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Embedded real-time systems have limitations on power consumption, mainly due to battery usage and temperature constraints. In addition, a large part of these systems has timing constraints. These constraints should be considered when we use power management techniques. Nowadays, due to the use of fault-tolerance techniques, power consumption and especially peak power consumption are increased so it can miss Thermal Design Power constraint. Recently, due to the conservative design of TDP for chips, it is not considered, and hence, a new power constraint as Thermal Safe Power is defined for thermal and power characteristic of the system. The purpose of this study is to define an optimization... 

The human brain is the most sensitive and important human organ and surgery must be done with high precision and without risk. During surgery, brain tissue deform continuously due to gravity, out of the cerebrospinal fluid and the changing pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid and the surgical maneuvers. Because the surgeon has no direct view on brain internal, the ways to solve this problem is to pay attention. This method makes it possible to the surgeon see in the brain and the brain tissue deformation. This thesis method is based on biomechanical modeling. After forming finite element model from the pre-operative MRI, brain surface and volume datasets during surgery as a load, apply to the... 

In this work, design and construction of copper vapor and Cu Br laser is explained. By special design of copper electrodes the average power from Cu laser system was increased more than 20% in comparison to the same system with expensive electrodes made from molybdenum. However, the basic goal of this work was the construction of CuBr laser. Based on the home made fast trigger unit for Hydrogen thyratron, operation of the manufactured system was possible up to 25 kHz. By using special designed copper electrodes very uniform operation of CuBr plasma diluted in Ne gas was observed. By tuning of the laser parameters such as gas pressure, exciting voltage and pulse repetition rate, from 9 Cm3 of... 

Distributed feedback dye lasers are among the suitable candidates for spectroscopic applications due to their capability of producing widely tunable picosecond pulses in UV-IR region. However, the pulsewidth sensitivity of the laser to pump intensity fluctuations hinders its suitability for precision applications. In this thesis, by utilizing widely used Self Q-Switching model, we showed that if the dye solution is pumped by a narrow (sub-nanosecond) pulse, the laser can operates in the single-pulse output mode with a better stability over a wide range of pump intensity. After that, we used a dynamical model based on the induced polarization and Maxwell equations, where the obtained results... 

Implementation of various incentive-based demand response strategies has great potential to decrease peak load growth and customer electricity bill cost. Using advanced metering and automatic demand management makes it possible to optimize energy consumption, to reduce grid loss, and to release generation capacities for the sake of providing sustainable electricity supply, and reducing electricity bills for the customers. With these objectives, this thesis examines the previously suggested load scheduling programs in both residential and industrial sectors, and proposes new practical strategies for load management. This thesis has mainly focuses on three subdivisions of load management... 

The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the total productive maintenance based on computerized maintenance management system. At first, a detailed study on total productive maintenance is performed and then the requirements of this maintenance strategy are specified. Also, a computerized maintenance management system is defined which can help total productive maintenance to reach to its requirements. Finally, a conceptual model and entity-relationship model for computerized maintenance management system data base has been created  

In this thesis, DC transmission of offshore wind farms is studied thoroughly. Various system configurations that are introduced in the literatures are discussed and their control scheme for normal conditions and grid faults are studied. Then, the HVDC transmission based on voltage source converter, located between a local offshore ac grid and the onshore ac system is investigated as the most practical choice. The HVDC linke circuit elements are calculated and the control strategies of the offshore and onshore converters are introduced. DFIGs are considered to be the best choice for the offshore wind turbine generators. Then, the system is simulated and the frequency of the offshore grid is... 

The main aim of this thesis is to develop the technical knowledge of designing and making active ingredients of domestically produced drugs, decreasing the costs, independency in producing these products, and checking outflow of currency. It also aims to reduce the financial challenges of patients who have to pay huge amounts for such drugs. Conducting research in the field of reverse engineering and using its definition, and attempt in made to get knowledge into the stages of product development process, to determine the technical standards associated with each stage, to recognize how knowledge is shared during this process, and to present some methods of establishing the infrastructure... 

Increase in growing concerns over environmental pollution and depletion of fossil fuel resources motivate the need for cleaner energy technologies and stimulate research in facilitating renewable energy systems. In recent years, photovoltaic systems have attracted great attention since they remove the need for energy storage systems and intermediate processess for energy conversion. However, high capital cost, low efficiency and low energy density per area of these systems, as compared with other technologies hinder its industrial use. To surmount these bottlenecks and improve technical performance of PV systems, it is crucial to optimize configuration of convertor connection and to improve...