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Evaluation of seismic performance of steel frames with Y-shape braces under far-field and near-field earthquakes Open

Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Shahin Borzoo, Kaveh Saboohian, Hadi Aboutalebi · 2025

In this study, the finite element modeling of the Y-shape bracing system is initially developed and verified. Next, the seismic performance of steel frames with Y-shape braces under far-field and near-field earthquakes was evaluated. For t…

RIFF: Learning to Rephrase Inputs for Few-shot Fine-tuning of Language Models Open

Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Alona Fyshe · 2024

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) can be accurately fine-tuned for downstream text processing tasks. Recently, researchers have introduced several parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods that optimize input prompts or adjust a small numbe…

Effect of Natural Weathering on Performance of Wood Flour-Recycled Polypropylene Composites Open

Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Sima Hatami Naderloo, Behbood Mohebby · 2024

In this study, the effect of natural weathering on the physical and mechanical properties of wood plastic composites (WPC) made from virgin and recycled polypropylene (PP) was studied. To prepare the recycled PP, virgin PP was thermo-mecha…

Wheat straw-based particleboards with citric acid as adhesive; influence of mat moisture and adhesive content Open

Amin Khatiri, Ali Shalbafan, Saeed Kazemi Najafi · 2023

ABSTRAC In this study, the properties of particleboard made from wheat straw using citric acid (CA) as a bio-adhesive were investigated. The effects of mat moisture content (MC) and adhesive on mechanical properties (flexural strength, mod…

Color and Gloss Changes of a Lignin-Based Polyurethane Coating under Accelerated Weathering Open

Fatemeh Hassani Khorshidi, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Farhood Najafi, A. Pizzi, Dick Sandberg , et al. · 2023

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the properties of polyurethane coatings based on ligninnano-particles. For this purpose, the prepared coatings were applied to pine wood surfaces and weathered artificially.Subsequently…

Preparation of Polyurethane Adhesive from Wood Sawdust polyol: Application of Response Surface Methodology for Optimization of Catalyst and Glycerol Open

Soheyla Daneshvar, Rabi Behrooz, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Gity Mir, Mohamad Sadeghi · 2021

Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to optimize catalyst and glycerol values as suitable additives in polyurethane adhesive production and determine the appropriate gel time. Polyurethane adhesive was prepared using polyol, two …

Influence of modified graphite on formaldehyde emission from medium density fiberboard (MDF) Open

Reza Jazayeri, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, H. Younesi, Abolfazl Karegarfard · 2021

In this study, the effect of graphite and two modified graphite materials was investigated in reducing formaldehyde emission from medium density fiberboard (MDF). For this purpose, expanded graphite (EG) was synthesized from graphite (G) a…

Characterization of Engineering Elastic Parameters of Oriented Strand Board (OSB) Manufactured from Poplar (<i>Populus deltoides</i>) Strands Using Ultrasonic Contact Pulse Transmission Open

Meysam Zahedi, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Josef Füssl, Majid Elyasi · 2020

When using wood and wood-based composites, it is necessary to determine the elastic constants of these engineered materials. Oriented strand board (OSB), as structural wood based panel, plays a significant role in the building sector, but …

Efficient Sequence Labeling with Actor-Critic Training Open

Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kondrak · 2019

Characterization of polyurethane wood adhesive prepared from liquefied sawdust by ethylene carbonate Open

Soheyla Daneshvar, Rabi Behrooz, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Gity Mir Mohamad Sadeghi · 2018

Polyols, which are important compounds of polyurethane adhesives (PU), were prepared in this work from renewable sources. Beech wood sawdust was liquefied using ethylene carbonate as a new solvent and sulfuric acid as a catalyst in the two…

String Transduction with Target Language Models and Insertion Handling Open

Garrett Nicolai, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Grzegorz Kondrak · 2018

Many character-level tasks can be framed as sequence-to-sequence transduction, where the target is a word from a natural language. We show that leveraging target language models derived from unannotated target corpora, combined with a prec…

Influence of combined hygro-thermo-mechanical treatment on technical characteristics of poplar wood Open

Reza Hajihassani, Behbood Mohebby, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Parviz Navi · 2018

Combined hygro-thermo-mechanical technique was adopted and used for densification of poplar wood instead of sole treatment. This technique is combination of two techniques of hygrothermal treatment and densification of wood. For treatment,…

Comparison of Assorted Models for Transliteration Open

Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Bradley Hauer, Rashed Rubby Riyadh, Leyuan Yu, Grzegorz Kondrak · 2018

We report the results of our experiments in the context of the NEWS 2018 Shared Task on Transliteration. We focus on the comparison of several diverse systems, including three neural MT models. A combination of discriminative, generative, …

If you can't beat them, join them: the University of Alberta system description Open

Garrett Nicolai, Bradley Hauer, Mohammad Motallebi, Saeed Kazemi Najafi, Grzegorz Kondrak · 2017

We describe our approach and experiments in the context of the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 Shared Task on Universal Morphological Reinflection.We combine a discriminative transduction system with neural models.The results on five languages show …

Activated Carbon Production from Wood Based Panels Waste and its Application as an Additive of Urea Formaldehyde Resin Open

Saeed Kazemi Najafi, R. Zamani, Habibollah Younesi · 2017

MDF sanding dust was considered as a raw material for the production of activated carbon (AC). The AC was prepared by impregnation of MDF sanding dust with KOH at three different weight ratio 1:1, 1:0/75 and 1:0/50 (sanding dust/KOH). The …

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