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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"BSS"”.
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The physico-chemical and biological analysis of microbial biosurfactants (BSs) for applications towards cancer therapies, wound healing dressings and drug delivery
Microbial biosurfactants (BSs) are secondary metabolites with a broad-spectrum of therapeutic applications including possible cancer therapy, chronic wound healing and nanoparticulate drug delivery systems. However, due to their individual complexities, there is limited physico-chemical analysis …
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Optimizing battery swapping stations for electric vehicles and power system integration
… EV deployment. Battery swapping stations (BSS) arise as a promising alternative by enabling quick battery replacements. Moreover, BSS has a critical role in balancing power grids through ancillary services. This thesis presents a comprehensive framework for the optimization of BSS operation …
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Boundary Shear Stress Along Vegetated Streambanks
… of riparian vegetation on boundary shear stress (BSS) by completing the following objectives: (1) evaluating the effects of streambank vegetation on near-bank velocity and turbulence; (2) determining a method for measuring BSS; and, (3) examining the effects of streambank vegetation on BSS using …
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Blind source separation based on joint diagonalization of matrices with applications in biomedical signal processing
… solution of the blind source separation problem (BSS). The BSS problem occurs frequently in various scientific and technical applications. In essence, it consists in separating meaningful underlying components out of a mixture of a multitude of superimposed signals. In the recent research …
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Downlink Transmission and Caching Strategies for Backhaul-Limited Cloud Radio Access Networks
… network (C-RAN) where all the base stations (BSs) are connected to a central processor (CP) via capacity-limited backhaul links. Two fundamental and different downlink transmission strategies are studied, namely the data-sharing strategy and the compression strategy. In the data-sharing …
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Interference Management in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
… one or more tiers of small base stations (BSs) overlaid on the tier of well-planned macro BSs, have been commonly recognized as a cost-effective solution to cater to explosive demands on mobile data traffic. However, HetNets also bring some unique challenges such as unplanned deployment of …
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An efficient up-link load reduction model based on clustering in vanets
… is to mitigate uplink load at Base-Stations (BSs) resulted from the following: first, increased number of vehicles in the urban city leads to an increase in the number of cluster head (CH) in the network while each CH required uplink channel from BS. Second, increased vehicles mobility makes …
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Interference management in cooperative multi-cell networks
… levels of cooperation amongst base stations (BSs).<br/>First, a multi-cell beamforming (MBF) technique is introduced to design<br/>beamformers as if geographically distributed BSs were a single BS. The<br/>aim is to minimise the total transmit power across the network while maintaining<br/>the …
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Spatial Quantum Computation in Graph Optimization Problems in Transportation Applications
… networks, dynamic rebalancing of \nomenclature{BSS}{Bike Sharing Systems}Bike Sharing Systems (BSS), clustering of BSS stations, and Feature Selection (FS) for predictive models. The study begins by examining the potential of QC in solving combinatorial optimization problems, specifically …
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A panchromatic study of stellar populations in Galactic Globular Clusters
… (i) how common the bimodal Blue Straggler Stars (BSS) radial distribution is in stellar clusters and (ii) which are the physical processes that can produce this bimodality. We discuss possible relations between the properties of the BSS radial distribution and the dynamical state of the hosting …
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Performance Analysis for 5G cellular networks: Millimeter Wave and UAV Assisted Communications
… of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations (BSs), also known as drone BSs, has attracted considerable attention recently as a possible solution to meet the increasing data demand. UAV BSs are expected to be deployed in a variety of scenarios including public safety communications, data …
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The Effects of Seizure Modeling and Polyphenols on Behavior in Bang-Sensitive Drosophila
… Bang-Sensitive mutants strains [bang senseless (bss) and easily shocked (eas)], 2) explore the anticonvulsant effects of EA, and 3) investigate EA’s mechanism of action through the addition of two types of GABA antagonists: flumazenil (FL) and picrotoxin (PTX). The results indicated that …
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A study on the application of independent component analysis to \(in vivo\) \(^1\)H magnetic resonance spectra of childhood brain tumours for data processing
… for applying ICA, blind source separation (BSS) and feature extraction (FE), are thoroughly examined. A feature dimension selection method, which has not been adequately addressed, is proposed to set a theoretical guideline for ICA dimension reduction. Since the advantages and limitations of …
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Walking With the Invisible: How TESOL and Communities of Practice Can Create Change Across the California College System
… groups, are labeled basic skills students (BSS) and placed into pre-collegiate coursework. Only about 25 percent of these students ever complete their associate’s degree or transfer to a bachelor-granting institution. Additionally, many community college instructors may lack the pedagogical …
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The effect of inert biomass support media on activated sludge treatment of a high-strength industrial wastewater
… tank. Two experimental biomass support systems (BSS) and one conventional activated sludge system were operated at different mean cell retention times (mixed liquor MCRTs). Three separate media were tested, NOR-PAC and Linpor used as free-floating supports, and BIONET used as a fixed-bed support. …
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Online prediction with bike sharing systems
… the station status in Bike Sharing Systems (BSSs). Accurate station status prediction has immediate benefits for BSS users and operators. The number of incidences of when BSS users try to rent a bike from an empty station or return a bike to a full station and the cost of manual rebalancing …
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Analysis of Spectrum Efficiency and Energy Efficiency of Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
… comprising large-scale macrocell base stations (BSs) overlaid with multiple tiers of small cell BSs. While the HetNets are capable of increasing the spectrum efficiency (SE) through higher reuse of the available spectrum, the operation of the BSs comes at a huge increase in the overall network …
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Electrical performance and economic feasibility analyses of hybrid and battery storage devices used in remote area islanded renewable energy systems
… review, the Lead Acid Battery Storage System (BSS) and Hybrid Battery Supercapacitor Storage (HBS) were over the PHS. A theory development study on established generations systems and storage models was used to compare software designs which resulted in the selection of Matlab software for …
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A comparison of community composition analyses for the assessment of responses to wood-ash soil amendment by free-living nematodes
… (Maturity Index (MI) and Body Size Spectra (BSS)) were more sensitive to forest harvest and wood-ash amendment treatments. The efficacy of these methods was also qualitatively compared. Of all methods, the BSS were found to be the most informative and easiest to implement. Morphological …
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Energy-efficient strategies with base station power management for green wireless networks
… distributed CBSO schemes can adaptively group BSs in several clusters based on the traffic fluctuations with space and time. Second, to further improve the network load balance and energy efficiency in distributed manner, we propose a power efficient self-organized virtual small networking …
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