Sustainable development is widely accepted in the world. How to reflect the sustainable development capacity of a region is an important issue for enacting policies and plans. An index system for capacity assessment is established by employing the Entropy Weight Coefficient method. The results indicate that the sustainable development capacity of Shandong Province is improving in terms of its e...

Internet Piracy and Book Sales: A Field Experiment Michal Krawczyk Widespread Internet piracy continues to fuel the debate about the appropriate level of copyright enforcement. In this project we used experimental methods to study the effect which underlies calls for stringent anti-piracy measures, namely that infringement has detrimental impact on legal sales. Focusing on the book industry, we...

I of decision trees is a popular and effective method for solving classification problems in data-mining applications. This paper presents a new algorithm for multi-category decision tree induction based on nonlinear programming. This algorithm, termed OC-SEP (Oblique Category SEParation), combines the advantages of several other methods and shows improved generalization performance on a collec...

Clean water is becoming one of the most scarce and valuable resources in the twenty first century as its supply is finite and its traditional source is easily polluted by industries and population growth. Existing and traditional wastewater treatment methods are expensive and in most cases are either impractical or unsuitable for smaller communities and certain industries. The Vetiver System wa...

background: fertility as one of the factor affecting population growth itself is affected by various factors. therefore, identifying factors which can influence this component is very vital. the purpose of this study was comparative investigate fecundity rate of 15-49 year old and married women under imam-emdad-committee and rehabilitation organizations’ protection and 15-49 year old women who ...

A readout of an appropriately calibrated individual dosemeter placed on the surface of the anthropomorphic phantom could be considered as a good approximation of the personal dose equivalent Hp(10) that is recommended by ICRP and ICRU as a conservative estimation of effective dose in radiation protection. The response of such a dosemeter as well as the effective dose are modelled by Monte Carlo...