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A holistic conceptual framework model to describe medication adherence in and guide interventions in diabetes mellitus
( Elsevier Inc. , 2018 , Article)BACKGROUND: Nonadherence to medications in patients with diabetes, which results in poor treatment outcomes and increased healthcare costs, is commonly reported globally. Factors associated with medication adherence have ... -
A Holistic Education for the 21st Century Engineer Based on Wisdom and Multiplexity
( IOS Press BV , 2022 , Conference Paper)In a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) 21st-century world, there is a great need for drawing upon capacity for holistic thinking and wisdom. We need to leverage multiple transdisciplinary thinking that ... -
A holistic overview of Qatar's (Built) cultural heritage; Towards an integrated sustainable conservation strategy
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)Historic urban cores are the backbone of a city's cultural identity. Maintaining and preserving the socio-cultural, environmental and economic characteristics of the built heritage is vital for cultural identity survival. ... -
A HVDC shunt tap based on unidirectional hybrid modular DC-DC converter with simultaneous charging and sequential discharging of capacitors
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)In this paper, a new HVDC shunt tap is proposed. The proposed configuration consists of a unidirectional hybrid modular DC-DC converter followed by a voltage source converter for DC-AC conversion to feed a local AC network ... -
A hybrid active and reactive power control with Quasi Z-source inverter in single-phase grid-connected PV systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a hybrid method of active power and reactive power control strategy with Quasi Z-source inverter (QZSI) in single phase grid connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. The maximum power from the PV panel is ... -
A hybrid approach for identifying factors affecting driver reaction time using naturalistic driving data
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) estimates that 80% of the deaths and injuries resulting from rear-end collisions could be prevented by the use of advanced collision avoidance systems. While autonomous or ... -
A hybrid approach using entropy and TOPSIS to select key drivers for a successful and sustainable lean construction implementation
( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)Successful implementation of the lean concept as a sustainable approach in the construction industry requires the identification of critical drivers in lean construction. Despite this significance, the number of in-depth ... -
A hybrid boost modular multilevel converter-based bipolar high voltage pulse generator
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Conventional Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) with Half-Bridge Sub-Modules (HB-SMs) can be used effectively as a solid-state high-voltage pulse generator to chop a high-voltage dc input into a bipolar pulsed output voltage ... -
A hybrid DNN-LSTM model for detecting phishing URLs
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Article)Phishing is an attack targeting to imitate the official websites of corporations such as banks, e-commerce, financial institutions, and governmental institutions. Phishing websites aim to access and retrieve users' important ... -
A hybrid electro-coagulation/forward osmosis system for treatment of produced water
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Oil and gas exploration produce large volumes highly contaminated produced water (PW) which exhibits a major environmental challenge. This work investigates the application of a novel hybrid system by combining electro-coagulation ... -
A Hybrid Energy Sharing Framework for Green Cellular Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Cellular operators are increasingly turning toward renewable energy (RE) as an alternative to using traditional electricity in order to reduce operational expenditure and carbon footprint. Due to the randomness in both RE ... -
A Hybrid Feature Selection Method for Complex Diseases SNPs
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Machine learning techniques have the potential to revolutionize medical diagnosis. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are one of the most important sources of human genome variability; thus, they have been implicated ... -
A hybrid forward osmosis/reverse osmosis process for the supply of fertilizing solution from treated wastewater
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This work investigates the application of a hybrid system that combines forward osmosis (FO) and reverse osmosis (RO) processes for the supply of a fertilizing solution that could be used directly for irrigation purposes. ... -
A hybrid LQP alternating direction method for solving variational inequality problems with separable structure
( Natural Sciences Publishing Co. , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we presented a logarithmic-quadratic proximal alternating direction method for structured variational inequalities. The method generates the new iterate by searching the optimal step size along the descent ... -
A HYBRID MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL ELASTOMER FOR SEMI-ACTIVE ISOLATION OF LONGITUDINAL AND TORSIONAL VIBRATIONS
(2023 , Master Thesis)Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are materials that exhibit a change in their mechanical properties, such as stiffness and damping, in response to an applied magnetic field. In general, MREs consist of an elastomeric ... -
A Hybrid Multilevel Inverter Scheme for Nine-Phase PPMIM Drive by Using Three-Phase Five-Leg Inverters
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)In pole-phase modulation, the phase order is coming down by pole ratio times in high pole mode, which results in the higher magnitude of spatial harmonics as well as higher torque ripple. In this article, the available ... -
A hybrid nf-fo-ro process for the supply of irrigation water from treated wastewater: Simulation study
( MDPI AG , 2021 , Article)Municipal treated wastewater could be considered as a water source for food crop irrigation purposes. Enhancing the quality of treated wastewater to meet irrigation standards has become a necessary practice. Nanofiltration ... -
A Hybrid Nine-Arm Modular Multilevel Converter for Medium-Voltage Six-Phase Machine Drives
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)The nine-arm modular multilevel converter (9A-MMC) has been recently proposed as a reduced MMC topology variation for six-phase drive applications, with 25% reduction in the number of employed arms and associated components, ... -
A HYBRID NONLINEAR VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTER FOR REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS
(2023 , Master Thesis)Energy harvesting mechanisms can be used to extract energy from ambient surroundings to power small electronic devices which has a significant advantage in realizing self-sustaining wireless devices. The piezoelectric ... -
A hybrid optimization-simulation approach for robust weekly aircraft routing and retiming
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)We address the robust weekly aircraft routing and retiming problem, which requires determining weekly schedules for a heterogeneous fleet that maximizes the aircraft on-time performance, minimizes the total delay, and ...
