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The present study deals with the development of development of fragility curves for confined masonry buildings with the emphasis on masonry school buildings by means of numerical simulation. In doing so and based on the results of several previously-performed tests in Iran, simple analytical models for confined masonry walls capable of predicting various failure modes and also simulating different behavioral characteristics of these walls in the form of cyclic force-displacement curves were presented. In order to endure the ability of the proposed analytical models in simulation of seismic response of existing confined masonry buildings, a static-cyclic in-situ test on a real typical... 

In communications systems, coding is used to combat channel errors. The redundancy introduced by coding enables the detection and/or correction of errors occurring in the channel. In addition to communications systems, coding is also beneficial in various other systems such as distributed storage systems and blockchain systems to cope with node failures, data erasures, and adversarial behaviors attempting to modify information. In existing applications of coding, it is generally assumed that the encoding operation is performed correctly and without errors, and errors are applied to the encoded data. In recent years, applications have emerged where the assumption of error-free encoding is not... 

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is used in a wide range of applications such as high-definition TV, digital audio, multimedia, digital cameras, radar, sonar detectors, biomedical imaging, global positioning, digital radio, speech recognition and etc. These applications can be implemented by either DSP processors or FPGA technology. Digital Signal Processors are microprocessors specifically designed to handle Digital Signal Processing tasks. These devices have seen a tremendous growth in the last decade, finding use in everything from cellular telephones to advanced scientific instruments. On the other hand, the rise of FPGA in the signal processing realm could be assigned to hardware to... 

Medical images contain human body pictures and are widely used for diag-nosis and surgical purposes. Compression is needed for medical images for some applications such as profiling a patient's data or transmission systems. Due to the importance of the information of medical images, lossless or visually lossless compression is preferred. Lossless compression mainly consists of transformation and encoding steps. On the other hand, hardware implementation of lossless compression algorithm accelerates real time tasks such as online diagnosis and telemedicine. Lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS and lossless version of JPEG2000 are few well known methods for lossless compression. In this thesis, we introduce... 

Pitch or fundamental frequency is one of the components of speech production. Pitch detection is the process of determining the period of the vocal cords closure or in other words, the time duration of one glottal closing, opening and returning phase. There are different algorithms for pitch detection purposes, each of which has some advantages and disadvantages. Pitch detection algorithms can be classified into event pitch detection and non-event pitch detection. Dyadic wavelets transform is an example of event pitch detection. Modified higher order moment, which is based on the Autocorrelation function, is non-event pitch detection. Dyadic wavelets transform is a fast and simple pitch... 

In real-time packet-based communication systems one major problem is misrouted or delayed packets which result in degraded perceived voice quality. If some speech packets are not available on time, the packet is known as lost packet. The easiest task of a network terminal receiver is to replace silence for the duration of lost speech segments. In a high quality communication system in order to avoid quality reduction due to packet loss a suitable method and/or algorithm is needed to replace the missing segments of speech.There are several methods which have been proposed to reduce the effect of packet loss such as Waveform Substitution, High Order Autoregressive, Linear Prediction (LP),... 

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) means to give a diagnosis of the “state” of the subjects. Small leaks along the entire lengths of oil pipelines are detected and located by monitoring.Nowadays health monitoring of pipeline in water, gas, oil and chemical industry has been the focus of researchers. This is due to the fact that leak accidents may cause great economic problems to human resources as well as extreme environmental pollution. This project focuses on a visual and photographic observation system as leakage detection to monitor long range pipelines. In this system, several cameras with overlapping views are located along the entire lengths of pipelines. We are using digital cameras... 

One of the ultimate goals in robotics is to design autonomous robots. Among other things, this means a robot has to be able to plan its own motion. To be able to plan a motion, a robot must have some knowledge about the environment in which it is moving. Some of this information can be provided by a floor plan. For other information the robot will have to rely on its sensors. In this thesis, we consider that the environment is unknown for the robot. So, the robot uses weak sensor to planning its motion. The sensor can distinguish between colors. The robot can follow the colors. Therefore, we need to specify the umber of colors in which the robot can navigate by them. We propose an efficient... 

In this thesis, we consider the problem of online conflict-free coloring for regions. First, we analyze online variant of the conflict-free coloring of intervals on the line, where each newly inserted interval must be assigned a color upon insertion such that the coloring remains conflict-free, i.e. for every point p in the union of the current intervals, there must be an interval I with a unique color among all intervals covering p. we present deterministic algorithm for achieving this goal which uses O(log^3⁡n) color. Next, we consider the online conflict-free coloring of nearly-equal axis-parallel rectangles in the plane and present a deterministic algorithms which uses O(log^12⁡n)... 

Software Defined Networks provide programmability and centralized control for network’s administrator. Like other networks, security problems are important in these networks, but there is not enough research in this area. The problem being discussed here is to elevate the security level in software defined networks using centralized control and programmability of these networks. We will accomplish this purpose by using hosts and controller at the same time to prevent unwanted traffic from entering the network. By using this approach, we will be able to remove many short comings of these networks and implement security systems, like intrusion detection systems, more efficient. One of these... 

Despite having major advantages such as expert management, economy of scale and lower analysis costs for investors, the mutual funds may still underperform (at suboptimal levels) due to factors like information asymmetry between fund managers and unitholders along with the difficulties involving assessment of manager's performance by investors. So the conflict of interest between the manager and unitholders propels them towards deciding to manipulate the risk measure of the fund for reasons other than the maximization of profits for unitholders by shifting risk level of the portfolio. For instance, the promise of non-linear growth in attracting money by obtaining a considerable ranking... 

In this research, we introduce the concept of local spanners for planar point sets with respect to a family of regions and prove the existence of local spanners of small size for some families. For a geometric graph $G$ on a point set $\points$ and a region $R$ belonging to a family $\Re$, we define $G \cap R$ to be the part of the graph $G$ that is inside $R$. An $\Re$-local $t$-spanner is a geometric graph $G$ on $\points$ such that for any region $R$ in $\Re$, the graph $G\cap R$ is a t-spanner with respect to $G_{c}(\points) \cap R$, where $G_{c}(\points)$ is the complete geometric graph on $P$.For any set P of n points and any constant $\eps > 0$, we prove that $P$ admits local $(1 +... 

A grid simulator is a system for testing various types of grid-connected devices, such as inverters of renewable energy sources, chargers, power supplies, etc. In this project, the design and implementation of a 3 KVA three-phase regenerative programmable AC current source is presented. In the future, this structure can be used as a grid simulator. The topology used for the current source is a two-level three-phase AC to DC converter. The current source can operate in constant current (CC), constant power (CP), constant impedance (CI), and constant voltage (CV) modes. In the constant current operating mode, the user sets the amplitude and phase of the 1st, 5th, 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics... 

The conflict-free coloring is one of the computational geometry problems that has received attention in the last two decades. The root of this problem comes from the frequency allocation problem to telecommunications antennas, where we have several telecommunication antennas in two-dimensional space aiming to assign to each of them a frequency so that every point on the plane, which is at least inside one of the antenna ranges, stays in a range with a frequency different from the other antennas containing point.One of the generalizations of this problem is the k-strong case, where we have n regions (equivalent to the circular region of the antennas) that we want to color so that for each... 

Because of deregulation and economic issues, power systems operate closer to their stability limits than before. So, security assessment of power system has gained a lot of attention in power system studies. Transient stability and its real time assessment is a great concern in power system security. Among all different methods for transient stability assessment, Automatic Learning methods are used the most in real time assessment problems. These methods can provide fast assessment of transient stability, sensitivity analysis and means of control of the transient stability phenomena. In this paper Adaboost algorithm is used as a brand new method in transient stability assessment of a medium... 

Earthquakes are one of the greatest natural hazards. Hazard mitigation requires studies in many areas including geotechnical aspects of earthquake engineering. Characteristics of seismic waves change significantly as they pass through soft soil layers near the earth's surface. This phenomenon, commonly known as site effects or site response, is a major factor influencing the extent of damage on structures. Processing of seismic data recorded during earthquakes is one of the most reliable methods to study site effects. The ground motions generated during earthquakes are nonstationary with respect to both amplitude and frequency. The state-of-the-art time-frequency distributions when applied... 

Soil-structure interaction may have a considerable effect on the response of the superstructure. One of the main steps in analyzing the soil-structure system is determining the soil impedances which vary with frequency. Although it is possible to analyze a dynamic system with complex frequency-dependent property matrices, this cannot be taken into account in most standard general-purpose softwares. In addition, the nonlinear behaviour of the structure can only be studied in time domain. Therefore, in the past two decades efforts have been made to replace the soil media with discrete models having a small number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) and a few springs, dashpots and masses with... 

Controlled islanding, also known as system splitting, can effectively prevent blackouts of power system by separating it into two or more islands. To make each island reach steady state point by available measures, each island must be observable. This paper proposes a new modified three phase method to find proper splitting strategy, considering observability as a new constraint, to minimize effect of system splitting on network observability. Some techniques about strategy searching are introduced to increase its speediness and related algorithms are described in detail in this thesis. The simulation results presented show efficiency of method in finding proper splitting strategies. In the...