The North American continent has complex geological phenomena. Especially, in the western part of the continent are the Cascadian subduction zone (CSZ) and volcanic arc chain. Some hypotheses of the C ... Read More

Accurate determination of dosimetric parameters is vital in radiotherapy to avoid normal-tissue damage. For accurate delivery of dose to the target volume, uniform dose distribution is achieved by the ... Read More

Tremendous increase in fresh water demand in United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past few decades, because of rapid industrial growth and increase of urban population, has led to increased stress on u ... Read More

Diffraction of a plane wave by a thick half plane composed of metamaterial was examined by employing duality transformation proposed by Lindell and Sihvola [18, 20, 21, 24]. As perfect electric conduc ... Read More

A novel approach is proposed to design a devoted subspace codebook for the equivalent channel feedback in lens-based millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO systems. The equivalent channel state informa ... Read More

Facial-recognition is an explored and demanding task. Previously, mostly color (RGB) images were used to tackle it. Recently, advances in 3D scanners have been providing extra facial information. This ... Read More

In information technology, one predominant requirement is to design interfaces in more natural way in order to enable users to interact with computers in an easy way. Natural Language Interfaces to Da ... Read More

To decrease the energy footprint of a machined product, a novel turning insert design is reported in this article. Two geometrical models of the turning inserts, i.e., a commercially available design ... Read More

: Electricity is one of the basic needs of life. Emission of harmful gases during the process of electricity generation leads to greenhouse affects. However, by employing photovoltaic (PV) panels, ele ... Read More

Many types of agricultural wastes are now being studied for waste water treatment because of their adsorbing properties. For instance, banana peels are capable of adsorbing various metals and other po ... Read More

Magnetotelluric (MT) method is a passive electromagnetic (EM) technique for measuring fluctuations of the nature electric (E) and magnetic (B) fields at the Earth surface, which correspond to apparent ... Read More

In this study, radiolysis-induced dosimetric response of the alkaline aqueous solutions of Sandalfix Orange C2RL (SO) dye was studied spectrophotometrically. Absorption peak (λmax) was determined by u ... Read More

Nowadays, numerical models have great importance in epidemiology. These helps us to understand the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases in a very comprehensive manner. In disease epidemiolog ... Read More

Signature is one of the most important and widely accepted biometric modality. It is the most common biometric used in documents like financial transactions, legal documents, contracts, etc. Over the ... Read More

: In this work, effect of single and multisection matching with and without ideal lumped components on the impedance matching bandwidth was analyzed. Single and multisection L-matching networks are de ... Read More

Concrete is one of the most commonly used construction materials with cement being its main ingredient. Since the construction industry is expanding rapidly, the cost of cement used in concrete is als ... Read More

The war of currents between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) is decades old. The DC has proved itself in the fields of generation and transmission; now it is making its way at distribu ... Read More

This paper presents a novel approach to segment Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) of Brain and identification of brain tumor from the brain MRI. The presented work is based on a novel approach that ident ... Read More

Diseases like glaucoma, macular degeneration, hypertensive retinopathy and diabetic retinopathy has a major share in complete or partial vision loss in humans. Early diagnose of these diseases is poss ... Read More

A modified Z-source converter to boost DC voltage is proposed. The modification has been proposed by engaging an additional power switching device in parallel connection to the conventional Z-source c ... Read More

Computational investigation for buoyancy and radiation effects on the magneto hydrodynamics stagnation point flow of micropolar fluids has been made to study the kinematics and temperature distributio ... Read More

In this article, the sensitivity and generalized sensitivity analyses of the SIR and SEIR models of the dynamics of computer virus is presented. From the sensitivity studies of the SIR model, it follo ... Read More

We investigated the existence of periodic solutions to a kind of non-linear differential equations of third order. We prove two new theorems on the existence of periodic solutions to the equation cons ... Read More

The star puzzle is a variant of the classical Tower of Hanoi problem, where, in addition to the three pegs, S, P and D, there is a fourth one such that all disc movements are either to or from the fou ... Read More

In this study, the development of ternary alloys of titanium, Ti91Al5V4, Ti90.5Al5.5V4 and Ti89.5Al6.5V4 by Vacuum Arc melting technique was carried out. It was followed by Homogenization in three zon ... Read More

In this study, a shape memory alloy of Ni55Ti45 was developed by Vacuum Arc melting technique under a vacuum of 10-5 mbar. It was followed by homogenization in Nabertherm Tube furnace at a temperature ... Read More

Green and sustainable software development is the cry of the day and vendors are constantly striving to develop such software that have less hazardous impact on environment, economy and human beings. ... Read More

Recent research brought up numerous techniques for copyright protection and tamper proofing of relational databases along with proof of robustness, etc. However, these techniques are short of presenti ... Read More

Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) has become an increasingly popular Global Software Engineering (GSE) paradigm for companies to rely the permanent improvement and tailoring with lower ... Read More

This paper presents circularly polarized dipole antenna operating at 5.8 GHz for WLAN applications. Normally dipole antenna radiates linearly polarized waves. Radiation of circularly polarized (CP) wa ... Read More

Hybrid cloud has received considerable attention in recent years. Many companies all over the world are inclined towards the adoption of hybrid cloud for increasing their efficiency and reducing cost ... Read More

The advent of Web 2.0 and the rapid growth of video annotation systems have resulted in huge multimedia repositories where multimedia has become among the primary contents that are available on the We ... Read More