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Hand-launched UAVs are type of unmanned aerial vehicles that due to transportability and geometric specification, are operationally valuable and worthy. reconnaissance & surveillance (aerial mapping, aerial filming, inspection, border protection); health care (blood transport, body organ transport, medicine delivery); agriculture (farm monitoring, fertilization, cloud seeding); payload delivery (envelopes posting); network covering (internet supply, telecommunication relay); crisis management (remote area medical) are some of typical applications and missions of this type of aircrafts. These UAVs have almost low altitude short endurance (below 5000 ft. and less than 2 hrs.). To extend their... 

The main goal of this thesis was to develop μ-solid extraction techniques using electrspun nanofibers under the influence of magnetic field along with flow injection system. The thesis is divided into two sections:The first chapter deals with the use of magnetic field for improving μ-solid phase extraction efficiencies. After preparing the magnetic-based electrospun nanofibers (PBt/MNPs), sufficient numbers of disc from the prepared electrospun composite mat were cut and used as packing materials in a cartridge. The prepared system was coupled on-line to liquid chromatography for microextraction of selected drugs of furosemide, naproxene, diclofenac and clobetasol propionate. The homogeneity... 

Risk management, one of the knowledge areas in project management, plays a key role in the success of projects in today’s unstable situation. The massive cost reduction achieved by risk management can manifest its importance even more in huge construction projects in gas and oil industry such as developments of power plants and petrochemical complexes. In this research, the effect of considering the correlation between risks and consequently the effect of risk action plans on other risks in their execution cost reductions has been demonstrated. A questionnaire has been designed, many experts have been interviewed, and using statistical methods, the risks’ interdependencies have been... 

Believing that the strength obtained from the standard 150300 mm2 cylindrical specimens, introduced by the ACI, cannot be a proper representative of what concrete experiences as part of a structure under loading, in this project an attempt was made to develop new methods for testing concrete specimens to find their strength. In order to avoid making new molds and to use standard 150300 mm2 molds, various innovative measures, proposed by the supervisor of this project, were used to work out the strength of tested concretes. While the results obtained from limited number of tests carried out in this work did not show much difference between the results of the standard ACI test with those of... 

In this thesis a novel Fuzzy Fractional Order Controller (FFOPID) is presented. This controller is designed by the means of the combination of a fuzzy system and a fractional order PID. Fractional controllers, especially fractional PIDs, shows their performance in control systems after the advent of fractional calculus. Fractional PID has better flexibility according to the classic PID. As the real control systems are nonlinear actually, so solving the control problem needs a nonlinear controller. Therefore, a fuzzy system is used in this thesis, in order to adapt the controller parameters with different operating points of the system. Fuzzy system design needs the optimal values for... 

For both Fichte and Hegel, self-consciousness is an intersubjective concept; that is, for them, self-consciousness is necessarily constituted between, at least, two subjects. In Foundations of Natural Right, Fichte introduces summons and recognition as necessary conditions of self-consciousness, without which, i.e. an other who is calling upon the subject, the subject cannot be conscious at all. Hegel, in Phenomenology of Spirit, also says self-consciousness is desire which is satisfied only in another (self-) consciousness. Based on these ideas, I try to show that self-consciousness can be defined as having the both in view; the self (I) and the other (not-I), at the same time. In this... 

Providing quality hospital services depends on the efficient and correct implementation of processes. Therapeutic care processes are a set of activities that are carried out with the aim of diagnosing, treating and preventing any disease in order to improve and promote the patient's health. The purpose of this study is to use process mining techniques to discover and improve healthcare processes. The case study of this research is a psychiatric hospital in Shiraz. The approach implemented in this research consists of three main stages including data pre-processing, model discovery phase, and analysis phase. Three algorithms including Heuristic Miner, Inductive Miner, and ILP Miner were used... 

The expansion of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) in diverse domains, including automotive, aerospace, and healthcare, has led to increased challenges for these systems in the last decade. With the increasing complexity of the functions performed by these systems, Mixed-Criticality Systems (MCSs) that integrate tasks with different criticality levels have attracted much attention. These systems often have a heterogeneous multiprocessor architecture and use Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) to model task dependencies. This paper proposes a fault-tolerant scheduling algorithm that manages energy consumption and reliability while considering the Deadline Miss Ratio (DMR) in heterogeneous... 

One of the important questions in mathematics is generalized. In case of metric spaces, one of the questions is: Can we extend notions of Riemannian geometry to arbitrary metric spaces smoothly? Ricci curvature is one of the most important concepts in differential geometry. Ricci curvature is defined for the Riemannian manifold and has many applications in mathematics and physics like Einstein’s equation in relativity theory. There is a good notion for a metric space having “sectional curvature bounded below by K” or “sectional curvature bounded above by K”, due to Alexandrov. Can we define the concept of Ricci curvature in metric space? A motivation for this question comes from Gromov’s...