with the increase in population and consequent increasing needs of society, land use planning is of particular importance. land use planning due to being involved with several conflicting aims, multi- objective evolutionary algorithm would be a useful tool to solve land use planning. but use of these algorithms should be examined according to the type of issues. in the study, addition to introd...

Land consolidation is the basis of making the land arrangement special plan, meanwhile, land consolidation sub area, ascertaining land consolidation item and setting land consolidation indices are mainly depended on land consolidation potentiality, so it is necessary to do this research. As the most important pattern of land consolidation, potential evaluation of cultivated land consolidation i...

The search for biologically plausible ideas, models and computational paradigms always drew the interest of computer scientists, particularly those from the natural computing area. Also, the concept of optimisation can be abstracted from several natural processes, for instance, in the evolution of species, in the behaviour of social groups, in the dynamics of the immune system, in the food sear...

The ecological approach has provided fruitful applications in sound synthesis and composition. Nevertheless, the implications of this approach in the understanding of music theory have not been sufficiently explored. This paper explores the theoretical aspects behind the development of ecologically-based compositional work. Following closely Shepherd’s (1992) essay, I discuss whether ecological...

This article is a version of the Introduction to the World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO). It presents a general description about this phenomenon and points some basic questions: concepts and definitions about the theme; the state of knowledge about it; nature and typology on violence; proposal of a quantitative and qualitative approach of an ec...

In this paper we compare two different notions of ‘power’, both of which attempt to provide a realist understanding of quantum mechanics grounded on the potential mode of existence. For this propose we will begin by introducing two different notions of potentiality present already within Aristotelian metaphysics, namely, irrational potentiality and rational potentiality. After discussing the ro...

From a scientific perspective, talent inclusion for the purposes of development is most promising path use genetic testing, requiring an enhanced literacy sports organisation decision-makers, making them less vulnerable to FOMO effect. The mainstream inflated importance testing exemplifies organismic asymmetry. Instead, performance and potentiality should be understood at ecological level, orga...

1. Background It is necessary that African scientists look at strengthening their capacities in new Earth Observation applications. One of the evolved technologies is polarimteric radar data and its efficiency in studying earth surface processes including environment related issues. However, questions are: What is the main constraint? Is data availability the key issue to develop technical capa...

The rising global demand for palm oil and its associated products has led to increased numbers of palm oil refineries with its attendant effluent discharge. Many researches have confirmed the ecological disruptive potentiality of Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME), still further attention has to be directed at POME’s potential genotoxicity. The present study has made physico-chemical and genotoxicit...