• Optimized statistical parameters of acoustic emission signals for monitoring of rolling element bearings 

  Hemmati, Farzad; Alqaradawi, Mohammed; Gadala, Mohamed S ( 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 ...
• Prediction of Transformer Furan Levels 

  Shaban, Khaled Bashir; El-Hag, Ayman H.; Benhmed, Kamel ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)

  In this letter, the ranges of furan content in oil in power transformers are predicted using measurements of oil tests, such as breakdown voltage, acidity, water content, and dissolved gas analysis. Predictive models based ...
• OFDM Full-Duplex DF Relaying under I/Q Imbalance and Loopback Self-Interference 

  Mokhtar, M.; Al-Dhahir, N.; Hamila, R. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)

  We analyze the outage probability of dual-hop full-duplex (FD) decode-and-forward (DF) relaying for an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system in the presence of in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance ...
• Optimal Polynomial Time Algorithm for Restoring Multicast Cloud Services 

  Ayoubi, Sara; Assi, Chadi; Narayanan, Lata; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)

  The failure-prone nature of data center networks has evoked countless contributions to develop proactive and reactive countermeasures. Yet, most of these techniques were developed with unicast services in mind. When in ...
• The role of intermetallic compounds and composite-like structure development during dissimilar friction stir welding of aluminum to brass on metallurgical and flexural characteristics 

  Esmaeili, A.; Hamouda, A. M. S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  In this study, the effects of developed Intermetallic Compounds (IMCs) and composite-like structure on metallurgical and flexural characteristics of the Friction Stir Welded (FSWed) joints were scrutinized and explored ...
• Energy-efficient based on cluster selection and trust management in cooperative spectrum sensing 

  Chkirbene, Zina; Hasna, Mazen O.; Hamila, Ridha; Hamdi, Noureddine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) has been proposed as a solution for radio spectrum resources scarcity problem. Clustering technique is introduced to increase the performance of CSS and overcome the shadowing and fading ...
• Automated vehicle density estimation from raw surveillance videos 

  Mehboob, Fozia; Abbas, Muhammad; Jiang, Richard; Tahir, Muhammad Atif; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed... more authors ... less authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  To enable an effective traffic management and signal control, it is important to know the road traffic density. In recent years, video surveillance based systems and monitoring tools have been widely used for obtaining ...
• Review on Finite Element Material Modelling of Brain Tissue for Surgical Simulation 

  Tarlochan, Faris; Tangutooru, Siva Mahesh ( EDP Sciences , 2016 , Conference Paper)

  Surgical simulation is a growing field of interest as it serves as a good training for the medical practitioners as well as planning and preparing for surgery. For a reliable and a good outcome from the simulation, the ...
• Reducing railway-induced ground-borne vibration by using open trenches and soft-filled barriers 

  Thompsona, D.J.; Jiang, J.; Toward, M. G. R.; Hussein, M. F. M.; Ntotsios, E.; Dijckmans, A.; Coulier, P.; Lombaert, G.; Degrande, G.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)

  A trench can act as a barrier to ground vibration and is a potential mitigation measure for low frequency vibration induced by surface railways. However, to be effective at very low frequencies the depth required becomes ...
• Diaphragm shear strength and stiffness of aluminum roof panel assemblies 

  Avci, Onur; Luttrell, Larry D.; Mattingly, John; Easterling, W. Samuel ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)

  A diaphragm is an assembly of planar structural elements interconnected to each other to provide in-plane bracing system and transmit in-plane forces. The diaphragm geometry, supporting frame, type of the panel profiles, ...
• Joint replenishment model for multiple products with substitution 

  Maddah, Bacel; Kharbeche, Mohamed; Pokharel, Shaligram; Ghoniem, Ahmed ( Elsevier Inc. , 2016 , Article)

  We extend the classical economic order quantity model to address the joint replenishment of multiple products under substitution. The proposed model optimizes ordering quantities for each product under substitution effects ...
• Impact of moisture contents on the performance of organic bi-layer ITO/OD thermo-electric cells 

  Ahmad, Zubair; Karimov, Khasan S.; Touati, Farid; Moiz, S. A.; Ali, Rashid; Shakoor, R. A.; Al-Thani , N. J.... more authors ... less authors ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Article)

  We propose a bi-layer thermo-electric cell based on elastic indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate and organic semiconductor orange dye (OD). It is observed that thermo-electric voltages are ~30% higher in bi-layer ITO/OD cell ...
• Structural, morphological and optical properties of PEDOT:PSS/QDs nano-composite films prepared by spin-casting 

  Najeeb, Mansoor Ani; Abdullah, Shahino Mah; Aziza, Fakhra; Ahmad, Zubair; Rafique, Saqib; Wageh, S.; Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed A.; Sulaiman, Khaulah; Touati, Farid; Shakoor, R. A.; Al-Thani, N. J.... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)

  This paper describes the structural, morphological and optical properties of the nano-composite of poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) and quantum dots (QDs). The ZnSe and CdSe QDs have been ...
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  Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts used in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: A review 

  Yuan, Heyang; Hou, Yang; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; Chen, Junhong; He, Zhen ( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2016 , Article Review)

  Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as an energy-efficient wastewater treatment technology have attracted increasing interest in the past decade. Cathode catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) present a major challenge ...
• A Kernel-Based PCA Approach to Model Reduction of Linear Parameter-Varying Systems 

  Rizvi, Syed Z.; Mohammadpour, Javad; Toth, Roland; Meskin, Nader ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)

  This brief presents a model reduction method for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems using kernel-based principal component analysis (PCA). For state-space LPV models that are affine or rational in the scheduling variables ...
• A Nine-Switch-Converter-Based Integrated Motor Drive and Battery Charger System for EVs Using Symmetrical Six-Phase Machines 

  Diab, Mohamed S.; Elserougi, Ahmed A.; Abdel-Khalik, Ayman S.; Massoud, Ahmed M.; Ahmed, Shehab ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)

  This paper presents a new configuration for integrated on-board battery chargers of electric vehicles (EVs) incorporating symmetrical six-phase machines. The configuration proposes an exclusive utilization of a nine-switch ...
• Treatment and desalination of domestic wastewater for water reuse in a four-chamber microbial desalination cell 

  Lu, Yaobin; Abu-Reesh, Ibrahim M.; He, Zhen ( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)

  Microbial desalination cells (MDCs) have been studied for contaminant removal from wastewater and salinity reduction in saline water. However, in an MDC wastewater treatment and desalination occurs in different streams, ...
• Online adaptation of rotor resistance based on sliding mode observer kwith backstepping control of a five-phase induction motor drives 

  Echeikh, H.; Trabelsi, R; Iqbal, Atif; Mimouni, M.F.; Alammari, R ( Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science , 2016 , Article)

  Multiphase electric drives have been developed due to numerous advantages offered by those machines when it compared with the conventional three-phase machines. Multiphase motor drives are considered for applications, where ...
• Performance and security improvements for Tor: A survey 

  Alsabah, Mashael; Goldberg, Ian ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2016 , Article)

  Tor [Dingledine et al. 2004] is the most widely used anonymity network today, serving millions of users on a daily basis using a growing number of volunteer-run routers. Since its deployment in 2003, there have been more ...
• Honeycomb sandwich panels subjected to combined shock and projectile impact 

  Ebrahimi, Hamid; Ghosh, Ranajay; Mahdi, Elsadig; Nayeb-Hashemi, Hamid; Vaziri, Ashkan ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)

  Structural response and failure modes of honeycomb sandwich panels subjected to a shock (impulsive pressure) followed by a high velocity projectile impact were investigated using detailed finite element simulations. ...

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