The paper summarizes the preliminary results from the analysis of data collected during the 2008 and 2009 vegetative seasons in a northern Italy vineyard (Vitis vinifera L., Barbera variety) and the simulations carried out in the same period with the land surface model UTOPIA. The aim of the work is to study the influence of the meteorological factors on the plant conditions. We collected a set...

Utopian thought has been discredited because attempts to re-engineer society using Utopian formulae have invariably produced violence and despotism. But the apparent eclipse of Utopia has left a yawning gap, for economic and social conditions across the globe suggest a need for alternatives to the reigning social order – and thus for Utopian thinking which avoids the pitfalls of ‘classical’ Uto...

Islamic Finance is more than an asset class – it is a way of life lived by 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. But its reach goes even further – non-Islamic countries, governments, and businesses, have all invested in or issued Islamic securities for one reason or another. With the ongoing push of globalization of trade and finance, Islamic financial flows, long a localized phenomenon, have b...

Load sharing in large heterogeneous distributed systems allows users to access vast amount of computing resources scattered around the system and may provide substantial performance improvements to applications We discuss the design and implementation issues in Utopia a load sharing facility speci cally built for large and heterogeneous systems The system has no restriction on the types of task...

The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent and more numerous than human beings. This possibility raises substantial concern over the moral nature of such intelligent machines, and of the changes they will cause in society. Will we have the chance to determine th...

Department of Community Medicine, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Department of Internal Medicine, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Institute of Education, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, International Islamic University, Malaysia. Department of Family Medicine,...

any philosophical poet has a utopia. jamil sidqi al-zahawi was a philosophical poet, who analyzed phenomena of the universe from a philosophical perspective. he played a great role in awakening and motivating the nation and in developing in them the need for a better life. his intention was to promotecertain humanistic values in the society with his poems, and he therefore set out to build foun...

In this paper a computational method to find the solutions of a system of nonlinear equations as the utopia points of a suitable multiobjective optimization problem is proposed. These utopia points are points that minimize/maximize all the objective functions of the multiobjective problem at once. The proposed algorithm finds the utopia points as limit points of trajectories which are solutions...