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This research investigates the impact of mass labor migration on the incentives for adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in industries. The study adopts a theoretical framework based on the model introduced by Acemoglu and Restrepo in their seminal 2016 paper. In the modeling framework of this research, there is a representative firm and a technology monopolist. The representative firm operates under a task-based production function, which allows the substitution of workers’ tasks with machines powered by AI, up to the technological capacity available. The technology monopolist determines the technological capacity of the firm, provided that it has sufficient incentive to... 

Engineering polymers are being increasingly used in a wide number of applications related to tribological properties. Many chemical and physical methods have been utilized to modify polymer surfaces by depositing thin inorganic films. Most of these techniques are based upon the use of high energy sources that ultimately can damage polymer surfaces either chemically or physically. Incorporation of fillers as reinforcing materials significantly changes various properties of thermoplastics. Friction stir processing (FSP) is a tool to modify the surface properties of materials. It has been developed for upper surface modification of metals in recent studies, exclusively by making surface... 

In this study, role of molecular weight and Molecular Weight Distribution (MWD) on joint strength of polypropylene was investigated by hot plate welding. Standard tensile specimens of three different co-polypropylene with low, medium and high Melt Flow Index (MFI) values (MR230C, 440L and 548R respectively) were injected and welded after cutting. Hot plate welding device was used to join specimens. Melt Flow Index and dynamic rheology tests were employed in order to study the rheological behavior of polymers melt. Furthermore tensile test was done to investigate joint strength of specimens at 150, 175 and 200 ͦ C. It was observed that in constant temperature, increasing viscosity (typically... 

The feasibility to fabricate Al/SiCp nano-composite with functionally graded structure (FG-Al/SiCp) via friction stir processing was studied successfully in this paper. The distribution of well-dispersed nano-SiCp got a range of 6mm×3mm on the cross-section of nano-composite. A compositionally graded structure of nano-SiCp in thickness direction of the 5083Al plate was obtained via four passes of FSP. The percentage of nano-SiCp over 15%, 9% and 5% was found at the depth of 1.0mm, 2.0mm and 3.0mm, under processed surface of 5083Al rolled plate, respectively. Results show that the microhardness of FG-Al/SiCp nano-composite can reach steady 46%, 34% and 15% higher than the one of the base... 

Conformal Field Theory provides an efficient method for studying physical problems in critical point. Correlation length becomes converge in this point. It can also be clarified that some curves are observed in geometrical phase transition which are conformal invariant and they can be studied using SLE(k). The first mathematical generalization of SLE(k) while keeping the self-similarity property, leads to SLE(k,p). Conformal field theory and SLE are interrelated and their parameters are interpretable for each other. One usually studies the problem in the upper-half plane. Here we consider the problem using a map like (w=L/π Ln z) between the upper-half plane and a special region (e.g. a... 

The purpose of this research is to monitor the health of structures using the updated finite element model, in which digital images are used to optimize the numerical model. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is always an important and significant issue that has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. In general, some researches have been conducted in this field using physical sensors that provide discrete data to the system for analysis. Using cameras to monitor the structure makes it possible to extract continuous and integrated data from the structure using digital images, which is a significant advantage compared to physical sensors.In this research, a steel... 

In the present work,the effect of solidification rate on the electrochemical behavior of copperanodes of Sarcheshmeh copper complex has been studied.Inthis regard, three cylindrical coppers pecimens with different solidificationrates casted into water-cooled metal mold (A specimen), metal mold (B specimen) and sand mold (C specimen). Cylinders for microstructural and electrochemical investigation, alongthickness dividedinto several specimens. To investigate themicrostructure of the specimens, opticalmicroscopyand scanning electron microscopy(SEM)were used. ICP testhasbeen usedforelemental analysis of each specimen; and eventuallytoinvestigate theelectrochemical behavior ofeach of... 

Achieving low group velocity of light can result progress in many fields. In this project by using complex time domain frequency, achieving method to zero group velocity is proposed. The proposed structures in this thesis consist of two lossless and lossy structures which by considering the modes with complex time frequency are excitable. Using leaky modes to analyze these structures, made them suitable as they can be excited from free space. Using slow light can lead to optimized devices because of the more interaction of light and matter which besides smaller devices too. Additionally slow light is being considered in designing optical memories, quantum computers, optical processors and... 

Aluminum Bronzes have many applications in marine environments. These alloys suffer from both hot cracking and cold cracking. In order to overcome the hot cracking and cold cracking, Semisolid Stir Joining method and a proper thermal cycle was used respectively. Effects of temperature, stirring rate, and tool type were investigated in Semisolid Stir joining method. In this method, butt joint design was used in order to place specimens, and the specimens were heated up to specific temperatures (920, 925, 930°C). A stirrer (Cylindrical and Grooved tool) with three rotational speeds (800, 1200, 1600 RPM) was introduced into the stir weld seam. Welded specimens were cooled to the 900°C... 

A power plant cooling tower is like a tower, which needs to be studied very carefully from the aerodynamics point of view. Both the aerodynamics forces on the plume and intake stram are affected by the local winds and the performance of cooling tower decreases. There is a symmetric turbulent flow through the cooling tower if there is no. Wind blowing creates different vorticies, which appear in the lower section of the tower. Their periodic and wuick movments causes deficiency in towers performance and efficiency. Additionally there is wind effect on the plane of cooling tower and this causes a chocked plume which is named Wind Cover. The objective of this study is to decrease the adverse... 

In this research, we studied the effect of compatibilizer and short glass fiber on microstructure and mechanical properties of PBT/PC blends. Fisrt, Antioxidants and sodium pyrophosphate dibasic were used to suppress transesterification in PBT/PC Blend. The results showed that best composition occur when both of them are used. In the next step, we used 3%wt MBS (methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene) and saw that this weight percent of this compatibilizer doesn’t useful. Moreover addition of short glass fiber to PBT/PC was examined and the results showed that mechanical properties of composite are extensively increased. Also in this step, we proved this idea that we can replace some of PBT... 

Nowadays, one of the problems of network designers and users is the correctness of network equipment functionality. Since routers play an important role in information transfer between various networks and communicate with each other through a routing protocol, any violation of such protocol can result in the network's failure or defective transfer of data. Thus, being assured of the conformance of the implemented protocol in a router with what has been defined in the protocol's standard is of great significance. To this end, before using or exposing a router, network equipment testers should run protocol conformance tests on it and insure its correct functionality. This brings up the... 

In order to increase the network performance, to discover network security threats, to guarantee the quality of services, to simulate networks and develop new network protocols, network designers and operators need software tools to analyze the network traffic. The first step to do this analysis is network monitoring. This can be done by using various software and hardware tools.
In this research we developed a tool which analyzes the network traffic using appropriate statistical methods. The models which are analyzed in this application are: Poisson, Self-similar and Weibull. This application analyzes the network traffic based on this statistical models and calculates their parameters.... 

The increasing number of road accidents and fatalities have yielded the introduction of several solutions by related industries such as automobile manufacture. Proposed solutions can be classified into two categories: passive, such as airbags, and active such as ABS ad ITS-based technologies. Inter vehicles communication let the communication between vehicles(V2V) or between vehicles and road infrastructure (V2I) by relying on DSRC technology and standards. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has three main types of applications namely safety, traffic and commercial. Safety applications are the main goal of vehicular communication, and real time guarantee in safety applications is so... 

In real-time systems, jobs that miss their deadline are considered worthless or ineffective. Nowadays, real-time applications (such as multimedia) that communicate through software-defined networks (SDN) are widely used and will continue to expand in the future. SDN is an emerging network architecture in which control plane is separated from data plane to manage it directly. In this research, we make changes to the controller and the switch used in such network to deliver real time packets or real-time flows (such as video) on time, as much as possible. As missed deadline packets are worthless and they waste bandwidth, dropping them is a solution. Moreover, the controller can drop flows that...