127 research outputs found
Retraction notice to “Advancing Toward a Sustainable Future in subtropical semi-arid type climatic zone: Iraq case - The Progress of Solar Photovoltaic Energy Implementation” [e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy 8 (2024) 100565]
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief.In investigating concerns regarding late-stage authorship changes to this article, the editors reached out to the authors for an explanation. In addition to the concerns regarding the late-stage authorship changes the editors were unable to verify the contribution of any of the added authors and the author responses were unsatisfactory.Maha Barakat, Bashar Mahmood Ali, and Dunya Jameel Kassid were added to this paper after the first round of revision. One author was removed at revision one. These changes were made without explanation and without the exceptional approval by the handling Editor, which is contrary to the journal policy on changes to authorship. The editor therefore feels that the findings of the manuscript cannot be relied upon and that the article needs to be retracted
A comparative analysis of PlanetScope 4-band and 8-band imageries for land use land cover classification
No full textEarth-observing satellites have become essential in comprehending human impacts on the landscape. Satellite-based imagery is indispensable for mapping Earth's features, managing resources, and studying environmental changes. Readily available remote sensing data with improved radiometric, spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution presents opportunities for advanced data analysis. Precise and accurate land use land cover (LULC) information is essential for the surveillance of environmental conditions and the effective management of natural resources. This research assesses the performance of PlanetScope product SuperDove sensor (PSB.SD), having two different band combinations, including 4-band (Red, Blue, Green and Near-Infrared (NIR)) and 8-band (Blue, Green II, Red, NIR, Coastal Blue, Green, Yellow, Red-Edge) imagery in ArcGIS Pro for the month of July 2021. Four different supervised classifiers, including support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbours (KNN), random forest (RF), and maximum likelihood (ML) classifiers. This study was carried out for the three major areas, i.e., City of Summerside, City of Charlottetown, and Town of Three Rivers in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada and LULC classification scheme consists of six major classes, which include Agriculture, Forest, Vegetation, Bare Land, Urban and Water bodies. For accuracy assessment, overall accuracy as well as kappa coefficient were estimated to identify the most accurate combination of LULC classifier and different band combination imagery from PlanetScope. Results show that the highest overall accuracy of 0.94 for Town of Three Rivers and 0.93 for City of Summerside and City of Charlottetown were observed using 8-band imagery with SVM classifier. The lowest overall accuracy of 0.78 for Town of Three Rivers, 0.83 for City of Charlottetown, and 0.82 for City of Summerside was observed using 4-band imagery using ML classifier. Further, the SVM classifier performs well in accuracy with 8-band imagery of PlanetScope, showcasing its potential in LULC classification compared to previous PlanetScope 4-band imagery
Extraction and identification of Carnosines from Alkhshni Fish Liza abu L. by using different techniques
No full textCarnosines were extracted from alkhshni fish Liza abu L. by using alcohol and water separation,Carnosines were identificated in several ways including spectroscopy identification using UV-visible and Fourier Transform infrared spectrophotometer technology and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), spectral diagnostics using Ultraviolet-visible (UV) carnosines single peak showed at 215 nm wavelength and at diagnosis High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) retention time stood for standard carnosines 2.532 and author carnosines separated from 2.614 minutes alcoholic carnosines and 2.625 minutes aqueous carnosines, after undetecting the detection of toxicity assay of carnosines prepared on human blood serum and there have been no changes in its shape and appearance.
Talking Away the Crisis? The E3/EU-Iran Negotiations on Nuclear Issues. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Paper 6/2007, November 2007
No full textThe E3/EU-Iran negotiations on nuclear issues have been ongoing since summer 2003 with the aim to find a balance between Iran’s desire to establish a peaceful nuclear enrichment programme and satisfying the safeguards of the international community against the possible development of a nuclear weapons programme. This paper provides an analysis of these negotiations and draws the conclusion that the E3, and later the E3/EU, have entered the negotiations with Iran without a clear strategy or alternative outcomes, focusing only on ‘getting what they want’. It argues that in order to reach a mutually acceptable solution, the E3/EU needs to take a more pro-active stand in preparing the pre-negotiations and negotiations. It will be important to find a common formula. The E3/EU needs to create a win-win situation and end the crisis before it is too late
Representing the image of women in the travelogue "From Paris to Paris " Bahram Rezaei visheh sorai 1 | Mohammad Ali Khazane Darlo2 | Mahmoud Ranjbar3
No full textOne of the most important works in which the image of another, both "intra-cultural other" and "extra-cultural other" is reflected, is the travelogue. In this type of writing, images of women, men, cities, special places of pilgrimage, tourism, etc. can be the subject of imagery. This article is written in a descriptive-analytical way by combining the three approaches of critical discourse analysis, representation and imagery. The purpose of this research is to analyze the representation of various types of images of women and the assumptions that the author made in the framework of this type of representation. The results of the research show that in the travelogue "From Pariz to Paris" women with eastern and western nationalities are divided into two categories: historical women and contemporary women. The author represents the images of historical women indirectly and through the study of texts (intertextual) and the representation of images of contemporary women - who is either directly connected with them through personal experience or indirectly or directly , through communication with others (impersonal),has heard about them - with a combined experience (combination of face-to-face and impersonal experience).In this travelogue, the various titles of the author are placed in the shadow of the identity of "master intellectual of history" and with this identity, the image of contemporary women and historical court women and public women in the East and West is represented
Hydraulic simulations to evaluate and predict design and operation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal
No full textIrrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Flow control / Velocity / Canal regulation techniques / Hydraulics / Simulation models / Design / Operations / Crop-based irrigation / Distributary canals / Water delivery / Policy / Protective irrigation / Water allocation / Water requirements / Sedimentation / Water distribution / Equity / Water conveyance / Pakistan / Chashma Right Bank Canal
Pluvial flood modeling for coastal areas under future climate change: A case study for Prince Edward Island, Canada
No full textIt has been increasingly understood that pluvial flooding poses a substantial risk to numerous communities across the globe. This is especially relevant for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island (PEI), which is susceptible to a compound flood consisting of both inland and coastal flooding. Despite various studies, a comprehensive pluvial flood model still lacks that addresses the complex interplay of compound floods. Therefore, this research aims to bridge the gap in flood mitigation by developing a pluvial flood model for PEI’s coastal communities. The Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves under current and future climatic conditions were used to portray rainfall intensity over the study area corresponding to 10-year, 25-year, 50-year, and 100-year return periods. In addition, a hydraulic model (HEC-RAS 2D) was used to drive pluvial flood maps based on two configurations, including detailed flood maps for major municipalities and an island-wide level. The validated results showed consistency in model simulation when compared to observations. The high-resolution flood maps produced by this study can support the development of flood mitigation and adaptation strategies in PEI and other parts of the world
Collected Papers (on Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Health Issues, Decision Making, Economics, Statistics), Volume XI
No full textThis eleventh volume of Collected Papers includes 90 papers comprising 988 pages on Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Health Issues, Decision Making, Economics, Statistics, written between 2001-2022 by the author alone or in collaboration with the following 84 co-authors (alphabetically ordered) from 19 countries: Abhijit Saha, Abu Sufian, Jack Allen, Shahbaz Ali, Ali Safaa Sadiq, Aliya Fahmi, Atiqa Fakhar, Atiqa Firdous, Sukanto Bhattacharya, Robert N. Boyd, Victor Chang, Victor Christianto, V. Christy, Dao The Son, Debjit Dutta, Azeddine Elhassouny, Fazal Ghani, Fazli Amin, Anirudha Ghosha, Nasruddin Hassan, Hoang Viet Long, Jhulaneswar Baidya, Jin Kim, Jun Ye, Darjan Karabašević, Vasilios N. Katsikis, Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, F. Kaymarm, Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa, Madad Khan, Qaisar Khan, M. Khoshnevisan, Kifayat Ullah,, Volodymyr Krasnoholovets, Mukesh Kumar, Le Hoang Son, Luong Thi Hong Lan, Tahir Mahmood, Mahmoud Ismail, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Siti Nurul Fitriah Mohamad, Mohamed Loey, Mai Mohamed, K. Mohana, Kalyan Mondal, Muhammad Gulfam, Muhammad Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Jamil, Muhammad Yaqub Khan, Muhammad Riaz, Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Cu Nguyen Giap, Nguyen Tho Thong, Peide Liu, Pham Huy Thong, Gabrijela Popović, Surapati Pramanik, Dmitri Rabounski, Roslan Hasni, Rumi Roy, Tapan Kumar Roy, Said Broumi, Saleem Abdullah, Muzafer Saračević, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Shariful Alam, Shyamal Dalapati, Housila P. Singh, R. Singh, Rajesh Singh, Predrag S. Stanimirović, Kasan Susilo, Dragiša Stanujkić, Alexandra Şandru, Ovidiu Ilie Şandru, Zenonas Turskis, Yunita Umniyati, Alptekin Ulutaș, Maikel Yelandi Leyva Vázquez, Binyamin Yusoff, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zhao Loon Wang.
Drivers Affecting the Users' Attitudes Towards Using Financial Services in Blockchain-Based Platforms
No full textResearch Article Hamed Heidari* Morteza Mousakhani** Abstract: Providing financial services on Blockchain-based platforms as a new approach to financial markets has a lot of room for growth. This demonstrates the need to study and identify the drivers of users' attitudes towards using Blockchain-based financial services. For this purpose, technology adoption models have been used. Using a combination of several technology adoption models, this research aims to study the factors affecting customers' intention to use financial services in Blockchain-based platforms to determine what factors drive users to use them. For this purpose, first, the literature was studied and a conceptual framework was extracted, and in accordance with the model, a structural equation model has been developed. The results have shown that the individual tendency to trust and also structural guarantees, directly affect initial trust and in the following users’ initial trust influences users' behavioral intentions. In addition, technological features and task characteristics, directly influence technology-task fit and technology-task fit affects users' behavioral intention. Furthermore, expecting performance directly affects the behavioral intention of users. This study has concluded that the propensity to use financial services in Blockchain-based platforms is under the influence of social needs and even Blockchain constraints cannot reduce the desire to use financial services based on this technology. * Ph.D. Student, Department of Information Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. ** Faculty Member, Department of Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran (Corresponding Author: [email protected]) , Iran. *** Faculty Member, Department of Information Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. **** Faculty Member, Department of Management Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. ****** Faculty Member, Department of Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Received: July 16, 2019 Accepted: January 20, 2020 Research Article Drivers affecting the users' attitudes towards using financial Services in Blockchain-Based Platforms Hamed Heidari* Morteza Mousakhani** Mahmood Alborzi*** Ali Divandari **** Reza Radfar****** Abstract: Providing financial services on Blockchain-based platforms as a new approach to financial markets has a lot of room for growth. This demonstrates the need to study and identify the drivers of users' attitudes towards using Blockchain-based financial services. For this purpose, technology adoption models have been used. Using a combination of several technology adoption models, this research aims to study the factors affecting customers' intention to use financial services in Blockchain-based platforms to determine what factors drive users to use them. For this purpose, first, the literature was studied and a conceptual framework was extracted, and in accordance with the model, a structural equation model has been developed. The results have shown that the individual tendency to trust and also structural guarantees, directly affect initial trust and in the following users’ initial trust influences users' behavioral intentions. In addition, technological features and task characteristics, directly influence technology-task fit and technology-task fit affects users' behavioral intention. Furthermore, expecting performance directly affects the behavioral intention of users. This study has concluded that the propensity to use financial services in Blockchain-based platforms is under the influence of social needs and even Blockchain constraints cannot reduce the desire to use financial services based on this technology. * Ph.D. Student, Department of Information Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. ** Faculty Member, Department of Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran (Corresponding Author: [email protected]) , Iran. *** Faculty Member, Department of Information Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. **** Faculty Member, Department of Management Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. ****** Faculty Member, Department of Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Received: July 16, 2019 Accepted: January 20, 202
Text Editing: A Comparative Analysis of Some Important Texts: تدوین متن:چند اہم متون کا تقابلی جائزہ
No full textEditing refers to arranging the text according to the author's intention and identifying the modifications and distortions in it and restoring the text to the state in which the author himself wrote it with the help of other authentic texts and evidence. The main thing is the text. The quality of criticism and research depends on the accuracy of the text. If seen in this sense, the importance of editing becomes clear. The rules and regulations of editing are not scientific and universal in nature. Amendments may be made. In the research study of Urdu language and literature in the first half of the 20th century, the names of Hafiz Mahmood Sherani Mudavvan "Majmua e Naghz", Imtiyaz Ali Khan Arshi Mudavvan "Dewan Ghalib" and Rasheed Hassan Khan Mudavvan"Bagh-o-Bahar" are found. These important authors of Urdu have edited different types of texts and tried to explain the principles and procedures of editing in their prefaces. While reviewing, comparisons will be made so that general principles of editing different types of texts can be brought out.
References:
Ahmed Raza, Mutrjm: Hindustani Matani Tanqeed ka taruf, Lahore: Kitab Mahal, seen noon, P.79
Karim Uddin Ahmed, Tareekh Shu'ara Urdu, Bahawala: Debacha -e-Murtab,Hafiz Mehmood Sherani,Majmua-e-Naghz,Dehli: Taraqqi Urdu Board,1973,P.Laam
Farman Fatehpuri, Dr. Urdu Shu'ara ke Tazkire aur Tazkira Nigari,Lahore:Majlis Taraqqi Adab,1972, P.11
Ibid P.11
Imtiyaz Ali Khan Arshi,Muqadma,Dewan-e-Ghalib,Lahore:Majlis Taraqqi Adab,1992,P.75
Ibid
Ibid
Rasheed Hassan Khan,Muqadma,Bagh-o-Bahar,Nai Dehli:Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Hind,1992 ,P.4
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