Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2016
In this study, an expert system with a radial basis function neural network (RBF-NN) based on decision trees (DT) is designed to predict sediment transport in sewer pipes at the limit of deposition. First, sensitivity analysis is carried out to inves...
International journal of computerized dentistry
Jan 1, 2016
"Digitality" (as opposed to "digitalization"--the conversion from the analog domain to the digital domain) will open up a whole new world that does not originate from the analog world. Contemporary research in the field of neural concepts and neuromo...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2016
In this study, removal efficiency of phenazopyridine (PhP) as a model pharmaceutical contaminant was investigated in a batch-recirculated photoreactor packed with immobilized TiO2-P25 nanoparticles on glass beads. Influence of various operational par...
For hospitals' admission management, the ability to predict length of stay (LOS) as early as in the preadmission stage might be helpful to monitor the quality of inpatient care. This study is to develop artificial neural network (ANN) models to predi...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2016
We report the adsorption efficiency of Cr(VI) on a strong anionic resin Dowex 1X8. The Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis of this adsorbent were investigated. Response surface methodology was applied t...
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2016
Because of the importance of water resources management, the need for accurate modeling of the rainfall-runoff process has rapidly grown in the past decades. Recently, the support vector machine (SVM) approach has been used by hydrologists for rainfa...
Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition
Jan 1, 2016
OBJECTIVE: To explore the diagnosis value of back propagation (BP) neural network integrating age, transrectal ultrasound characteristics and serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer.
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research
Jan 1, 2016
Transit data analysis and artificial neural networks (ANNs) have proven to be a useful tool for characterizing and modelling non-linear hydrological processes. In this paper, these methods have been used to characterize and to predict the discharge o...
AIM: To identify key determinants of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) patients' satisfaction and to evaluate the efficiency of an artificial neural network (ANN) model to prognosticate satisfaction derived from the hospital stay in this specific patient ...
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