Mining and deforestation in the early 20th century, the development of petrochemical industries during the 1950s, and the constant weathering of natural deposits of cinabrium (HgS) have made Golfo Triste, Venezuela, a region impacted by mercury (Hg). We studied the chronology of Hg in coral skeletons of Siderastrea siderea (1 colony, 1900-1996) and Montastraea faveolata (2 colonies, 1930-1999) ...

The human unreliability is the main cause of industrial accidents. In the petrochemical field, about 90% of accidents are due to human errors. Over the years, several models of Human Reliability Analysis have been developed. The major limitation of these models is due to their static nature. Thus, the present research aims to propose a new innovative approach to evaluate the variability of the ...

Purpose The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects’ (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese government, which encourages growth and investment activities in the sector, and the multinationa...

The pulsed flame photometric detector (PFPD) has the advantage of being able to measure the concentration of individual sulfur compounds and total sulfur content in a petrochemical sample in a single gas chromatography run. Because it is an equimolar response detector, the PFPD's sulfur response is independent of a compound's molecular structure, and this feature allows quantitation of the tota...

* Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave., P.O. Box 15875-4413, Tehran, Iran Abstract In this paper, a CAT(0) version of famous Fan’s minimax inequality is established and as its application, we obtain some fixed point theorems and best approximation theorems in CAT(0) spaces. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classifi...

This paper is to describe the main features of the PolyteCS03 rescue simulation team. PolyteCS03 is the result of the 2-year-research in Robotic Simulation Research Lab in Amirkabir Univ. of Technology (AUT). Our main goal in this project is to develop a multi-agent system based on fast and improved methods of learning and deciding in cooperative planning.

1 Youngs Researchers Club and Department of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, P.O. Box 678, Amol, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics Education and the RINS, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju 660-701, South Korea 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, P.O. Box 678, Amol, Iran 4 Department of Mathematics and Compu...

i * Corresponding Author, A. Tajvidy is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii A. Ghorbani is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). iii M. Nasermoghaddasi is with the Department of Electrical Engin...

In this paper, we present a new approach to deal with the noise inherent in the microarray image processing procedure. We use the denoising capabilities of decimated and undecimated multiwavelet transforms, DMWT and UMWT respectively, for the removal of noise from microarray data. Multiwavelet transforms, with appropriate initialization, provide sparser representation of signals than wavelet tr...