Properties of Concrete with Tire Derived Aggregate Partially Replacing Coarse Aggregates by Gideon Siringi, Ali Abolmaali, Pranesh B. Aswath

“…Results indicate that while replacement of coarse aggregates with TDA results in reduction in strength, it may be mitigated with addition of silica fume to obtain the desired strength. The greatest benefit of using TDA is in the development of a higher ductile product while utilizing recycled TDA.…”
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Tissue Bioengineering Applications in Sheep as Ideal Model by Talita D’Paula Tavares Pereira Muniz, Mariana Correa Rossi, Vânia Maria de Vasconcelos Machado, Ana Liz Garcia Alves

“…To further expand the potential of these cells in tissue repair, significant efforts are currently dedicated to the production of biomaterials with desirable short- and long-term biophysical properties that can aid the differentiation and expansion of MSCs. …”
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Fertigation for Citrus Trees by Mongi Zekri, Arnold Schumann, Tripti Vashisth, Davie Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Brian J. Bowman, Thomas A. Obreza

“…For citrus trees, microirrigation is more desirable than other irrigation methods for several reasons: water conservation, fertilizer management efficiency, and freeze protection. …”
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An Efficient Higher-Order Quasilinearization Method for Solving Nonlinear BVPs by Eman S. Alaidarous, Malik Zaka Ullah, Fayyaz Ahmad, A.S. Al-Fhaid

“…The reported method is very general and can be extended to desired order of convergence for highly nonlinear differential equations and also computationally superior to proposed iterative method based on Adomain decomposition because our proposed iterative scheme avoids the calculations of Adomain polynomials and achieves the same computational order of convergence as authors have claimed in Motsa and Sibanda, 2013. …”
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Concert Viewing Headphones by Kazuya Atsuta, Masatoshi Hamanaka, SeungHee Lee

“…Testing using images and sounds captured using a fisheye-lens camera and 37 lavalier microphones showed that sound locali-zation was fastest when an inverse square function was used for the sound mixing and that the zoom function was useful for locating the desired sound performance.…”
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The Investigation on L1 Adaptive Control of the Tilt-Rotor Aircraft by Quanlong Chen, Shanyong Zhao, Ke Lu, Senkui Lu, Chunsheng Liu, Renliang Chen

“…Taking advantage of the separation of robustness and adaptive design of the L1 adaptive controller, adaptive gain, and low-pass filter are designed to achieve the desired control performance and meet the requirements of flight quality. …”
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Designing Unimodular Waveform with Low Range Sidelobes and Stopband for Cognitive Radar via Relaxed Alternating Projection by Xiang Feng, Yang-chun Song, Zhi-quan Zhou, Yi-nan Zhao

“…Besides stopband constraints, low range sidelobes and unimodular property are also desired. In this paper, we propose a Spectral Approximation Relaxed Alternating Projection (SARAP) method, to synthesize unimodular waveform with low range sidelobes and spectral power suppressed. …”
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Real Time Face-mask Detection with Arduino to Prevent COVID-19 Spreading by Saman M. Almufti, Ridwan B. Marqas, Zakiya A. Nayef, Tamara S. Mohamed

“…The proposed approach in this paper developed to avoid mask-less people from entering to a desired places (i.e. Mall, University, Office, …etc.) by detecting face mask using deep learning, TensorFlow, Keras, and OpenCV and sending a signal to Arduino device that connected to the gate to be open. it detect a face in a real-time and identifies whether the person wear mask or not. …”
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Strategic Team AI Path Plans: Probabilistic Pathfinding by Tng C. H. John, Edmond C. Prakash, Narendra S. Chaudhari

“…This path plan generation method has the ability to generate variation or different high-quality paths, which is desired for games to increase replay values. …”
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Fertigation for Citrus Trees by Mongi Zekri, Arnold Schumann, Tripti Vashisth, Davie Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Brian J. Bowman, Thomas A. Obreza

“…For citrus trees, microirrigation is more desirable than other irrigation methods for several reasons: water conservation, fertilizer management efficiency, and freeze protection. …”
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Simulation of the Advection Process of Stokes Flow Inside a Rectangular Cavity Under Constant Velocities by Valentyn Sobchuk, Oleksandr Kurylko, Oleksandr Boryseiko, Oleh Perehuda, Iryna Lebedyeva, Igor Ulitko, Olena Vashchilina

“…To solve the first problem, the analytical method of superposition, which allows one to obtain any desired accuracy of the velocity field, is used. To solve the second problem, which is associated with obtaining the trajectories of individual fluid particles, numerical calculations of the Cauchy problem were performed. …”
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Analysis of QTLs Associated with the Rice Quality Related Gene by Double Haploid Populations by Gyu-Ho Lee, Byung-Wook Yun, Kyung-Min Kim

“…These markers showing high percentage of coincidence can be useful to select desirable lines for rice breeding.…”
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Investigations of Structural and Residual Trapping Phenomena during CO2 Sequestration in Deccan Volcanic Province of the Saurashtra Region, Gujarat by Pradeep Reddy Punnam, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Vikranth Kumar Surasani

“…It can also establish a protocol for selecting the optimal injection points with the desired injection rate for the safe and efficient implementation of CO2 sequestration. …”
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Finite-Time Control for a Coupled Four-Tank Liquid Level System Based on the Port-Controlled Hamiltonian Method by Tao Xu, Haisheng Yu, Jinpeng Yu

“…Furthermore, a finite-time controller is designed by a state-error desired Hamiltonian function, and the relationship between the settling time and a parameter is given, which can be applied in practical engineering easily to adjust the settling time according to the industrial need. …”
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Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration in Pediatric Workers and Undergraduate Medical/Nursing Students by Yong Wang, Yong-fang Liu, Hao Li, Tingyu Li

“…Among the participants of PIS, the pediatricians obtained the highest mean scores, while, among the participants of NIS, the pediatric nurses got higher mean scores than nursing interns. It is desirable that medical and nurse schools should include interprofessional education in their curriculum to increase the understanding of the complementary roles of physicians and nurses and to encourage establishment of an interdependent relationship between them.…”
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Enhanced Optical and Infrared Activity of Nanosphere Dimers Attributed to Dimer Geometry by D. Keith Roper, Jin-Woo Kim, Ricardo R. Romo, Joseph Batta-Mpouma

“…The preparation and simulation methods in the present work appear useful to guide design, fabrication, and implementation of sustainably-synthesized nanosphere dimers with desired optical features for optoelectronic, spectroscopic, and sensing applications.…”
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Rapid Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Fusarium oxysporum by Optimizing Physicocultural Conditions by Sonal S. Birla, Swapnil C. Gaikwad, Aniket K. Gade, Mahendra K. Rai

“…In order to increase the yield of biosynthesized SNPs of desired shape and size, it is necessary to control the cultural and physical parameters during the synthesis. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Linear and Nonlinear Pattern Synthesis of Hemispherical Antenna Array Using Adaptive Evolutionary Techniques by K. R. Subhashini, A. T. Praveen Kumar

“…These methods are used to determine a set of parameters of antenna elements that provide the desired radiation pattern. The effectiveness of the algorithms for the design of conformal antenna array is shown by means of numerical results. …”
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Motivation and Life Satisfaction of Employees in the Public and Private Sectors by Julija Peklar, Eva Boštjančič

“…Work motivation is the steering of human activity towards a desired objective by means of motives generated internally in a person or in his or her environment, on the basis of his or her needs. …”
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Implementation of an Innovative Method to Design Reflectarray Antennas by Abdelhamid Tayebi, Josefa Gómez, Iván González, Felipe Cátedra

“…The developed approach automatically generates the geometrical model of reflectarray antennas taking into account some input parameters, such as, the unit cell type and dimensions, frequency, focal length, periodicity, dielectric materials, and desired main beam radiating direction. The characteristics of the reflecting elements are selected considering the spatial phase delay at each unit cell to achieve a progressive phase shift. …”
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