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Bioactive Polymer as an Alternative Binder for Electrochemical Capacitors
(2019-07-23)Binders are important components of electrodes of supercapacitors because of their ability to adhere active components and make the resultant slurry to adhere on current collectors. This work seeks to investigate the ...
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Bioactive Polymer as an Alternative Binder for Electrochemical Capacitors
(2019-07-13)Binders are important components of electrodes of supercapacitors because of their ability to adhere active components and make the resultant slurry to adhere on current collectors. This work seeks to investigate the ...
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Biodegradation and Recycling of Polyethylene into Composite Building Materials
(2015-07-19)This work presents the results of experimental and theoretical studies of the biodegradation of polyethylene, recycling of polyethylene into strong and tough earth-based composite building materials and the statistical ...
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Bioinspired Design
(2013-05-12)Bioinspired design involves the use of concepts observed in natural biological materials in engineering design. The hope is that the leveraging of biological materials in the engineering domain can lead to many technological ...
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Biomass Valorization: Assessment and Characterization of Biomass Waste for Valuable Products.
(AUST and PAMI, 2022-04-15)Research in the use of biomass residues has a huge interest as their potentials span a wide range of applications. Processed residues are useful as green energy such as biofuel (pellets and briquettes), animal feed, ...
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Biomechanics Approach and Mechanical Biomarkers for Cancer Detection: A Case Study of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
(2021-11-23)This thesis explores the cytoskeletal structures and the statistical variations in the cell-protein fluorescence intensities/volume densities, creep characteristics, and viscoelastic properties of non-tumorigenic breast ...
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Biomechanics of Surface Runoff and Soil Water Percolation
(2019-06-23)In this study, the complex interaction of surface runoff with the biomechanics of soil water transport and heat transfer rate is theoretically investigated using mathematical model that rely on the two phase flows of an ...
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Biosynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles for Breast Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery
(2016-12-23)Although there have been significant efforts in breast cancer treatment over the past many decades, current therapeutic approaches are limited by non-specific systemic distribution, inadequate drug concentrations ...
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Biosynthesis of Gold Nanoparticles for Breast Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery
(AUST, 2016-12-13)Although there have been significant efforts in breast cancer treatment over the past many decades, current therapeutic approaches are limited by non-specific systemic distribution, inadequate drug concentrations reaching ...
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Biosynthesis of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Detection and Treatment
(2011-12-15)Chemical and physical methods for the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles for cancer detection and treatment often involve toxic chemicals, high cost and the formation of non-stable nanoparticles. This prompted the development ...
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Bochner Integration in Banach spaces and integration in R k and `1
(AUST, 2021-05-10)
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Building and Ranking of Geostatistical Petroleum Reservoir Models
(2010-12-12)Techniques in Geostatistics are increasingly being used to generate reservoir models and quantify uncertainty in reservoir properties. This is achieved through the construction of multiple realizations to capture the ...
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Buoyancy Effects on Human Skin Tissue Thermoregulation due to Environmental Influence
(AUST, 2019-06-05)This paper theoretically examines the impact of thermal buoyancy on human skin tissue’s blood flow, heat exchange and their interaction with the surrounding environment using a two phase mathematical model that relies on ...
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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 ...