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Experimental study of the attenuation properties of metal-viscoelastic bi-layered materials
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2018 , Conference Paper)Phononic crystals (PCs) are multi-layered materials with functional elastic wave band gaps where propagation of vibration within these band gaps is restricted. PCs have vibration attenuation properties dependent on their ... -
An Experimental Study of Two-way Ranging Optimization in UWB-based Simultaneous Localization and Wall-Mapping Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we propose a new ultra-wideband (UWB)-based simultaneous localization and wall-mapping (SLAM) system, which adopts two-way ranging optimization on UWB anchor and tag nodes to track the target's real-time ... -
An experimental study on achieving even-frosting for an air source heat pump using a novel dual-fan outdoor coil
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)Many related studies suggested that a fixed airflow direction usually led to that the most frost would only deposit on the windward side of finned tube heat exchangers (FTHXs) of the traditional single fan outdoor coils ... -
Experimental study on effective placement of PCM packets in cooling vest to improve performance in warm environment
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers , 2017 , Conference Paper)Global warming has increased the risk of heat stress of outdoor workers and one measure against heat stress is wearing passive personal cooling clothing. Passive body cooling systems, including phase change material (PCM) ... -
Experimental study on overcurrent relay setting for maximum protection level
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)This paper addresses both the experimental and simulation studies on the application of overcurrent protective relay. The industrial overcurrent relays often have three individual settings. In this paper, the relay operating ... -
Experimental study on the mechanical properties of biological hydrogels of different concentrations
( IOS Press BV , 2020 , Article)BACKGROUND: Biological hydrogels provide a conducive three-dimensional extracellular matrix environment for encapsulating and cultivating living cells. Microenvironmental modulus of hydrogels dictates several characteristics ... -
Experimental study on using PCMs of different melting temperatures in one cooling vest to reduce its weight and improve comfort
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)This study aims at evaluating experimentally phase change material (PCM) cooling vest performance when incorporating two types of PCM with different melting temperatures with varied PCM placement on the lower, upper, front ... -
Experimental validation of a numerical model for the ground vibration from trains in tunnels
( DC/ConfOrg , 2015 , Conference Paper)Ground vibration and ground-borne noise from trains in tunnels are attracting increasing attention from researchers and engineers. They are important environmental issues related with the operation of underground networks ... -
Experimental validation of nine-level switched-capacitor inverter topology with high voltage gain
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2021 , Article)This paper proposes a new switched-capacitor nine-level (9L) inverter with reduced switch count. In the proposed topology, floating capacitor (FC) is employed as a voltage booster, and it does not need any additional sensors ... -
Experimentally measured methane hydrate phase equilibria and ionic liquids inhibition performance in Qatar’s seawater
( Nature Research , 2020 , Article)Qatar has the third-largest natural gas reserves in the world and is the second largest Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter in the world. These reserves are mainly located in its offshore North Field where the gas is ... -
Explainable deep learning model for automatic mulberry leaf disease classification
( Frontiers Media SA , 2023 , Article)Mulberry leaves feed Bombyx mori silkworms to generate silk thread. Diseases that affect mulberry leaves have reduced crop and silk yields in sericulture, which produces 90% of the world’s raw silk. Manual leaf disease ... -
Explainable machine learning model and reliability analysis for flexural capacity prediction of RC beams strengthened in flexure with FRCM
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This paper presents a data-driven approach to determine the load and flexural capacities of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with fabric reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) composites in flexure. A total of ... -
Explainable, trustworthy, and ethical machine learning for healthcare: A survey
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article Review)With the advent of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) empowered applications for critical applications like healthcare, the questions about liability, trust, and interpretability of their outputs are raising. The ... -
Exploitation of additional degrees of freedom of multiphase drives in low-frequency operation of modular multilevel converters
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)MMC encounters serious limitations in the zero and low-frequency operation of variable-speed motor drives. In MMC, the voltage ripples of SubModule (SM) capacitor is inversely proportional to the phase current frequency. ... -
Exploitation of Citrus Peel Extract as a Feedstock for Power Generation in Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC)
( Springer , 2019 , Article)Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are envisioned as an evolving cost-effective process for treating organic wastes to simultaneously generate bioelectricity. Therefore, in present study a single chambered mediator- less air ... -
Exploiting 4G mobile user cooperation for energy conservation: Challenges and opportunities
(2013 , Article)Recent years have witnessed tremendous success and popularity of mobile applications and services, resulting in an explosive growth in the number of mobile devices, as well as in the range and types of things these devices ... -
Exploiting Client-Side Collected Measurements to Perform QoS Assessment of IaaS
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Delivering reliable service offerings to clients remain a challenging aspect in today's cloud infrastructure. A broad number of research studies have undertaken the service evaluation process from one side; that is, the ... -
Exploiting context severity to achieve opportunistic service differentiation in vehicular ad hoc networks
( 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. ... -
Exploiting heterogeneity in operational neural networks by synaptic plasticity
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Article)The recently proposed network model, Operational Neural Networks (ONNs), can generalize the conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that are homogenous only with a linear neuron model. As a heterogenous network ... -
Exploiting LabVIEW FPGA in Implementation of DCT-based Wireless Image Transmission for Wildlife Surveillance System
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)In the development of wildlife surveillance system technology, images are important input data that allow real situations in the field to be viewed and analysed. This project proposed a compressed and wireless image ...