Adaptive Teaching of the Iranian Sign Language Based on Continual Learning Algorithms

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Memari, Morteza (Author) ; Taheri, Alireza (Supervisor)

Abstract

In addition to being their primary means of communication with the people around them, sign language for deaf children plays a significant role in shaping their intellectual and cognitive development. Research has shown that the use of robots in education has a substantial impact on the learning process of the learner. As the teaching process requires long-term interaction with different users, the use of adaptable techniques enables the creation of a social robot capable of productive interaction with users of varying performance levels. One of the objectives of this research is to use continual learning algorithms to enhance adaptability in the teaching process. Another goal is to design...

Mixed-convection flow of nanofluids and regular fluids in vertical porous media with viscous heating

, Article Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research ; Volume 50, Issue 15 , 2011 , Pages 9403-9414 ; 08885885 (ISSN) Memari, M ; Golmakani, A ; Dehkordi, A. M ; Sharif University of Technology

2011

Abstract

In this article, the problem of combined forced and natural convection in a vertical porous channel for both regular fluids and nanofluids has been solved by perturbation and numerical methods, taking into account the influences of viscous heating and inertial force. In this regard, various types of viscous dissipation models, including the Darcy model, the power of drag force model, and the clear fluid compatible model, were considered to account for viscous heating. In addition, the mass flux of nanoparticles was also considered in terms of Brownian and thermophoresis mechanisms. The velocity and temperature distributions of both the regular fluid and nanofluid and the Nusselt number...

Liquid-Liquid equilibrium data, density, viscosity, and interfacial tension of ternary system (Toluene-Acetic Acid-Water) at 298.15 K: Experiment and correlation

, Article Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data ; Volume 62, Issue 12 , 2017 , Pages 4133-4143 ; 00219568 (ISSN) Memari, M ; Molaei Dehkordi, A ; Seifkordi, A. A ; Sharif University of Technology

2017

Abstract

Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) data, density, viscosity, and interfacial tension for the ternary system of toluene-acetic acid-water were measured at 298.15 K and 101.7 kPa. The Othmer-Tobias and the Hand correlations were used to check the reliability of the experimental tie-lines. Moreover, the distribution coefficient and the separation factor were explored. It was found from the experimental results that a maximum separation factor value happens at an acetic acid mass fraction of 0.02 in the organic phase. Density, viscosity, and interfacial tension were correlated using the appropriate correlations such that the predicted results have excellent agreement with the experimental data. The...

Ant colony algorithm for the shortest loop design problem [electronic resource]

, Article Computers and Industrial Engineering, Elsevier ; Volume 50, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 358–366 Eshghi, K. (Kourosh) ; Kazemi, Morteza ; Sharif University of Technology

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In this paper, a new algorithm for solving the shortest loop design problem is presented. The shortest loop design problem is to find the shortest loop for an automated guided vehicle covering at least one edge of each department of a block layout. In this paper, first it is shown that this problem can be represented as a graph model. The properties of the presented model enable us to design a meta-heuristic based on ant colony system algorithm for solving the shortest loop design problem. Computational results show the efficiency of our algorithm in compare to the other techniques

Sustainable-Resilient Supplier Selection Through Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approaches

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Varchandi, Sahar (Author) ; Akbari Jokar, Mohammad Resa (Supervisor) ; Memari, Ashkan (Co-Supervisor)

Abstract

Today, with the expansion of business relations at international levels, there are many organizations that operate in global supply chains. Activities at such levels face new types of challenges in various fields of "supply chain management" pillars, of which "supplier selection" is one of them. The possibility of unexpected events, the need to comply with environmental protection laws, as well as the need to take into account social considerations, are among the things that have increased by being in larger supply chains, making it challenging to provide the basic resources needed in such chains and forcing their managers to considering considerations other than what they have always...

An optimization study of a palm oil-based regional bio-energy supply chain under carbon pricing and trading policies

, Article Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy ; Volume 20, Issue 1 , 2018 , Pages 113-125 ; 1618954X (ISSN) Memari, A ; Ahmad, R ; Abdul Rahim, A. R ; Akbari Jokar, M. R ; Sharif University of Technology

Springer Verlag 2018

Abstract

Biomass residues due to their low bulk density typically require frequent transportation from biomass plantations in rural areas to conversion bio-energy power plants. This issue contrasts with environmental protection strategies, especially when power plants are facing different carbon reduction policies that enforce them to emit less than a given specific carbon amount. Although several researchers have investigated bio-energy supply chains concerning environmental policies, the majority of studies have been devoted to strategic decisions over a single planning period. This paper presents a multi-period bio-energy supply chain under carbon pricing (carbon tax) and carbon trading...

Studying Instances of Conflict of Interest in Some Job Positions in Iran’s Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Memari Beyraq, Behzad (Author) ; Talebian, Masoud (Supervisor) ; Fatemi Ardestani, Farshad (Co-Supervisor)

Abstract

This study investigates and enumerates instances of conflict of interests in some job positions in Iran’s Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education. To achieve this goal, we interviewed people involved in the health field and reviewed job descriptions as well. By adopting the prevalent definition of conflict of interests regarding the duties, authorities, and responsibilities, instances of conflict of interests has been relatively identified in each position. The results show that the main reasons (determinants) for cases of conflict of interests can fall into three categories. First, duties of positions are in such a way that being a shareholder, CEO, and member of the board of...

Empathizing and systemizing skills influence risky decision making in children

, Article Learning and Individual Differences ; Volume 40 , 2015 , Pages 22-26 ; 10416080 (ISSN) Memari, A. H ; Shayestehfar, M ; Gharibzadeh, S ; Barzegary Banadkooki, E ; Hafizi, S ; Moshayedi, P ; Sharif University of Technology

Elsevier Ltd 2015

Abstract

Tow-mode theories explain that risky behaviors in young individuals may be the result of competition between an affective system (e.g., Empathizing system) and a deliberative system (e.g., Systemizing system). We aimed to investigate a total of 134 children aged 7-12. years old on scores of risky decision making and empathizing and systemizing measures. The primary analysis indicated that systemizers showed higher sensitivity to punishment than those in balanced or empathizer classes (F (2,130) = 14.8, p < 0.001). Furthermore empathizers indicated higher level of risk taking than balanced and empathizer children (F (2,130) = 5.027, p = 0.005). Providing further support for two-mode theories...

Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Single Drop Liquid-liquid Mass Transfer in the Presence of Magnetic Nano-particles (Ferrofluids) and Magnetic Field

, Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Memari, Mohammad (Author) ; Molaie Dehkordi, Asghar (Supervisor) ; Seif Kordi, Ali Akbar (Co-Supervisor)

Abstract

The main objective of the present work was to improve the turbulence in single drops using ferrofluids (magnetic nanoparticles) in the presence of uniform and oscillating magnetic fields. In this regard, magnetite nanoparticles ($\mathrm{Fe_3O_4}$) were synthesized by co-precipitation method, characterized using DLS, FT-IR, XRD, VSM, and TEM, and their stability was checked by UV-Vis. The obtained results indicate the proper synthesis of nanoparticles with a mean diameter of about 20 nm and by coating their surfaces by silane that were well stabilized in the base fluid. In the numerical section, the governing equations of transport phenomena for a single drop containing magnetic fluids were...

Love Wave Propagation in a Functionally Graded Magneto-Electro-Elastic Half-Space with Quadratic Variations

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Nobahar, Masoud (Author) ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

The propagation behavior of Love wave in functionally graded magneto-electro-elastic half-spaces with a quadratic variation is addressed. The magneto-electromechanical coupling factor, the dispersion relations, electric potential, magnetic potential and displacement are obtained analytically for both magneto-electrically open and short conditions. The effect of gradient coefficient on phase velocity, group velocity and magneto-electromechanical coupling factor are plotted and discussed. Research on the wave propagation in magneto-electro-elastic materials is still very limited. This work provides us with a theoretical foundation to design and practically apply SAW devices with high...

Modeling Reaction and Distribution of Water in Nanopores of the Cathode Catalyst Layer of PEM Fuel Cell

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Nushak, Fatemeh (Author) ; baghalha, morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

In the proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM, the produced water would be divided into two phases of vapor and liquid. distribution of both liquid and vapor phases in different cell layers affects the performance, the efficiency and the life of a fuel cell significantly. Moreover, Nano pores of the cathode catalyst layer are involved with some phenomena such as electrochemical reaction kinetics, heat and mass transfer and interface phase change. One of the most important problems in the performance of fuel cells is distribution of liquid water in the porous areas. Water flooding in fuel cells causes to delay in oxygen transport to active sites in the catalyst layer because the pores of...

Elastic Analysis of a Surface Stiffened Transversely Isotropic Half-space Under a Buried Horizontal Point Load

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Naghib, Hamed (Author) ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

In this study, the interaction between thin plate completely bonded to the transversely isotropic halfspace and a concentrated force applied horizontally (Mindlin-type force) are considered. This problem has been solved analytically. This problem is used as sample for thin solid films and surface coating technology, where the surface of solid is covered by thethin plate for increasing its stiffness. Moreover, this problem is a good sample when homogenous solid is subjected to contact loading and can be seen that mechanical properties of material which is near the solid surface varies; consequently, a two-phase solid is created.Because of the influence of noted inhomogeneity, solid is...

Modeling and Simulation of the Catalyst Regeneration Process of FCC Unit of Abadan Refinery

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Loni, Zahra (Author) ; Baghalha, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

Hydrodynamics plays a crucial role in defining the performance of fluidized beds. The numerical simulation of fluidized bed is very important in the prediction of its behaviour. From this point of view, in the present study a dynamic two dimensioanl model is developed for the modeling of regenerator system of a UOP fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit of Abadan refinery with a high-efficiency regenerator. Of the various modeling and simulation techniques, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is employed in this thesis. Effects of gas velocity, the transient local solid volume fraction, pressure drop for gas and solid phase, solid holdup distribution and solid circulation pattern have been...

Database Schema Extraction Prevention Through DBMS Error Handling

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Naghdi, Sepideh (Author) ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

Nowadays large volume of sensitive data of organizations are stored in the databases. Thus, databases are attractive to the attackers to execute different types of attacks with different purposes. The useful information that attackers try to achieve in the preliminary steps of the attacks against the databases, is the database structure or schema. One of the popular approach to extract the schema of a database is to analyze the returned error messages from its DBMS. Hence, a solution to prevent schema disclosure via the error messages is customizing and modifying them. To achieve this goal, in this thesis, we propose a framework to handle and customize the error messages automatically and...

Privacy Preserving Access Control for Service Composition in Cloud Computing

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Osanloo, Farnaz (Author) ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

Cloud computing is a new computing environment where computing infrastructure, platform and software are provided as a service. Rapid growth of cloud environments has increased the importance of security requirements and challenges for both service providers and users in cloud. Two main security issues in software as a service (SaaS) delivery model are access control and privacy preserving in basic web services and also in composite services obtaining through the automatic composition and inference of policies from the ones specified for basic services. In this thesis, we present a privacy preserving access control model and framework for service composition in SaaS delivery model of cloud...

An Access Control System for Time Series Data in NoSQL Databases

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Noury, Amir (Author) ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

An important class of applications which have been rapidly growing recently is the one that create and use time series data. These types of data sets are ordered based on the timestamps associated to their data items. In practice, traditional relational databases are unable to satisfy the requirements of these data sets; however, NoSQL databases with column-wide data structure are appropriate infrastructure for them. These databases are very efficient in read and write operations (especially for time series data, which are ordered) and are able to store unstructured data. Time series data may contain valuable and sensitive information; hence, they should be protected from the information...

Numerical Simulation of a Telescopic Metallic Yielding Damper

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Davoodi, Vahid (Author) ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

In this study, a new type of metallic yielding damper called Telescopic damper is proposed and analyzed numerically. The damper comprises of three concentric steel tubes connected together by lead shear keys. The relative axial deformation of steel tubes under axial forces results in shear deformation and yielding in lead shear keys and dissipates energy. The inner steel tube has a lock which limits its movement to some certain extent and beyond this limit the outer tube activates. Therefore, a multi-linear force-deformation behavior with two different yield plateaus is expected for the introduced telescopic damper. The multi-level yield plateaus of damper makes it effective in both low and...

Information-flow Analysis in Android Apps for Protecting User Privacy

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Barkhordari, Alireza (Author) ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

The rapid growth of Android operating system alongside its open-source nature has made it as the most popular operating system of mobile devices. On the other hand, regarding the increasing computational power of mobile devices, a wide variety of applications are coming to this type of devices. Meanwhile unfortunately many malicious softwares trying to keep up with other applications, are targeting this popular operating system. Therefore with regard to the fact that this type of devices usually store private and sensitive information of their users, security of mobile operating systems is considered very important. Having this matter in mind, the goal of this research work has been...

Secure- multiparty Computation Protocol for Privacy Preserving Data Mining

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Maftouni, Mahya (Author) ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)

Abstract

Privacy preserving data mining helps organizations and companies not only to deal with privacy concerns of customers and regular limitations, but also to benefit from collaborative data mining. Utilizing cryptographic techniques and secure multiparty computation (SMC) are among widely employed approaches for preserving privacy in distributed data mining. The general purpose of secure multiparty computation protocols to compute specific functions on private inputs of parties in a collaborative manner and without revealing their private inputs. Providing rigorous security proof of secure multiparty computation makes it a good choice for privacy preservation, despite of its cryptographic...

Analysis of Slabs Stiffened by Cables and Pedestals

, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Mokhberi, Arsalan (Author) ; Eskandari, Morteza (Supervisor)

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In this study, a new concrete slab stiffened by concrete pedestals and steel cables is introduced. The slab system is studied by employing both analytical and numerical methods. The steel cables are connected to the edges of slab and the concrete pedestals mounted at the bottom face of slab act as the middle supports of cables. The tension force in the cable and its inclination results in upward forces acting at the bottom face of slab. With the aims of classical theory of thin plates and the superposition technique, the problem of a simply supported rectangular slab stiffened by cables is studied analytically. The obtained results are verified by a numerical modelling implemented in SAP2000...