Nanostructured TiO2 films are deposited on a silicon substrate using 150-W power from the RF magnetron sputtering at working pressures of 3 to 5 Pa, with no substrate bias, and at 3 Pa with a substrate bias of -50 V. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis reveals that TiO2 films deposited on unbiased as well as biased substrates are all amorphous. Surface properties such as surface roughness and wett...

i Corresponding Author, M. R. Tousi is PhD student in Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). ii S. H. Hosseininan is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). iii M. B. Menhaj is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirk...

In this paper we propose a conditional logic IBC to represent iterated belief revision. We define an iterated belief revision system by strengthening the postulates proposed by Darwiche and Pearl [3]. First, following the line of Darwiche and Pearl, we modify AGM postulates to make belief revision a function of epistemic states rather than of belief sets. Then we propose a set of postulates for...

For longer distances, natural gas is transported through transit pipeline at high pressures. In a place of consumption or at passing into a lower pressure pipeline, the pressure of the gas must be reduced. In Iran, the common procedure of reducing pressure in natural gas station is using expansion valves, which causes the waste of large amount of energy. Combined heat and power (CHP) systems ha...

Flood is known as one of the most distractive natural disaster worldwide. Therefore, its prediction is of great importance from the socio-economical point of view. Despite the great improvement in computational techniques and numerical weather prediction approaches, so far, in Iran, an acceptable flood prediction method has not yet been introduced. The main aim of this study is to recognize and...

the relationship between productivity of economic sectors, effective real exchange rate, and purchasing power is a burning economic issue. based on the “balassa – samuelson” theory, higher economic productivity for tradeable goods leads to an increase in effective real exchange rate which is indicative of higher value of domestic money and higher purchasing power of money. the purpose of this s...