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Nanomechanical properties of plasma treated polylactic acid
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Maney Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
In this work, a radio frequency discharged plasma generated in air atmosphere by pressure has been used to modify polylactic acid (PLA) surface. The results were evaluated through nanoindentation testing. Contact angle ...
Joint Optimization of Area Spectral Efficiency and Delay over PPP Interfered Ad-Hoc Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
To evaluate the performance of the co-channel transmission based communication, we propose a new metric for area spectral efficiency (ASE) of interference limited ad-hoc network by assuming that the nodes are randomly ...
Utilization of oil wells for electricity generation: Performance and economics
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
There is a general agreement that the climate change, which is the most important challenge facing humanity, is anthropogenic and attributed to fossil fuel consumption. Therefore, deploying more renewable energy resources ...
A study of inhibitors to transparency in red meat supply chains in Gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries
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Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the variables for the non-existence of transparency information in red meat supply chains operating in Gulf cooperation council (GCC) countries. The study provides a ...
Highly ordered nanoporous carbon films with tunable pore diameters and their excellent sensing properties
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2015 , Article)
Ordered porous carbon films with tunable pore diameters, immobilized with glucose oxidase (GOD) have been fabricated and employed for the construction of a biosensor for glucose molecules. The as-prepared porous films have ...
Software-defined networking for rsu clouds in support of the internet of vehicles
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
We propose a novel roadside unit (RSU) cloud, a vehicular cloud, as the operational backbone of the vehicle grid in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The architecture of the proposed RSU cloud consists of traditional and ...
A near-optimal LLR based cooperative spectrum sensing scheme for CRAHNs
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
In Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks (CRAHNs), cooperative spectrum sensing schemes exploit spatial diversity of the Secondary Users (SUs), to reliably detect an unoccupied licensed spectrum. Soft energy combining schemes ...
A novel desulfurization practice based on diesel acidification prior to activated carbon adsorption
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Springer New York LLC
, 2015 , Article)
Commercial diesel is often rich with organosulfur compounds and a value of 7,100 mgS/kg was recently reported. As confirmed by chromatographic analysis, about 36% of sulfur compounds are originated from dibenzothiophene. ...
Multi-component instantaneous frequency estimation using locally adaptive directional time frequency distributions
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
This paper presents a locally adaptive time-frequency (t,f) method for estimating the instantaneous frequency (IF) of multi-component signals. A high-resolution adaptive directional time-frequency distribution (ADTFD) is ...
Bioavailability and hypolipidemic effects of peanut skin polyphenols
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Peanut skin is a rich source of polyphenols, such as proanthocyanidins. Peanut skin proanthocyanidins mainly
consist of a subgroup called procyanidins. Peanut-based procyanidins contain oligomers of both type A and type ...