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this paper investigates the importance of considering biomass growth and decay for predicting a field scale microbial degradation of btex plume in an unconfined aquifer system in the pump station area of tehran oil refinery (tor), iran. a two-dimensional finite volume model has been presented to predict multi-species reactive transport incorporating physical, chemical and biological processes i...

inspired multi-objective optimisation algorithm Jun Chena, Mahdi Mahfouf, Gaffour Sidahmed, doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2014.08.014 Highlights • We model mechanical properties of heat treated alloy steel using interpretable fuzzy models. • We demonstrate how to locate the ‘best’ processing parameters and chemical compositions. • We demonstrate how to achieve certain mechanical properties. • We demon...

Background: Organizational architecture is a holistic approach to design of humane organizations and studies an organization from five perspectives: structure, culture, procsses, strategy and individuals. In this paper the concept of organizational architecture is firstly formalized using the fractal principle and then applied to multi-agent systems’ (MAS) organizations. Objectives: Providing a...

Investment casting is a versatile manufacturing process to produce high quality parts with high dimensional accuracy. The process begins with the manufacture of wax patterns. The dimensional accuracy of the model affects the quality of the finished part. The present study investigated the control and optimization of dimensional deviations in wax patterns. A mold for an H-shaped wax pattern was ...

Nailfold capillaroscopy (NC) is a non-invasive imaging technique employed to assess the condition of blood capillaries in the nailfold and is particularly useful for diagnosis of scleroderma spectrum disorders and Raynaud’s phenomenon. Diagnosis is based on the identification of particular scleroderma patterns in the images which are typically grouped into early, active and late patterns. In th...

Dimensional analysis, for multi-criteria decision making, is a mathematical method that includes diverse heterogeneous criteria into a single dimensionless index. Dimensional Analysis, in its current definition, presents the drawback to manipulate fuzzy information commonly presented in a multi-criteria decision making problem. To overcome such limitation, we propose two dimensional analysis ba...