Waste management problems are subject to uncertainties presented as intervals, random variables and/or fuzzy sets. During the past 20 years, inexact programming methods have been developed and applied increasingly to waste management problems under uncertainty. To obtain a snapshot of these studies, this paper gives a review on recent developments, applications, challenges, and barriers associa...

We describe a system for meta-analysis where a wiki stores numerical data in a simple comma-separated values format and a web service performs the numerical statistical computation. We initially apply the system on multiple meta-analyses of structural neuroimaging data results. The described system allows for mass meta-analysis, e.g., meta-analysis across multiple brain regions and multiple men...

The complete resection for NSCLC is analyzed through the study of a series of retrospective surgical reports upon the incomplete resection, due to a microscopic residual tumor at the resection margin. Following Shields’ statement in 1974, the incomplete resection represents, in fact, the basic study protocol for the local recurrence following the resection of primary NSCLC. First of all, the ob...

background: this study was focused on the probability of carcinogen risk of low-level ingestion and dermal exposure with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) from drinking water in tehran, capital of iran. methods: concentrations of 16 pahs were measured in the tap, bottled and heated tap water in four different seasons. using a questionnaire-based survey, exposure with pahs from drinking wa...

An approach is proposed for the robust identification and control of batch and semibatch processes. The batch experiments used for model identification are designed by minimizing the magnitude of the parameter uncertainties, and the effect of these uncertainties on the product quality achievable by optimal control is used as a stopping criterion for the identification procedure. The optimal con...