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Mesoporous Silica Thin Membranes with Large Vertical Mesochannels for Nanosize-Based Separation
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2017 , Article)
Membrane separation technologies are of great interest in industrial processes such as water purification, gas separation, and materials synthesis. However, commercial filtration membranes have broad pore size distributions, ...
Wavelet-based Encoding Scheme for Controlling Size of Compressed ECG Segments in Telecardiology Systems
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
One of the major issues in time-critical medical applications using wireless technology is the size of the payload packet, which is generally designed to be very small to improve the transmission process. Using small packets ...
Access Control Schemes for Implantable Medical Devices: A Survey
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are electronic devices implanted within human body for diagnostic, monitoring, and therapeutic purposes. It is imperative to guarantee that IMDs are completely secured since the patient's ...
Performance of FRCM-Strengthened RC Beams Subject to Fatigue
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2017 , Article)
Fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) is a relatively new material system developed for the repair, retrofit, and rehabilitation of reinforced concrete (RC) and masonry structures. Structures such as bridges experience ...
Performance analysis of secure AF relay networks using cooperative jamming under outdated CSI
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2017 , Article)
This paper studies cooperative transmission for securing a two-hop network where the eavesdropper can wiretap the relay channels. With outdated channel state information (CSI), we propose an opportunistic relaying with ...
Time-series forecasting of Bitcoin prices using high-dimensional features: a machine learning approach
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency, which is a type of digital asset that provides the basis for peer-to-peer financial transactions based on blockchain ...
Too big to handle, too important to abandon: Reforming Sudan's Gezira scheme
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Authors Participatory irrigation management (PIM) has been broadly promoted by public administrators and donor organizations. The reasons for this push include performance failures of state-controlled irrigation ...
A novel homozygous TPM1 mutation in familial pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and in silico screening of potential targeting drugs.
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Verduci Editore s.r.l.
, 2020 , Article)
Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common genetic cardiac disease. While sarcomeric gene mutations explain many HCM cases, the genetic basis of about half of HCM cases remains elusive. Here we aimed to ...
Solar energy farming as a development innovation for vulnerable water basins
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
In vulnerable water basins, unregulated access to solar energy and groundwater can threaten water security through increased abstractions. Public and development agencies are therefore exploring options to provide farmers ...
Participation modes and diplomacy of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries towards the global sustainability agenda
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
After decades of reluctance, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are now more engaged within the global sustainability agenda. Though they historically sought to coordinate strategies, differences in environmental ...