The Jarmelista autochthonous bovine breed has a sustainable production and is part of the culture Portuguese territory, representing touristic attraction originating differentiated beef product that can only be found in particular region country. However rural livestock population evolution Portugal’s inland demonstrated great regression with consequences for environment nature conservation. In...

This article discusses t,he selection of the domain for a knowledge-based expert system for a corporate application The selection of the domain is a critical task in an expert system development At the st,art of a project looking into the development of an expert, syst,em, the knowledge engineering project team must investigate one or several possible expert system domains They must decide whet...

Auto regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models have been widely used to calculate monthly time series data formed by interannual variations of monthly data or inter-monthly variation. However, the influence brought about by inter-monthly variations within each year is often ignored. An improved ARIMA model is developed in this study accounting for both the interannual and inter-monthl...

The “Thar Desert” region of Rajasthan in north-west India is one of the most inhospitable landscapes on earth. The desert has sparse vegetation and the ground surface is exposed to sun, atmosphere and associated physical forces. Ever increasing human and livestock population have put heavy demands for plant products, resulting in over exploitation of well adapted plants. Plants like species of ...

introduction continuing environmental crisis, human was aware of the necessity for revising its method of dealing with the environment during the development. therefore, changing the development paradigm from classical to modern, sustainable development and environmental issues become major pillars of development and achieve sustainable development depends on the complete recognition of environ...

Abstract This work investigates how to prevent sustainable tourism from turning into over-tourism dynamics. As a matter of fact, the former has shown be capable bringing profit traditional rural activities (i.e. agriculture), sector, environment and cultural heritage region; whereas latter, more often than not, harms brings detriment natural landscape. Hereof, landscape is fundamental resource ...