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Synthesis and properties of electrodeposited Ni-B-Zn ternary alloy coatings
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Electrochemical Science Group
, 2014 , Article)
Ni-B coatings have decent properties like high hardness, wear resistance and decent anti-corrosion properties which make them suitable for automotive, aerospace, petrochemical, textile and electronics industries. Despite ...
An experimental investigation into crushing behavior of radially stiffened GFRP composite tubes
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
State-of-the-art studies of the crushing of composite tubes reveal different factors affecting their crashworthiness. Of those factors, the geometrical property of the tube is of great interest. In the current study, four ...
Acute mercury toxicity modulates cytochrome P450, soluble epoxide hydrolase and their associated arachidonic acid metabolites in C57Bl/6 mouse heart
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Mercury exposure is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and profound cardiotoxicity. However, the correlation between Hg2+-mediated toxicity and alteration in cardiac cytochrome P450s (Cyp) and their ...
Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
CBPP is an important transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa whose control is urgent. Participatory data collection involving 52 focus group discussions in 37 village clusters and key informant interviews, a cross-sectional ...
Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an economically important trans-boundary cattle disease which affects food security and livelihoods. A conjoint analysis-contingent valuation was carried out on 190 households ...
Editorial: What Are the Challenges in Conducting Cost-of-Illness Studies?
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
Multi-objective optimal design of hybrid renewable energy systems using PSO-simulation based approach
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Recently, the increasing energy demand has caused dramatic consumption of fossil fuels and unavoidable raising energy prices. Moreover, environmental effect of fossil fuel led to the need of using renewable energy (RE) to ...
The size and performance of offshore produced water oil-removal technologies for reinjection
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
Produced water (PW) is wastewater generated from oil exploration, and requires treating for oil and suspended solids removal. The viability of an effluent treatment unit process for this duty is dependent both on its ...
Dynamic aggregated building electricity load modeling and simulation
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2014 , Article)
In order to support the growing interest in demand response modeling and analysis, there is a need for physical-based building load models. This work presents a new approach for simulating electrical power flow in buildings. ...
Exploiting context severity to achieve opportunistic service differentiation in vehicular ad hoc networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) dictates primitives for intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications and services. The medium access control (MAC) layer in WAVE facilitates service differentiation. ...