background and purpose: undoubtedly, social networks are being used extensively and are the most important communicative tool among students, especially at higher levels of education. we aimed to investigate the effect of social networks on education and academic learning. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 32 nursing students who were taking the cancer nursing course at ke...

in this article, the effect of operating conditions, such as temperature, gas hourly space velocity (ghsv), ch4/o2 ratio and diluents gas (mol% n2) on ethylene production by oxidative coupling of methane (ocm) in a fixed bed reactor at atmospheric pressure was studied over mn/na2wo4/sio2 catalyst. based on the properties of neural networks, an artificial neural network was used for model develo...

since many time series are not normal, it is required to normalize data by transformation functions prior to any analysis and modeling. in this study, the next month rainfall of abadeh county station was predicted using the average monthly rainfall, minimum and maximum temperatures and minimum and maximum humidity as inputs of mlp network, both normally and raw, at period 1976 to 2013. after sc...

in the last decade, many applied common studies were done in economic social systems phenomena by using network analysis. in these studies, trade relations can be considered as a network that each vertex represents a country and the trade relations between countries represent links of this network. first, we try to make the world exporting and importing networks based on the existence data for ...

abstractintroduction: cancer is caused by genetic abnormalities, such as mutation of ontogenesis or tumor suppressor genes which alter downstream signaling pathways and protein-protein interactions. comparison of protein interactions in cancerous and normal cells can be of help in mechanisms of disease diagnoses and treatments. methods: we constructed protein interaction networks of cancerous a...

totoday’s market place is increasingly dynamic and volatile. in this area supply network issues recently have attracted a lot of attention from industrial practitioners and academics worldwide. chaos theory is the study of complex, nonlinear, dynamic systems. for chaotic systems, a tiny change in conditions may result in an enormous change in system output, whereas substantial changes in condit...

information on the productivity, costs and applications of the logging system is a key component in the evaluation of management plans for the rehabilitation and utilization of caspian forests. skidding and road construction costs are expensive forest operations. determining the optimum forest road network density is one of the most important factors in sustainable forest management. logging me...

nowadays, the environmental impact of transportation project and, especially air pollution impacts, are major concerns in evaluating transportation projects. based on this concern, beside definition of traditional objective functions like total travel time and total investment cost, different type of environmental related function is considered as objective function in urban network design. in ...

doing centralized and coherent activities between governmental agencies is essential at any level. creating suitable institutional structure for appropriate solutions of policy problem in natural resources at multiple levels is possible using application of network governance. the aim of this paper is institutional network analysis with co-management of zagros dry forests in regional (county) l...

abstract erosion and sedimentation are the most complicated problems in hydrodynamic which are very important in water-related projects of arid and semi-arid basins. for this reason, the presence of suitable methods for good estimation of suspended sediment load of rivers is very valuable. solving hydrodynamic equations related to these phenomenons and access to a mathematical-conceptual model ...