As a local environmental issue with global importance, land use/land cover change (LUCC) has always been one of the key issues in geography and environmental studies with the expansion of regional case studies. While most of LUCC studies in China have focused on urban land use change, meanwhile, compared with the rapid change of urban land use in the coastal areas of eastern China, slow but dis...

The purpose of this paper is to generate a wider acceptance of emergy analysis a decisionmaking tool in both the public and private sectors. The key to increasing the application of this powerful tool is to link it to productivity. Much of business and public policy decision-making is based on productivity and related efficiency measures. The productivity measures in common use today are narrow...

D Bulletin of the World Health Organization | August 2008, 86 (8) research systems, institutions and personnel. As a result, research activities in many lowand middle-income countries reflect more closely foreign and global health research priorities than the research needs of the countries in which research is being conducted. As externally funded research is virtually monopolised by HIV/AIDS,...

We outline a vision for an ambitious program to understand the economy and financial markets as a complex evolving system of coupled networks of interacting agents. This is a completely different vision from that currently used in most economic models. This view implies new challenges and opportunities for policy and managing economic crises. The dynamics of such models inherently involve sudde...

based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

ABSTRACT- Crop rotation has many benefits for agro-ecosystems production. In order to evaluate two current rotation systems of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production in Kamalabad region of Fasa, an experiment was conducted during 2015-2016 growing season. The rotation systems were fallow-wheat and cotton (Gossypium spp.)-wheat. Research plots were arranged as a randomized complete block design...

The investigation deals with economic growth in emerging markets small economies in the historical context as well as peculiarities of ultra-small territories development and argues that due to the lack of resources these countries and regions acquired the characteristics of economic development sustainability. Nowadays in different scaled transitive economies – small and ultra-small resource–p...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of expert systems technology and its potential applications. The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held two workshops of expert systems, the First OECD Workshop on Knowledge-Based Expert Systems in Transportation held in ESPOO, Finland, in June 1990, to review current expert systems activities in the OECD countr...