Background and Objectives: Nowadays health services affect a significant part of social, economic and political parts of each country. In this case, hospitals are considered as the important and final stage of health service supply chain. Consequently, quality of health services offered by hospitals has a straight impact on the safety of individuals. Methods: </st...

This paper highlights the improved Adaptive Tumbling Bacterial Foraging Optimization (ATBFO) to grant better solution particularly in emission economic power dispatch issue. The proposed methodology simply takes care in solving non-convex power system issues along maintaining the requirement of all equipped constraints for healthy power delivery operation. The performances are evaluated with di...

Improving the efficiency of compressors has been one of the most important goals of researchers over the years. In this paper, three different methods are presented for parameterization and blade optimization of axial flow compressor. All methods consist of flow analysis tool, optimization algorithms, and parametric geometry generation tool, that are different in each approach. Objective functi...

permanent magnet synchronous motors are efficient motors, which have widespread applications in electric industry due to their noticeable features. one of the interesting applications of such motors is in underwater vehicles. in these cases, reaching to minimum volume and high torque of the motor are the major concern. design optimization can enhance their merits considerably, thus reduce volum...

cost optimization of the reinforced concrete cantilever soil retaining wall of a given height satisfying some structural and geotechnical design constraints is performed utilizing harmony search and improved harmony search algorithms. the objective function considered is the cost of the structure, and design is based on aci 318-05. this function is minimized subjected to design constraints. a n...

In recent years, the development of new algorithms for multiobjective optimization has considerably grown. A large number performance indicators been introduced to measure quality Pareto front approximations produced by these algorithms. this work, we propose a review total 63 partitioned into four groups according their properties: cardinality, convergence, distribution and spread. Application...

Introduction: In contrast to methods for monitoring physical vital signs, such as pulse, respiration rate, and body temperature, the ability monitor molecules indicative of health or performance status has greatly lagged. Specifically, until recently, technologies able specific in real-time were limited detection only a few metabolites (glucose, lactate, oxygen) no hormones protein biomarkers. ...

the imperialist competitive algorithm (ica) that was recently introduced has shown its good performance in optimization problems. this algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and colonies, in contrast to evolutionary algorithms. this paper presents optimization of bead geometry in welding process using of ica. therefore, two case studies from literature are presented t...

Kojic acid, 5-hydroxy-2-hydroxymethyl-γ-pyrone, has many potential industrial applications. In this review, the properties and diverse applications of kojic acid in industries are described. The review also discusses the advance in kojic acid fermentation, focusing on the process development in microorganisms and strain selection, medium and culture optimization, as well as fermentation modes f...