the dynamic facility layout problem (dflp) is the problem of finding positions of departments onthe plant floor for multiple periods (material flows between departments change during the planning horizon)such that departments do not overlap, and the sum of the material handling and rearrangement costs isminimized. in this paper a new optimization algorithm inspired from colonizing weeds, invasi...

background: cigarette smoking is one of the most important health‑related risk factors in terms of morbidity and mortality. in this study, we introduced a new method for deriving the transitional probabilities of smoking stages from a cross‑sectional study and simulated a long‑term smoking behavior for adolescents. methods: in this study in 2010, a total of 4853 high school students were random...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: urban living and transition of illnesses, today has led hygienic centers for dedicating services to serious challenge management of an outpatient center is very difficult. worse is that the patient advice and service time is much less than waiting time. many people to avoid long waiting go to private treatment ...

with the increase of communication and financial transaction through internet, on-line signature verification is an accepted biometric technology for access control and plays a significant role in authenticity and authorization in modernized society. therefore, fast and precise algorithms for the signature verification are very attractive. the goal of this paper is modeling of velocity signal t...

there are a variety of electrocardiogram (ecg) based methods to detect myocardial infarction (mi) patients. this study used the signal averaged electrocardiogram (saecg) and its wavelet coefficient as an index to detect mi. orthogonal leads signals from 50 acute myocardial infarction (ami) and 50 healthy subjects were selected from the national metrology institute of germany (ptb diagnostic dat...

we describe how to obtain electronic transport properties of disordered graphene, including the tight binding model and nearest neighbor hopping. we present a new method for computing, electronic transport wave function and greens function of the disordered graphene. in this method, based on the small rectangular approximation, break up the potential barriers in to small parts. then using the f...

in the current study, an effort is made to determine three dimensional bearing capacity of rectangular foundations using discrete element method. the soil mass is modeled as discrete blocks connected with winkler springs. different factors affect the geometry of failure surface. six independent angles are used to define the failure surface. by trial and error, the optimum shape of failure surfa...

one of the most common signals used for achieving high range resolution in radar is stepped-frequency signals. when a target is stationary in these radars, dft (discrete fourier transform) based processing is used to attain high range resolution profile (hrrp). however, in the case of moving target, due to spreading of the echo signal spectrum, dft based processing is not optimal and decreases ...