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Nonexplosive Deconstruction of Steel Girder Highway Bridges
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2017 , Article)
While the transportation system of the United States rapidly ages and expands, there is increasing demand for the demolition, replacement, modification, or rehabilitation of existing bridges; all of these actions require ...
Implication of dynamic balance in change of direction performance in young elite soccer players is angle dependent
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Edizioni Minerva Medica
, 2018 , Article)
BACKGROUND:
Team sports require rapid whole-body change of direction (COD) in order to regain, maintain possession of the ball or to avoid opponent. These actions are often performed through unilateral process, with the ...
In vitro effects of hydrogen peroxide on rat uterine contraction before and during pregnancy
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Medicinska Naklada Zagreb
, 2018 , Article)
Aim To assess the in vitro effect of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) on uterine contractions in pregnant and non-pregnant rats. Methods The study was performed at the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud ...
New three-dimensional poly(decanediol-co-tricarballylate) elastomeric fibrous mesh fabricated by photoreactive electrospinning for cardiac tissue engineering applications
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
Reactive electrospinning is capable of efficiently producing in situ crosslinked scaffolds resembling the natural extracellular matrix with tunable characteristics. In this study, we aimed to synthesize, characterize, and ...
Distributed power allocation for multi-flow carrier aggregation in heterogeneous cognitive cellular networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
In this paper, we study distributed power allocation for multiflow carrier aggregation in cognitive cellular networks. Our approach differs from the conventional water filling (WF) algorithm since we deal with heterogeneous ...
Outage Performance of UAV-Assisted Relaying Systems with RF Energy Harvesting
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
In this letter, we propose an UAV-based relaying system with energy harvesting functionality. In particular, we assume that this system is operated in urban communication environments, where the channel between the UAV and ...
The importance of Abdul Ghani Al-Nabulsi, a trip to the Hajj in 1105 AH as a source for the study of the history of the Tabuk Region in the 12th century AH
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University of Jordan
, 2018 , Article)
The study deals with the history of the Tabuk region in 12 AH / 18 th century, and includes the study area geographically located within the current administrative boundaries and include all of Tabuk, Taima, Duba, field, ...
Feature synthesis for image classification and retrieval via one-against-all perceptrons
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Springer London
, 2018 , Article)
Most existing content-based image retrieval and classification systems rely on low-level features which are automatically extracted from images. However, often these features lack the discrimination power needed for accurate ...
Female audit committee members and their influence on audit fees
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Blackwell Publishing
, 2018 , Article)
We test the relationship between female representation on the audit committee and audit fees for 624 Australian companies in the year 2011. A positive relationship is found, leading to the conclusion that female presence ...
Novel Comprehensive Bioinformatics Approaches to Determine the Molecular Genetic Susceptibility Profile of Moderate and Severe Asthma.
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition linked to hyperresponsiveness in the airways. There is currently no cure available for asthma, and therapy choices are limited. Asthma is the result of the interplay between genes ...