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Since the mid-twentieth century, the issue of gender preference has always been of interest to economists. This preference is demonstrated by sex-selection methods such as differential stopping behavior and sex-selective abortion. While it is almost impossible to look directly into abortion behavior in Iran, due to religious beliefs and illegality, we can investigate gender preference by calculating to what extent parents adapt their fertility behavior to ensure the birth of preferred sex. For this purpose, we use “Households Income and Expenditure Survey of 2019” data from the Statistical Center of Iran. Our results indicate that when Iranian parents are deciding to have second child, they... 

To design a drug delivery system, the drug must be encapsulated within a carrier matrix. One of the main challenges in this field is encapsulating high drug doses while achieving a linear release profile at the target site to maintain drug concentration for optimal therapeutic effects. Consequently, many research groups have focused on refining fabrication techniques to maximize loading efficiency and optimize drug release profiles from delivery systems. A potential approach to addressing this issue is the direct fabrication of a controlled-release system from the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) itself, eliminating the need for a carrier matrix. Studies have demonstrated that such... 

Osteoarthritis is a common musculoskeletal disorder and the most prevalent form of arthritis. To date, no comprehensive cure has been reported for osteoarthritis, and its clinical management remains challenging. The primary therapeutic goals in the early stages of osteoarthritis are to increase joint mobility and control disease progression by continuously releasing drugs and molecules modulating inflammatory responses and reducing pain. Smart drug delivery platforms are one of the strategies to overcome the challenges of injectable and oral medications. Additionally, drug carrier particles can have different therapeutic targets based on their size and shape. Different therapeutic... 

Since oil prices continue to increase, energy conservation remains the prime industrial concern. Existing processes in power plants and oil refineries are not energy efficient as they should be therefore new projects can be defined to increase the energy efficiency without incurring any cost. The most appropriate utility for the processes should be explored to reduce emissions, increase the plant capacities and improve product qualities and energy efficiencies by one coherent strategic plan for the overall site which can be achieved by a full understanding of pinch technology and awareness of the available tools for applying it in practical way. Since the distillation unit of crude oil... 

The Large Hadron Collidor (LHC) will increase its luminosity to more than 10e35 cm-2 s-1. The large amount of data rates will provide enough datasets needed to probe rare Higgs processes, study the scattering of longitudinally polarized W bosons and physics beyond the standard model(BSM). In the upgraded version of the LHC, called High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the number of simultaneous interactions per bunch crossing, aka pile-up, increases to 140-200. The large number of pile increases the possibility of confusion in distinguishing vertexes of interest due to the contamination from non-interesting vertexes. One of the methods to mitigate the pile-up, complementary to the precision tracking... 

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) as a sort of carbon-based nanomaterials are applied in a multitude of exciting areas. They are effective fluorescent probe for many potential biological and medical applications. In comparison to conventional organic fluorescent probes (organic dyes), GQDs have substantial advantages, such as photostability, excellent solubility, low cytotoxicity and biocompatibility.
In this thesis, green fluorescent GQDs have been prepared via solvothermal method from graphite powder.Various analysis methods were utilized to characterization of the product. So, several experiments on GQDs in solution and in solid substrate at room temperature have been performed. The...