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Designing a supply chain of a network is the most important strategic decisions that contribute to the overall stability of it. One of the most sustainable competitive advantage for countries is to make the supply chain activities more efficient and effective. One of the major activities that could be saving a lot on costs, is the logistics activities. Forward and reverse logistics to design independently and asynchronously could provide sub-optimality. Therefore, many companies have been increasingly integrated into the supply chain and logistics networks. Furthermore, concerns for the environmental issues were lead the companies to the closed-loop supply chain that is provided by... 

Organizations are established and developed based on a specific existence policy. They would exist as long as they are able to do their basic mission. An organization could perform its mission through some work processes. The better processes makes higher organization’s productivity. In order words desirable quality and quantity of an organization depends on processing functions. Improved processes use minimum resources to achieve efficiency maximum. Deeds and Properties Registration Org. (DPRO) is a unit, which maintains and supports national security through arranging individual social and economic relations, the organization has an outstanding position. Following composition of 20-year... 

The use of magnetic compounds for drug delivery and magnetic imaging has been studied in many studies. The easy use of magnetic particles makes them widespread. By applying a magnetic field, the particles reach the desired position and return to the original state by cutting off the field. The use of these magnetic materials in the nanoscale also adds other benefits, including: convenient and rapid transfer of nanoparticles, rapid repulsion of the kidneys, reducing the risk of overdose, etc. In recent years, the use of quantum dots for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors has attracted much attention. The use of hybrid quantum dots and magnetic nanoparticles can incorporate the desired... 

Since early classical theories presented in management, consistently the evaluation of organization as one of the methods of control and planning has been considered. Besides due to intensification of competition among organizations, it is very important to consider performance evaluation as an effective tool in this regard. In this research DEA/AHP approach has been proposed for measuring performance organizations with fractal structure. Thus regardless of other units the first DEA model for evaluation of each pair of units is used and then a matrix of pairwise comparisons is made and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) model for two-level ranking is used. Finally the mentioned model for... 

In this research, nano composite MgH2-TiCr1.2 Fe0.6 nano crystalline was synthesized by mechanical alloying and Vacuum arc re-melting (VAR). the effect of Milling conditions and adding nano crystalline TiCr1.2 Fe0.6 as a catalyst on the structure and hydrogen desorption properties of MgH2 were studied. MgH2 powder grain size after 4 hours milling gained to 15nm and strain network reached to 0.8%. Determined that the increasing of accumulated lattice strain because of mechanical milling combined with adding nano crystalline alloy TiCr1.2 Fe0.6 significantly improve the properties of MgH2 hydrogen desorption. After an hour mill working, high pressure phase of γ-MgH2 was appeared in... 

Considering the daily growth of industries in international market competition and the necessity of investment in related infrastructure development, determining the priority of industries in order to strengthen or support of these industries, seems as an inevitable issue, so for the purpose of making proper decisions in an optimum way, we must use scientific decision making methods. This study evaluates the priority of industries in Iran and comparison of them. Therefore, according to the international standard classification of economic activities (ISIC), two-digit and four-digit codes are specified for each industry. In addition, based on major economic indicators, the status of these... 

In the last years, perovskite QDs have emerged as the novel candidate due to their unique optical properties such as high-absorption coefficient, long-range charge transport, low exciton-binding energy, and etc. Nonetheless, poor stability of perovskite in ambient conditions made researchers to consider this issue. Recently, amoung various types of organic-inorganic perovskites, Formamidinium lead iodide has attracted tremendous attention due to its near IR absorption wavelength in addition to the higher stability compared to MAPbI3. In this work, FAPbI3 perovskite stability improvement was investigated by several methods under different conditions. In the first step, FAPbI3 QDs colloidal... 

Drug-eluting bone implant coatings is a new era that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. In this matter, drug is loaded in the coating and local and targeted release of the drug results in preventing the side effects of implantation and increasing the healing process of the patient. The aim of this project was to synthesis the antibiotic eluting chitosan-based composite using electrophoretic deposition for bone implant coating. By using electrophoretic deposition chitosan and chitosan-bioglass composite coatings were synthesized. Then the probability of loading of drug into coating by using electrophoretic deposition was evaluated and by using this process chitosan and... 

The advent and advancement of technology through the conversion of Gas-Synthesis (a mixture of CO and H) into liquid hydrocarbons, by Fischer- Tropsch synthesis (FTS) gives more promising future in this field. Metals such as cobalt, nickel, zinc and iron are used as catalysts for FTS. Studies have shown that the surface structure of metal catalyst has a great influence on the process, and leads to different products and transition states. Iron has been known the most used and the most cost-effective metal catalyst in FTS. Different surfaces of Iron have different catalytic roles. In our work, Fe(100) -that is the most stable after Fe(110) and is known as the most active iron’s surface in... 

Transient liquid phase (TLP) bonding of 316L/17-4PH bimetals using a thin layer of nanostructured nickel was studied. The nanostructured nickel interface was deposited through pulse current coating in a Watt bath. The TLP bonding was performed at different temperatures ranging from 1000 °C to 1300 °C using a nickel interface having different thicknesses (2-17µm) and crystallite size (14-67 nm). The microstructure of the joint bimetals and phase formation were studied using the optical and scanning electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction (XRD) method. The mechanical properties of the bimetals were evaluated by micro-hardness and shear tests. To evaluate the corrosion behavior of the... 

Hydroxyapatite is the most substantial inorganic constituent of bone tissue which displays splendid biocompability and bioactivity. Nevertheless, its mechanical properties is not utmost appropriate for a bone substitutes. Therefore, it is used to improve the mechanical properties of polymer matrix composite scaffolds. In the present work polycaprolactone as a polymeric matrix was employed to fabricate hydroxyapatite-polycaprolactone biocomposite scaffolds via in situ route. Solvothermal method was employed to synthesize in situ hydroxyapatite in polymer matrix. Porous scaffolds were fabricated via freeze-drying/porogen leaching. Physical, mechanical (compressive module and compressive... 

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is one of the promising candidates for clean energy production. Due to the high operating temperature of SOFC, a protective coating is commonly applied on the surface of interconnects to prevent oxidation. In this study, electrophoretic deposition was employed to prepare a manganese-cobalt spinel coating on the surface of ferritic stainless steel (AISISAE430) substrates. MnCo2O4 powder with an average particle size of 60 nm was utilized and the sintering behavior of the coatings at different temperatures was studied. Non-isothermal and isothermal sintering behavior of the powder compacts were examined by employing a sensitive dilatometer. Master sintering curve... 

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... 

Petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks are of the most important parameters in fluid flow simulation and reservoir characterization. Although in core laboratories some well-known procedures for determination of these parameters are applied, in almost all of them the rocks are assumed to be homogeneous and their properties are taken up as identical in all directions. To eliminate these unrealistic assumptions, an accurate, non-destructive technique with appropriate degree of resolution is required for recognition of internal heterogeneity of cores. Medical “CT Scanner” is one of these techniques whose information in conjunction of conventional experiments could reduce their limitations... 

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.... 

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... 

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...