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In this research, the concept of new service development for Hotel industry is considered. As the concept of new service development encounters both business model structures and the required analysis for validation, the thesis has used the axiomatic design theory to evaluate the required service elements. Axiomatic Design framework as a scientific base for every type of design consists of 4 domains. The first domain named customer domain is the starting point at this research. In order to be prepared for applying in a real case study, customer domain is investigated and analyzed through a business model Canvas with nine building blocks covering all necessary and effective domains in a... 

The purpose of this research is to optimize the design and manufacture of medical orthoses. In this regard, the business model canvas was used in order to define a general framework for the orthosis system in the cloud. In the cloud, patients are provided with services such as personalized orthoses with lower cost and high speed of sending orthoses (while not having to go back to the lab), as well as providing service for doctors such as information sourcing and full expectations of treatment plan and representing cost effectiveness for laboratory. These values were determined through the business model canvas in the value proposition section. Other important services and requirements in... 

For optimum designing of dry friction clutch, we should taking into account a lot of parameters, in order to the clutch have good efficiency in torque transmission and power train. These parameters include: the type of friction plate and the mechanical properties, Clutch geometry, diaphragm spring and its ability to make pressure. In this project, the goal is the analysis of effect of different parameters in clutch's temperature distribution and effect of these issues in torque transmission. In next step, the clutch's temperature distribution analyzed by changing the friction plate (ceramic), pressure applied and relative round in order to gain optimum properties of clutch. These works done... 

The on grade flexible steel storage tanks are extensively used in oil refineries, petrochemical plants, power plants and many other municipal utilities. The increasing statistics of various incidents and attacks occurred to these facilities clearly indicates the vulnerability of these strategic installations under the effects of intentional (terrorist) blasts. Therefore, Given the strategic nature of the care and maintenance for these tanks, their damage assessment under the prescribed explosion is quite important. Due to flammable content of some of these tanks, it is necessary to speed up the process of their vulnerability assessment and making the appropriate decisions for any needed... 

In this work, wool keratin/polyethylene oxide (PEO) nanofibrous scaffolds were fabricated by electrospinning method. Bacterial cellulose nanofibrils (BCNFs) were embedded in the electrospun keratin/PEO nanofibers. Incorporation of BCNFs into the nanofibers enhances their hydrophilicity, mechanical properties and cell viability, adhesion and proliferation. Water contact angle of the nanofibers decreased from 126˚ to 83˚by addition of 1 wt % BCNFs. A thermogelling hydrogel based on carboxylated pluronic (Pl-COOH) and gum tragacanth (GT) was fabricated and polymer conjugation was confirmed by FTIR and H-NMR spectroscopy. Morphological and viscoelastic properties of GT-grafted Pl-COOH hydrogels... 

Chemical flooding such as surfactant flooding in oil reservoirs can change the wettability and interfacial tension between oil and water and so reduce the residual oil saturation in the reservoir. Some of these materials can be adsorbed a lot on the surface of carbonate rocks, so it is difficult to predict the oil recovery factor in such process. Therefore it is necessary to survey the adsorption amount of surfactants in chemical EOR injections.In this thesis, the adsorption of a nonionic surfactant on the surface of carbonate rock is experimented and the proper model is obtained. Then the surfactant is injected in a core saturated with oil to observe the efficiency of this surfactant in... 

Procurement field and supplier’s selection are key decisions in the supply chain in today's business environment.In this problem, both procurement and transportation costs are important. The Traveling Purchasing Problem (TPP) belongs to this field of study. In spite of many researches in the TPP, most of the researches are confined to one single purchaser. In this research, a new variant of Traveling Purchaser Problem is proposed with priority in purchasing. The priority policy is assumed for every single of products and the purchasers’ objective is to meet all of the demands according to their priority and vehicle's capacity in the lowest cost. In this regard, the purchaser has to buy the... 

The X-ray attosecond pulses have many useful applications for studying atomic and sub-atomic scales phenomena in attosecond scale duration. Generation and optimization of high-order harmonics is an efficient way to produce such attosecond pulses which are studied in this thesis. There are several limitations in the attosecond pulse generation such as low efficiency of high-order harmonics, long duration of output pulses and the impossibility of producing an attosecond pulse with any desired wavelength in the x-ray region. Therefore, more investigations into high harmonic generation and fully control and optimization of this process is significant. In this thesis, high harmonic generation... 

Nitrite (〖NO〗_2^-) anions are ubiquitous within the physiological, industrial, environmental, and food industries. The potential toxicity risk of these inorganic compounds has well been recognized; thus, the precise detection of these ions by developing reliable and high-throughput analytical methods is crucial for health and environment security. In this study, we present a reagentless electrochemical biosensor using cobalt-based metal-organic frameworks (ZIF-67) and gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) for determination of nitrite ions. The developed biosensor provides the advantages of MOF properties including high surface area, hierarchical porosity, and tunable functionalities along with high... 

Today, the use of carbon nanostructures hybridized with noble metals has attracted considerable attention for the fabrication of bio-electrochemical sensors. Since the specific surface area has an immense effect on the sensing response, three-dimensional structures of graphene have a great capability to utilize in these sensors. In this research, three-dimensional graphene was provided on the porous nickel foam by chemical vapor deposition technique. By evaluation of raman spectroscopy, the time period of 20 minutes for solving of the carbon atoms into the nickel foam was selected as the main parameter of optimized conditions for the synthesis of graphene. Afterward, production of few-layer... 

A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is a communication system that does not need any peripheral muscular activity. The huge goal of BCI is to translate brain activity into a command for a computer. One of the most important topics in the brain-computer interface is motor imagery (MI), which shows the reconstruction of subjects. The electrical activities of the brain are measured as electroencephalogram (EEG). EEG signals behave as low to noise ratio also show the dynamic behaviors.In the present work, a novel approach has been employed which is based on feature extraction with discretion wavelet transform (DWT), support vector machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Convolutional... 

Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test (DFIT) uses to identify the characteristics of the reservoir, including minimum horizontal stress, permeability, initial reservoir pressure, etc. The general steps of this process include fluid injection, fracture initiation in the matrix, fracture propagation and its closure due to fluid leak-off. The results of DFIT are analyzed in two stages based on the fracture closure event. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of leak-off mechanisms on pressure-dependent leak-off (PDL), tip extension and fracture storage. To do so, different methods are used for identifying the cooperating parameters at each step. In order to analyze DFIT, a... 

The Multi-Depot Traveling Purchaser Problem under Shared Resources (MDTPPSR) is a new variant of the Traveling Purchaser Problem (TPP). In this problem, each depot can purchase its products using the shared resources of other depots, and vehicles do not have to return to their starting depots. The routing of this problem is a Multi-Trip, Open Vehicle Routing Problem. A tailored integer programming model is formulated to minimize the total purchasers’ costs. Considering the complexity of the model, we have presented a decomposition-based algorithm that breaks down the problem into two phases. In the first phase, tactical decisions regarding supplier selection and the type of collaboration are...