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High temperature thermal stability of innovative nanostructured thin coatings for advanced tooling
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Trans Tech Publications Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Tools for machining are made of hard steels and cemented carbide (WC-Co). For specialized applications, such as aluminium machining, diamond or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride are also used. The main problem with steel, ...
The using of bibliometric analysis to classify trends and future directions on 'smart farm'
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Climate change has affected the cultivation in all countries with extreme drought, flooding, higher temperature, and changes in the season thus leaving behind the uncontrolled production. Consequently, the smart farm has ...
An evidence base for school health policy during the covid-19 pandemic
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Paris Scholar Publishing
, 2021 , Article)
Objective: Children represent a small fraction of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a low case fatality rate (CFR). In this paper, we lay out an evidence-based policy for reopening schools. Methods: We gathered age-specific ...
Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff for log-normal fading channels
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Although there has been a growing interest on the study of diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT), the existing works are mostly restricted to the outcomes reported for Rayleigh, Rician, and Nakagami fading channels. In ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling ...
Recent Progress in Molecular Design of Fused Ring Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2019 , Article Review)
The quest for sustainable energy sources has led to accelerated growth in research of organic solar cells (OSCs). A solution-processed bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) OSC generally contains a donor and expensive fullerene acceptors ...
Reusable garbled turing machines without FHE
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Since Yao introduced the garbled circuit concept in 1980s, it has been an open problem to design efficient reusable garbled Turing machines/circuits. Recently, Goldwasser et al. and Garg et al. answered this question ...
Gamification of e-Government services: A discussion of potential transformation
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Association for Information Systems
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Gamification has shown to be a valuable approach that enhances participants' engagement. In education, enhanced student engagement has proven to increase their learning effectiveness. In business, gamification permits ...
Estimation of Pr(X ≤ Y) using record values in the one and two parameter exponential distributions
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Taylor & Francis
, 2008 , Article)
Abstract
We consider the problem of estimating the stress-strength reliability when the available data is in the form of record values. The one parameter and two parameters exponential distribution are considered. In the ...
The Role of Apocalyptic Prophecies in ISIS Terrorism
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to reveal how ISIS exploits apocalyptic prophecies stated in the Qur’an and hadiths to find new recruits and legitimize its ideology. The study tries to identify how sensitive issues of Islam are ...