Abstract Climate change poses a threat to crop production and livelihoods of rural farming communities in Kenya, majority whom are mainly dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The purpose this study was examine farm-level adaptation responses towards climate their influencing factors, using case western Kenya. Structured questionnaire administered 210 farmers selected locations the region where ho...

presence of distributed generation (dg) in electric distribution systems provides an attractive new alternative in capacity expansion planning of these systems. in this paper a new model is developed for solving simultaneous placement of hv/mv substations and dg units as a static planning tool. this model aims to minimize fixed and variable costs of planning. constraints related to dgs, substat...

in this paper, first, a new criterion, titled “surplus percent of the customers” is defined for static transmission expansion planning in restructured power systems. then by a simple example, the new criterion is compared with some already presented market-based criteria and it is shown that the new criterion can realistically evaluate the transmission network expansion from the market view. in...

transport route planning is one of the most important and frequent activities in supply chain management. the design of information systems for route planning in real contexts faces two relevant challenges: the complexity of the planning and the lack of complete and precise information. the purpose of this paper is to nd methods for the development of transport route planning in uncertainty dec...

Tendency to optimization in last decades has resulted in creating multi-product manufacturing systems. Production planning in such systems is difficult, because optimal production volume that is calculated must be consistent with limitation of production system. Hence, integration has been proposed to decide about these problems concurrently. Main problem in integration is how we can relate pro...

introduction: breast conserving radiotherapy is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiation oncology department. a tangential parallel-opposed pair is usually used for this purpose. this technique is performed using 2d or 3d treatment planning systems. the aim of this study was to compare 2d treatment planning with 3d treatment planning in tangential irradiation in breast conse...