Outstanding editors

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

Outstanding paper prize 2008.

Outstanding Challenges in OLAP

The core challenges associated with enterprise OLAP are how to structure the database and how to build a decision support architecture that allows for complex analysis and qualification. The primary components of an OLAP system – the database and the analysis engine – must be capable of handling large amounts of data in varying structures. Warehouses will continue to grow and contain data that ...

Outstanding bile pigment problems.

In this review of the chemistry, biochemistry and chemical pathology of the bile pigments I am well aware that I shall ask many more questions than I am able to answer. It seems appropriate that the subject should be considered under the five headings: -Chemistry; Formation from Haem Proteins; Transport in the Blood; Conjugation and Transport to the Bile; and Changes in the Gut. I shall conclud...

Outstanding in the Field

Land acquisition and ownership is an important part of modern agriculture in North America. Given the unique nature of farmland as a good, this paper develops a multi-agent simulation of farmland auction markets in a Canadian context. The model is used to generate data on land transactions between farm agents to determine if a particular auction design or type is better suited to farmland trans...