This paper aims to enhance the accuracy of predicting mechanical behavior wood subjected thermal modification using an improved dung beetle optimization (IDBO) model. The IDBO algorithm improves original DBO via three main steps: (1) piece-wise linear chaotic mapping (PWLCM) generate initial species and increase its heterogeneity; (2) adopting adaptive nonlinear decreasing producer ratio model ...

The License Plate Recognition (LPR) as one crucial part of intelligent traffic systems has been broadly investigated since the boosting of computer vision techniques. The motivation of this paper is to probe in plate number recognition which is an important part of traffic surveillance events. In this paper, locating the number plate is based on edge detection and recognizing the plate numbers ...

In a series of papers [17-19] Morava uses an infinite sequence of extraordinary K-theories to give an elegant structure theorem for the complex cobordism of a finite complex. Much of Morava's theory is embedded in a rather sophisticated algebraic setting. In our attempt to understand his work, we have found more conventional algebraic topological proofs of many of his results. Also, our approac...

background: lifestyle factors such as weight, salt intake, and physical activity have shown to be important in treating hypertension.the object of this study was to describe feasibility and to assess the effectiveness of a multicomponent lifestyle intervention on high blood pressure (bp) of iranian women. materials and methods: this randomized controlled trial was conducted in four health cente...

ordered mesoporous carbon cmk-3 (omc) have been synthesized using mesoporous sba-15 silica as template and modified with cobalt carbonate. morphologies and surface texturing of materials werecharacterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and n2 adsorption-desorptionisotherms. the cobalt modified ordered mesoporous carbon were found to have a surface area of 490.06m...