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In this thesis, consider three important questions in the Iranian Wholesale Electricity Market (IWEM) and answer its. The first one is whether the bidding behavior of the firms in the IWEM has been ex-post optimal? The results of the research show that, on average, the firm’s bidding behavior didn’t optimal in the IWEM, and therefore the bidding strategy of them could be improved. This issue is importance from the regulatory viewpoint in terms of assessing market efficiency and market power of firms, as well as from the firm’s point of view to improve the bidding strategy and increase its profits. The second issue is the assessment of the firm’s ability to exercise unilateral market power by... 

Gene expression microarrays include thousands of probes spotted on their surface to measure the expression level of a set of genes. Identifying the amount of a transcript level by hybridization, each probe is complementary to a fragment of a specific gene transcripts. Although probes are designed to avoid crosshybridization to non-specific transcripts, occurrences of cross-hybridizations is inevitable due to massive probes that are spotted on microarrays. The main question is whether these non-specific cross-hybridization have significant effect on the downstream analysis of gene expression microarray datasets. This thesis aims at answering to this question by considering datasets from... 

Stroke is a common neurological disorder that can lead to a large number of complications such as mobility impairments. Rehabilitation has been known as the most effective method of treatment. In recent years, many studies have been conducted on investigating the effective factors in increasing the efficiency of the rehabilitation process. One of these parameters is muscle fatigue. The aim of this study is to devise a method for detection and quantification of fatigue level in stroke patients while performing an upper limb rehabilitation exercise in a virtual reality environment. This may be used by the therapist or the VR rehab application to optimally adjust the type and intensity of the... 

Over the past several decades, human activities have resulted in a significant increase in surface and ground water pollution. Human activities have caused significant pollution of surface and groundwater, with pollutants like nitrates, phosphorus, heavy metals, toxins, and chemical fertilizers degrading water quality. In order to control pollution and reduce the concentration of pollutants in water, it is necessary to use appropriate numerical criteria to evaluate and manage the quality of water resources. The water quality index, as a scoring method for investigating the combined effects of independent parameters on overall water quality, is a widely-used metric for measuring the quality... 

Usually, developers analyze data in order to enhance the services they provide to users, but this data analysis may compromise the privacy of the users during this process. Alternatively, service providers may choose to share their data with a third party for the purpose of data analysis, but they may have a strong aversion to sharing the personal information of their users with them. In response to these concerns and considerations, some countries have enacted legislation in this area. The method of protecting privacy has been proposed in a variety of ways, however most of them lack a precise mathematical and formal definition. In the end, there is no guarantee that this will ensure that...