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Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index

BACKGROUND: Developing a water quality index which is used to convert the water quality dataset into a single number is the most important task of most water quality monitoring programmes. As the water quality index setup is based on different local obstacles, it is not feasible to introduce a defin...

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Autores principales: Nabizadeh, Ramin, Valadi Amin, Maryam, Alimohammadi, Mahmood, Naddafi, Kazem, Mahvi, Amir Hossein, Yousefzadeh, Samira
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-336X-11-1
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author Nabizadeh, Ramin
Valadi Amin, Maryam
Alimohammadi, Mahmood
Naddafi, Kazem
Mahvi, Amir Hossein
Yousefzadeh, Samira
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description BACKGROUND: Developing a water quality index which is used to convert the water quality dataset into a single number is the most important task of most water quality monitoring programmes. As the water quality index setup is based on different local obstacles, it is not feasible to introduce a definite water quality index to reveal the water quality level. FINDINGS: In this study, an innovative software application, the Iranian Water Quality Index Software (IWQIS), is presented in order to facilitate calculation of a water quality index based on dynamic weight factors, which will help users to compute the water quality index in cases where some parameters are missing from the datasets. CONCLUSION: A dataset containing 735 water samples of drinking water quality in different parts of the country was used to show the performance of this software using different criteria parameters. The software proved to be an efficient tool to facilitate the setup of water quality indices based on flexible use of variables and water quality databases.
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spelling pubmed-37762862013-11-19 Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index Nabizadeh, Ramin Valadi Amin, Maryam Alimohammadi, Mahmood Naddafi, Kazem Mahvi, Amir Hossein Yousefzadeh, Samira J Environ Health Sci Eng Technical Note BACKGROUND: Developing a water quality index which is used to convert the water quality dataset into a single number is the most important task of most water quality monitoring programmes. As the water quality index setup is based on different local obstacles, it is not feasible to introduce a definite water quality index to reveal the water quality level. FINDINGS: In this study, an innovative software application, the Iranian Water Quality Index Software (IWQIS), is presented in order to facilitate calculation of a water quality index based on dynamic weight factors, which will help users to compute the water quality index in cases where some parameters are missing from the datasets. CONCLUSION: A dataset containing 735 water samples of drinking water quality in different parts of the country was used to show the performance of this software using different criteria parameters. The software proved to be an efficient tool to facilitate the setup of water quality indices based on flexible use of variables and water quality databases. BioMed Central 2013-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3776286/ /pubmed/24499556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-336X-11-1 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nabizadeh et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mahvi, Amir Hossein
Yousefzadeh, Samira
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title Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index
title_full Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index
title_fullStr Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index
title_full_unstemmed Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index
title_short Development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index
title_sort development of innovative computer software to facilitate the setup and computation of water quality index
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24499556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-336X-11-1
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