In this article, the possibility of using artificial neural networks for road detection from high resolution satellite images is tested on a part of RGB Ikonos and Quick-Bird images from Kish Island and Bushehr Harbour respectively. Then, the effects of different input parameters on network’s ability are verified to find out optimum input vector for this problem. A variety of network structures...

The problem of drawing a person from a household often occurs at the final stage of a survey design, e.g. in telephone surveys, after we contacted the households using random digit dialing. The Kish grid gives an algorithm for this random selection. We found that, contrary to the widely held opinion, the grid is not capable of providing representativeness by gender and age. This misconception s...

Amoebic keratitis, a sight-threatening corneal infection, mainly occurs in contact lens wearers who wash their eyes with tap water. The present research was conducted to identify the occurrence of potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae (FLA) in tap water sources on Kish Island, a tourist region in Iran. Amoebae were detected using a culture-enriched method and by polymerase chain reaction (...

The Kish key distribution system has been proposed as a classical alternative to quantum key distribution. The idealized Kish scheme elegantly promises secure key distribution by exploiting thermal noise in a transmission line. However, it is vulnerable to nonidealities in its components, such as the finite resistance of the transmission line connecting its endpoints. We introduce a novel attac...