The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first reported from Wuhan, China, on December 31st, 2019. As the number of coronavirus infections has exceeded 100,000 with toll deaths of about 5000 worldwide as of early March, 2020, scientists and researchers are racing to investigate the nature of this virus and evaluate the short and long term effects of this disease. Despite it...

This paper presents a methodology for design of instrumentation sensor networks in non-linear chemical plants. The method utilizes a robust extended Kalman filter approach to provide an efficient dynamic data reconciliation. A weighted objective function has been introduced to enable the designer to incorporate each individual process variable with its own operational importance. To enhance...

Urban perception is the result of mutual transaction between human and environment and the process of perception is developed through the three continuous steps of “sensation”, “perception” and “cognition”. In the first step (sensorial perception), the environmental signals are received via sensorial sensors and each different sense based on its own essence, performance and ability has its own ...

there is no doubt that colors are important factors in creating arts including poetry. the poets use them because of their visual beauties to show their hidden values. sometimes they go further – beyond the external features – ad use colors as symbols to express their own meaning. moreover, modern poet’s deep insight and vision are the main causes to change the colorful portrait to a bright won...

the arabic literary criticism has passed various stages up to its modem formation. each stage has its own characteristics. then through different processes of its development it reached the peak. one may notice excellent creativity, innovations, and systematic approach. of course, the experts have their own ways of calssification for these stages. some believe in detail and some in brief these ...

As we all known, various speakers have their own talking styles. Hence, lip shape and its movement can be used as a new biometrics and infer the speaker’s identity. Compared with the traditional biometrics such as human face and fingerprint, person verification based on the lip feature has the advantage of containing both static and dynamic information. Many researchers have demonstrated that i...