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An interactive software tool for gas identification
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
This paper presents the design of an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) to monitor and quantify a developed electronic nose (EN) platform for gas identification. To this end, an EN system has been implemented using ...
Material dependence of national energy development plans: The case for Turkey and United Kingdom
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Due to growing production and consumption worldwide, the energy demand is increasing rapidly, which puts additional burdens on the world's scarce natural resources. Therefore, there is a need for efficient use of scarce ...
COL4A5 and LAMA5 variants co-inherited in familial hematuria: Digenic inheritance or genetic modifier effect?
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Background: About 40-50% of patients with familial microscopic hematuria (FMH) caused by thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN) inherit heterozygous mutations in collagen IV genes (COL4A3, COL4A4). On long follow-up, ...
Rheological and controlled release properties of hydrogels based on mushroom hyperbranched polysaccharide and xanthan gum
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
A hyperbranched polysaccharide, coded as TM3a, was extracted from the Pleurotus tuber-regium sclerotia. TM3a was hybridized with xanthan gum (XG) by chemical crosslinking using sodium trimetaphosphate (STMP) to obtain new ...
An improved particle filtering-based approach for health prediction and prognosis of nonlinear systems
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Health monitoring of nonlinear systems is broadly concerned with the system health tracking and its prediction to future time horizons. Estimation and prediction schemes constitute as principle components of any health ...
Co-occurrence of mycotoxins in commercial formula milk and cereal-based baby food on the Qatar market
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
The present study was conducted to explore the occurrence of mycotoxins in commercial baby foods in Doha-Qatar. LCMS/MS- and HPLC-based analysis of baby food (n?=?67) for 12 mycotoxins confirmed the presence of aflatoxin ...
Short-term planning of liquefied natural gas deliveries
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The ability of a supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to deliver cargoes at desired times, while effectively managing a fleet of cryogenic vessels can significantly impact its profits. We investigate in this paper an ...
The need for a global response against cybercrime: Qatar as a case study
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Cybersecurity is one of the most significant concerns of life in the 21st century and safeguarding information systems is an arduous task for governments and companies across the globe. The tremendous growth in wireless ...
Investigations on recent power-aware opportunistic protocols in WSN
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Nowdays, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial IoT (IIoT), and Cognitive IoT (CIoT), have attracted the attention of many researchers and industrials in different domains due to their wide ...
Maximum achievable throughput and interference mitigation for SUN in coexistence with WLAN
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
An optimum packet length selection scheme to maximize the throughput of a smart utility network (SUN) is introduced under wireless local area network (WLAN) interference system. The traditional and the investigated segmented ...