Good rainfall data can be obtained from recordings that are maintained and monitored continuously. Thus, the more rain stations there are, detailed will be. The station network density is expressed as area of watershed represented by one station. Meanwhile, pattern distribution states location placement in watershed. Ternate Island with an 76 km2 has located Akehuda Village, Gamayou Tabona Sasa...

A performance-based funding system like the United Kingdom's 'Research Excellence Framework' (REF) symbolizes the re-rationalization of higher education according to neoliberal ideology and New Public Management technologies. The REF is also significant for disclosing the kinds of behaviour that characterize universities' response to government demands for research auditability. In this paper, ...

According to the concept developed by Thomas Kuhn, a scientific revolution occurs when scientists encounter a crisis due to the observation of anomalies that cannot be explained by the generally accepted paradigm within which scientific progress has thereto been made: a scientific revolution can therefore be described as a change in paradigm aimed at solving a crisis. Described herein is an app...

The logistics industry is an important driving force for national economic development, and the cost of logistics is an important factor to measure the level of development of the logistics industry. The economical and social benefits due to the effective logistics cost control are notable, and it becomes the most direct means in extending the third-part profit. Therefore, how to implement the ...

This article explores the use of the best interest standard in the context of third-party interventions in ongoing parent-child relationships. I start by examining the history of the best interest standard and show that it has had different meanings in different eras. I then address the nature of the family and the question of whether interests beyond those addressed in the child's best interes...

Are Plurality voting, the Kemeny rule, Approval voting, and the Borda Mean Dichotomy rule all versions of the same voting rule? Yes, in a sense. In an extension of work by Barthélemy and Monjardet [3], we consider functions F that assign real number scoring weights F (R1, R2) to pairs of binary relations on a finite set A of alternatives, serving as symmetric measures of similarity between R1 a...