Clustering was used to divide dryland farming areas in western Iran into homogeneoussub-regions to identify dryland farming potential, considering drought impacts. Clusteringutilized eight algorithms/four indices to detect optimal number of clusters. Ward’s algorithmvalidated by Silhouette index, produced the best result by detecting 7 dryland farming clusters.Based on similar P/ETo values, fou...

One of the most important developments in the existence of human society was the successful shift from a subsistence economy based on foraging to one primarily based on food production derived from cultivated plants and domesticated animals. The shift to plant food production occurred in only a few independent centers around the world and involved a commitment to increased sedentism and social ...

As the result of establishment of brands for some farming districts in Japan, it is a big social issue that agricultural products of which geographical origins are camouflaged. To solve this problem, we have proposed a distributed system that identifies cultivated places of vegetables by using their trace element content as coresearch with agricultural chemists. This system records trace elemen...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com learnt from the Macasan and the Buginese, who stop by in the island on their trip to fish in the Southern seas, that fishing can make much easier money than farming in dry lands. Nevertheless, most of them remain among the poorest in the island. In fact, most of income coming from fishing goes to the boss who owns the boat and equipment, and most im...

organizational culture and managers' personal attitudes play a crucial role in conducting change initiatives, especially strategic change. in this regard, middle managers' commitment to change is of great importance and cynicism is the biggest obstacle in forming this commitment. in the present study, it is investigated whether organizational justice dimensions, senior management supp...

Global population in the year 2020 will be a third higher than in 1995, but demand for food and fiber will rise by an even higher proportion, as incomes grow, diets diversify, and urbanization accelerates. However this demand is met, population and farming pressure on land resources will intensify greatly. There is growing concern in some quarters that a decline in long-term soil productivity i...

background: organizational climate is one of the effective factors in organizational commitment. organizational climate affects organizational staff behaviors. the aim of current study was to assess the relation between organizational climate components with organizational commitment components among nurses in selected hospitals of tums in 2011.   methods: this study was cross - sectional surve...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship of organizational commitment and job satisfaction with emotional intelligence of employees. the statistical population included all staff of physical education general dpeartment of lorestan province (n=50). due to the low sample size, the sample equaled the statistical population. to collect data,  the emotional intelligence questionnaire...

the present study was conducted to investigate qualitative and quantitative aspects of irrigated wheat production in three major farming systems i.e. peasant, commercial and cooperative systems in kordestan province. accordingly, seven basic hypotheses were tested. the data were drawn from individual interviews with 360 farmers who planted wheat in 2004-2005. the sample was selected using multi...