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In nature, tidal currents are visible in gorges and in saltwater and freshwater collisions. In the study of behavior of different types of flow, it is usually assumed that the pressure is hydrostatic and the equations are solved based on this assumption. In the Approach Controlled regime observed during the double layer in 1993, the modeling performed using the equations derived from this assumption did not fit the results of the experiments. This demonstrates the inability of the hydrostatic pressure assumption to solve this particular regime. Hence, the equations were written on the basis of non-hydrostatic pressure and then the observed results were in accordance with the results of the... 

In this thesis, we study the fate and consequences of the existence of edges or domain walls with non-zero thickness and how the properties of edge modes arising from symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases and consequently the bulk dynamics of these phases changes due to this thickness. This general study is specifically examined in the context of anomalous quantum Hall effect (QAHE) systems as an example of these topological phases. Symmetry-protected topological phases are an important category of gapped material topological phases that, although lacking long-range order, exhibit non-trivial properties in the presence of boundaries. These non-trivial properties arise due to the... 

Scheduling problem specially surgery room scheduling is noteworthy and well known in optimization and machine learning literature which improve resource usage means cost reduction and patient experience means satisfaction increase.Surgery Rooms are one of the most costly section of the hospital. In addition to this, Surgeon are expensive resource and all the hospitals have limited capacity. By scheduling we can improve patient’s experience and resource management. That’s why scheduling Surgery Room is important and noteworthy.In this research we consider surgery duration and patient length of stay(LOS) probabilistic. Our approach for handling this is stochastic programming in which our... 

In his book “Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals ”, Kant tries to pesent a formula for the supreme pinciple of morality. He ends up introducing three formulae that he thinks are all the same and just pesenting one formula In three different ways. After publishing this book, many criticisms were levelled against both his way of argument and the efficacy of his proposed formulae. In this enquiry, by focusing on the first two chapters of Kant’s book, and by considering the universal law formula and the humanity formula, we try to answer these criticisms. In the way, we make use of the new reading of Kant’s view- the critical reading- proposed by Samuel Kerstein, according to which Kant’s... 

In geotechnical engineering, collapsible soils as a part of problematic soils has an extreme importance since as a mutual effects of applying load and increasing their water content, Soil’s inter-particle forces become weak, and therefore, the soil experiences sudden large volumetric change known as collapse. Foundations built on these soils might experience sudden, large settlement. Collapsible soils exist in almost all continents, and many damages are reported due to the collapse phenomenon of these soils.
Due to the importance of this issue, and lack of comprehensive studies related to the volumetric and shear behavior of these soils, in this study, triaxial wetting test are performed... 

The purpose of this study is to present a suitable model for calculating the costs imposed on society due to deaths and injuries due to infrastructure failure due to earthquakes, which is used in the analysis of community resilience. Much research has been done to date to calculate the economic costs of infrastructure failure. However, no suitable analytical framework has been provided to quantify the costs of deaths and injuries to people due to earthquake failure. Previous research has provided methods such as the value of statistical life to quantify the social costs caused by accidents and environmental pollution. However, the literature review results in the field of seismic resilience... 

In this thesis one of the sensorless methods which exploits the existing anisotropies of the rotor is utilized to estimate rotor position. In order to implement this method, first a high frequency voltage is injected in a specific, time-varying direction and then the corresponding current response would be observed in order to estimate the rotor saliency position. The estimation of rotor position would be more precise as the magnetic anisotropy due to rotor saliency increases and as a result the effect of noise and different disturbances in estimation of rotor position would be decresed. The effect of stator resistence is one of these disturbances which is usually neglected as a result of... 

This study investigated the effect of Robot Assisted Language Learning (RALL) on the vocabulary learning and retention as well as anxiety and attitude of Iranian English as Foreign Language (EFL) junior high school students in Tehran-Iran. After taking a vocabulary pretest, 46 beginner level female students at the age of 12, studying in their first year of junior-high participated in two groups of RALL (30 students) and non-RALL (16 students) in this study. The textbook used was the English book (Prospect-1) devised by the Iranian Ministry of Education for 7th graders, and the vocabulary taught and tested (pretest and posttest) were taken from this book. Moreover, the treatment given by a... 

Considering uncertainty is of great importance in the design of controllers for dynamical systems because the existence of uncertainty is inevitable in the modeling of almost all real-world systems. There are numerous methods and strategies for dealing with the control of uncertain systems in control systems theory including adaptive and robust approaches. The former one is more suitable for cases in which the information about uncertainty is very poor compared to robust techniques that are applicable in the cases more data is available about uncertainty. For instance, where there is no data about the direction in the actuator model, adaptive control methods are the only applicable choices....