Recommender systems use data on past user preferences to predict possible future likes and interests. A key challenge is that while the most useful individual recommendations are to be found among diverse niche objects, the most reliably accurate results are obtained by methods that recommend...

This study investigates the moisture damage mechanism and material selection of hot-mix asphalt (HMA) with amine-based liquid antistripping agent (ASA). The surface free energy (SFE) of virgin and ASA modified asphalts and five aggregates with different acidities were measured, yielding the...

Egypt, a country with harsh natural environment and rapid population growth, has being plagued by the problem of food security. Application of remote sensing techniques, the original model for assessing the food security in Egypt is presented. By extracting the gray-level co-occurrence matrix...

The photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 provides a clean and sustainable route to produce value-added chemicals and fuels using sunlight as the energy source and greenhouse gas CO2 as the feedstock. However, the use of pure CO2 decreases the economic feasibility of the technology. Direct...