Title Generator vibration control model using fourier transform, Bode diagrams and Nuquist procedure
Paper ID 2cw3j
Keywordsgenerator vibrations, Fourier transforms, Bode diagrams, Nuquist procedures
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During the construction of new or in the course of revitalization of existing power plants, management systems of great capabilities are installed, as one of the most important parts of the equipment. Timely detection of faults can ensure the avoidance of significant damage, by planning maintenance activities of rotating machines, and especially vibration control using special methods, such as Fourier transforms, Bode diagrams and Nyquist procedures.

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Title A relational analysis of the impact of corporate green transformation on employee well-being
Paper ID qafAx
KeywordsGreen Transformation, Psychological Behaviour, Employee Happiness, Employees, Humanistic Care.
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This paper presents new evidence linking different aspects of employee psychological behaviour (life satisfaction, work attitudes, job autonomy, organisational identity, economic coercion and mental health status) to employee well-being. Using survey data from Chinese transitioning firms, we investigated the relationship between psycho-behavioral aspects, employee well-being and broader psycho-behavior of Chinese employees (N = 471) in the process of corporate green transition. Exploratory structural equation modelling identified the structural relationships between the factors of employee psychological behavior. The results suggest that a sense of economic duress during corporate green transformation can have a negative effect on employees` psychological well-being. Chinese employees` life satisfaction in the process of corporate transformation affects employees` work attitudes. Work attitudes in turn affect employees` sense of organizational identity and employee well-being. The study guides the humanistic care strategy of enterprise green transformation: the study points out that the sense of economic coercion in the process of enterprise green transformation will have a negative impact on the psychological health of employees. This suggests that companies need to fully consider the economic and psychological capacity of employees when developing green transition strategies and avoid overly compressing costs or increasing employee work pressure, in order to ensure that the transition process is smooth, and the well-being of employees is maintained.

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Title Application of date palm biowaste material as bioadsorbent for micropollutants: removal of diphenylamine from contaminated water
Paper ID NyJFe
Keywordsajwa date seeds; diphenylamine; micropollutant; uv-vis absorbance; contaminated water.
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The conventional waste management practices generally goal to dispose biological waste from farms and forest. Many times these strategies, contribute to the environmental pollution like incineration and at the same time biomass is lost. This biowaste has a great potential of reuse so innovative thinking in this direction is desired. In present research date palm biowaste is applied to look for removal of diphenylamine from contaminated water samples. Date seed powder was applied to look into the removal of diphenylamine from contaminated water, ultraviolet visible spectroscopy results indicated decreased diphenylamine absorbance in date palm biowaste samples indicating sequestration of chemical pollutant from water. Our research suggested the possible application of date palm biowaste in micropollutant removal from contaminated water. Further research is needed in this direction to have full understanding of this phenomenon and to optimise this process so that it can be applied and executed at large scale. The application bio-waste produced by farming activities when applied as adsorbent for wastewater treatment, it can tackles water contamination, decreases the overall amount of agricultural waste, and reduces the potential gas emissions caused by waste transportation, treatment and disposal.

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Title JurisprudentialInvestigation of Cyber Transactions
Paper ID il1dV
KeywordsKeywords: cyber transactions, Islamic jurisprudence, electronic requirement, electronic sale, electronic acceptance, transaction without contract
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Abstract:\nNowadays with the development of technology in information technology the world is witnessing profound changes and different aspects of human life have been transformed. For instance the form of commerce and contracts has changed among people due to broader adoption of computer and internet, and the traditional form of individual presence has been replaced by electronic or cyber forms. Nowadays many businessmen, companies, institutions,… present their products through internet and in cyber space and thereby they can transact with different people globally. As jurisprudence regulates human societies, with advent of any change in societies it should adapt and find solutions for novel issues. In our country due to the fact that the root of most legislation is Islamic jurisprudence, jurisprudential investigation of novel issues is of great importance. Therefore in this paper we try to answer the question as how can cyber transactions can be adapted with non-cyber transactions through jurisprudential perspective? Our hypothesis is that cyber transactions or e-commerce can be adapted with traditional jurisprudence and (Islamic) jurisprudence has the power to rule them too.

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Title Investigation of effective factors on franchisee’s satisfaction in the process of franchising (case study: Good Father restaurants)
Paper ID bg63F
KeywordsKeywords: franchise, franchising, franchisee, franchisor, satisfaction
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Abstract:\nFranchising as a business method came into being in second half of the 20th century. Since then the role of franchising in the growth of business and economic development has attracted the attention of the researchers. Most of franchises are begun from a simple idea of an entrepreneur and then the form and a system of business is made which have the capacity of a successful imitation. Presently franchising is dynamic in Iran as a business. The purpose of the present study using a quantitative method is to investigate the effective factors on franchisee’s satisfaction in the process of franchising. Standard questionnaire was used which its validity was proved by university professors and its reliability by Alpha Kronbach (0.092). After inferential data analysis through SPSS software, effective factors on franchisee satisfaction was clarified including the quality of system and services, competitive advantage of franchisor, franchisee’s features and market attractiveness. \nThe results showed that three factors of quality of system and services, competitive advantage of franchisor, and market attractiveness had meaningful relationship with franchisee’s satisfaction. Simultaneous investigation of four factors was done by stepwise regression and the result showed that only system and service quality had meaningful relationship with franchisee’s satisfaction. Also regression results on the relationship between competitive advantages variables on system and service quality, competitive advantage, market attractiveness and finally market attractiveness and system and service quality showed meaningful relationship.

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Title Co-remediation of diesel and heavy metal polluted soil by non-ionic Surfactants
Paper ID 7feCq/NA
Keywordssoil, non-ionic surfactants, chelating agent, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, heavy metals
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Introduction of fuel hydrocarbons and inorganic compounds (heavy metals) into the soil, resulting in a change of the soil quality, which is likely to affect the normal use of the soil or endangering public health and ground water .This study aimed to determine a series of parameters to co-remediation of diesel and heavy metals contaminated soil by non-ionic surfactants in a soil washing process. In this experimental study the effects of soil washing time, agitation speed, concentration of surfactant, chelating agent and pH on the removal efficiency were studied. The results showed that diesel removal by nonionic surfactants (Tween 80, Brij 35) in optimal condition were 70-80 % and 60-65 % respectively. Addition of chelating agent (EDTA) showed that removal of Cd and Pb can significantly enhance. The washing of soil by non ionic surfactants and EDTA was effective in co-remediation of diesel and heavy metals from polluted soil, thus it can recommend for remediation of polluted soil.

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Title The relationship of psychological hardiness with emotional intelligence and work holism
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Keywordspsychological hardiness, emotional intelligence, work holism, gender
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ABSTRACT \nPresent research intends to investigate relationship of psychological hardiness with emotional intelligence and work holism among high school teachers. The under study society includes all male and female high school teacher in Ghorveh city in the academic year 2012-2013. Using simple random sampling method, a sample size of 100 male and female teachers was selected. To collect data, Kobassa Psychological Hardiness Questionnaire, Bar-on questionnaire contains 90 questions about emotional intelligence and Aghabeigi Workaholics Questionnaire was employed. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t-test and regression analysis) were used. The findings indicated that there is negative and significant relationship between the variables psychological hardiness and work holism. There is a meaningful positive relationship between the psychological hardiness and emotional intelligence. And also there is a significant negative relationship between the variables emotional intelligence and work holism. Also revealed that there is no significant difference between the psychological hardiness and work holism of the male and female. And no significant difference between, emotional intelligence of the male and female.

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Title Development and validation of rapid single step high performance liquid chromatography for the estimation of levofloxacin in human plasma
Paper ID fRikm/NA
KeywordsLevofloxacin,ion-pair chromatography, isocratic, protein precipitation, fluorescence, pharmacokinetics
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This paper reported a selective, sensitive, precise, accurate and rapid high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the determination of levofloxacin in human plasma. The method was validated according to ICH norm. Extraction procedure employed a single-step protein precipitation to isolate levofloxacin from the plasma followed by simple and rapid isocratic separation on a Zorbax SB-CN, a reversed-phase HPLC column and quantification by fluorescence detection at an excitation wavelength of 290 nm and emission wavelength of 456 nm. The method employed a weighing factor of 1/concentration2 and was linear from 0.3-20.39 µg/ml of levofloxacin in plasma with a coefficient of correlation over 0.998. The recovery, selectivity, linearity, precision, accuracy and stability of the method were evaluated from spiked human plasma samples. The overall precision and accuracy ranged between 1-7%. The method was successfully applied to subject plasma samples in support of a levofloxacin pharmacokinetic study. The overall utility of the method is reflected in its high sample throughput as processing of a batch can be done within 20 min followed by a short run time of 12 min, thus making the procedure suitable for pharmacological and pharmacokinetic studies of levofloxacin.

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Title The approaches to minimize drop in social networks affiliated to e-commerce
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Keywordsdrop, social network, e-commerce, transactions, online shopping
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Today, e-commerce is the most fundamental tool for financial transaction in developed countries. According to the reality that today the traditional market could not respond to the humans ‘s needs, so that it has been attempted to change the strategies for advertisement in order to conquer customers ‘s behaviors. With regard to the distinctive characteristics in social networks to peruse customer’s behavior, there is a possibility for the organization by which they could utilize e-commerce in social networks and subsequently achieve their goals. In social networks, it has been attempted influence other customer only through other customers who are satisfied about their online shopping; through this many customers would be attracted to buy the products. Several recommendations through the particular system for customers have been represented in the social networks which this is possible only through share of information between users and their relationship with each other and also the similar characteristics of products and users’s behavior. In present paper, it has been attempted to introduce e-commerce and social networks, for this a brief description about both e-commerce and social networks is needed in order to reduce drop in social networks affiliated to e-commerce and peruse the hypotheses of research and data analysis through descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics in this research involves the frequency table and central indices, and the inferential statistics involve Pierson‘s correlation coefficient as the statistical test in SPSS version 17 software.

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Title Analysis of effects of wind force on steel tall and average structures
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Keywordswind load, steel moment frame, sixth issue of national building code of Iran, NB CC-05 and ASCE7-05
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Loads being induced on buildings are divided into two categories: vertical loads and lateral loads. Dead loads, live loads and snow loads are examples of vertical loads, while wind and earthquake loads are examples of lateral loads. Moreover, in light or tall buildings, effects of wind could be more serious. Effects of wind on structures depend on wind features, structure shape and environmental condition of structure. In this research, through doing a linear analysis on 54 steel moment frame models, wind force effect in valid codes such as NB CC-05, ASCE7-05 and national building codes of Iran are compared with one another. Moreover, effects of number of a building stories and the number of its bays on the value of wind force on a structure lateral response is studied as well. The results show that among all studied codes, ASCE7-5 has shown more values in evaluated parameters. Moreover, with the increase of number of stories of a building and its bays, factors such as ratio of stress in stories columns, overturning moment, base-shear force, index of stories drift and the amount of displacement at the center of mass will increase as well, based on rules of this code.

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Title Comparison of biotechnology and chemical reactions on the basis of reaction rate
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Keywordschemical reactions, biotechnology reaction, reaction rate, efficiency
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Reaction rate is the most important issue in Chemical kinetics which the objective of observation about reaction rate is to understand how different experimental conditions can influence the speed of a chemical reaction. Chemists are constantly intended to find the methods to increase the speed of reactions and at the short time gain the high efficiency by which a method to decrease and avoid the harmful chemical reactions would be appeared to work. Biological reactions are noticeably done slower than the chemical reactions. In chemical industry, processes are continuously developing, whereas the processes are not like this in biotechnological reactions. In fact, reaction rate due its high efficiency, heat consumption, low energy, high security, optimized usage of the materials, low wastage of chemical materials, and etc has gained importance. In present paper, the objective is to compare the biological and chemical reactions on the basis of reaction rate. To respond to the objective of the present paper, it has to be found out that which methods are helpful to increase the reaction rate.

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Title The assessment of stability and hydrostatic curves for submarines at surface and submerged conditions
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Keywordshydrostatic curve, stability, submarine, surface, submerge, ballast tanks
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In present paper, the stability curves for submarines at surface and submerged conditions have been presented in which the stability of ship has not been mentioned. The submarine due to the points such as diving and going under water are different from the ships. Three various conditions of stability in submarine have been considered which are as surface, transition and submerged conditions. The ballast tanks are provided for “submerging” process, so that the ballast tanks play important role in making the submarines stable and Equilibrium. The present paper is provided to give the results about the stability of submarine and it‘s difference points with the stability of ships.

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Title Three Great Jean in Education: Views of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget about learner – centered (oriented) education
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KeywordsKeywords: Lerner-Oriented Education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
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Abstract\nLearner-oriented education is a spectrum that extends from the interaction between learner and teacher to pure learner-oriented education. This study uses a descriptive-analytical methodology to explore the views of the three main contributors of learner-oriented education, namely, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. This study is an attempt to find the positions of these three personalities on learner-oriented education spectrum. The findings of this study show that all three personalities supported learner-oriented education and emphasized on its many attributes. These attributes provide learner the freedom of experimentation, interaction, and participation based on his needs, motivation, interest, and willingness that are driven by his talents and understanding. Learner-oriented education is like a color spectrum. It starts at the light end (A) and turns darker as education moves on the spectrum toward the other end (B). Each one of the three contributors has a position on this spectrum.

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Title Supplementary CaCl2 ameliorates wheat tolerance to NaCl
Paper ID 9GeFO
Keywordsan¬tioxidants, alternative oxidase, CaCl2, salinity, tolerance, wheat
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The response of two wheat cultivars (Misr-1 and Sakha-93) to NaCl was studied to ameliorate salinity tolerance by CaCl2. Growth parameters and also glutathione (GSH) content in both cultivars under normal conditions were most likely similar. Nonetheless, NaCl at 75, 150 and 225 mM led to accumulation in lipid peroxides and H2O2 but decreased GSH; the effect was most pronounced in Sakha-93 particularly with increasing NaCl concentration. Catalase (CAT), peroxidase (POD), glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and glutathione reductase (GR) activities were increased in Misr-1 by 75 and 150 mM but inhibited in Sakha-93 by all concentrations. The alternative oxidase (AOX) responded differently to NaCl, there were decreases by 75 and 225 mM in Misr-1 and by 75 and 150 mM in Sakha-93. Nevertheless, 10 mM CaCl2 alleviated the impacts of NaCl, counterbalances in the accumulated peroxides and H2O2 and recoveries in the decreased GSH were mostly induced by CaCl2 particularly in Misr-1. These findings reveal that ROS scavenging is more efficient in Misr-1, the more tolerant cultivar. The response of AOX appeared to coincide with antioxidants so that the damage which was inflicted by NaCl can be ameliorated by over-expression of antioxidants especially with the presence of CaCl2.

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Title Intelligent Radio Resource Management Scheme through Handoff Rate Optimization in Wimax 16m Networks
Paper ID YmQCN
KeywordsWimax 16m, channel condition, bandwidth reservation, Disconnection Prediction module, RRM
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The IEEE 802.16m standard for Advanced mobile broadband wireless access provides a seamless application connectivity to other mobile and IP networks like UMTS, LTE and WLAN which are having great difference in terms of data transmission rate, Coverage, cost and supporting of service types. Emerging multimedia services like immersive environments, IPTV applications, video conferencing, and 3D virtual world requires reliable communication even in high mobility in heterogeneous network environment, denser area and in cell edges. Users’ mobility is a major factor which directly affects the performance of the Radio Resource Management (RRM). To ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) performances, we propose a Dynamic queue-aware Connection Admission Control (CAC) schemes, and a dynamic bandwidth reservation are considered at Base Station and Subscriber station for new and handoff calls. A queuing analytical framework is developed for this admission control schemes. The simulation results show the proposed RRM scheme is effective to increase the data throughput as well as to decrease the packet loss rate and packet delay to improve the user-perceived quality of service (QoS).

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Title Image segmentation using spread seed algorithm and binary tree allocation
Paper ID jp9aT
KeywordsImage Segmentation, Spread seed, Binary tree allocation,recognition,threshold
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The most important stage in image processing and human activities recognition is the segmentation method. So many researchers give us many ideas and techniques but still there is no perfect technique to segment object and catch all requirement, Our contribution here is using spread seed technique to segment objects inside the image and expand regions of object if the object consist of different pixels intensity via using threshold of pixel intensity .changing values of threshold make this technique more reliable and distribute objects according to size of segment area then we can store the objects recognized by the size and image histogram for retrieve them to rearrange the objects within binary tree.

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