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Cardiovascular (CV) system is very similar to a wireless communication system in which a common input signal from the heart is fed into different arterial channels throughout different body parts. By putting multiple sensors on different peripheral body sites effects of this circulation from the heart can be recorded and be used as inputs for different multi channel blind system identification (BSI) methods for estimation of arterial channel dynamics. This Thesis is defined in order to investigate different BSI methods capability in CV characterization. To achieve this goal photoplethysmogram signals has been used as primary sensory recorded effect of heart function at three different... 

In recent years, the Internet of Things has become one of the most popular technologies that has facilitated new interactions between objects and humans to improve their quality of life. With the rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things, an ever-evolving question arises - how to control access and permissions in a space that can contain hundreds of smart devices - which ultimately address security and privacy concerns of technologies and consumers. Today, cloud computing has become an important technology for the Internet of Things and creates a cloud architecture that is used in various fields in this area. A smart city is an urban area that uses a variety of sensors and electronic... 

Path planning of a robot inside an environment with obstacles is to determine an appropriate path for moving from an initial point to a destination without colliding the obstacles. The main considerations in selecting such a path are its length and simplicity in terms of links or turn angles. In this paper, we study this problem for a point robot in the plane and our goal is to minimize the path length. We solve this problem by converting it to an optimization problem and solving the resulted optimization problem by a recurrent neural network. According to the implementation results, the obtained path is a proper approximation of the minimum length path, especially when obstacles are not too... 

One the most important issues in most of embedded systems is reliability and fault tolerance.Ensure of correct operation and evaluate reliability and fault tolerance of embedded proces-sors as a critical part of embedded systems, would be necessary. Fault injection is one themostly used methods for evaluating those features. Using FPGA devices is a good alterna-tive for time consuming simulation-based fault injection method because of their speed. But,there are some critical issues in FPGA-based fault injection methods which are controllabil-ity and observability. In addition to need for efficient and applicable observation and controlmechanism to handle fault injection experiments, a... 

The present study has been conducted with the purpose of investigating how to reduce behavioral biases in investors' decisions, which has become very important in the recent situation of Tehran Stock Exchange and with the entry of a large number of inexperienced investors. In this research, an attempt is made to examine the relationship between investors' trading experience and the effect of herd mentality on their investment decisions through the perspective of social cognitive theory and using financial self-efficacy. Multiple regression analysis and Bootstrap mediator relationship analysis were performed on data collected from 502 active investors in the Tehran Stock Exchange, and the... 

Quantum key distribution is one of the practical quantum information technologies in labo- ratories with existing equipments.In quantum key distribution protocols, the main challenge is the secrecy of key distribution. One of the new methods of quantum channel error esti- mation is the use of weak measurement. In this thesis, after introducing the main quantum key distribution protocols, we introduce weak measurement and sequential weak measure- ment concepts: the weak measurement methods are exployed to obtain the phase difference between two polarizations with high accuratly. It is also used for in line monitoring and error estimation parameters in some quantum key distribution protocols.... 

Recovery of low-rank matrices from compressed linear measurements is an extension for the more well-known topic of recovery of sprse vectors from underdetermined measurements.Since the natural approach (i.e., rank minimization) for recovery of low-rank matrices is generally NP-hard, several alternatives have been proposed. However, there is a large gap between what can be achieved from these alternatives and the natural approach in terms of maximum rank of the unique solutions and the error of recovery. To narrow this gap, two novel algorithms are proposed. The main idea of both algorithms is to closely approximate the rank with a smooth function of singular values and then minimize the... 

In this thesis, we present some extension of Burton and Kirk fixed point theorem for the sum of two nonlinear operators, which one of them is compact and the other one is strict contraction; and we investigate the existence of fixed point where these two operators don’t need to be weakly continuous. Next, we will check the necessity of some conditions, like being strict contraction or compactness, in some specific Banach spaces, such as reflective spaces or Banach spaces equipped with uniformly convex norm.Finally, we analysis the existence of the solution for integral equations in L1 space by using the expressed theorems  

Most propulsion systems use nozzles to increase the velocity of exhaust gas. Therefore, the efficiency of nozzles is important. Losses due to geometry and physical phenomena inside the nozzle define this efficiency. The length and divergence angle of the nozzle, the throat diameter, the Reynolds number, and the specifications and the combinations of fuel have a direct impact on these losses. Solid propellant rockets are widely used and today optimization of rockets is most noticeable. On the other hand, in different phases of design and optimization, empirical experiments are necessary, which are costly in real dimensions. The use of laboratory motors with specific considerations decrease... 

Nanolaunchers are launch vehicles capable of carring light payloads (under 50 kg) to Low Earth orbit and received much attention in the few past years. Launching the nanosatellites grown about 30 times from 2008 to 2017. Since this category of launch vehicles has fewer developing costs and lower thechnology level, they fit developing space technology in our country. Conversely, the demand of high propellant mass fraction and specific impulse may be a serious difficulty to attain this technology.The only operating nanolauncher in the world is SS-520-5 which belongs to Japan and is a three-stage solid propellant launcher. The goal of this project is also the conceptual design and feasiblity... 

This thesis is conducted to study acceleration effect on the burning rate augmentation of a solid propellant. A centrifugal experimental setup is designed to obtain a uniform acceleration field. An internal burning tube is used as grain, so acceleration vector is always perpendicular to burning surface of propellant. Inner radius of tube is small, so the magnitude of acceleration increases as the grain burns back. The pressure of combustion chamber was changed from 30 bar to 80 bar by changing the nozzle throat and the magnitude of acceleration changed from 2g to 60g by changing the rotational speed of SRM. Burning time of all tests was below 2 sec. due to small web of the grain. Pressure of... 

The aim of this study is to remove pharmaceutical pollutants through a photocatalytic approach. A layered double hydroxide (LDH) structure was synthesized with the assistance of a metal-organic framework (MOF). Initially, MIL-101(Cr) was synthesized using trivalent chromium ions and subsequently transformed into a layered double hydroxide structure with divalent nickel ions. To further enhance this process, MIL-88(Fe) was prepared using trivalent iron ions, composited with MIL-101(Cr), and then converted into an LDH structure using divalent nickel ions. The resulting photocatalytic composite was fully characterized, and its efficiency in degrading the pharmaceutical compound meropenem was... 

Over the years, as machines have been invented, their maintenance and repair have consistently been regarded as critical concerns. Oil analysis techniques are an effective method for monitoring the condition of mechanical equipment. Since filters in these devices continually absorb and remove a significant portion of particles from the lubricant, the selection of appropriate filters is crucial. While filters positively affect machine performance, they can also negatively impact oil condition monitoring. To mitigate this negative effect and improve the predictive accuracy of equipment health monitoring, oil filter analysis was conducted. In this research, analytical ferrography tests were...