considering the importance of parasitic wasps in biological control of pests, a faunal study was conducted in the year 2012 on eulophid wasps (hym.: chalcidoidea) in rice fields in the east of guilan province, southern coast of caspian sea. several specimens were captured via malaise traps. the specimens were identified as aprostocetus deobensis (graham), aprostocetus mycerinus (walker), elasmu...

Green bonds will play a key role in a lower-carbon economy The lower-carbon, sustainable global economy called for by the IEA is being rapidly and widely embraced by corporations, governments, and NGOs around the world. Engaging and partnering with the capital markets will be key to realizing this new economy, and green bonds will play an important role in both growing climate-friendly industri...

W HEN we write an article, we usually do so for three constituencies. First, we write it for ourselves. No action more clearly codifies a research endeavor than writing an article about the research. Flaws and gaps become apparent and are corrected or filled, and new lines of inquiry present themselves. To quote Norman Mailer, " I don't know what I think until I write it down. " Second, we writ...

In this work we take advantage of valuable information encoded in taxonomies to improve the quality of recommender systems. We present three strategies that explore the use of taxonomies: (i) category descriptors, (ii) classification features and (iii) category filters. We provide a real-case study over the book domain, in which the recommendation target is a set of 100 news page from The New Y...

Donor Agencies/Partners: • PA Consulting Group • Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) • Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA) • Government of Jamaica Ministry of Industry and Tourism • Government of Jamaica National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) • Jamaica Bureau of Standards • Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) • Government of Jamaica Human Employment and Resource Tr...

Many enterprises have been devoting a significant portion of their budget to new product development (NPD) in order to distinguish their products from those of their competitors, and to make them better fit the needs and wants of customers. Hence, businesses should develop products that fulfill the customer demands, since this will increase the enterprise’s competitiveness and it is an essentia...

The traditional methods for mining classification rules such as heuristics or greedy methods only generate the rules that are too general or overfitting to do with the given database. Thus, they introduce high error ratio. Recently, a new method of mining classification rules is proposed: classification rules mining based on association rules (CARs). It is more advantageous than the traditional...

Online recommendation services (widely known as recommender systems) can support potential buyers by providing product recommendations that match their preferences. When integrated into e-markets, recommendation services may offer important added value. They can help online buyers to save time and make informed purchase decisions, as well as e-market operators to respond to buyer product querie...

Chen Yang (Writer) (Last Name) (First Name) (Initial) (Title) Recent Trends of Hospitality and Tourism Research Literature on China: A Content Analysis Hospitality & Tourism Dr. Charles J. Metelka March, 2001 53 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No of pages) American Psychological Association (APA) Publication Manual (Name of Style Manual Used in this Study) As tourism planning,...

Doente do sexo masculino, 73 anos, com antecedentes pessoais de doença arterial coronária e enfarte agudo do miocárdio ínfero-posterior, referenciado à consulta de cardiologia por queixas de insuficiência cardíaca crónica NYHA III. O ecocardiograma transtorácico revelou a presença de pseudoaneurisma/aneurisma ventricular inferior e posterior gigante, preenchido parcialmente por trombo, e condic...