People can adopt many different energy-saving measures, but how can they be encouraged to take action? Recommender systems could offer a solution, but how recommender systems are used and perceived will depend on the level of knowledge people have regarding energy-saving measures. We test an energysaving recommender system that uses Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) to recommend energysavin...

The study explores the elements of interaction among related departments and the management of project life cycle during new product development. The study takes laptop industry as a research objective, and adopts a single-case-study method. The results show the elements of interaction among related departments such as product lines, product map, information of defective product, service inform...

This paper identified and examined saving behaviour and determinants of saving mobilization by the rural co-operators in Southern Tigrai Ethiopia. The input for the study was obtained from randomly selected 120 rural household savers from six purposively selected rural savings and credit cooperatives. The result of the study using least squares method showed that savings mobilized is determined...

To improve the management of irrigation district is a key to develop water-saving agriculture. Based on the basic principles of water-saving irrigation, and using the method of Modified Penman Monteith and water balance equation, The system of irrigation management and decision support based on WEBGIS was developed,which is according to the soil moisture, crop growth status, meteorology change ...

The recently developed method of generational accounting facilitates detailed measurement of fiscal policy’s impact on the intergenerational distribution of resources. Earlier studies for the United States, using the Social Security Administration’s intermediate population projections, concluded that current U.S. fiscal policy embodies a significant generational imbalance. This paper examines t...

Cultivated coffee trees are under serious threat from climate change, disease and insect pests. The homogeneity of the crop makes it particularly vulnerable: nearly all of the world’s cultivated coffee originated with a handful of plants grown in Ethiopia. Little scientific research has gone into cultivating coffee, but that situation is beginning to change. Scientists are now hurrying to intro...

nowadays energy has significant role in socio economic development of counties; any decision on energy sector may affect the broad area in societies. system approach in energy modeling as an efficient method is known by many researchers in management and planning in a country particularly in energy sector. also system dynamics is one of the efficient methods, for reason unique ability at solvin...