the present study was carried out to evaluate three interpolation methods including weighted moving average (wma) with the power of 2 and 3, kriging and cokriging methods. data of 23 wells in mazandaran province were collected in fall and spring 2006. seven parameters including electrical conductivity (ec), ph, total dissolved solids (tds), sodium adsorption ratio (sar), total hardness (th), ch...

Ever-growing data volumes demand for storage systems beyond current file systems abilities, particularly, a powerful querying capability. With the rise of XML, the database community has been challenged by semi-structured data processing, enhancing their field of activity. Since file systems are structured hierarchically they can be mapped to XML and as such stored in and queried by an XML-awar...

Article history: Received 14 April 2009 Available online 17 November 2009

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