study was carried out in 2006-2007 employing combination of personal interviews, focussed group discussions and con...

This paper presents work to identify factors affecting effectiveness of agri-business ventures (A-BVs) on the side of providers as perceived by their members. A survey was conducted among 95 members of A-BVs in Zanjan province, Iran. To collect data, a questionnaire was designed. Two distinct groups of A-BVs with low (group 1) and high (group 2) perceived (evaluated) levels of effectiveness wer...

We provide several machine-independent characterizations of deterministic complexity classes in the model of computation proposed by L. Blum, M. Shub and S. Smale. We provide a characterization of partial recursive functions over any arbitrary structure. We show that polynomial time computable functions over any arbitrary structure can be characterized in term of safe recursive functions. We sh...

The makings of the primate brain Although nonhuman primate brains are similar to our own, the disparity between their and our cognitive abilities tells us that surface similarity is not the whole story. Sousa et al. overlaid transcriptome and histological analyses to see what makes human brains different from those of nonhuman primates. Various differentially expressed genes, such as those enco...

modeling of crop growth plays an important role in evaluation of drought impacts on rainfed yield, choosing an optimum sowing date, and managerial decision-makings. aquacrop model is a new crop model that developed by food and agriculture organization (fao), that is a model for simulation of crop yield based on “yield response to water“ with meteorological, crop, soli and management practices d...

the runoff simulation in a watershed provides insight on the processes affecting runoff generation and the stream flow characteristics like spatial and temporal variability of stream flow. this insight helps managers and planners in informed decision-makings on water resources management and planning. the objective of this study is to compare the performances of the complex swat model and the s...

It has been shown in recent analyses by ALEPH [1] and OPAL [2] that precision QCD tests are possible with hadronic τ decays by comparing spectral moments of the hadronic decay ratio of the τ with QCD calculations. In principle e+e− data can be used in a similar manner by evaluating spectral moments of R. The current e+e− data is compared with the OPAL τ data and a prediction is made on the achi...

An interval number system is given by an initial interval cover of the extended real line and by a finite system of nonnegative Möbius transformations. Each sequence of transformations applied to an initial interval determines a sequence of nested intervals whose intersection contains a unique real number. We adapt in this setting exact real algorithms which compute arithmetical operations to a...

A decision procedure for arbitrary first-order formulas can be viewed as combining a propositional search with a decision procedure for conjunctions of first-order literals, so Boolean SAT methods can be used for the propositional search in order to improve the performance of the overall decision procedure. We show how to combine some Boolean SAT methods with non-clausal heuristics developed fo...