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A Framework for Project Time-Cost Optimization Considering Float Consumption Impact
(2012-01)The main objectives of construction projects include completing the project on time and within budget. There is always a tradeoff between time and cost. Time loss is costly and time savings can provide benefits to all the ... -
A Framework For Quality Management In Healthcare: From Hospital And Patient’s Perspective
(2021-05)Healthcare quality is a complex term to dissect. As several perspectives integrate to assess it, no concrete definition exists, and continuous improvement is very important to cope with the modern-day lifestyle. While many ... -
A Framework For Risk Assessment Of Last Mile Delivery
(2020-12)The remarkable explosion of e-commerce has marked the latest years of different industries around the world and put forward a higher requirement for the last mile delivery. The last mile delivery is one of the most complex, ... -
A Framework for Screening and Classifying Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Smartphones
(2013-06)Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious sleep disorder which is characterized by frequent obstruction of the upper airway, often resulting in oxygen desaturation. The serious negative impact of OSA on human health makes ... -
A Framework for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation in Healthcare
(2019-12)The concept of sustainability in healthcare has received significant attention in the last decade due to the associated progressive impacts on the environment. With the continuous growth and the associated challenges in ... -
Framing Political Islam: Media Tropes and Power Struggles in Revolutionary Egypt
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Fraud Risk Implications of Celebrity SPACs
(2022-08)The 2012 Jumpstart Our Businesses Act (JOBS) was passed arguably to facilitate greater access to capital by startup firms and to lower the costs of being public in an effort to make American listings more competitive with ... -
Freshwater budget in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf and exchanges at the Strait of Hormuz
(PLOS, 2020-05-29)Excess evaporation within the Persian (also referred as the Arabian) Gulf induces an inverse-estuary circulation. Surface waters are imported, via the Strait of Hormuz, while saltier waters are exported in the deeper layers. ... -
From Russia with Love, Part 1
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From Russia with Love, Part 2
(National Association of Teachers of Singing, 2014) -
From Russia with Love, Part 3
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Fuel recovery from waste oily sludge using solvent extraction
(2010-09)Solvent extraction was used to recover oil from waste sludge generated from the storage of crude petroleum. Different solvent-to-sludge mass ratios were used for two solvents, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and LPG condensate ... -
Fueling on the Go
(2014-07-22)Congested petrol stations all around Dubai with infinite queues. Fuel and time wasted while waiting in the infinite queues. In addition, high cost of new petrol stations. -
Functional Connectivity Analysis under Vigilance Decrement and Enhanced Mental States
(2020-06)This thesis proposes electroencephalogram (EEG) functional connectivity and graph theory analysis (GTA) to quantify brain activity under alertness, vigilance decrement, and enhanced mental states in four frequency bands. ... -
Functional fatigue of Ni50.3Ti25Hf24.7 - Heterogeneities and evolution of local transformation strains
(Elsevier, 2017)Shape memory alloys achieve their unique and desirable property of large recoverable strains through phase transformation. The attained magnitudes of transformation strains is strongly affected by the level of deformation ... -
Functionalized Metal Organic Frameworks For Chemotherapy Drug Delivery
(2020-11)Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, and can be treated by various methods or sometimes a combination of different treatments. Chemotherapy is one of the conventional methods of treatment. Although it is effective ... -
Further investigation of the mechanism of Doxorubicin release from P105 micelles using kinetic models
(Elsevier, 2006)The kinetics of the release of Doxorubicin from Pluronic P105 micelles during ultrasonication and its subsequent re-encapsulation upon cessation of insonation were investigated. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the ... -
The Future of Enrollment: Where Colleges Will Find Their Next Students
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The Future of the Humanities in Today's Financial Markets
(2014-06)In this essay David Lea approaches the decline in the study and teaching of the humanities within the university context from a financial perspective. As humanities departments are either closed down or have their curriculum ... -
Fuzzy Logic Based Patients' Monitoring System
(2013-01)The ever increasing health care costs are becoming a major concern to both, individuals and authorities. This has tempted researchers to seek alternative models to the traditional and costly hospital-based monitoring and ...