Brazilian intensive production of broiler chickens has stood out as an important livestock activity for the country and its main obstacle is the energy supply for birds’ ambience. Analysis of energy conversion processes based on exergy takes into account the quantity and quality of transformed energy. This concept can be applied to the production chain of broiler chickens, contributing to deter...

one of the main resonator factors in watershed soil erosion is inappropriateland management including conversion of pasture land to dry-land farming.unfortunately, the changes of gara su watershed usages have been very common.thus, in order to understand the influence of land use on runoff rate and soil loss, soillosses were investigated and determined under both pasture and dry-land agricultur...

Under the premise that land administration is one of the necessary components of sustainable development and better land management, this article reviews how progressive titling could foster new land administration procedures and associated information systems. This review is based on the objectives of progressive titling as they are developed or currently implemented in various regions in the ...

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< p>Successful implementation of land reform requires the implementation of large-scale market transformations, in particular in the structure of land tenure and land use, in the field of land valuation. The article is devoted to the development of scientific and methodological bases of economic evaluation and use of land resources of agricultural enterprises, substantiation of approaches and r...

Overview The integration of land administration processes and the collaboration of land agencies are considered essential for the effective delivery of developable land for housing production. However, in most countries, housing and land management policies are usually split between multiple government agencies. The background literature suggests that the activities of governments’ agencies tha...

LPG is a planner that performed very well in the third and fourth International planning competitions. The system is based on a stochastic local search procedure, and it incorporates several heuristic features. In this paper we experimentally analyze the most important of them with the goal of understanding and evaluating their impact on the performance of the planner. In particular, we examine...