Receivers location privacy in avionic crowdsourced networks: Issues and countermeasures حسب Savio Sciancalepore (16864152)

"…Finally, we discuss the trade-offs implied by the cited countermeasures, showing that it is possible to increase location privacy while not decreasing data utility.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Journal of Network and Computer Applications<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102892" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102892</a></p>…"

A Case Study to Identify the Hindrances to Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Qatar حسب Amith Khandakar (14151981)

"…<p dir="ltr">The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) have proven to be a crucial factor to decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. …"

CRISPR-Cas Controls Cryptic Prophages حسب Sooyeon Song (4891132)

"…Specifically, compared to the wild-type strain, reducing the amounts of specific interfering RNAs (crRNA) decreases growth by 40%, increases cell death by 700%, and prevents persister cell resuscitation. …"

Energy conversion of heat from abandoned oil wells to mechanical refrigeration - Transient analysis and optimization حسب Mohammed Al-Khawaja (17093017)

"…Results show that at realistic and conservative conditions, the geofluid temperature considerably decreases for the first four months of operation (by an average of 30 °C) and tends to be constant after half a year of operation. …"

Towards Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Manufacturing Applying Environmentally Friendly Machining of a Precipitation Hardened Stainless Steel Using Hot Turning Process حسب Mohammadjafar Hadad (17541345)

"…Moreover, it has been shown that by increasing preheating temperature in hot turning, the hardness of the carbides in the workpiece decreases more than the hardness of the tool substrate and reduces coating materials, consequently reducing cutting tool abrasion wear phenomenon.…"

A Modification to Enhance the Survival of the Island FDMA Flap by Adding a Skin Bridge حسب Salim Al Lahham (16515333)

"…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">This is a case series that includes 9 patients where we describe a technique that has the potential to enhance the survival of the first dorsal metacarpal artery (FDMA) flap and decreases the rate of distal necrosis via addition of a 5-mm skin bridge to the pedicle and by avoiding tunneling. …"

An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure حسب Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

"…., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. For instance, for 4,096 nodes organized in a logical tree of arity 4 and with 4 physical nodes for logical node, a negligible number of nodes is disconnected from the tree after 250 epochs when the per-node per-epoch failure probability is p f ≤ 0 . 0008 . …"

Electrochemical and thermodynamic study on the corrosion performance of API X120 steel in 3.5% NaCl solution حسب Khuram Shahzad (575887)

"…The overall results revealed that PEI significantly decreases the corrosion rate of API X120 steel with inhibition efficiency of 94% at a concentration of 100 μmol L⁻¹. …"

Efficient Integration of Direct Air Capture With HVAC System حسب Yasser Mohamed Mohamed Taher Abdellatif (20741534)

"…Under humid conditions, replacing Lewatit with S-TEPA decreases thermal energy consumption from 425 kJ/molCO₂ to 325 kJ/molCO₂, and using S-PEI-L reduces it further to 275 kJ/molCO₂. …"

Meta-Heuristic Algorithm-Tuned Neural Network for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Ultrasound Images حسب Ahila A (18394806)

"…Early diagnosis is the only way to increase the treatment options which then decreases the death rate and increases the chance of survival in patients. …"

Rising mortality related to cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer amongst older men across the United States حسب Abdul Ahad (545575)

"…</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">After decreasing death rates associated with CVD and PCa from 1999 to 2015, a reversal in the trend was observed from 2015 to 2019. …"

A new method for broad‐scale modeling and projection of plant assemblages under climatic, biotic, and environmental cofiltering حسب Alessandro Ferrarini (3951098)

"…Our model explained presences and absences of 175 plant species in 608 plots with >87% cross-validated accuracy, predicted decreases in <i>α, β</i>, and <i>γ</i> diversity by 2040 under both moderate and extreme climate scenarios, and identified likely advantaged and disadvantaged plant species under climate change. …"

Chiropractic manipulations gone wrong حسب Nature Research (16552612)

"…Blood accumulates between the layers of the artery’s wall, obstructing blood flow and potentially forming clots. This, in turn, decreases the blood supply to the brain, causing stroke. …"

3D printing of circular materials: Comparative environmental analysis of materials and construction techniques حسب Shoukat Alim Khan (14778226)

"…The main environmental "hot spot" identified for the geopolymer-based 3D printed construction process was the amount of electrical energy required for the mechanical processing of waste materials, which was more than 61% of the total GWP impact. In addition to decreasing solid CDW, the developed approach has significant potential for improvement by using more sustainable energy sources and reducing the amount of solid CDW generated.…"

Technical assessment of different extraction methods and transcriptome profiling of RNA isolated from small volumes of blood حسب Mahesh Kumar Reddy Kalikiri (17886695)

"…The TURBO DNA Free treatment affected the RNA samples negatively, decreasing the RNA yield and reducing the quality and reproducibility of the transcriptomic data. …"

Automatic image quality evaluation in digital radiography using for‐processing and for‐presentation images حسب Ioannis A. Tsalafoutas (14776939)

"…The expected positive effect that increasing IAK and decreasing tube potential should have on IQ was clearly exhibited in two IQ metrics only, the signal difference‐to‐noise‐ratio (SDNR) and the detectability index (d’), for both image types. …"

Probing deposition temperature effects and computational analysis of DC-sputtered tungsten (W) thin films for CZTS based solar cells حسب M.I. Hossain (22303861)

"…Electrical measurements were conducted, and the measured carrier concentration was around 10¹⁴ cm⁻³, increasing with temperature up to 200 °C before decreasing again. Films deposited at higher temperatures exhibited lower resistivity. …"

Does Ultrasound Really Good Enough to Evaluate the Pneumothorax in the Emergency Department حسب Atilla Temel (17788481)

"…Thorax ultrasonography is a useful technique with high specificity in diagnosing pneumothorax, but its sensitivity decreases significantly when the size is below 1 cm.…"

Secrecy Performance of a RIS-Assisted Wireless Network: A Comprehensive Analysis Under Outdated CSI حسب Tasneem Alshamaseen (22392382)

"…This resilience indicates that the system can reduce channel estimation frequency to reconfigure the RIS, thus decreasing overall system overhead and complexity and improving energy efficiency. …"

Fetoplacental transmission and placental response to SARS-CoV-2: Evidence from the literature حسب Henry C. Ezechukwu (13253406)

"…The results indicated that SARS-CoV-2 induces placenta inflammation, and placenta susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 decreases across the pregnancy window. Thus, SARS-CoV-2 infection in early pregnancy may adversely affect the developing fetus.…"