introduction: fao aquacrop model (raes et al., 2009a; steduto et al., 2009) is a user-friendly and practitioner oriented type of model, because it maintains an optimal balance between accuracy, robustness, and simplicity; and it requires a relatively small number of model input parameters. the fao aquacrop model predicts crop productivity, water requirement, and water use efficiency under water...

Sensitivity analysis involves determining the contribution of individual input factors to uncertainty in model predictions. The most commonly used approach when doing a sensitivity analysis on spatial models is using Monte Carlo simulation. There are a number of techniques for calculating sensitivity indices from the Monte Carlo simulations, some more effective or efficient than others. These t...

sheep is one of the important hosts for hydatidosis in iran as a hyperendemic region worldwide. in the present study, the efficacy of counter immuno-electerophoresis (cie) and pcr tests to detect sheep hydatid cyst infection was carried out. for this, soluble antigen was provided using hydatid cyst fluids (hcfs). blood sera were taken from a total number of 100 slaughtered sheep. cie analysis w...

In this paper we propose a new technique for verification by simulation of continuous and hybrid dynamical systems with uncertain initial conditions. We provide an algorithmic methodology that can, in most cases, verify that the system avoids a set of bad states by conducting a finite number of simulation runs starting from a finite subset of the set of possible initial conditions. The novelty ...

Probability bounds analysis (PBA) provides analysts a convenient means to characterize the neighborhood of possible results that would be obtained from plausible alternative inputs in probabilistic calculations. We show the relationship between PBA and the methods of interval analysis and probabilistic uncertainty analysis from which it is jointly derived, and indicate how the method can be use...

to investigate the effect of preprocessing techniques including contrast enhancement and illumination correction on retinal imagequality, a comparative study was carried out. we studied and implemented a few illumination correction and contrast enhancementtechniques on color retinal images to find out the best technique for optimum image enhancement. to compare and choose thebest illumination c...

in this paper, we study the classical sensitivity analysis when the right - hand – side vector, and the coefficients of the objective function are allowed to vary.