logging operations is an engineering system with the aim of maximizing efficiency and minimizing negative effects. this study was carried out in two compartments including 220 and 225 in namkhaneh district of kheiroudkenar watershed. in this study, damages resulted from skidding operation by timber jack 450c were evaluated. the results of this study showed that in two compartments 220 and 225, ...

The effect of using automated auditing tools to detect compliance failures in unmanaged business processes is investigated. In the absence of a process execution engine, compliance of an unmanaged business process is tracked by using an auditing tool developed based on business provenance technology or employing auditors. Since budget constraints limit employing auditors to evaluate all process...

This paper presents strategies for generating entity level annotated text utterances using unmanaged crowds. These utterances are then used to build state-of-the-art Named Entity Recognition (NER) models, a required component to build dialogue systems. First, a wide variety of raw utterances are collected through a variant elicitation task. We ensure that these utterances are relevant by feedin...

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Several groundwater experts have recently observed that groundwater in developing countries is by and large being left unmanaged (e.g. Katar Singh 1995; Van Steenbergen 1997). They have repeatedly deplored the absence of effective regulatory mechanisms. Nevertheless, a consensus now seems to be growing that groundwater is too valuable to be left unmanaged ; law and administration are needed to ...