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Observer-based adaptive guaranteed control of wind turbine system subject to pitch angle sensor fault
This research presents an observer-based adaptive fault-tolerant control for wind turbine systems subject to the pitch angle sensor fault. The design mechanism is based on integrating a robust fuzzy observer w...
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Seismic risk assessment of Tehran masonry school buildings and prioritizing them for seismic retrofitting using reliability methods
This paper aims to evaluate the seismic risk of the masonry school buildings located in the Tehran metropolis over the next 50 years and to prioritize them for seismic retrofitting toward optimal seismic risk ...
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Vehicle-bridge interaction and the tuned-mass damper effect on bridges during vertical earthquake excitation
Many seismic studies treat a vehicle-bridge coupled system as a bridge-TMD (tuned-mass damper) system, and, unsurprisingly, have found that the vehicle usually reduces the seismic response of the bridge. The c...
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Open AccessSilymarin reduces retinal microvascular damage in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Diabetic retinopathy is a severe microvascular problem in diabetes mellitus. Silymarin is a flavonoid compound, and according to previous studies, it is a bioactive compound with potent antioxidant and anti-in...
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A new method of Bi-MOF nanostructures production using UAIM procedure for efficient electrocatalytic oxidation of aminophenol: a controllable systematic study
Inverse micelle (IM) and ultrasound-assisted inverse micelle (UAIM) techniques were used to fabricate new Bi-MOF nanostructures. The results showed that the Bi-MOF sample made by ultrasound technique has a hig...
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Ultrasound-assisted efficient synthesis of a novel Nd–MOF polymer as a new candidate for electrocatalytic activity in hydrogen storage
For the first time, Nd-MOF nanostructures were synthesized using a novel ultrasonic procedure. The final products were characterized by relevant techniques of X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, t...
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Stability Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Delayed Bilateral Telerobotic Systems over a Lossy Communication Channel
The focus of this paper is to address a novel control technique for stability and transparency analysis of bilateral telerobotic systems in the presence of data loss and time delay in the communication channel...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multimodal Emotion Recognition Based on Speech and Physiological Signals Using Deep Neural Networks
A suitable combination of data in a multimodal emotion recognition model allows conveying and combining each channel’s information to achieve a better recognition of the encoded emotion than would be possible ...
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Risk assessment of confined unreinforced masonry buildings based on FEMA P-58 methodology: a case study—school buildings in Tehran
Seismic performance of a representative single-story confined unreinforced masonry school building in Tehran, Iran is evaluated by means of incremental dynamic analyses according to FEMA P-58 framework. For th...
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Recognition of emotion from speech using evolutionary cepstral coefficients
An optimal representation of acoustic features is an ongoing challenge in automatic speech emotion recognition research. In this study, we proposed Cepstral coefficients based on evolutionary filterbanks as em...
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Fast Evolution of CNN Architecture for Image Classification
The performance improvement of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in image classification and other applications has become a yearly event. Generally, two factors are contributing to achieving this envious suc...
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Empirical predictive model for generating synthetic non-stationary stochastic accelerogram of the Iranian plateau: including far- and near-field effects as well as mainshock and aftershock categorization
This work proposes comprehensive empirical predictive equations for generating stochastic synthetic 3-dimensional accelerograms for the Iranian plateau based on the existing database. First, the databank of Ir...
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Development of declustered processed earthquake accelerogram database for the Iranian Plateau: including near-field record categorization
In this paper, a comprehensive accelerogram database of the Iranian plateau containing 3585 data with all three components is gathered. The raw data are processed by the wavelet-based denoising method, and res...
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Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Iran using reliability methods
Structural reliability methods are employed in this paper for nationwide probabilistic seismic hazard analysis of Iran and in-depth seismic hazard and hazard sensitivity analysis of Downtown Tehran. The compan...
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Statistical evaluation and probabilistic modeling of aftershock sequences of Iranian plateau
The present research focuses on the statistical evaluation of Iranian plateau aftershocks from an engineering perspective and presents probabilistic models applicable for generating random earthquake scenarios...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Experimental Damage Identification Using SVD-Based Sensitivities of Truncated Transfer Function
In this paper, the application of SVD-based Principal Component Analysis (PCA) performed on truncated form of transfer function is demonstrated. Damage scenarios with light severity and distributed locations c...
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Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Domain-Specific and General Life Satisfaction: A Study in Iran and Serbia
Although the associations between satisfaction with life domains (DS) and global life satisfaction (GLS) are well-documented, the roles of culture and gender in this relationship remain largely unknown. The ma...
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Design and Implementation of Robust-Fixed Structure Controller for Telerobotic Systems
The controller design for bilateral teleoperation systems involves a delicate trade-off between performance and stability. To achieve high performance, high order robust controllers may not be feasible for rea...
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Study on dynamic and mechanical characteristics of carbon fiber- and polyamide fiber-reinforced seismic isolators
Seismic isolators are used to decrease the energy and forces of earthquakes. The weight of conventional steel-reinforced elastomeric isolators (SREIs) is high, mostly due to the use of multiple steel shim plat...
