The evaluation of the exploration risk in the oil industry is a fundamental component of the decision process related to the exploratory phase. In this paper the two basic components of the exploratory risk: trap geometry and trapped hydrocarbon quantities (fluid), are compounded in a single coherent uncertainty and sensitivity approach. The results clarify that the model geometry influences ea...

This pragmatic study examines love as a mode of communication. Our focus is on the receiver side: what makes an individual feel loved and how felt love is defined through daily interactions. Our aim is to explore everyday life scenarios in which people might experience love, and to consider people's converging and diverging judgments about which scenarios indicate felt love. We apply a cognitiv...

Possibility theory was initiated by Zadeh in 1978 as an alternative to probability theory. Probability theory is not efficient in the study of those uncertainty situations in which phenomena occur with a small frequency. In such cases it is preferable to apply techniques offered by possibility theory.In foundation of possibility theory one started on a paralel line with probability theory. Rand...

The 2001 Output Area Classification (2001 OAC) is an open source geodemographic classification of the UK built exclusively from 2001 UK Census data. There has been considerable user interest in its applicability to subsequent time periods, particularly given the potential propensity of characteristics and attributes in some areas to change during inter-censual periods. Users often purchase comm...

The Global Drylands Observing System proposed in this issue should reduce the huge uncertainty about the extent of desertification and the rate at which it is changing, and provide valuable information to scientists, planners and policy-makers. However, it needs careful design if information outputs are to be scientifically credible and salient to the needs of people living in dry areas. Its de...

today, the country's banking system, according to the discussions to join the world trade organization is encountered with new challenges such as entry of foreign banks, emerging private banks and increasing the activities of financial and credit institutions. therefore, in order to survive and compete in this dynamic environment banking organizations require paying more attention to human...

Urban land use classification from remotely sensed images has drawn great attention in the past decades. Most researchers derive land use data from remotely sensed images alone, but the results are not quite satisfying for detecting detailed land use classes in urban areas. Fuzzy urban land use classes proposed here consist of a number of fuzzy memberships that offer direct links to findings fr...

The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna (Austria) in cooperation with the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) in Nairobi (Kenya) has setup an operational processing chain for mapping drought occurrence and strength for the territory of Kenya using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) NDVI at 250 m ground resolution from 2000 onwards. ...