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Automatic detection of regions in spinach canopies responding to soil moisture deficit using combined visible and thermal imagery
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Public Library of Science
, 2014 , Article)
Thermal imaging has been used in the past for remote detection of regions of canopy showing symptoms of stress, including water deficit stress. Stress indices derived from thermal images have been used as an indicator of ...
Developing, implementing and improving learning outcomes assessment in Qatar's public higher education
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Article)
This study reports on the development and implementation of the Student Learning Outcomes Assessment process and the system implemented at Qatar University. This system consists of two phases, initiation and enhancement, ...
Towards agile approach for better user satisfaction
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Mundo Press
, 2014 , Article)
User satisfaction is a cornerstone indicator of any successful software project. Software projects are classified as successful only if the users are satisfied with the delivered software project result. Reducing the gap ...
Interference-aware energy-efficient cross-layer design for healthcare monitoring applications
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNs) leverage wireless communication technologies to provide healthcare stakeholders with innovative tools and solutions that can revolutionize healthcare provisioning; BASNs thus promotes new ...
Hybrid radio resource allocation and interference coordination for type 1a-relayed long term evolution uplink
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2014 , Article)
Relay technology has been included in long term evolution (LTE) cellular system through 3GPP Release 10. Relay-based LTE cellular system is one of the most promising technologies to enhance the throughput and coverage of ...
A novel approach to assess the products' global environmental impacts by considering pollution transfer phenomena
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
As environmental issues become more serious, governments and customers are more sensitive about the environmental impacts which are produced by products. Many methods have been proposed to assess environmental impacts. The ...
Optimal inconsistency repairing of pairwise comparison matrices using integrated linear programming and eigenvector methods
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2014 , Article)
Satisfying consistency requirements of pairwise comparison matrix (PCM) is a critical step in decision making methodologies. An algorithm has been proposed to find a new modified consistent PCM in which it can replace the ...
Novel geometric features for off-line writer identification
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Springer Verlag
, 2014 , Article)
Writer identification is an important field in forensic document examination. Typically, a writer identification system consists of two main steps: feature extraction and matching and the performance depends significantly ...
A sensitivity analysis approach to identify key environmental performance factors
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2014 , Article)
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used in design phase to reduce the product's environmental impacts through the whole product life cycle (PLC) during the last two decades. The traditional LCA is restricted to assessing ...
Incorporating olfactory into a multi-modal surgical simulation
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Maruzen Co., Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
This paper proposes a novel multimodal interactive surgical simulator that incorporates haptic, olfactory, as well as traditional vision feedback. A scent diffuser was developed to produce odors when errors occur. Haptic ...