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The relationship between evidence characteristics and audit efficiency and effectiveness: Evidence from Middle Eastern countries
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper investigates the relationship between three evidence characteristics (namely, sufficiency, reliability, relevance) and audit quality. We employ a multi-method approach that is broken down into two tools; ...
A Reliability-Aware Network Service Chain Provisioning with Delay Guarantees in NFV-Enabled Enterprise Datacenter Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Traditionally, service-specific network functions (NFs) (e.g., Firewall, intrusion detection system, etc.) are executed by installation-and maintenance-costly hardware middleboxes that are deployed within a datacenter ...
Heavy metal ions removal from industrial wastewater using magnetic nanoparticles (MNP)
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2020 , Article)
A novel iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) grafted on hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG) polymer were synthesized, characterized and tested for heavy metals (Ni, Cu and AL) removals from secondary effluent industrial ...
Achieving energy efficiency in data centers with a performance-guaranteed power aware routing
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Nowadays, data centers are designed to offer the highest performance in case of high traffic load and peak utilisation of the network. However, in a realistic data center environment, the peak capacity of the network is ...
Random number of units for K-out-of-n systems
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper takes up the reliability and preventive replacement problems for a K-out-of-n system, where K is a stochastic parameter provided. Firstly, we consider the case when K is predefined as constant numbers as is done ...
LightTrust: Lightweight Trust Management for Edge Devices in Industrial Internet of Things
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
The phenomenal increase in the usage of Internet promotes the quality of trust in the scope of Internet of Things (IoT). Trust is beneficial in the provision of an effective, reliable, scalable, and trustworthy environment ...
Sustainable and reliable hybrid AC/DC microgrid planning considering technology choice of equipment
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Today, the microgrid is not a new concept, and its diverse benefits for the grid and also consumers have been proven. One of the effective ways to enhance penetration level of the microgrids is to improve economic ...
The effect of tailored consumer medicine information on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomised controlled interventional study
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2020 , Article)
Introduction: In patients with diabetes, better health communication is associated with better health outcomes including medication adherence and glycaemic control. The conventional patient information leaflet does not ...
The development, translation and validation of an instrument used in a tobacco cessation intervention study among patients with diabetes
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Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research
, 2014 , Article)
Objective: In diabetes care, smoking cessation is a very important component that should be addressed in order to facilitate effective blood glucose control and to limit the development of complications associated with ...
Integrated Reliability Assessment Model for Drinking Water Networks: A Case Study of the City of London, Canada
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2022 , Article)
Water distribution networks (WDNs) are complex interconnected networks that require extensive planning and maintenance to ensure good quality water is delivered to all consumers. The main task of WDNs is to provide consumers ...