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Performance Evaluation of the Valveless Micropump with Piezoelectric Actuator
To meet the rising need in biological and medical applications, the innovative micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies have realized an important progress of the micropump as one of the essential ...
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Closed Form Solution and Statistical Performance Analyses for Regularized Least Squares Estimation of Retinal Oxygen Tension
For improved estimation of oxygen tension in retinal blood vessels, regularization of least squares estimation method was proposed earlier and it was shown to be very effective. However, closed form solutions ...
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DC-Image for Real Time Compressed Video Matching
This chapter presents a suggested framework for video matching based on local features extracted directly from the DC-image of MPEG compressed videos, without full decompression. In addition, the relevant argu...
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CO2 Purify Effect on Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Through Indoor Vertical Greening
Modern people usually situate inside buildings, therefore indoor air quality (IAQ) is important to living environment. In this research, we measured the transpiration rate of 50 experimental plants first, and ...
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Parallelization of Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms Using Distributed Memory Architectures
Finding a minimum spanning tree of a graph is a well known problem in graph theory with many practical applications. We study serial variants of Prim’s and Kruskal’s algorithm and present their parallelization...
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Numerical Solution and Stability of Block Method for Solving Functional Differential Equations
In this article, we describe the development of a two-point block method for solving functional differential equations. The block method, implemented in variable stepsize technique produces two approximations ...
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Relative Position Computation of Links in Planar Six-Bar Mechanisms with Joints Clearance and Complex Chain
The presence of clearance in the mechanical joints leads to small position variation of the mechanism elements. The goal of this work is to model and analyze the equilibrium positions of elements in planar six...
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Claims-Based Authentication for an Enterprise that Uses Web Services
Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what they are declared to be. The authentication process uses credentials (claims) containing authentication inform...
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WRS-BTU Seismic Isolator Performances
This paper describes an experimental investigation conducted on WRS-BTU seismic isolators that are constituted by a wire rope spring coupled with a ball transfer unit. The device can be considered rigid along ...
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Securing Information Sharing Through User Security Behavioral Profiling
This paper presents a method of minimizing the human-related information security problem of improper sharing of information by insiders with outsiders or unauthorized insiders. As opposed to most currently av...
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Harmonic Decomposition of Elastic Constant Tensor and Crystal Symmetry
This paper presents a new outlook on harmonic decomposition method for elastic constant tensor. Harmonic decomposition method is developed in such a way that it is applied to anisotropic engineering materials ...
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Mineralogical and Physical Characterisation of QwaQwa Sandstones
Mineralogy, texture and sedimentary structure are essential to the study of all sedimentary rock. Sandstones from QwaQwa rural area in South Africa were characterised for their mineralogical and physical prope...
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Mass Transfer Properties for the Drying of Pears
Portugal is among the tropical countries that have a long tradition of drying fruits, such as figs, grapes or pears. The knowledge of the transfer phenomena involved in drying processes is of major importance ...
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Development of a Glass-Fibre Reinforced Polyamide Composite for Rotating Bands
Projectiles are usually provided with an integral rotating band which serves many purposes. These bands are usually made of copper which causes the wear of the gun barrel steel bore. Hence alternative material...
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Modeling and Analysis of Spray Pyrolysis Deposited SnO2 Films for Gas Sensors
Metal oxide materials such as tin oxide (SnO2) show powerful gas sensing capabilities. Recently, the deposition of a thin tin oxide film at the backend of a CMOS processing sequence has enabled the manufacture of...
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Viscous Fingering of Reversible Reactive Flows in Porous Media
The dynamics of viscous fingering instability of miscible displacements in a homogeneous porous medium are examined in the case of flows that involve reversible chemical reactions between the displacing and di...
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Fuzzy-Logic Based Computation for Parameters Identification of Solar Cell Models
The identification of the electrical parameters of the organic solar cells, such as the series resistance, the shunt resistance, the diode saturation current and the diode ideality factor, is an important task...
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Shear Strength and Fracture Surface Studies of Ball Grid Array (BGA) Flexible Surface-Mount Electronics Packaging Under Isothermal Ageing
Electronic systems are known to be affected by the environmental and mechanical conditions, such as humidity, temperature, thermal shocks and vibration. These adverse environmental operating conditions, with t...
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A Novel Feedback Control Approach for Networked Systems with Probabilistic Delays
The networked control system (NCS) design for continuous-time systems with probabilistic delays is discussed in this paper. The delay is assumed to follow a given probability density function. A novel design s...
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Influence of Titanium Dioxide Layer Thicknesses and Electrolyte Thicknesses Applied in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
In this study, the different TiO2 layer thicknesses and electrolyte thicknesses were investigated, which were applied in the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The amount of dye adsorption was decided by thicknes...
