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Environmental study on discharged wastewater of Albourz Industrial City
, Article Iranian Journal of Public Health ; Volume 34, Issue 1 , 2005 , Pages 62-68 ; 22516085 (ISSN) ; Asghari, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Iranian Journal of Public Health
2005
Abstract
The treatment facility of Albourz Industrial City was established in 1999 at the southeast of Albourz Mountain with an area of 200,000 square meters. Currently, 40,000 cubic meters of industrial wastes are treated daily utilizing biological method of activated sludge up to the second phase without chlorination in this treatment facility. Then, the discharged wastes are directed toward the lower agricultural lands. The environmental status of the region was investigated by testing the impact of wastewater and agricultural products in four tries. In two tries, the levels of COD and BOD were higher than the environmental standards, but there was no trace of heavy metal contamination in any of...
Uncertainty analysis in QUAL2E model of Zayandeh-Rood River
, Article Water Environment Research ; Volume 77, Issue 3 , 2005 , Pages 279-286 ; 10614303 (ISSN) ; Tajrishy, M ; Shafieian, P ; Sharif University of Technology
Water Environment Federation
2005
Abstract
Water-quality modeling and prediction is a complicated task because of inherent randomness and uncertainties associated with various processes and variables throughout the stream environment and the lack of appropriate data. Hence, the results of mathematical models are always approximate, lying within an uncertainty. This paper describes and demonstrates the application of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's water-quality model, QUAL2E-UNCAS, to the Zayandeh-Rood River in Iran. First-order reliability analysis is used to examine the variability of predicted water-quality parameters of total dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen, and biochemical oxygen demand. This analysis also...
Use of second-order calibration for residue screening of some triazines in the presence of coeluting interferences by gas chromatography-selected ion mass spectrometry
, Article Analytica Chimica Acta ; Volume 537, Issue 1-2 , 2005 , Pages 89-100 ; 00032670 (ISSN) ; Vosough, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier
2005
Abstract
The quantities of residues of some triazines such as prometon, propazine, atrazine and simazine in complex matrices of apple samples were determined, using gas chromatography-selected ion mass (GC-SIM) spectrometry. Generalized rank annihilation method (GRAM) as a second-order calibration technique was used for screening, resolving and finally determining the amounts of the residues. Before the GRAM analysis, different steps of data preprocessing such as background correction, de-skewing and standardization for rank alignment was used for every target analyte. The de-skewing and rank alignment algorithms were used for bilinearity and trilinearity corrections, respectively. The two data...
Introducing a new multi-wavelet function suitable for sEMG signal to identify hand motion commands
, Article 29th Annual International Conference of IEEE-EMBS, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'07, Lyon, 23 August 2007 through 26 August 2007 ; 2007 , Pages 1924-1927 ; 05891019 (ISSN) ; 1424407885 (ISBN); 9781424407880 (ISBN) ; Jahed, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2007
Abstract
In recent years, electromyogram signal (EMG) feature selection, based on wavelet transform, has received considerable attention. This study introduces a new multiwavelet function for surface EMG (sEMG) signal intended for tasks that involve hand movement recognition. To create the new wavelet function, several types of well known mother wavelet were exploited and through their integration the proposed mother wavelet was generated. The proposed wavelet function closely reproduced the characteristics of the EMG signal, while increasing the recognition accuracy of hand movements. We used eight unique classes of hand motions and considered the ability of various mother wavelets and the proposed...
Time-domain ultrasound as prior information for frequency-domain compressive ultrasound for intravascular cell detection: A 2-cell numerical model
, Article Ultrasonics ; Volume 125 , 2022 ; 0041624X (ISSN) ; Nili, V. A ; Ejtehadi, M ; Savabi, R ; Kavehvash, Z ; Ahmadian, M. T ; Vahdat, B. V ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2022
Abstract
This study proposes a new method for the detection of a weak scatterer among strong scatterers using prior-information ultrasound (US) imaging. A perfect application of this approach is in vivo cell detection in the bloodstream, where red blood cells (RBCs) serve as identifiable strong scatterers. In vivo cell detection can help diagnose cancer at its earliest stages, increasing the chances of survival for patients. This work combines time-domain US with frequency-domain compressive US imaging to detect a 20-μ MCF-7 circulating tumor cell (CTC) among a number of RBCs within a simulated venule inside the mouth. The 2D image reconstructed from the time-domain US is employed to simulate the...
Inherently safer process route ranking index (ISPRRI) for sustainable process design
, Article Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries ; Volume 80 , 2022 ; 09504230 (ISSN) ; Shariff, A. M ; Buang, A ; Umer, A ; Zaini, D ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2022
Abstract
The growth of process industries has escalated the probability of loss containment scenarios of hazardous materials that can be tackled via process safety schemes. For preliminary design stage, the inherent scheme is more promising to generate sustainable process designs. For this purpose, various process routes are typically compared to recognize the safer one via numerous indexing methods to eliminate routes with hazardous materials. However, these indices lack in accommodating the equipment characteristics and the underutilization of process and chemical characteristics. Specifically for chemical characteristics, the toxicity aspect has not been engaged for process route selection in...
A large dataset of white blood cells containing cell locations and types, along with segmented nuclei and cytoplasm
, Article Scientific Reports ; Volume 12, Issue 1 , 2022 ; 20452322 (ISSN) ; Saghari, S ; Tavakoli, S ; Rostami, P ; Abaszadeh, M ; Mirzadeh, F ; Satlsar, E. S ; Gheidishahran, M ; Gorgi, F ; Mohammadi, S ; Hosseini, R ; Sharif University of Technology
Nature Research
2022
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Accurate and early detection of anomalies in peripheral white blood cells plays a crucial role in the evaluation of well-being in individuals and the diagnosis and prognosis of hematologic diseases. For example, some blood disorders and immune system-related diseases are diagnosed by the differential count of white blood cells, which is one of the common laboratory tests. Data is one of the most important ingredients in the development and testing of many commercial and successful automatic or semi-automatic systems. To this end, this study introduces a free access dataset of normal peripheral white blood cells called Raabin-WBC containing about 40,000 images of white blood cells and color...
Semi-empirical modelling of hydraulic conductivity of clayey soils exposed to deionized and saline environments
, Article Journal of Contaminant Hydrology ; Volume 249 , 2022 ; 01697722 (ISSN) ; Sadeghi, H ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2022
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Clay liners are widely used as porous membrane barriers to control solute transport and to prevent the leakage of leachate both in horizontal and vertical flow scenarios, such as the isolated base and ramps of sanitary landfills. Despite the primary importance of saturated hydraulic conductivity in a reliable simulation of fluid flow through clay barriers, there is no model to predict hydraulic conductivity of clayey soils permeated with saline aqueous solutions because most of the current models were developed for pure water. Therefore, the main motivation behind this study is to derive semi-empirical models for simulating the hydraulic conductivity of clayey soils in the presence of...
WalkIm: Compact image-based encoding for high-performance classification of biological sequences using simple tuning-free CNNs
, Article PLoS ONE ; Volume 17, Issue 4 April , 2022 ; 19326203 (ISSN) ; Mohammadi, A ; Koohi, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Public Library of Science
2022
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The classification of biological sequences is an open issue for a variety of data sets, such as viral and metagenomics sequences. Therefore, many studies utilize neural network tools, as the well-known methods in this field, and focus on designing customized network structures. However, a few works focus on more effective factors, such as input encoding method or implementation technology, to address accuracy and efficiency issues in this area. Therefore, in this work, we propose an image-based encoding method, called as WalkIm, whose adoption, even in a simple neural network, provides competitive accuracy and superior efficiency, compared to the existing classification methods (e.g. VGDC,...
Coordinated multivoxel coding beyond univariate effects is not likely to be observable in fMRI data
, Article NeuroImage ; Volume 247 , 2022 ; 10538119 (ISSN) ; Abbaszadeh, M ; Ghazizadeh, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Academic Press Inc
2022
Abstract
Simultaneous recording of activity across brain regions can contain additional information compared to regional recordings done in isolation. In particular, multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) across voxels has been interpreted as evidence for distributed coding of cognitive or sensorimotor processes beyond what can be gleaned from a collection of univariate effects (UVE) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Here, we argue that regardless of patterns revealed, conventional MVPA is merely a decoding tool with increased sensitivity arising from considering a large number of ‘weak classifiers’ (i.e., single voxels) in higher dimensions. We propose instead that ‘real’ multivoxel...