Purpose: The main propose of this study is determining appropriate knowledge acquisition techniques to extract tunnel expert’s knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: A porposive sampling method was used and data were collected via face-to-face interview based on a validated Knowledge Acquisition Questionnaire (KAQ). A total of 33 experts in tunnel industry who were presented by Iranian Tunnel ...

Pseudochrysops bomoi was described by Comstock and Huntington (1943) from a suite of 12 specimens from Hispaniola (all from Haiti). They used t he combination H emiargus bornoi for the species, since the underside pattern resembles in many ways that of the blues of the genus Hemiargus . Nabokov (1945) erected the genus Pseudochrysops for this lycaenid; the name currently used is Pseudochrysops ...

Satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) has proven to be an effective tool for monitoring surface deformation from volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and groundwater withdrawal. This paper seeks to expand the list of applications of InSAR data to include monitoring subsidence possibly associated with thaw settlement over the Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain. To test our hypothes...

En Normandie, chaque année, 3,6 Mt de tonnes blé tendre (Triticum aestivum) sont récoltées, ce qui correspond à 10% des productions françaises. La région occupe donc une place importante dans le grenier français. Face au changement climatique, la filière céréalière pose question son adaptation. Cet article propose projeter les conditions climatiques pour aux horizons 2050 et 2100 partir données...

L’article analyse la dynamique des systèmes d’élevage d’un territoire montagneux albanais sous fortes contraintes socio-économiques, géographiques et historiques. L’objectif est de comprendre les processus qui ont conduit à coexistence contrastés dans ce montrer comment cette liée l’utilisation ressources pastorales. Suite chute du régime communiste en 1991, forte migration population vers zone...