Loading...
Search for:
khandan--amin-reza
0.252 seconds
Total 2160 records
Studying the Kinematics Compensation Mechanism in the Gait of Individuals with Excessive Anti-version using a Subject-Specific Musculoskeletal Model
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Farahmand, Farzam (Supervisor) ; Narimani, Roya (Supervisor)
Abstract
In cases with excessive anteversion even after adolescence, surgeons have to choose osteotomy surgery to modify this abnormality. This surgery and modifying the anatomical problem does not necessarily lead to modify the patients’ gait cycle abnormalities; the authors’ hypothesis is the probable reason may be the persistence of the implement of the patients’ kinematics compensation mechanism even after the surgery. This mechanism is used to almost correct the gait of those with excessive anteversion. First, by using gait analysis text books, a patient’s gait cycle is analyzed; this analysis is consist of 3DGA with EMG and observational gait. Then, by using OpenSim, the patient’s patterns of...
Statistical Video Indexing
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Rabiee, Hamid Reza (Supervisor)
Abstract
Nowadays, video search and retrieval is interesting for computer users and it has chief usages for multimedia systems. Video generation rate has increased and Internet as a communication framework is case of its transferring on the world. Because of these, importance of video files is more than past. Searching for finding content will be faster if video files would have indexed with a comprehensive system. The biggest step in this way is power of index generation that would be same or similar to human mind, for improvement of the clustering’s result or classification’s result. For generating suitable indexes, it is necessary to extracting effective features from videos and synthesizing these...
Estimating an Index of Iran’s Informal Economy in 1350-1386 With Concentration on the Impact of Government’s Intervention by EMIMIC Model (The Multiple Indicators-Multiple Causes Model and Error-Correction Model)
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Nili, Masoud (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this research, an Index of Iran informal economy in response to the government interventions in credit, labor and product markets is stimated by EMIMIC model. To do this, first these interventions are measured using principal components analysis. In the model, the variables GDP and employment are used as indicators and taxation rates, government distortions in credit, labor and product markets, government expenditure, per capita income, unemployment and inflation as causes of the informal economy. We conclude these government interventions have affected Iran informal economy and their influence is more than indirect interventions influence such as taxation. The estimated index of Iran...
Government interventions and the size of the informal economy. The case of Iran (1971-2007)
, Article Journal of Economic Policy Reform ; Vol. 17, issue. 1 , 2014 , pp. 71-90 ; ISSN: 17487870 ; Nili, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2014
Abstract
Literature on the informal economy can mainly be divided into two different contrasting theories. According to the dual labor market theory (DLM), which considers the informal economy as a spare sector providing jobs for formally unemployed resources, unpleasant economic situations force people to act informally. Legalists, on the other hand, blame government interventions such as minimum wages or price control policies for pushing rent-seeking firms toward the shadows. This study using an Error-correction Multi-Indicators Multi-Causes (EMIMIC) model, a systematic method consisting of structural and measurement equations, shows that these two theories are complementary rather than...
Direct production of dimethyl ether from synthesis gas utilizing a new bifunctional catalyst
, Article 19th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2010 and 7th European Congress of Chemical Engineering, ECCE-7, 28 August 2010 through 1 September 2010, Prague ; 2010 ; Kazemeini, M ; Aghaziarati, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
Abstract
A series of bifunctional catalysts Cu-ZnO-ZrO 2/Al-modified H-Mordenite were prepared by co precipitating sedimentation method and were characterized. Active sites were dispersed well. The synthesis of dimethyl ether (DME) via direct CO hydrogenation was evaluated in a three-phase slurry reactor. Cu-ZnO-ZrO 2/Al-modified H-Mordenite was a suitable catalyst for the production of dimethyl ether from synthesis gas. The appropriate ratio of methanol synthesis catalyst (Cu-ZnO-ZrO 2) to methanol dehydration catalyst (Al-modified H Mordenite) was 2:1. In this condition, CO conversion and DME selectivity were ≈ 68% and 82%, respectively. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 7th European...
Synthesis of dimethyl ether over modified H-mordenite zeolites and bifunctional catalysts composed of Cu/ZnO/ZrO2 and modified H-mordenite zeolite in slurry phase
, Article Catalysis Letters ; Volume 129, Issue 1-2 , 2009 , Pages 111-118 ; 1011372X (ISSN) ; Kazemeini, M ; Aghaziarati, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2009
Abstract
Synthesis of dimethyl ether (DME) via methanol dehydration were investigated over various catalysts, and via direct CO hydrogenation over hybrid catalysts composed of Al-modified H-Mordenite zeolite and Cu/ZnO/ZrO 2. H-Mordenite zeolite exhibited the highest activity in dehydration of methanol. However, its selectivity toward dimethyl ether was rather low. For this reason, the H-Mordenite was modified. Modification of zeolites was performed by wet impregnation method and considered catalysts were characterized by AAS, XRD and NH3-TPD analyses. Results of catalytic tests indicated that H-Mordenite modified with 8 wt% aluminum oxide was the best catalyst for synthesis of dimethyl ether from...
Determining an optimum catalyst for liquid-phase dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether
, Article Applied Catalysis A: General ; Volume 349, Issue 1-2 , 2008 , Pages 6-12 ; 0926860X (ISSN) ; Kazemeini, M ; Aghaziarati, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
Abstract
The liquid-phase dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether was investigated over various materials including synthetic zeolites, namely, ZSM-5, Y, Mordenite, Ferrierite and Beta as well as silica and alumina. The key characters investigated were the Si/Al ratio and cation exchange. The results showed that the Mordenite zeolite exchanged with H+ exhibited the highest activity in dehydration of methanol. After finding the most active catalyst, the Mordenite zeolite was modified with Cu, Zn, Ni, Al, Zr, Mg and Na via wet-impregnation method to further improve its selectivity, and characterized by AAS, XRD, NH3-TPD, NH3-FT-IR and BET surface area techniques. It was found that these materials...
Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO Composites Nanofibers by Electrospinning Method for Photocatalytic Application
, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology ; Moshfegh, Ali Reza (Supervisor) ; Pourjavadi, Ali (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
In this research we focus on study and fabrication of ZnO composite nanofibers by electrospinning method for photocatalytic application. The most important challenges in the field of photocatalyst are photocatalytic activity under the visible light and efficiency enhancement. ZnO is a wide band gap semiconductor and it is not active under the visible light. In Iran, we have more than 300 sunny days in a year. Therefore fabrication and application of photocatalytic material with activity under the sun light that contained 40% of visible light is so vital in our country. In the first part of this project, ZnO-CNT nanofibers were fabricated and carbon doped in the crystal lattice of the ZnO....
Optimization of Well Placement and Number of Wells in one of Iranian oil reservoirs using Streamline Simulation
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Pishvaie, Mahmoud Reza (Supervisor) ; Amin Shahidy, Babak (Supervisor)
Abstract
Determining the optimized number and best locations for new wells is a challenging problem due to the nonlinearly correlation and uncertainty associated with engineering, geological and economical variables affecting reservoir performance. The proposed location and configuration for new producers and injectors is usually nontrivial because of the complexity of the fluid flow in highly heterogeneous reservoirs. It depends on reservoir and fluid properties, well and surface equipment specifications and economic criteria. Various approaches have been proposed for this problem. Among those, direct optimization using the numerical simulator as the evaluation function is the most common...
Improvement of the Performance of “Universal Portfolios” Using Techniques of “Universal Source Coding”
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Aref, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor) ; Aminzadeh Gohari, Amin (Supervisor)
Abstract
In this thesis, following a short introduction to investment problem, this problem is investigated with both probabilistic and universal approach. Using the concept of the set of reference algorithms, we present a mathematical definition for universality. We then give examples of universal algorithms for investment and prove their universality. These algorithms are:
Universal Portfolios without Side Information, Universal Portfolios with Side Information, Universal Portfolios with Semi-Constant Rebalanced Portfolio, Universal Portfolios with Switching.
We then present a new algorithm called “Universal Portfolio with Multiple Side Information Sources”. This algorithm is applied in...
Universal Portfolios without Side Information, Universal Portfolios with Side Information, Universal Portfolios with Semi-Constant Rebalanced Portfolio, Universal Portfolios with Switching.
We then present a new algorithm called “Universal Portfolio with Multiple Side Information Sources”. This algorithm is applied in...
An Investigation on Entanglement and Its Applications in Quantum Communication Protocols
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Aref, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor) ; Aminzadeh Gohari, Amin (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
In this thesis, we propose a new method for deriving the achievability results in quantum information theoretic problems. The calssical quan- tum decoupling lemma is an essential component in our method. Assume that each classical source is randomly binned at a finite rate. We find sufficient conditions on these rates such that the bin indices are nearly mutually independent of each other and of a quantum source Qn. Us- ing this theorem in conjunction with the calssical quantum Slepian Wolf (CQSW) result, this method suggest a new comprehensive framework for the achievability of network quantum information theoretic prob- lems. We’ve used the new method to redrive the Holevo bound, private...
Introducing an Upper bound on Capacity of Quantum Key Distillation
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Aref, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor) ; Aminzadeh Gohari, Amin (Supervisor)
Abstract
In modern cryptography the main goal in symmetric cryptography algorithms is that the security of the protocol should be only dependent on the secrecy of key. Further, secret key agreement has a major role in perfect security. However, it is impossible to share a secrete key only by the use of a public channel and there must be another shared source. This source can be for instance random variables with some joint distribution (as in source model classical key distillation problem) or it can be some entangled quantum systems (as in quantum key distillation problem). The question here is that with the optimum efficiency, what is the maximum number of key bits that can be distilled from one...
Analysis and Improvement of Information Theoretic Secrecy Metrics
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Aref, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor) ; Aminzadeh Gohari, Amin (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
Security in operational cryptography systems is expressed as computational, in the sense that breaking these systems is not possible in polynomial time. Nowadays, advances in computing power of processors and the development of quantum computers, has incresed concerns about the security of cryptographic systems. This is the cause of proposing the information theoretic secrecy in recent decades. In information theoretic secrecy topics, recovering data at target receiver side with zero error should be acomplished along side with defining security criterias. Information leakage is one of the most common security measures. there are another security measures such as rate-distortion, maximal...
Online Detection Of Multi-Modal Fake News
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Rabiee, Hamid Reza (Supervisor) ; Fazli, Mohammad Amin (Supervisor)
Abstract
Today, social networks have provided an environment for disseminating all kinds of information and news among the people. One of the challenges of ex-panding social networks is reading and trusting fake news propagating against accurate information. Fake news is false information that the author intention-ally produces and publishes. Due to the destructive effects of spreading fake news, determining the trustworthiness of news is one of the critical issues in the so-cial, political, and economic fields. In this research, we worked on detecting fake news on social media using multimodal data. To solve the problem of fake news detection, we used the text and images of the information. Transfer...
Designing a new multifunctional peptide for metal chelation and Aβ inhibition
, Article Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics ; Volume 653 , 2018 , Pages 1-9 ; 00039861 (ISSN) ; Asadbegi, M ; Khandan, V ; Amanzadi, A ; Sharif University of Technology
Academic Press Inc
2018
Abstract
According to the Amyloid hypothesis, as the foremost scientific explanation for Alzheimer Disease (AD), the neuropathology of AD is related to toxic fragments of amyloid beta (Aβ) protein. Based on this hypothesis, an attractive therapeutic approach was demonstrated to identify multifunctional peptides able to modulate Aβ pathologies as the source of AD. On this premise, a bifunctional polypeptide based on the iAβ5p lead compound, was designed to inhibit Aβ aggregation and free metal ions. Herein, the efficacy of this novel drug in Zn2+ and Cd2+ ion chelation was examined through an integrated technique comprising combined Docking, QM, and MD simulations. MD relaxation of a set of probable...
Hydrogenation of maleic anhydride to tetrahydrofuran using bifunctional catalysts
, Article 18th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2008, Prague, 24 August 2008 through 28 August 2008 ; 2008 ; Kazemeini, M ; Soltanieh, M ; Khandan, N ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
Abstract
A series of bifunctional catalysts, including Cu-ZnO-ZrO 2 and H-Y zeolite catalysts, were prepared and tested for conversion of maleic anhydride (MA) to tetrahydrofuran (THF). Cu-ZnO-ZrO 2 catalyst was used as the hydrogenating component and H-Y zeolite as the dehydrating component. The appropriate ratio of Cu/ZnO in the hydrogenation catalyst was 50:45, for which the conversion of MA and selectivity of THF reached 100 and 46%, respectively, at 50 bar and 493 K. The bifunctional catalyst of Cu-ZnOZrO 2/H-Y can produce THF from MA with high activity, selectivity, and stability. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 18th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering...
Synthesis of tetrahydrofuran from maleic anhydride on Cu-ZnO-ZrO2/H-Y bifunctional catalysts
, Article Catalysis Communications ; Volume 9, Issue 13 , 2008 , Pages 2195-2200 ; 15667367 (ISSN) ; Soltanieh, M ; Kazemeini, M ; Khandan, N ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
Abstract
A series of bifunctional Cu-ZnO-ZrO2/H-Y catalysts of different compositions were prepared by coprecipitating sedimentation method and were characterized by surface area and XRD analyses. The catalytic performance in synthesis of tetrahydrofuran was evaluated and optimized in a three-phase slurry batch reactor. The experimental results showed that the appropriate ratio of Cu/ZnO in the hydrogenation catalyst was 50/45, for which the conversion of maleic anhydride (MA) and selectivity of tetrahydrofuran (THF) reached 100% and 46%, respectively, at 50 bar and 493 K after 6 h of operation. Also, according to these results, it was demonstrated that the incorporation of zirconium oxide in the...
Achievablity and Secrecy Analysis of Rates in Communication Systems for Having Coordinated Behaviour
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Aref, Mohammad Reza (Supervisor) ; Aminzadeh Gohari, Amin (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
Elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks will be developed. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what dependence can be established among the nodes given the communication constraints. Specifically, in a network with communication rates {R(i,j)} between the nodes, we ask what the set of all is achievable joint distributions p(x1,…,xm) of actions at the nodes of the network. After describing the concepts of empirical coordination for some special networks, we will consider secrecy concepts in coordination. Then we will discuss the concepts of strong...
Introducing a Simulation-Based Model to Improve the Design and Layout of Workstations Inside Airport Terminals in Iran
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Alvanchi, Amin (Supervisor)
Abstract
The airport terminal is difficult to plan and design due to the different components and the intricate complexity of its parts. At the airport terminal, we face a queue system which simulation is always a good way to analyze. In addition, computer simulation using modern softwares with the capability to model different types of systems, including the airport terminal, while being less realistic than analytical models, is less costly than operational Exercise.In this study, a supportive approach for better and specific management of Iranian airport terminal buildings with discrete-event simulation is proposed, considering the need for managing the airport terminals building in the country and...
Synthesis and Characterization of a Copper Catalyst for Low Temperature Water –Gas Shift Reaction
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Khorasheh, Farhad (Supervisor) ; Khandan, Nahid (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
Water Gas Shift (WGS) reaction is an old reaction in which syngas is used for producing Hydrogen. At the present time, the major application of this reaction is in fuel cells, since the necessary Hydrogen for these cells is provided by this reaction.
The present study investigate the influence of different preparation methods on properties of Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for water gas shift (WGS) reaction, which is now known as the Commercial catalyst for low temperature WGS, and its influence on performance of Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst to derive an optimal Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for water gas shift (WGS) reaction. Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts was synthesized by CP, DP, DP-Ultra, IWI , CP-Urea, and...
The present study investigate the influence of different preparation methods on properties of Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for water gas shift (WGS) reaction, which is now known as the Commercial catalyst for low temperature WGS, and its influence on performance of Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst to derive an optimal Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for water gas shift (WGS) reaction. Cu-ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts was synthesized by CP, DP, DP-Ultra, IWI , CP-Urea, and...