overgrazing and inappropriate use of taleghan rangelands has led to poor and very poor condition for almost all vegetation types. taking the importance of rangelands in forage production and other benefits into consideration, management of these rangelands and improving their condition seems essential. the present research was conducted using data integration of vegetation, condition, slope, so...

BACKGROUND Shigellosis is rare in Taiwan, with an average annual incidence rate of 1.68 cases per 100,000 persons in 2000-2007. However, the incidence rate for a mountainous township in eastern Taiwan, Zhuoxi, is 60.2 times the average rate for the entire country. Traveling between Zhuoxi's 6 villages (V1-V6) is inconvenient. Disease transmission among the villages/tribes with endemic shigellos...

in recent years, changes in catchments water balance due to land use management have become the main concern of water resources authorities in iran. due to rapid population growth and land use changes, especially construction of taleghan dam, taleghan catchment has undergone rapid changes such as urban development, declining of rangelands, and deterioration of environment and erosion of soil re...

An efficient approach to implement dynamic batch means estimators in simulation output analysis Mingchang Chih and Wheyming Tina Song* System Development Center, Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Lungtan Township, Taoyuan, Taiwan 32546, Republic of China; Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, Republic...

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan 2Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Road, Mig-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan 3Graduate Institute of Networking Communication Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, 168, Jifong E. Road, Wufong Township, Taichung City 41349, Taiwan 4Department of Electrical En...

The identification and management of ecological restoration areas play important roles in promoting sustainable urban development. However, current research lacks a scientific basis for the scope scale restoration. Further, absence framework to assess policy goals public preferences that leads across science-policy interface is difficult, existing frameworks’ performance has little applicabilit...

The water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) strongly determines the agricultural development in arid areas. Evaluation of WRCC is important balancing availability with society’s economic and environmental demands. Given demand for sustainable utilization resources, we combine stress index comprehensive use multi-source data to evaluate its influencing factors at township scale. It makes up def...