The eastern Mediterranean faces a severe water crisis: water supply decreases due to climate change, while demand increases due to rapid population growth. The GLOWA Jordan River project generates science-based management strategies for maximizing water productivity under global climate change. We use a novel definition of water productivity as the full range of services provided by landscapes ...

Rapid developments in medicine and medical technology during recent years have created a variety of ethical dilemmas including the allocation of limited or scarce resources such as money, instruments, medications, health-care facilities, time and manpower. This is quite a new dilemma, which has been created due to the advancements in very expensive scientific and technological measures. No coun...

The authors report and comment on student reactions to a clinical example of moral choice in the microallocation of scarce resources. Four patients require dialysis simultaneously, but only one kidney machine is available. What moral, as opposed to clinical, criteria are available to determine who should have priority?

Cities worldwide are growing at unprecedented rates, compromising their surrounding landscapes, and consuming many scarce resources [...]

Amman governorate is the largest in terms of population and urbanization Jordan that third most water-scarce country worldwide. It has also limited water resources were rapidly decreasing as results groundwater over-pumping climate changes generate a serious crisis. However, focused on Northwest governorate. The surface are available area well. overlaying between one hand other resulted differe...

This paper presents the task definition, resources, participating systems, and comparative results for the shared task on word alignment, which was organized as part of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts. The shared task included English–Inuktitut, Romanian–English, and English–Hindi sub-tasks, and drew the participation of ten teams from around the world with a total of...