i Corresponding Author, M. R. Tousi is PhD student in Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii S. H. Hosseininan is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). iii M. B. Menhaj is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirk...

Perceived risk of environmental threats often translates into psychological stress with a wide range of effects on health and well-being. Petrochemical industrial complexes constitute one of the sites that can cause considerable pollution and health problems. The uncertainty around emissions results in a perception of risk for citizens residing in neighboring areas, which translates into anxiet...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between wheezing in children and adolescents and living downwind of the dispersion plume of atmospheric pollutants emitted by the Guamaré Petrochemical Complex, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. METHODS Cross-sectional study of wheezing in children and adolescents (aged 0 to 14 years) living in the vicinity of the Guamaré petrochemical complex i...

background & aims of the study: petrochemical industry is an important industry in the economic development of the country that causes employees have exposure with several kinds of contamination. the aim of this study was semi-quantitative assessment of the health risk of occupational exposure to chemical materials and investigation of spirometry indices between employees of petrochemical indus...

A learning automata-based algorithm for determination of the number of hidden units for three-layer neural networks Hamid Beigy ab; Mohamad Reza Meybodi bc a Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran b School of Computer Science, Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran, Iran c Department of Computer Engineering, Amirkabi...

Kaveh PourAkbar Saffar1,2 , Nima JamilPour3 and Gholamreza Rouhi4 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 3School of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran 4Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Human Kinetics, Uni...

1 Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Noshirvani Institute of Technology, Mazandauan University, P.O. Box 47148-71167, Babol, Iran 2Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashad, P.O. Box 91779-48974, Mashad, Iran 3Faculty of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, P.O. Box 15914, T...