The Rio Cobre Irrigation Scheme, Jamaica, supplies water to 5000 ha by allocating a ®xed unit discharge at each offtake. A computer water management model, IRMOS, was used to assess the scheme's performance during a typical operating year and to identify water management constraints to performance. An optimal water allocation policy was used as a benchmark against which the actual performance w...

Hydraulic systems of plants have evolved in the context of carbon allocation and fitness tradeoffs of maximizing carbon gain and water transport in the face of short and long-term fluctuations in environmental conditions. The resulting diversity of traits include a continuum of isohydry-anisohydry or high to low relative stomatal closure during drought, shedding of canopy foliage or disconnecti...

this paper studies one of the most important problems of those countries that are confronted with the water deficit and competition of rivals for the water allocation. in this research, by discussing on the currently used methods for minimum environmental water definition in iran, a method that is applicable efficiently and more precisely in the areas with no biological habitat data is introduc...

PREMISE OF STUDY Functional trait comparisons provide a framework with which to assess invasion and invasion resistance. However, recent studies have found evidence for both trait convergence and divergence among coexisting dominant native and invasive species. Few studies have assessed how multiple stresses constrain trait values and plasticity, and no study has included direct measurements of...

Cross-layer design approaches are critical to efficiently utilize radio resources. Resource allocation decision is made by assuming a single user. Multiple access scheme used is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDM). With the goal of choosing best error detection technique, various techniques are compared. A resource allocation algorithm is required to efficiently allocate pow...

The literature on transboundary water resources allocation modeling is still short on encompassing and analyzing complex geographic multiparty nature of basins. This study elaborates the Inter Temporal Euphrates and Tigris River Basin Model (ITETRBM), which is a linear programming based transboundary water resources allocation model maximizing net economic benefit from allocation of scarce wate...