in this paper attempts have been done to create a mortar with relatively high uniaxial compressive strength (ucs), easy casting, high flexibility, instant hardening, low cost and easy availability. the main use of this material is to physically model the mechanical behavior of jointed rock-like blocks. the effect of four parameters such as joint roughness coefficient (jrc), bridge length (l), b...

background & aim: esophageal cancer is one of the main common causes of death. the high prevalence of esophageal cancer in northern iran is an important public health problem. the main aim of this paper was to assess the factors affecting survival of  atients with esophageal cancer in neighbor provinces around the caspian sea using weibull mixture cure model and mixture cure model based on a no...

Conventional single-channel source separation (SCSS) algorithms are mostly focused on estimating the spectral amplitude of the underlying sources extracted from a mixture. The importance of phase information in source separation and its positive impact on improving the achievable performance is not adequately studied yet. In this work, we propose a phase estimation method to enhance the spectra...

Pupil localization is a very important preprocessing step in many machine vision applications. Accurate and robust pupil localization especially in non-ideal eye images (such as images with defocusing, motion blur, occlusion etc.) is a challenging task. In this paper, a detailed method to solve this problem is proposed. This method is implemented in three main steps: first, segment the rough pu...

Abstract The fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries use large amounts of various organic solvents in their manufacturing processes. By reusing them, production costs can be significantly reduced. If we regenerate waste solvent mixtures, have the opportunity to reuse them process or other Our study illustrates an efficient regeneration using example a four-component mixture. Calculations we...

BACKGROUND Dual extraction, high-temperature extraction, mixture extraction, and oleyl alcohol extraction have been proposed in the literature for acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE) production. However, energy and economic evaluation under similar assumptions of extraction-based separation systems are necessary. Hence, the new process proposed in this work, direct steam distillation (DSD), for...