At the opening of the CAA2014 Paris Conference, a tribute to Jean-Claude Gardin (Paris 1925-2013) was deemed more than appropriate.A scholar of international renown, with an eclectic academic background, in the early Fifties Gardin pioneeringly approached the use of innovative techniques to automate the processes of description and classification o
Abstract This study applies three methods, Gene Expression Programming (GEP), M5 tree here (M5T) model and optimized Artificial Neural Network by Genetic Algorithm (ANN-GA) for estimation of reference evapotranspiration in Ahvaz and Dezful in the southwest of Iran.Comparison between results of the FAO Penman-Monteith (FPM) method and the mentioned
The growing threat arises due to diseases such as cancer and the infections around the world leading to a critical requirement for novel and constructive compounds with unique ways of action capable of combating these deadly diseases.At present, it is evident that endophytic fungi constitute an enormous as well as comparatively untapped source of g
Energy security is an international concern for all countries in the world, particularly, for the policymakers looking for the wellbeing of citizens.While proper methods to measure energy security without ignoring the different aspects and multidimensional interplay is necessary, the need for an objective evaluation with numerical indicators is of