background & aim: kazeroon, with an area of about 4060 km², is situated at 110 km in the west of shiraz, fars province, iran. this area is important for plant biodiversity, due to the presence of some important habitats such as international lake of parishan in the southeast, woodlands of quercus persica in the east and branches of shahpoor river in the west of the region. therefore, for th...

Abstract: Nowadays knowledge is recognized as an important enabler for competitive advantages and many companies are beginning to establish knowledge management systems. Within the last few years many organizations tried to design a suitable knowledge management system and many of them were successful. This paper is to discover critical success factors (CSF) of knowledge management (KM) and the...

Russian boreal forests contain around 25% of all global terrestrial carbon, some of which is released to the atmosphere when the forests burn. Whilst it is well known that fire is widespread in the boreal environment, there is a lack of good quality quantitative data on the extent of fire activity in Russian forests and on its interannual variation. This study provides one of the first comprehe...

Flathead catfish, Py10dictus olivaris (Rafinesque), were studied in approximat~ly 83.7 km of unchannelized and 67.6 km miles of channelized Missouri River. Growth rates were slower in the unchannelized section than they were in the channelized section. The oldest fish in the unchannelized section was 25 years old, while in the channelized study area the oldest was 10 years. In the pectoral spin...

The Deep Thunder mesoscale weather modelling and visualization system has been run semi-operationally since January 2001 at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research in Yorktown Heights, NY focusing on the New York City metropolitan area. The model used in this work is derived from earlier work supporting the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta (Snook et al, 1998). This is a highly modified versio...

We simultaneously invert the strong-motion velocity records and the longand intermediate-period teleseismic P waveforms of the 19 September 1985 Michoacan, Mexico, earthquake to recover the distribution of slip on the fault using a point-by-point constrained and stabilized, least-squares inversion method. A fault plane with strike fixed at 300 ° and dip fixed at 14 ° is placed in the region of ...

There has been extensive research on knowledge and knowledge management (KM) in the past two decades. KM has progressed from an emergent concept to an increasingly common function in industrial enterprises. As evidence of its maturity as an area of academic study, an increasing number of journals devoted to KM have been created. This paper presents a review of the literature addressing the KM c...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary endothelium has metabolic functions including the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II by angiotensin-converting ectoenzyme (ACE). In this study, we have validated an indicator-dilution technique that provides estimations of dynamically perfused capillary surface area (DPCSA) in humans, and we have characterized pulmonary endothelial ACE in vivo. METHODS AND RESU...