In this paper, the large amount of sedimentation and the resultant shoreline advancements at the breakwaters of Beris Fishery Port are studied. A series of numerical modeling of waves, sediment transport, and shoreline changes were conducted to predict the complicated equilibrium shoreline. The outputs show that the nearshore directions of wave components are not perpendicular to the coast whic...

in order to determine the source and critical areas of wind erosion, sistan plain, irifr-e.a method was applied. according to geomorphological investigations, the studied area consists of the following two main units namely: pediment with 1 type and 8 geomorphological facies, and playa with 2 types of flatland and desert type that includes 9 geomorphological facies. on the basis of sediment, th...

evaluation of sediment yield in watershed scale is considered so important for implementation of soil conservation, watershed management, environment, dam construction and water resource management. using empirical model is one of the approaches of evaluating sediment yield. this research in kasilian watershed evaluates sediment yield by using geomorphology method and epm model with arc view gi...

loess deposit is one of the most important quaternary deposits of northeastern parts of iran which have high erosion rate. this study was performed with field- rainfall- simulator which has a plot area of 1 m2 in gorganrood drainage basin to determine the effective factors on sediment yield. landuse, slope and erosion feature maps were overlaid in gis to obtain land unit map. then on work units...

The authors employed complex model for Cs-137 concentration in seawater and sediment to represent the spatially heterogeneous distribution in sediment. I don’t agree with their results of total amount of Cs-137 in sediment which is 10 times larger than previous estimated value based on observation. Main problem is that they only considered sedimentation and resuspension process in a similar man...

The methods available in the literature for sediment concentration estimation are complicated and time consuming and necessitate cumbersome parameter estimation procedures. In this study, artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used to forecast and estimate sediment concentration values. The forecasting results obtained using previously observed sediment values were close to the real ones. The se...

We describe the structure and present situation of the Chinese healthcare system and discuss its primary problems and challenges. We discuss problems with inefficient burden sharing, adverse provider incentives and huge inequities, and seek explanations in the structural features of the Chinese healthcare system. The current situation will be further challenged in the future by an aging populat...