Tannins from Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) bark were extracted with water at different temperatures (60–140 °C) in an ASE-350 system order to optimize yield. In addition, the effect of chemicals such as urea, sodium bisulfite (NaHSO3), carbonate (Na2CO3), benzoate on yield was also investigated. Bark debarking processes both a sawmill pulp mill inc...

A large-scale video quality dataset called the VideoSet has been constructed recently to measure human subjective experience of H.264 coded video in terms of the just-noticeable-difference (JND). It measures the first three JND points of 5-second video of resolution 1080p, 720p, 540p and 360p. Based on the VideoSet, we propose a method to predict the satisfied-user-ratio (SUR) curves using a ma...

This article provides a review of research involving least absolute value (LAV) regression. The review is concentrated primarily on research publisbed since Ihe sur\'ey article by Dielman (Dielman, T. E. (1984). lx"a.sl absolute value estimation in regression mtxlels; An annotated bibliography. Communications ill Statistics Theory and Methoih. 4. 513-541.) and includes articles on LAV estimatio...

despite controversy, the contingent valuation method (cvm) is widely used for non-market valuation. among elicitation methods of cvm, the dichotomous choice (dc) has been paid attention. there are two types of dc methods: single-bounded dc (sbdc) and double-bounded dc (dbdc). dbdc is more efficient than sbdc. many of cvm studies in iran used dbdc but data analyses were done by logit model; that...