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Controlled Prelithiation of Silicon Monoxide for High Performance Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Full Cells
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American Chemical Society
, 2016 , Article)
Despite the recent considerable progress, the reversibility and cycle life of silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries are yet to be improved further to meet the commercial standards. The current major industry, instead, ...
Diet of the Omani Owl, Strix butleri, near Nakhal, Oman
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
The diet of the Omani Owl, Strix butleri, was studied for the first time based on re- cently collected pellets. A total of 22 individual prey items represented three mam- mals (all rodents), at least two undetermined gecko ...
Role of pharmacist in cardiovascular disease-related health promotion and in hypertension and dyslipidemia management: A cross-sectional study in the State of Qatar
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Rationale, aims and objectives In Qatar, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have recently become the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Prevention, detection and management of CVD risk factors reduce CVD chance. The study ...
A Collaboration Incentive Exploiting the Primary-Secondary Systems' Cross Interference for PHY Security Enhancement
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IEEE
, 2016 , Article)
We investigate the spectrum sharing possibility as an incentive to enhance the physical layer security. The concept behind is that a legitimate source-destination pair, communicating in the presence of a passive eavesdropper, ...
ACPN: A novel authentication framework with conditional privacy-preservation and non-repudiation for VANETs
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2015 , Article)
In Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs), authentication is a crucial security service for both inter-vehicle and vehicle-roadside communications. On the other hand, vehicles have to be protected from the misuse of their ...
Event-triggered fault detection and isolation for discrete-time linear systems
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2016 , Article)
In this study, the problem of event-triggered fault detection and isolation (FDI) for discrete-time linear time invariant systems is considered. Using a Leunberger observer as the residual generator, a multi-objective ...
Describing student performance: a comparison among clinical preceptors across cultural contexts
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Context: Health professional student evaluation during experiential training is notably subjective and assessor judgements may be affected by socio-cultural influences. Objectives: This study sought to explore how clinical ...
Medical and psychological problems faced by young Australian gap year travellers
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Oxford University Press
, 2017 , Article)
Background: Gap year travellers can potentially be exposed to many infectious diseases and other travel-related health problems including injuries and psychological problems. Currently, there is little information on health ...
A simple method for extracting the parameters of the PV cell single-diode model
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This paper aims to simplify the parameters' extraction for the solar cell single diode model and to show that there are many solutions. The proposed algorithm considers many pairs of ideality factor and series resistance. ...
Mobile application security: Malware threats and defenses
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Due to the quantum leap in functionality, the rate of upgrading traditional mobile phones to smartphones is tremendous. One of the most attractive features of smartphones is the availability of a large number of apps for ...