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    Observation of a new Ξ b baryon

    , Article Physical Review Letters ; Volume 108, Issue 25 , 2012 ; 00319007 (ISSN) Chatrchyan, S ; Khachatryan, V ; Sirunyan, A. M ; Tumasyan, A ; Adam, W ; Bergauer, T ; Dragicevic, M ; Erö, J ; Fabjan, C ; Friedl, M ; Frühwirth, R ; Ghete, V. M ; Hammer, J ; Hörmann, N ; Hrubec, J ; Jeitler, M ; Kiesenhofer, W ; Knünz, V ; Krammer, M ; Liko, D ; Mikulec, I ; Pernicka, M ; Rahbaran, B ; Rohringer, C ; Rohringer, H ; Schöfbeck, R ; Strauss, J ; Taurok, A ; Wagner, P ; Waltenberger, W ; Walzel, G ; Widl, E ; Wulz, C. E ; Mossolov, V ; Shumeiko, N ; Suarez Gonzalez, J ; Bansal, S ; Cornelis, T ; De Wolf, E. A ; Janssen, X ; Luyckx, S ; Maes, T ; Mucibello, L ; Ochesanu, S ; Roland, B ; Rougny, R ; Selvaggi, M ; Staykova, Z ; Van Haevermaet, H ; Van Mechelen, P ; Van Remortel, N ; Van Spilbeeck, A ; Blekman, F ; Blyweert, S ; D'hondt, J ; Gonzalez Suarez, R ; Kalogeropoulos, A ; Maes, M ; Olbrechts, A ; Van Doninck, W ; Van Mulders, P ; Van Onsem, G.P ; Villella, I ; Charaf, O ; Clerbaux, B ; De Lentdecker, G ; Dero, V ; Gay, A. P. R ; Hreus, T ; Léonard, A ; Marage, P. E ; Reis, T ; Thomas, L ; Vander Velde, C ; Vanlaer, P ; Wang, J ; Adler, V ; Beernaert, K ; Cimmino, A ; Costantini, S ; Garcia, G ; Grunewald, M ; Klein, B ; Lellouch, J ; Marinov, A ; Mccartin, J ; Ocampo Rios, A. A ; Ryckbosch, D ; Strobbe, N ; Thyssen, F ; Tytgat, M ; Vanelderen, L ; Verwilligen, P ; Walsh, S ; Yazgan, E ; Zaganidis, N ; Basegmez, S ; Bruno, G ; Castello, R ; Ceard, L ; Delaere, C ; Du Pree, T ; Favart, D ; Forthomme, L ; Giammanco, A ; Hollar, J ; Lemaitre, V ; Liao, J ; Militaru, O ; Nuttens, C ; Pagano, D ; Pin, A ; Piotrzkowski, K ; Schul, N ; Vizan Garcia, J. M ; Beliy, N ; Caebergs, T ; Daubie, E ; Hammad, G. H ; Alves, G. A ; Correa Martins Junior, M ; De Jesus Damiao, D ; Martins, T ; Pol, M. E ; Souza, M. H. G ; Aldá Júnior, W. L ; Carvalho, W ; Custódio, A ; Da Costa, E. M ; De Oliveira Martins, C ; Fonseca De Souza, S ; Matos Figueiredo, D ; Mundim, L ; Nogima, H ; Oguri, V ; Prado Da Silva, W. L ; Santoro, A ; Soares Jorge, L ; Sznajder, A ; Bernardes, C. A ; Dias, F. A ; Fernandez Perez Tomei, T. R ; Gregores, E. M ; Lagana, C ; Marinho, F ; Mercadante, P. G ; Novaes, S. F ; Padula, S. S ; Genchev, V ; Iaydjiev, P ; Piperov, S ; Rodozov, M ; Stoykova, S ; Sultanov, G ; Tcholakov, V ; Trayanov, R ; Vutova, M ; Dimitrov, A ; Hadjiiska, R ; Kozhuharov, V ; Litov, L ; Pavlov, B ; Petkov, P ; Bian, J. G ; Chen, G. M ; Chen, H. S ; Jiang, C. H ; Liang, D ; Liang, S ; Meng, X ; Tao, J ; Wang, J ; Wang, X ; Wang, Z ; Xiao, H ; Xu, M ; Zang, J ; Zhang, Z ; Asawatangtrakuldee, C ; Ban, Y ; Guo, S ; Guo, Y ; Li, W ; Liu, S ; Mao, Y ; Qian, S. J ; Teng, H ; Wang, S ; Zhu, B ; Zou, W ; Avila, C ; Gomez, J. P ; Gomez Moreno, B ; Osorio Oliveros, A. F ; Sanabria, J. C ; Godinovic, N ; Lelas, D ; Plestina, R ; Polic, D ; Puljak, I ; Antunovic, Z ; Kovac, M ; Brigljevic, V ; Duric, S ; Kadija, K ; Luetic, J ; Morovic, S ; Attikis, A ; Galanti, M ; Mavromanolakis, G ; Mousa, J ; Nicolaou, C ; Ptochos, F ; Razis, P. A ; Finger, M ; Finger, M ; Assran, Y ; Elgammal, S ; Ellithi Kamel, A ; Khalil, S ; Mahmoud, M. A ; Radi, A ; Kadastik, M ; Müntel, M ; Raidal, M ; Rebane, L ; Tiko, A ; Azzolini, V ; Eerola, P ; Fedi, G ; Voutilainen, M ; Härkönen, J ; Heikkinen, A ; Karimäki, V ; Kinnunen, R ; Kortelainen, M. J ; Lampén, T ; Lassila-Perini, K ; Lehti, S ; Lindén, T ; Luukka, P ; Mäenpää, T ; Peltola, T ; Tuominen, E ; Tuominiemi, J ; Tuovinen, E ; Ungaro, D ; Wendland, L ; Banzuzi, K ; Karjalainen, A ; Korpela, A ; Tuuva, T ; Besancon, M ; Choudhury, S ; Dejardin, M ; Denegri, D ; Fabbro, B ; Faure, J. L ; Ferri, F ; Ganjour, S ; Givernaud, A ; Gras, P ; Hamel De Monchenault, G ; Jarry, P ; Locci, E ; Malcles, J ; Millischer, L ; Nayak, A ; Rander, J ; Rosowsky, A ; Shreyber, I ; Titov, M ; Baffioni, S ; Beaudette, F ; Benhabib, L ; Bianchini, L ; Bluj, M ; Broutin, C ; Busson, P ; Charlot, C ; Daci, N ; Dahms, T ; Dobrzynski, L ; Granier De Cassagnac, R ; Haguenauer, M ; Miné, P ; Mironov, C ; Nguyen, M ; Ochando, C ; Paganini, P ; Sabes, D ; Salerno, R ; Sirois, Y ; Veelken, C ; Zabi, A ; Agram, J. L ; Andrea, J ; Bloch, D ; Bodin, D ; Brom, J. M ; Cardaci, M ; Chabert, E. C ; Collard, C ; Conte, E ; Drouhin, F ; Ferro, C ; Fontaine, J. C ; Gelé, D ; Goerlach, U ; Juillot, P ; Le Bihan, A. C ; Van Hove, P ; Fassi, F ; Mercier, D ; Beauceron, S ; Beaupere, N ; Bondu, O ; Boudoul, G ; Brun, H ; Chasserat, J ; Chierici, R ; Contardo, D ; Depasse, P ; El Mamouni, H ; Fay, J ; Gascon, S ; Gouzevitch, M ; Ille, B ; Kurca, T ; Lethuillier, M ; Mirabito, L ; Perries, S ; Sordini, V ; Tosi, S ; Tschudi, Y ; Verdier, P ; Viret, S ; Tsamalaidze, Z ; Anagnostou, G ; Beranek, S ; Edelhoff, M ; Feld, L ; Heracleous, N ; Hindrichs, O ; Jussen, R ; Klein, K ; Merz, J ; Ostapchuk, A ; Perieanu, A ; Raupach, F ; Sammet, J ; Schael, S ; Sprenger, D ; Weber, H ; Wittmer, B ; Zhukov, V ; Ata, M ; Caudron, J ; Dietz-Laursonn, E ; Erdmann, M ; Güth, A ; Hebbeker, T ; Heidemann, C ; Hoepfner, K ; Klingebiel, D ; Kreuzer, P ; Lingemann, J ; Magass, C ; Merschmeyer, M ; Meyer, A ; Olschewski, M ; Papacz, P ; Pieta, H ; Reithler, H ; Schmitz, S. A ; Sonnenschein, L ; Steggemann, J ; Teyssier, D ; Weber, M ; Bontenackels, M ; Cherepanov, V ; Flügge, G ; Geenen, H ; Geisler, M ; Haj Ahmad, W ; Hoehle, F ; Kargoll, B ; Kress, T ; Kuessel, Y ; Nowack, A ; Perchalla, L ; Pooth, O ; Rennefeld, J ; Sauerland, P ; Stahl, A ; Aldaya Martin, M ; Behr, J ; Behrenhoff, W ; Behrens, U ; Bergholz, M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2012
    Abstract
    The observation of a new b baryon via its strong decay into Ξb-π + (plus charge conjugates) is reported. The measurement uses a data sample of pp collisions at √s=7TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.3fb -1. The known Ξb- baryon is reconstructed via the decay chain Ξb-→J/ψΞ -→μ +μ -Λ0π -, with Λ0→pπ -. A peak is observed in the distribution of the difference between the mass of the Ξb-π + system and the sum of the masses of the Ξb- and π +, with a significance exceeding 5 standard deviations. The mass difference of the peak is 14.84±0.74(stat)±0.28(syst)MeV. The new state most likely corresponds to the JP=3/2 + companion of the Ξ b  

    A comprehensive fuzzy TOPSIS model in multiple criteria decision making

    , Article 37th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2007, Alexandria, 20 October 2007 through 23 October 2007 ; Volume 1 , 2007 , Pages 537-548 ; 9781627486811 (ISBN) Mahdavi, I ; Sadeghpour Gildeh, B ; Heidarzade, A ; Mahdavi Amiri, N ; Sharif University of Technology
    2007
    Abstract
    Decision making is the process of finding the best option among the feasible alternatives. In classical multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods, the ratings and the weights of the criteria are known precisely. Owning to vagueness of the decision data, the crisp data are inadequate for real-life situations. Since human judgments including preferences are often vague and cannot be expressed by exact numerical values, the application of fuzzy concepts in decision making is deemed to be relevant. Here, we apply a new distance formula to compute the standard deviation of fuzzy data to achieve crisp data by normalization. There is a flexibility to consider various fuzzy values as... 

    Experimental Study of Boundary Layer Transition on a Swept Wing

    , Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Masdari, Mehran (Author) ; Soltani, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor) ; Ghorbanian, Kaveh (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Swept wings are of great interest for achieving high speed as well as increasing the critical Mach number in aircrafts and unmanned flying vehicles. The governing fluid mechanical phenomenon on swept wings is strongly influenced by the chordwise and spanwise components of the cross-flow. Laminar airfoils are employed for drag reduction and postponing the boundary layer transition from laminar to turbulence. Hence, the knowledge about the boundary layer structure and instability modes is of great significance. A series of wind tunnel tests are performed to examine the flow field over a swept wing at various conditions. The wing has a laminar flow airfoil section similar to NACA 6-series ones.... 

    Estimating Traffic Flow in Urban Networks with Day-To-Day Travel Time Fluctuations

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Torkjazi, Mohammad (Author) ; Poorzahedy, Hossain (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Variations in supply and demand of transportation, as well as those in the related environment, would cause daily variations in user travel time of transportation networks. This phenomenon particularly happen in morning travel time peaks, and make estimation of travel time highly unreliable. Morning peak passengers, whose timely presence at the destinations are highly important to them, prefer to choose paths that have minimum travel time and maximum reliability. Thus, the look at travel time pessimistically, and based on their experience, they put a margin of reliability to reach at timely at their destinations.
    This study analysis such reliability margins based on the standard... 

    The Effect of Travel Time Reliability on Morning Peak Travellers route choice in Large Metropolitan Area

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Sadat Mirjafari, Parisa (Author) ; Poorzahedy, Hossein (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Data collected from street networks show that travel time in urban street networks is a stochastic variable, whose range of variation increases with the congestion level. Work and school trips comprise the major part of morning peak volumes, whose common characteristic is that they need to be made on time. For this reason, these travelers are pessimistic in their route choice, and try to choose routes which are more reliable. Travel time standard deviation is one of the common measures for estimating travel time reliability that is related to properties of day-to-day travel time distribution on a particular route. Based on the empirical data collected from Tehran street network, this paper... 

    A horizontally oriented setup for liquid-liquid-liquid microextraction of estrogens

    , Article Analytical Methods ; Volume 5, Issue 22 , 2013 , Pages 6517-6522 ; 17599660 (ISSN) Bagheri, H ; Maleki, H ; Es'Haghi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
    2013
    Abstract
    A horizontally oriented liquid-liquid-liquid microextraction (HOLLLME) setup was developed and applied for the isolation of two major estrogens from aquatic media. In contrast to the conventional procedure, in this setup the extracting microdrop was suspended from a horizontally positioned needle in order to provide much higher stability to the extracting phase. The developed HOLLLME approach was applied to isolate two major selected estrogens from aquatic media followed by high performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet (HPLC-UV) determination. Estrogens were, initially, extracted from water samples into hexane and subsequently, the back extraction stage was performed with 6 μL of sodium... 

    A conically fixed position single drop microextraction method for isolation of aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides from aquatic media

    , Article Analytical Methods ; Volume 5, Issue 18 , Jul , 2013 , Pages 4846-4851 ; 17599660 (ISSN) Bagheri, H ; Dehghan, M ; Es'Haghi, A ; Naderi, M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2013
    Abstract
    A new and convenient format of single drop microextraction (SDME) was developed and applied for isolation of some selected aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides from aquatic media. In contrast to the conventional SDME procedure, in this set-up the extraction microdrop was positioned at the bottom of a conical vial in order to provide much higher stability for the organic extraction phase while a magnetic bar was used for stirring the aqueous solution. A simple magnet was used for positioning the bar on the top of the microdrop prior to stirring. The whole set-up led to the use of any volume of extraction solvent with unlimited stirring rates. Some important extraction parameters such as the... 

    Statistical study of nano-scale VLSI interconnect crosstalk and its induced power estimation

    , Article 2012 2nd IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2012, 10 December 2012 through 12 December 2012 ; December , 2012 ; 9781467326551 (ISBN) Mehri, M ; Sarvari, R ; Seyedolhosseini, A ; Sharif University of Technology
    2012
    Abstract
    Crosstalk due to the capacitive and inductive coupling has adverse effect on the circuit performance. In this paper crosstalk voltage and its induced power are studied for a stochastic environment bus with specific physical structure. Input switching pattern, driver, and load are swept in wide range for VLSI application to study crosstalk variation. Crosstalk and power is extracted to drive mean and standard deviation for implemented structures. The crosstalk mean and its induced power get lower with increasing of the load and driver resistance. This phenomenon is proportional to shrinking the technology  

    Geometry, supertransfer, and optimality in the light harvesting of purple bacteria

    , Article Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ; Volume 7, Issue 19 , 2016 , Pages 3804-3811 ; 19487185 (ISSN) Baghbanzadeh, S ; Kassal, I ; Sharif University of Technology
    American Chemical Society  2016
    Abstract
    The remarkable rotational symmetry of the photosynthetic antenna complexes of purple bacteria has long been thought to enhance their light harvesting and excitation energy transport. We study the role of symmetry by modeling hypothetical antennas whose symmetry is broken by altering the orientations of the bacteriochlorophyll pigments. We find that in both LH2 and LH1 complexes, symmetry increases energy transfer rates by enabling the cooperative, coherent process of supertransfer. The enhancement is particularly pronounced in the LH1 complex, whose natural geometry outperforms the average randomized geometry by 5.5 standard deviations, the most significant coherence-related enhancement... 

    An electrospun magnetic nanocomposite for a facile micro-scaled analysis approach

    , Article Analytical Methods ; Vol. 6, issue. 15 , 2014 , Pages 5838-5846 ; ISSN: 17599660 Bagheri, H ; Roostaie, A ; Daliri, R ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    A magnetic polyurethane (PU) nanocomposite was synthesized by an electrospinning technique and applied for isolation and preconcentration of fluoxetine from aquatic and biological samples. The nanocomposite was electrospun using a PU polymer solution containing the dispersed magnetic nanoparticles. The magnetic properties of iron nanoparticles, along with the use of an electrospinning technique, led to the formation of a suitable sorbent toward isolation of fluoxetine. The magnetic PU nanofibers could be subsequently removed from the sample solution by applying a permanent magnet. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of the magnetic PU nanofibers confirms that their diameters are in... 

    Voltammetric monitoring of Cd (II) by nano-TiO2 modified carbon paste electrode sensitized using 1,2-bis-[o-aminophenyl thio] ethane as a new ion receptor

    , Article Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical ; Vol. 192 , 2014 , pp. 648-657 ; ISSN: 09254005 Ramezani, S ; Ghobadi, M ; Bideh, B. N ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    The objective of the work ahead is presentation of a new carbon paste electrode (CPE) modified by TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2NPs) and 1,2-bis-[o-aminophenyl thio] ethane (APTE) ligand as a selective cation receptor for determination of the Cd (II) ions using differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV). The electrode shows an excellent tendency to Cd (II) ions in presence of some interfering species. Under the optimum conditions, a linear calibration curve was obtained in the concentration range of 2.9 nM to 4.6 μM with a correlation coefficient of 0.9969 in the anodic potential of 0.54 (V vs. Ag/AgCl). The metal detection limit was 2.0 nM after 10 min preconcentration (S/N = 3). The... 

    T wave alternans detection in ECG using extended kalman filter and dualrate EKF

    , Article European Signal Processing Conference ; 1-5 September , 2014 , pp. 2500-2504 ; ISSN: 22195491 ; ISBN: 9780992862619 Akhbari, M ; Shamsollahi, M. B ; Jutten, C ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    T Wave Alternans (TWA) is considered as an indicator of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD). In this paper for TWA detection, a method based on a nonlinear dynamic model is presented. For estimating the model parameters, we use an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). We propose EKF6 and dualrate EKF6 approaches. Dualrate EKF is suitable for modeling the states which are not updated in all time instances. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the proposed method have been done on TWA challenge database. We compare our method with that proposed by Sieed et al. in TWA challenge 2008. We also compare our method with our previous proposed approach (EKF25-4obs). Results show that the proposed method can... 

    Intracellular viral infection kinetics using a stochastic approach

    , Article Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism ; Volume 38, Issue 4 , 2013 , Pages 359-376 ; 14686783 (ISSN) Taherkhani, F ; Taherkhani, F ; Rezania, H ; Akbarzadeh, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    2013
    Abstract
    Stochastic simulation is carried out to investigate intracellular viral reaction kinetics and the time evolution of the average particle number ( N̄) and coefficient variation (CV) for genome, template, and structural protein. The coefficient variation of these components is found to be ordered as: CV template > CV structural protein > CVgenome. The average particle number is also calculated via a deterministic approach. The magnitude value of the difference between the stochastic and deterministic approaches is found to be N̄ template ̃ N̄ structural protein > N̄ genome. The Poisson algorithm has been used to investigate the number of particles in the dynamics of intracellular viral... 

    Analysis of integral non-linearity errors in two-step analogue-to-digital converters

    , Article IET Circuits, Devices and Systems ; Volume 6, Issue 1 , January , 2012 , Pages 1-8 ; 1751858X (ISSN) Nikandish, G ; Medi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    A new method for modelling and analysis of non-linearity errors caused by the capacitor mismatches and op-amp non-idealities in two-step analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) is presented. Analytical formulas for estimation of the ADC integral non-linearity (INL) are derived. Using the proposed method, the ADC INL can be calculated in terms of the capacitor mismatches standard deviations. Therefore time-consuming Monte Carlo simulations which are conventionally used to evaluate the effect of random capacitor mismatches on the ADC linearity can be avoided. The effect of op-amp non-idealities, which are frequently examined by the circuit-level simulations, can also be evaluated using the... 

    An innovative genetic algorithm approach for direct calibration of X-probe hot wires

    , Article Experimental Techniques ; Volume 36, Issue 1 , MAR , 2012 , Pages 50-60 ; 07328818 (ISSN) Manshadi, M. D ; Keshavarz, B ; Soltani, M. R ; Ghorbanian, K ; Sharif University of Technology
    2012
    Abstract
    A new genetic algorithm (GA) based method for direct calibration of 2-D hot-wire probe and other instruments that can measure 2-D flow properties is introduced. This new method is an alternative for the previous QR method that is commonly used for calibration of the X-probe hot wires. The proposed GA method resulted in a much smaller error in the velocity estimation while preserving the number of sentences in its calibration equation format. In addition, it preserves the magnitude of its error even when the number of sentences in the calibration equation is decreased while the error in the QR method increases substantially for the same situation. Furthermore, the results were much closer to... 

    Multiple cell tracking algorithm assessment using simulation of spermatozoa movement

    , Article 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE 2015, 2 November 2015 through 4 November 2015 ; 2015 ; 9781467379830 (ISBN) Arasteh, A ; Vahdat, B. V ; Sharif University of Technology
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc  2015
    Abstract
    In this research, a web-based simulator is developed, which can be used for generating image sequences of moving spermatozoa cells. It can be used for assessment of multiple object tracking algorithms, especially Computer Aided Sperm Analysis (CASA) systems. The developed software has many useful parameters such as blurring images or adding noise and it also gives full control of sperm counts and types. To illustrate performance of the developed simulator, three parameters (spermatozoa population, standard deviation of Gaussian blur filter and noise intensity) have been swept and the results of three different multiple object tracking algorithms were compared as an application of this... 

    An Fe3O4@SiO2@polypyrrole magnetic nanocomposite for the extraction and preconcentration of Cd(ii) and Ni(ii)

    , Article Analytical Methods ; Volume 7, Issue 1 , Nov , 2015 , Pages 313-320 ; 17599660 (ISSN) Abolhasani, J ; Hosseinzadeh Khanmiri, R ; Ghorbani Kalhor, E ; Hassanpour, A ; Asgharinezhad, A. A ; Shekari, N ; Fathi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
    Royal Society of Chemistry  2015
    Abstract
    This work describes a novel Fe3O4@SiO2@polypyrrole magnetic nanocomposite and its application in the preconcentration of Cd(ii) and Ni(ii) ions. The parameters affecting the preconcentration procedure were optimised by a Box-Behnken design using response surface methodology. Three variables (extraction time, magnetic sorbent amount, and pH) were selected as the main factors affecting the sorption step, while four variables (type, volume and concentration of the eluent, and elution time) were selected as the main factors in the optimisation study of the elution step. Following the sorption and elution of analytes, the ions were quantified by FAAS. The limits of detection were 0.3 and 1.2 ng... 

    Fuzzy modeling techniques and artificial neural networks to estimate annual energy output of a wind turbine

    , Article Renewable Energy ; Volume 35, Issue 9 , September , 2010 , Pages 2008-2014 ; 09601481 (ISSN) Jafarian, M ; Ranjbar, A. M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2010
    Abstract
    The purpose of this article is to develop a new method to estimate annual energy output for a given wind turbine in any region which should be easy to use and has satisfactory accuracy. To do this, hourly wind speeds of 25 different stations in Netherlands, output power curve of S47 wind turbine and fuzzy modeling techniques and artificial neural networks were used and a model is developed to estimate annual energy output for S47 wind turbine in different regions. Since this model has three inputs (average wind speed, standard deviation of wind speed, and air density of that region), this model is easy to use. The accuracy of this method is compared with the accuracy of conventional methods... 

    Phase II monitoring of general linear profiles in the presence of between-profile autocorrelation

    , Article Quality and Reliability Engineering International ; Volume 32, Issue 2 , 2016 , Pages 443-452 ; 07488017 (ISSN) Khedmati, M ; AKhavan Niaki, S. T. A ; Sharif University of Technology
    John Wiley and Sons Ltd  2
    Abstract
    In this paper, an approach based on the U statistic is first proposed to eliminate the effect of between-profile autocorrelation of error terms in Phase-II monitoring of general linear profiles. Then, a control chart based on the adjusted parameter estimates is designed to monitor the parameters of the model. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the ones of some existing methods in terms of average run length for weak, moderate, and strong autocorrelation coefficients under different shift scenarios. The results show that the proposed method provides significantly better results than the competing methods to detect shifts in the regression parameters, while the competing... 

    Reliability-based network flow estimation with day-to-day variation: A model validation on real large-scale urban networks

    , Article Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations ; 2017 , Pages 1-23 ; 15472450 (ISSN) Torkjazi, M ; Sadat Mirjafari, P ; Poorzahedy, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    Day-to-day variation in the travel times of congested urban transportation networks is a frustrating phenomenon to the users of these networks. These users look pessimistically at the path travel times, and learn to spend additional time to safeguard against serious penalties that await late arrivals at the destinations. These additional expenses are charges similar to the tolls in system equilibrium flow problem, but may not be collected. With this conjecture, the user equilibrium (UE) formulation of congested network flow problem would lack some necessary factors in addressing appropriate path choices. This study, following a previous work proposing pessimistic UE (PUE) flow, aims to show...