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Assessment of the taxi service in Doha
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
This research focuses on passengers' satisfaction of the taxi service in Doha, Qatar. Qatar is a rich developing country where taxis are widely considered as a public transportation service due to the limited use of the ...
Performance assessment of evaporatively-cooled window driven by solar chimney in hot and humid climates
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This study investigates the application of the evaporatively-cooled window system in hot and humid climates and assesses its seasonal performance and benefits in terms of energy savings. The validated system is a hybrid ...
Intention recognition in manufacturing applications
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
In this article, we present a novel approach to intention recognition, based on the recognition and representation of state information in a cooperative human-robot environment. States are represented by a combination of ...
Influence of thermal annealing on a capacitive humidity sensor based on newly synthesized macroporous PBObzT2
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
In this work, we report on the application of a newly synthesized macroporous polythiophene derivative, benzo[b]thiophene end-capped dioctyloxy-benzene(PBObzT2), in the fabrication of a capacitive humidity sensor. The ...
Investigation of solar PV performance under Doha weather using a customized measurement and monitoring system
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
A key factor in future eco-friendly and reliable energy systems for network stability is energy prediction of renewable resources. However, the climate-induced performance degradation represents a major drawback to solar ...
Large-scale simulations and performance evaluation of connected cars - A V2V communication perspective
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Performance evaluation is integral to the vast majority of research on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology enabled connected cars. To validate ideas and concepts, researchers have been continuously striving towards the ...
Single- and multi-source battery-less power management circuits for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper presents a battery-less power management unit for piezoelectric energy harvesting which exploits a diode-based rectifier, a storage capacitor, and a custom trigger circuit to extract energy from a piezoelectric ...
Non-standard characteristic of overcurrent relay for minimum operating time and maximum protection level
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
Industrial overcurrent relays such as MiCOM P123 (overcurrent and earth fault protection relay) often offer three individual options for separate settings. These settings can be separately tuned and such ability can be ...
Optimal adaptive control of drug dosing using integral reinforcement learning
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
In this paper, a reinforcement learning (RL)-based optimal adaptive control approach is proposed for the continuous infusion of a sedative drug to maintain a required level of sedation. To illustrate the proposed method, ...
Efficient software platform TFSAP 7.1 and Matlab package to compute Time?Frequency Distributions and related Time-Scale methods with extraction of signal characteristics
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
This article describes the source code used in the TFSAP toolbox (Boashash, 2016). It is extended with additional functions to allow reproducible research as presented in Boashash and Ouelha (in press). These codes can be ...