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In this project, polymer nanocomposites containing graphene oxide were prepared and used for adsorption of several cationic and anionic dyes. In most cases, these nanocomposites were prepared as three-dimentional polymer networks which contain graphene oxide. Nanocomposites with direct grafting of polymer chains onto the surface of graphene oxide were also prepared. Graphene oxide is an oxidized carbonaceous material with unique properties. This material has high surface area, good mechanical strength and various functional groups. Polymeric compounds with different functional groups, structures and properties can be prepared and used. By preparing composites of graphene oxide and polymers,... 

Soil liquefaction occurring in loose saturated sand deposits during seismic loadings is one of the most destructive earthquake-induced phenomena in the field of earthquake geotechnical engineering. Catastrophic destructions due to this phenomenon that have been observed in the earthquakes such as Kobe (1995), Chi-Chi (1999), etc. has led to extensive studies in this field. In case of soil slopes prone to liquefaction hazard, detailed analysis of this phenomenon requires considering soil-related factors (e.g. shear strength, relative density, permeability, slope geometry) on the one hand, and earthquake-related characteristics (e.g. amplitude, frequency, duration) on the other. Numerical... 

Ambient Intelligence is a new paradigm in information technology that creates environments able to detect and respond to users needs, actions, behaviors and feelings. In the presence of interaction conflicts, user trust plays an important role in accepting Ambient Intelligence environments for living, working, etc. Our main hypothesis is that higher conflict density results in a greater loss of trust in mixed-initiative Ambient Intelligence environments. In this thesis, we propose a comprehensive research method for measuring trust in Ambient Intelligence environments using both crowdsourcing and university surveys. We conduct both web-based experiments and physical experiments to gather... 

One of the challenges in the field of Ambient Intelligence is empowering end-user to determine the level of system interference in the control of the environment. One approach to answer to this challenge is using End-user Development to determine the rate of system intelligence as well as develop the behavior of the system by the user himself. In this way, the user introduces his intended behavior to the system so that the system operates in accordance with it.In this research, we have provided end-user development for an intelligent environment considering children as the end-user; for this purpose, we have designed a game-based user interface, allowing children to be involved in the... 

In this project Sharif Gas Turbine laboratory turbojet engine, and the turboshaft engine which is designed based on the turbojet gas generator are statically and dynamically modeled and required functions for turboshaft control are extracted. In static modeling a repetitive process is applied to reach static operation points. Static operation line and static characteristics of turbojet engine are extracted and compared to relevant sources. In dynamic modeling of turbojet engine a lumped volume is allocated to each component of engine and gas dynamic equations are solved in this volume along with individual performance map of engine components to acquire output characteristics in each time... 

Ambient intelligence is a new paradigm in human computer interaction in which smart actor interact with the surrounding environment and be helped in to reach their goals. One of the main principles in smart environments is the interaction between user and the system. Better interaction leads to a better user satisfaction. In explicit interaction, context plays an important role in interaction quality. One of the main parameter in interaction is the environment complexity. Environment complexity itself consists of other factor such as size of the room, number of devices, density of devices, size of the devices and etc. In this study, we have investigate the effect of two factor, environment... 

The aim of this thesis is the requirements analysis, design, proof-of-concept implementation and user evaluation of a novel user interface that is specifcally developed to support interaction with ambient intelligence systems. The focus of the user interface is rather on interacting with ambient intelligence, a meta system that comes into existence as the result of the coherent behavior and collective intelligence of interconnected smart devices and systems of a domain such as meeting rooms or smart homes.To design the user interface, we conducted an empirical user and task analysis and elaborated requirements, defning the scope of human interaction with ambient intelligence. The captured... 

DNA microarrays consist of DNA microscopic points that are attached to a solid surface such as glass, plastic or silicon chip and formed as an array. The fixed pieces of DNA are considered as searchers. In an experiment, we can use thousands of searchers. Therefore, any microarray consists of the same number of genetic tests as the experiment performed on all of them in parallel. Whit this ability, arrays have speeded up the biological investigations. Microarray technology can be seen as a continued development of southern blotting. However, the most important stage in this technology, analysis of data, requires reliable bioinformatics tools achieving high reliabilities. Infectious diseases,... 

The energy consumed by lighting, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (LHVAC) systems have been increasing over the last decades. Thus, improving the efficiency of LHVAC systems has gained the attention of industry and academia. This concern has posed challenges for controlling and optimizing LHVAC systems. The traditional methods, such as on/off and PID approaches, usually involve conditions and parameters that may not hold in practice since LHVAC systems are complex, nonlinear, and dynamic. Also, controllers are one of the important components of a method for its efficiency. This research focuses on controlling LHVAC systems. Fuzzy logic controllers one of the best controller for... 

Entrance of air to close water conduits occurs in many ways. This phenomenon makes displeasing effects on water transport structures. Two-phase flows in closed conduits are studied experimentally, numerically and theoretically. Even after decades, due to the complexity of the subject, these studies still require development and reformation. Numerical and theoretical two-phase models are often limited to a special regime of flow."Volume Of Fluid"(VOF) is a model for non-mixing two-phase flows. "Fluent" software uses this model in this field of flows. Volume of fluid is used successfully in some problems like dam break or rising bubbles. Main disadvantage of this model is distribution of the... 

Common fracture treatments include open reduction and intramedullary nailing technology. However, these methods have disadvantages such as intraoperative X-ray radiation, delayed union or nonunion and postoperative rotation. Robots provide a novel solution to the aforementioned problems while having new challenges. The robotic system used in the study by providing more precise motion and exerting higher amount of forces makes the operation procedure more straightforward. In a normal operation 300-400 N of extension force would be needed which is fully provided by the surgen which leads to physical his/her (khastegi), by using the robotic system however, this force is simply provided without... 

Moderate and Intense Low-oxygen Dilution(MILD) is the new member of combustion field. Highly preheated reactants and lowering the oxygen level in MILD combustion has some promising advantages. In this study the MILD burner, Jet-in-Hot-Coflow(JHC), is taken as the main test case. In this Research, Eddy Dissipation Concept combustion model ,introduced by Magnussen et al,is investigated in detail and governing equations are re-extracted. EDC combsution model due to moderate compuational cost in comparison with other combustion model and well prediction ability has drawn attention. Simulations on the Jet-in-Hot-Coflow(JHC) has shown the promising performance of the EDC combustion model. It seems... 

Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is one of the most dominant cell-based broadband wireless metropolitan access technologies. Packet scheduling algorithm specifies the packet transmission order. In WiMAX standard, packet scheduling algorithm is not defined and its efficient design is left for developers and researchers. The existing researches in the scope of uplink packet scheduling, which is the most challenging packet scheduling scheme, consider only one cell. However the uplink available resources might not be enough when there are many packets that should be scheduled. To solve this problem, we propose an algorithm that uses the load balancing mechanisms that are... 

Trac classication in today’s high-bandwidth networks is challenging, resource consuming, and inaccurate due to the high volume, velocity, and variety aracteristics of the network trac. Trac aracterization and Application identication teniques are widely addressed in the current literature. Due to the massive volume and streaming data in recent years, stream algorithms have been considered by many researers in dierent areas. Online application detection is an issue that has been addressed less frequently in literature. In this thesis, we investigate the performance of 10 dierent stream classication algorithms along with traditional classication algorithms. To generate a robust classier for... 

The purpose of the present study is to plan an industrial system, over a period of 10 years, so that over time, while supplying the required demand, to optimal resource utilization with regard to material reuse and recovery flows of losses as well as the use of renewable resources move to implement the concept of a circular economy. One of the main incentives for the transition to a circular economy is carbon tax policy, which has been taken into account. The results of the decision-making model based on cost and flow constraints indicate that the use of carbon dioxide as a by-product of Pars Petrochemical Extraction Unit in order to produce urea in Pardis petrochemical industry in addition... 

Research on the impact of high temperatures on the mechanical properties of concrete is crucial for fireproof design, safety assessments, and repairing fire-damaged structures. However, there is a lack of research on the effects of water re-curing on thermally damaged concrete. This study aims to explore how high temperatures and water re-curing affect the compressive behavior of concrete with varying percentages of rice husk ash (0, 4, 8, 10, and 12%). The compressive behavior was assessed by analyzing stress-strain responses and parameters such as compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, strain at peak stress, ultimate strain, absorbed energy, failure mode, and visual observations.... 

In the cloud computing environment, although many processing resources for application software with the volume of calculations The above is available, but it may not work for software that is sensitive to latency. In fact, due to the large distance between users and end devices to cloud servers, sending requests And the required data to the data centers requires a high bandwidth and therefore the data transfer time is also significant. In addition, cloud computing in platforms such as cloud-based IoT architecture faces other challenges such as connectivity, resource limitations of end devices, and security. In order to solve the challenges in the cloud computing environment and respond to...