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An empirical study on lean awareness and potential for lean implementations in Qatar industries
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Springer-Verlag London Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
In this study, an investigation on the level of recognition of lean concepts, principles, tools, and techniques in different industrial sectors in Qatar was carried out. The general aim of the study was to determine lean ...
A Laparoscopic Grasping Tool with Force Sensing Capability
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
This paper presents a laparoscopic grasping tool for minimally invasive surgery with the capability of multiaxis force sensing. The tool is able to sense three-axis Cartesian manipulation force and a single-axis grasping ...
Ground response to global warming
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Owing to the awareness of the impact of global warming, there has been a growing interest in studying the relationship between the climatic changes and human activities. An increased global mean air temperature leads to ...
Microtron Irradiation Induced Tuning of Band Gap and Photoresponse of Al-ZnO Thin Films Synthesized by mSILAR
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Springer New York LLC
, 2016 , Article)
Al-doped polycrystalline nano ZnO (Al-ZnO) thin films with different doping concentrations were successfully prepared by the microwave-assisted successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (mSILAR) technique. The structural ...
Risk of Traffic Incident Delay in Routing and Scheduling of Hazardous Materials
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Springer New York LLC
, 2016 , Article)
Unlike normal traffic incidents, incidents involving hazardous material are associated with significant traffic delays. The model of the hazardous material routing and scheduling problem presented in this paper considers ...
Experimental investigation on the compressibility of Al/Al2O3 nanocomposites
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
The scientific importance of nanocomposites is being increased due to their improved properties. This paper introduces an experimental investigation on the relationship between the reinforcement weight fraction and ...
Heuristic and Exact Algorithms for the Two-Machine Just in Time Job Shop Scheduling Problem
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Hindawi Limited
, 2016 , Article)
The problem addressed in this paper is the two-machine job shop scheduling problem when the objective is to minimize the total earliness and tardiness from a common due date (CDD) for a set of jobs when their weights equal ...
Nanoengineered biomimetic hydrogels for guiding human stem cell osteogenesis in three dimensional microenvironments
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2016 , Article)
The ability to modulate stem cell differentiation in a three dimensional (3D) microenvironment for bone tissue engineering in the absence of exogenous pharmaceutical agents such as bone morphogenic protein (BMP-2) remains ...
Measurements of Laminar Flame Speeds of Gas-to-Liquid-Diesel Fuel Blends
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
, 2016 , Article)
This work investigates the laminar flame speed, SN, of gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel and its 50-50% by volume blends with conventional diesel, in a cylindrical bomb capable of measuring SN at different initial temperatures and ...
Optimized statistical parameters of acoustic emission signals for monitoring of rolling element bearings
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Acoustic emission (AE) signal generated from artificial defects in rolling element bearings are investigated using experimental measurements in this paper. Rolling element bearings are crucial parts of many machines and ...