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Microfluidic systems have the ability to produce microgels with uniform size distribution and spherical shape due to the laminar flow and better control of the flow rates. Spherical microgels with same size can be used as high-potential carriers for drug release. An important challenge in the production of these drug-carrying microgels is the simultaneous process of drug loading into microgels and their production. The overall goal of this project was to produce drug-carrying microgels with uniform size distribution that show controlled drug release. To achieve this goal, various factors such as the type of polymer, the type of drug, the volume ratio of the polymer and the drug and the... 

Due to the increasing need of use of drugs and insufficient efficiency of conventional methods, drug delivery systems has gathered a lot of interests. There are different systems existing for controlled drug delivery, among which is implementation of hydrogel microparticles (microgels) as carriers with high potential. The most important factor in these systems is size distribution of drug-carrying microgels and a narrow size distribution leads to a controlled and suitable release. Due to unique characteristics of microfluidic systems, significant focus has been placed on them nowadays for production of microgels with suitable morphology and narrow size distribution. Therefore, in this study... 

The wide range of embedded processors and their reliance on nano-scale technologyhave brought them serious concerns on reliability, power consumption, timeliness and cost. Therefore, theseconcernsmust be addressed at the design process withemploying minimum facilities.This thesis proposes a low-cost concurrent error detection method based on control flow checking suitable for embedded processors. Most of the previous control flow checking methods either do not consider the embedded processors concerns, or they are not applicable to processors with on-chip cache memories.The key idea behind the proposed control flow checking method is to embed specific hardware components in the IP core of an... 

Blackhole and grayhole attacks have been become two of the major security concerns in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). To achieve security in MANETs, a lot of mechanisms had been proposed by now. Using intrusion detection systems(IDSs) is one of the important mechanism to reach this goal. Thus, a well-known IDS was chosen and analyzed in this thesis. Furthermore, a collaborative bayesian filter approach for this intrusion detection system was proposed to enhance its performance. Then the performance of this approach was considered. This intrusion detection system was analyzed using stochastic modeling like continuous time markov chain(CTMC), stochastic reward net(SRN) and stochastic... 

Increasing need to high rates of transmission through radio channels is a challenging problem in wireless communications. Simple implementation and high spectral efficiency of OFDM system turned it into a suitable choice to meet this need. Accurate estimation of the communication channel has a significant impact on performance of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. Conventional methods of channel estimation are not able to exploit the inherent sparsity of the channel that is due to sparse distribution of scaterrers. On the other hand, Compressed Sensing (CS) is getting attention in variety of aspects such as communications, recently.CS-based channel estimation exploits... 

In parallel to the growing of population in Tehran metropolitan, air pollution in this city has become to a major problem. From which high concentration of pollutants have adverse effects on public health, accurate estimating and forecasting of concentrations for several days ahead, can provide the possibility to implement the management measures to reduce hazard and risks. Among the air pollution models, application of statistic models based on neural network in comparison to the traditional deterministic models are easier and less costly. In most studies, static models use a classical single MLP to predict one step ahead. For this purpose ANN models are required to estimate next value of... 

Recent studies have shown that comprehensive characterization of the behavior of infilled rock fractures under saturated and unsaturated conditions requires knowledge of morphological details of fracture surface, as well as state of stress of infill materials and their initial innate conditions (e.g., void ratio, water content, degree of saturation and dry density). This study presents the details and typical results from a new testing approach to study the hydro-mechanical behavior of the infilled rock fractures under different stress states and saturation conditions. The new testing approach incorporates the axis translation technique for suction control, a flow pump for the measurement of... 

The shear modulus of soils is a key material quantity which is frequently used in the evaluation of wave propagation through soil layers in dynamic response analyses for many geotechnical systems. The shear modulus, G, is defined as the slope of the shear stress-strain hysteresis loop and is significantly influenced by the shear strain amplitude induced in a soil specimen. Of particular interest in geotechnical engineering, the value of shear modulus for strains less than 10-6 defined as the small strain shear modulus, Gmax. The early experimental studies on the shear modulus of water-saturated or dry soil showed that shear modulus is highly dependent on mean effective sress, p´, and void... 

Early efforts in soil dynamics have shown that the analysis of soil behavior under cyclic or random loading conditions is highly dependent on some representative material properties, the dynamic shear modulus, the Poisson’s ratio, and the damping ratio. Of particular interest is the value of dynamic shear modulus for strains less than 10-6 defined as the maximum or small strain shear modulus Gmax. Improvements in experimental unsaturated soil mechanics have led to the definition of trends between Gmax with different parameters most notably unsaturated stress state, degree of saturation and void ratio. However, the tests in these studies were mostly conducted on specimens experiencing... 

The increasing significance and deployment of knowledge management(KM) is the main reason for selecting the topic of this research. This research tries to analyse the dimensions and KM implementation methods in press section of maintenance department in Saipa company. This study has a qualitative approach and the method is based on a case study. Data has been collected by questionnaires. Two questionnares have been provided in this research and distributed among different staff of press section in maintenance department. The concept of knowledge management maturity is applied and the goal of first questionnaire is based on this concept. The level of KM maturity is assessed via this... 

Regarding the issue that significant amount of energy consumption in the world is dedicated to heating and cooling of the buildings, by using traditional methods of heating and cooling, the environment is facing serious problems like green house gases. There were various techniques for decreasing the amount of contaminants stem from this process. Heat-exchanger energy piles are one of the most common methods that will result in economic usage of energy resources. Assessing the long-term behavior of the energy piles requires comprehensive understanding of the complex interaction between soil and pile subjected to mechanical and thermal loadings. Several numerical and analytical methods have... 

Results of an advanced suction controlled triaxial test device in an attempt to define the constitutive relationship between suction stress and matric suction (Suction Stress Characteristic Curve, SSCC) for unsaturated sand was presented. The suction stress is a macroscopic stress that incorporates the effects of capillary van der Waals forces cementation, and electrical double-layer repulsion into the definition of effective stress for unsaturated soils. Results of previous studies on silt and clay indicated that variations in the suction stress, during drying path had a non-linear increasing trend with matric suction with greater values upon wetting. However, due to different material... 

The seismic behavior of pile-supported systems has been an active area of research over the past decades. However, focus has mostly been on evaluating the seismic response of structures embedded in either dry or fully saturated, especially liquefying soil conditions. In this study, a series of dynamic centrifuge tests have been conducted to investigate the effects of soil’s degree of saturation on the seismic behavior of pile-supported superstructures. The scaled physical model tests were carried out on two distinct pile-mass systems embedded in uniform sand layers. A steady state infiltration technique was used to control matric suction profiles in the sand layer prior to shaking. The... 

Quantum computers can be used to process complex computations much more efficient than their classical counterparts. Cryptanalysis of classical ciphers is no exception to this rule. Most quantum cryptanalysis of symmetric ciphers is based on finding the periodicity, linear structure, and confidential information of the target algorithm. In this thesis, assuming that the attacker has access to the quantum computer, we propose a quantum method for deriving the appropriate differential characteristic of block ciphers, using Simon's quantum algorithm. It is worth noting that, unlike classical methods, where increasing the number of rounds of the target block cipher increases the complexity of... 

Considering the importance of studying dynamic characteristics of soils in the analysis of wave propagation and the design of earth constructions or soil-related structures, as well as the role of Resonant Column-Torsional Shear in determining the dynamic parameters, including shear modulus, damping ratio and wave velocity in soil, this device was designed and developed in this research. The apparatus developed is able to conduct both resonant column and torsional shear tests and also measure dynamic parameters in large ranges of strain. The unsaturated pressure panel built alongside this device and the especial design of the device components have made the above-mentioned experiments...