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In this research, the synthesis of the electrospum nano fiber doped zinc oxide and its photocatalyst usage was investigated. The band gap of the zinc oxide in the area of UV leads to deactivation of this material at the visible light. With due the attention to sunny weather in Iran and the fact that about 50 percentage of sunlight is visible light, producing and usage of catalyst materials actived at visible light is economical. Doping is one of the ways of activating ZnO at visible light, so in this research thiourea is used as the source of ZnO doping. The results of the expriments done at visible light and also spectrums of DRS, XPS and XRD prove that the doping is happened. Also, in this... 

The objective of this research is to design a drug delivery system that allows anti-inflammatory drugs to be injected directly into the joint (intra-articular injection) for the treatment of arthritis so that reduce the side effects associated with oral consumption of these drugs, increase the duration of drug retention in the joint environment, and reduce the side effects caused by repeated injections while improving effectiveness. To achieve this, first, desirable features were determined by considering the anatomy of the joint environment, the biological changes caused by the disease, and reviewing published articles and commercial products in the field; appropriate drug and raw materials... 

One of the most important reasons of death in today’s world is the diseases related to cardiovascular system. Hypercholesterolemia is one of the most common forms of these diseases. There are a lot of experiments for diagnosing this disease, which are classified into two groups: invasive and noninvasive experiments. One of the well-known noninvasive experiments in this area is the photoplethysmography in which the changes of the photoplethysmography signal can reveal some valuable information about the cardiovascular system’s health.The objective of this study is to simulate the photoplethysmography experiment considering the clinical conditions of the experiment. In this work, the obtained... 

Policies affect supply chain management in oil, gas and petrochemical industries. In this study, structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the relationship between variables in AMOS software. The findings also indicated that international policies affect different aspects of supply chain management in the following order: product realization management (coordination), customer delivery management (partnership), planning management (planning) and resource management (implementation). Finally, suggestions were made on how to find financing such as bank loans, prioritizing payments in the light of their criticality, as well as on the creation. This study aimed to investigate the impact... 

In today’s competitive world, using an efficient forecast method is necessity for companies. To now, many forecast methods have been developed, but many of them have not an expected efficiency. In this research, we develop a new hybrid forecast method with application of forecasting retails demand. The hybrid method is the combination of ARIMA method and neural networks. To test the efficiency of the method we use the 96 weeks data of plastic containers demand. We also comprise the hybrid method with other forecast methods including naïve method, ARIMA method and neural network method by applying root mean square error and mean absolute percentage error indexes. In the case of plastic... 

Statistical studies indicate the fact that in Iran, like many other developing countries, a significant percentage of buildings are made of traditional materials and most of them are adobe buildings especially in rural areas. Furthermore, geological data indicates that Iran is located in alps-Himalayas seismic zone and exposed by destructive earthquakes and adobe buildings suffer the most damages comparing with other type of the structures. According to these explanations, this research deals with adobe buildings behavior and provides solutions for reinforcing them and improving the seismic response of these buildings. These studies include numerical modeling with finite elements methods by... 

In this thesis we consider the problem of distributed computation by many processors.We mainly concentrate on matrix multiplication problem in this thesis because of its importance. A distributed system consists of N worker processors and one master processor. The master processor should distribute the computation between workers and after computation in each of them, collect the results. In this thesis, we are going to mitigate the effect of straggler processors by using coding methods. Straggler processors can cause delays in the computation time.In this thesis, we firstly introduce a method to multiply any number of matrices in each other. The proposed method occurred in one shot without... 

The main goal of current investigation was partial reduction of Fe2O3 available in Hematite-rich ore to Magnetite by Fludization Bed method. The reductive gas, CO, was produced by incomplete combustion of Acetylene and Airmixed in inappropriate ratio. X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Florescence analyses were implemented in order to conducting qualitative analysis of present phases before and after reduction of the ore. Quantitative analysis of the same phases was also conducted by Titration. The latter analysis revealed the precise magnitude of available iron in each of the oxide containing phases. The chemical composition of the reactor gas was also determined before and after reduction... 

Abstract The problem of competetive facility location can be defined as follows: There are a number of customers in the form of points in space, and two players arrange a number of facilities in the form of points in space, given some limitations, respectively. Each customer’s connection to each facility has a cost for the customer and an advantage for the facility, and each customer wants to be connected to at most one of the facilities which has the lowest cost for him. The goal is to find the strategy of placing the facilities and determining the cost which the facility receives from the customer, in such a way that the player’s profit is maximised.In this thesis, we first sought to... 

Zero knowledge proofs allow a person (prover) to convince another person (verifier) that he has performed a specific computation on a secret data correctly, and has obtained a true answer, without having to disclose the secret data. QAP (Quadratic Arithmetic Program) based zkSNARKs (zero knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge) are a type of zero knowledge proof. They have several properties that make them attractive in practice, e.g. verifier's work is very easy. So they are used in many areas such as Blockchain and cloud computing. But yet prover's work in QAP based zkSNARKs is heavy, therefore, it may not be possible for a prover with limited processing resource to run... 

Lightweight clients are a type of blockchain users who do not store all the blocks in the blockchain due to limited resources. These users store only a small part of each block and when needed, request transactions from full nodes that store the entire blockchain. These users have no role in block validation and only want to receive transactions related to their addresses with proof of the inclusion in the block from full nodes.Since light clients rely on full nodes for receiving transactions, their privacy against full nodes is important. The current implementation of Bitcoin uses Bloom filters for privacy, but this offers very little privacy to the users.In this thesis, we study the... 

Nowadays, we are forced to use distributed computing due to the growth of data, the challenge of storing and processing it, as well as the emergence of new problems in machine learning and the complexity of the models. In distributed computing, the computation is per- formed by a distributed system consisting of several worker nodes such that, the main task is divided into several smaller tasks and assigned to each worker node. Then, different worker nodes will cooperate to accomplish the main task. Although distributed systems are efficient in solving problems and dealing with the mentioned challenges, they are vulnerable to the presence of stragglers, adversarial worker nodes, high... 

Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising technology to improve the scalability of cryptocurrencies. Users can send instant and almost free transactions via payment channel networks and, at the same time, enjoy the security guarantees of Blockchains. In order to open a mutual payment channel, two users should send a ``channel creation" transaction to the underlying Blockchain. Through this transaction, two parties deposit some money on the Blockchain. This money, which we call the channel's capacity, can be used to send off-chain transactions between the two users. After the channel creation, the channel-holders can send each other off-chain transactions by forwarding the money back...