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Life cycle sustainability assessment of autonomous heavy-duty trucks
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Wiley
, 2020 , Article)
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are emerging technologies expected to bring important environmental, social, and economic improvements in transportation systems. Given their implications in terms of air quality and ...
Carbon footprint of construction industry: A global review and supply chain analysis
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper conducts a global review and a macro-level supply chain analysis focusing on carbon footprint of construction industry worldwide for the period between 2009 and 2020 using the Scopus database. A total of 1833 ...
Life cycle sustainability assessment of sport utility vehicles: The case for Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2020 , Article)
Electric vehicle technologies are attractive alternatives to traditional vehicles towards achieving sustainable transportation. The adoption of these technologies has a great potential in reducing road transportation ...
Production of flexible nanocomposite membranes for x-ray detectors
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Flexible membranes of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) polymer and CuO nanoparticles for x-ray detection applications are reported in this work. PVA represents a polymer matrix for nanoparticles, and its flexibility and electrical ...
Spectral method solutions of a variable aspect ratio duct flow in a uniform transverse magnetic field with two different thermal boundary conditions
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Author(s) A laminar electrically-conducting flow inside an electrically-insulated rectangular duct in a uniform transverse magnetic field with both uniform surface temperature and uniform heat flux boundary ...
A graph convolutional network-based deep reinforcement learning approach for resource allocation in a cognitive radio network
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
Cognitive radio (CR) is a critical technique to solve the conflict between the explosive growth of traffic and severe spectrum scarcity. Reasonable radio resource allocation with CR can effectively achieve spectrum sharing ...
Design, construction and testing of iot based automated indoor vertical hydroponics farming test-bed in qatar
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
Growing plants in the gulf region can be challenging as it is mostly desert, and the climate is dry. A few species of plants have the capability to grow in such a climate. However, those plants are not suitable as a food ...
A robust experimental-based artificial neural network approach for photovoltaic maximum power point identification considering electrical, thermal and meteorological impact
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper aims to develop a robust and practical photovoltaic (PV) Maximum Power Point (MPP) identification tool developed using reliable experimental data sets. The correlations between the voltage and the current (Vmp ...
Crosstalk between HER2 and PD-1/PD-L1 in Breast Cancer: From Clinical Applications to Mathematical Models.
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
Breast cancer is one of the major causes of mortality in women worldwide. The most aggressive breast cancer subtypes are human epidermal growth factor receptor-positive (HER2) and triple-negative breast cancers. Therapies ...
Time-series forecasting of Bitcoin prices using high-dimensional features: a machine learning approach
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency, which is a type of digital asset that provides the basis for peer-to-peer financial transactions based on blockchain ...