precise application of the n fertilizer rate is critical to achieve maximum yield. in major regions, empirical methods were used for determining n fertilizer requirement. these methods cannot take into account variation in management and environmental conditions on determining fertilizer requirement. crop simulation models can provide an alternative means of determining the optimum crop n requi...

Maturity models enabling the assessment of integrated management systems (IMS) are crucial in order to provide a comparison between IMS from different companies. This paper intends to report the efforts made and the methodologies followed to develop an IMS maturity assessment model. Additionally, the paper aims at presenting such model, illustrate its usefulness, and demonstrate how companies m...

Many different quantitative assessment models have been proposed to measure and report the usability of a general software product for various business and design purposes. However, there are several problems coupled with existing models that consequently bias and affect the process and results of the usability assessment. Moreover, they do not aid their usage by analysts who are not experience...

Although many banks still report strong profits, important competitive, technological and regulatory changes force these companies to reconsider their strategies and structures. Among the current developments are initiatives to increase flexibility by reducing fixed costs and to leverage activities with competitors and other partners. Contrary to manufacturing industries, financial companies ha...

We present a decomposition approach for integrated assessment modeling of climate policy based on a linear approximation of the climate system. Our objective is to demonstrate the usefulness of decomposition for integrated assessment models posed in a complementarity format. First, the complementarity formulation cum decomposition permits a precise representation of post-terminal damages thereb...

This paper presents a case study to illustrate the features and the stages of the Tropos methodology. Tropos is an agent-oriented software engineering methodology that covers four development stages: early and late requirements analysis, architectural design and detail design. The electronic Single Assessment Process (eSAP), and electronic system to deliver the integrated health assessment of h...

Each period's emissions are translated into global concentrations and in turn to the impacts on mean global indicators such as temperature change. MERGE may be operated in a "cost-effective" mode supposing that international negotiations lead to a time path of emissions that satisfies a constraint on concentrations or on temperature change. The model may also be operated in a "benefit-cost" mod...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an integrated model of emotionally focused approach and gottman model on the quality of marital relationship in married women. in this study the quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test and follow up with a control group were used. the study population included married women who went to tehransar health center, district 21. th...

Researchers have defined a number of process modeling methods and have developed in-roads to process-centered environments that support process modeling and project control. However, there is little research that incorporates variability of the human condition into process modeling. The negative effects of numerous variables on the quality of human situation assessment and decision making can b...

introduction: self-assessment in healthcare is inevitable, like in all other sections. scarce resources, necessity of performance refining, vitality of provided services and quality of services are evidence for necessity of having a proper system of self-assessment of performance in this area. hence, the purpose of present study was to study areas of improvement based on european foundation for...