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Integrated Project Delivery Perception and Application in Washington State
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is fast becoming a part of the common vernacular in the construction industry. IPD is a collaborative approach to project delivery that requires a change from the traditional ...
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Management Strategies, Project Teams, and Value Added Using Lean Project Delivery for Sustainable, Reliable, and Effective Construction
Lean construction enhances the value proposition for project owners and stakeholders by eliminating waste and non-valued-added activities. Lean is a philosophy and culture adopted from companies like Toyota Pr...
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Deep Learning Data Association Applied to Multi-object Tracking Systems
In this work, a robust and reliable multi-object tracking (MOT) system for autonomous vehicles is presented. In crowded urban road scenes accurate data association between tracked objects and incoming new dete...
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The Impact of Porosification upon Luminescence of HVPE Grown GaN and the Influence of the Porous Layer upon the Quality of the Overgrown GaN Film
In this paper, we show that the quality of the porous layers produced by photoelectrochemical (PEC) etching of HVPE GaN in oxalic acid is better than that of the initial material, and the quality of GaN films ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A 32 × 32-Channels Chip for X-Ray Pixel Detector Read-Out
In this paper we present a spectrometer realized by bump-bonding a 300-μm-pitch, 32 × 32-pixel silicon X-ray detector chip to a 0.35-μm CMOS, 3-cm2 read-out chip. The selftriggered, mixed analog-digital read-out ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Release of C2 Radicals after the Deep Impact Event
We present the results of investigating the coma of comet 9P/Tempel 1 in C2 and continuum, before and after the Deep Impact event of 4 July 2005. A jet-like coma feature was produced by the impact, and its tempor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ARDIS: Knowledge-Based Dynamic Architecture for Real-Time Surface Visual Inspection
This work presents an approach to surface dynamic inspection in laminated materials based on the configuration of a visual system to obtain a good quality control of the manufacturing surface. The configuratio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The measurement of brain tissue stiffness in-vivo
Background There is considerable interest in surgical decompression as a management strategy (RescueICP) for intractable intracranial hypertension. After such an operation measurements of intracr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characterization of a-plane GaN films grown on r-plane sapphire substrate by electron microscopy
Gallium nitride (GaN) is a semiconductor material which has recently attracted much attention for wide and direct band gap of 3.39 eV. It has been studied intensively over the last years due to the possible ap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Environmental Aspects of Microwave Heating in Polyelectrolyte Synthesis
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Weighted regularization of Maxwell equations: computations in curvilinear polygons
In the presence of re-entrant comers or edges, the standard regularization of Maxwell equations combined with the use of nodal finite elements is known to produce wrong solutions. We get rid of this undesirabl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of GPS-Buoy Water Level Instrument for Radar Altimeter Calibration
This paper discusses contemporary research in GPS-buoy sea level measurements and its application to absolute radar altimeter calibration. Different processing techniques to obtain GPS-buoy water level solutio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Comparative Statistical Error Analysis of Neuronavigation Systems in a Clinical Setting
The use of neuronavigation (NN) in neurosurgery has become ubiquitous. A growing number of neurosurgeons are utilizing NN for a wide variety of purposes, including optimizing the surgical approach (macrosurger...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Laser-induced manipulation of the size and shape of small metal particles: Towards monodisperse clusters on surfaces
A novel experimental technique is presented for post growth narrowing of the size distribution of metal nanoparticles on dielectric substrates. In order to demonstrate the potential of the method, oblate Ag cl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Early Results from the Low-Energy Concentrator Spectrometer On-Board Bepposax
SAX, an acronym for “Satellite Italiano per Astronomia a raggi X”, now renamed “BeppoSAX” in honor of Giuseppe Occhialini, is the first X-ray mission sensitive in the very broad energy range between 0.1 and 30...
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Mycophenolatmofetil (MMF)/Tacrolimus/single shot ATG versus Azathioprin/Cyclosporin (CsA)/ATG in der Immunsuppression nach Pankreas-/Nierentransplantation (PNTX) — Ergebnisse einer prospektiv randomisierten Studie
Die kombinierte Pankreas-/Nierentransplantation (PNTX) wird nach den Angaben des International Pancreas Transplant Registry (IPTR) inzwischen mit einer Ein-Jahres-Funktionsrate von etwa 75% (Pankreas) bzw. 86%...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Proximal selektive Vagotomie und Pyloroplastik nach Holle. Langzeitergebnisse
Symptomatic gastric outlet obstruction remains a special indication for elective ulcer operation with gastric resection and vagotomy being available as alternative options for Intervention. 55 patients with ch...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hydrogels used for medicine and agriculture
Three types of hydrogels obatined by electron beam irradiation and gamma ray irradiation, homopolymers of acrylamide (pAAm type), co-polymers of acrylamide-natrium acrylate (pAAmNa type) and homopolymers of na...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Polymers for waste water treatment
Two types of anionic polyelectrolites, co-polymer of the acrylamide-acrylic acid (PA type) and co-polymer of the acrylic acid-vinyl acetate (PV type), obtained by gamma and electron beams irradiation, are pres...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Spinal cord Stimulation for ischemic rest pain. The Belgian randomized study
A prospective randomized study was performed at three Belgium university hospitals to evaluate the possible benefit of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) on severe limb ischemia. The study started in November 1989 ...