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The purpose of this study is to model people's behavior on both sides of the kidney market. The healthy person decides to donate a live kidney (for a certain amount) on the supply side. On the demand side, the patient chooses between the two existing kidney queues, the living kidney and the cadaveric kidney, based on the individual's income and belief from the waiting time in each of the two queues. The sick person faces two critical risks in life: risk of death and kidney failure. To model these two risks, it is assumed that each person has a level of health that consists of two deterministic and stochastic parts. In this way, with a deterministic rate, a person's health level will decrease... 

Epilepsy is one of the most common non-communicable neurological disorders, characterized by recurrent seizure symptoms. Although much progress has been made in the diagnosis, control, and treatment of epilepsy in recent years, the exact mechanism of seizures, the specific method for early diagnosis of epilepsy and related syndromes, and definitive treatment for all patients are not yet known. In a type of seizure known as focal seizure, the electrical activity of neurons at the epilepsy focus synchronizes abnormally, and this synchronization can propagate to other regions of the brain in a process called secondary generalization, which finding a method for its prevention is our essential goal... 

In recent years, the user interface of web-based applications has become more and more complicated. Various technologies, architectures, and tools are being used to create a modern user interface. Users interact directly with the user interface, so its functionality has a significant impact on their satisfaction and it is required to design special test suites for the user interface. Furthermore, we need a method to measure the quality and effectiveness of test suites. An effective test suite is a test suite which is able to detect real faults. But this definition is ambiguous, and hence, not practical. A method called Mutation Testing solves this problem and instead of real faults, uses... 

In this study, an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach is incorporated with a mixed finite- volume-element (FVE) method to establish a novel moving boundary algorithm to simulate unsteady incompressible flow on non-stationary meshes. The method collects the advantages of both finite-volume and finite-element methods as well as the ALE approach in a unified algorithm capable of solving laminar, transient, and turbulent flows in fluid flow problems with moving boundaries. To enhance the robustness of the extended algorithm, we treat the convection terms at the cell faces using a physical influence upwinding scheme, while the diffusion terms are treated using bilinear finite-element... 

Today, communication sciences are advancing very rapidly; one of these advances is mobile location determination, means finding position of a mobile station. there are some method to location determination; one of these methods is Signal Strength (Power of Arrivals); In this research, Mobile Location Determination using Signal strength measurements in a Location grid will be describe; In this method there is a Mobile Location Server (MLS); In MLS, there re comparable records in database which have been collected from Location grid. When a MS needs to be located, its signaling data (fingerprint) is transmitted to MLS; In MLS, the fingerprints are compared to Data which is store in signature... 

Reciprocating Machinery are one of the key components of chemical and petrochemical plants and their down time cause loss of production. Therefore condition monitoring in these machinery is of special interest and high value. In this thesis first, different methods of condition monitoring for reciprocating compressors are introduced then the main cause of high vibrations of three compressors in a refinery is investigated. Finally by using the foundation model prepared, it would be shown that insufficient strength of foundation block has lead cracks initiation and development in these foundations. Therefore high vibration is consequence of weak design  

Crystallization of Aluminum Hydroxide is the most important section of the Alumina production processes as the product yield and crystal size distribution (CSD) of this stage strongly affects the whole Alumina production process. In this work to simulate the crystallization in industrial steady precipitation tanks two Population Balance based models developed. First one is the Coupled CFD-Population Balance Model which considers the effects of flow hydrodynamics on crystallization kinetics and CSD. For development of this model the computational fluid dynamics software ANSYS FLUENT has been used. The two phase flow field has been simulated using Eulerian granular multiphase model coupled... 

A prismatic high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which is a graphite moderated, helium-cooled reactor, is a promising candidate for next generation nuclear power plant in that it enables applications, such as hydrogen production or process heat for petrochemical by supplying heat with core outlet temperatures as high as 1000°C. A Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Code (THAC) for gas-cooled reactors has been developed. THAC implicitly solves heat transfer equation of fuel, graphite block and helium. Three types of fuel pins were considered; solid fuel pin, fuel pins with inside holes and annular fuels with coolant flow from its inside and outside surfaces. THAC predicts axial and radial...