artificial neural networks (anns) have become one of the most promising tools for rainfall simulation since a few years ago. however, most of the researchers have focused on rainfall intensity records as well as on watersheds, which generally are utilized as input records of other hydro-meteorological variables. the present study was conducted in kechik station, golestan province (northern iran...

pain management is crucially important in the postoperative period as it increases patient comfort and satisfaction. the primary outcome of present study was to evaluate the effect of sufentanil added to hyperbaric bupivacaine solution 0.25% in transversus abdominis plane (tap) block, on postoperative analgesic consumption. fifty asa physical status i–ii term primiparous single-tone pregnant wo...

introduction: pain is the most common problems in the post cesarean period. today, despite technological development in health care setting the usual method of pain relief after surgery is inadequate. materials & methods: this study was a blind clinical trial which performed in mustafa hospital, ilam, iran. 80 pregnant women who referred to delivery ward for elective cesarean and they had inclu...

the present paper investigates the effect of production factors, including technology, physical capital and labour on the energy consumption intensity of iran. for this purpose, time series data during the period of (1974-2007) have been analyzed within cobb–douglas production function framework. the results of the study indicate that the technology and the physical capital have caused the aver...

to study the effect of different harvesting intensity on forage production of bromus tomentellus was considered of majid abad qorveh. treatments included four harvested intensity 25, 50 and 75 percent and control (no harvest).data were analyzed based on splitplot over time during four years(1386-1389) using sas and irristat software. the results showed that the main effect of year, different ha...

background: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (bppv) is linked to vitamin d deficiency. this clinical trial aimed to determine the influence of vitamin d supplementation on intensity of bppv. methods: the study population was selected consecutively and the diagnosis of bppv was made by history and clinical examination and exclusion of other conditions. intensity of bpvv was assessed based on...

introduction: we investigated the characteristic of a suitable irradiation on skin's tensional strength using design of experiments (doe). the experiments in this research are designed in two phases and data envelopment analysis (dea) is used for performance measurement of each phase. material and methods: samples were provided from pleura as surface tissue made of collagen and elastin fib...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of high-intensity interval training (hiit) on nitric oxide metabolites (no2 - , no3 - ) and myocardial infarct size after ischemia/reperfusion (i/r) injury in healthy male rats. methods: a total of 44 wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups including hiit (n=8), hiit + ir protocol (n=14), control (n=8), and control + ir (n...

black tea sample was dried by a vibro-fluidized bed dryer to find its aerodynamic behavior and thermal performance during drying. the drying experiments were conducted at three different inlet air temperatures of 100, 115 and 130°c and fluidization condition at five vibration intensity levels of 0 (no vibration), 0.063, 0.189, 0.395 and 1.184. the results showed that bed channeling and defluidi...

this paper proposes a method to solve multi-objective problems using improved particle swarm optimization. we propose leader particles which guide other particles inside the problem domain. two techniques are suggested for selection and deletion of such particles to improve the optimal solutions. the first one is based on the mean of the m optimal particles and the second one is based on appoin...