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Fatigue characterization of lightly cementitiously stabilized granular base materials using flexural testing
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2016 , Article)
The fatigue characteristics of a lightly stabilized granular material under traffic loading are important considerations for the design of a pavement containing such material. This paper examines the use of flexural testing ...
Over-time and over-level replacement policies with random working cycles
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Springer New York LLC
, 2016 , Article)
When a unit is running successive works with cycle times, it would be uneconomical or impractical to do maintenances during any working cycle. This paper firstly reviews two replacement models proposed in literatures as ...
Online adaptation of rotor resistance based on sliding mode observer kwith backstepping control of a five-phase induction motor drives
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Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
, 2016 , Article)
Multiphase electric drives have been developed due to numerous advantages offered by those machines when it compared with the conventional three-phase machines. Multiphase motor drives are considered for applications, where ...
A Nine-Switch-Converter-Based Integrated Motor Drive and Battery Charger System for EVs Using Symmetrical Six-Phase Machines
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
This paper presents a new configuration for integrated on-board battery chargers of electric vehicles (EVs) incorporating symmetrical six-phase machines. The configuration proposes an exclusive utilization of a nine-switch ...
Performance and security improvements for Tor: A survey
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2016 , Article)
Tor [Dingledine et al. 2004] is the most widely used anonymity network today, serving millions of users on a daily basis using a growing number of volunteer-run routers. Since its deployment in 2003, there have been more ...
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 ...
Medicine expenditures in Sudan National Health Insurance Fund : an ABC-VEN analysis of 5-year medicine consumption
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) program in Sudan in terms of the expenditure trends over the period of 5 years (2006 and 2010), their value of usage and the pattern ...
Solely abluminal drug release from coronary stents could possibly improve reendothelialization
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Objectives
To compare a new stent with an asymmetric coating, eluting the drug to the abluminal surface, to a stent with a conventional coating eluting the drug both to the luminal and the abluminal side.
Background
Stents ...
Association of β-Adrenergic Receptor Gene Polymorphisms With Acute Coronary Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in an Arab Population
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
We evaluated the association between beta-adrenergic receptor genes (ADRB1 and ADRB2) polymorphism, cardiovascular risk, and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in individuals from an Arab ethnicity. A total of 388 Qatari ...
Triple Oral Antithrombotic Therapy in Atrial Fibrillation and Coronary Artery Stenting: Searching for the Best Combination
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Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who are treated with oral anticoagulants often have concurrent coronary artery disease. Triple oral antithrombotic therapy (TOAT) is often necessity to prevent stent thrombosis or ...