Prediction of wave height is of great importance in marine and coastal engineering. In this study, the performances of artificial neural networks (feed forward with back propagation algorithm) for online significant wave heights prediction, in Persian Gulf, were investigated. The data set used in this study comprises wave and wind data gathered from shallow water location in Persian Gulf. Curre...

according to coates’s (2004, as cited in zhang, 2010) definition of "conversational dominance" (p.111), it refers to the phenomenon of a speaker dominating others in interaction. specifically, it means how a speaker makes use of certain strategies to get the floor and maintain the floor. thus, the amount of talk is the main measurement for the dominance of the conversation. whether a speaker do...

abstract venlafaxine, 1–[2–(dimethylamino)–1–(4–methoxyphenyl) ethyl]cyclohexanol hydrochloride is a novel non-tricyclic antidepressant. venlafaxine is a second generation antidepressant drug, has a neuropharmacologic profile distinct from that of existing antidepressants including tricyclic compounds, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and monoamine oxidase inhibitors. venlafaxine impart...

Rainfall-runoff models are used in the field of hydrology and runoff estimation for many years, but despite existing numerous models, the regular release of new models shows that there is still not a model that can provide sophisticated estimations with high accuracy and performance. In order to achieve the best results, modeling and identification of factors affecting the output of the model i...

Prediction of wave parameters is necessary for many applications in coastal and offshore engineering. In the literature, several approaches have been proposed to wave predictions classified as empirical based, soft-computing based and numerical based approaches. Recently, soft computing techniques such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been used to develop wave prediction models. In thi...

abstract the variables affecting the nature of reading comprehension can be classified into two general categories: reader’s variables, and text variables (alderson, 2000). despite the wave of research on vocabulary knowledge as reader’s variable, the role of this knowledge in c-test as a text-dependent test and its interaction with lexical cohesion of the test as a text feature has remained a...

introduction: diabetes mellitus is an growing national and international public health concern. the number of people affected by diabetes in world by 2030 will be 69% in developing countries. regular physical activity plays a key role in the management of type 2 diabetes melitus, particularly glycemic control. it has been recommended that peoples with type 2 diabetes participate in moderate-int...