The Informal Sector in Solid Waste is a Global Phenomenon 1. There are active informal solid waste sectors in cities of widely varying demographic, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics. 2. In spite of specific and measurable differences in the set-up and effectiveness of the formal solid waste systems in the six cities, and the degree to which these are modernised or privatised, there i...

Sohn (1998) presents a good argument that neither statistical significance nor effect size is indicative of the replicability of research results. His objection to the Bayesian argument is also succinct. However, his solution of the `replicability belief' issue is problematic, and his verdict that significance tests have no role to play in empirical research is debatable. The strengths and weak...

It is no longer a surprise that program maintenance dominates the total cost of a large software system over its lifetime. In response to these costs, the emphasis in program design has largely shifted from the time and space issues of machine efficiency to issues of clear and flexible program structures that can be easily maintained. The goal of this project is to identify measurable program p...

Relationships between functional traits and average or potential demographic rates have provided insight into the functional constraints and trade-offs underlying life-history strategies of tropical tree species. We have extended this framework by decomposing growth rates of -130 000 trees of 171 Neotropical tree species into intrinsic growth and the response of growth to light and size. We rel...

this study proposed a new discharge estimation method using a mean velocity formula derived from chiu’s 2d velocity formula of probabilistic entropy concept and the river bed shear stress of channel. in particular, we could calculate the mean velocity, which is hardly measurable in flooding natural rivers, in consideration of several factors reflecting basic hydraulic characteristics such as r...

Hearing impairment simulation is an effective technique to educate normal-hearing people about auditory perception of the hearing-impaired. Because auditory characteristics of the hearing impaired vary greatly from person-to-person, personalization of the hearing impairment simulation systems is essential to accurately simulate these individual differences. However, measurement of auditory char...

data mining enables generalization of data of soil to remote areas and which is able to up/down scale of data in wide ranges of level that facilitate the decision-making process of executives. cation exchange capacity (cec) is one of the most important parameters in soil database and shows the ability of a soil to retention of minerals and pollutants. due to low organic matter and specific mine...

Quantification of soil aggregation and erodibility from easily measurable characteristics have been done by using pedo-transfer functions (PTFs) PTFs developed were compared statistical machine learning techniques for the kandi region Punjab. Dataset 1, having six basic properties, was used estimation mean weight diameter (MWD) (K), prediction an artificial neural network (ANN) slightly better ...