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Multiattribute Utility Theory Deployment in Sewer Defects Assessment
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2018 , Article)
Assessing the condition of sewer pipelines is a backbone process to plan for rehabilitation and maintenance work. The closed circuit-television (CCTV) method is the widely adopted method to record the inner condition of ...
Event-triggered fault detection for discrete-time LPV systems with application to a laboratory tank system
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates a new event-triggered fault detection methodology for discrete-time dynamic systems characterized by linear parameter-varying models. An event-based linear parameter-varying observer is presented ...
A combined method to model dynamic recrystallization based on cellular automaton and a phenomenological (CAP) approach
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
Titanium alloys with high stacking-fault energy show continuous dynamic recrystallization (CDRX) instead of discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) during high-temperature deformation. During the CDRX mechanism, new ...
Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
The FIFA World Cup, comprising sixty-four matches spanning an entire month, has, in recent years, been attended by about three million spectators of which over half a million are visitors requiring lodging. Planning lodging ...
The impact of globalisation on society and culture in Qatar
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
, 2016 , Article)
The discovery of oil and the economic development and growth that followed has placed Gulf Countries on the fast path to urbanisation and modernisation, bringing an impact on traditional family relations and functions. In ...
النسقان المدني والريفي في السرد الروائي (دراسة في تحيّزات الصورة)
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المركز العربي للأبحاث و دراسة السياسات
, 2019 , Article)
لعل من البديهي القول بوجود نوع من الاشتباك بين الريف والمدينة في أي تجلٍّ يتجليان فيه، ولعل من البديهي القول أيضًا إن الأدبيات الإنسانية التراثية والمعاصرة شهدت تدوينًا لمثل هذا النوع من الاشتباك، غير أن الذي تشير إليه هذه ...
Effects of lunar phases on short-term, explosive physical performance among young trained athletes
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Taylor and Francis Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Beliefs that lunar phases affect human physiology started in ancient times. Research has recently revealed that a physical fitness index increased in sedentary students at the new moon (NM) and full moon (FM) compared to ...
Prediction-based delay optimization data collection algorithm for underwater acoustic sensor networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
The past years have seen a rapid development of autonomous underwater vehicle-aided (AUV-aided) data-gathering schemes in underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). The use of AUVs efficiently reduces energy consumption ...
Technical and tactical discriminatory factors between winners and defeated elite karate athletes
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Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: To assess the technical and tactical demands of elite karate athletes in relation to 3 match sequences (ie, advantage, disadvantage, and drawing) and match outcome (ie, win/defeat). Methods: One hundred twenty ...
High gain three-state switching hybrid boost converter for DC microgrid applications
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2019 , Article)
A novel high gain three-state switching hybrid boost (TSS-HB) converter for DC microgrid applications is proposed in this study. The TSS-HB converter is developed from a conventional boost converter with voltage lift ...