Assessing the soil salinity vulnerability and groundwater quality variations due to drying up of the lake.

Shrinkage of lakes is considered a serious ecological challenge. The impact of this phenomenon on the environment can be devastating. Monitoring the spatiotemporal variations of lake's water surface and its salinization is essential for planning and adopting mitigation measures.

Estimation of greenhouse gas emissions from Iran's gas flaring by using satellite data and combustion equations.

In addition to the waste of resources and economic losses, environmental damage by gas flaring is widespread and significant. Since flaring the associated gas gives no added value in exchange for its pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it could be identified as a top priority for mitigation. Iran is the third gas flaring country after Russia and Iraq among those facing this issue, and is responsible for 12.

Estimation of hydraulic jump characteristics of channels with sudden diverging side walls via SVM.

Sudden diverging channels are one of the energy dissipaters which can dissipate most of the kinetic energy of the flow through a hydraulic jump. An accurate prediction of hydraulic jump characteristics is an important step in designing hydraulic structures. This paper focuses on the capability of the support vector machine (SVM) as a meta-model approach for predicting hydraulic jump characteristics in different sudden diverging stilling basins (i.

Investigating the cytotoxicity of iron oxide nanoparticles in in vivo and in vitro studies.

In recent years, iron oxide nanorods find a lot of applications including drug delivery, cell separation, hyperthermia and magnetic resonance imaging. In this study the cytotoxicity of iron oxide nanorods was evaluated based on mouse fibroblast cell behavior and wistar rat's liver and kidney function. At first for modification, nanorods were added to Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) which contained a lot of sources of vitamins, amino acids, proteins in Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS).