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In recent years, application of transition metal biphasic catalytic systems for different reactions is an area of intense research activity. Among these reactions, oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and sulfones due to their importance as an intermediate in synthesis of organic compounds is a center of interest. Also, the catalytic conversion of alcohols to the corresponding aldehydes or ketones is a fundamental transformation in both laboratory and industrial synthetic chemistry. From environmental perspectives, the development of new catalytic oxidation systems with molecular oxygen as green oxidant is particularly attractive. In recent years, ionic liquids have been extensively studied... 

With the significant advances in software engineering and developing complicated systems, it’s important to investigate the interaction between systems. Agentoriented software engineering is a new paradigm for developing distributed intelligent systems. Agent technology currently plays an important role in complex software development. The underlying paradigm offers a large repertoire of original concepts, architectures, interaction protocols, and methodologies for the analysis and the specification of complex systems built as Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Several efforts, originating from academia, industry, and several standardisation consortium, have been made in order to provide new tools,... 

In this project, a novel action recognition method, named Fisherposes, is proposed, which is improved by several space-time (spatio-temporal) methods afterwards. The proposed method utilizes skeleton data obtained from Kinect sensor. First, pre-processing is performed in which the scales of bodies are canceled and the skeletons become aligned in order to make the method robust to location, orientation, and scale of people. In Fisherposes method, every action is defined as a sequence of body poses. Using the training samples for the poses, a Fisher subspace is created which we name it Fisherposes. Moreover, a novel distance measuring function, named regularized Mahalanobis distance, is... 

In this thesis we study the exponential stabilization of the one dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes system, in a bounded interval locally around a constant steady state by a localized distributed control acting only in the velocity equation. In fact this is an analysis of a paper that published by Shirshendu Chowdhury, Debayan Maity, Mithily Ramaswamy and Jean-Pierre Raymond in Journal of Differential Equations. We determine a linear feedback law able to stabilize a nonlinear transformed system. Coming back to the original nonlinear system, we obtain a nonlinear feedback law able to stabilize locally this nonlinear system. The result is providing feedback control laws stabilizing... 

Target recognition techniques based on micro Doppler phenomenon are popular because they are applicable even on low resolution radars, in contrast to other techniques such as High Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) which need high resolution in range or angle. Usually, main purpose of such techniques is generating robust features against target initial state, velocity, aspect angle, etc. rather than features which exactly identify a target. Main approaches in the literature are based on time-frequency transforms (TFT) such as spectrogram in order to generate features to classify targets, but in this thesis, we propose a totally different method using Recurrence Plot for generating features... 

It is known that Fluoride ions strongly affect bone mineralization and formation. In the present study, the engineered bone tissue scaffolds are fabricated using silk fibroin (SF) and flouridated TiO2 nanoparticles. TiO2 nanoparticles are modified by fluoride ions, and different levels (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 wt.%) of the fluoridated TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2-F) were subsequently added to the SF matrix through phase separation method to prepare silk fibroin/flouridated TiO2 nanocomposite scaffolds (SF/TiO2-F). Phase structure, functinal groups, morphology and mechanical properties of the obtained scaffolds were evaluated by X-ray difraction method (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy... 

Analysis of people appearance variation in multi-camera networks for person re-identification or person retrieval is a very challenging problem due to the many intra-class variations between different cameras. Like any problem in the field of machine vision, it is generally divided into two parts. The first part is feature extraction and the second part is feature matching for person retrieval. So far, various methods have been proposed for the extraction of discriminative features, which are generally divided into three categories: stripe-based, patch-based, and body-based methods. However, methods based on stripes, although simpler, have performed better due to their greater compatibility... 

A software product line is a set of products with common features. The design of this set is such that the core assets that are common features between products are implemented only once. All products in the product line use the core assets to reduce development costs. The number of products that can be produced in a software product line is exponential to the number of capabilities in the core assets and the set is very large, so the cost of testing the software product line will be very high. In the software product line testing, various methods have been provided to reduce costs, among which we can mention product prioritization and regression test techniques. In prioritization, the... 

In recent years, the simultaneous analysis of image and text by artificial intelligence has gained much attention. Video description is one of the topics used to help the blind, automate video content analysis, and more. This issue is usually examined in the context of supervised learning and is very similar to image description and machine translation.The proposed solutions to this problem are mainly in the framework of encoder-decoder and attention-based neural networks. Selection of various pre-trained networks to extract 2D and 3D visual features (description of objects and actions in the image), various hierarchical structures and different teaching methods (based on reinforcement... 

There is a need from the natural gas and energy industries to seek for an economically attractive way of converting remote gas reserves into transportable products, such as high quality fuels or petrochemicals. A possible way for the conversion of natural gas to middle distillates is based on a three-step process. Firstly, production of syngas from natural gas. Secondly,catalytic conversion of syngas into hydrocarbons, mostly parafins from C5 to C100. (Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) synthesis). Thirdly, hydrocracking of the heavy paraffinic hydrocarbons to middle distillates. The F-T synthesis step is highly exothermic. In order to control the temperature within the reactor, when considering high...