Water loss management includes various methods and processes, it is possible to ensure sustainable urban water use these methods. However, important the most appropriate tools analyze according international literature in energy efficiency management. In this study, aimed perform basic analysis, which basis for systematic, planned management, develop analysis that provide more precise accurate ...

Supplier performance evaluation is a decision-making problem that involves quantitative and qualitative metrics. Although several models allow the use of linguistic terms such as "low" "high" to evaluate suppliers, none them enables application expressions, which especially useful when decision makers hesitates express their evaluations. This study proposes model based on Hesitant Fuzzy TOPSIS ...

108 INTRODUCTION Altruistic behaviours have been the object of abundant theoretical and empirical social science research for some thirty years (Chac—n, 1985, Piliavin and Charng, 1990). In this field there are two tendencies that have captured the majority of research attention. The first of these is represented by unexpected situations in which help is offered to strangers, reflecting the alt...

Researchers at Washington State University conducted an independent evaluation of the first year of the Washington State Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder Pilot Program. The evaluation, which compared ladder centers with a control group, verified that the career and wage ladder works to improve the quality of early childhood education by reducing teacher turnover and encouraging ...

Figure 1. PILOT telescope, enclosure and tower INTRODUCTION PILOT (The Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a 2.4m optical/infrared telescope, proposed for Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, with target first light at the end of 2012.

Scientific problems that depend on processing large amounts of data require overcoming challenges in multiple areas: managing large-scale data distribution, controlling co-placement and scheduling of data with compute resources, and storing, transferring, and managing large volumes of data. Although there exist multiple approaches to addressing each of these challenges and the complexity of dis...