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Replacement policies for age and working numbers with random life cycle
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Taylor and Francis Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
It has been modeled for several replacement policies in literatures that the whole life cycle or operating interval of an operating unit should be finite rather than infinite as is done with the traditional method. However, ...
Solar thermochemical Dy2O3/DyO water splitting cycle for hydrogen production
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
The thermodynamic analyses of the dysprosium oxide-based water splitting (Dy-WS) cycle are reported in this paper. The first step of the Dy-WS cycle involves thermal reduction of Dy2O3, whereas water splitting reaction is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Delivering Tobacco Cessation Content in the Middle East Through Interprofessional Learning
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American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
, 2017 , Article)
Objective. To explore the attitudes of pharmacy, pharmacy technician, medical, and public health students before and after an IPE activity that focused on smoking cessation in the Middle East. Methods. A pre-post intervention ...
25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and Clostridium difficile Infection: A Meta-Analysis
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Background: Well-known risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are exposure to antibiotics and gastric acid suppressants. Recent studies have provided some evidence of an association between hypovitaminosis ...
Towards novel Cry toxins with enhanced toxicity/broader: a new chimeric Cry4Ba / Cry1Ac toxin
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Springer-Verlag
, 2017 , Article)
Attempts have been made to express or to merge different Cry proteins in order to enhance toxic effects against various insects. Cry1A proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis form a typical bipyramidal parasporal crystal and ...
3D dynamic displacement-field measurement for structural health monitoring using inexpensive RGB-D based sensor
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Institute of Physics Publishing
, 2017 , Article)
The advent of inexpensive digital cameras with depth sensing capabilities (RGB-D cameras) has opened the door to numerous useful applications that need quantitative measures of dynamic fields whose simultaneous time history ...
Robustness analysis of superpixel algorithms to image blur, additive Gaussian noise, and impulse noise
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SPIE
, 2017 , Article)
Superpixels have gradually become popular in computer vision and image processing applications. However, no comprehensive study has been performed to evaluate the robustness of superpixel algorithms in regard to common ...
Droits de l'homme dans le Code du travail Qatarien
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Dictus Publishing
, 2017 , Article)
Cette recherche aborde la question des droits de l'homme dans le Code du travail Qatarien à partir du fait que la grande masse des travailleurs au Qatar sont des travailleurs migrants , et ceci rend la question des droits ...