Environmental problems caused by fossil fuel consumption, on the one hand, and the upcoming prospect of ending these fuels on the other, attracted much attention towards sustainable architecture. Traditional buildings can be seen as a sample of sustainability; as they have used strategies to cope with the environment, which have been developed over the years, providing users’ comfort cond...

Background: Simulation can be used for educating, evaluating and assessing psychometric properties of an instrument. The aim of this study was to contextualize and assess the validity and reliability of the Interprofessional Collaborative Assessment tool (ICAR) in an Iranian context using simulation.   Methods: In this descriptive study, contextualization of the ICAR was assessed throug...

This paper concentrates on multi-agent formation control problems under mixed measurements of distance and bearing. Towards this objective, a distributed event-triggered estimation-based framework is developed such that only at necessary time instants, the event for estimation (namely, cooperative localization among subgroup agents) triggered to recover relative position information by utilizin...

The aim of this paper is to design a Fractional Order Sliding Mode Controllers (FOSMC)for a class of DC-DC converters such as boost and buck converters. Firstly, the control lawis designed with respect to the properties of fractional calculus, the design yields an equiv-alent control term with an addition of discontinuous (attractive) control law. Secondly, themathematical proof of the stabilit...

—QoS routing algorithm is an important issue to research in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). The least energy-consumption and real-time routing policies are addressed in the paper. A novel QoS routing algorithm is proposed to optimize QoS parameters based on event-sensitive node set. This algorithm includes three parts. Firstly, graph G of WMSNs is traversed and these nodes whose r...