Quality Assessment of Digital Library Services at University of Tehran; Using the Digiqual Model by Maryam Jafarbegloo, Mohsen Hamidy, Shapor anvari, Ali Akbar Famil Rohany

“…Findings: The results of the research show that the gap among services in the present and ideal situation in the components of searchability (0.75) , subject coverage and usability(1.07) , accessibility (1.12) , insurability(1.17) , precision ( 1.22) , organizability(1.35) , creditability (1.47) , reviewability(1.8) , active links (1.91) , satisfaction(2.19) and self-sufficiency ( 2.30) shows an accelerating increase and respectively and there is the least gap in the components of searchability , subject coverage and usability and there is the greatest gap in the components of self-sufficiency and satisfaction and the other components are in a limit between the least and the greatest rate.…”
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Energy Security Blind Spots of Gas, Oil, and Coal Exporters by Andrew Curtis, Benjamin McLellan

“…First, a revised method is proposed to calculate energy self-sufficiency, showing for the exporters studied a less secure position than shown by the traditional method. …”
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Impact of climate change on food security in Malaysia: economic and policy adjustments for rice industry by Vaghefi, Negin, Shamsudin, Mad Nasir, Radam, Alias, Abdul Rahim, Khalid

“…In this study, a crop simulation model (DSSAT) and system dynamics approach were used to assess the impact of climate change on future rice production, self-sufficiency level of rice, and farmers’ gross income in Malaysia. …”
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Issues and challenges of integrated agro-food supply chain: An overview of Malaysian food security by Ariffin, Ahmad Shabudin, Abas, Zakaria, Baluch, Nazim Hussain

“…Income per person has become third highest in South East Asia trailing Brunei and Singapore in 2006.With rising incomes, food consumption has shifted away from starchy staples and moved toward wheat and livestock products, seafood, fruits and vegetables.Malaysia’s continuing economic growth and industrialisation are expected to place considerable pressure on its policy of increasing food self-sufficiency.With competitive pressure for resources from non-agriculture sectors, there is likely to be limited capacity to increase agricultural production.With the challenges including global warming, floods, droughts, increase in temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and a rise in sea levels food production is on the decline; Malaysia is one of the many countries where food self-sufficiency is decreasing, year by year.Another weakness of the Malaysia agricultural sector is that it largely produces cash crops and little food.This paper explores interrelatedness of some complementary policy changes and initiatives in the selected Asian countries as well as reviews Malaysian National Food Security Policy (NFSP) that affects food production and food security.The paper concludes that in many important ways, the Malaysian Government still sees food security as a public mandate, especially in the case of rice and working diligently to increase food security for its nationals.…”
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TATA KELOLA SUPPLIER RELATIONS PT MADUBARU (PG-PS MADUKISMO) (UPAYA PG MADUKISMO DALAM MEMBANGUN DUKUNGAN PETANI TEBU PASCA PROGRAM SWASEMBADA GULA NASIONAL) by , YUNGKI KANTIANA T, , Drs. I Gusti Ngurah Putra, M.A.

“…Therefore, to meet the domestic sugar needs, the government run National Sugar Self-Sufficiency Program that being targeted to be fulfilled in 2014. …”

ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF CHUVASH REPUBLIC TILL 2020 by A. E. Alekseyeva, S. Yu. Petrov

“…The ways of the Chuvash Republic transfer to full self-sufficiency are proposed.…”
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TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY: FORGOTTEN FACTOR IN THE ‘HI-TECH’ RAZZAMATAZZ by Paul Grant

“…It is to be distinguished from technological self-sufficiency, which is the possession of, or the ability to generate readily, all technology required. …”
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Overseas cultural orientation programmes and resettled refugees' perceptions by Kornfeld, J

“…Despite widespread participation in cultural orientation programmes, resettled refugees often have misconceptions about their potential for self-sufficiency in the United States, and experience adjustment problems after their arrival. …”

Thriving spaces: greening refugee settlements by Perkins, C, Adam-Bradford, A, Tomkins, M

“…By incorporating urban agriculture initiatives within refugee camp settings, the concept of shelter can be expanded to include providing protection from the climate, addressing nutritional deficiencies and increasing levels of human dignity, place making and self-sufficiency.…”

Configuration Selection for Renewable Energy Community Using MCDM Methods by Hamza Gribiss, Mohammad Mohsen Aghelinejad, Farouk Yalaoui

“…In addition, incorporating storage enables a substantial rise in the degree of self-sufficiency, leading to reduced reliance on the power grid and consequent reduction in CO₂ emissions.…”
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Applying the New Theory to Assessment Criteria of Agricultural Water Management Schemes for Sustainable Rain-fed Agriculture in Thailand by Anutra Wannaviroj, Thavivongse Sriburi

“…At the sub-criterion level, sub-criterion 1.1 (Land use efficiency) and sub-criterion 1.5 (Water use efficiency) of Criterion 1; sub-criterion 2.1 (Food self-sufficiency) of Criterion 2; and sub-criterion 3.1 (Mixed farming) of Criterion 3 were given the highest weightings. …”
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Autonomous IoT Monitoring Matching Spectral Artificial Light Manipulation for Horticulture by Irene Cappelli, Ada Fort, Alessandro Pozzebon, Marco Tani, Nicola Trivellin, Valerio Vignoli, Mara Bruzzi

“…This paper aims at demonstrating the energy self-sufficiency of a LoRaWAN-based sensor node for monitoring environmental parameters exploiting energy harvesting directly coming from the artificial light used in indoor horticulture. …”
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Optimal Simulation of Three Peer to Peer (P2P) Business Models for Individual PV Prosumers in a Local Electricity Market Using Agent-Based Modelling by Marco Lovati, Xingxing Zhang, Pei Huang, Carl Olsmats, Laura Maturi

“…Despite the differences in self-sufficiency, the sheer energy amount obtained from the shared PV correlates mainly with annual cumulative demand.…”
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Integrated Modelling of Decentralised Energy Supply in Combination with Electric Vehicle Charging in a Real-Life Case Study by Georg Göhler, Anna-Lena Klingler, Florian Klausmann, Dieter Spath

“…We demonstrate that without anticipating future electric vehicle charging, the system configurations could be sub-optimal if complete self-sufficiency is the objective: in our case study, the rate of self-sufficiency of the net-zero energy building will be lowered from 100% to 91% if considering electric vehicles. …”
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The Chinese Economy after Thirty Years of Reform: Perspectives from the Agricultural Sector by Robert Ash

“…Despite short-term fluctuations, trend growth of domestic grain above all, cereal output has been positive, as a result of which China has succeeded in fulfilling its target of maintaining 'basic' food self-sufficiency. The government's adherence to a strategy of food self-sufficiency that runs counter to the principle of comparative advantage has also minimized China's involvement in international cereal markets. …”
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Assessing the Resource Potential of Mountainous Forests: A Comparison between Austria and Japan by Mathias Leiter, Mathias Neumann, Tomohiro Egusa, Koji Harashina, Hubert Hasenauer

“…The dominant explanations for this low wood self-sufficiency rate are the lack of forest road infrastructure and the small-scale forest ownership structure. …”
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Empirical validation and analysis of the energy performance of an ecological Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB) in Benguerir-Morocco by Idrissi Kaitouni Samir, Mghazli Mohamed Oualid, Nait-Taour Abdallah, Es-Sakali Niima, El Mankibi Mohamed, Ahachad Mohammed, Brigui Jamal

“…Results show that annual thermal needs for cooling and heating are 123.4 kWh/m²/year and the calculated annual self-sufficiency (SS) of the building is 1.25, which means that the solar technology greatly offsets the electrical needs of the building and rech the goal of Zero Energy Building.…”
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Irrigation water demand of common bean on field and regional scale under varying climatic conditions by Michael Wagner, Sabine J. Seidel, Niels Schütze

“…The presented framework enables policy makers to compare water demand and available water which allows a precise estimation of relevant indicators for a considered region, e.g., the degree of local water self sufficiency.…”
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Making Optimal Location-Sizing Decisions for Deploying Hybrid Renewable Energy at B&Bs by Luki Trihardani, Chi-Tai Wang, Ying-Jiun Hsieh

“…This study considers various energy components, including hybrid RE, batteries, the power grid, self-sufficiency targets, and various RE technologies. …”
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Adoption of improved rice technologies in major rice producing areas of Ethiopia: a multivariate probit approach by Abebaw Assaye, Endeshaw Habte, Seiichi Sakurai

“…Policies and interventions that are informed about such factors are required to accelerate the adoption of improved rice technology packages in Ethiopia to realize green revolution and secure self-sufficiency of rice sustainably.…”
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