the three practical steps that are need to be taken by government agencies in order to increase irrigation efficiency include economic motivation for optimization of water use, modification of existing irrigation systems in the short term and modernization of traditional methods in the long-term plan. the present research aims at identifying farmers' knowledge regarding irrigation and water iss...

Examining the impacts of data modification is considered as sensitivity analysis. A lot of studies have considered the data modification of inputs and outputs in DEA. The issues which has not heretofore been considered in DEA sensitivity analysis is modification in the number of inputs and (or) outputs and determining the impacts of this modification in the status of efficiency of DMUs. This pa...

This thesis presents a novel approach to planning under uncertainty in resource constrained environments. Such environments feature in many real-world applications, including planetary rover and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) missions. Our focus is on long-duration AUV missions, in which a vehicle spends months at sea, with little or no opportunity for intervention. As the risk to the vehi...

I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some product such as a plan, design or physical entity i.e. it supports synthesis tasks. The I-X approach involves the use of shared models for task directed cooperation between human and computer agents wh...

I-X is a research programme with a number of different aspects intended to create a well-founded approach to allow humans and computer systems to cooperate in the creation or modification of some product such as a plan, design or physical entity – i.e. it supports synthesis tasks. The I-X approach involves the use of shared models for task directed cooperation between human and computer agents ...

T he “Nutrition Recommendations and Principles for People with Diabetes Mellitus” (1,2) provide diabetes medical nutrition therapy (MNT) guidelines for individuals living in a home setting; however, they do not include information about how to incorporate the recommendations into health care facilities. Health care facilities are defined as institutions providing acute and longterm medical and ...