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Opportunities for creating value are shifting from managing tangible assets to managing knowledge based strategies that deploy on organizations' tangible assets: customer relationship, innovative products and services, high quality, and responsive operation processes, information technology and databases and employee capability skills and innovation" (Strategy Focused Organization, Norton, Kaplan; 1996). As organizations' value creating process shifts, learning has become one of the most important factors in value creation, and as a consequence dynamic capabilities creation. This research is concentrated on Electric Distribution Companies in Tehran region and studies knowledge management as... 

Human body is subjected to body accelerations or vibrations in several circumstances. During gravitational changes, the hydrostatic pressure gradient along the body axis changes, and then body fluids are redistributed. Prolonged exposure to high level external acceleration may lead to serious or even fatal situations on account of disturbances in blood flow. Due to physiological importance of body acceleration many theoretical investigations have been carried out for the flow of blood under the influence of body acceleration. In this study, the mechanical loads that pilots experience during flight are considered. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of mechanical... 

It is undeniable that there is a great disagreement in the every field of religion. Reductionists argue that awareness of disagreements reduces the justification and rationality of beliefs, including religious beliefs. In contrast, non-reductionists believe that while reductionism may be true in other domains, it is not necessarily true in religion, because religious beliefs have characteristics that can deny a reductionist argument. They are in the realm of religion. In this thesis, I will discuss issues related to those characteristics that can deny reductionist argument in the realm of religion. In this thesis, I try to show that the arguments and responses presented in defense of the... 

Axial compression systems are widely used in many aerodynamic applications. However, the operability of such systems is limited at low mass flow rates by fluid dynamic instabilities. These instabilities lead the compressor to rotating stall or surge. In some instances, a combination of rotating stall and surge, called modified surge, has also been observed. In this research Moore – Greitzer model that the principle of constant speed mode checks as a base case has been considered and the developed condition of this model in which the dynamic model of the shaft will also respect and shaft rotational speed as a basis for state shall consider, has been analyzed.
In this study the effect of... 

An experimental investigation of unsteady boundary layer over a wind turbine blade conducted in a subsonic wind tunnel. The experiment performed at different positions along the airfoil chord. Model was oscillated with amplitude of ±5 cm. Reynolds number, based on airfoil chord, ranged 3˟105 upto 6.5˟105 and the reduced frequency ranged from 0.0055 to 0.0981. Velocity profile measured with a total pressure rake. The data were reduced via a low-pass filter. Increasing the reduced frequency, the velocity profile increases the level on turbulence fluctuation and becomes more attached to the surface.

 

Experimental identification (EI) of aircraft static and dynamic characteristics is usually performed for design process verification, its compliance against the existing regulations as well as to extraction of its exact stability and performance characteristics. EI is mostly performed via flight and/or wind tunnel testing of a scaled model of the aircraft under scrutiny. In this regard, the purpose of this thesis is design and development of a 5DoF Table Top Platform (TTP) for Aircraft transfer function identifications as well as some of its key derivatives. The proposed TTP can also function as the motion part of a miniature simulator. The PPT is designed in two parts that is comprised of... 

Natural language processing has been used in solving the problems of humanities, including linguistics and analysis of religious books, such as the Bible, the Torah, and the Quran. One of the challenges in this field is the analysis of issues using the Quran. The problem in this issue is that a person becomes prejudiced in order to analyze the issues and makes incorrect judgements either inadvertently or intentionally based on his/her intellectual background. The same applies to analysis of issues based on the Quran. The method of analysis in this research is to produce an Arabic text based on the language of the Quran by receiving subjects in Persian. In order to achieve this goal, three... 

First by reviewing some built micropumps, the importance of rotary magnetohydrodynamic micropump has been highlighted. Then some information about the performance and rules applied to these specific micropumps has been provided. Based on the research, the necessity of using transient flow relations for analyzing the procedure of these micropumps would become crucial. The next step would be extracting the information out of dimensionlessrelations of magnetohydrodynamic theory and dimension less equations of momentum in transientsingle-phase fluid flow which is moved by theoverall Lorentzforce in between 2 parallel surfaces. It would be done in two state of using constantcurrent source and... 

Natural boron includes two stable isotopes 10B and 11B with 19.3 and 80.7 weight percent respectivley.10B isotope has a high thermal neutron absorption cross section. So isotope 10B material is suitable for making atomic reactor control rods. Other and even more important applications of 10B are in disclosing neutrons in order to measure neutron reactors fluxes and also are in nuclear physics laboratories and medical radiation. This isotope also is used in the pharmaceutical and the military industries. There are several methods for separating boron isotopes. Among the distillation methods, thermal diffusion of BF3, distillation of BF3, distillation of methyl borate, boric acid distillation... 

Among various methods for purifying water from dyes, adsorption takes advantage of simplicity, high efficiency, no secondary-pollution, and inexpensiveness. In this project Halloysite nanoparticles were applied to prepare a series of modified polyAcrylamide- quince seed gum hydrogels (QS/PAAm/Haln). The obtained hydrogels demonstrated improved efficiency as adsorbent in removing methylene blue (MB) from aqueous media. The structure of the prepared hydrogel nanocomposites were identified by X-ray diffraction, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area analysis, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Kinetics, thermodynamic,... 

A single-degree-of-freedom model is considered for flexible exercise bars based on the lumped-element approach. By considering the side segment of a flexible exercise bar as a cantilever beam with an equivalent mass at the free end, its free-vibration response and forced one under excitation of the grip of the flexible bar is written parametrically. Some experiments are performed on a specific flexible bar to obtain numerical values for the parameters in the model to have it quantitatively known. In the next step, simulation of the model results in the response of the flexible bar under a considered excitation. The response is imported into a multi-segment musculoskeletal software, AnyBody,... 

Statistical studies indicate the fact that in Iran, like many other developing countries, a significant percentage of buildings are made of traditional materials and most of them are adobe buildings especially in rural areas. Furthermore, geological data indicates that Iran is located in alps-Himalayas seismic zone and exposed by destructive earthquakes and adobe buildings suffer the most damages comparing with other type of the structures. According to these explanations, this research deals with adobe buildings behavior and provides solutions for reinforcing them and improving the seismic response of these buildings. These studies include numerical modeling with finite elements methods by... 

In this thesis we consider the problem of distributed computation by many processors.We mainly concentrate on matrix multiplication problem in this thesis because of its importance. A distributed system consists of N worker processors and one master processor. The master processor should distribute the computation between workers and after computation in each of them, collect the results. In this thesis, we are going to mitigate the effect of straggler processors by using coding methods. Straggler processors can cause delays in the computation time.In this thesis, we firstly introduce a method to multiply any number of matrices in each other. The proposed method occurred in one shot without... 

The main goal of current investigation was partial reduction of Fe2O3 available in Hematite-rich ore to Magnetite by Fludization Bed method. The reductive gas, CO, was produced by incomplete combustion of Acetylene and Airmixed in inappropriate ratio. X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Florescence analyses were implemented in order to conducting qualitative analysis of present phases before and after reduction of the ore. Quantitative analysis of the same phases was also conducted by Titration. The latter analysis revealed the precise magnitude of available iron in each of the oxide containing phases. The chemical composition of the reactor gas was also determined before and after reduction... 

Abstract The problem of competetive facility location can be defined as follows: There are a number of customers in the form of points in space, and two players arrange a number of facilities in the form of points in space, given some limitations, respectively. Each customer’s connection to each facility has a cost for the customer and an advantage for the facility, and each customer wants to be connected to at most one of the facilities which has the lowest cost for him. The goal is to find the strategy of placing the facilities and determining the cost which the facility receives from the customer, in such a way that the player’s profit is maximised.In this thesis, we first sought to... 

Zero knowledge proofs allow a person (prover) to convince another person (verifier) that he has performed a specific computation on a secret data correctly, and has obtained a true answer, without having to disclose the secret data. QAP (Quadratic Arithmetic Program) based zkSNARKs (zero knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge) are a type of zero knowledge proof. They have several properties that make them attractive in practice, e.g. verifier's work is very easy. So they are used in many areas such as Blockchain and cloud computing. But yet prover's work in QAP based zkSNARKs is heavy, therefore, it may not be possible for a prover with limited processing resource to run... 

3D electrohydrodynamic printer fabricating structure and parts with micron accuracy and resolution is new technology of additional manufacturing. In this method, powerful electric field at the tip of the nozzle can change the shape of the droplet printing and can reduce droplet diameter multiple less than nozzle diameter. Couple equation such as two phase flow, gauss,the effect of various parameter like mechanical and electrical fluid properties, electric field intensity, and folw rate complicate system identification and printer controlling. While the advantages (high speed and resolution, flexibility) of e-jet printing over other fabrication methods are abundant, precise control of the...