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Diagnostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage in the subset of patients with negative sputum/smear and mycobacterial culture and a suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
Background: The diagnostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage in patients with negative sputum/smear for tuberculous bacilli has been well studied. However, its value in the subset of patients with both negative sputum/smear ...
Investigation on SVM-Backstepping sensorless control of five-phase open-end winding induction motor based on model reference adaptive system and parameter estimation
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper deals with a new control technique applied to five-phase induction motor under open-end stator winding (FPIM-OESW) topology using the backstepping nonlinear control. The main objective is to improve the dynamics ...
Exploiting Sparsity in Amplify-and-Forward Broadband Multiple Relay Selection
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IEEE
, 2019 , Article)
Cooperative communication has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its ability to increase the spatial diversity order with only single-antenna nodes. However, most of the techniques in the literature ...
Wiretap TDMA Networks with Energy-Harvesting Rechargeable-Battery Buffered Sources
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IEEE
, 2019 , Article)
We investigate the physical-layer security of an uplink wireless time-division multiple-access channel with energy-harvesting source nodes. We consider a set of source nodes equipped with rechargeable batteries and information ...
Coral reef monitoring, reef assessment technologies, and ecosystem-based management
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2019 , Article)
Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures, and provide a sensitive indicator of coastal ocean ...
VHDRA: A Vertical and Horizontal Intelligent Dataset Reduction Approach for Cyber-Physical Power Aware Intrusion Detection Systems
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Hindawi Limited
, 2019 , Article)
The Cypher Physical Power Systems (CPPS) became vital targets for intruders because of the large volume of high speed heterogeneous data provided from the Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS). The Nonnested Generalized ...
Adequacy of Nutrients Intake among Jordanian Pregnant Women in Comparison to Dietary Reference Intakes.
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MDPI
, 2019 , Article)
Maternal nutrition is considered an important pillar in the pregnancy outcomes for both mother and infant. A mother's malnutrition and inadequate nutrient intake is associated with many undesirable pregnancy outcomes. ...
Reference Layer Artefact Subtraction (RLAS): Electromagnetic Simulations
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
The utility of EEG-fMRI is limited by the large artefact voltages produced in EEG recordings made during concurrent fMRI. Novel approaches for reducing the magnitude and variability of the artefacts are, therefore, required. ...
Social responsibility and competitiveness in hotels: The role of customer loyalty
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Growing Science
, 2019 , Article)
The concept of Social Responsibility (SR) has been evolved during the last decade and most organisations care about their society and the environment. While incorporating SR programs through organizational strategies would ...
Identifying the effective taxonomies of airline green operations strategy
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Emerald Publishing
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effective taxonomies of airline green operations strategy. Design/methodology/approach: To this end, a sample of 23 airlines from five regions (North America, South ...