medicine had never been error free. medical society has responsibility to reduce the rate of medical errors and should respect to people and patients rights in the case of error occurrence to maintain their trust. waiver of cause of medical errors, what is of importance is recognizing the ethical duty of physician toward her patient in the case of error commitment. in this paper at the first, t...

purpose: to determine peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) thickness by three-dimensional optical coherence tomography (3d-oct) in a normal iranian population and to evaluate the concordance of these measurements with those obtained by the second generation of optical coherence tomography (oct ii). methods: in a cross-sectional observational study, 96 normal iranian subjects 20-53 yea...

in this study two intelligent systems, based on adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (anfis) and artificial neural networks (anns) of forecasting municipal solid wastes (msw) generation has been proposed. anfis and anns as an intelligent tool compared with together was used to monthly prediction of msw generated in tehran. monthly amount of solid wastes (sw), total monthly precipitation, mont...

Our statistical concept-based spoken language translation method consists of three cascaded components: natural language understanding, natural concept generation and natural word generation. In the previous approaches, statistical models are used only in the first two components. In this paper, a novel maximum-entropy-based statistical natural word generation algorithm is proposed that takes i...

forecasting of municipal waste generation is a critical challenge for decision making and planning,because proper planning and operation of a solid waste management system is intensively affected by municipal solid waste (msw) streams analysis and accurate predictions of solid waste quantities generated. due to dynamic and complexity of solid waste management system, models by artificial intell...

Forward error correction (FEC) is as one of the key technologies enabling the next-generation high-speed fiber optical communications. In this paper, we propose a rate-adaptive scheme using a class of generalized low-density parity-check (GLDPC) codes with a Hamming code as local code. We show that with the proposed unified GLDPC decoder architecture, a variable net coding gains (NCGs) can be a...

This paper proposes a novel method for generation of optimized tool path in 5-axis flank milling of ruled surfaces based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The 3D geometric problem, tool path generation, is transformed into a mathematical programming task with the machined surface error as the objective function in the optimization. This approach overcomes the limitation of greedy planning m...

A minimum generation error (MGE) criterion had been proposed to solve the issues related to maximum likelihood (ML) based HMM training in HMM-based speech synthesis. In this paper, we improve the MGE criterion by imposing a log spectral distortion (LSD) instead of the Euclidean distance to define the generation error between the original and generated line spectral pair (LSP) coefficients. More...