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World population is increasing with a rapid paste while the availability of freshwater is becoming more scared. There is a severe lack of fresh water in the world today. Desalination of seawater is one of the significant options in hand to solve this problem. In this research a hybrid solar collector- high efficiency water purification system is introduced which can help to solve this problem with an interesting economic outlook. Renewable energies and desalination plants are two different technologies, which can be combined in various ways. The interface between the renewable energy system and the desalination system is met at the place/subsystem where the energy generated by the renewable... 

Nowadays, development of renewable electricity generation technologies, the advent of small efficient generators and increasing number of grid-connected consumers, have caused increasing interest in energy production next to the consumers locations. Distributed generation (DG) is often defined as small-scale generators that produce several kilowatts to tens of megawatts of electricity. One primary reason for using DG is its potential to reduce power losses in transmission and distribution networks. Several loss reduction methods such as capacitor placement, network reconfiguration and load management are used in distribution systems. Employing DG results in the highest loss reduction and... 

There are a wide variety of light-triggered switches. Photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs) have been investigated intensively for many applications owing to their unique advantages over other switches. The advantages of PCSSs make them a perfect choice for many important applications where high switching accuracy and high-power capability are required. Photoconductive switches are fabricated from a variety of semiconductors, including silicon carbide (SiC), gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN). In Photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs) the switching mechanism is initiated by optical illumination and laser source controls the flow of current. In the off or... 

Wireless communication applications need high computing power, flexibility and scalability. Although ASICs have the ability of high computing power but they are not flexible to changing or completing of communication protocols. On the other hand, general purpose microprocessors or DSPs are flexible, but do not provide sufficient computing power. Thus devices with reconfigurable architecture have been proposed as a compromise between ASICs and microperocessors. One of the main features of reconfigurable devices is the granularity. The granularity of a reconfigurable devices shows the amount of computing power incorporate in a processing element. In this thesis we have evaluated different... 

Cognitive radio (CR) technology is envisaged to solve the problems in wireless networks resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by exploiting the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. CR networks, however, impose unique challenges due to the high fluctuation in the available spectrum as well as diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. Specifically, in cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs), the distributed multi-hop architecture, the dynamic network topology, and the time and location varying spectrum availability are some of the key distinguishing factors. In this literature, we propose a new routing algorithm that tries to... 

Many problems in the field of 0-1 integer programming are NP-Complete. Execution time for exact solving these problems is very high due to many constraints and decision variables. Hence, scientists use Fast algorithms, for example, the Greedy algorithms, in the approximated solution of these problems.A classic greedy approach may not search the whole solution space for better choices. However, other methods with a greedy approach, such as meta heuristic and hyper heuristic, in addition to local search, consider the more search space. These methods search randomly, so it does not provide a good guarantee for finding the proper solutions. Finding suitable solutions in this category of... 

The municipality is an administrative, public and non-state institution that falls into the city district of the most countries’ administrative divisions. This institution has relatively autonomy and independent power. Municipalities are trying to apply the best approaches (Such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a procedure contributing the project management) to save time and money, as well as to satisfy the citizens in the implementation of civil projects. This study examines and evaluates the readiness of municipalities to modify the construction projects based on BIM. In addition, a pattern for identifying BIM applications, evaluating the organization readiness and the needs of... 

Quantum mechanics provides a deep understanding of atoms and their interaction with light. As long as we consider only microscopic systems on the scale of an atomic radius, objections to quantum properties such as quantum superposition are nevertheless rare, mainly because of the overwhelming experimental evidence. When it comes to macroscopic systems, many things are not clear anymore. For example,everyday objects of macroscopic size do not exist in superposition of their different states. The reason is that a quantum system interacts with its environment locally,which destroys non-local quantum correlation within the system, larger objects interact with the environment more intensively and... 

Content-based routing, as provided by publisher/subscriber systems,has evolved as a key paradigm for interactions between loosely coupled application components (content publishers and subscribers). Content-based routing aims to increase the efficiency of forwarding by utilizing the diversity of information exchanged between application components. Using content-based forwarding rules (also called content filters) installed on content-based routers (also termed brokers), bandwidth-efficiency is increased by only forwarding content to the subset of subscribers who are actually interested in the published content. Many middle-ware implementations for content-based publish/subscribe have been...