Academic Articles & Research Papers

Canadian Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance: Overview of Current Trends Related to Hospital Pathogens

Selection of appropriate empirical antibiotic therapy is dependent on many factors, not the least of which is an understanding of antimicrobial resistance rates in the patient population that is undergoing treatment. Resistance rates may va...

A systematic review of worldwide epidemiology of psoriasis

To inform the WHO Global report on psoriasis, a new comprehensive worldwide systematic review of the epidemiology of psoriasis was undertaken. The aim of this study was to systematically review the worldwide literature regarding the epidemi...

Epidemiology of Osteoarthritis

The epidemiology of scrapie

This review provides an update on the epidemiology of scrapie. The authors provide historical and recent information regarding the determination of geographical distribution, pathogenesis, transmission, genetic influence and the dynamics of...

Epidemiology of varicose veins

Assessment and treatment of varicose veins comprises a significant part of the surgical workload. In the UK, National Health Service waiting lists suggest that there is still considerable unmet need. This review analyses all published data ...

A commentary of Remote everything in MIT Technology Review 2021

Remote technology refers to applications that rely on wireless/wired network communication technology to enable the effective interconnection of multiple terminals distributed in different geographical locations, which helps to achieve effe...

Triangular Geometrized Sampling Heuristics for Fast Optimal Motion Planning

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT)-based algorithms have become increasingly popular due to their lower computational complexity as compared with other path planning algorithms. The recently presented RRT * motion planning algorithm improv...

Human–Robot Interaction in Rescue Robotics

Rescue robotics has been suggested by a recent DARPA/NSF study as an application domain for the research in human-robot integration (HRI). This paper provides a short tutorial on how robots are currently used in urban search and rescue (USA...

Application of Quantum Key Distribution to Enhance Data Security in Agrotechnical Monitoring Systems Using UAVs

Ensuring secure data transmission in agrotechnical monitoring systems using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is critical due to increasing cyber threats, particularly with the advent of quantum computing. This study proposes the integration ...

Quantum Computing Review: A Decade of Research

Quantum computing (QC) has the potential to be the next abstruse technology, with a wide range of possible applications and ramifications for organizations and markets. QC provides an exponential speedup by employing quantum mechanics princ...

The Breakdown of Coordinated Decision Making in Distributed Systems

OBJECTIVE: This article aims to explore the nature and resolution of breakdowns in coordinated decision making in distributed safety-critical systems. BACKGROUND: In safety-critical domains, people with different roles and responsibilities ...

Fault Tolerance Mechanisms in Distributed Systems

The use of technology has increased vastly and today computer systems are interconnected via different communication medium. The use of distributed systems in our day to day activities has solely improved with data distributions. This is be...

Network and distributed systems management

Contents Introduction 1. Management - What and Why Enabling Technologies 2. Network Technologies 3. Distributed Systems Models and Standards for Management 4. OSI Management Model and Standards 5. OSI Structure of Management Information 6. ...

Cybersecurity

CybersecurityNowadays, the Internet is integrated into society both through social interaction and business transactions, so the need for data protection and security has become increasingly important.In addition, not only computers, but al...

Cybersecurity

This chapter analyses in what ways and to what extent cybersecurity, and the European Union’s (EU) perception of and responses to this threat, challenges the existing geographic, bureaucratic, and functional security divides within the EU. ...

Neural Networks for Chemical Engineers

Part 1 Theoretical issues: an introduction to artificial neural networks, D.T. Pham unsupervised neural learning, E. Oja back-propagation and its variations, D. Tsaptsinos the general approximation problem for feed-forward neural networks, ...

Effect of Curcumin on Odontogenic/Osteogenic Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells

Introduction: Stem cells have gained great attention in tissue engineering and curcumin is a natural phenolic product that had showed some positive effects on these cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of curcumin on the ...

An Adaptive Architecture for Long Term Energy Programme Management

Climate change, population growth, changing energy consumption patterns and the advent of feasible renewable energy sources has prompted governments worldwide to set targets for carbon emission reductions. The transition to a ‘near zero emi...

Life cycle assessment of a renewable energy generation system with a vanadium redox flow battery in a NZEB household

Buildings are responsible for a significant part of the global energy consumption. Besides the need to improve their energy efficiency, new buildings also need to generate their own energy, preferably from renewable sources, to become more ...

Advancing sovereign ESG performance in China through renewable energy industrialization and government effectiveness

Abstract This study examines the relationship between renewable energy use, industrialization, governance effectiveness, population growth, and technological innovation, and sovereign environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance,...