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Masoud Jafari Shalamzari, Wanchang Zhang, Atefeh Gholami and Zhijie Zhang
Site selection for runoff harvesting at large scales is a very complex task. It requires inclusion and spatial analysis of a multitude of accurately measured parameters in a time-efficient manner. Compared with direct measurements of runoff, which is tim...
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Seyed Mohsen Hosseini, Seyed Masoud Monavvari, Ali Mohammad Khorshiddoost, Hashem Rostamzadeh, G. Ranjbar, Kamran Nasir Ahmadi
Con el fin de lograr el desarrollo sostenible es necesario obtener y aprobar los procedimientos de planificación sobre la base de múltiples criterios de evaluación del medio ambiente natural. Desde lo biofísico (natural) el ambiente ha limitado las capac...
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Omeed Al-Kakey, Arsalan Ahmed Othman, Mustafa Al-Mukhtar and Volkmar Dunger
Iraq, including the investigated watershed, has endured destructive floods and drought due to precipitation variability in recent years. Protecting susceptible areas from flooding and ensuring water supply is essential for maintaining basic human needs, ...
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Sadeq Khaleefah Hanoon, Ahmad Fikri Abdullah, Helmi Z. M. Shafri and Aimrun Wayayok
Climate change, population growth and urban sprawl have put a strain on water supplies across the world, making it difficult to meet water demand, especially in city regions where more than half of the world?s population now reside. Due to the complex ur...
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Kanella Valkanou, Efthimios Karymbalis, Dimitris Papanastassiou, Mauro Soldati, Christos Chalkias and Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou
This study deals with the assessment and mapping of neotectonic landscape deformation in the northern part of the Evia Island (Central Greece). Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) utilizing Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Weighted Linear Combina...
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Lidia Yadira Perez-Aguilar, Wenseslao Plata-Rocha, Sergio Alberto Monjardin-Armenta, Cuauhtémoc Franco-Ochoa and Yedid Guadalupe Zambrano-Medina
Arid and semiarid regions are geographic units that cover approximately 43% of the earth?s surface worldwide, and conditions of extreme drought and reduced vegetation cover predominate in these regions. In Mexico, arid and semiarid ecosystems cover more ...
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Piotr Jankowski, Alicja Najwer, Zbigniew Zwolinski and Jacek Niesterowicz
This paper presents an approach to geodiversity assessment based on spatial multicriteria analysis. Instead of relying solely on weighted linear combination (WLC) for aggregating factor ratings and weights to compute a synthetic measure of geodiversity, ...
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Emmanouil Psomiadis, Nikos Charizopoulos, Nikolaos Efthimiou, Konstantinos X. Soulis and Ioannis Charalampopoulos
Landslides can cause severe problems to the social and economic well-being. In order to effectively mitigate landslide hazards, the development of detailed susceptibility maps is required, towards implementing targeted risk management plans. This study a...
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A common barrier to achieving design intent is the absence of comprehensive information about operational performance during design development. This results in uninformed decision-making which impacts on actual building performance, in particular Whole ...
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Amer Al-Rahayfeh, Saleh Atiewi, Abdullah Abuhussein and Muder Almiani
Cloud computing (CC) is fast-growing and frequently adopted in information technology (IT) environments due to the benefits it offers. Task scheduling and load balancing are amongst the hot topics in the realm of CC. To overcome the shortcomings of the e...
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