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Stakeholder’s perception of service quality: a case in Qatar
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate and report students’ perception of service quality in a university by examining the perceptual context of service quality with respect to students’ loyalty behavior, ...
Portable system for monitoring and controlling driver behavior and the use of a mobile phone while driving
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article)
There is an utmost requirement for technology to control a driver's phone while driving, which will prevent the driver from being distracted and thus saving the driver's and passenger;s lives. Information from recent studies ...
Structure and Rheological Properties of Bovine Aortic Heart Valve and Pericardium Tissue: Implications in Bioprosthetic and Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves
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Hindawi Limited
, 2019 , Article)
Heart valve (HV) diseases are among the leading causes of cardiac failure and deaths. Of the various HV diseases, damaged HV leaflets are among the primary culprits. In many cases, impaired HV restoration is not always ...
Synthesis, characterization and physicochemical studies of copolymers of aniline and 3-nitroaniline
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
Polyaniline (PA), the versatile conducting polymer, owing to its tunable optoelectronic properties, facile preparation methodology and reversible redox behavior, has elicited much interest among current researchers, ...
Large eddy simulation of surge inception and active surge control in a high speed centrifugal compressor with a vaned diffuser
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
In this study, we present a numerical investigation of active surge control and performance improvement for an aero engine centrifugal compressor (NASA CC3) using self-recirculating bleed slots with different bleeding ...
Time-domain simulation of second-order irregular wave diffraction based on a hybrid water wave radiation condition
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
A time-domain second-order method is presented to simulate three-dimensional wave–body interaction. In the approach, Taylor series expansions are applied to the free surface boundary conditions, and a Stokes perturbation ...
Image Local Features Description through Polynomial Approximation
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
This work introduces a novel local patch descriptor that remains invariant under varying conditions of orientation, viewpoint, scale, and illumination. The proposed descriptor incorporate polynomials of various degrees to ...
Development of titanium dioxide nanowire incorporated poly(vinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene) scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications
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Springer New York LLC
, 2019 , Article)
Critical size bone defects that do not heal spontaneously are among the major reasons for the disability in majority of people with locomotor disabilities. Tissue engineering has become a promising approach for repairing ...
A low-cost test rig for impact experiments on a dummy head
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Anthropomorphic test dummies are commonly used to evaluate the potential harm to humans due to dangerous scenarios, such as that due to car accidents. Furthermore, they have been used in sports to evaluate the efficacy of ...
Constitutive models for the prediction of the hot deformation behavior of the 10%Cr steel alloy
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to establish a reliable model that provides the best fit to the specific behavior of the flow stresses of the 10%Cr steel alloy at the time of hot deformation. Modified Johnson-Cook and strain-compensated ...