To solve the problems about securities, absence of calculation pertinence, incapability of making the most of the reader’s computation and storage capacity that emerged in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) authentication protocols, the paper proposes a Hash function based server/serverless adaptive and mutual authentication protocol of RFID based on the analysis of RFID authentication proto...

Critical ill patients experience acute physiological changes because the body cannot fulfill the oxygen demand to perform normal aerobic metabolism. Factors determining oxygen delivery include cardiac output, hemoglobin, and oxygen saturation. Incapability to fulfill adequate oxygen of the body to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) may occur due to decreased oxygen delivery and/or increased o...

With the arrival of digital era and Internet, the lack of information control provides an incentive for people to freely use any content available to them. Plagiarism occurs when users fail to credit the original owner for the content referred to, and such behavior leads to violation of intellectual property. Two main approaches to plagiarism detection are fingerprinting and term occurrence; ho...

Situated and embodied reactive agents solve relatively complex tasks by coordinating action and perception. Reactive agents are generally believed to be incapable of coping with identical sensory states that require different responses (i.e., perceptual ambiguity). In contrast to reactive agents, non-reactive agents can cope with perceptual ambiguity by storing and integrating sensory informati...

The thesis investigates into keyword spotting and spoken term detection (STD), that are considered as sub-sets of spoken document retrieval. It deals with two-phase approaches where speech is first processed by speech recognizer, and the search for queries is performed in the output of this recognizer. Standard large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer (LVCSR) with fixed vocabulary is not c...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the prevalence of smoking behaviors among students in Tehran University, Iran. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study on 400 participants of Tehran University. A self-administrated, anonymous questionnaire was used for data gathering. FINDINGS The mean age of students was 21.70 ± 2.73 years, and 92% of them were single. The prevalence of smoking wa...