Effective non-intrusive load monitoring of buildings based on a novel multi-descriptor fusion with dimensionality reduction by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…The latter can not only reduce feature dimensionality, but it can also effectively decrease the intra-class distances and increase the extra-class distances of appliance features; and (iii) a powerful decision bagging tree classifier is implemented to accurately classify electrical devices using the reduced features. …”

Machine Learning-Based Management of Electric Vehicles Charging: Towards Highly-Dispersed Fast Chargers by Mostafa Shibl (18810412)

“…<p dir="ltr">Coordinated charging of electric vehicles (EVs) improves the overall efficiency of the power grid as it avoids distribution system overloads, increases power quality, and decreases voltage fluctuations. Moreover, the coordinated charging supports flattening the load profile. …”

Simulation Study of Thermal Effects of Vegetation Covered Sand dune mounds within the Landscape around Urban Structures in the UAE by Al-Yaqoob, Dana

“…Also, increase in edge compactness and shape complexity of vegetation can decrease surface temperatures and progress the exchanges between vegetation and built-up areas. …”
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An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure by Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

“…An extensive simulation study demonstrates the viability and efficiency of the proposed algorithm under various node failure models, and relevant metrics (e.g., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. For instance, for 4,096 nodes organized in a logical tree of arity 4 and with 4 physical nodes for logical node, a negligible number of nodes is disconnected from the tree after 250 epochs when the per-node per-epoch failure probability is p f ≤ 0 . 0008 . …”

Tabu search based circuit optimization by Sait, Sadiq M.

“…Such a strategy leads to sizable circuit speed improvement with minimum increase in the overall circuit capacitance. Compared to earlier approaches, the presented technique produces circuits with remarkable increase in speed (greater than 20%) for very small increase in overall circuit capacitance (less than 3%)…”
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Fiber-matrix interfacial area reduction in fiber reinforced cements and concretes at moderate to high fiber volume fractions by Karam, Gebran N.

“…The area and properties of the fiber-matrix interface in fiber reinforced cements and concretes determines the amount of stress transferred forth and back between the cement paste and the reinforcement and hence controls the mechanical properties of the composite. …”
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Hydroxyurea Use in Lebanese Patients With [beta]-Thalassemia Intermedia by Taher, Ali

“…Patient 5 had an increase in Hb by 1.3 g/dL at month 10, but it decreased back by 0.6 g/dL at month 13. All other patients did not respond to HU. …”
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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment by Al-Asheh, Sameer

“…The strong acidic cation polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104765 cation exchanger IV with capacity greater than 3.2 mmol/ml, while the strong basic anion polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104767 anion exchanger III with capacities greater than 1.0 mmol/ml. …”
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Exploring the potential of applying Sustainable Retrofitting Policies & Regulations for existing low-rise small-scale Residential Buildings (Villas) in Dubai, UAE by Albedwawi, Khulood

“…Green retrofit for existing buildings has now become as one of the effective options to decrease energy consumption worldwide. It is crucial to develop sustainable retrofitting policies and regulations for the existing old villas since there is lack of regulations to retrofit old existing low scale residential buildings like villas in Dubai. …”
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Assessment of Brain Function After 240 Days Confinement Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy by Yahya, Fares

“…The FCN shows a significant decrease in most of the right frontal areas. Five different machine learning classifiers are employed to differentiate between two levels of stress resulting in impressive classification accuracy rates: 96.44% with-nearest neighbor (KNN), 95.52% with linear discriminant analysis (LDA), 88.71% with Naïve Bayes (NB), 87.41 with decision trees (DT) and 96.48% with Support Vector Machine (SVM). …”
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Colloid retention and mobilization mechanisms under different physicochemical conditions in porous media: A micromodel study by Safna Nishad (16932474)

“…However, for hydrophobic colloids, changes in solution chemistry significantly increase colloid retention where the colloid interaction become attractive with the increase in ionic strength and decrease in pH values. …”

The Effects of New Public Management on Managers’ Work-Life Balance and Behavior by AL HEBSI, AHMED

“…It was found that the public sector has shifted its framework towards greater customer satisfaction, which has led to an increase in the workload of the managers. …”
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Total and segmental liver volume variations by Abdalla, Eddie

“…Patients with conditions potentially affecting the biliary tree (eg, pancreatic cancer) or associated with diffuse liver disease (eg, lymphoma) were excluded. …”
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The role of job description as a motivational tool. (c2000) by Nahfawi, Ghina

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Simultaneous Bilateral Neck of Femur Fracture in a Young Adult with Underlying Metabolic Disturbances by Eslam Alkaramani (14570439)

“…Ruling out other biological underlying etiologies, early diagnosis and early fracture anatomic reduction and fixation are crucial to decrease potential complications such as avascular necrosis and fracture nonunion. …”

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND THE CYBERSECURITY OF INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR by Badi, Sulafa

“…With the twenty-first century called the golden age of digital transformation in the oil and gas sector, the increased connectivity of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) will generate new opportunities for organisations such as greater safety, reliability, and efficiency.…”
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Effects of natural organic matter on aggregation kinetics of boron nanoparticles in monovalent and divalent electrolytes by Liu, Xuyang

“…However, the attachment efficiency kept increasing in the presence of CaCl2 and alginate with the increase in the electrolyte concentration and was greater than unity at >4 mM CaCl2. …”
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What drives cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes: Coin versus market factors? by Lanouar, Charfeddine

“…These include lower market capitalization, lower trading volume, greater social media popularity, increased developer activity, and fewer exchanges trading them. …”
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Gaining or Losing Team Ball Possession: The Dynamics of Momentum Perception and Strategic Choice in Football Coaches by Walid Briki (688845)

“…Nonetheless, both variables displayed asymmetrical effects, in the sense that: (1) the strength of positive PM appeared to be easier to decrease than to increase; and (2) the greater the positive PM (or the negative PM), the lesser (or the greater) the coaches’ tendency to make a change in the organization of their teams. …”

The Impact of a Teacher Induction Programme on the Retention of Teachers: A Study in a Private School in Abu Dhabi by Almahmoud, Nahed

“…The key findings identified further areas that need to be modified in the programme, including subject-specific training, a greater emphasis on the mentor system and greater levels of support from the leadership team. …”
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