in an arid country like kuwait with harsh and hot climate conditions, the scarcity of fresh water supplies presents a serious threat to sustainable socio-economic development and growth. kuwait is an oil rich country with capital abundance and coastal locations enabled it to build desalination plants for fresh water production that is sold to the customers at highly subsidized prices. however, ...

Background: Studies that aim to analyze the transcultural traditional knowledge from different countries still in their infancy but are essential favor an equal and fair division of benefits resulting exploration genetic resources develop sustainable strategies for conservation. The goal this research is compare about medicinal plants by Huni Kuĩ people with other cultures, order assess singula...

the multi-criteria decision making model is an important tool for decision making in water resource management. in this paper, the topsis model was used to rank seven flood management options in the gorganrood river flood management project, including conservation of natural condition, golestan reservoir management, levee construction, diversions-channel construction, flood forecasting and warn...

Abstract Background Sarcopenia appears to be under-assessed and under-treated in the stroke population. It has been suggested by EWGSOP2 criteria, that if there is a clinical suspicion of sarcopenia, an intervention for this appropriate. In order establish need independent population audit prevalence sarcopenia independently mobile patients was completed. Methods An excel spreadsheet compiled c...

background due to burgeoning population, solid waste site selection is one of the most crucial issues in waste management system. regarding the complexity of waste management systems, the convenient solid waste site selection involves considering multiple alternative solutions and assessing different criteria. objectives the current study, aimed to select the fuzzy logic method as one of the mo...

Conservation can be analyzed as a political game between advocates and opponents, and games include signals. Triage approaches aim to trade off conservation gains and losses for different species, populations and sites, in an attempt to reduce aggregate net losses. These approaches send a political signal that some local or global species extinctions are socially acceptable. This permits conser...

Evidence for severe declines in large predatory fishes is increasing around the world. Because of its long history of intense fishing, the Mediterranean Sea offers a unique perspective on fish population declines over historical timescales. We used a diverse set of records dating back to the early 19th and mid 20th century to reconstruct long-term population trends of large predatory sharks in ...