milk ultrafiltration is a membrane process, which is highly complex innature. the cost effectiveness of the process depends heavily on the flux permeate and the total hydraulic resistance of the membrane. in this work, a comparative study for the prediction of the performance of milk ultrafiltration with ann and statistical method has been carried out. the result reveals that both methods carry...

decision making on budgeting is one of the most important issues for executing managers. budgeting is a major tool for planning and control of projects. in public and non-profit organizations and institutions, estimating the costs and revenues plays an important role in receiving credit and budgeting. in this regard, in the present paper the case of isfahan municipality is considered. one of th...

abstract soil salinity within plant root zone is one of the most important problems that cause reduction in yield in agricultural lands. in this research, salinity in soil profile was simulated in tabriz irrigation and drainage network using saltmod and artificial neural networks (anns) models. based on initial spatial distribution of salinity in soil profile, studying area was divided to 4 dif...

sorption of flavor compounds to inner layer of polymer packages and subsequent diffusion results in loss of food flavor and consequently decreases shelf life and consumer acceptance of food stuffs which in turn causes major economic losses, so it is of utmost importance to research on diffusivity of these compounds in polymers to minimize negative effects of this phenomenon. in current research...

Induction Motors are widely used in Industries, because of the low maintenance and robustness. Speed Control of Induction motor can be obtained by maximum torque and efficiency. Apart from other techniques Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, particularly the neural networks, improves the performance & operation of induction motor drives. This paper presents dynamic simulation of induction ...

This paper presents a new model for predicting the compressive strength of steel-confined concrete on circular concrete filled steel tube (CCFST) stub columns under axial loading condition based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by using a large wide of experimental investigations. The input parameters were selected based on past studies such as outer diameter of column, compressive strength...

This study was conducted to investigate the prediction of growth performance using linear regression and artificial neural network (ANN) in broiler chicken. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are powerful tools for modeling systems in a wide range of applications. The ANN model with a back propagation algorithm successfully learned the relationship between the inputs of metabolizable energy (kca...

Recently, neural-network-based adaptive control technique has attracted increasing attentions, because it has provided an efficient and effective way in the control of complex nonlinear or ill-defined systems (Duarte-Mermoud et al., 2005; Hsu et al., 2006; Lin and Hsu, 2003; Lin et al., 1999; Peng et al. 2004). The key elements of this success are the approximation capabilities of the neural ne...

Neural networks have recently been widely used to model some of the human activities in many areas of civil engineering applications. In the present paper, artificial neural networks (ANN) for predicting compressive strength of cubes and durability of concrete containing metakaolin with fly ash and silica fume with fly ash are developed at the age of 3, 7, 28, 56 and 90 days. For building these...