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Why rehabilitation must have priority during and after the COVID-19-pandemic: A position statement of the global rehabilitation alliance
( Medical Journals Sweden AB , 2020 , Article)COVID-19 has become a pandemic with strong influence on health systems. In many cases it leads to a disruption of rehabilitation service provision. On the other hand, rehabilitation must be an integral part of COVID-19 ... -
Wi-Fi Direct Research ? Current Status and Future Perspectives
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article Review)Wi-Fi Direct, also named Wi-Fi P2P, is a popular technology that enables device to device communication in Wireless LAN. It allows Wi-Fi Direct-enabled devices to dynamically negotiate and select one of the mobile devices ... -
Wide area monitoring system operations in modern power grids: A median regression function-based state estimation approach towards cyber attacks
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)Modern power grid is a generation mix of conventional generation facilities and variable renewable energy resources (VRES). The complexity of such a power grid with generation mix has routed the utilization of infrastructures ... -
Wideband radar based fall motion detection for a generic elderly
( IEEE Computer Society , 2017 , Conference Paper)Radar-based automated fall detection systems are considered as an important and emerging technology for elderly assisted living. These radar systems provide non-intrusive sensing capabilities to detect fall events. Various ... -
Willingness to participate in genome testing: a survey of public attitudes from Qatar
( Springer , 2020 , Article)Genomics has the potential to revolutionize medical approaches to disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, but it does not come without challenges. The success of a national population-based genome program, like the ... -
Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an economically important trans-boundary cattle disease which affects food security and livelihoods. A conjoint analysis-contingent valuation was carried out on 190 households ... -
Wind farms selection using geospatial technologies and energy generation capacity in Gwadar
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Pakistan has been a victim of energy crisis since last few decades. This energy crisis has adversely affected country’s socio-economic development and continues to do so. The continuously increasing demand–supply gap has ... -
Wind power integration with smart grid and storage system: Prospects and limitations
( Science and Information Organization , 2020 , Article)Wind power generation is playing a pivotal role in adopting renewable energy sources in many countries. Over the past decades, we have seen steady growth in wind power generation throughout the world. This article aims to ... -
Wind power smoothing using demand response of electric vehicles
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Large penetrations of wind power is prevented in most power systems, mainly because it is highly stochastic. One important aspect of this uncertainty is the large power gradients that wind farms may ... -
Wind power smoothing using demand response of electric vehicles
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)Large penetrations of wind power is prevented in most power systems, mainly because it is highly stochastic. One important aspect of this uncertainty is the large power gradients that wind farms may impose to the grid. To ... -
Wind-hydrogen storage in distribution network expansion planning considering investment deferral and uncertainty
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)With respect to the recent developments of hydrogen storage system (HSS), it is relevant to model these storage units in the network expansion planning. Also, most of the available expansion planning tools consider constant ... -
A Window for Enhanced Oral Delivery of Therapeutics via Lipid Nanoparticles
( Dove Medical Press , 2024 , Article)Oral administration of dosage forms is convenient and beneficial in several respects. Lipid nanoparticulate dosage forms have emerged as a useful carrier system in deploying low solubility drugs systemically, particularly ... -
Winter thermoregulation of free-ranging Ethiopian hedgehogs (Paraechinus aethiopicus) in Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Biologists focus on thermoregulation of desert mammals in terms of how they minimise heat gain during hotter months, and put less effort on how they maximise heat gain during cooler months. Heat gain may contribute to ... -
Wireless active noise control results
( International Institute of Acoustics and Vibrations , 2016 , Conference Paper)Active Noise Control (ANC) is used in controlling low frequency noise where passive control is ineffective. Most (ANC) systems use physical cables to connect various parts of the system for operation. This can be bulky and ... -
Wireless and real-time structural damage detection: A novel decentralized method for wireless sensor networks
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Being an alternative to conventional wired sensors, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are extensively used in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) applications. Most of the Structural Damage Detection (SDD) ... -
Wireless application deploying cell broadcast, and bulk SMS/MMS
( International Business Information Management Association, IBIMA , 2009 , Conference Paper)Cell broadcast is a mobile technology that allows messages to be broadcast to all mobile handsets and similar devices within a designated geographical area. The broadcast range can be varied, from a single cell to the ... -
Wireless body area sensor networks signal processing and communication framework: Survey on sensing, communication technologies, delivery and feedback
( Science Publication , 2012 , Article)Problem statement: The Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is a wireless network used for communication among sensor nodes operating on or inside the human body in order to monitor vital body parameters and movements. ... -
Wireless Car Control Over the Cellular System
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Nowadays, electric robots play big role in many fields as they can replace humans and decrease the amount of load on humans. There are several types of robots that are present in the daily life, some of them are fully ... -
Wireless Multicast Cross-Layer Framework for Rate
( IEEE , 2009 , Article)Multicast-based data communication is an efficient communication scheme especially in multihop ad hoc networks where the MAC layer is based on one-hop broadcast from one source to multiple receivers. In this paper, we ... -
Wireless multihoming for smart grid high data rate applications
( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are used extensively to monitor/control utility power distribution networks. However, the current SCADA systems cannot accommodate the demand of smart grid high data ...