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Thermally reused solar energy harvesting using current mirror cells

  • Mostafa Noohi;Ali Mirvakili;Hadi Safdarkhani;Sayed Alireza Sadrossadat
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.519-533
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    • 2023
  • This paper implements a simultaneous solar and thermal energy harvesting system, as a hybrid energy harvesting (HEH) system, to convert ambient light into electrical energy through photovoltaic (PV) cells and heat absorbed in the body of PV cells. Indeed, a solar panel equipped with serially connected thermoelectric generators not only converts the incoming light into electricity but also takes advantage of heat emanating from the light. In a conventional HEH system, the diode block is used to provide the path for the input source with the highest value. In this scheme, at each time, only one source can be handled to generate its output, while other sources are blocked. To handle this challenge of combining resources in HEH systems, this paper proposes a method for collecting all incoming energies and conveying its summation to the load via the current mirror cells in an approach similar to the maximum power point tracking. This technique is implemented using off-the-shelf components. The measurement results show that the proposed method is a realistic approach for supplying electrical energy to wireless sensor nodes and low-power electronics.

Detrimental impact of cell phone radiation on sperm DNA integrity

  • Yeganeh Koohestanidehaghi;Mohammad Ali Khalili;Fatemeh Dehghanpour;Mohammad Sei
    • Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2024
  • Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMR) from various sources may impact health due to the generation of frequency bands. Broad pulses emitted within frequency bands can be absorbed by cells, influencing their function. Numerous laboratory studies have demonstrated that mobile phones-generally the most widely used devices-can have harmful effects on sex cells, such as sperm and oocytes, by producing RF-EMR. Moreover, some research has indicated that RF-EMR generated by mobile phones can influence sperm parameters, including motility, morphology, viability, and (most critically) DNA structure. Consequently, RF-EMR can disrupt both sperm function and fertilization. However, other studies have reported that exposure of spermatozoa to RF-EMR does not affect the functional parameters or genetic structure of sperm. These conflicting results likely stem from differences among studies in the duration and exposure distance, as well as the species of animal used. This report was undertaken to review the existing research discussing the effects of RF-EMR on the DNA integrity of mammalian spermatozoa.

Pultruded GFRP box beams: State-of-the-art review on constituents and structural behavior

  • Mozhdeh Dehshirizadeh;Abolfazl Eslami;Mehdi Khodadad Sar-Yazdi;Hamid R. Ronagh
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.90 no.2
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    • pp.127-142
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    • 2024
  • In recent decades, pultruded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) members including those of box sections have attracted the attention of researchers. Nevertheless, the lack of uniform and consistent material properties, simplified design methods, and practical design codes have so far been the main barrier for field applications. Consequently, this paper highlights the existing knowledge concerning the flexural behavior of pultruded GFRP profiles and their failure modes. In particulate, it reviews the most commonly accepted design expressions and code provisions addressing the flange local buckling of pultruded GFRP box beams as the most likely failure mode. In addition, the material characterization of GFRP sections is described in detail along with the standard test methods to quantify the material characterization of GFRP laminates. It is shown that the critical flange local buckling stresses of pultruded GFRP box beams can be predicted with reliable accuracy using the expressions promulgated by ASCE (1984) (in which the flange plates are considered simply-supported at web-flange junction) and EUR 27666. The expressions stipulated in ASCE (2010) highly overestimates the critical flange local buckling stresses of GFRP box beams resulting in unconservative predictions.

Incidence and Trends of Malignant and Benign Pancreatic Lesions in Yazd, Iran between 2001 and 2011

  • Zahir, Shokouh Taghipour;Arjmand, Azita;Kargar, Saeed;Neishaboury, Mohamadreza
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.2631-2635
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    • 2013
  • Background: Despite recent valuable steps in initiating a cancer registry in Iran, data depicting prevalence, incidence, and clinical picture of pancreatic tumors in the country are exceedinglyly sparse. With the aim of filling this knowledge gap, we reviewed cases in the pathology archive of Shahid Sadoughi hospital (Yazd, Iran), between 2001 and 2011. Materials and Methods: Medical records of 177 patients are reported in the present study. In cases for which paraffin-embedded blocks were available, the specimens were evaluated by two independent pathologists blinded to the primary diagnosis. We extrapolated the frequency of malignant lesions in our study to the population of Yazd province, derived from national census data, to generate cancer incidence rates. Results: Final diagnosis of malignancy was made in 117 cases (66.1%), and the remainder (60 lesions, 33.9%) were classified as benign. Adenecarcinoma and neuroendocrine tumors were the two most common histological types of malignancy identified in 88 (75.2%) and 11 (9.4%) specimens, respectively. Crude annual incidence of pancreatic cancer was 0.55 per 100,000 person in 2001 and increased to 1.68 in 2011. Age standardized incidence rates in 2001 and 2011 were 0.75 and 2.68, respectively. A significant increasing trend in cancer incidence was observed during the 11 years of the study period (r=+0.856, p=0.009). Sex-stratified analysis, confirmed the observed trend in men (r=+0.728, p=0.034), but not women (r=+0.635, p=0.083). Conclusions: Over the past decade, incidence of pancreas malignancies has risen steadily in Yazd, Iran. Nevertheless, these figures are still substantially lower than those prevalent in developed nations.

Indirect Spectrophotometric Determination of Trace Quantities of Hydrazine

  • Haji Shabani, A.M.;Dadfarnia, S.;Dehghan, K.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.213-215
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    • 2004
  • An indirect, sensitive and accurate method for the determination of trace amounts of hydrazine is described. The method is based on the oxidation of hydrazine by a known excess of iodate in the presence of hydrochloric acid. The unreacted iodate is used in the oxidation of hydroxylamine to nitrite. Sulfanilic acid is diazotized by the nitrite formed. The resulting diazonium ion is coupled with N-(1-naphthyl)ethylenediamine to form a stable azo dye, which shows an absorption maximum at 540 nm. Hydrazine can be determined in the range of 20-400 ng $mL^{-1}$ with a detection limit of 3.1 ng $mL^{-1}$. The relative standard deviation for 50, 200 and 400 ng $mL^{-1}$ of hydrazine is 2, 1.5 and 1.3%, respectively (n = 10). The method was applied to the determination of hydrazine in water samples.

An Efficient Procedure for the Synthesis of Benzimidazoles Using H2O2/SiO2-FeCl3 System (H2O2/SiO2-FeCl3 계를 이용한 Benzimidazoles의 효율적인 합성)

  • Fazlinia, Abbas;Mosslemin, Mohammad Hossein;Sadoughi, Hesamaddin
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.54 no.5
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    • pp.579-581
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    • 2010
  • Solid silica supported ferric chloride ($SiO_2-FeCl_3$) catalyzed one-step synthesis of various benzimidazoles from o-phenylenediamine and aldehydes using $H_2O_2$ as the oxidant. The salient features of this method are simple and convenient procedure, easy purification and shorter reaction times.

FENC: Fast and Efficient Opportunistic Network Coding in wireless networks

  • Pahlavani, Peyman;Derhami, Vali;Bidoki, Ali Mohammad Zareh
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.52-67
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    • 2011
  • Network coding is a newly developed technology that can cause considerable improvements in network throughput. COPE is the first network coding approach for wireless mesh networks and it is based on opportunistic Wireless Network Coding (WNC). It significantly improves throughput of multi-hop wireless networks utilizing network coding and broadcast features of wireless medium. In this paper we propose a new method, called FENC, for opportunistic WNC that improves the network throughput. In addition, its complexity is lower than other opportunistic WNC approaches. FENC utilizes division and conquer method to find an optimal network coding. The numerical results show that the proposed opportunistic algorithm improves the overall throughput as well as network coding approach.