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Management performance assessment: A method of analytic network process
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Success Culture Press
, 2019 , Article)
The construction industry is considered risky as labor and machinery intense environment interacts with accelerating and overlapping activities. This situation would result in high number of accidents and fatalities. High ...
Intravenous versus Oral Acetaminophen for Pain: Systematic Review of Current Evidence to Support Clinical Decision-Making
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Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
, 2015 , Article)
Background:
Intravenous (IV) acetaminophen is increasingly used around the world for pain control for a variety of indications. However, it is unclear whether IV administration offers advantages over oral administrati ...
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 ...
An assessment of mortgage loan default propensity in Ghana
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
Credit market development requires appropriate credit assessment and default policies. This paper aims to examine the impact of household characteristics on mortgage default, using survey data collected from ...
Hybrid-boost modular multilevel converter-based medium-voltage multiphase induction motor drive for subsea applications
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Korean Institute of Power Electronics
, 2019 , Article)
This paper proposes a hybrid-boost Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) for the Medium-Voltage (MV) Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) employed in subsea applications, such as oil and gas recovery. In the presented architecture, ...
An iterative method for common solution to various problems
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Jangjeon Mathematical Society
, 2019 , Article)
In this paper, we introduce a new iterative method to find a common solution of a generalized mixed equilibrium problem, a variational inequality problem and a hierarchical fixed point problem for demicontinuous nearly ...
Transient gas turbine performance diagnostics through nonlinear adaptation of compressor and turbine maps
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
, 2015 , Article)
Gas turbines are faced with new challenges of increasing flexibility in their operation while reducing their life cycle costs, leading to new research priorities and challenges. One of these challenges involves the ...
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 ...
Effect of Aging on Viscoelastic Properties of Asphalt Mixtures
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2019 , Article)
This study presents a comprehensive laboratory evaluation and statistical analysis of the effect of aging on the viscoelastic properties of asphalt mixtures. Asphalt mixtures were subjected to different short- and long-term ...
On efficient estimation strategies in monitoring of linear profiles
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Springer London
, 2018 , Article)
A fundamental strategy to diminish variations in manufacturing process urged the practitioners to characterize the quality of a process by a relationship between the response variable and one or more explanatory variables ...