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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 ...
Moderate Temperature Treatment of Gas-Phase Volatile Organic Toluene Using NiO and NiO–TiO2 Nano-catalysts: Characterization and Kinetic Behaviors
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Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
, 2021 , Article)
Abstract: For the first time, the potential of Ni/NiO and NiO?TiO2 nano-catalysts for the oxidation of toluene under moderate temperatures was investigated. The nano-catalysts were prepared using the solution combustion ...
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 ...
Dietary patterns and cardiovascular disease risk among Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study
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Springer Nature
, 2020 , Article)
Background and objective
We aimed to examine the prospective association between dietary patterns and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Chinese adults.
Methods
Adults aged ≥20 years in the China Health and Nutrition ...
5-, 12- and 15-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids induce cellular hypertrophy in the human ventricular cardiomyocyte, RL-14 cell line, through MAPK- and NF-κB-dependent mechanism
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Recent studies have established the role of mid-chain hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids (HETEs) in the development of cardiovascular disease. Mid-chain HETEs have been reported to have vasoconstrictive and pro-inflammatory ...