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Increasing in social communication via electronic ways has been made social network analysis of these communications more important each day. One of the most important aspects in social network analysis is community detection in such networks. There are many different ways to extract communities from social graph structure which in some of them the content of communication between actors has been noticed in community extraction algorithm. In this thesis after a short survey over advantages and disadvantages of existing methods for community detection, a new method for extracting communities from social networks has been suggested which in addition to streaming property of data it spot the... 

In this research, we have used green tea polyphenols as green reductants for reduction of graphene oxide. Furthermore, for the first time, the presence of some metals such as iron, tungsten and copper in the efficiency of reduction is investigated. XPS spectra indicate that iron can be considered as one of the best choices for helping polyphenols in the reduction process. Hence, we used AFM, XPS, Raman spectroscopy and I-V diagram to characterize graphene oxide reduced by polyphenols and iron. In recent years, hydrazine has been recognized as one of the standard reducing agents for effective reduction of graphene oxide. In our analysis, it is found that the conductivity of our reduced... 

Studying the performance of flow meters is of great importance in order to improve their quality. In this study, we are looking for an optimal design for a turbine flow meter in which the measurement accuracy, pressure drop and response speed indices are improved. For this purpose, a turbine flow meter with a diameter of 2 inches has been selected and its performance has been numerically modeled using computational fluid dynamics in a steady and transient state. By modeling the steady state, the measurement accuracy and pressure drop indices are obtained, and by modeling the transient state, the response time of the flow meter is obtained. In order to increase the accuracy of numerical... 

One way to increase the efficiency and improve the performance of a gas turbine is to increase the inlet gas temperature. On the other hand, the inlet temperature has an allowable operating range, and increasing it beyond the tolerance of the alloys used in turbine blades causes structural defects and significantly reduces the blade life. Therefore, to increase the blade life, various cooling methods such as internal and layer cooling are used. Considering the blade geometry and cooling paths, accuracy in the manufacturing process is doubly important in the production of these blades. The importance of this issue is that if the cooling channels produced are inconsistent with the design... 

The standard model of Cosmology (SM), based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity (GR), is the best model in describing the cosmic-scale observations. In galactic scales, however, galactic dynamics show a discrepancy between the observed luminous mass and the predicted value from the theory. Two approaches are suggested to eliminate this inconsistency: assuming the existence of dark matter within the context of GR, or modifying the theory of gravity in galactic scales, like MOND or MOG. In this thesis, we study the spherical collapse and the formation of shell galaxies in MOG, in comparison with SM. We introduce the action and the field equations of MOG and the equation of motion of a... 

80% of people in all over the world, experience Low Back Pain (LBP) once in their lives. LBP leads to dysfunction of spine. About 25% of LBP relates to the intervertebral disks which in the critical cases, a Posterior Lumbar Surgery (PLS) on the one or more lumbar disks should be done. Due to the some procedure such as retracting, cutting or denervation of muscles, PLS can hurt trunk muscles and spine. Thus, investigation of LBP and postoperative complications of PLS can help us in recognition of causes of LBP and PLS complications and modification of PLS approaches. The objective of this research was investigation of effects of LBP and PLS on the biomechanical function of spine. Pattern of... 

Strongly Rayleigh measures are an important class of negatively dependent (repulsive) probability measures. These measures are defined via a geometric condition, called “real stability”, on their generating polynomials, and have interesting probabilistic properties. On one important property of negatively dependent measures is their rigid dependence structure. In other words, the it is impossible for these measures to have strong overall dependencies. In this thesis, we study two manifestations if this phenomenon: (1) paving property and (2) tail triviality. Informally, the paving property states that it is possible to partition the set of the components of every strongly Rayleigh random... 

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... 

Office buildings, as one of the largest energy consumers in the building sector, play a significant role in national energy consumption. Given the importance of energy optimization in achieving sustainable development, reducing energy consumption in these buildings not only lowers costs but also helps preserve natural resources and mitigate environmental impacts. In this regard, providing energy optimization solutions, improving efficiency, and revising operational patterns play a key role in reducing energy consumption and ensuring user comfort. On the other hand, attention to indoor air quality is equally critical, as polluted indoor air can negatively affect the health and productivity of... 

Multi-principle alloys exhibit microstructure and different properties from most conventional alloys due to their high entropy, very slow diffusion and distorted crystal structure properties. Heat treatment, thermomechanical treatment, addition of alloying elements and control of solidification process are common methods of microstructure modification and property improvement. Among the solidification parameters, undercooling and cooling rate is one of the most suitable methods to obtain semi-stable and fine-grained phases. These parameters have been less studied in multi-principle alloys, while in the case of ferrous and cobalt alloys has been much studied. The main purpose of this type of... 

Multi-part rotating parts are used in various industries with very high revolutions. Therefore, the method of assembling each part and keeping the axis of rotation of each part close to the axis passing through two supports (bearings) is important. In this research, three main steps are followed, the development of the differential equations governing the multi-part rotating system and the calculation of the range of oscillations created at the critical points, and then the calculation of the optimal assembly angles with the aim of reducing the introduced oscillations, and finally the discussion of crossing the speeds A crisis is being investigated. The method of obtaining the system of... 

MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is one of the essential and widely used protocols in the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. It operates at the application layer (Layer 7) for data transmission. As IoT applications using this protocol for communication have grown, securing such systems against security attacks has become a significant challenge. One of the important attacks implementable by IoT networks is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In this thesis, we initially provide a general overview of IoT security and demonstrate how DDoS attacks disrupt the availability feature in these networks. We then examine known types of DDoS attacks to gain a better understanding of... 

Land-use and transportation are inter-related, such that land-use may be used to control transportation. This study aims to design a suitable combination of the residential and service land-use on one side, and the transportation system on the other side. The model presented in this study has two external and internal levels, and its objective is to minimize the cost of residence, receiving goods and services, and transportation. The performance of any combination of spatial allocation of population and employment, as well as transportation, is evaluated by the internal level of the model which determines the interaction between population, employment, and transportation. This is done by a... 

With Cramer’s model we have a probability measure on the power set of N. This probability measure is concentrated on the set that its elements are that subsets of N which number of their elements up to a certain natural number is asymptotically equal with the number of primes up to the same number. Let Pc be a sample obtained from this probability measure and consider 8n 2 N, an counts the number of ways that ncan be represented as a multiplication of some elements of Pc, such that changing the arrangement of factors in a representation does not introduce a new one. In this thesis, we prove that limn!1 a1++an n almost surely exists and is positive  

To deliver gas in time to different consumers like as industrial, commercial and domestic users is one of the most important parts in gas industry. So it is very important to utilize these projects in the specified time. There are huge harms for client, contractors and consumers when there is a delay in project utilization. To identify effective parameters on delays to remove them in future is an essential factor. In this research, all delay causes for TPGC (Tehran Province Gas Company) projects are analyzed and some solutions to remove these delays are presented. 10 hypotheses in relation of gas delivery have been assumed as delay causes. Then some questions have been discussed in relation... 

There are several methods for measuring thin film thickness, however, for the analysis of liquid film motors [1] we need a method which is capable of measuring the thickness using a single image of the film. In this work, we use the colors that appear on thin films, such as soup bubbles, which is a result of light interference to calculate the thickness of the layer  

One of the most elusive problems in quantum mechanics is the transition between classical and quantum physics. This problem can be traced back to the Schrodinger's cat. A key element that lies at the center of this problem is the lack of a clear understanding and characterization of macroscopic quantum states. Our understanding of Macroscopic Quantumness relies on states such as the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ) or the NOON state. Here we take a first principle approach to this problem. We start from coherence as the key quantity that captures the notion of quantumness and demand the quantumness to be collective and macroscopic. To this end, we introduce macroscopic coherence which is the... 

With confidence in the recorded observations, the RLS method no longer estimates the recorded measurements by sensors, i.e. the displacement and speed of the floors, and only estimates the parameters. In contrast, in the EKF method, in addition to estimating the structure's parameters, a more precise estimation of the observations recorded by the sensors has been done by accepting the noise in the recorded observations. These methods, which are based on the Bayesian updating, investigate the two primary sources of uncertainty in a problem: a) measurement noise or observation noise, and b) process noise, which includes modeling errors. In these methodologies, the unknown system parameters,...