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Graphene oxide reinforced polyvinyl alcohol/polyethylene glycol blend composites as high-performance dielectric material
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Springer Netherlands
, 2016 , Article)
Novel flexible dielectric composites composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polyethylene glycol (PEG), and graphene oxide (GO) with high dielectric constant and low dielectric loss have been developed using facile and ...
Effect of Cuff Design on Auscultatory and Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurements
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Oxford University Press
, 2016 , Article)
Two-piece blood pressure (BP) cuffs are the historical cuff standard. Use
of 1-piece cuffs is increasing. Substituting 1-piece for 2-piece cuffs has
an unknown effect on measurement accuracy. We compared these cuff ...
Proactive spectrum sharing incentive for physical layer security enhancement using outdated CSI
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
We investigate the spectrum sharing possibility as an incentive to enhancing the physical layer security. The concept behind this is that a legitimate source-destination pair, communicating in the presence of a passive ...
Mercury accumulation in Lethrinus nebulosus from the marine waters of the Qatar EEZ
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
Total mercury (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg) were recorded in the commercial demersal fish Lethrinus
nebulosus, caught from six locations in Qatar EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone). Concentrations of THg decreased
in the ...
Multiattribute Utility Theory Deployment in Sewer Defects Assessment
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2018 , Article)
Assessing the condition of sewer pipelines is a backbone process to plan for rehabilitation and maintenance work. The closed circuit-television (CCTV) method is the widely adopted method to record the inner condition of ...
Event-triggered fault detection for discrete-time LPV systems with application to a laboratory tank system
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates a new event-triggered fault detection methodology for discrete-time dynamic systems characterized by linear parameter-varying models. An event-based linear parameter-varying observer is presented ...
A combined method to model dynamic recrystallization based on cellular automaton and a phenomenological (CAP) approach
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
Titanium alloys with high stacking-fault energy show continuous dynamic recrystallization (CDRX) instead of discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) during high-temperature deformation. During the CDRX mechanism, new ...
Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
The FIFA World Cup, comprising sixty-four matches spanning an entire month, has, in recent years, been attended by about three million spectators of which over half a million are visitors requiring lodging. Planning lodging ...
The impact of globalisation on society and culture in Qatar
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
, 2016 , Article)
The discovery of oil and the economic development and growth that followed has placed Gulf Countries on the fast path to urbanisation and modernisation, bringing an impact on traditional family relations and functions. In ...
النسقان المدني والريفي في السرد الروائي (دراسة في تحيّزات الصورة)
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المركز العربي للأبحاث و دراسة السياسات
, 2019 , Article)
لعل من البديهي القول بوجود نوع من الاشتباك بين الريف والمدينة في أي تجلٍّ يتجليان فيه، ولعل من البديهي القول أيضًا إن الأدبيات الإنسانية التراثية والمعاصرة شهدت تدوينًا لمثل هذا النوع من الاشتباك، غير أن الذي تشير إليه هذه ...