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The main objective of all managers of the economic organizations, manufacturing and industrial companies and service providers is to take steps toward improvement and effective use of different resources like workforce, capital, materials, energy and information. To attain the desired productivity, managers have to observe requirements such as establishment of a working organizational structure, effective implementation methods, safe equipment and tools, balanced working atmosphere and qualified human force as the most important factor. Therefore productivity culture should be publicized throughout the organization, and human force should be considered as the main component of this process.... 

Briefly in this thesis, these subjects have been investigated: In recent years, water is used as a solvent instead of an organic solvents have become more and more important due to cheap and environmental consideration. In this context, preparation of quinoxaline, pyrrole, new 1,4-dihydropyridine and reduction of imine to amine with 1,4-dihydropyridine derivatives as the reducing agents with the use of one-pot multicomponent reaction have been reported. The existence of several hydrogen bonding groups (NH) in the new dihydropyridines they acts as biologically active compounds in the forthcoming years. In continuation, oxidation of thiols to disulfides in the presence of NBS and NCS and... 

This thesis contains four chapters. In first chapter the role of water in organic reactions as a ecofriendly solvent, computational chemistry and dynamic nuclear magnetic resonance were studied. In the second chapter synthesis of new 4-hydroxy pyrrole derivatives in water were reported. For the synthesis of these compounds arylglyoxal derivatives, 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds and ammonium acetate were used. The reaction conditions are very mild. The third chapter contains the synthesis of new (4 or 5)-Aryl-2-aryloeil-(1H)-imidazole compounds in aqueous media. We also investigated the tauto-isomerisation of isomeric imidazoles during this reaction using DNMR technique. In forth chapter a... 

In recent decades, nano-structured materials have been allocated specific position for wide use in various fields. The nano-diamonds has attracted the attention of many researchers. The inherent characteristics of a diamond like spherical structure of nanoparticles and carbon atoms which have used their full capacity in the chemical bonds,also the same surface as the radiography particles which have empty orbital, provides an ability to perform a variety of surface modification on the particle . This article introduces the nanocomposites based on polymer, constituents specification and discuss properties of nanocomposites after mixing components together. Lots of studies was on... 

In this thesis, heterogenous catalysts based on magnetic nanoparticles were synthesized. In these catalysts, magnetic nanoparticles were coated with defferent fuctional groups to produce a catalyst with magnetic properties which is easily separated from the reaction medium. The structure of synthesized catalyst was characterized using techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and CHNS elemental analysis. Easy preparation, low cost, biodegradability and high thermal stability are advantages of these catalysts. At the end, the catalytic properties of resulted catalysts were investigated in many... 

This thesis contains two parts .In the first part a catalyst such as AlCl3/Al20 has been demonstrated to catalyze Michael addition reaction of amines to a,�- unsaturated compounds with high yields , short reaction time and under solvent-free condition.The Michael addition to a,�- unsaturated compounds produces quantitively the mono addition products.The next part is about olefins epoxidation . Alkene epoxidation is a useful reaction in organic synthesis. Epoxides play an important role in industrial intermediates for the production of fine chemicals as well as pharmaceuticals .The hydrogen peroxide has been used as an oxidant because it is considered as an economical and appropriate reagent... 

The method of nonlinear time history analysis is well known as one of the most accurate techniques in seismic analysis of structures. However, this method needs much effort in terms of required data and computational cost. Within the time constrains of design consulting firms, more simple analysis tools are also desirable. One of the simple methods which have been gaining ground, as an alternative to time history analysis, is nonlinear static pushover analysis. In this method, the capacity curve of the structure with respect to the roof displacement is established. In nonlinear static pushover analysis, disproportionate increases in the roof displacement and even outright reversals the... 

Enanthioselective synthesis of biological molecules are so important in synthetic chemistry, and because of their biological activities, β-amino carbonyl compounds have earned so much attention in this area of chemistry. Mannich reaction is a classical method for synthesis of these molecules. The Mannich reaction is a three-component reaction between an enolizable CH-acidic carbonyl compound, an amine, and an aldehyde producing β-amino carbonyl compounds. But acidic or basic difficult circumstances, long reaction time, low yield and enantioselectivity, are the drawbacks of classical methods. In this project, we used titania-based solid acid as an enantioselective catalyst to overcome these... 

Nowadays, pile usage in construction of deep foundations has increased significantly, instead of shallow foundation in areas that shallow foundations doesn’t provide enough bearing capacity and measuring the velocity and acceleration due to pile driving is very important. Because, all responses of building and individuals located near the pile driving site influenced by these three parameters: pile vertical displacement, peak particle acceleration (PPA) and peak particle velocity (PPV). One can estimates these important parameters by numerical analysis of pile driving process in different distances and depths to determining the effect of pile driving. Compared values obtained from numerical... 

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally so early diagnosis of them is important. Many researchers focused on this field. First signs of cardiac diseases appear in the electrocardiogram signal. This signal represents the electrical activity of the heart so it’s primarily used for the detection and classification of cardiac arrhythmias. Permanent monitoring of this signal is not possible for specialists so we should do this by means of Artificial Intelligence. In this thesis, we use recurrent neural networks to classify electrocardiogram’s arrhythmias. This deep learning method, use two sources of data to learn from. The first part of data is global for everyone and the... 

Topological defects are interesting phenomena which can be observed in ordered phases such as oriented active fluids or nematic liquid crys¬ tals. Topological defects are determined by the overall structure of the director field in an active fluid in nematic phase and by exerting force to the units of the active particles they can interact or cause motion in the environment. Studying them as particles with dynamical equations, instead of studying the director field of the nematic environment, would provide us the power to study the characteristics of their motion. The equations of motion for multi¬defect systems have been previously stud¬ ied and in this work we focus on the chaotic... 

One of the ultimate goals in robotics is to design autonomous robots. Among other things, this means a robot has to be able to plan its own motion. To be able to plan a motion, a robot must have some knowledge about the environment in which it is moving. Some of this information can be provided by a floor plan. For other information the robot will have to rely on its sensors. In this thesis, we consider that the environment is unknown for the robot. So, the robot uses weak sensor to planning its motion. The sensor can distinguish between colors. The robot can follow the colors. Therefore, we need to specify the umber of colors in which the robot can navigate by them. We propose an efficient... 

In recent decades, employing fiber-reinforced composite has growing field in various industries due to distinct features like high specific stiffness and strength. Studies in case of this type of composite have not been stopped and nowadays, widespread researches are conducted over optimization of them. As a result, the effect of distributing fiber in this composite by taking the concept of functionally graded materials, on vibrations and buckling behaviors including natural frequencies and minimum axial bulking load under different boundary conditions for a multi-layered cylindrical shell in which volume fraction of fiber along its length varies according to power-law model are investigated... 

The current thesis deals with designing of functionalized nanoporous catalysts modified with organic groups and ionic liquids and their applications for some challenging organic reactions such as synthesis of adipic acid and fatty acid esterifications. In this condition the catalysts show enhanced activity since the hydrophobicity of the surface can tune by applying organic groups. In this regard, oxidation of cyclohexene was performed using hydrogen peroxide as oxidant in the present of tungstate based task–specific ionic liquids and silica–functionalized ammonium tungstate as green catalysts. The results indicate that adipic acid achieves in high yield with excellent selectivity.... 

The purpose of this study is to prepare a catalyst for copper nanoparticles that can be used in C-H activation processes in order to increase copper salt catalytic processes by converting it into a catalyst with characteristics of having recovery cycles, convenient separation and environmental friendliness and being in nano size. Consequently, copper nanoparticles are directly grafted onto graphene oxide, or using para-aminobenzoic acid grafted on graphene oxide. A copper nanoparticle catalyst was used in the reaction to activate the C(sp2)-H bonds of benzoxazole molecule and C-N bonds formation with secendary amines. Using the results of transition electron microscopy (TEM), scanning... 

Among the various materials, silicon anodes have the highest lithium absorption in lithium-ion batteries. But this high lithium absorption capacity can cause 300 percent volume expansion and large stresses. Experimental observations show that charge and discharge cycles may cause plastic deformation in some parts of the electrode particle. On the other hand, there is a possibility of a ratcheting phenomenon due to changing in elastic properties of the electrode material during the charging and discharging processes. However, this phenomenon has not been reported for silicon spherical electrode particles yet.This study aims to model the elastic-plastic behavior of silicon spherical electrode... 

A liquid crystal is a state of matter composed of highly anisotropic building blocks. When liquid crystals are exposed to surfaces with given shapes and anchoring conditions, the orientation of their molecules gets spatially disordered and topological defects may form in the system. The interplay between liquid crystals and the geometry and topology of the colloidal particles has motivated extensive recent studies.In this thesis, we present the numerical modeling results for two faceted colloidal particles in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal. To obtain the equilibrium nematic field with a finiteelement method, we numerically minimize the free energy of the system that based on the... 

Purification of waste water containing metal ions, is one of major environmental problems which have threaten human’s life, other creatures and even agricultural products by means of polluting suberranean water. Copper ion is one of dangerous heavy metals that exists in potable water and agricultural uses, due to serious problems in health of humans and aquatic. In recent years, different methods for purification of waste water containing heavy metal ions have been published. Right now, thorough these methods such as: filtration, coagulation, precipitation and adsorption are being used, which have their own advantages and disadvantages.In this research, new method for purification of waste... 

In this thesis the interaction noise created by fluid flow with low Mach number over a rod-airfoil model simulated. Some numerical and experimental benchmark data for comparison and validation of results exist in articles. The simulation done by using Fluent 6.3 which restricts the choice of turbulence models to only 2D URANS. A study was undertaken on the cylinder as case study where some experimental aerodynamic and acoustic data are available. In this case study, the best turbulence model, discretization scheme and grid sizing were investigated. The only turbulence model which has the ability to simulate the near field and far field with a relatively good degree of accuracy was K-ω SST... 

In this thesis the graphene-based magnetic nanocatalyst was synthesized. The surface of this catalyst was cavered by silica and AgNPs. In addithion of simple sepration by magnetbar, yeild of reaction was promoted by surface modification. Catalyst structure was verified by transmission electron microscopy , scanning electron microscope, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and Energy dispersive spectroscopy.At the end catalytic activity was examined by oxidation reaction in persense of different alcohols. The oxidation of benzylic alcohol with electron withdrawing substituents was more difficult and the yield was lower, but electron donor substituents effect positively...