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New accretion constraint on the evaporation of primordial black holes
, Article Physical Review D ; Volume 107, Issue 8 , 2023 ; 24700010 (ISSN) ; Berahman, M ; Firouzjaee, J. T ; Sharif University of Technology
American Physical Society
2023
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the processes of evaporation and accretion of primordial black holes during the radiation-dominated era and the matter-dominated era. This subject is very important since usually these two processes are considered independent of each other. In other words, previous works consider them in such a way that they do not have a direct effect on each other, and as a result, their effects on the mass of primordial black holes are calculated separately. The calculations of this paper indicate that assuming these two processes independent of each other will lead to wrong results that only give correct answers within certain limits. In fact, in general, it is a mistake to...
A new constraint on the simulation of the intergalactic medium through the evolution of the neutral hydrogen fraction in the epoch of reionization
, Article Astrophysical Journal ; Volume 959, Issue 2 , 2023 ; 0004637X (ISSN) ; Soleimanpour Salmasi, B ; Tabasi, S ; Firouzjaee, J. T ; Sharif University of Technology
Institute of Physics
2023
Abstract
The thermal history of the intergalactic medium is full of extremely useful data in the field of astrophysics and cosmology. In other words, by examining this environment in different redshifts, the effects of cosmology and astrophysics can be observed side by side. Therefore, simulation is a very powerful tool to reach a suitable model for the intergalactic medium, both in terms of cosmology and astrophysics. In this work, we have simulated the intergalactic medium with the help of the 21cmFAST code and compared the evolution of the neutral hydrogen fraction in different initial conditions. Considerable works have arbitrarily determined many important effective parameters in the thermal...
Ion rejection performances of functionalized porous graphene nanomembranes for wastewater purification: A molecular dynamics simulation study
, Article Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects ; Volume 656 , 2023 ; 09277757 (ISSN) ; Vafa, N ; Firoozabadi, B ; Salmankhani, A ; Nouranian, S ; Habibzadeh, S ; Mashhadzadeh, A. H ; Spitas, C ; Saeb, M. R ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2023
Abstract
Performances of small- and large-pore, porous graphene nanomembranes (PGNMs) (pristine and functionalized by amide, sulfonic acid, thiourea, and carbamate functional groups) for purification of heavy metal ions and nitrate-contaminated wastewater were determined using molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. At the operational conditions of the simulated membrane (150 and 0.1 MPa pressure on the left and right piston sides at 300 K), higher water flow rates were obtained in the functionalized PGNMs possessing large pores, as opposed to the non-functionalized and small-pore ones. Amide-functionalized PGNM provided the highest flow rate (380 and 330 molecules/ns for large and small pores,...
Detecting Primordial Black Holes with the Help of 21-cm Cosmology
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Baghram, Shant (Supervisor)
Abstract
The existence of primordial black holes has been proposed for about half a century, but so far we have not been able to have convincing observations to prove the existence of such black holes. With the discovery of gravitational waves, hopes for finding primordial black holes have increased again; So that in recent years, different ways have been proposed to reveal them. This matter becomes even more important when we know that these black holes can explain all or at least part of the missing matter of the universe known as dark matter. One of the proposed ways is to investigate the 21 cm line of hydrogen in the intergalactic medium. Over time, the temperature of the intergalactic medium is...
Asthma induces psychiatric impairments in association with default mode and salience networks alteration: A resting-state EEG study
, Article Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology ; Volume 300 , 2022 ; 15699048 (ISSN) ; Salimi, M ; Nazari, M ; Tabasi, F ; Bamdad, S ; Dehdar, K ; Mikaili, M ; Mahdaviani, S. A ; Salari, F ; Lookzadeh, S ; Jamaati, H ; Salimi, A ; Raoufy, M. R ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2022
Abstract
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders. There are specific brain networks responsible for emotional processes, including two important networks associated with psychiatric problems: the default mode network (DMN), which is more active in the resting state, and the salience network (SN), which is structurally connected to DMN. Although previous studies suggested that neuro-phenotypes of asthma may be recognizable by the neural activity of brain circuits, an association between the brain's functional alterations and psychiatric impairments induced by asthma remains unknown. We aimed to assess DMN and SN activity and its association...
Microfluidic-based droplets for advanced regenerative medicine: current challenges and future trends
, Article Biosensors ; Volume 12, Issue 1 , 2022 ; 20796374 (ISSN) ; Heirani Tabasi, A ; Ghorbani, S ; Eyni, H ; Razavi Bazaz, S ; Khayati, M ; Gheidari, F ; Moradpour, K ; Kehtari, M ; Ahmadi Tafti, S.M ; Ahmadi Tafti, S. H ; Warkiani, M. E ; Sharif University of Technology
MDPI
2022
Abstract
Microfluidics is a promising approach for the facile and large-scale fabrication of monodispersed droplets for various applications in biomedicine. This technology has demonstrated great potential to address the limitations of regenerative medicine. Microfluidics provides safe, accurate, reliable, and cost-effective methods for encapsulating different stem cells, gametes, biomaterials, biomolecules, reagents, genes, and nanoparticles inside picoliter-sized droplets or droplet-derived microgels for different applications. Moreover, microenvironments made using such droplets can mimic niches of stem cells for cell therapy purposes, simulate native extracellular matrix (ECM) for tissue...
Creating a Protective Coating Against Corrosion and Erosion on the Surface of the Parts using in Sour Environments
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Kokabi, Amir Hossein (Supervisor)
Abstract
A concern in the production sour oil and gas is the corrosion caused by the acid gas H2S. Even though corrosion resistant alloys (CRA) have long been available as a material selection option that mitigates H2S corrosion, the carbon steel is in general more cost-effective for oil and gas facilities. The aim of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties of 410NiMo cladding on a low alloy steel substrate. In this investigation, two successive layers of ER410NiMo were clad on low alloy steel substrates. To reduce the likelihood of Hydrogen Induced Cracking (HIC) and producing stable hydrogen traps, Post Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT) was used. To characterize the mechanical properties of...
Modeling the central supermassive black hole mass of quasars via the lstm approach
, Article Astrophysical Journal ; Volume 954, Issue 2 , 2023 ; 0004637X (ISSN) ; Vojoudi Salmani, R ; Khaliliyan, P ; Taghizadeh Firouzjaee, J ; Sharif University of Technology
Institute of Physics
2023
Abstract
One of the fundamental questions about quasars is related to their central supermassive black holes. The reason for the existence of these black holes with such a huge mass is still unclear, and various models have been proposed to explain them. However, there is still no comprehensive explanation that is accepted by the community. The only thing we are sure of is that these black holes were not created by the collapse of giant stars or the accretion of matter around them. Moreover, another important question is related to the mass distribution of these black holes over time. Observations have shown that if we go back through redshift, we see black holes with more mass, and after passing the...
Allergic rhinitis impairs working memory in association with drop of hippocampal – Prefrontal coupling
, Article Brain Research ; Volume 1758 , 2021 ; 00068993 (ISSN) ; Ghazvineh, S ; Nazari, M ; Dehdar, K ; Garousi, M ; Zare, M ; Tabasi, F ; Jamaati, H ; Salimi, A ; Barkley, V ; Mirnajafi Zadeh, J ; Raoufy, M. R ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2021
Abstract
Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a chronic inflammatory disease frequently associated with a deficit in learning and memory. Working memory is an important system for decision making and guidance, which depends on interactions between the ventral hippocampus (vHipp) and the prelimbic prefrontal cortex (plPFC). It is still unclear whether AR influences the activity and coupling of these brain areas, which consequently may impair working memory. The current study aimed to examine alterations of the vHipp-plPFC circuit in a rat model of AR. Our results show decreased working memory performance in AR animals, accompanied by a reduction of theta and gamma oscillations in plPFC. Also, AR reduces...
Improving the Security Level of Encrypted Traffic
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Jalili, Rasool (Supervisor) ; Bayat-Sarmadi, Siavash (Supervisor)
Abstract
Common privacy enhancing technologies fail to effectively hide the certain statistical aspects of encrypted traffic, namely individual packets length, packets direction and, packets timing. Recent researches have shown that using such traffic attributes, an adversary is able to extract various information from the encrypted traffic such as the visited website, used protocol or even spoken language. Such attacks in general are called traffic analysis attacks. Proposed countermeasure try to change the distribution of such features in users traffic but either they fail to effectively reduce the accuracy of that attacker or do so while enforcing a high degree of bandwidth overhead and timing...
The relationship between an EFL teacher's gender and students' willingness to communicate
, Article International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies ; Volume 10, Issue 4 , 2013 , Pages 17-29 ; 23277882 (ISSN) ; Pakzadian, S. S
Common Ground Publishing
2013
Abstract
Learning a foreign language encompasses a process of trial and error that can lead to the progression of the learner's interlanguage, meaning that the learners make use of their language knowledge that receives feedback and brings about progress through diagnosis of the problems and being corrected by the teacher. Therefore, there exists a need to analyze the underlying reasons causing the students to remain taciturn with a low willingness to communicate (WTC) during a language class. There has been much work done investigating the role of the learner's stable personal characteristics (traits) along with their situational changes at a specific time (states) that influence the student's...
Design and development of a miniaturized roto-translational motion platform for microaerial vehicle identification
, Article IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine ; Volume 39, Issue 12 , 2024 , Pages 24-35 ; 08858985 (ISSN) ; Pourtakdoust, S. H ; Mousavi, S. M. S
IEEE
2024
Abstract
Accurate system identification (SI) is essential for flight controller design of unmanned aerial vehicles and microaerial vehicles (MAVs). SI can be performed either in frequency or time domain using flight test data. As flight testing is often costly and may even lead to catastrophic events before some flight stability analysis is at hand, a low-cost 5 degree-of-freedom free motion platform (FMP) is designed and used for initial identification of MAVs via wind tunnel testing. A typical MAV is constructed as a test case and equipped with inertial sensors for testing and validation purposes. The proposed FMP allows for both rotational as well as translational motions that in turn provide for...
Study on Continuous Phase Holdup in a Pulsed Disc and Doughnut Extraction Column by Radiotracer Technique
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Outokesh, Mohammad (Supervisor) ; Tabasi, Mohsen (Supervisor) ; Mostaedi, M.T (Co-Advisor)
Abstract
The dispersed phase holdup is one of the important parameters in the design pulsed column and set the column diameter, height and characteristics of flooding and mass transfer. High efficiency and low space requirements of these columns cause is particularly in the nuclear industry, Due to the possible presence of radiation and the need for protection against radiation, considered and used. In this project, the dispersed phase holdup and mean residence time in a pulsed disc and donut column in a semi-industrial scale using radiotracer and shut down methods compared and presented for water-kerosene system. Also axial dispersion coefficient in the column using radiotracer methods is calculated...
An automated simple algorithm for realistic pore network extraction from micro-tomography images
, Article Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering ; Vol. 123, issue , 2014 , pp. 164-171 ; ISSN: 09204105 ; Jamshidi, S ; Salehi, S
2014
Abstract
Using 3-D scanned data to analyze and extract pore network plays a vital role in investigation of porous media's characteristics. In this paper, a new simple method is developed to detect pores and throats for analyzing the connectivity and permeability of the network. This automated method utilizes some of the common and well-known image processing functions which are widely accessible by researchers and this has led to an easy algorithm implementation. In this method, after polishing and quality control of images, using city-block distance function and watershed segmentation algorithm, pores and throats are detected and 3-D network is produced. This method can also be applied on 2-D images...
Discrimination of heart arrhythmias using novel features in heart rate phase space
, Article Computing in Cardiology ; Volume 40 , Sept , 2013 , Pages 1035-1038 ; 23258861 (ISSN); 9781479908844 (ISBN) ; Rezaei, S ; Salavatian, S
2013
Abstract
In this paper, we try to recognize and distinguish different groups of arrhythmia using novel features which have been obtained from the heart rate's phase space in recent years. For this purpose, we used Triangular Phase Space Mapping (TPSM) and Parabolic Phase Space Mapping (PPSM). For recognition, we used three groups of 15 subjects using the Physionet database (Arrhythmia, Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), and Atrial Fibrillation (AF)) with Normal Sinus Rhythm (NSR). The obtained features discriminate arrhythmia from NSR by p
An intelligent hybrid classification algorithm integrating fuzzy rule-based extraction and harmony search optimization: Medical diagnosis applications
, Article Knowledge-Based Systems ; Volume 220 , 2021 ; 09507051 (ISSN) ; Abdullah, S ; Akhavan Niaki, S. T ; Banihashemi, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2021
Abstract
Uncertainty is a critical factor in medical datasets needed to be overcome for increasing diagnosis efficiency. This paper proposes an intelligent classification algorithm comprising a fuzzy rule-based approach, a harmony search (HS) algorithm, and a heuristic algorithm to classify medical datasets intelligently. Two fuzzy approaches, as well as orthogonal and triangular fuzzy sets, are first utilized to define the attributes of data. Then, an HS algorithm is integrated with a heuristic to generate fuzzy rules to select the best rules in the fuzzy rule-based systems. Moreover, to improve the performance of the proposed classification approach, a three-phase parameter tuning approach is...
Performance evaluation of shared hosting security methods
, Article Proc. of the 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom-2012 - 11th IEEE Int. Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications ; 2012 , Pages 1310-1315 ; 9780769547459 (ISBN) ; Arshad, S ; Khoshkdahan, S ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
Abstract
Shared hosting is a kind of web hosting in which multiple websites reside on one webserver. It is cost-effective and makes the administration easier for websites' owners. However, shared hosting has some performance and security issues. In default shared hosting configuration, all websites' scripts are executed under the webserver's user account regardless of their owners. Therefore, a website is able to access other websites' resources. This security problem arises from lack of proper isolation between different websites hosted on the same webserver. In this survey, we have examined different methods for handling mentioned security issue. Also we evaluated the performance of mentioned...
The behaviour of an artificially cemented sandy gravel
, Article Geotechnical and Geological Engineering ; Volume 23, Issue 5 , 2005 , Pages 537-560 ; 09603182 (ISSN) ; Hosseini, S. M ; Toll, D. G ; Yasrebi, S. S ; Sharif University of Technology
2005
Abstract
The major section of the city of Tehran, Iran has been developed on cemented coarse-grained alluvium. This deposit consists of gravely sand to sandy gravel with some cobbles and is dominantly cemented by carbonaceous materials. In order to understand the mechanical behaviour of this soil, a series of undrained triaxial compression tests and unconfined compression tests were performed on uncemented and artificially cemented samples. Portland cement type I was used as the cementation agent for preparing artificially cemented samples. Uncemented samples and lightly cemented samples (1.5% cement) tested at high confining pressure showed contractive behaviour accompanied with positive excess pore...
An imperialist competitive algorithm approach for multi-objective optimization of direct coupling photovoltaic-electrolyzer systems
, Article International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ; Vol. 39, Issue 33 , 11 November , 2014 , pp. 18743-18757 ; ISSN: 03603199 ; Sayedin, F ; Khavas, S. S
2014
Abstract
In the context of sustainable clean hydrogen production pathways, photovoltaic-electrolyzer systems are one of the most promising alternatives for acquiring hydrogen from renewable energy sources. In fact, determining the optimal set of design and operating variables are always a key issue while coupling directly renewable electricity sources to PEM electrolyzers. Few previous studies have attempted to find the optimal size and operational condition of directly coupled photovoltaic-electrolyzer (PV/El) systems in order to maximize the hydrogen production or to minimize energy transfer loss between photovoltaic devices and the electrolyzer. Nevertheless an easy and efficient approach still...
Kalman filter based packet loss replacement in presence of additive noise
, Article 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering: Vision for a Greener Future, CCECE 2012 ; 2012 ; 9781467314336 (ISBN) ; Ghorshi, S ; Tahaei, A
2012
Abstract
A major problem in real-time packet-based communication systems, is misrouted or delayed packets which results in degraded perceived voice quality. If packets are not available on time, the packets are considered as lost. The easiest solution in a network terminal receiver is to replace silence for the duration of lost speech segments. In a high quality communication system, to avoid degradation in speech quality due to packet loss, a suitable method or algorithm is needed to replace the missing segments of speech. In this paper, we introduce an adaptive filter for replacement of lost speech segment. In this method Kalman filter as a state-space based method will be used to predict the...