No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Publisher. i Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge the generous economical support of the present project granted by: would like to thank: My principal superv...

This dissertation presents new signaling schemes and circuit architectures for reducing the power and cost of high-speed chip-to-chip links. After an overview on chip-to-chip interconnects and its building blocks, a new signaling scheme is proposed that can provide many advantages of a fully-differential signaling scheme while employing as few as N + 1 signal paths for communicating N different...

Political novel is one of the kinds of Persian Literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  These types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (CDA) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...

Title of dissertation: Visual Tracking of Human Hand and Head Movements and Its Applications Afshin Sepehri Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Rama Chellappa Department of Electrical Engineering Tracking of human body movements is an important problem in computer vision with applications in visual surveillance and human-computer interaction. Tracking of a single hand...

political novel is one of the kinds of persian literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  these types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (cda) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...

the 7th international congress of child and adolescent psychiatry 12-14 may 2015, tehran, iran shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran conference theme: violence prevention and promotion of mental health head of congress: mehdi tehrani-doost, m.d scientific secretary: rozita davari ashtiani, m.d executive secretary: katayoun razjouyan, m.d executive manager: fahima farrahi the sc...

Yield-Aware Leakage Power Reduction of On-Chip SRAMs Afshin Nourivand, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2010 Leakage power dissipation of on-chip static random access memories (SRAMs) constitutes a significant fraction of the total chip power consumption in state-ofthe-art microprocessors and system-on-chips (SoCs). Scaling the supply voltage of SRAMs during idle periods is a simple yet effective te...

Purpose: Deregulation of STAT3 activation is a hallmark of many cancer cells, and the underlying mechanisms are subject to intense investigation. We examined the extent of PIAS3 expression in mesothelioma cells and human tumor samples and determined the functional effects of PIAS3 expression on STAT3 signaling. Experimental design:We evaluated the expression of PIAS3 inmesothelioma tumors from ...

In order to investigate the effects of salt stress on biochemical and physiological responses of two cultivars of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) namely, Diabolourde and Yazdi, chlorophyll content, growth parameters, and proline contents of roots and shoots, reducing sugars contents of roots and shoots, and membrane injuries of the plant samples were subjected to 0, 100, 150, and 200 mM NaCl treat...