This study investigates the impact of pneumatophores (the aerial roots of Avicenna marina) on water flow rate, retention time, contact time, and consequently on nutrient absorption through the sediment in sub-tropical salt ...

This study proposed a decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) approach for the analysis of public transportation (PT) sustainability factors in Pakistan. After briefly reviewing the related literature, ...

This work evaluates the performance of the salp swarm algorithm (SSA) for truss system optimization problems and presents a novel method called the modified salp swarm algorithm (MSSA). Five truss structures, previously ...

Plastic pipes, especialiy polyethylene pipes have grown to become one of the freguently utilized material in pipeline systems owing to its advantages of corrosion, biological and chemical resistance over traditional metal ...

At present, there is no accepted standard by highway authorities on the compaction procedures of 100 mm-diameter gyratory compactor specimens. In previous studies on gyratory compaction, the method of either coring from ...

In this paper, the author determines the most suitable transportation location for intervention in a large scale disaster in the Republic of Bulgaria, by means of the Weber Problem and the Weiszfeld method. The objective ...

Drought forecasting is a vital task for sustainable development and water resource management. Emerging machine learning techniques could be used to develop precise drought forecasting models. However, they need to be ...

Son yıllarda bütün dünyada dağlık bölgelerin sosyal ve ekonomik gelişmelerine yönelik çalışmalar yapılmaktadır. Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi topraklarının bir kısmı dağlık alanlardadır. Bu çalışmada, Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi'nde ...

Determination of the optimal route in transportation activities is one of the major problems in transportation. Therefore, efficient techniques deserve our utmost attention to detect optimal routes. In this study, a novel ...