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… beams (1.5 m × 0.15 m × 0.1 m) were cast using varying RA contents (0%, 25%, and 50%) sourced from hollow blocks, along with SSF dosages of 0%, 0.25%, and 0.5% by volume. Additionally, 27 cubes and 9 cylinders were prepared to evaluate compressive and tensile strengths for each mix design. The beams were tested under t …
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… ), desalinized water (DW), and Reclaimed Water (RW)) were used as the treatments in Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) with 3 blocks (replicates). Samples were taken from four depths (30, 45, 60 and 90 cm) after harvesting time of the three crops. Soil salinity (ECe) in all soil depths decreased with time. Organ …
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Mosaic 3-D cascade of parallelepiped-shaped silt blocks, which sandwich sand- lled cracks, has been discovered in the eld and tested in lab experiments. Controlled wetting-drying of these blocks, collected from a dam reservoir, mimics field ponding-desiccation conditions of the topsoil layer subject to caustic solar ra …
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In this paper a method of constructing a class of flexible single replicate factorial designs in blocks is given. Simple expressions for calculating loss of information on low order interactions is presented.
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… ength when this needs to be done. Always residing in optical switches, they can effectively alleviate the blocking probability and help solve contention happening at the output port of switches. The deployment of wavelength converters within optical switches provides robust routing, switching and network management in …
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New wall-units have been designed at the Civil Engineering Department of SQU, with improved and reliable thermal insulation properties for construction of buildings in hot climatic conditions. as in the Sultanate of Oman. The thermal resistance of many types of concrete units has been analyzed. Hundreds of various type …
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In this paper, the design of a universal second-order filter using configurable analog blocks (CABs) for field programmable analog arrays is presented. The configurable blocks are capable of performing integration, differentiation, amplification, log, anti-log, add and negate functions. To maintain high frequency opera …
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… erated systems such as mobile phones. Also, the power amplifier (PA) is the most power-consuming building block in the transmitter of a portable system. This paper investigates how the efficiency of the power amplifier (which is beneficial for multiple applications in communcation sector) can be improved by increasing …
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… nt-mode (CM) universal biquad filter structure with optimum number of active and passive elements. In the design, the proposed circuit uses a single active element namely, current follower trans-conductance amplifier (CFTA) and two grounded capacitors as passive elements. The main feature of the proposed circuit is tha …
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… in both eyes (AT LISA tri toric 939 MP, Carl-Zeiss, Germany). One-week postsurgery, he developed capsular block syndrome (CBS) in both eyes. There was deterioration of uncorrected visual acuity at 1-week postsurgery, with a myopic shift of 2.5 diopters (D) in the right eye and 2.0 D in the left eye. The intraocular pre …
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… xpert panel from Sankara Eye Hospital, Jaipur, India, each with experience of ≥2000 peribulbar anesthesia blocks, was established to develop a tool that combined a comprehensive rubric outlining essential competency criteria with a scoring system designed to assign numerical values to performance. The explicit behavior …
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… ible human cell. Such understanding will no doubt open many gates for scientists to vanquish the virus by designing agents that can block HIV entry into target cells, thus rendering the virus vulnerable to immune destruction. This will also help in understanding the replication of the virus and the pathogenesis of the …