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Smart-home automation using IoT-based sensing and monitoring platform
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In order to help maintain comfortable living conditions within a home, home monitoring and automation are utilized. The standards of human's comfort in homes can be categorized into several types. Among these categories, ...
Outage Performance of UAV-Assisted Relaying Systems with RF Energy Harvesting
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
In this letter, we propose an UAV-based relaying system with energy harvesting functionality. In particular, we assume that this system is operated in urban communication environments, where the channel between the UAV and ...
The importance of Abdul Ghani Al-Nabulsi, a trip to the Hajj in 1105 AH as a source for the study of the history of the Tabuk Region in the 12th century AH
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University of Jordan
, 2018 , Article)
The study deals with the history of the Tabuk region in 12 AH / 18 th century, and includes the study area geographically located within the current administrative boundaries and include all of Tabuk, Taima, Duba, field, ...
Active and stable methane oxidation nano-catalyst with highly-ionized palladium species prepared by solution combustion synthesis
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
We report on the synthesis and testing of active and stable nano-catalysts for methane oxidation. The nano-catalyst was palladium/ceria supported on alumina prepared via a one-step solution-combustion synthesis (SCS) method. ...
A Novel Efficient Classwise Sparse and Collaborative Representation for Holistic Palmprint Recognition
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Palmprint recognition is an important and widely used modality in biometric systems. It has a high reliability, stability and user acceptability. Although the discriminative ability of the existing state-of-the-art holistic ...
Feature synthesis for image classification and retrieval via one-against-all perceptrons
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Springer London
, 2018 , Article)
Most existing content-based image retrieval and classification systems rely on low-level features which are automatically extracted from images. However, often these features lack the discrimination power needed for accurate ...
Latency Analysis of UAV based Communication Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
UAV based communication is gaining more and more interest in both research and industry. On top of all benefits gained by using UAVs, we investigate in this paper the effect of using UAV communication on the user experienced ...
Female audit committee members and their influence on audit fees
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Blackwell Publishing
, 2018 , Article)
We test the relationship between female representation on the audit committee and audit fees for 624 Australian companies in the year 2011. A positive relationship is found, leading to the conclusion that female presence ...
Knowledge and innovation in the Lebanese software industry
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Cogent OA
, 2018 , Article)
The software industry is strongly influenced by knowledge and innovation. The ability to develop new solutions and services is considered essential to firm survival and growth. The innovation process, being long and costly, ...
Standard Terms Contracts: The Approaches of Qatari Civil Law and UNIDROIT Principles 2016. A Comparative Study
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
This study compares the approach that Qatari Civil Law No. 22/2004 (QCL) takes to standard terms with that taken by the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016. The main difference between QCL and ...