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In this research, the mechanical section of a reduced-scale hybrid vehicle simulator was designed and fabricated. In order to scale down the vehicle dynamics, a method based on dimensional analysis was proposed. An internal combustion engine and an electric motor were selected as power sources and then, scaling was performed, according to the specifications of the combustion engine. Afterwards, the power transmission system was designed first in concept and then in more detail. Finally, the design was manufactured and assembled. The study was made in conjunction with another study responsible for the controlling section of the work, conducted by Safabakhsh The sponsor of these two researches... 

Population growth and the escalating use of electric devices have led to a surge in electricity demand. However, the construction of adequate infrastructure to meet this additional demand is highly expensive. To address this issue that sometimes causes power outages, dynamic pricing for electricity, a demand management technique, has gained significant importance. By employing this method, prices can be adjusted on an hourly basis, enabling consumers to regulate their consumption in response to these price fluctuations. The prices can be determined based on different objective functions. This research aims to develop a comprehensive framework for determining the optimal hourly electricity... 

In this study, the properties of super-hydrophobic Ni coating on carbon steel including wetting behavior and corrosion resistance of Nickel coatings deposited on the steel substrate were investigated. For this purpose, Nickel coatings deposited by electrodeposition method in deferent current density (10,20,30,50, 70 mA /cm2) in bath containing 1.5 mol of ethylene de-ammonium de-chloride, 0.5 mol H3BO3, 1 mol Nicl2.6H2o and then immersed in a bath containing 0.01 mol per liter myristic acid and ethanol for 24 hours and then placed in the room temperature for 14 days. Deferent tests were used for characterization, wettability properties, corrosion behavior and morphology of Ni coatings. The... 

The rate of cesarean section delivery in Iran is high and during the past 14 years, leading up to 2014, kept rising. In this regard, decreasing cesarean section rate was targeted through the healthcare reform plan, which was offered by Ministry of Health and Medical Education. This plan kicked off on May4, 2014. One of the most important proceedings of this plan was making natural childbirth to be free in all hospitals, which are under the auspices of the medical universities. According to healthcare utilization models, lower prices of healthcare services, more health centers and more accessibility to them, increase the probability of using health care services. Current study evaluated the... 

The problem of path simplification is an important problem in computer science. With the advances in navigation and geographical information based systems, simplification and data compression have gained considerable importance. The intends to find a path with less weight than the provided path while estimating the initial path with good accuracy and simplifying the storage and process cost of path information. This problem is not only useful in Geographical Information Systems, but it also has use cases in image processing and computer graphics and has been studied a lot in computational geometry. In this research, we introduce a simplification game that models the limited version of the... 

Wind power is site dependent and is by nature partially dispatchable. Furthermore, good wind sites are far from grid. Due to these problems, and along with the existing limitations in the transmission networks, a comprehensive analysis over an extended time is needed to properly explore all potential wind sites for wind capacity allocation. This problem is computationally expensive and decomposition methods are required to break down this problem. Here Benders decomposition approach is used, which is a popular technique for solving large-scale problems, to decompose the original problem into a master and a subproblem. The master problem is a linear problem, which allocates wind capacity to... 

Single nucleotide polymorphs, There are changes caused by a mutation in a nucleotide in the Dena sequence. Mononucleotide polymorphisms are the most common type of genetic variation. Some of these changes have little or no effect on cells, while others cause significant changes in the expression of cell genes that can lead to disease or resistance to certain diseases. Because of the importance of these changes and their effect on cell function, the relationships between these changes are also important. Over the past decade, thousands of single disease-related mononucleotide polymorphisms have been identified in genome-related studies. Studies in this field have shown that the expression of... 

In the past few years, many research works on the controllable integration of metal nanoparticles and metal-organic frameworks were done, since the obtained composite material shows a synergism effect in catalysis and photocatalysis, drug delivery applications, gas, and energy storage, as well as sensing. For the first time, in this study, we employed template-assisted growth to synthesize Au-HKUST-1 Nanocomposite. XRD analysis entirely confirms that employing this strategy in synthesizing Au-HKUST-1 was wholly successful, and the plasmonic properties of this nanostructure were studied via UV-visible spectroscopy. In the course of synthesis, gold nanoparticles with 70nm diameter were... 

In analyzing the structural organization of many real-world networks, identifying important nodes has been a fundamental problem. The network centrality concept deals with the assessment of the relative importance of network nodes based on specific criteria. Central nodes can play significant roles on the spread of influence and idea in social networks, the user activity in mobile phone networks, the contagion process in biological networks, and the bottlenecks in communication networks. High computational cost and the requirement of full knowledge about the network topology are the most significant obstacles for applying the general concept of network centrality to large real-world social... 

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of vision loss in those aged over 50. There are two main types of AMD, Wet and Dry form. Wet AMD is more severe though more treatable. There are three conventional treatments for AMD including laser therapy, surgery and intravitreal injection of anti-VEGF into the eye. Delivery of drugs to the posterior segment of the eye is still challenging and several implants and devices are currently under investigation for their ability to stimulate the retina, producing visual percepts. The application of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) has expanded tremendously from the time of its introduction into ophthalmic care since 3 years ago.... 

As a robust and accurate classification of tumors is necessary for successful treatment of cancer, classification of DNA microarray data has been widely used in successful diagnosis of cancers and some other biological diseases. But the main challenge in classification of microarray data is the extreme asymmetry between the dimensionality of features (usually thousands or even tens of thousands of genes) and that of tissues (few hundreds of samples). Because of such curse of dimensionality, a class prediction model could be very successful in classifying one type of dataset but may fail to perform well in some other ones. Overfitting is another problem that prevents conventional learning... 

In single service wireless cellular networks, two types of call are defined; new call and handoff call. New call blocking probability and handoff call dropping probability are two major parameters of QoS. Some call admission control schemes are proposed for handling new and handoff calls in the cell for keeping these QoS parameters under suitable values. In this work, we will introduce some call admission control schemes and will show performance analysis, advantages and disadvantages of them (under different channel holding times and same channel holding times for new calls and handoff calls). Then we will focus on two schemes and based on their ideas, we will propose a new call admission... 

Decision making often has different effects and results with unequal importance. Most of classifiers try to minimize the rate of misclassified instances. These classifiers assume equal costs for different misclassification types. However, this assumption is not true in many real world problems and different misclassification types have different costs. These differences can be applied by introducing the cost in the process of learning. In this manner, total cost of misclassification will be the evaluation metric of classification. In order to apply this metric to the problems, new learning algorithms are needed. Cost-sensitive learning is the related area of machine learning which deals with... 

Nowadays wireless technology is widespread all over the world, because of extensive and successful application of low cost, low power, multifunctional tiny sensor nodes that can be grouped to make up of a wireless sensor network (WSN). Some of Wireless sensor network technologies include Zigbee, EnOcean, Personal area network, Ultra-Wideband and Bluetooth which this thesis focuses on the last one. Scalability, mobility, reliability and energy efficiency are some of the requirements and challenges of WSNs, which among them reliability and reducing energy consumption are two important objectives in wireless sensor networks. Since each sensor node has limited energy to consume, overcoming the... 

Nowadays, multi-agent systems as part of the distributed artificial intelligence play an important role in modeling and solving complex industrial and commercial problems. They have distinguishing characteristics such as distributiveness (spatial, temporal, semantic, or functional distribution), robustness, parallel processing, etc. One of the capabilities that can be added to this system is the learning capability. It can help the system to adapt itself to the new environment. This paper proposed a method for the problem of credit assignment in multi-agent domain. Solving the multi-agent credit assignment problem, one can expect individual learning for a single agent in systems of... 

Cellular learning automata (CLA) is a distributed computational model that is introduced recently. This model is combination of cellular automata (CA) and learning automata (LA) and is used in many applications such as image processing, channel assignment in cellular networks, VLSI placement, rumor diffusion and modeling of commerce networks, and obtained acceptable results in these applications. This model consists of computational units called cells and each cell has one or more learning automata. In each stage, each automaton chooses an action from its actions set and applies it to the environment. Each cell has some neighboring cells that constitute its local environment. The local rule... 

Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is one of the most dominant cell-based broadband wireless metropolitan access technologies. Packet scheduling algorithm specifies the packet transmission order. In WiMAX standard, packet scheduling algorithm is not defined and its efficient design is left for developers and researchers. The existing researches in the scope of uplink packet scheduling, which is the most challenging packet scheduling scheme, consider only one cell. However the uplink available resources might not be enough when there are many packets that should be scheduled. To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm that uses the load balancing mechanisms that are...