‎Artificial neural networks have the advantages such as learning, ‎adaptation‎, ‎fault-tolerance‎, ‎parallelism and generalization‎. ‎This ‎paper is a scrutiny on the application of diverse learning methods‎ ‎in speed of convergence in neural networks‎. ‎For this aim‎, ‎first we ‎introduce a perceptron method based on artificial neural networks‎ ‎which has been applied for solving a non-singula...

wood and non-wood resources in the forests have occupied a very important place in human’s life, since the advent of history. and today, developing technology along with increasing needs enhance the importance of the other functions of forests, in parallel with wood production. both in the world and as well in turkey, one of the featured functions of forests is the production of non-woodforest ...

to use soil hydrology processes (shp) models, which have increasingly extended during the last years, comprehensive knowledge about these models and their modeling approaches seems to be necessary. the modeling approaches can be categorized as either classical or non-classical. classical approaches mainly model the shp through solving the general unsaturated flow (richards) equation, numericall...

the static pull-in instability of beam-type micro-electromechanical systems is theoretically investigated. two engineering cases including cantilever and double cantilever micro-beam are considered. considering the mid-plane stretching as the source of the nonlinearity in the beam behavior, a nonlinear size-dependent euler-bernoulli beam model is used based on a modified couple stress theory, c...

milk ultrafiltration is a membrane process, which is highly complex innature. the cost effectiveness of the process depends heavily on the flux permeate and the total hydraulic resistance of the membrane. in this work, a comparative study for the prediction of the performance of milk ultrafiltration with ann and statistical method has been carried out. the result reveals that both methods carry...

decision making on budgeting is one of the most important issues for executing managers. budgeting is a major tool for planning and control of projects. in public and non-profit organizations and institutions, estimating the costs and revenues plays an important role in receiving credit and budgeting. in this regard, in the present paper the case of isfahan municipality is considered. one of th...

abstract soil salinity within plant root zone is one of the most important problems that cause reduction in yield in agricultural lands. in this research, salinity in soil profile was simulated in tabriz irrigation and drainage network using saltmod and artificial neural networks (anns) models. based on initial spatial distribution of salinity in soil profile, studying area was divided to 4 dif...

sorption of flavor compounds to inner layer of polymer packages and subsequent diffusion results in loss of food flavor and consequently decreases shelf life and consumer acceptance of food stuffs which in turn causes major economic losses, so it is of utmost importance to research on diffusivity of these compounds in polymers to minimize negative effects of this phenomenon. in current research...

This paper presents a new model for predicting the compressive strength of steel-confined concrete on circular concrete filled steel tube (CCFST) stub columns under axial loading condition based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by using a large wide of experimental investigations. The input parameters were selected based on past studies such as outer diameter of column, compressive strength...