Groundwater is a vital resource in Australian agriculture. Increased demand for water resulting from rapid economic development accompanied by poor climatic conditions (e.g. low rainfall levels) has induced an increased reliance on groundwater harvesting to sustain intensive irrigation practices. Overdraft of groundwater as a result of reduced surface water availability, increased economic viab...

Middle East countries have begun to implement economic reforms to stimulate private investment, promote economic growth and support the transition to market economy. Although, it is difficult to define the direct impact of the accounting system reform on economic transformation, as there are many other conditions that have influence on the transition process. However, with the central position ...

to study art, sociologists have so far related it either to the economic base of the artistic product or to the artist's ideology or world-view or the class structure of the audience and art consumers. the importance of none of these factors could be denied; however, what is more important is the relation between these factors, the complex network of political, economic and social relations tha...

This paper proposes a novel approach for generation scheduling using sensitivitycharacteristic of a Security Analyzer Neural Network (SANN) for improving static securityof power system. In this paper, the potential overloading at the post contingency steadystateassociated with each line outage is proposed as a security index which is used forevaluation and enhancement of system static security....

BACKGROUND Access to tertiary care is a problem common to many small states, especially island ones. Although medical treatment overseas (MTO) may result in cost savings to high income countries, it can be a relatively high cost for low and middle income source countries. The purpose of this study was to estimate the costs of overseas medical treatment incurred by the households of medical trav...