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Diversification and bank stability in the GCC
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This study examines bank diversification strategies and links to financial sector stability. Using a sample of listed and unlisted banks operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over 2001 to 2014 we ...
The selection of brise soleil shading optical properties for energy conservation and glare removal: A case study in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Energy efficiency in buildings is crucial for the design of sustainable cities, especially in hot climates where demands are high. This study investigates the impact of the shading optical properties on the space energy ...
Towards Extended Bit Tracking for Scalable and Robust RFID Tag Identification Systems
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
The surge in demand for Internet of Things (IoT) systems and applications has motivated a paradigm shift in the development of viable radio frequency identification technology (RFID)-based solutions for ubiquitous real-Time ...
The Cost-Effectiveness of Using PARO, a Therapeutic Robotic Seal, to Reduce Agitation and Medication Use in Dementia: Findings from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
To examine the within-trial costs and cost-effectiveness of using PARO, compared with a plush toy and usual care, for reducing agitation and medication use in people with dementia in long-term care. An economic evaluation, ...
Hybrid Full-Duplex and Alternate Multiple Relay Selection and Beamforming in AF Cooperative Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
In this paper, multiple relay selection and beamforming techniques are applied to a dual-hop full-duplex (FD) amplify-and-forward relaying network. We show that our proposed techniques allow the selection to be adaptive ...
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 ...