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Percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent versus coronary artery bypass grafting : A meta-analysis of patients with left main coronary artery disease
(2017-12-15)BACKGROUND: The relative efficacy and safety of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with drug-eluting stents (DES), in comparison to coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) ... -
The percutaneous toxicokinetics of sulphur mustard in a damaged skin porcine model and the evaluation of WoundStat™ as a topical decontaminant
(2017-07-18)This study used a damaged skin, porcine model to evaluate the in vivo efficacy of WoundStat™ for decontamination of superficial (non-haemorrhaging), sulphur mustard-contaminated wounds. The dorsal skin of 12 female pigs ... -
A Perfect Lie : Visual (Dis)Pleasures and Policing Femininity in Nip/Tuck
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Perfectly conducting rapidly rotating sphere and pulsar electrodynamics
(2005)We consider a perfectly conducting fluid with spherical boundary, rotating with constant angular velocity in an electromagnetic field. We then obtain, in the framework of special relativity, the exact forms of the equations ... -
Performance analysis of a new deep super-cooling two-stage organic Rankine cycle
(2017-09-15)In this article, a new deep super-cooling two-stage organic Rankine cycle (DTORC) is proposed and evaluated at high temperature waste heat recovery in order to increase the power output. A thermodynamic model of recuperative ... -
Performance Analysis of a Novel Compact Air-air Heat Exchanger for Aircraft Gas Turbine Engine using LMTD method
(2017-04-01)In this article, a new compact cross-flow air-air heat exchanger is designed using logarithmic mean temperature difference method (LMTD) and its performance is experimentally investigated with optimized structure. The ... -
Performance analysis of acceleration effect on paraffin melting in finned copper foam
(2022-02-05)Phase change material (PCM) has great potential in thermal control of aircraft electronic components because of their excellent latent heat capacity. In the current work, a finned copper foam phase change energy storage ... -
Performance Analysis of an Improved Temperature Control Scheme with Cold Stored in Surrounding Rock for Underground Refuge Chamber
(2024-01-05)This article proposed an improved temperature control scheme that combines mine compressed air, ice storage and surrounding rock, for mine refuge chambers. The feasibility of cooling mine compressed air via an ice storage ... -
Performance Analysis of Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems: A Stochastic Geometry Approach
(2020-04)Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. As revealed by its name, this topology considers no cells, while a large ... -
Performance Analysis of Millimeter Wave Massive MIMO Systems in Centralized and Distributed Schemes
(2018-11-19)This paper considers downlink multi-user millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in both centralized and distributed configurations, referred to as C-MIMO and D-MIMO, respectively. Assuming ... -
Performance and cryptographic evaluation of security protocols in distributed networks using applied pi calculus and Markov Chain
(2023-12-30)The development of cryptographic protocols goes through two stages, namely, security verification and performance analysis. The verification of the protocol’s security properties could be analytically achieved using threat ... -
Performance and specific emissions contours throughout the operating range of hydrogen-fueled compression ignition engine with diesel and RME pilot fuels
(2015-09)This paper presents the performance and emissions contours of a hydrogen dual fueled compression ignition (CI) engine with two pilot fuels (diesel and rapeseed methyl ester), and compares the performance and emissions ... -
Performance and testing of glass-ceramic sealant used to join anode-supported-electrolyte to Crofer22APU in planar solid oxide fuel cells
(2009)This work describes the performance and testing of a glass-ceramic sealant used to join the ceramic electrolyte (anode-supported-electrolyte (ASE)) to the metallic interconnect (Crofer22APU) in planar SOFC stacks. The ... -
Performance based upper extremity training : A pilot study evaluation with the GENTLE/A rehabilitation system
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)Robots as rehabilitative devices are increasingly utilised in research in this area given their capability to offer repetitive task-oriented training and potentials to augment therapies with more interactive mediums. Various ... -
Performance characteristics of MM5-SMOKE-CMAQ for a summer photochemical episode in Southeast England, United Kingdom
(2008)In this study a modelling system consisting of Mesoscale Model (MM5), Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) and Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model has been applied to a summer photochemical period in ... -
Performance Coaching for Complex Projects : Influencing Behaviour and Enabling Change
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Performance comparison between KNN and NSGA-II algorithms as calibration approaches for building simulation models
(IBPSA England, 2016-09-12)In this paper, a study of calibration methods for a thermal performance model of a building is presented. Two calibration approaches are evaluated and compared in terms of accuracy and computation speed. These approaches ... -
Performance comparison of continuous-time IFLF and LF low-pass all-pole OTA-C filters
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2000)This paper presents the performance comparison of two typical multiple loop feedback all-pole operational transconductance amplifier-capacitor (OTA-C) filters: inverse-follow-the-leader-feedback (IFLF) and leapfrog (LF) ... -
Performance comparison of high-order IFLF and LF linear phase lowpass OTA-C filters with and without gain boost
(2010)Design and performance comparison of high-order operational transconductance amplifier and capacitor (OTA-C) filters using leapfrog (LF) and inverse-follow-the-leader-feedback (IFLF) structures are investigated. The filters ...