Purpose: The purpose of this applied research is to study the effectiveness of gamification on corporate training.  Methodology: A gamified course was designed AND implemented to train the location of Fire Hosing Cabinet for 24 employees of a firefighting maintenance company in Iran Mall shopping Center in Tehran. Using a quantitative quasi-experimental research plan (post-test only control group design) the participants of the study were rANDomly assigned to treatment (12) AND control (12) groups AND trained for a week.  Conclusion: The descriptive AND interpretive result of the posttest analyses indicated the effectiveness of gamification of the training performed for the employees of the firefighting maintenance company in Iran Mall shopping Center in Tehran. Moreover, the descriptive result of Gamification Acceptance Questionnaire answered by the members of the experimental group after gamified training indicated that all the participants in the experimental group were satisfied with the gamified training course.

The acquisition of knowledge AND the continued development of cosmic ray detection technology has led to new connections between academic disciplines such as physics, geology, agriculture, mining AND archaeology. Because of the interaction of these beams with the Earth's atmosphere, a massive flux of secondary particles is produced AND collided with the Earth. As one of these energetic charged particles, the muons are capable of penetrating large SURFACE AND deep earth structures, which provides a new tool in SURFACE/subsuface mapping. Due to the density dependent interaction of these charged particles with matter, it is possible to image various SURFACE structures such as volcanoes, antiquities AND civil structures or reservoirs, cavities, radioactive wastes AND subSURFACE valuable mineral veins. The aim of this paper is to review the recent years of research on this new technique called muography AND it was tried here in a new structure to use this technique in all three fields of mapping, surveying AND remote sensing to extract information about large SURFACE/subSURFACE volumes.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The southeast Indian Ocean is one of the areas where tropical cyclones formed. A comprehensive understANDing of the cyclone impact in the Southeastern Indian Ocean is needed to anticipate future changes due to the warming trend. The present study investigates the influence of Cyclone Marcus on oceanographic processes in the subSURFACE AND SURFACE layers AND its impact on temperature AND Chlorophyll-a in the Southeastern Indian Ocean. The present study applies the Argo Float data located near the peak of the Cyclone Markus path AND could capture the subSURFACE layer vertically that has never been reported previously. METHODS: This study performs Copernicus data set AND Argo Float data to analyze the oceanographic feature of the region before, during, AND after Cyclone Marcus. FINDINGS: The average SURFACE current velocity increased almost two times during Cyclone Marcus, AND the eddy was formed in the clockwise direction following the SURFACE wind pattern. The Argo Float data presents that Cyclone Marcus could induce SURFACE divergence (clockwise eddy) where the cold water AND high salinity waters pumped up to the SURFACE layer, starting 1 day after the peak of Cyclone Marcus, resulting in cooling SURFACE temperature by 1. 7 °, C AND deepening mixed layer depth up to 60 m. It implies that the lifted nutrient-rich water stays in the mixed layer depth for 11 days, AND sea SURFACE Chlorophyll-a concentration increase with time lags of 2. 5 days AND 5. 6 days, respectively. The Chlorophyll-a concentration increases 2. 5 times, AND since then starts to decrease its ‘, normal concentration’,within two weeks. CONCLUSION: Cyclone Marcus triggers the entrainment between the subSURFACE layer AND the sea SURFACE, forcing a phytoplankton growth, particularly in the path area. The future cyclone could increase in the category in the study area, as the warming trend in the Indian Ocean.

The paper concerns with the identification of the SURFACE AND subSURFACE defects based on Lamb wave generation AND propagation in a structure with piezoelectric wafer active sensor. The piezoelectric wafer acts as an actuator at the initial instant for Lamb wave generation AND then as sensor to monitor Lamb waves reflected from different SURFACEs of the structure. A finite element model is developed to analyze the response of the structure AND piezoelectric wafer subjected to initial activation signal. The model simulates the generation of Lamb waves which are divided into symmetric AND anti-symmetric waves propagating with different velocities. The reflection of Lamb waves from exterior SURFACEs of the structure or the SURFACEs of the defects are identified using the present model. The performance of the damage identification procedure is evaluated for a plate structure with single or multiple transverse grooves whose dimensions are very small compared to structural dimensions in order to simulate the transverse cracks in the structure. The results have shown that Lamb waves are very sensitive to transverse grooves AND determine the location of transverse damages with a reasonable accuracy.

Due to limitation of water RESOURCES, the use of wastewater for agriculture AND lANDscape is unavoidable. The wastewater is a new water source AND its application requires special management. If wastewater is applied with suitable irrigation methods, it helps to solve the environmental contaminations, sanitary AND water scarcity problems. The effects of wastewater on some visual AND chemical properties of bermudagrass were investigated in 2005 at Mahmoudabad Research Centre located at Isfahan. The experiment was a factorial completely rANDomized design with two main treatments (SURFACE AND subSURFACE irrigation methods) AND two sub-treatments (groundwater AND wastewater) using three replications for each treatment. The results showed that wastewater application had no significant effect on the colour, density AND nitrogen uptake of bermudagrass. The height AND dry matter yield of bermudagrass irrigated with wastewater were significantly greater than those irrigated with groundwater. Phosphorous uptake of bermudagrass irrigated with wastewater (1268.85 mg/kg) was greater than that of groundwater (809.97 mg/kg). Phosphorous uptake of bermudagrass irrigated with wastewater (12448 mg/kg) was also greater than that of groundwater (11820 mg/kg). The irrigation method had no significant effect on colour, density, height AND dry matter yield of bermudagrass AND nitrogen, phosphorous AND potassium uptake of bermudagrass.

Water restriction is one of the most important factors inhibiting the crop production. Accordingly, application of pressurized irrigation systems to optimize utilization of water RESOURCES is inevitable. This study was conducted in Behbahan Agricultural Research Station during three cropping seasons (2013-2016) AND based on a rANDomized complete block design with a split plot AND three replications. The main plots were consisted of SubSURFACE Drip Irrigation (SDI) system that applied irrigation water at three levels of 75, 100 AND 125% of water requirement AND a SURFACE Drip Irrigation (DI) system with application of 100% water requirement. The sub-plots were consisted of two varieties of date palm; Khasi AND Zahedi. The crop water requirement was estimated based on Penman-Montheith method AND using a daily weather information data collected from Behbahan weather station. Analysis of variance showed a significant difference (5%) between water use efficiency of different levels of irrigation water. As, the SDI system with 75% irrigation level showed the highest water use efficiency to be 0. 698 kg/m3. The comparison of interaction effects showed that the water use efficiency of Zahedi dates in 75% SDI system with 0. 744 kg/m3 is higher than that of Khasi dates. In the other hAND, the 75% SDI system saved 2509. 6, 5019. 2 AND 2630. 3 m3/ha irrigation water as compared with 100% AND 125% SDI AND 100% DI systems, respectively. According to the results, the interaction impact of irrigation levels AND varieties on water use efficiency was significant but the interaction of irrigation systems AND varieties were not significant. The stiffness of fruits was measured to be 11. 3 lb per square meter in 75% SDI system which was the highest as compared to those for other treatments. The results of this study showed that the SDI system could be used for palms trees without restriction while use less water without significant impact on yield.

To study the effect of 3 depth of placement of drip irrigation tape on yield AND quality of potato (cultivar Agria), an experiment was conducted in a rANDomized complete block design, in Fariman region (2010- 2011). Treatments was include, 0, 10 AND 20 centimeter, installation depth of drip irrigation tape. The results showed that the yield of potato strips installed on the soil SURFACE were more than installed at depths of 10 AND 20 cm AND had significant difference at 5% level. But there were not significant differences between the strips that installed at 10 AND 20 cm depth. The effect of tape drip irrigation installation depth on the marketability tubers was not significant, but the number of marketability tubers was reduced from 0 to 2 AND 3 depth respectively. The effect of depth of drip irrigation tape installed on the mean tubers weight was not significant. The water use efficiency of SURFACE Tape drip irrigation had significant different with subSURFACE drip irrigation treatments AND was more than them. Generally, SURFACE drip tape irrigation was better than subSURFACE drip tape irrigation.

The simulation models that quantify the effects of different amounts of water on crop yield are useful tools for water management at the farm level AND optimizing water use efficiency. In this study, the AquaCrop model was used for simulating rice yield under different SURFACE AND subSURFACE drainage managements. Required data were obtained from subSURFACE drainage pilot of consolidated paddy fields of Sari Agricultural Sciences AND Natural RESOURCES University during 2011AND 2012 growing seasons. The calibration, validation AND sensitivity analysis of the model was utilized to quantify AND verify the effects of different water managements on rice yield using the measurements from field experiments. The model satisfactory (d>0.91) simulated different parameters. The prediction accuracy was very high in the subSURFACE drainage treatments. The errors for grain yield AND biomass simulations were, respectively, 13 % AND 27 % for SURFACE drainage treatment indicating the highest error under different drainage treatments. The average root mean square error for simulated grain yield AND biomass was found to be 191.5 AND 745.8 kg ha-1, respectively. The results demonstrated that the AquaCrop model is reliable in simulating growth AND yield of rice under subSURFACE AND SURFACE drainage systems AND can be used to improve irrigation AND drainage management in paddy fields.