considering iran geographical location, water is the most limited factor in agriculture section. therefore, it would be logical to consider water as one of the most significant criteria in selection of cultivation model. the purpose of this study is assigning cultivation pattern based on economic value of water in gotvand township in agronomic year 2008-2009. so it was necessary to computes the...

introduCtion ELEPHANTS PLAY a huge role within any landscape where they occur. They are habitat engineers. As charismatic species they awaken emotions among people like few others. As keystone species, they contribute significantly to the integrity of ecosystems and must be very carefully managed. From an economic perspective, they are also value generators. In this broad context, we first cons...

3 The distinction between forecast quality and economic value in a cost-loss 4 formulation is well known. Also well-known is their complex relationship, even 5 with some instances of a reversal between the two, where higher quality is 6 associated with lower economic value, and vice versa. It is reasonable to expect 7 such counter-intuitive results when forecast quality and economic value both,...

This paper describes ways to evaluate the value of walking (the activity) and walkability (the quality of walking conditions, including safety, comfort and convenience). Walking and walkability provide a variety of benefits, including basic mobility, consumer cost savings, cost savings (reduced external costs), efficient land use, community livability, improved fitness and public health, econom...

in order to estimate economic values of productive traits (meat, milk and wool) in taleshi native sheep breed of iran, records from economic parameters and performance of local taleshi flocks were used. the economic values of traits were used to select the maximum profit estimation also to study the sensitivity rate of the model the effects of 20 percent increase / decrease in the price of milk...

in recent years, risk management in respect of enterprise-wide risk management (ewrm) has become more important and highly critical to major corporations worldwide including malaysia. in fact, it is interesting to note that when the government of malaysia passed the code of corporate governance in the year 2000, most of the public limited companies (plcs) in malaysia was struggling to implement...