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Calculations of Phonons and Phonon Dispersion in Lifep Pnictide Superconductor
(2010-12-20)Not too long ago(2008),a new pnictide Superconductor free from arsenic was discovered–LiFeP. It belongs to the family of the so called ‘111’ type iron Superconductor. It has unique characteristics in its normal state which ...
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Carbon Soot as a Potential and Sustainable Source of Porous Nanostructure for Energy Storage
(2017-11-13)There is a need for efficient energy storage to meet the world’s continuous demand for energy. The electrical energy storage devices available are conventional capacitors, electrochemical supercapacitors, batteries and ...
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Case Study of Estimating Wax Appearance Temperature and Application to Wax Deposition Modelling
(2021-12-12)The need for cheap energy to run the world economy has propelled a lot of petroleum companies to produce oils that have high paraffin content. The paraffin, also referred to as wax, poses a problem when it forms and deposits ...
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Case Study of Natural Flow and Artificial Lift for a Solution Gas Drive Reservoir
(2009-12-08)Solution gas drive reservoirs are characterized by rapid and continuous decline of reservoir pressure. This rapid and continuous decline of reservoir pressure causes direct decline of reservoir performance at early stages ...
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A Case Study of Natural Flow and Tubing String Design for a Water Drive Reservoir
(2009-12-15)The design of natural flow and artificial lift tubing strings for the whole life of a water drive reservoir was carried out using data based on synthetic reservoir performance based on a material balance. The effects of ...
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Cassava Leaf Disease Classification with Deep Learning
(AUST, 2021-08-13)Inspired by the current trend in artificial intelligence and neural network research, and with the increase in accuracy of models with deep neural network architecture (DNN), our work is dedicated to developing and training ...
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Cell Surface Interaction on a Multi - Scale
(2014-12-15)The increasing rate of cancer patients worldwide, and especially Africa has led to numerous efforts to battle it. One approach to this has been localized drug delivery to reduce the quantity of drugs needed for therapeutic ...
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Ceramic Water Filters for the Filtration of Bacteria and Chemical Contaminants
(AUST, 2022-08-06)Of recent, individuals, community and government across the globe are embracing the ceramic water filters technology as a means of screening out chemicals and pathogens from water. This is to help reduce water related ...
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Characterisation and Processing of Baryte Ores for Oil Drilling Applications
(2021-12-12)This study characterizes barite ores and uses environment-friendly and indigenous processes to develop technologies, methods and mineral processing tools for barite recovery from gangue minerals. The study is in four parts. ...
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Characteristic Inequalities in Banach Spaces and Applications
(2013-05-27)The contribution of this project falls within the general area of nonlinear functional analysis and applications. We focus on an important topic within this area: Inequalities in Banach spaces and applications. As is well ...
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Characterization and Stabilization of Laterite for Sustainable Construction Applications
(2017-12-12)Laterite is an eco-friendly construction material that has the ability of being re-cycled indefinitely. The research is aimed at achieving the effective utilization of laterite as a sustainable construction material by ...
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Chemical Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles for Targeting Breast Cancer Cells and Tissues
(2021-04-12)This study presents the results of the characterization of functionalized magnetite nanoparticles for targeting breast cancer cells. In this study, spherical magnetite nanoparticles with core diameters between 5nm and 30 ...
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Classification of Breast Cancer Using Logistic Regression
(2019-06-16)Breast cancer is a prevalent disease that affects mostly women, an early diagnosis will expedite the treatment of this ailment. In recent times, Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been employed in biomedical and informatics ...
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Clay Ceramic Materials for Water Filtration: Properties, Processing and Performance
(2016-03-16)Ceramic water filters are promising household water treatment technology, as they are capable of removing waterborne pathogens and thereby reducing diarrheal disease. Flow rates are the main quality control criterion for ...
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Clay Filtration of Microbes and Fluoride
(2010-06-07)Consumption of contaminated water may result in several water-borne diseases, including hepatitis, typhoid, cholera, dysentery and other diseases that cause diarrhoea. One of the ways this problem can be prevented is by ...
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Cloud Computing Adoption in Nigeria Universities: A Conceptualized Model Based on Stakeholder Perceptions
(AUST, 2022-12-09)Cloud computing is a technology that represents a shift from traditional ownership of infrastructure and other resources to a more scalable pattern in which computing resources are leased online to businesses on a pay-as-you-go ...
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A Cloud-Based C/C++ Compiler for Smart Devices
(2017-11-12)The foundation of many of today’s programming languages is the C/C++ language, due to its success and directives that span across several programming paradigms, conceptual models and runtime environments. Smart devices ...
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A Cloud-Based Java Compiler for Smart Devices
(2016-06-15)The Java programming language is widely used in industry and business. Therefore, academic institutions worldwide include Java learning as a basic part of their Computer Science and Engineering curricula. At the same time, ...
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A Cloud-Based Java Compiler for Smart Devices
(2016-06-23)The Java programming language is widely used in industry and business. Therefore, academic institutions worldwide include Java learning as a basic part of their Computer Science and Engineering curricula. At the same time, ...
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Co2 Corrosion of the Welded Joint of an X65 Steel: Analysis of Surface Film Formed
(2014-12-12)Carbon dioxide (CO2) corrosion, also known as sweet corrosion of steels has increased in recent years due to the injection of CO2 into oil wells in order to increase oil recovery and production. Despite the fact that carbon ...