objective: economic analysis was performed for the main horticultural crops in buin zahra (pistachio, peach, nectarine, and apple). there were dependent and independent variables in this research. methods: the independent variables were planting method (mechanized and conventional), land area used for fruit production, and land ownership. the maximum energy used, mostly in the form of fossil fu...

Rapid growth of urbanization and its complications in recent decades has absorbed urban planners' attention to stability and stable development issues. In this regard community which is the core stone of urban development stayed away from formal system of spatial planning, and established communities are in contrast with preserving stable development rules and principals, therefore this researc...

A new Group Fuzzy Preference Programming (GFPP) method for fuzzy prioritisation in the Analytic Hierarchy Process is proposed. The assessment of the priorities from fuzzy pairwise comparison judgements is formulated as an optimisation problem, maximising the group’s overall satisfaction with the group solution. Unlike the existing fuzzy prioritisation methods, the GFPP method derives crisp prio...

This paper proposes a novel model for co-ranking heterogeneous entities, namely authors and documents, within a bibliographic network according to their relevance to a query. This model uses a score propagation algorithm taking into account the graph structure and the query topic. Furthermore, this model integrates two content-based indicators in order to estimate the topical relatedness betwee...

Abstract The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) performed by the World Bank is an indicator of logistics environment quality a country in which operators act. LPI interactive tool designed to help countries identify challenges, innovative solutions, and opportunities they face their work field trade logistics. aim this paper conduct comparative analysis ranking Western Balkans (Bosnia Herzegovin...

The road safety performance of countries is conducted by combining seven main risk indicators into one index using a particular weighting and aggregation method. Weights can be determined with respect to the assumed importance of the indicator, whereas aggregation operators can be used to stress better performances differently from worse performances irrespective of the indicator’s meaning. In ...

The “ISI rankings of the spanish universities by scientific fields” report is described, and some of the results are presented. One of the essential characteristics of this new ranking, based on Thomson-Reuters products, is its organization into 12 fields of knowledge. The IFQ2A-Index indicator was used to sort the universities, synthesizing information from 6 bibliometric indicators. The resul...

Adopting Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for selection and ranking of sustainable chemical process design that considers the trade-off between economic feasibility, environmental friendliness and social advantages offers good decision methodology for multi criteria problem. Typical AHP problem however are limited to handle only positive preferences. The introduction of negative preferences i...

Weakly electric fish from the family Mormyridae produce pulsatile electric organ discharges (EODs) for use in communication. For many species, male EODs are seasonally longer in duration than those of females, and among males, there are also individual differences in EOD duration. While EOD elongation can be induced by the administration of exogenous androgens, androgen levels have never before...