Analysis and modelling of urban sprawl process and its spatiotemporal patterns in tripoli metropolitan area, Libya by Abdulhadi, Abubakr Albashir

“…Several data were used to conduct spatial analysis, modeling, and predictions for urban expansion such as Land-Sat image 1984, Land-Sat image 1996, Spot 5 image 2002, Spot 5 image 2010,road networks, population data, digital contour map, and topographic map. …”
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Energy storage management for renewable energy systems by Feng, Xue

“…The device models including the dynamic battery model proposed are incorporated in the system simulations. A fine-grained intelligent control strategy with multiple operation modes is designed to distribute the power demand between the batteries and the ultracapacitors considering the real time power mismatches. …”
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Scope, characteristics, behavior change techniques, and quality of conversational agents for mental health and well-being: systematic assessment of apps by Lin, Xiaowen, Martinengo, Laura, Jabir, Ahmad Ishqi, Ho, Andy Hau Yan, Car, Josip, Atun, Rifat, Tudor Car, Lorainne

“…We further described their main features, technical aspects, and quality in terms of engagement, functionality, esthetics, and information using the Mobile Application Rating Scale. …”
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Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits by Evangelou, Evangelos, Warren, Helen R., Mosen-Ansorena, David, Mifsud, Borbala, Pazoki, Raha, Gao, He, Ntritsos, Georgios, Dimou, Niki, Cabrera, Claudia P., Ibrahim Karaman, Ng, Fu Liang, Evangelou, Marina, Witkowska, Katarzyna, Tzanis, Evan, Hellwege, Jacklyn N., Giri, Ayush, Edwards, Digna R. Velez, Sun, Yan V., Cho, Kelly, Gaziano, J. Michael, Wilson, Peter W. F., Tsao, Philip S., Kovesdy, Csaba P., Esko, Tonu, Mägi, Reedik, Milani, Lili, Almgren, Peter, Boutin, Thibaud, Debette, Stéphanie, Ding, Jun, Giulianini, Franco, Holliday, Elizabeth G., Jackson, Anne U., Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Wei-Yu, Luan, Jian'an, Mangino, Massimo, Oldmeadow, Christopher, Prins, Bram Peter, Qian, Yong, Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan, Shah, Nabi, Surendran, Praveen, Thériault, Sébastien, Verweij, Niek, Willems, Sara M., Zhao, Jing-Hua, Amouyel, Philippe, Connell, John, de Mutsert, Renée, Doney, Alex S. F., Farrall, Martin, Menni, Cristina, Morris, Andrew D., Raymond Noordam, Paré, Guillaume, Poulter, Neil R., Shields, Denis C., Stanton, Alice, Thom, Simon, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Najaf Amin, Arking, Dan E., Ayers, Kristin L., Barbieri, Caterina M., Batini, Chiara, Bis, Joshua C. M., Blake, Tineka, Bochud, Murielle, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Boomsma, Dorret I., Bottinger, Erwin P., Braund, Peter S., Brumat, Marco, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chambers, John Campbell, Chauhan, Ganesh, Ciullo, Marina, Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Francis, Cordell, Heather J., Davies, Gail, de Borst, Martin H., de Geus, Eco J., Deary, Ian J., Deelen, Joris, Del Greco M., Fabiola, Demirkale, Cumhur Yusuf, Dörr, Marcus, Ehret, Georg B., Elosua, Roberto, Enroth, Stefan, Erzurumluoglu, A. Mesut, Ferreira, Teresa, Frånberg, Mattias, Franco, Oscar H., Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Goel, Anuj, Gow, Alan J., Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hamsten, Anders, Harris, Tamara B., Harris, Sarah E., Hartman, Catharina A., Havulinna, Aki S., Hicks, Andrew A., Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E., Hwang, Shih-Jen, Ingelsson, Erik, James, Alan, Jansen, Rick, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Joehanes, Roby, Johansson, Åsa, Johnson, Andrew D., Joshi, Peter K., Jousilahti, Pekka, Jukema, J. Wouter, Jula, Antti, Kähönen, Mika, Kathiresan, Sekar, Keavney, Bernard D., Khaw, Kay-Tee, Knekt, Paul, Knight, Joanne, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooner, Jaspal S., Koskinen, Seppo, Kristiansson, Kati, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laan, Maris, Larson, Marty, Launer, Lenore J., Lehne, Benjamin, Lehtimäki, Terho, Liewald, David C. M., Lin, Li, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Liu, YongMei, Loos, Ruth J. F., Lopez, Lorna M., Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto, Marrugat, Jaume, Marten, Jonathan, Milaneschi, Yuri, Morgan, Anna, Morris, Andrew P., Morrison, Alanna C., Munson, Peter J., Nalls, Mike A., Nandakumar, Priyanka, Nelson, Christopher P., Niiranen, Teemu, Nolte, Ilja M., Nutile, Teresa, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Oostra, Ben A., O'Reilly, Paul F., Org, Elin, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palmas, Walter, Palotie, Aarno, Pattie, Alison, Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., Perola, Markus, Peters, Annette, Polasek, Ozren, Pramstaller, Peter P., Nguyen, Quang Tri, Raitakari, Olli T., Ren, Meixia, Rettig, Rainer, Rice, Kenneth, Ridker, Paul M., Ried, Janina S., Riese, Harriëtte, Ripatti, Samuli, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda M., Rotter, Jerome I., Rudan, Igor, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia F., Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J., Sarin, Antti-Pekka, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schmidt, Helena, Shrine, Nick, Siscovick, David, Smith, Albert V., Snieder, Harold, Sõber, Siim, Sorice, Rossella, Starr, John M., Stott, David J., Strachan, David P., Strawbridge, Rona J., Sundström, Johan, Swertz, Morris A., Taylor, Kent D., Teumer, Alexander, Tobin, Martin D., Tomaszewski, Maciej, Toniolo, Daniela, Traglia, Michela, Trompet, Stella, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tzourio, Christophe, Uitterlinden, André G., Vaez, Ahmad, van der Most, Peter J., van Duijn, Cornelia M., Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Verwoert, Germaine C., Vitart, Veronique, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Vuckovic, Dragana, Watkins, Hugh, Wild, Sarah H., Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, James F., Wright, Alan F., Yao, Jie, Zemunik, Tatijana, Zhang, Weihua, Attia, John R., Butterworth, Adam S., Chasman, Daniel I., Conen, David, Cucca, Francesco, Danesh, John, Hayward, Caroline, Howson, Joanna M. M., Laakso, Markku, Lakatta, Edward G., Langenberg, Claudia, Melander, Olle, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Palmer, Colin N. A., Risch, Lorenz, Scott, Robert A., Scott, Rodney J., Sever, Peter, Spector, Tim D., van der Harst, Pim, Wareham, Nicholas J., Zeggini, Eleftheria, Levy, Daniel, Munroe, Patricia B., Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Brown, Morris J., Metspalu, Andres, Hung, Adriana M., O'Donnell, Christopher J., Edwards, Todd L., Psaty, Bruce M., Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Barnes, Michael R., Wain, Louise V., Elliott, Paul, Caulfield, Mark J.

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Creativity in Intelligent Technologies and Data Science : 4th International Conference, CIT&DS 2021, Volgograd, Russia, September 20-23, 2021 : Proceedings / by CIT&DS (Conference) (4th : 2021 : Volgograd, Russia), organiser 642924, Kravets, Alla G., editor 642925, Shcherbakov, Maxim, editor 642926, Parygin, Danila, editor 642927, Groumpos, Peter P., editor 642928

Power system adequacy and cost/worth assessment incorporating virtual power plants by Bagchi, Arijit

“…The costs associated with the VPP are sub-divided into five categories – import, customer interruption, operation, investment and revenues – and different DER configurations are examined to determine the optimal portfolio which offers the highest cost savings for the VPP aggregator. …”
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Characterisation of transport and thermodynamic properties for various binary electrolytes by Hou, T

“…The MZCC electrolyte (we synthesised from ZnCl₂/THF solutions) can support reversible Mg plating and stripping with a Coulombic efficiency of essentially 100%, a deposition overpotential less than 150 mV, and a sta- bility window up to 3.2 V vs. Mg/Mg²⁺. …”

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) by Tudor, Katarina Ivana, Tudor, Mario, McCleery, Jenny, Car, Josip

“…We contacted trial authors for additional data. Main results Only one study met the inclusion criteria: an RCT comparing effectiveness of ETV and non-programmable VP shunts in 42 patients with iNPH. …”
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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…This thesis aims to identify and answer a few of them by unveiling efficient spin manipulation methods. The main findings of the thesis are divided into two parts. …”
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Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…Reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which exhibits advantages such as lower energy consumption, reduced footprint and higher water quality as compared to thermal-based technologies, has become one of the main technologies in desalination industry. Despite the attractive advantages of RO, the inevitable problem significantly affecting RO processes is membrane fouling. …”
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Smart material based on magnetorheological elastomer and its 3D printing by Bastola, Anil K.

“…However, the applied magnetic field does not promise a unique particle alignment. Similarly, main concerns of current MR elastomer-based applications such as vibration isolators and absorbers are a high-power requirement and bulky configuration. …”
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Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…Generally, control actions can be mainly divided into two categories: preventive control (PC) and emergency control (EC), depending on its implementation time. …”
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Modelling, exploration and optimization of hardware accelerators for deep learning applications by Dutt, Arko

“…Fourth, we built emerging memory with resistive-random access memory (RRAM) and thin-film transistor (TFT) devices, acting as off-chip main memory for emerging multi-tier monolithic 3D system design. …”
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Dynamics in blue emitting metal halide perovskites for light emitting diodes by Karlsson, Max

“…Although the origins of the poor temporal stability of perovskite light emitting diodes are manifold, one of the main problems are the low barriers for halide migration under the applied electric field during operation, rapidly degrading the device properties. …”
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Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…First, mining frequent subgraphs from a large collection of graph objects is an important problem in several application domains such as bio-informatics, social networks, computer vision, etc. The main challenge in subgraph mining is efficiency, as (i) testing for graph isomorphisms is computationally intensive, and (ii) the cardinality of the graph collection to be mined may be very large. …”
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Harmonized co-existence with robust interference management in femto-macro cellular architectures by Ponnu Jacob

“…The first contribution mainly aims at improving the current cellular framework in terms of capacity, coverage and dead-zone reduction without bringing in prominent changes in the network architecture. …”
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Critical events detection and management in complex networks by Yu, Yi

“…We study the problem of finding the best locations of a given number of monitors in the network to minimize the worst-case infection size of a strong infection. Our main contributions are two-fold: i) we formulate the problem, prove its NP-hardness and design an efficient heuristic algorithm to find a suboptimal solution; ii) extensive simulations on various synthetic and real-world networks demonstrate that a moderate number of monitors is able to restrict the worst-case infection size to a low level in most cases. …”
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Online estimation of key battery states for management of vanadium redox flow battery by Wei, Zhongbao

“…To tackle this problem, a new online model identification method without requiring the open-circuit cell is proposed and based on which an online SOC estimation method is investigated in the second part of the thesis. Two main contributions have been drawn. Firstly, the estimations of model parameters and OCV are fully decoupled to rule out the possibility of cross interference between them. …”
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How balanced are you? Bilingualism and the development of attentional control in English-Mandarin preschool children by Chan, Clara Gek Hoon

“…As part of the theory, they highlight the importance of context; three different bilingual conversational contexts were identified, and differing cognitive demands were attributed to those three contexts. The main research question in the current thesis is to examine the relation between bilingualism balance and attentional control in preschool children. …”
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The sensitivity of tsunami models and tsunami energy to geologically constrained fault sources and shallow bathymetry by Felix, Raquel Picar

“…Using the 5 m resolution bathymetry as a baseline refer-ence model, the results showed that the 10 m – 50 m bathymetry models produce reasonably accurate coastal waves, with maximum wave heights and first wave arrival times that are only ≤10% and ≤5% lower than expected, respectively. …”
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