In this research, ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized using a binary Zn(II) Schiff-base complex. The complex heat-treated to prepare ZnO nanoparticles via thermal decomposition route at a temperature of 500 °C. The formation of single-phase ZnO nanoparticles and their microstructures were studied by XRD pattern, SEM and TEM observation. The photo-degradation characteristic of the as-prepar...

Maximizing the battery life time of mobile devices and sensor nodes increasingly becomes a challenge. In many applications the energy consumed by the receiver is orders of magnitude larger than the energy consumed by the transmitter. We address the challenge of achieving the highest possible throughput per Watt of available receiver circuit power. Our closed form solution allows us to formalize...

We shall extend Iri's multiplicative penalty function method for linear programming [41 so that it can handle the problem of unknown optimum value of the objective function, without solving both primal and dual problems simultaneously, and generate convergent dual solutions. By making use of these dual variables, lower bounds of the optimum objective function value are updated efficiently, whic...

Tunnel structures are known as expensive infrastructures and determining optimum designs of these structures can play a great role in minimizing their cost. The formulation of optimum design of industrial tunnel sections as an optimization is considered in this paper and then the enhanced charged system search, as a recently developed meta-heuristic approach, has been applied to solve the probl...

Problem statement: Solving the state assignment problem means finding the optimum assignment for each state within a sequential digital circuit. These optimum assignments will result in decreasing the hardware realization cost and increasing the reliability of the digital circuit. Unfortunately, the state assignment problem belongs to the class of nondeterministic polynomial time problems (NP c...

One of the reasons for the success of the agricultural sector in the developed countries is regulate the size of the farms, because it helps to scale economy of production. Considering that the size of agricultural production units should be specifically determined for each product and in each area, the aim of this study is to determine the optimum size of rice farms in the Fereydounkenar count...