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    Evolution of costly signaling and partial cooperation

    , Article Scientific Reports ; Volume 9, Issue 1 , 2019 ; 20452322 (ISSN) Salahshour, M ; Sharif University of Technology
    Nature Publishing Group  2019
    Abstract
    Two seemingly unrelated, but fundamental challenges in evolutionary theory, are the evolution of costly signals and costly cooperative traits, both expected to reduce an individual’s fitness and diminish by natural selection. Here, by considering a well mixed population of individuals who produce signals and decide on their strategies in a game they play, based on the signals, we show that costly signals and costly cooperative strategies can co-evolve as a result of internal dynamics of the system. Costly signals evolve, despite their apparent cost, due to a favorable cooperative response they elicit. This favorable strategic response can be quantified in a fitness term which governs the... 

    Phase diagram and optimal information use in a collective sensing system

    , Article Physical Review Letters ; Volume 123, Issue 6 , 2019 ; 00319007 (ISSN) Salahshour, M ; Sharif University of Technology
    American Physical Society  2019
    Abstract
    We consider a population of individuals living in an uncertain environment. Individuals are able to make noisy observations of the environment and communicate using signals. We show that the model shows an order-disorder transition from an ordered phase in low communication noise in which a consensus about the environmental state is formed to a disordered phase in high communication noise in which no consensus is formed. There are different consensus states: informed consensus in which consensus on the correct belief about the environmental state is formed, and misinformed consensus in which consensus on a wrong belief is formed. Based on the consensus state reached, the ordered phase is... 

    Elastic collapse of thin long cylindrical shells under external pressure

    , Article Thin-Walled Structures ; Volume 124 , 2018 , Pages 81-87 ; 02638231 (ISSN) Salahshour, S ; Fallah, F ; Sharif University of Technology
    Elsevier Ltd  2018
    Abstract
    This paper investigates local elastic buckling of thin long cylindrical shells under external pressure. Based on Donnell's and Sanders’ theories of thin shells and von Karman nonlinearity assumptions, the potential energy is derived. The buckling load and curves of the static equilibrium path are obtained using the Ritz method. The results are validated with the existing ones in the literature. Furthermore, the case where the pressure is perpendicular to the deformed state is compared with a dead loading. It is demonstrated that the former yields a lower critical pressure in both shell theories. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd  

    Collective movement and collective information acquisition with signaling

    , Article Frontiers in Physics ; Volume 9 , 2021 ; 2296424X (ISSN) Salahshour, M ; Rouhani, S ; Sharif University of Technology
    Frontiers Media S.A  2021
    Abstract
    We consider a population of mobile agents able to make noisy observations of the environment and communicate their observation by production and comprehension of signals. Individuals try to align their movement direction with their neighbors. Besides, they try to collectively find and travel towards an environmental direction. We show that, when the fraction of informed individuals is small, by increasing the noise in communication, similarly to the Vicsek model, the model shows a discontinuous order-disorder transition with strong finite-size effects. In contrast, for a large fraction of informed individuals, it is possible to go from the ordered phase to the disordered phase without... 

    ChemInform abstract: microwave-assisted rapid ketalization/acetalization of aromatic aldehydes and ketones in aqueous media [electronic resource]

    , Article Journal of Chemical Research ; September 1999, Volume -, Number 9; Page(s) 562 to 563 Pourdjavadi, A. (Ali) ; Mirjalili, Bibi Fatemeh ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    Aromatic aldehydes and ketones are readily acetalized or ketalized under microwave irradiation in the presence of water as a solvent  

    Synthesis and characterization of poly(methacrylates) containing spiroacetal and norbornene moieties in side chain [electronic resource]

    , Article Journal of Applied Polymer Science ; Volume 77, Issue 1, pages 30–38, 5 July 2000 Pourdjavadi, A. (Ali) ; Mirjalili, Bibi Fatemeh ; Sharif University of Technology
    Abstract
    A four-step synthetic strategy was applied to achieve novel methacrylic monomers. 5-Norbornene-2,2-dimethanol was prepared from a Diels–Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene and acrolein, followed by the treatment of the adduct with an HCHO/KOH/MeOH solution. The resulting 1,3-diol (1) was then acetalized with different aromatic aldehydes having OH groups on the ring to produce four spiroacetal derivatives. The reaction of methacryloyl chloride with the phenolic derivatives led to four new methacrylic monomers that were identified spectrochemically (mass, FTIR, 1H-NMR, and 13C-NMR spectroscopy). Free radical solution polymerization was used to prepare novel spiroacetal–norbornene containing... 

    Phase transitions and asymmetry between signal comprehension and production in biological communication

    , Article Scientific Reports ; Volume 9, Issue 1 , 2019 ; 20452322 (ISSN) Salahshour, M ; Rouhani, S ; Roudi, Y ; Sharif University of Technology
    Nature Publishing Group  2019
    Abstract
    We introduce a model for collective information acquisition from the environment, in a biological population. In this model, individuals can make noisy observations of the environment, and communicate their observation by production and comprehension of signals. As the communication noise decreases, the model shows an order-disorder transition from a disordered phase in which no consensus about the environmental state exists to an ordered phase where the population forms a consensus about the environmental state. The ordered phase itself is composed of an informed consensus, in which the correct belief about the environment prevails, and an uninformed consensus phase, in which consensus on a... 

    Calculation of Distribution and Variation of Hydrogen Concentration After LB-LOCA Accident in the Containment of Bushehr NPP Using MELCOR Code

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Salahshour, Fatemeh (Author) ; Ghofrani, Mohammad Bagher (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In this study, the determination of the distribution and the differences concentration of hydrogen in containment of Bushehr power plant by modeling of containment and Hydrogen removal system of Bushehr power plant during LB-LOCA accident is accomplished. In Bushehr nuclear power plant, which has a unique design, the containment is similar to PWR power plants with a metal sphere, but the installed reactor is a VVER-1000. After a full study on the containment and its systems, the required data for modeling is gathered and afterwards, the engineering handbook is prepared for MELCOR input code and then the modeling and size classification of the containment is done in 4 different ways,... 

    Prediction of DNA/RNA Sequence Binding Site to Protein with the Ability to Implement on GPU

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Fatemeh Tabatabaei (Author) ; Koohi, Sommaye (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Based on the importance of DNA/RNA binding proteins in different cellular processes, finding binding sites of them play crucial role in many applications, like designing drug/vaccine, designing protein, and cancer control. Many studies target this issue and try to improve the prediction accuracy with three strategies: complex neural-network structures, various types of inputs, and ML methods to extract input features. But due to the growing volume of sequences, these methods face serious processing challenges. So, this paper presents KDeep, based on CNN-LSTM and the primary form of DNA/RNA sequences as input. As the key feature improving the prediction accuracy, we propose a new encoding... 

    Schrodinger-Virasoro Algebra

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Salahshour Mehmandoust Olia, Mohammad (Author) ; Rouhani, Shahin (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    This dissertation on the Schrodinger-Virasoro algebra will begin by a brief historical review on the development of the symmetry arguments and its final overwhelming success in the 20th century physics. Testifying many successes of symmetry arguments and group theoretic methods in physics such as the theory of relativity, many physicists began to ask whether covariance under a larger group of symmetry transformation would explain a broader era of physical phenomena? As will be reviewed in the beginning of the second chapter, invariance under conformal group - which includes Poincaré group as a subgroup and thus underlies Lorentzian geometry as its natural background geometry – has been... 

    Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation for Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Saleh, Fatemeh Sadat (Author) ; Sameti, Hossein (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Speech synthesis and its applications have been very attractive recently. The main purpose of this technique is to produce a speech signal with natural characteristics of human speech like prosody and emotion. Among all existing methods for speech synthesis, statistical parametric speech synthesis methods are more promising because ofhigher flexibility in comparison to other methods. One of the applications of speech synthesis is speech to speech translation. In these systems, the generated voice in target language should have the same characteristics as the input voice in source language. The main purpose of this research is to review and evaluate the cross lingual speaker adaptation... 

    Hydroelastic Analysis of Surface Piercing Propeller

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Fatemeh, Shahreki (Author) ; Seif, Mohamad Saeed (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Surface piercing propellers are particular type of supercavitating propellers that are commonly used for High-speed vessels. Most studies on this type of propellers has been investigating the hydrodynamic forces. But in recent years with increase in SPPs diameter used in vessels, structural analysis of this type of propellers is considered. For this purpose, studies on the stresses exerted on the propeller structures under load is done with the help of Hydro elastic methods. In this type of analysis, structura of propeller is intended to be flexible and Displacements under pressure checked and Tensions resulting from it are studied.
    The present Thesis using ANSYS software to analyze a... 

    Data-Driven Pricing Based on Demand Prediction Using Machine Learning Methods

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Khosroshahi, Fatemeh Zahra (Author) ; Sedghi, Nafiseh (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Pricing plays an important and essential role in the profit and income of companies. The importance of pricing is not only related to its role in the company's profitability, but it also changes the customer's understanding and loyalty towards the company and can create the company's reputation or destroy it. Determining the right price will increase product sales and increase customer loyalty and create a competitive advantage for the company. One of the most important and influential variables in product pricing is the amount of demand. The main challenge of companies for product pricing is the uncertainty in their demand. In order to deal with this problem, data-driven pricing is used.... 

    Design of Low-Power Zero Temperature Coefficient (ZTC) CMOS Oscillators

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Shahidani, Mohammad Aref (Author) ; Akbar, Fatemeh (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    The increasing demand for autonomous vehicles and reliable communication protocols and hardware interfaces, such as CAN bus and USB, underscores the necessity for stable clock sources that maintain a low temperature coefficient (TC) over wide temperature ranges. This demand is particularly emphasized in applications such as wearables, network sensors, downhole devices, WSNs, and IoT, where long-lasting battery life and frequency-stable clock sources over a broad temperature range (e.g. -20 °C to 100 °C) are crucial. Traditionally, variations in frequency caused by temperature have been mitigated by employing off-chip components like crystals or ceramic based oscillators, but this approach... 

    Silica chloride/wet SiO2 as a novel heterogeneous system for the deprotection of acetals under mild conditions [electronic resource]

    , Article Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements ; Volume 178:2667-2670, Issue 12, 2003 Mirjalili, B. F. (BiBi Fatemeh) ; Pourjavadi, Ali ; Zolfigol, Mohammad Ali ; Bamoniri, Abdolhamid
    Abstract
    A combination of silica chloride and wet SiO2 was used as an effective deacetalizating agent for the conversion of acetals to their corresponding carbonyl derivatives under mild and heterogeneous condition  

    Synthesis and characterization of gold nanotube/nanowire-polyurethane composite based on castor oil and polyethylene glycol

    , Article Materials Science and Engineering C ; Vol. 42 , 2014 , pp. 341-349 ; ISSN: 09284931 Ganji, Y ; Kasra,M ; Salahshour Kordestani, S ; Bagheri Hariri, M ; Sharif University of Technology
    2014
    Abstract
    Gold nanotubes/nanowires (GNT/NW) were synthesized by using the template-assisted electrodeposition technique and mixed with castor oil-polyethylene glycol based polyurethane (PU) to fabricate porous composite scaffolds for biomedical application. 100 and 50 ppm of GNT/NW were used to synthesize composites. The composite scaffolds were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, and scanning electron microscopy. Cell attachment on polyurethane-GNT/NW composites was investigated using fat-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Addition of 50 or 100 ppm GNT/NW had significant effects on thermal, mechanical, and cell... 

    The Impact of AV and CAV Vehicles on Capacity and Traffic Flow with Cooperative Lane changing in Mixed Traffic Environment

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Zanjani, Fatemeh Sadat (Author) ; Nassiri, Habibollah (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Autonomous vehicles, as an integral part of intelligent transportation systems, will play a significant role in the future of transportation services. These vehicles have a high potential to improve road traffic capacity and the efficiency of transportation systems. One type of autonomous vehicle is the connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV), which can communicate with each other, roadside units, traffic control signals, and other infrastructures or devices. This study investigates the impact of autonomous vehicles and connected and autonomous vehicles on the traffic flow of the Tehran-Karaj freeway and vice versa, under various penetration rates and in a mixed traffic environment. In this... 

    A Comprehensive Review of Studies Conducted in Entrepreneurship Education in Order to Achieve a Codified Framework

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Emamjome, Fatemeh Sadat (Author) ; Feyzbakhsh, Alireza (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In the current situation and considering the economic conditions, entrepreneurship and self-employment are important factors of business growth. To prepare people in this field, there is a need for effective training that can motivate people. Identifying the effective methods and different dimensions of the entrepreneurship education framework that can lead to setting up a successful program for training people and facilitate the way to achieve the goal of education is one of the important goals of this research. By studying the literature from 2010 onwards, this research systematically examined 96 articles and tried to improve the framework of entrepreneurship education that was stated in... 

    Modelling the Physics of Collective Decision Making and Commuication by Signal Exchange

    , Ph.D. Dissertation Sharif University of Technology Salahshour Mehmandoust Olia, Mohammad (Author) ; Rouhani, Shahin (Supervisor) ; Roudi, Yaser (Co-Supervisor)
    Abstract
    In many biological populations, information about environmental conditions is acquired collectively, through information sharing among individuals, by exchanging signals. In order to achieve a better understanding of such systems, using methods borrowed from statistical physics, we introduce two mathematical models. First, a collective decision making model, for a community of individuals residing on a communication network, who live in an uncertain environment, in which individuals try to collectively find the environmental state. In the second model, a collective movement model, we consider a population of collectively moving individuals, in which individuals try to collectively find and... 

    Evaluation of the Damage to Steel MRF Structures Under Near Field Earthquake Pulses Using a Performance-Based Design Approach

    , M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology Mousavi, Fatemeh Sadat (Author) ; Rahimzadeh Rofooei, Fayaz (Supervisor)
    Abstract
    Research on the characteristics of the near field earthquakes has been very popular in recent years due to the considerable damages they have caused to the structures located within the vicinity of seismic sources. The incapability of response spectra for structural damage assessment has been revealed through recent investigations. The recorded data show that the near field earthquakes are often accompanied by a large energy pulse in the beginning of the records caused by the so-called directivity phenomenon. That has encouraged many researchers to study the possibility of using the velocity pulse of these records to evaluate the imposed seismic demands on structures. Thus, investigating the...