the purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people participation in watershed management projects in dorod faraman & lalabad basin, kermanshah province. both qualitative and quantitative paradigms were considered in the study. the target population in quantitative section consisted all rural peoples in the dorod faraman & lalabad basin village...

purpose: promoting the extension programs is a challenge which extension professionals and planners faced with and detection of influencing factors on programs’ success or fail needs to significant time allocation and commitment, so extension and education programs aim to farmers’ empowerment are very important. today, many farmers are not interested in these programs for several reasons, so fa...

Steven J. Nowlan Synaptics, Inc. 2698 Orchard Parkway San Jose, CA 95134 We describe an extension to the Mixture of Experts architecture for modelling and controlling dynamical systems which exhibit multiple modes of behavior. This extension is based on a Markov process model, and suggests a recurrent network for gating a set of linear or non-linear controllers. The new architecture is demonstr...

Compendium is a knowledge mapping application equipped with graphical representations of ideas and arguments. Extension of the processes in Compendium with Semantic Web technologies can be beneficial for the intelligent searching of concepts or ideas, and supporting decision making process. This paper presents the extended Compendium which exploits the Semantic Web for knowledge representation ...

The shuttle service in tourism depends on physical accessibility of a destination, on movement within the destination and the transport itself. In today’s world, transport is not just the act of getting to a wanted destination. Moreover, travelling by a certain vehicle can be a tourist attraction, if the transportation means is designed to arouse the feeling of joy and excitement. The purpose o...

this research was conducted to determine and study the profile of participants, the contexts and the mechanisms of public participation. the methodology was survey and respondents were 150 of experts of department of environment of iran. sampling was random and mail questionnaire was used for data collection. the questionnaire used a 5-point scale to explore experts statements related to extent...

agricultural products have a main role in nonoil exports. pistachio is one of the country's mostimportant export products. thus, this study is aimed at evaluating and identifying pistachiomarketing in rafsanjan which is carried out in 2011. this is applied study and its methodology iscorrelation. the statistical population was 120 agricultural extension experts of rafsanjantownship were studied...

abstract- according to article 44 of the i.r. of iran constitution, the iranian economy consists of three sectors; the state, the cooperative, and the private sectors. the aim of this study was to present a hierarchy of criteria for selecting the best economic sector for agricultural development. analytic hierarchy process (ahp) was used to calculate the relative importance of either criteria o...

In this paper, we present Committee, a new multi-class learning algorithm related to the Winnow family of algorithms. Committee is an algorithm for combining the predictions of a set of sub-experts in the online mistake-bounded model of learning. A sub-expert is a special type of attribute that predicts with a distribution over a finite number of classes. Committee learns a linear function of s...