The Middle East will continue to play the dominant role of a petroleum supplier in the world oil market in the year 2000, according to business-as-usual forecasts published by the US Department of Energy. However, interesting trade patterns will emerge as a result of the democratization in the...

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...

Earthquake damage depends on the ground acceleration generated by ut, with this ground acceleration being directly proportional to the changes in rupture speed as a fault propagates. This is the primary motivation for seismologists to study earthquake fracture dynamics. The theoretical...

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...