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This paper investigates the interaction between the beneficiaries of an employee stock option plan within a Stackelberg game framework. The beneficiaries are shareholders and employees. In the proposed model, shareholders, as the leaders of the Stackelberg game, determine the optimal features of employee stock option grants. In response, employees, the followers of the proposed Stackelberg game, maximize their own profits by determining their own effort level by considering that every effort level of employees has an associated cost and expected income for employees. It is assumed that the stock price follow Geometric Brownian Motion process with a known drift rate and volatility. Also, it... 

Flow analysis in and out of the pressure-swirl injector in supercritical condition is investigated in this thesis. These injectors widely are used in different industries such gas turbine combustion chamber and liquid fuel rockets. Flow simulation in these injectors is so complex because of existence of gas core in axial region and high swirl and axial speeds in injectors. Unlike subcritical condition, droplet and ligament don’t form in supercritical condition so injector performance represents with two parameters including liquid film thickness in vortex chamber and liquid spreading angle. Mass flow, geometric constant, length and the distance between tangential inlet and injector head, are... 

In this experimental study, a series of wind tunnel tests were performed to examine the wake flow profile over three swept wings with sweep angles of 23, 33 and 40 degrees with similar aspect ratio at various conditions. The airfoil of wing was a NACA 6-series airfoil designed to provide a laminar flow on the front half of the airfoil. The tests, made at a mid aerodynamic chord Reynolds number of 8×〖10〗^5, covered an angle of attack range of -2 to 10 degree. The wing tip vortex effects are eliminated by placing an End-plate on the wing tip.The tests were carried out at two main section of wing and two various position from behind of wing. A total pressure rake and transducers was used to... 

Asparagainase is a therapeutic enzyme which has been a subject of research for decades. The enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of the amide group in asparagine and similar amides. Altering the substrate specificity and stabilization of this enzyme can increase its therapeutic properties. Moreover, asparaginases may be evolved to catalyze the hydrolysis of other similar compounds. These can be achieved through directed evolution and computational methods.In this study, the gene encoding L-asparaginase II enzyme from E. coli was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and was cloned into an expression vector. The recombinant protein was expressed by an appropriate host secreting the... 

The quest for increasing the efficiency of internal combustion engines is going on since the invention of automobile in the world. Wear between cylinder and ring is one of the major parameters reducing the engine performance. So many parameters are affecting the wear losses. Temperature plays a key role on the severity of wear condition in internal combustion engines. In conventional cast iron cylinders, we are not able to increase the temperature from a defined level; one reason is that the wear rate on cylinder ring contact will increase excessively. One of the major benefits of using ceramic coating is their ability to withstand in higher temperatures, while having adequate hardness to... 

Prediction of shear plane angle is a way for prediction of the mechanism of chip formation, machining forces and so on. In this study, Merchant, Corrected Merchant, Lee and Shaffer, Lee and Shaffer with Built up Edge, Corrected Lee and Shaffer and Slip line theories are used for prediction of shear plane angles and cutting forces in machining of Al/SiCp metal matrix composite. The experimental cutting forces are compared with the calculated cutting force based on shear plane angles extracted from Merchant, Corrected Merchant, Lee and Shaffer, Lee and Shaffer with Built up Edge, Corrected Lee and Shaffer and Slip line theories. The variation of these cutting forces with cutting speed, feed... 

With advancement of science of aircraft design and limitations of traditional manufacturing methods, using new ones in order to improve efficiency is needed. Among those methods to improve structure efficiency are weight reduction or increase in strength. Increasing strength-to-weight ratio and reduction of weight could be achieved by using composite materials and topology optimization respectively. Manufacturing such parts with efficient design using traditional methods is hard or impossible. Additive manufacturing as a new technology which is being developed every day, can be a big help to aerospace industry. Considering the importance of strength-to-weight ratio in aerospace industry and... 

Having special advantages over existing networks, mesh networks have attracted much attention. Proposing new MAC protocols which are in compliance with these networks is an interesting field in which many works have been done. Also, Task Group S of the IEEE802.11 is going to release a standard for the mesh networks. Analysis of a simplified version of IEEE802.11s is the first goal of this thesis. The standard is a spectrum sharing algorithm based on scheduling and contention. Although IEEE802.11e manages the contention for accessing the wireless medium in the standard, but for the sake of simplicity, in this thesis we used SlottedALOHA instead. Also, one gateway and six other nodes are... 

A global concern has arisen owing to rapid industrial development and population growth, resulting in energy scarcity and earth pollution. In this regard, developing green and sustainable methods for producing clean energy and solving environmental pollution problems have absorbed enormous attention. Among various auspicious strategies, semiconductor photocatalysis has been widely studied in recent years owing to its capabilities to obtain hydrogen as an energy carrier, to remove organic pollutants, and to reduce CO2 emission by converting solar energy into chemical energy. Recently, a metal-free semiconductor photocatalyst based on graphitic carbon nitride, g-C3N4, has received much... 

In an age where Android malware is quickly multiplying and obfuscation is becoming increasingly advanced, safety in the Android ecosystem has emerged as one of the biggest problems in current information technology. Reflection can be considered one of the most robust and harmful obfuscation strategies, as it alters the call graph as well as hides important execution paths. Most malware detection frameworks, such as MsDroid, are susceptible to this type of obfuscation, allowing significant decrease in abilities to accurately identify malicious behavioral patterns. In this research, we introduce a new architecture to improve malware detection against reflection-based obfuscation. The... 

Recent success of Deep Learning models, resulted in their evergrowing application in many fields. However these models usually require huge datasets, which can sometimes be hard to collect. One of the challenges related to medical data, is the Batch Effect; Medical data is usually gathered through multiple experiments. Each experiment might have a slightly different conditions than the other, resulting a shift in the data related to that batch. Batch effects can have more severe impact during testing time, as the shift in the data distribution could be bigger. Many methods have been proposed to reduce or remove the effect of external conditions on data distribution.Deep Learning models have...