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Steel shear wall is a lateral load resistance system, which has been taken into consideration in recent decades for designing and reinforcing high-rise buildings. This system is comprised of steel filler panel surrounded by frame members including beams and columns. Steel shear walls are presently fabricated in two types, stiffened and unstiffened. According to numerous conducted research, it can be stated that the stiffened type has better seismic performance. The use of stiffeners with a great number of executive details is required to spend more time and costs on the construction sector. In order to solve these problems, some experimental and numerical studies have been conducted on... 

In recent years, requirement engineering and goal modeling have gained more attention among different organisations. Therefore, different methods have been designed to discover stakeholders’ requirements and translate them into process and organizational goals. Various goal models have been introduced to represent these goals and their relations towards each other. Still, these methods are manual representations of different process scenarios and do not relate to the actual behavior. In 2014, Map Miner Method (MMM) was introduced to discover intentional process models from event logs. MMM uses Hidden Markov Model (HMM) as a means to represent the process as a map model of strategies and... 

Recommending routes to city taxis in order to improve their performance in finding passengers can reduce traffic, pollution and waiting time for passengers, as well as this, increasing the efficiency of taxis can increase their income. In this study, by analyzing trajectory data obtained from 536 taxis in San Francisco over a period of one month, we generated networks of cells, each of which has time-dependent characteristics such as the probability of finding a passenger, the capacity of each cell, or the amount of demand exists is in the cell and the average speed of passing through that cell. also, the connections between these cells in order to make more use of the experiences of taxi... 

The purpose of the present study is to develop neural network estimation method for hybrid or panel data which have a combination of two cross-sectional and time series structures and because of the features of both structures, their use in different sciences offers many advantages; and the analytical methods for this data structure are also different from other one-dimensional structures, so different and specific regression models are presented for this data structure. However, in the artificial neural network method, modeling the development for this data structure is neglected, so in the present study, using the concepts of panel regression methods and their application to the... 

In this thesis, we have tried to study one of the most well known collective behavior phenomena known as the Wisdom of the crowd, from the perspective of statistical physics. In recent decades with the appearance of Social Networks and mass media, collective social phenomena have become a critical topic in the life of every human being. In the Wisdom of crowd phenomenon, the overall process is to ask the crowd’s opinion regarding a special topic and after aggregating the predicted values, the aggregated quantity is declared as the wisdom of the crowd. It has been observed that in some polls and elections, the result of the wisdom of crowd outperforms every individual of the group and in some... 

One of the utmost important factors during salvage operation of drowned ships is raising velocity. Uncontrolled raise is a dynamic phenomenon which can lead to the sudden tensions, collapse in airbags or ships. Studing this issue helps the engineers which kinds of problems are more important during salvage operations. This study focus on modeling and analysis of raising movment of the ship with FLOW-3D and ABAQUS software.
In FLOW-3D environment, hydrodynamic analysis of rising movment of drowned ship has been done. We should mention that applied forces and velocities and other parameters from the FLOW-3D output should be passed IMCA Criteria to avoid uncontrollable raise. In ABAQUS... 

Profile Monitoring is a new research topics in the field of statistical process control. In many applications of statistical quality control, sometimes quality of a process or product described by a relationship between a response variable and one or more independent variables.The researchers call this relationship profile. The study seeks to demonstrate that monitoring profiles In addition, the industry can be effective in medical field and improves control of the patient's condition by a doctor. Profiles are usually modeled with a linear regression equation, non-linear or polynomial. finally, the results of this study, using actual data, models and methods to predict and control... 

Two experimental models were designed and tested to extract energy from vortex induced vibrations of a elastically mounted one degree of freedom rigid cylinder in the Reynolds range of 120000 < Re <220000. In the first model the amplitude and frequency of the movement was measured then a second model was designed to be tested in the Emam Hossein marine laboratory. The model was designed in a way that many of its properties like mass ratio, spring constant and damping coefficient were able to be altered. In this study the vortex induced vibration of an elastically mounted cylinder was scrutinized in high Reynolds and very low mass ratios for the first time and an amplitude ratio of 2.49 were... 

As a method of cancer treatment or improvement of cancer-related complications, external radiation therapy is prescribed by physicians, in case of detection of a tumor in a region of patient’s body. Over time, various techniques have been developed for external beam radiation therapy. Among which, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), due to its ability to adjust the intensity of radiation beams, has a higher capacity to generate appropriate dose distribution based on tumor size and volume and it is one of the most widely used techniques in cancer treatment centers.The core process in treatment planning is using appropriate computer algorithms which results in posing enough damage to... 

The aim of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is to provide fast medical care and to transport patients to hospitals at the earliest possible time, so as to reduce injury and fatality rate. Healthcare managers try to improve healthcare systems by reducing the response time to demands. In this thesis, we present mathematical models for the problem of location and relocation of emergency vehicles after the end of their service time or after they have returned to a hospital. We believe that implementing these models can help managers improve the performance of emergency medical services. In the first part of this study, we present a two-level deterministic optimization model considering demand... 

Supplier selection and order quantity allocation problem is one of the most complex making decision problems comes into account. In the past, supplier selection done based on criteria such as price, quality and delivery time. Today's supply chains with the aim of expanding business activities and improving their performances, Follow process such as outsourcing, product development, and selection of multi-supplier strategies. This conditions will bring opportunities and threats for supply chains. One of the possible risks to supply chains are disruption risks and disruption has been a great concern in the past decade and disruption of suppliers are one of the new topics that have recently... 

At the present, End-stage renal disease(ESRD) is the ninth-leading cause of death in the USA.according methods of medical treatment for End-stage renal disease (ESRD), transplantation is the most viable renal replacement therapy for ESRD patients, there is a disparity between the demand for kidneys for transplantion and the supply. Incompatible inblood-type and antigen matching between patient-donor pairs is cause of shortage in disparity between the demand and the supply.paired kidney exchange of kidney among incompatible patient-donor pairs.PKE can be solve many difficulties in matching patient with incompatible donors. Kidney transplant surgeries in PKE must take place simultaneously... 

Marine current power has been utilized in recent years as one of the most foreseeable renewable energy sources. In this study a multi-objective hydrofoil optimal design is carried out for use in marine current turbine in order to improve hydrodynamic performance due to low speed current in Qeshm channel. A particle swarm optimization code using FORTRAN is developed and coupled with XFoil software as flow solver that is based on panel method. B-spline curve is used to parameterize the hydrofoil shape and the coordinates values of the control points are designated to act as optimization parameters. Validity of flow solver examined by comparison made between computed data against experimental... 

Operating rooms have always been the most expensive and also the most profitable section in hospitals which include approximately one third of cost and two third of income. The management always wants to decrease the cost of hospitals. On the other hand, usually this goal stands against other goals such as patient’s satisfaction. So the manager should make a balance between these goals. In this research, we will propose an integer programming model for operating room scheduling problem without uncertainty for elective patients. In order to make the model more realistic, we want to make connection between operating room theatre and intensive care units. Also, we will consider desirable... 

Cancer is one of the main causes of death among all people around the world. This shows that more and more attention should be paid to cure cancer. One of the most common cancer treatments is radiation therapy. Among all radiation therapy treatments, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy is a very effective and flexible ways to treat cancer. There are numerous mathematical problems to find the perfect treatment plan. One of these mathematical problems is Fluence Map Optimization in which we try to find the best dose intensity for each tumor and surrounding organs. The main purpose in this problem is to minimize the number of cancerous cells which are being destroyed while minimizing the... 

The growing requirements for renewable energy production lead to the development of a new series of systems, including wave and tidal energy conversion systems. Due to their sensitivity and the impact of the aggressive marine environment, the selection of the most adequate location for these systems is a major and very important task. Several factors, such as technological limitations, environmental conditions, administrative and logistic conditions, have to be taken into account in order to support the decision for best location. The aim of the present study is to provide an Atlas of IRAN Offshore Renewable Energy Resources (hereafter called ‘the Atlas’) to map out wave and tidal resources... 

Duplex stainless steels and advanced high strength steels are both known as new materials in automobile industry applications. Process of resistance spot welding is the main process in welding of auto-body structures. Hence investigating the welding metallurgy and weldability of similar and dissimilar joints of duplex stainless steels and advanced high strength steel are crucial. The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between welding process and geometric characteristic of weld nugget, phase transformations of Weld nugget and heat affected zone, mechanical properties (i.e force bearing capacity and energy absorption capability) and failure mode (interfatial or pullout). in... 

According to the rise of turnover and pace of trading, accelerating of analysis and making decision is unavoidable. Humans are unable to analyze big data quickly without behavioral biases so, using machines to analyze big data seems critical. Hence, financial markets tend to apply algorithmic trading in which some techniques like data mining and machine learning are notable. OLPS which sequentially allocates capital among a set of assets aiming to maximize the final return of investment in the long run, is the core problem in algorithmic trading. This article presents an online portfolio selection algorithm. The online portfolio selection sequentially selects a portfolio over a set of assets... 

In recent years, the attention of marketing researchers has shifted from numerical product rating to user-generated content. Because of this, customers' online reviews now play a very important role in the destiny of Internet businesses. Today, huge and comprehensive platforms have been developed to record and analyze online customer reviews. This type of unstructured data that users and Internet shoppers create based on their experiences of using products and services, has a significant impact on gaining and losing the trust of other users. After reading each review, each user can express their opinion about the usefulness of that comment, which can be seen by others. Large Internet...