The Context Scenario Planning is fast becoming one of the most popul(lr and persuasive tcchniques, used in strategic plan ni ng and foresighting cxercises of aU kinds in both public and private sectors, It is likely that the approach will playa more prominent role in helping organisations and agencies from all parts of the economy, governance and society in Ireland think, talk, act and plan d i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This paper is intended to assist pharmacologists in making the most of statistical analysis and in avoiding common errors that can lead to false conclusions. APPROACH A scenario is presented where a pathway inhibitor increased blood pressure responses to an agonist by about one third. The fictional experimenter concludes that the inhibitor enhanced the responses to the ...

135 Pacific Economic Bulletin volume 25 number 3 © 2010 The australian national university As a leading member of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a vested interest in proving to the international community that it could reduce the volume of greenhouse gas emissions from the process of deforestation and forest degradation if suitable financial incentives were to ...

The prospects of measuring the leptonic angles and CP-odd phases at a neutrino factory are discussed in the scenario of three active plus one sterile neutrino. We consider the νμ → νe LSND signal. Its associated large mass difference leads to observable neutrino oscillations at short (∼ 1 km) baseline experiments. Sensitivities to the leptonic angles down to 10 can be easily achieved with a 1 T...

The KamLAND collaboration has observed a medium baseline oscillation signal for reactor antineutrinos. We show that a hierarchical CPT violating neutrino spectrum can simultaneously accommodate the oscillation data from LSND, atmospheric, solar and KamLAND, as well as the nonobservation of antineutrino disappearance in short baseline reactor experiments. In our scenario the KamLAND experiment i...

Increasing electric vehicles usage, as a promising solution for environmental issues, might have unexpected implications, since it entails some changes in different sectors and scales in energy system. In this respect, this research aims at investigating the long-term impacts of electric vehicles deployment on Iran's energy system. Accordingly, Iran's energy system was analyzed by LEAP model in...

Achieving global peaking of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions as early possible is a common goal for all countries. However, CO in the northwest China still show rapid growth trend. Thus, we used Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) model to build three scenarios investigate peak and reduction pathways five northwestern provinces China. The results that: 1) under baseline, policy, green will 2...

The simulation model has four distinct elements: a baseline demographic model; a dynamic forecasting model; a simulator for social and economic activities; and a set of scenario-based policy modules. This paper describes progress to date in implementing the baseline demographic model. In Section 2 of the paper we will discuss and evaluate the techniques which we have used to generate population...

Abstract In the context of neutrino factories, we review the solution of the degeneracies in the neutrino oscillation parameters. In particular, we have set limits to sin 2θ13 in order to accomplish the unambiguous determination of θ23 and δ. We have performed two different analysis. In the first, at a baseline of 3000 km, we simulate a measurement of the channels νe → νμ, νe → ντ and νμ → νμ, ...

rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...