One of the environmental concerns during the past decade is dust pollutant. This phenomenon is extensively known around the globe. In Iran, this destructive phenomenon has created serious problems among environmental policy-makers in general and agricultural producers in specific. Kermanshah Province is located near Iraq, a neighboring country in west part of Iran. It is believed that Iraq is m...

the appliance of international instruments in the field of literally and artistic property rights has cause a well-established and stable international aspect in comparison with its domestic aspect. this discipline has been founded on the basis of the berne convention, 1886, the universal copyright convention, 1952, and the rome convention, 1961, which their translations have all been published...

[1] Two aspects of the onset of a warm event in the Southern Oscillation are 1) the subtropical South Pacific High is weakened in early southern winter which weakens subtropical sea level pressure (SLP) gradients, and thus reduces the trade winds and upwelling along the equator, and 2) in the months that follow, and particularly during the mature phase of the warm event during southern summer, ...

Optimal results for the Traveling Salesrep Problem have been reported on problems with up to 3038 cities using a GA with Edge Assembly Crossover (EAX). This paper rst attempts to independently replicate these results on Padberg's 532 city problem. We then evaluate the performance contribution of the various algorithm components. The incorporation of 2-opt into the EAX GA is also explored. Final...

We investigate per-instance algorithm selection techniques for solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), based on the two state-of-the-art inexact TSP solvers, LKH and EAX. Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the solvers exhibit complementary performance across a diverse set of instances, and the potential for improving the state of the art by selecting between them is significa...

The wave growth characteristics during the onset of summer monsoon in a swell dominated open ocean at a location off the west coast of India at 14 m water depth are studied. 67% of the measured waves are due to the swells arriving from south and south-west and the balance was due to the seas from south-west to north-west. Wave age of the measured data indicates that the measured waves are young...

An earlier study compared audiovisual perception of speech ’produced in environmental noise’ (Lombard speech) and speech ’produced in quiet’ with the same environmental noise added. The results and showed that listeners make differential use of the visual information depending on the recording condition, but gave no indication of how or why this might be so. A possible confound in that study wa...

Optimal results for the Traveling Salesrep Problem have been reported on problems with up to 3038 cities using a GA with Edge Assembly Crossover (EAX). This paper rst attempts to independently replicate these results on Padberg's 532 city problem. We then evaluate the performance contribution of the various algorithm components. The incorporation of 2-opt into the EAX GA is also explored. Final...

This study reports the results of problem/designbased education offered by the Environmental Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) through an example of the senior-year Graduation Design Project (GDP), and the outcomes of introducing new environmental management considerations to environmental system design, and impacts of those on the senior-year Environmental Engineeri...