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Response of soil bacterial community composition and its associated geochemical parameters to rapid short-term cyclic groundwater-level oscillations: soil column experiments (2020)
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Xia, X., Cheng, L., Zhu, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, K., Ding, A., Cai, Z., Shi, H., & Zuo, L. (2020). Response of soil bacterial community composition and its associated geochemical parameters to rapid short-term cyclic groundwater-level oscillations: soil column experiments. Vadose Zone Journal, 19(1), Article e20011. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20011

Groundwater-level oscillations change geochemical conditions, carbon cycling processes and bacterial community composition, and these changes may vary vertically with depth in a soil. In this study, soil column experiments were conducted to explore v... Read More about Response of soil bacterial community composition and its associated geochemical parameters to rapid short-term cyclic groundwater-level oscillations: soil column experiments.

A Smart and Sustainable Concept for Achieving a Highly Efficient Residential Bathroom: A Literature Review (2020)
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Oye, T. K., Goh, K., Gupta, N., & Oye, T. T. (2020). A Smart and Sustainable Concept for Achieving a Highly Efficient Residential Bathroom: A Literature Review. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 5(3), 1402-1407

Climate change has been one of the key issues confronting the world in the 21st century. Nevertheless, the concept of sustainability has become vital in battling excessive use of natural resources. Enormous consumption of water and energy in the bath... Read More about A Smart and Sustainable Concept for Achieving a Highly Efficient Residential Bathroom: A Literature Review.

Mutual Coupling Reduction of Dual-Band Uni-Planar MIMO System Using Neutralization Line Technique (2020)
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Saleh, A. M., Nagem, T. A., Abd-Alhameed, R., Noras, J., & See, C. H. (2020). Mutual Coupling Reduction of Dual-Band Uni-Planar MIMO System Using Neutralization Line Technique. The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, 35(2), 176-186

This paper presents a low–profile dual-band (2×2) MIMO antenna that works at 2.4GHz, 5.2GHz and 5.8GHz for wireless local area networks (WLAN) applications. A neutralization line technique for enhancing the isolation is used by introducing strip line... Read More about Mutual Coupling Reduction of Dual-Band Uni-Planar MIMO System Using Neutralization Line Technique.

Metal Coated Conductive Fabrics with Graphite Electrodes and Biocompatible Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Supercapacitors (2020)
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Pullanchiyodan, A., Manjakkal, L., Dervin, S., Shakthivel, D., & Dahiya, R. (2020). Metal Coated Conductive Fabrics with Graphite Electrodes and Biocompatible Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Supercapacitors. Advanced Materials Technologies, 5(5), Article 1901107. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201901107

Fabric-based supercapacitors have received considerable interest as energy storage devices for wearable systems. This work demonstrates the use of metal coated fabrics as the active material and current collector with nontoxic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)... Read More about Metal Coated Conductive Fabrics with Graphite Electrodes and Biocompatible Gel Electrolyte for Wearable Supercapacitors.

Flexible potentiometric pH sensors for wearable systems (2020)
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Manjakkal, L., Dervin, S., & Dahiya, R. (2020). Flexible potentiometric pH sensors for wearable systems. RSC Advances, 10(15), 8594-8617. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ra00016g

There is a growing demand for developing wearable sensors that can non-invasively detect the signs of chronic diseases early on to possibly enable self-health management. Among these the flexible and stretchable electrochemical pH sensors are particu... Read More about Flexible potentiometric pH sensors for wearable systems.

The joint effect of weather and lighting conditions on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents (2020)
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Fountas, G., Fonzone, A., Gharavi, N., & Rye, T. (2020). The joint effect of weather and lighting conditions on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 27, Article 100124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amar.2020.100124

This study seeks to identify and analyze variations in the effect of contributing factors on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents across various lighting and weather conditions. To that end, injury-severity data from single-vehicle, injury a... Read More about The joint effect of weather and lighting conditions on injury severities of single-vehicle accidents.

Design of a Wide-Band Microstrip Filtering Antenna with Modified Shaped Slots and SIR Structure (2020)
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Al-Yasir, Y. I. A., A. Alhamadani, H., Kadhim, A. S., Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Saleh, A. L., Elfergani, I. T. E., Rodriguez, J., & Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2020). Design of a Wide-Band Microstrip Filtering Antenna with Modified Shaped Slots and SIR Structure. Inventions, 5(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions5010011

This paper presents a new compact microstrip filtering antenna with modified shaped slots to improve the impedance bandwidth. The proposed microstrip filtering antenna consists of three parts: the monopole radiating patch antenna; the Stepped Impedan... Read More about Design of a Wide-Band Microstrip Filtering Antenna with Modified Shaped Slots and SIR Structure.

Do High Visibility Enforcement Programs Affect Aggressive Driving Behavior? An Empirical Analysis Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data (2020)
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Pantangi, S. S., Fountas, G., Anastasopoulos, P. C., Pierowicz, J., Majka, K., & Blatt, A. (2020). Do High Visibility Enforcement Programs Affect Aggressive Driving Behavior? An Empirical Analysis Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data. Accident analysis and prevention, 138, Article 105361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2019.105361

This paper investigates the effect of High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) programs on different types of aggressive driving behavior, namely, speeding, tailgating, unsafe lane changes and ‘other’ aggressive driving behavior types (occurrence of not-yie... Read More about Do High Visibility Enforcement Programs Affect Aggressive Driving Behavior? An Empirical Analysis Using Naturalistic Driving Study Data.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs (2020)
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Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Stuart, S., Sherlock, A., Quigley, J., & Purves, D. (2020). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs. Journal of Mechanical Design, 142(10), Article 101401. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046435

Many companies offer a range of related products that are constructed using similar components and processes. This enables them to meet customer expectations of product variety while minimising the overheads (e.g. development and manufacturing costs)... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs.

A high-performance global maximum power point tracker of PV system for rapidly changing partial shading conditions (2020)
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Kermadi, M., Salam, Z., Ahmed, J., & Berkouk, E. M. (2021). A high-performance global maximum power point tracker of PV system for rapidly changing partial shading conditions. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(3), 2236-2245. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2020.2972456

This article proposes a fast and efficient maximum power point tracker (MPPT) for photovoltaic (PV) systems under rapidly changing partial shading conditions. An intelligent mechanism is adopted to systematically schedule the search for the global ma... Read More about A high-performance global maximum power point tracker of PV system for rapidly changing partial shading conditions.