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In the era of the internet and with the emergence of online stores, the possibility of changing prices for these e-commerce platforms has become simple and virtually cost-free. This allows them to adjust prices optimally in response to environmental and surrounding factors, maximizing their revenue from product sales. This development has led to numerous applications of statistical learning methods, particularly online learning, in these markets. In this thesis, we explore the issue of online pricing from various perspectives. One aspect is that product pricing is based on their features, which can be numerous. This leads us to the use of online learning methods and statistical learning in... 

Phospholipid vesicles are able to carry drugs or DNA to infected or cancerous cells. The blood flow can carry them to their target positions but their performance will be enhanced if they complete their attack by swimming in final stages of their journey. Vesicles built only by lipid molecules have rotational symmetry and undergo a random motion in their solvents without having a preferred direction. In this project, we break the symmetrical shape of phospholipid vesicles by a cluster of transmembrane proteins. We use a triangulated model of the membrane, apply the method of multi-particle collision dynamics to the motion of solvent particles, and simulate the motility of vesicles for... 

Hard disk drives are the main component of computers for permanent data storage. The security of the stored data is related closely to the air gap between the read-write head and the surface of disk. This gap which is created by the aerodynamic force between head and the disk is altered continually by lateral oscillations of disk. In the extreme condition of zero gap and contact between the protective coating layer and subsequently the magnetic material of the disk with the head, the disk will be scratched and damaged. Therefore, the active or passive control of these vibrations has a particular importance in the technology of manufacturing of hard disks. The first step in active control... 

The Hubbard model is one of the simplest interacting models in theoretical physics, especially condensed matter physics which despite its simplicity, its solutions are highly nontrivial and intractable. After 5 decades since its introduction, its phase diagram is not fully understood and whether or not, it has a high-temperature superconducting phase. In this thesis, we aim to employ the recent advances in machine learning and GPU programming to accelerate the QMC method. By accelerated QMC methods, we can explore the Hubbard model's phase diagram more efficiently. Using massive parallelization of the GPUs can speed up the measuring process by several times. The self-learning quantum... 

As it is known, one of the dangerous consequences of the earthquake is the possibility of fire. In recent years in our country special attention have been paid to design and retrofit buildings against earthquakes, but have not done to understand the behavior and design concepts of structures against fire. One of the reasons is the lack of information and the absence of a specific standard for design of structures against fire. Since the beam-to-column connections play an important role in the performance of structures, in this study, the behavior of the moment frame with flush end plate was investigated by testing on a small scale structural model (half scale). It is observed that, the test... 

In the present study, a high-order accurate numerical solution of steady incompressible slip flow and heat transfer in 2D microchannels is presented. The numerical method used is an alternating direction implicit operator scheme which is efficiently implemented to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the primitive variables formulation using the artificial compressibility method. To stabilize the numerical solution, numerical filters are used. The present methodology considers the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations with¬ employing different slip boundary condition¬¬ (Maxwell,¬ ¬¬Hyperbolic tangent function of Knudsen number¬ and Beskok slip models)¬ ¬¬on the wall to model... 

Isogeometric Analysis method is a newly introduced method for the analysis of problems governed by partial differential equations. The method has some features in common with the finite element method and some in common with the mesh-less methods. This method uses the Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) functions as basis function for analysis. With this basis functions, the refinement procedure is much easier than the classical finite element method by eliminating the need to communicate with the CAD model. Modeling cracks in classical finite element method requires very fine mesh near the crack tip. One can model crack propagation by means of classical finite element, using an updating... 

Light has planar wavefront as it propagates in vacuum but in the atmosphere, because it passes through layers with different refractive indices, this planar wavefront is lost. Consequently light is distorted when it enters optical instruments. This issue results in images with low resolution. Adaptive optics is a method used for compensation of these distortions in order to obtain higher resolution. So far adaptive optics systems are successfully used in ground based telescopes and an increasing effort on developing and improving these systems is made. Most of these studies are performed from the optics point of view, but techniques from control theory can be applied to adaptive optics... 

Each of us at some point in our life has been astonished by the observation of the collective motion of certain animals such as birds, fishes or insects. These coherent and synchronized structures are apparently produced without the active role of a leader in the grouping and it has been reported even for some microorganisms such as bacteria or red blood cells. In all the mentioned examples agents are surrounding with the moving fluid which can affect the collective behavior of the system. The collaborative flock of birds in windy conditions and the swimming of fishes in rivers or along oceanic currents are some examples. Moreover, micro-organisms produce different collective behavior in the... 

Attitude control of rigid bodies is a complicated but attractive problem in dynamics. One of its main practical applications is in satellite attitude control and specifically in space telescope orientation control. Using fuel thrusters is not only expensive in most cases, but also it cannot be considered as an appropriate solution from reliability and economic aspects in long-term applications such as space telescopes and telecommunication satellites. On the other hand, magnetic torquers and momentum wheels cannot be utilized for rapid and large maneuvers due to their inability in generating large torques, which are needed in such maneuvers. As a result, another type of attitude control... 

The Hamiltonian of the Hubbard model was introduced by Hubbard in 1963 to model electron correlations in narrow energy bands and it provided an approximate description of electrons in solids.This model provides a simple description of materials, but its exact solution is possible only in one dimension.In the physical examining of this model in quasi two-dimensional systems, the Density Matrix Renormalization Group(DMRG) is used, which is one of the most powerful numerical methods in studying quantum systems. The quantity that is important to solve the systems is the density matrix, which by knowing, many of the observable quantities of the systems can be obtained. Calculating the density... 

The usage of plugin hybrid electric vehicles has environmental benefits. However, the penetration of these components raises important concerns for grid planning. Thus, it is necessary to model the load change due to their charge to investigate the impact of these vehicles on distribution networks. For this reason, it is necessary to determine the specifications of these vehicles, such as battery charge and energy consumption on daily trips. In addition, the study of some behavioral patterns of these vehicles and some experts are necessary to complete the model.In this thesis, an active distribution network is planned using dynamic programming formulation. In this model, some buses are added... 

One of the challenges in predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of rolling element bearings (REBs) is determining a proper failure threshold (FT). In the literature, the FT is usually assumed to be a constant value of an extracted feature from the vibration signals. In this research, a method was proposed to define the FT of REBs, and the effect of different parameters on the FT was also studied. First, to determine the effective parameters, the variance analysis was applied to the seeded fault dataset of REBs. Afterward, the method based on the principal component analysis (PCA) and the copula models was proposed to estimate the FT. In this method, a proper feature for the FT and a... 

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased environmental risks due to widespread face mask use in production, consumption, and disposal. This study uses surgical single-use as a pyrolysis feedstock due to increased demand. This study investigates the conversion of valuable materials from waste through the recycling of surgical single-use masks in a fluidized bed. The first stage of this study focused on identifying and specifying the main components in the filter layers of disposable surgical masks, which were the compounds in the filter layers made of polypropylene. TGA curves investigated thermal behavior of disposable surgical mask layers, revealing pyrolysis feedstock can produce volatile... 

This thesis investigates superconductivity generated by the Kohn–Luttinger mechanism in a model defined on a two-dimensional square lattice. The model allows for several band dispersions and includes onsite Hubbard and nearest-neighbor density–density interactions. We analyze the system using a perturbative renormalization-group approach. We begin by summarizing the basic features of conventional and unconventional superconductors. We then examine the Cooper instability, the generic weak-coupling instability of a Fermi liquid and the basis of BCS theory for conventional superconductivity. Next, we present the renormalization-group framework as a general tool for describing phase...