quantitative prediction of municipal solid waste generation has an important role in the optimization and programming of municipal solid waste management system. but, this concept was companied with many problems, because of the non homogenous nature and the effect of various factors out of the control on solid waste generation. in this study, the combination of artificial neural network and wa...

This study focuses on using an artificial neural network (ANN) based model for predicting the performance of high strength concrete (HSC) beams strengthened with surface mounted FRP laminates. Eight input parameters such as geometrical properties of the beam and mechanical properties of FRP laminates were considered for this study. Back propagation network with Lavenberg-Marquardt algorithm has...

farinograph is the most frequently used equipment for empirical rheological measurements of dough. it’suseful to illustrate quality of flour, behavior of dough during mechanical handling and texturalcharacteristics of finished products. the percentage of water absorption and the development time of doughare the most important parameters of farinography for bakery industries during production. h...

in this study, a hybrid intelligent model has been designed to predict groundwater inflow to a mine pit during its advance. novel hybrid method coupling artificial neural network (ann) with genetic algorithm (ga) called ann-ga, was utilised. ratios of pit depth to aquifer thickness, pit bottom radius to its top radius, inverse of pit advance time and the hydraulic head (hh) in the observation w...

an artificial neural network has been used to determine the volume flux and rejections of ca2+ , na+ and cl¯, as a function of transmembrane pressure and concentrations of ca2+, polyethyleneimine, and polyacrylic acid in water softening by nanofiltration process in presence of polyelectrolytes. the feed-forward multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network including an eight-neuron hidden la...

Background: The motions of body and tumor in some regions such as chest during radiotherapy treatments are one of the major concerns protecting normal tissues against high doses. By using real-time radiotherapy technique, it is possible to increase the accuracy of delivered dose to the tumor region by means of tracing markers on the body of patients.Objective: This study evaluates the accuracy ...