Hossein Shirani's research while affiliated with Vali-e-Asr University Of Rafsanjan and other places

Publications (33)

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Sulifluction erosion is a pervasive problem with adverse consequences for natural ecosystems in most parts of the world. In this study, Rheological behavior and its impact on sulifluction erosion was investigated. For this purpose, hill slope in the forest land use was selected and, three profiles were drilled at the shoulder, backslope and footslo...
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Atterberg limits of a soil mechanical properties are associated with strength and resistance to erosion of soil and is the essential properties of fine-grained soils (clay and silt). Soil activity coefficient also shows the percentage change in the volume of soil is clay. So Atterberg and soil activity coefficient are two important factors in the i...
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Thixotropy is a reversible phenomenon for showing structural changes in soil and in fine grained soils, which contain large particles in the size of clay and silt, is an important phenomenon. In this study, soil thixotropic behavior and its effect on sulifluction erosion were studied. For this purpose, a hill slope in the forest land use was select...
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Intensive research efforts have been followed to remove arsenic (As) from contaminated water to provide potable water to millions living in different countries. Adsorption is a simple and efficient way for arsenic contamination purification in water, with a pressing challenge to find a cheap and efficient adsorbent. The present paper deals with opt...
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This paper reports on the findings of an experimental study that investigated the impact of various environmental factors on the growth of lettuce and basil plants in vertical farms. The study employed the Taguchi method, a statistical design of experiments approach, to efficiently identify the optimal growth conditions for these crops in a hyper-c...
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Abstract Livestock manures are a source of pathogenic microorganisms that cause contamination of water surface and groundwater. The aim of this study was to simulate the effect of cow manure granulation on the transmission coefficients of Escherichia coli in a column of sand under saturated flow. Cow manure with particle sizes of 0.25, 0.5, 1 and 2...
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Understanding the effect of manure particle fractionation on transport, retention, and release of bacteria plays a critical role in manure management and environmental policies that address soil and water bacterial pollution. Compared to soil particle size, there is less understanding of the importance of solid manure particle size and fractionatio...
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During the past few decades, vertical farming has attracted a lot of interest as an alternative food production method. Vertical farms use engineered growth environments and hydroponic cultivation techniques for growing plants indoors. One of the important factors in vertical farming for the cultivation of different plants is the amount of nutrient...
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Soil structure serves as one of the most important soil physical properties influencing on water retention, aeration, plant growth as well as environmental conditions. In the current study, the effect of four land-use types on some soil structural stability indices including high-energy moisture characteristic (HEMC) at both fast and slow wetting m...
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Bacteria transport through soil is a complex process particularly when the cells are released from solid manures and co-transported with particles. This study focuses on understanding of the Escherichia coli release from different particle fractions (0.25-, 0.5-, 1-, and 2-mm) of solid manure and evaluating different influent boundary conditions du...
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The present study was conducted to determine soil properties affecting soil aggregate stability in southeast Iran. For this purpose, 169 soil samples were collected at 0–20 cm depth, and some soil properties such as soil bulk density (BD), electrical conductivity (EC), calcium carbonate equivalent (CCE), and soil organic matter (OM) were determined...
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Conversion of the virgin desert to agricultural lands can obviously alter some soil properties; however, little is known about how this conversion impacts soil mechanical properties and wind erosion. The present study therefore aimed at assessing the impacts of agricultural exploitation on aggregate stability, mechanical properties and wind erosion...
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Plant available water (PAW) is one of the physical parameters of soils and the basic data of irrigation plans. Although various theoretical or empirical approaches have been proposed to describe this phenomenon, it is still possible to investigate and evaluate the relevance and applicability of new sciences such as artificial neural network method...
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Sustainable and reliable management requires special attention to factors affecting crop yield. In the present study, a hybrid model of genetic algorithm and artificial neural network (GA-ANN) was employed to recognize the importance of nutrients in pistachio yield. One hundred seventy-five points in different pistachio orchards of Rafsanjan and An...
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Sustainable and reliable management requires special attention to factors affecting crop yield. In the present study, a hybrid model of genetic algorithm and artificial neural network (GA-ANN) was employed to recognize the importance of nutrients in pistachio yield. One hundred seventy-five points in different pistachio orchards of Rafsanjan and An...
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Determining the important factors that affect the crop yield would be helpful for optimization of irrigation water usage, fertilizer applications, and other inputs and resources in farms. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of a hybrid particle swarm optimization-imperialist competitive algorithm-support vector regressi...
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Threshold friction velocity (u⁎t) is a very important parameter, which represents wind erosion potential. Because of the difficulty of measuring u⁎t, it would be advantageous if u⁎t could be estimated indirectly from its effecting factors that can be easily measured. The main purpose of this research was to quantify relationships between u⁎t and va...
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Pistachio endocarp lesion (PEL) problem is one of the most common anomalies that has spread to Iran's pistachio areas over the past few years and has caused much damage to Iranian pistachio farmers. Few studies have been conducted to reduce the damage of this problem. In all of these studies, the effects of calcium deficiency alone have been consid...
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This research was conducted in order to determine the importance of the effect of some soil properties on some soil physical quality indicators (SPQIs) in southeast Iran. To this end, 169 points from different locations in Kerman province were selected which had different agricultural land uses, and disturbed and undisturbed soil samples were taken...
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In recent decades, the quantity and quality of irrigation water have been reduced due to a significant increase in pistachio cultivation and uncontrolled exploitation of groundwater resources as well as reduction in rainfall precipitation. Therefore, agricultural producers, researchers and policy makers need to pay more attention to appropriate lan...
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In recent years, microbial contamination of surface and groundwater is a serious problem in some countries, leading to dangerous diseases. Soil salinity and irrigation water can affect the amount of transport or survival of bacteria in soil. In this study, the effect of different levels of salinity of irrigation water with EC: 0.5, 2.5, 6 ds/m and...
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The main objective of this study was to evaluate the potential use of a hybrid Genetic Algorithm-Artificial Neural Network (GA–ANN) method for predicting pistachio yield and for identifying the determinant factors affecting pistachio yield in Rafsanjan region, Iran. A total of 142 pistachio orchards were selected randomly and soil samples were take...
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Cadmium (Cd) which does not have a biological role is one of the most toxic heavy metals for organisms. This metal enters environment through industrial processes and fertilizers. The main objective of this study was to determine the relationships between absorbed Cd by pistachio kernel and some of soil physical and chemical characteristics using m...
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In this study, we investigated, with pot experiments, whether combined application of zeolite and vermicompost is more effective than single application on plant growth and heavy metals uptake in a heavy metals contaminated soil. Results showed that co-application of these amendments decreased zinc (Zn) and cadmium (Cd) availability by redistributi...
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In recent years, the study of soil contamination problems surrounding the mines and smelting plants has attracted the serious attention of the environmental experts. In Iran, due to the mining and mine development, the study of environmental problems seems to be obligatory. The main point of this research is the implications of the statistical and...
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Calcareous and gypsiferous soils are restricting factors for uptake of some plant nutrient elements and plant production. Most soils in Iran are calcareous and gypsiferous. Therefore, the aim of this study was the evaluation of calcium carbonate (Caco3) and gypsum effect on availability of some nutrients and corn growth. This study was conducted in...

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... Second, inconsistent scales of covariates from remote sensing images increase uncertainty. Most ML models are robust to multicollinearity between covariates, and RF can automatically handle nonlinear relationships and interactions between predictor variables to obtain a high prediction accuracy [4,52]. But the various indices calculated from S1 and S2 data were at 10 m, while the other covariates from other geospatial data were at 1,000 m. ...
... High production costs necessitate that farm owners accurately forecast their yields and manage distribution effectively. Both neural networks (such as deep recurrent neural networks and deep neural networks) and statistical models (including random forest, gradient boosting, decision trees, multivariate regression, and association rule learning) are used to analyze the current situation and determine optimal farming conditions to maximize yield [125,126,127]. Controlled environments allow for the adjustment of various factors such as light intensity, humidity, and fertilizer levels, whether in soil or solutions. Guidelines are available to help cultivate different crops and respond to changes in these parameters, supported by comprehensive virtual agronomist software that assists in making informed decisions. ...
... Manures are basically the origin of these bacteria besides human sewage and also play a dual role; equally good and bad, in their transport. Manure particles can adsorb bacteria cells thus, they may retain cells in soil pores or facilitate their transport as carriers (Tabatabaei et al., 2022). Therefore, neglecting the impact of such constituents may result in an incomplete understanding of bacterial mobility in contaminated soil environments, and may lead to inaccurate assessments of the potential risks of fecal bacteria to soil and water resources in real conditions. ...
... The framework was operated by someone through the web using transferable learning. According to the testing findings, when access to Wi-Fi is enabled, the energy use of the framework dramatically rises [23]. To offer the best classification result in lettuce deficiency, we developed an effective classification framework for hydroponic lettuce deficiency, and its contributions are mentioned below. ...
... The widespread contamination of soils and groundwater by microbes can deteriorate their quality and threaten human and environmental health [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Microbes may also be introduced to soils and groundwater to remove recalcitrant pollutants (i.e., hyper-hydrophobic petroleum components) through bioaugmentation techniques [6]. ...
... Dissolved organic matter (DOM) refers to heterogeneous compounds that are capable of passing through a 0.45 μm pore size filter and contain numerous active functional groups (such as hydroxyl, phenolic hydroxyl, carboxyl, quinone, etc.) that can complex with heavy metals [8]. Soil structure, moisture, and organic matter can vary significantly between forest land, dry cropland, and vegetable land [9,10], resulting in DOM components with different expressions and structures of. Forest land typically has a good soil structure and moisture retention due to the stabilizing effect of tree root systems. ...
... Whatever the soil texture and more markedly in semi-arid and arid areas, it is important to ascertain the water retention properties of soils in order to manage the water supply and consequently crop growth appropriately (Gaiser, Graef, and Cordeiro 2000). To accomplish this, pedotransfer functions that enable prediction of the water retention properties of soils have therefore been developed (e.g., Bouma and Van Lanen 1987;W€ osten et al. 1999;Ostovari, Asgari, and Cornelis 2015;Kalumba et al. 2021;Singh et al. 2020;Xu et al. 2021), with several studies focusing on soils of semi-arid and arid areas (T oth et al. 2012;Khlosi et al. 2013Khlosi et al. , 2016Al Majou, Hassani, and Bruand 2018;De Paepe, Bono, and Alvarez 2018;Santra et al. 2018;Dharumarajan et al. 2019;Soleimani et al. 2020). At the same time, some studies aimed at a better understanding of the water retention properties of soils according to the characteristics of their clay minerals but the validity of the results for soils of semi-arid and arid areas remains unclear (Gaiser, Graef, and Cordeiro 2000;Moret-Fern andez et al. 2013). ...
... Numerous studies shown that desert soil quality improved significantly after reclamation. First of all, reclamation improves the ability of desert soils to withstand wind erosion and reduces the risk of soil degradation (Fallahzade et al., 2020;Song et al., 2021). Secondly, reclamation can improve the texture and physical structure of desert soil with the increase in clay and silt particles and SOC content and the decrease in soil bulk density, which in turn improves the soil's ability to retain water and nutrients (Wang et al., 2012;He et al., 2020;Cao et al., 2021). ...
... In order to determine the micronutrient (Işık 2016), partially iron, common nitrogen, zinc and phosphorus deficiency (Kızılgöz et al. 1998). In addition, in the sensitivity analysis, it was reported that pistachio yield was affected by the Cu, K and Fe content of the leaves (Pourmohammadali et al. 2020). ...
... Soil textures were determined by hydrometer [29,30], pH was measured with the pH meter, electrical conductivity with an EC meter [31], and soil organic matter was determined by using the methodology of Nelson [32,33]. Calcium concentration was estimated with the methodology of Lanyon and Heald [34,35]. Nitrogen concentration was estimated with the Kjeldahl methodology [36,37] and phosphorus, potassium, and sodium contents by the methodology of Olsen and Sommers [38,39]. ...