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Cellulose assisted combustion synthesis of nanomaterials for energy conversion applications
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Combustion synthesis has been used for a long time for synthesizing functional materials suitable for many applications such as ceramics, electronics, pigments, catalysts etc. In this paper we introduce an emerging field ...
Surpassing the current limitations of high purity H2 production in microbial electrolysis cell (MECs): Strategies for inhibiting growth of methanogens
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article Review)
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are perceived as a potential and promising innovative biotechnological tool that can convert carbon-rich waste biomass or wastewater into hydrogen (H2) or other value-added chemicals. ...
Construction safety factors assessment through Frequency Adjusted Importance Index
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
The construction industry is plagued by numerous accidents and fatalities due to improper implementation of safety measures. Globally, researchers have concluded that the construction environment is the most hazardous when ...
Deploying partial least squares to investigate the influence of managerial assumptions on corporate social responsibility in the hotel industry
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the interplay between managerial assumptions and institutional corporate social responsibility, and determines how such fit affects performance. Design/methodology/approach: The ...
On generalized Littlewood–Paley functions
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Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l.
, 2018 , Article)
We study the Lp boundedness of certain classes of generalized Littlewood–Paley functions S(f). We obtain Lp estimates of S(f) with sharp range of p and under optimal conditions on ?. By using these estimates along with an ...
Dynamic security metrics for measuring the effectiveness of moving target defense techniques
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Moving Target Defense (MTD) utilizes granularity, flexibility and elasticity properties of emerging networking technologies in order to continuously change the attack surface. There are many different MTD techniques proposed ...
Towards a sustainable management of end-of-life vehicles in Qatar: A closed-loop circular economy model
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IEOM Society
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
The end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) are potentially harmful for the environment if they are not processed or recycled in an environmentally friendly manner. In Qatar, the municipality removed almost 13,878 ELVs from different ...
The performance assessment for the dMEWMA in capturing changes in simple linear profiles
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IEOM Society
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In traditional quality control, the quality of product is typically modeled as the univariate or multivariate distribution of the quality parameters. In more recent applications, the quality is modeled using the relationship ...
Introductory Notes: Why Do We Need a Book on Pharmacy Education?
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Pharmacy education in the 21st century has witnessed several important revolutionary changes. Although there is a growing pharmacy-related literature in the forms of research, published articles, and specialized journals, ...
On the Achievable Secrecy Diversity of Cooperative Networks with Untrusted Relays
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
Cooperative relaying is often deployed to enhance the communication reliability (i.e., diversity order) and consequently the end-to-end achievable rate. However, this raises several security concerns when the relays are ...