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Dielectric and electromagnetic interference shielding properties of germanium dioxide nanoparticle reinforced poly(vinyl chloride) and poly(methylmethacrylate) blend nanocomposites
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Springer New York LLC
, 2018 , Article)
Germanium dioxide (GeO2) nanoparticles reinforced poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blend nanocomposite films were prepared using solution casting technique. The PVC/PMMA/GeO2 nanocomposite ...
Consumers motivations and roles in rooting for or against underdog consumer
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
When wronged customers feel powerless they could bring publicly their fight against offending firms. Doing so could help to put the perpetrator firms under pressure and urge them to restore fairness. While some consumers ...
Dynamic workload patterns prediction for proactive auto-scaling of web applications
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Academic Press
, 2018 , Article)
Proactive auto-scaling methods dynamically manage the resources for an application according to the current and future load predictions to preserve the desired performance at a reduced cost. However, auto-scaling web ...
Cholinergic and dopaminergic neuronal differentiation of human adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells.
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Wiley
, 2018 , Article)
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent cells that can differentiate into various cell types such as cartilage, bone, and fat cells. Recent studies have shown that induction of MSCs in vitro by growth factors including ...
Performance evaluation of a multi-standard fast charging station for electric vehicles
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
Electric vehicles (EVs) have been considered as a feasible solution to deal with the high fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused by conventional vehicles. However, long charging times and drivers' range anxiety ...
A single dynamic observer-based module for design of simultaneous fault detection, isolation and tracking control scheme
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
The problem of simultaneous fault detection, isolation and tracking (SFDIT) control design for linear systems subject to both bounded energy and bounded peak disturbances is considered in this work. A dynamic observer is ...
Peach resin coated silica particles for imidacloprid removal as a greener approach to water remediation
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Desalination Publications
, 2018 , Article)
Pesticides are one of the major toxic pollutants that can be lethal even at trace levels. They generally enter into the water reservoirs through agricultural run-off and hence pose serious threat to flora and fauna of ...
Relevance of lifecycle management to smart city development
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
Smart cities are complex ecosystems with interrelated systems or system of systems. Hence, management of smart cities is very important due to the big number of stakeholders, diversity of application domains, heterogeneity ...
A Smart IEC 61850 Merging Unit for Impending Fault Detection in Transformers
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
This paper proposes and experimentally validates the functionality of a smart IEC 61850 merging unit (MU) that supports self-healing and asset management functions of future power grids. The proposed MU can operate in a ...
Self-balanced non-isolated hybrid modular DC-DC converter for medium-voltage DC grids
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2018 , Article)
Here, a new bi-directional hybrid modular non-isolated DC-DC converter is proposed where it consists of a boost converter (BC) fed from the high-voltage (HV) side. At the BC output stage, a certain number of half bridge ...