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Heart disease is one of the major causes of death in all countries, especially developing countries. At the moment, using Image Processing methods as well as analysis of electrocardiographic signals, heart disease is diagnosed with the help of specialists. Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning methods, many studies attempted to provide models that are used to diagnose automatically the heart disease without the need for a specialist and only relying on the past data. But less is done on CTA images of the heart. Hence, in this thesis, a new method for image processing and a Multi Support Vector Machine (MSVM) classification for coronary artery disease detection based on CTA... 

In this thesis, the relationships between various leadership styles and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) were examined. For this, with a qualitative perspective and using the Grounded Method as the research methodology, dominant OCBs, effective leadership styles, the relationships between leadership behaviors and OCBs, and other influencing parameters were identified. In this regard, with a preliminary feasibility study, the possibility of implementing this research was verified and then, by using twelve in-depth interviews, required information was gathered. Main categories were recognized by coding the data and analyzing the relationship between the coded information. The... 

Several studies in the field of performance management have paid attention to the effect of systemic and instrumental factors on the effectiveness of performance management system. However, the impact of communication and relational factors has received less attention. Furthermore, it seems that similar approach has been used in organizations for considering systemic factors in designing performance management systems rather than human factors. The goal of this research was to study the relationship between employees' trust in their manager as an relational variable with the effectiveness of performance management system and to compare this relationship with the relationship between the... 

By definition, Mobile Clouds are networks of mobile nodes, which are connected together using short-range communication links, and at the same time keep their connection with the long-range cellular networks. Short-range communication links in Mobile Clouds provide the opportunity of Resource Sharing, which can result in new services for end-users. These services are beyond the boundaries of traditional networks.
In the following report, we aim at focusing on some problems related to Mobile Clouds. First, we present a centralized model for managing the mobility of the nodes; then we try to propose algorithms for efficient data update and processing; and finally, we introduce a novel... 

A user-provided network (UPN) has the potential to achieve a low cost ubiq-uitous Internet connectivity without the need of significantly increase of network infrastructure investment.In this article, we consider such a network where the network operator encourages some of her subscribers to operator as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots (hosts), providing Inter-net connectivity for other subscribers (clients). We formulate the interaction between the operators and mobile users as a two-stage game. In Stage I, the operator decides the usage-based pricing and quota-based incentive mechanism for the data usage. In Stage II, the mobile users decide the membership selection, i.e., choosing to be a host, or a... 

the purpose of this research is to construct the facial image of a person from corresponding DNA. In this problem, we have a set of DNAs and facial images and we want to find the relation between the DNA and the features of facial images.using this relation we can find the facial Image of a person using the DNA. for this purpose we should first extract the features of faces that have the most variation among the population. by studying the feature extraction methods in this field, we borrow the deep neural network method that is used in face recognition fields.we found significant relations between DNA and extracted features from this network. finally using this relation we can predict the... 

Edge AI, an emerging approach, aims to provide AI services by utilizing computing resources at the edge of the network rather than relying on cloud servers. This offers advantages such as reduced latency, improved efficiency, privacy preservation, and resilience. Model inference at the edge is a crucial area in this domain, where a trained model is deployed to an edge server or user device. Deploying models on resource constrained edge devices poses key challenges, including optimizing and compressing the models to fit within limited computational and memory constraints. Additionally, ensuring the deployed model can perform inference within required time constraints is critical. Research... 

The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of readiness for change in senior managers in the academic environment. In the literature, the emotional component of readiness for change requires more empirical research. The main question of this research is to identify cognitive and affective dimensions of readiness for change. This research has an exploratory approach, and a qualitative research method has been used to reach the research goals. In order to answer the questions of this research, a case study of Strategic Budgeting Implementation Plan at Sharif University of Technology has been studied. Interviews were conducted with the heads of the depatments of Sharif University... 

This thesis seeks to identify the critical barriers to strategy implementation in an Iranian firm, and also concentrates on the readiness for strategy implementation phase. Previous studies show that many of strategic plans fail in implementation phase. Therefore, implementation and readiness for implementation phases are both important phases. The very few studies in this topic in Iranian industrial context illustrate the same issue in local context; however, these barriers may vary from one context to another. Different approaches and frameworks in the literature have been reviewed in order to build a theoretical frame work to seek the barriers to implementing a strategic plan in an... 

Despite the profound impact of formal strategic planning on the performance of companies, there have been a few researches on the factors that influence the starting phase of strategic planning process. This research tries to identify these factors and clarify the decision process of conducting strategic planning. In other words, the main purpose of this study is to identify the rationales of companies for initiation of strategic planning. Regarding limited previous studies on this topic, especially about the decision process about conducting strategic planning in Iranian companies, the case study methodology is used. The study is conducted in two phases. In the first phase, five companies... 

Online voltage stability assessment is essential for preventing the failure in power systems. Voltage instability in power systems usually occurs in consequence of contingency situations or continuous load increasing or both of them. A new method for online voltage stability assessment using the data acquired from phasor measurement units (PMUs) and offline trained decision trees is presented in this thesis. The index of voltage stability margin (VSM) is used for security assessment and considering WSCC criterion, different operation points are divided in two classes: safe and unsafe. In order to obtain the voltage stability margin and generate the database, a new method which has been named... 

Nowadays, enormous amounts of data are transferred through data communication networks every day in order to fulfill end users’ demands all over the world.The capacities of the links between network nodes, or in other words, the amount of bandwidth available to carry data is undoubtedly one of the most expensive resources as well as the one of most importance which not only plays an essential role in communicating information packets over such a vast network, but is a major determinant of Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of rapidity as well. The idea of using cache memories to optimize network bandwidth consumption laid the foundation for developing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). In such... 

Understanding the behavioral processes of boards has been a new line of inquiry in the board literature. This study has focused on the leadership roles of heads of boards of subsidiary companies in a corporation. This subject is widely practical in most industries but rarely explored. An embedded multiple case study design was used to compare the leadership roles of heads of boards of two groups of boards with high and low effectiveness in a corporation assessed by a multi-source appraisal method. Based on several interviews with different stakeholders of the corporation within subsidiary boards of these two groups and the staff managers of the parent company, we compared the mechanisms that... 

The present study investigates the relationships between feedback-seeking dimensions (frequency, method, timing, and content) and two types of individual performance (goal achievement and behavior-related performance). In addition, the relationships between feedback-seeking motives and feedback-seeking dimensions are examined. The purpose is to identify new explanations for the inconclusive results of the direct relationship between feedback-seeking and performance in the literature. Moreover, this study investigates work motivations based on self-determination theory as the antecedents of feedback-seeking motives. This study contains one qualitative phase and two quantitative ones.... 

This study investigated the relationships between team identification and attendance intention in Iranian football matches, specifically examining the impact of constraints on this relationship. The research focused on Esteghlal Football Club, one of Iran's most popular teams, which faces a paradox of having a large fan base (35-40 million supporters) but relatively low stadium attendance rates (below 50% capacity). The study employed a mixed online sampling method (convenience and snowball) with 182 Esteghlal fans who had attended at least one stadium match. Data was collected using three validated questionnaires: team identification (18 items, 6 dimensions), attendance intention (4 items,... 

Although technology acceptance and continuance intention have been studied for years, certain ambiguities remain unexplored. Researchers have consistently sought to identify the factors influencing individuals' decision-making processes regarding technology adoption, on one hand, and the determinants of their continuance intention, on the other. While extrinsic and intrinsic motivations have been examined as influential factors at the acceptance stage, the dynamics within motivational mechanisms and their differential impacts at the acceptance stage versus the initial usage phase have been overlooked. This study investigates (1) the relationship between users' motivational mechanisms in the... 

Optimisation is ubiquitous and essential in almost all areas of engineering and computer science for the design and analysis of efficient systems and algorithms. Indeed, many engineering problems can be cast as optimisation problems, in which a decision must be made upon certain control parameters in order to maximise revenue or minimise an incurred cost in designing a system. Whereas deterministic optimization problems are formulated with known parameters, real-world problems almost invariably include parameters which are unknown at the time a decision is made. Stochastic optimisation is the approach for modelling optimization problems that involve uncertainty, and it has attracted a lot of... 

In this research, we have studied the effect of coding techniques, as well as partial data placement in cache memories throughout the network. Cache memories play an important role in information centric networks. As content delivery account for the major part of data transfers in current IP-based data networks, these network structures have gained much attention recently and hence optimizing cache performance in their structure is of great importance.Throughout this research, we first analyze the effect of simultaneous data delivery from multiple cache memories on the network performance. We consider two basic models for the network graph; and show there exists a fundamental trade-off among... 

This study addresses the challenge of optimizing computational task offloading in the metaverse—the next-generation human communication platform. The main objective is to guarantee user Quality of Experience (QoE) under strict computational and communication limits on end devices. To this end, a three-tier end–edge–cloud architecture is considered and the offloading process is modeled. To raise service quality, a task-prioritization strategy with hard and soft deadlines is adopted so that the on-time task completion rate is maximized while energy consumption on end devices is minimized. Since no comprehensive dataset that covers all scenarios is available, reinforcement learning is chosen...