Effect of Ferronickel Slag Powder on Strength of Soil in Marine Environment by Feng Chen, Shenghao Tong

“…In order to study the influence of composite ferronickel slag powder on the strength and micro morphology of soil-cement in marine environment, the composite nickel iron slag powder was added into the soil-cement in this paper. …”
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Isotherm Studies for the Sorption of Metal Ions on to Peat by G. Mckay, B. Vong, J.F. Porter

“…The adsorption of five single-component metal ions, namely, copper, cadmium, cobalt, nickel and zinc, on to peat has been studied. Equilibrium isotherms were measured and analysed using three methods: Langmuir, Freundlich and Redlich–Peterson. …”
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Wear Resistance of Ceramic Cutting Inserts Using Nitride Coatings and Microtexturing by Electrical Discharge Machining by Marina A. Volosova, Anna A. Okunkova, Elena Y. Kropotkina, Enver S. Mustafaev, Khasan I. Gkhashim

“…Today, the machining of heat-resistant alloys based on triple, quad, or penta equilibria high-entropy alloy systems of elements (ternary, quaternary, quinary iron-, titanium-, or nickel-rich alloys), including dual-phase by Gibb’s phase rule, steels of the austenite class, and nickel- and titanium-based alloys, are highly relevant for the airspace and aviation industry, especially for the production of gas turbine engines. …”
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Electric field-assisted embedding of fiber optic sensors in structural materials for structural health monitoring by Xinchang Zhang, Joshua Daw, Charles Payne, Bibo Zhong, Austin Fleming, Zilong Hua, Jorgen Rufner

“…This study demonstrates the encapsulation of fused silica optical fibers in stainless steel and nickel through the electric field-assisted sintering (EFAS) process. …”
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Cugoano on Redressing Slavery: The Demands of Liberty by Iziah C Topete

“…Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s work from July 1787, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, defended redressing transatlantic slavery on principled grounds. …”
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Des objets en bois remarquables issus d’un puits de la place d’Assas à Nîmes (Gard) by Pierre Mille, Éric Bayen, Frédéric Conche, Martial Monteil

“…Fifteen rare and remarkable wooden objects were found in this humid environment, such as various boxes, including two boxes with mirrors and two signet boxes, fragments of writing tablets, a hinge from a piece of furniture, three spindle fragments, the base of a wicker basket, etc. The observation of these objects resulted in the identification of the wood species used, and the manufacturing processes were reconstructed thanks to wood shavings and shaping and sawing waste. …”
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An Efficient and Lightweight Source Privacy Protecting Scheme for Sensor Networks Using Group Knowledge by Zhiqiang Ruan, Wei Liang, Decai Sun, Haibo Luo, Fanyong Cheng

“…On the other hand, existing works use either random walk path or fake packets injection, both incurring tremendous overhead. …”
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Mobility Based Key Management Technique for Multicast Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by B. Madhusudhanan, S. Chitra, C. Rajan

“…In MANET multicasting, forward and backward secrecy result in increased packet drop rate owing to mobility. Frequent rekeying causes large message overhead which increases energy consumption and end-to-end delay. …”
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Robust Speed Tracking of Networked PMSM Servo Systems with Uncertain Feedback Delay and Load Torque Disturbance by Qiang Ling, Jing Li, Haojiang Deng

“…Although the installation and maintenance cost of the networked PMSM system can be lowered by replacing the conventional point-to-point feedback cables with a network, the network packet dropouts and transmission delay may degrade the system’s performance and even destabilize it. …”
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Basra Şehrinin Kurucusu Utbe b. Gazvân'ın Hayatı ve Faaliyetleri by Mehmet Usluer

“…Muhammed ile beraber hareket etti. Hicret kaçınılmaz hale geldiği zaman Hz. Muhammed’den sonra Medine’ye yerleşti. …”
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An Effective Routing Protocol with Guaranteed Route Preference for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Feng-Tsun Chien, Kuo-Guan Wu, Yu-Wei Chan, Min-Kuan Chang, Yi-Sheng Su

“…The results show that the proposed routing protocol can have better performance in terms of queueing length, lifetime, and packet delivery ratio and have comparable end-to-end delays.…”
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Quality-of-Service Routing Using Path and Power Aware Techniques in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by R. Asokan, A. M. Natarajan, C. Venkatesh

“…TORA with SHORT enhances performance of TORA in terms of throughput, packet loss, end-to-end delay, and energy.…”
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A two-channel slotted sense multiple access protocol for timely and reliable data transmission in industrial wireless sensor networks by Md Abul Kalam Azad, Chi Trung Ngo, Hoon Oh

“…However, since the nodes at lower tree levels process more packets or bigger packets with data aggregation, they need a bigger sharable slot. …”
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Fast Channel Navigation of Internet Protocol Television Using Adaptive Hybrid Delivery Method by Timothy T. Adeliyi, Oludayo O. Olugbara

“…Results show that the hybrid method has an excellent performance by lowering point-to-point queuing delay, end-to-end packet delay, and packet variation and increasing throughput rate.…”
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Damage Identification Investigation of Retaining Wall Structures Based on a Virtual Impulse Response Function by Qian Xu

“…To eliminate the influence of excitation on the wavelet packet frequency band energy spectrum (ES), ES is acquired via wavelet packet decomposition of a virtual impulse response function. …”
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Optimal Hidden Node Area for Enhancing Routing Protocol Performance in IEEE 802.11 Multihop MANETs by Emeka Egbogah, Liqi Shi, Abraham Fapojuwo

“…The numerical results show that decreasing the hop distance increases the probability of successful packet reception at a receiver, at the cost of increased end-to-end delay. …”
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Mobile Base Station and Clustering to Maximize Network Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks by Oday Jerew, Kim Blackmore, Weifa Liang

“…We also provide analytical estimates of the unavoidable packet loss as the network size increases. We finally conduct experiments by simulation to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. …”
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Thermal Analysis of Ni-Cu Alloy Nanocomposites Processed by Sand Mold Casting by J. Kumaraswamy, Vidyasagar Shetty, S. Sanman, Premkumar Naik, Shabari Shedthi, C. Gnanavel, Ibsa Neme Mogose

“…The aim is to investigate the thermal conductivity and coefficient of thermal expansion of the nickel based alloy nanocomposites reinforced with titanium dioxide (TiO2) which varies from 3 to 12 weight % nanoparticulates (45 to 60 nm). …”
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Spatial Multiple Description Coding for Scalable Video Streams by Roya Choupani, Stephan Wong, Mehmet Tolun

“…In order to improve the fidelity of the reconstructed to the original frames in presence of packet loss, a multilayer polyphase spatial decomposition algorithm is proposed. …”
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A New Efficient and Reliable Dynamically Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip by Cédric Killian, Camel Tanougast, Fabrice Monteiro, Abbas Dandache

“…Therefore, our approach maintains a high run time throughput in the NoC without data packet loss thanks to a self-loopback mechanism inside each router.…”
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