Smallholder farmers all over the world, particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity contribute to on-farm conservation. Past and present agricultural progress could not have happened neither without these genetic resources nor the associated farmer knowledge. Six species of minor millets...

Survey data and linear programming techniques have been combined to forecast probable domestic refinery configurations and the production of Navy and other fuels for the years 1990 and 1995. The forecasts suggest that Gulf and West Coast refinery investments could be used largely for support of...

Refinery linear programming models have been used to estimate the regional production of U.S. Navy jet fuel for a military mobilization scenario based on a substantial loss of Persian Gulf crude oil production and the loss of all Venezuclan petroleum exports. In the scenario, the demand for all...

Econometric and linear programming models have been used to study the production of Navy mobility fuels during a political disruption scenario in the year 1995. Among other conditions of the disruption, exports of petroleum from the Persian Gulf, Algeria, and Libya are reduced by 50% and...

One possible way of risk management for an insurance company is to develop an early and appropriate alarm system before the possible ruin. The ruin is defined through the status of the aggregate risk process, which in turn is determined by premium accumulation as well as claim settlement outgo...