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A Combined Method for Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis Using Deep Learning, Singular Value Decomposition, and Self-Organizing Map Approaches
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Diabetes in humans is a rapidly expanding chronic disease and a major crisis in modern societies. The classification of diabetics is a challenging and important procedure that allows the interpretation of diabetic data and ... -
A combined method of optimized learning vector quantization and neuro-fuzzy techniques for predicting unified Parkinson's disease rating scale using vocal features
( Elsevier B.V. , 2024 , Article)Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a common disorder of the central nervous system. The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale or UPDRS is commonly used to track PD symptom progression because it displays the presence and ... -
Combined Noncoding RNA-mRNA Regulomics Signature in Reprogramming and Pluripotency in iPSCs
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2022 , Article)Somatic cells are reprogrammed with reprogramming factors to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), offering a promising future for disease modeling and treatment by overcoming the limitations of embryonic stem ... -
Combined theoretical and experimental study of the transmission of tilted ion beams through macroscopic conical glass capillaries
( IOP Publishing , 2015 , Conference Paper)The transmission as a function of the tilt angle of a 3 keV Ar+ ion beam through a conical macroscopic glass capillary is studied theoretically and experimentally. It was found that the charge patches which are responsible ... -
A combined thermo-mechanical refrigeration system with isobaric expander-compressor unit powered by low grade heat – Design and analysis
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Refrigeration and air conditioning systems consume about 17% of the world-wide electricity and their conventional refrigerants cause ozone depletion and global warming. In this study a novel thermo-mechanical refrigeration ... -
Combined use of lifecycle management and IoT in smart cities
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)IoT-enabled smart city service systems are well recognized to address issues of urbanization in the city environment. In most cases, those systems are vertically locked; and from lifecycle perspective, independently designed, ... -
Combining bioadsorption and photoelectrochemical oxidation for the treatment of soil-washing effluents polluted with herbicide 2,4-D
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2017 , Article)BACKGROUND: The aim of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of complete treatment of soil spiked with 2,4-D, consisting of soil washing, followed by bioadsorption with activated sludge and electrochemical and ... -
Combining Fisher locality preserving projections and passband DCT for efficient palmprint recognition
( Elsevier B.V. , 2015 , Article)In this paper a new graph based approach referred to as Fisher Locality Preserving Projections (FLPP) is proposed for efficient palmprint recognition. The technique employs two graphs with the first being used to characterize ... -
Combustion and emissions of a diesel engine utilizing novel intake manifold designs and running on alternative fuels
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This work presents a number of integrated strategies aimed at enhancing the performance of the diesel engine and the subsequent reduction of its associated emissions. Three novel spiral-helical shaped intake manifolds with ... -
Combustion and emissions of a gas-to-liquid diesel engine utilizing optimized spiral-helical intake manifold designs
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2021 , Article)Two simultaneous strategies were used to reduce diesel engine emissions. Optimized manifold designs were used with gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel and its blend with diesel fuel. Six new spiral-helical manifolds were tested, which ... -
COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS AND EMISSION OF A DI DIESEL ENGINE UTILIZING NEW INDUCTION MANIFOLD DESIGNS AND RUNNING ON ALTERNATIVE FUEL BLENDS
(2018 , Master Thesis)The demands for increasing the swirl in the combustion chamber and for decreasing the exhaust emissions on diesel engines have increased rapidly over the past few years. Consequently, the researchers’ attention has been ... -
Combustion Characteristics and Emissions of a Direct-Injection Diesel Engine Fueled with GTL Fuel Blends
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Gas to Liquids (GTL) is one of clean alternative fuels which loosely defined terms that is generally used to describe the chemical conversion of natural gas to some type of liquid products. As such, it excludes the production ... -
Combustion synthesis of bifunctional LaMO3 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) perovskites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Lanthanum based electrocatalytically active LaMO3 (M = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) perovskites were synthesized using a single step solution combustion technique. The structural and morphological properties of the catalysts were ... -
Combustion synthesis of copper ceria solid solution for CO2 conversion to CO via reverse water gas shift reaction
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)The reverse water–gas shift chemical (RWGS) reaction is a promising technique of converting CO2 to CO at low operating temperatures, with high CO selectivity and negligible side products. In this study, we investigate the ... -
Combustion synthesis of copper-nickel catalysts for hydrogen production from ethanol
( Elsevier B.V. , 2015 , Article)Cu and Ni based catalysts were synthesized using solution combustion synthesis method. The catalytic activity and hydrogen selectivity were investigated for ethanol decomposition reaction. The amount of fuel content in the ... -
Combustion synthesis of lanthanum oxide supported Cu, Ni, and CuNi nanoparticles for CO2 conversion reaction
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)The reverse water gas shift (RWGS) process is considered a feasible method for lowering greenhouse gas emissions by utilizing CO2 and converting it to CO. Herein, we evaluated the catalytic conversion of CO2 through the ... -
Combustion synthesis of non-precious CuO-CeO2 nanocrystalline catalysts with enhanced catalytic activity for methane oxidation
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)In this study, xCuO-CeO2 mixed oxide catalysts (Cu weight ratio x = 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6 and 15 wt.%) were prepared using solution combustion synthesis (SCS) and their catalytic activities towards the methane (CH4) oxidation ... -
Combustion synthesis: A novel method of catalyst preparation
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2019 , Article)In this chapter, we summarize work accomplished primarily by the authors on the use of solution combustion synthesis (SCS) in catalysis. Research in combustion synthesis at University of Notre Dame started with the group ... -
Combustion synthesized A0.5Sr0.5MnO3-δ perovskites (where, A = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Pr, Dy, and Y) as redox materials for thermochemical splitting of CO2
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)In this paper, A0.5Sr0.5MnO3 perovskites (where, A = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Pr, Dy, and Y) were examined towards thermochemical CO2 splitting (CS) reaction. The solution combustion synthesis (SCS) method was employed for the ... -
Combustion synthesized nickel-cobalt catalyst deactivation by coking during ethanol decomposition reaction
( American Institute of Chemical Engineers , 2019 , Conference Paper)In this work, we report the catalytic dehydrogenation of ethanol over porous cobalt oxide and nickel-cobalt bimetal oxide (NiCoO2). Catalyst deactivation and the nature of carbon formation on these two catalysts are ...