In this study a new and robust procedure is presented to solve synthesis of isothermal reactor networks (RNs) which considers more than one objective function. This <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: #0...

BACKGROUND Disruption of the frontal lobes and its associated networks are a common consequence of neurodegenerative disorders. Given the wide range of cognitive, behavioral and motor processes in which the frontal lobes are involved, there can be a great variety of manifestations depending on the pathology distribution. The most common are the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvF...

A biologically plausible model of traffic sign detection and recognition invariantly with respect to variable viewing conditions is presented. The model simulates several key mechanisms of biological vision, such as space-variant representation of information (reduction in resolution from the fovea to retinal periphery), orientation selectivity in the cortical neuron responses, and context enco...

Heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminated soil in the Pars Economic and Energy Zone was carried out <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;...

Road safety index is an important indicator that has been recently introduced as a useful tool to measure the quality of life in many countries and cities. Road safety index is a complex index and it has at least three main components, including road user behavior, vehicle safety, and road infrastructure effects. Many researchers have selected studying road performance from road safety index pe...

In low-temperature processes, heat rejected from separation columns is removed by refrigeration systems to heat sinks (reboilers & pre-heaters), process streams, other <span style="font-size: 10pt; col...

Dialysis is a membrane based separation process in which the concentration gradient across the membrane is the driving force resulting in a flow of material from one side <span style="font-size: 10pt; ...

Prediction of the dynamic crossflow ultrafiltration rate of a protein solution such as milk poses a complex non-linear problem a...

This paper describes an attempt to shed some light on road safety in Asia Pacific region by characterizing and assessing its road accidents. The relevant national road accident data were extracted from centralized data sources of international agencies. Due to data incompleteness and missing values, 21 Asia Pacific countries, presenting more than half of the world’s population, were selected fo...