Although in most of the rural development plans, relocation of informal settlements is oftenconsidered as an efficient solution to increase safety of rural communities against natural and man-made disasters,such as, earthquakes, fire hazards, floods, etc. an evaluation of recent experiences in the relocation projects show thatthe relocated community is often unsatisfied with the new residential...

In the traditional fuzzy logic, the expert’s degree of confidence d(A&B) in a complex statement A&B (or A∨B) is uniquely determined by his/her degrees of confidence d(A) and d(B) in the statements A and B, as f&(d(A), d(B)) for an appropriate “and”-operation (t-norm). In practice, for the same degrees d(A) and d(B), we may have different degrees d(A&B) depending on the relation between A and B....

this study examines iranian agricultural researchers’ attitudes regarding collaboration with extension workers and the variables associated with the researchers’ attitudes. data were obtained using a questionnaire developed by agricultural research centers of charmahal and bakhtiari, isfahan, safiabad and khuzestan in 1998. the findings re-vealed that the researchers’ attitudes towards collabor...