Extensive livestock grazing even in unsuitable land has increasingly grown in most parts of semi-arid rangeland. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to identify suitable land for livestock grazing for optimum utilization while causing minimum impact to the environment. This paper adapted the schematic model based on the concepts presented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of suitabi...

In this study, a land use/land cover change analysis method was developed to examine patterns of land use/land cover conversions of cropland to urban uses and conversions of rangeland to cropland uses in the United States (US) Midwest region. We used the US 2001 and 2006 National Land Cover Datasets (NLCD) for our spatial analyses of these conversion trends. Our analysis showed that the eastern...

Asymptotic buckling analysis of elastic structures can be considered a well established procedure (Budiansky, 1974) . It consists in bifurcation analysis of a system of oneparameter differential equations: balance, compatibility and constitutive equations . The aim of this work was to experiment with the use of automatic symbolic computation in the asymptotic bifurcation analysis of elastic bea...

Introduction: Halvi is a traditional dairy product made from sheep milk in Mazandaran province, especially in the mountainous areas of Noor and Kojur. The fungus used in the preparation of Halvi is Auricularia auricula-judae. The present study aimed to investigate the chemical composition and microbiological properties of Halvi samples produced in various regions in No...

Based on the homotopy analysis method (HAM), an efficient approach is proposed for obtaining approximate series solutions to fourth order two-point boundary value problems. We apply the approach to a linear problem which involves a parameter c and cannot be solved by other analytical methods for large values of c, and obtain convergent series solutions which agree very well with the exact solut...

carbon sequestration in rangeland ecosystems has been identified as a suitable strategy to offset greenhouse gas emissions that information of carbon sequestration hotspots is a good tool to improve rangeland management. objectives for this study were to assessment potential carbon sequestration in various rangeland types, to identify carbon sequestration hotspots and to study the effective fact...

In this paper, we obtain some interesting properties of differential subordination and superordination for the classes of symmetric analytic functions in the unit disk, by applying Noor integral operator. We investigate several sandwich theorems on basis of this theory.

CARMA (CAse-based Range Management Adviser) is a system that integrates case-based reasoning with model-based reasoning for rangeland pest management. CARMA’s predictions of rangeland forage loss by grasshoppers were compared to predictions by 15 expert entomologists using either global or case-specific adaptation weights. Under both conditions, CARMA’s predictions were more accurate than CARMA...