lack of awareness of the critical factors involved in production of plants and sometimes, the cultivation of plants in areas unsusceptible to plant, can increase the amount of chemical fertilizer consumption in order to compensate the subsequent reduction of plant yield. this would increase environmental pollution. thus, identifying of suitable areas where could supply plants initial needs of t...

quantitative assessment is the most important means to identify hazard potential and manage risk for an industrial process. the implement of quantitative assessment in the early stage will help to develop inherently safer process, eliminating the hazard and reduce the possibility of accidental chain events and the magnitude of consequences. in this paper, after reviewing the presently available...

china is one of the largest grain producing and consuming nations in the world and the importance of grain security to the chinese can never be overemphasized. in this paper, we present a comprehensive early-warning model for evaluating the status of grain security in china. the model is based on the analytic hierarchy process (ahp) method and the dempster–shafer theory (dst). we divided the ri...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: health care organizations have begun applying six sigma methods into their operations. on the other hand, the difficulty of using indicators to compare health care providers in a meaningful way has led to an increased focus on using information about “adverse events”- that is , events that should not happen i...

g0005 bogus empowerment Letting people think they have control over outcomes and the power to act on their own judgments when they actually do not have this control or power; can be the unintended consequence of hyperbole about the democratic nature of a situation. g0010 ethnography A descriptive study of an intact cultural or social group or an individual or individuals within the group, based...

IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) is an e-learning standard supporting interoperability and reusability of assessment tests/items. However, it has insufficient expressiveness to specify various assessment processes, especially, the new forms of assessment. In order to capture current educational practices in online assessment from the perspectives of assessment process management, we...