Soil is a vital parameter for planting design in urban green spaces especially in adverse climate conditions. In this study, the utilization of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in surveying land suitability for urban green space from measured criteria like suitability indices, including physical (i.e. clay, silt, sand, bulk density, penetration resistance), chemical (i.e. electrical conductivit...

Abstract The different thermal comfort indices such as Predictive Mean Vote (PMV), Standard Effective Temperature (SET), and Thermal Sensations (TS) have been used to predict occupants’ in a building. advances the machine learning approach help overcome challenges of predicting current traditional real-time environment. types data samples (continuous/labelled). Therefore, while considering tech...

Fifteen compounds reported to be inhibitors of gelation or sickling were studied by standard methods. These tests included (1) the determination of the solubility of deoxyhemoglobin S or Csat, (2) evaluation of sickling in whole SS blood at various pO2s, (3) measurement of the oxygen affinity of hemoglobin and blood, and (4) examination of red cell indices and morphology. Among the 4 noncovalen...

background: happiness as one of the main positive health indicators has drawn more attention in recent years among policy makers and health system managers. there are few studies performed to measure happiness in population-based settings in iran. in response to this need, our study tends to assess iranians subjective happiness in tehran, capital city of iran. m aterials and methods: present st...

M erriam-Webster defines quality as a degree of excellence. What is left unstated is how degree and excellence are defined. Does this suggest that the quality of medical education research, like beauty, lies in ‘‘the eye of the beholder?’’ Can we measure quality objectively and consistently or is it subjective and contextual, varying with the type of research question, reviewers’ judgments, or ...

Over the past decades, the competition for academic resources has gradually intensified, and worsened with the current financial crisis. To optimize the resource allocation, individualized assessment of research results is being actively studied but the current indices, such as the number of papers, the number of citations, the hfactor and its variants have limitations, especially their inabili...

Autologous platelet gel (APG) was developed in the early 1990s as a byproduct of platelet-rich plasma sequestration during cardiac surgery. Although APG has been approved for postoperative healing, there have been no published studies that evaluate the effects of APG on sternal healing postcardiopulmonary bypass. The purpose for this study was to examine the effects of APG on postoperative ster...

The appreciation of biofilm structures in digital images can be subjective to the observer, and hence it is necessary to analyse the underlying images in useful parameters by means of quantification that is, ideally, free of errors. This paper proposes a combination of techniques for segmentation of biofilm images through an optimal multi-level thresholding algorithm and a set of clustering val...