Land managers need cost-effective methods for mapping and characterizing forest fuels quickly and accurately. The launch of satellite sensors with increased spatial resolution may improve the accuracy and reduce the cost of fuels mapping. The objective of this research is to evaluate the accuracy and utility of imagery from the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (AST...

species diversity is one of the important characteristics shows rangeland ecosystems changes, which isalready under effects of management practices. thus, this research was conducted to study speciesdiversity variation and assess suitable distributive abundance model in three rangeland sites in westazerbaijan. these sites were almost similar in environmental properties and differ in view point ...

Portfolio optimization using private equity is typically based on one of three indices: listed private equity, transaction-based private equity, or appraisal value-based private equity indices. However, we show that none of these indices is fully suitable for portfolio optimization. We introduce here a new benchmark index for venture capital and buyouts, which is updated monthly, adjusted for a...

The aim of this research was to determine the effective drought indices such as NDVI, VCI, EVI, TVX, VTCI, VHI, TCI and NVSWI based on some criteria. The satellite-based drought indices have different data from vegetation and temperature conditions. Linear and trend analysis showed that satellite-based drought indices based on vegetation condition were not more efficient indices such as NDVI an...

The groundwater quality was assessed nearby places of Nagalkeni, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The selected physico-chemical parameters were pH, EC, TDS, total hardness (TH), anions like Ca, Mg, Na and K, and cations like SO4, NO3, Cl2, HCO3, and CO3, and Cr(VI). In order to suit the groundwater for drinking and irrigation purposes, compared the value of selected parameters with the value of sele...

The aim of this study was to define breeding goals and determine the suitable selection index in Rayeni cashmere goat using simulated data. To select animals for increased quantity of meat, milk and cashmere produced, body weight of the doe (BWD), milk weight (MW), cashmere weight (CW), weight of kids for sale (WK) and number of kids for sale per doe (NK) was used as selection criteria. Four se...

free surface modeling plays an important role in some ocean structures design, especially in oscillating water column (owc) devices. boundary element method (bem) is a suitable method for free surface modeling due to its simplicity, quick solving, and low data storage requirement. in this paper, bem was used for free surface modeling in owc chamber and out of it. linear kinematic and dynamic bo...

Reports have shown that potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in air, water, and soil systems expose humans to carcinogenic non-carcinogenic health risks. In southeastern Nigeria, works used data-driven algorithms predicting PTEs groundwater are scarce. addition, only a few simulated water quality indices using machine learning modelling methods the region. Therefore, this study, physicochemical an...

Developing effective selection programs for improving the performance of livestock requires taking the economical selection indices into account. The present study was performed for comparing four selection indices developed in Kermani sheep through simulated data. The relative importance of traits was determined based on the estimated economic values and consequently, the most beneficial trait...