abstract background and purpose:in many regions especially in the north of iran groundwater is the most important resource for drinking supply. a present study was carried out in the tajan plain in northern iran. the aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of groundwater. materials and methods:in order to constructing the groundwater quality index (gwqi) 3 main levels were composed select...

Variability of photovoltaic (PV) power output is a potential concern to utilities because it can lead to voltage changes on the distribution system and have other adverse impacts on power quality unless additional equipment is added or operational practices are changed to mitigate these effects. This paper develops and evaluates a simple yet novel approach for quantifying irradiance variability...

Survival analysis is applied to records for length of productive life of Angus cows, fitting several proportional hazards models. It is shown that a piece-wise Weibull model with a time-dependent stage effect can model the distinct annual culling pattern reasonably well. Analyses fitting a sire model suggest some genetic variability, with heritability estimates on the logarithmic scale ranging ...

Process model matching refers to the task of creating correspondences among activities of different process models. This task is crucial whenever comparison and alignment of process models are called for. In recent years, there have been a few attempts to tackle process model matching. Yet, evaluating the obtained sets of correspondences reveals high variability in the results. Addressing this ...

Heterogeneous spatial quality in 360-degree videos is characterized by regions of high and low appearing the same video chunk. Encoding quality-varying omnidirectional enables bandwidth waste optimization without compromising inside client's viewport. has been implemented using either concept tiling or Facebook's offset projection. In this paper, we study preparation heterogeneous with three ma...