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Volume 0, Issue 0 (Articles accepted at the time of publication 2024)
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. Translation is one of the ways that provides trade between two languages, especially if the works selected by the translator are among the noble and precious works of that language. Marzbannameh of Saad al-Din Varavini is one of these valuable works that has a high literary status in Persian language, which was translated into Arabic by the Iranian-origin writer, Shahab al-Din Ahmad bin Abu Muhammad known as Ibn Arabshah in the 9th century. Both books have received influences from the other language in their language format, which indicates a deep connection between Persian and Arabic languages. The present research has been organized in a descriptive-analytical way with the aim of evaluating and explaining the effectiveness and mutual utilization of Waravini and Ibn Arabshah in Arabic and Persian language. The result of the research showed that Varavini has made Marzban-nameh as a technical work that has a rich literary language, decorated with Arabic evidence in terms of words and combinations, poems, verses and hadiths, and on the other hand, Ibn-Arabshah also in the process The translation has benefited from Persian language evidence such as borrowing Persian words, combinations and literal translation of proverbs. The element of culture, as an inseparable pillar of a language, has permeated Persian and Arabic languages and has become a part of that language, and all these elements show the deep and unbreakable connection between Persian and Arabic languages

Volume 4, Issue 2 (9-2014)
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Nowadays, ethics and ethical issues are considered as one of the most important issues in the workplaces. Respecting ethics not only provides many benefits for organization, but also it is considered as one of the criteria of organizational success. Regarding to importance of ethical issues and their role in the organizational success, the purpose of this study is to study the relationship between ethics institutionalization and quality of work life, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. This study is a practical research from purpose view and is a descriptive-survey from methodological perspective. The statistical population of this study includes all of the technical and official employees of Isfahan Sepahan Lole-Porofil Company. A sample of 142 employees was selected from this population through convenience sampling method. A questionnaire has been used for collecting the research data. In order to examine validity of the questionnaire, its face and content validity has been examined and also Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient has been used for examining reliability. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has been used for analyzing research data and testing the hypotheses. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant relationship between ethics institutionalization with quality of work life, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment.        

Volume 5, Issue 1 (Winter 2020)
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AIm: Chronic pain is defined as pain beyond normal tissue lasting for 12 weeks or more. It contributes to disability, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, poor quality of life, and healthcare costs. Although, the treatment choice for chronic pain maybe included recommendations for rest and inactivity, exercise may have specific benefits in reducing the severity of chronic pain, as well as more general benefits associated with improved overall physical and mental health, and physical functioning. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the relationship between exercise doing and musculoskeletal pain.
Methods and Instruments: This descriptive study was conducted among academic people working in Tarbiat Modares University from Jan to Apr 2020. The volunteer subjects were entered into this study after being informed about the aim and procedure of the study and signing the consent form. In this study, the relationship between doing exercise and musculoskeletal pain was investigated.
A researcher –made questionnaire based on the objectives of the study as well as a demographic characteristics questionnaire were used to collect data. In the objective based questionnaire, the participants were asked about their exercise doing and musculoskeletal pain. The response options to the questions were as Yes or No. Finally, the data were entered into SPSS version 26 software and statistically analyzed using descriptive analysis as frequency/percent and analytical analysis as chi-square test.
Findings: Totally 93 participants with mean age of 36.15±11.42 years old including students (41.9%), employees (54.7%) and professor (3.5%) were participated in the study. Furthermore, 41.4% of the participants were men and 58.6% were women. According the results, there was a significant relationship between exercise and reduction of musculoskeletal pain (p<0.0001) Mann Whitney’s test showed that there was a significant relationship between gender and exercise activity (P value= <.001), which was higher in men than women.
Conclusion: This study showed that the participants who did exercise they were less suffering from musculoskeletal pain.

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Volume 5, Issue 14 (6-2017)
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Volume 7, Issue 3 (fall 2023)
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Research subject: Global warming is the most important worldwide problem. CO2 is one of the greenhouse gasses and its emission to the atmosphere causes global warming to increase. Porous adsorbents are great candidates for CO2 adsorption and graphene aerogels are porous nanostructures with very low density and hierarchical porosity which is suitable for CO2 adsorption. The source of pristine graphite for graphene oxide synthesis as a precursor plays a vital role in graphene aerogel nanostructure.  
Research approach: In the current study, graphene oxide by modified Hummers method was synthesized with three different graphite sources. Graphene aerogels were prepared with synthesized graphene oxides via hydrothermal and freeze-drying methods to investigate their effect on graphene aerogel nanostructure. Finally, the CO2 adsorption of graphene aerogels was evaluated. The samples were characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, and BET analysis.
Main results: The results indicated that the source of graphite has a significant role in the process of oxidation of graphene oxide by the modified Hummers method. XRD results of graphene oxides showed successful oxidation of graphite. The normalizing FTIR peaks of graphene oxides showed different intensities of oxygenated functional group peaks. FE-SEM results of graphene aerogels showed that less oxidation of graphite powder caused agglomeration of graphite plates and thick walls were formed. The macropore size in the structure of obtained aerogels (GAB and GAE) was 2.28 and 3.84 µm respectively which affected the CO2 adsorption. Larger pores led to easier mass transfer of CO2 molecules and higher CO2 adsorption was achieved. Moreover, the high meso and micro surface area (111 and 115 m2/g respectively) in GAE increased CO2 adsorption up to 1.04 mmol/g compared to GAB (0.724 mmol/g).  

Volume 8, Issue 3 (10-2008)
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In addition to its fiscal role, income tax does have its own allocative and distributive role too. A key role of income tax is its distributive one, because of which the first principle of tax is “justice principle”. The responsibility of this paper is investigating the salary taxing on income distribution in Iranian economy. To evaluate the above problem, we have tested the models of,so called ,Engel, Galetoric and Raddatz in Iranian economy. We also have called those modeling system ”EGR” .The findings of our paper shows that the optimum tax rates in Iranian economy for years of third development plan are (respectively), 25.18,28.28,12.5,12.5,12.5.So when we compare the actual tax rates with the optimum ones we observe a considerable gap between potential and actual situation in Iranian tax system.

Volume 9, Issue 1 (10-2019)
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The main purpose of this study is to documenting tacit knowledge derived from employee experience. A Critical Incident Techniqu  was used to achieve this purpose. First, 51 employees of the Resource Planning and Development department of Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad  participated in the research in order to find key actor, using the social network analysis. At this stage, social network analysis questionnaire was used to collect data. Based on the findings of the study at this stage, relationship arrangement graph of actors was depicted and actors positions was obtained based on centralization indices in network. Then, based on the results of data analysis, key actors in organizational knowledge network of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were identified. At the next stage, Narrative interviews were used to to find effective and ineffective behaviors in dealing with critical incident.
 

Volume 9, Issue 3 (Summer 2023)
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Background: This study aimed to compare the diagnostic efficacy of standard culture method with multiplex quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) in examining cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples collected from patients with suspected meningitis.
Materials & Methods: A retrospective evaluation was conducted on 166 patients with suspected meningitis, who were treated in Vali-Asr hospital in Birjand, Iran between 2011 and 2020. Diagnosis of bacterial meningitis was based on CSF culture and multiplex qPCR results.
Findings: Among 166 patients, conventional methods identified causative pathogens in only 10.3% of cases, while multiplex qPCR detected pathogens in eight out of 25 culture-negative cases as well. The most common pathogens identified were enterovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex, Haemophilus influenzae, and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Conclusion: Multiplex qPCR appears to be a more effective method than conventional culture in identifying bacterial and viral pathogens that most commonly cause meningitis. The incorporation of qPCR as a routine diagnostic method for meningitis in clinical practice could significantly enhance clinical decision-making and patient care.


Volume 10, Issue 0 (تابستان 86- 2008)
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Objective: 22q11.2 chromosomal region is a hot spot for many cytogenetic rearrangements especially microdeletions which are responsible for DiGeorge and VeloCardioFacial syndromes. The most characteristic sign in these patients is congenital cardiac conotruncal anomalies. The gold standard diagnostic test for these microdeletions is FISH (Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization). However this diagnostic technique has some drawbacks such as high final cost and low sensitivity in smaller and uncommon microdeletions found in this region. The aim of this study was to introduce a less expensive and a priori more sensitive molecular method to help small and peripheral laboratories to find genetic causes of congenital heart diseases and DiGeorge syndrome. Materials and Methods: 10 patients with congenital conotruncal anomalies and symptoms of DiGeorge syndrome were included in this study. These patients had been analyzed by FISH probe TUPLE1 before the inclusion. 3 normal persons were included as normal controls for microdeletion region. Semi Quantitative Multiplex PCRs were designed based on known markers in and out of the region of intrest. Results were analyzed by TotalLab software. Results: 4 patients showed a decrease in gene dosage more than 60% compared to normal persons. FISH analysis found only one patient with microdeletion. Conclusion: The designed method based on semi quantitative PCR was able to find 4 patients (40%) with microdeletion in a population of 10 patients with congenital cardiac anomalies. This technique was also able to find microdeletions in three FISH negative patients. Molecular diagnosis of microdeletions is supposed to be more sensitive than FISH in small microdeletions. This study confirms the presence of atypical deletions in Iranian patients and shows that the applied technique can detect some FISH negative patients. However further studies are needed to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the mentioned molecular diagnosis. It seems that this can be used at least for the patients with typical phenotypic features of 22q11DS and negative FISH results.

Volume 10, Issue 4 (Fall 2022)
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Aim This study was conducted to investigate the association between plant species diversity indices with topographic variables in the rangelands of Hir county, Ardabil Province, Iran.
Materials & Methods Random-systematic sampling was performed in three elevation profiles at 11 sites. The elevation was divided into five classes, slope into three classes, and aspect into four classes. Indices of plant species richness, Margalef’s, Menhinick’s, Hill evenness, density, and dominance were calculated. Indices in different classes of topographic variables were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Duncan's mean comparison.
Findings Results showed that the highest value of the Shannon-Wiener indices was observed in the elevation class of 1800-2000 meters above sea level (masl). The highest values of plant species evenness, richness, and diversity of Simpson’s and Shannon-Wiener were related to the slope of 0-20%. The values of species richness indices and dominance in the southwest direction, and Menhinick’s richness in the northwest direction, were higher than the other directions. At the level of Plant Functional Types (PFTs), the highest amount of evenness is at the grasses PFT and elevation classes of 1800-2000 and 2400-2600 masl. The maximum amount of Hill evenness at the shrub PFT and slope of 40-60%. The highest amount of Margalef’s richness and Shannon-Wiener plant diversity was in the forbs PFT and in the southwest direction.
Conclusion According to the results, elevation, and slope have the greatest effect and the aspects of the slope have the least effect on the diversity of plant species in the region.

 

Volume 12, Issue 4 (3-2023)
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Today, many organizations meet with many risks to employee development. They are suspicious about return on investment in employee development. Managers expect that developing investments improve employee performance and organizational wellbeing. The organization spent time, cost, and experience on employee development, but the turnover of employees, less of competence, limitation of competence, absence, and leaving the organization cause human resource development risk. The purpose of this research is to review the articles on risks and human resource development. After that, a model of human resource development risk in the knowledge-Based organization was presented. The method of this research is a mixed approach. This mix-method is a developmental and applied study. The model of human resource development risk used was designed based on interviews with 17 experts in this field. To evaluate the model, a fieldwork questionnaire was distributed among 100 experts. The collected data were analyzed via Theme analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. The findings indicate individual dimension is less mentioned in the literature, but it is a high priority for the organizational dimension. perceptual risk, knowledge risk, and behavioral risk are three components of individual risk and human resource environment risk with operational risks are two components of organizational risk. Managers can better analyze via the human resource development risk model in individual and organizational dimensions.
Esmaeel Ghafari, Jalil Rezaeepazhand,
Volume 14, Issue 16 (Forth Special Issue 2015)
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This paper presents prediction of static behavior of composite beams with arbitrary anisotropic materials. The procedure is based on decomposing a 3-D nonlinear elasticity problem into a 2-D analysis of cross section and a 1-D analysis across the beam length. This is accomplished by assuming that magnitude of strain is small compared to unity and cross section size is small relative to wave length of deformation, inherent to beam-like structures. In 2-D cross sectional analysis warping functions are calculated in terms of 1-D strain parameters and finally, fully coupled classical stiffness constants are derived which include extension, torsion and bending in two directions. 1-D analysis is modeled by Finite Element Method through calculating beam strain energy. In this article warpings are derived using Rayleigh-Ritz method. The great advantage of using Rayleigh-Ritz is simplifying cross sectional analysis in contrast with the mesh generation in FEM of similar procedures. Different cross section stiffnesses are investigated for ply orientation angle. Calculated results for symmetric and anti-symmetric composite box beams correlate well with 3-D FEM using Abaqus software as well as experimental results. The present solution has more accurate results for anti-symmetric composite box beam. According to costly use of 3-D FEM analysis, the present procedure with high speed and acceptable accuracy, is truly sufficient for preliminary and optimization problems.
Esmaeel Ghafari, Jalil Rezaeepazhand,
Volume 15, Issue 6 (8-2015)
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This paper, presents the static analysis of composite beams with transverse shear effects using polynomials based dimensional reduction method. In dimensional reduction method, a three dimensional elasticity problem is split into a two dimensional cross section analysis and a one dimensional beam analysis. FEM is commonly used to analyze beam cross section in the literature. In this study, polynomial functions and Rayleigh-Ritz method are used to present an analytical procedure for two dimensional cross section analysis. Variational Asymptotic Method (VAM) is employed considering shear stiffnesses of composite beam cross section. VAM, asymptotically generates fully coupled cross section stiffness matrix. VAM benefits small parameters, related to characteristic length of cross section, to find stationary values of beam energy functional. By minimizing the energy functional with respect to warpings, in and out of plane warping functions are acquired. In this article, isotropic beams with different cross section geometries and symmetric as well as anti-symmetric composite box beams are investigated. Presented results show appropriate correlation of the present study with theoretical and experimental results, as well as 3D Finite Element analysis. Using dimensional reduction method reduces the computing time and empowers researchers to design and optimize composite beam-like structures.
Ali Selk Ghafari, Kasra Dariani Tabrizi, Said Hosseini, Ali Meghdari,
Volume 16, Issue 9 (11-2016)
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In this paper design, fabrication and control of a robotic fish with flexible tail was presented. At first, the short introduction of the robotic fish and their common control algorithms were reviewed. At the next step, the proposed mechanism of the robotic fish and its design procedure of the mechanical and electrical subsystems were explained. Mimic of the proposed robot was inspired from the Rainbow trout. The mechanical structure of the robotic fish consists of a body and a flexible tail. Oscillatory actuation of the tail was carried out utilizing a servomotor which was manipulated by pulse width modulation signal. The electrical subsystem of the proposed robot containing the electrical boards, electronic circuits, and a microcontroller are installed on the Aluminum platform which is locating in a sealed case. The flexible tail is attached to the end-side of the sealed case, and the actuating force is transferred to the tail utilizing pulley and cable mechanism. Since the dynamics of the system under investigation is nonlinear, a fuzzy logic controller is proposed to control the movement of the robot for goal seeking purpose. The closed loop simulation of the system was carried using MATLAB software. In addition, experimental investigation of the robotic fish was performed in the laboratory.

Volume 17, Issue 2 (3-2015)
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Iron deficiency in soil reduces the quality of durum wheat leading to Fe deficiency in human. Thus, this experiment investigated the effects of foliar application of nano-iron oxide (2 and 4 g L-1), iron chelate (EDTA), (4 and 8 g L-1), iron sulfate (4 and 8 g L-1), and the control on grain yield and quality, yield components, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, peroxidase (POX), catalase (CAT), and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activities of durum wheat D-85-15-5. Iron application increased activities of all leaf enzymes and chlorophyll of leaf, grain protein, iron and carbohydrate contents, grain carbohydrate, protein, iron yields, and grain yield. Iron source had no effects on enzymes activities, but the highest chlorophyll content, grain yield, grain iron (38%) and protein contents (58%), protein, iron, and carbohydrate yields were produced by application of 2 g L-1 of nano-iron oxide followed by 8 g L-1 iron sulfate. Harvest index, 1,000 gain-weight, and chlorophyll, grain yield, grain iron and protein contents, protein, iron, and carbohydrate yields increased. But, these parameters decreased at the higher rate of nano-iron oxide. Application of 2 g L-1 nano-iron oxide was more effective than the other Fe sources and rates, and is suggested for durum wheat production.
Mohammad Hadi Ghafari, Afshin Ghanbarzadeh, Ali Valipour,
Volume 17, Issue 6 (8-2017)
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Any industry needs an efficient predictive plan in order to optimize the management of resources and improve the economy of the plant by reducing unnecessary costs and increasing the level of safety. Rotating machinery is the most common machinery in industry and the root of the faults in rotatingmachinery is often faulty rolling element bearings. Because of a transitory characteristic vibration of bearing faults, combining Continuous wavelet transforms with envelope analysis is applied for signal proseccing. This paper studies the application of independent component analysis and support vector machines to for automated diagnosis of localized faults in rolling element bearings. The independent component analysis is used for feature extraction and data reduction from original features. The principal components analysis is also applied in feature extraction process for comparison with independent component analysis does. In this paper, support vector machines-based multi-class classification is applied to do faults classification process and utilized a cross-validation technique in order to choose the optimal values of kernel parameters.
Ali Taherifar, Gholamreza Vossoughi, Ali Selk Ghafari,
Volume 17, Issue 8 (10-2017)
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Nowadays the exoskeleton, known as a useful device in robotic rehabilitation and elderly assistance, has been attracted the attention of many researches. One of the most important feathers of the exoskeleton robots are the compliant interaction with patient. The Series Elastic Actuators (SEA) not only interact with human compliantly but also provide several advantaged such as torque measurement and torque control. The pervious researches have used an inner position loop and an outer force loop. In this paper, the motor and power transmission model is also integrated in the controller design. In this paper, the parameters of the SEA, motor and links are identified firstly. Then, two model-based torque control is designed and introduced based on the velocity and current commands. In contrast to previous researched, the controller is proposed for the locked and free condition and the Lyapunov stability analysis is presented. Finally, the experimental validation test on the Sharif lower limb exoskeleton is presented for these controller. The experimental results of the controller show that the accuracy of torque control based on the current and velocity is 1.2 and 0.2 N.m, respectively.
Mohammad Mahdi Ghafari, Hamed Jamshidi Aval,
Volume 17, Issue 12 (2-2018)
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This study addressed the friction stir welding of AA2024-T351 and AA6061-T6 aluminum alloys with added reinforcing particles at 800 rpm, and a traverse speed of 31.5 mm/min. The specimens were heat-treated for different time durations to study the impact of SiC particles on aging kinetics during welding in different metallurgical regions. The Vickers micro-hardness and optical microscopy showed that the reinforcing particles enhanced aging kinetics and decreased the grain size in the stir zone. Moreover, compared to micro-sized SiC particles, the addition of SiC nanoparticles led to a higher hardness at the stir zone following the post-weld heat treatment. Although the joint containing SiC nanoparticles was associated with a higher strength after heat treatment, the trends of changes in strength with time were similar for all specimens with the maximum strength obtained after 20 hours of artificial aging at 160℃. The fracture was controlled by the weakest point of the joint which was located near the thermo-mechanically affected zone on the AA6061 side in all specimens. The mechanical behavior of the joint after heat treatment was identical to the stress-strain behavior of the AA6061 base metal.
Morteza Dardel, Hamidreza Ghafari, Seyed Vahid Sepehr Mousavi,
Volume 18, Issue 2 (4-2018)
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Due to the depletion of shallow water resources, the development of exploration and production has shifted towards the deep and ultra-deep water region. The types of floating platforms are all need to be moored when they are working as production platforms. Applying buoys to the catenary mooring system in deep water may reduce part of the weight and radius of a mooring. In this article, Dynamic responses of the Amirkabir semi-submersible platform was obtained under the combination of wind and wave loads in frequency domain and time domain simulation calculated. The JONSWAP wave spectrum and API wind spectrum are considered as environmental conditions .and also the effects of buoy size on the semisubmersible motion response is investigated. Dynamic responses of the semi-submersible platform determine by using the Morison equation and diffracting theory in AQWA ANSYS software and each dynamic mooring line is modeled as a chain of Morison-type elements subjected to various external forces. The obtained result from AQWA ANSYS in time and frequency domain shows that increasing buoy size, could increase motions of the semisubmersible platform but instead could decreasing the mooring line tension.

Volume 18, Issue 120 (February 2021)
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The aim of study was to produce gluten-free cake for celiac patients using Ajowan powder and to increases of its nutritional value and improve its textural properties. For this purpose, Ajowan powder  at 0, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15% levels was added into gluten-free cake formulation and their effects were evaluated on nutritional (fiber, water activity, phenolic compounds, flavonoid compounds and antioxidant activity), and technological characteristics (color, porosity and microstructure and hardness) of cake. According to obtained results, the use of Ajowan powder caused an increase in fiber content and water activity of gluten-free cake. Also, the porosity of the samples increased with increasing the amount of Ajowan powder. Color parameters of the cake crumb showed that increasing the amount of Ajowan powder caused a decrease in brightness index (L*), an increase in redness (a*) and yellowness (b*). By increasing the Ajowan powder level to 15%, the content of phenolic and flavonoid compounds as well as the antioxidant activity of the samples increased 8.9, 14.3 and 4.1 time more than control sample, respectively. Moreover, cake hardness increased with increasing Ajowan powder level during 14 days of storage, but it was not evident in low levels of Ajowan powder. 15% Ajowan powder and control samples had highest (0.89 N( and lowest (0.13N) hardness, respectively. Sensory evaluation performed by the panelists also showed that the overall acceptability was higher at samples treated with 3 and 6% of Ajowan powder than other samples. Finally, the sample containing 6% of Ajowan powder was introduced as the best sample.

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