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Noha Abdel-Mottaleb, Payman Ghasemi Saghand, Mathews J. Wakhungu, Hadi Charkhgard, E. Christian Wells and Qiong Zhang
Isolation valves are critical for the reliable functioning of water distribution networks (WDNs). However, it is challenging for utilities to prioritize valve rehabilitation and replacement given it is often unclear if certain valves are operable in a gi...
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Sercan Gülci, Hafiz Hulusi Acar, Abdullah E. Akay and Nese Gülci
Road curve attributes can be determined by using Geographic Information System (GIS) to be used in road vehicle traffic safety and planning studies. This study involves analyzing the GIS-based estimation accuracy in the length, radius and the number of s...
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Lauren E. H. Mathews and Alicia M. Kinoshita
The goal of this research was to characterize the impact of invasive riparian vegetation on burn severity patterns and fluvial topographic change in an urban Mediterranean riverine system (Med-sys) after fire in San Diego, California. We assessed standar...
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Johney Thomas, Antonio Davis and Mathews P. Samuel
Safety is of paramount concern in aerospace and aviation. Safety has evolved over the years, from the technical era to the human-factors era and organizational era, and finally to the present era of systems-thinking. Building upon three foundational conc...
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Ching-Nung Yang, Yung-Chien Chou, Tao-Ku Chang and Cheonshik Kim
Recently, image compression using adaptive block truncation coding based on edge quantization (ABTC-EQ) was proposed by Mathews and Nair. Their approach deals with an image for two types of blocks, edge blocks and non-edge blocks. Different from using th...
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Vinh Nguyen Xuan Truong,Mathews Nkhoma,Wanniwat Pansuwong
Advertising in mobile apps has recently become one of the most popular advertising channels for businesses when its annual revenue has rapidly increased year over year. On this kind of advertising, the app publishers do not only play a critical role in t...
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William George Shaw, Marc Mathews, Johan Marais
In the past the cost of electricity was not a significant concern and was not common practice for mining companies to consider peak time-of-use (TOU) tariffs for their shift schedules. It has become more prevalent, as TOU tariffs continue increasing, to ...
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L.A Botes, W. Booysen, M.J. Mathews, M. Kleingeld
Tax incentives are one of the methods used by the South African government to incentivise energy efficiency. One of these incentives is Section 12L of the Income Tax Act (1962), which allows a significant tax deduction as a result of quantifiable energy ...
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Andries J.H. Nel, Jan C. Vosloo, Marc J. Mathews
Increasing the profitability of the mining industry is contingent on its ability to improve operational efficiency. Mine ventilation networks typically represent 25-50% of a mine?s energy consumption and, therefore, exhibits scope for optimisation. Venti...
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Duy Dang-Pham,Siddhi Pittayachawan,Mathews Nkhoma
As online social networking sites (SNS) are becoming a part of many people?s daily life, they have become a topic of interest that attracts the attention of both academics and practitioners. The users? behaviours on those sites are complex and have impor...
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