Sediment transport constantly influences river and civil structures and the lack ofinformation about its exact amount makes management efforts less effective. Hence,achieving a proper procedure to estimate the sediment load in rivers is important. We usedsupport vector machine model to estimate the sediments of the Kakareza River in LorestanProvince and the results were compared with those obta...

most scientists believe that the phenomenon of global warming occurred, however, in the case of the occurrence of this phenomenon by some environmental scientists have raised doubts. they are questioning global warming by arguing that the temperature recorded at the weather stations cannot be representative of the occurrence of the temperature rise. because with the passage of time and the incr...

Optimizing correlations between sets of variables is an important task in many areas of applications. There are plenty of algorithms for computing the maximum correlation. Most disappointedly, however, these methods typically cannot guarantee attaining the absolute maximum correlation which would have significant impact on practical applications. This paper makes two contributions. Firstly, som...

In an alternative approach to \characterizing" the graph class of visibility graphs of simple polygons, we study the problem of nding a maximum clique in the visibility graph of a simple polygon with n vertices. We show that this problem is very hard, if the input polygons are allowed to contain holes: a gap-preserving reduction from the maximum clique problem on general graphs implies that no ...

The study examines long-term changes and short-term fluctuations in ambient temperature of North East India during 1901-2003 located in part of the Eastern Himalayan region of the Brahmaputra Basin. Long-term linear trends were examined with the Mann-Kendal rank statistic and moving average method while the short-term fluctuations were studied by applying Cramer’s test. The results showed signi...