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In recent years, utilization of hybrid attached and suspended growth system for modification of conventional activated sludge systems has attracted a lot of attentions. Nowadays, with development of urban areas and also introducing new emerging contaminants and as a result an increase in the influent loading of wastewater treatment facilities, the importance of upgrading and retrofitting available facilities have been highlighted. Conversion of Sequencing Batch Reactors to Sequencing Batch Biofilm Reactors is a viable solution for overcoming these problems. Eventhough several researches have been conducted on removal of different contaminants through these systems, the information about the... 

During recent years, thin-film solar cells based on chalcogenide light absorbers with CuInxGa1-xS(Se)2 compound have attracted considerable attraction due to their desirable band gaps and demonstrated high power conversion efficiencies. These solar cells are fabricated under two categories named as ‘substrate’ and ‘superstrate’, generally. The best reported energy conversion efficiency belongs to substrate type (sodalime glass/Mo/absorber layer/buffer layer/window layer) CIGS solar cells, most have been fabricated with vacuum processes. In spite of this, superstrate solar cells (transparent conducting oxide/blocking layer/buffer layer/absorber layer/back contact) provide easier and cheaper... 

In a counter current two phase flow systems that liquid flows downward due to gravity on the pipe wall and gas flows upward due to pressure gradient in the pipe core, Flooding and reversal Flooding are important phenomena. Flooding is beginning of velocity direction change of liquid from downward to upward that with zero axial velocity of liquid in interface, liquid is on verge of moving upward. When mass flow rate of liquid or gas increase, some part of liquid film are separated and enter the gas stream. With further increase in mass flow rate of liquid or gas in flooding point, reversal flooding occurs that cause to all liquid film flows upward. Flooding and reversal flooding phenomena are... 

In recent years, mobile social networks have largely been developed and gained considerable popularity. With the development of smartphones, the growth rate of users on mobile social networks has dramatically increased, with users constantly interacting and sharing their various private and public data. Such volume of information can be used for profitable purposes and may affect the users' privacy. However, due to the limitations of smartphones and the trivial and costly encryption, entrusting the encryption to the user, both for users and for the service provider will be challenging, thus, social network providers themselves take charge that can compromise the privacy. In this... 

Microemulsion is one of the major processing techniques to synthesize a nano, homogeneous, and almost agglomerate-free powders. Any kind of oxide ceramics such as piezoelectric ceramics can be synthesis via this method in nano scale without the formation of any intermediate phase. In this study, Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) powders with composition near the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) have been synthesized via a microemulsion processing route. This emulsion system is a thermodynamically stable mixture of oil (cyclohexane), nonionic surfactant (Triton X100), and an aqueous solution containing specific amount of Pb2+, Zr4+ and Ti4+. The ratio of these ions was adjusted with using ICP.... 

Permeability is an essential parameter used for reservoir evaluation, simulation and management to optimize oil recovery. The conventional approach to estimate reservoir connectivity, conductivity, sweep efficiency and other critical information for decision-making is to build detailed geological models, which are then upscaled to a coarser grid where flow simulations are run. However, this takes many hours to be carried out even for a single realization practically. In practice, a very small number of realizations are considered and consequently the true uncertainty in the results is very poorly estimated. In this study, a statistical model of isotropic overlying sandbodies is used to... 

Metabonomics is a quantitative measurement of time dependent metabolic interactions for living systems in response to the pathological or genetic variations. NMR spectroscopy has emerged as a key tool for understanding metabolic processes in living systems. In this project, the study of metabolomics was performed as classification and regression on samples of parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis disease, celiac disease and crohn’s disease. In classification part, various methods were applied using optimal parameters.classification methods in Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis disease, celiac disease and crohn’s disease were RF, CART, PLS-DA, RF and RF respectively. Based on the...