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Nanoscale evaluation of multi-walled carbon nanotube’s performance on resisting oxidization of asphalt
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Trans Tech Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Nanotechnology has contributed significantly to different subfields of the construction industry, including asphalt pavement engineering. The improved properties and new functionalities of the nanomaterials have provided ...
Crowdsensing based prompt emergency discovery: A sequential detection approach
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
The growth in the number of smart devices has mobilized the rise of CrowdSensing (CS) as an enabler of smart cities, where state-of-the-art technologies are utilized to improve citizens' quality of life. CS is a novel ...
CrowdDelegate: An MCS-based approach for improving retail labor cost-efficiency
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Following the revolutionary changes the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced to sensor networks, the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) paradigm aims to utilize people and their smartphones as an extended instrument to sense. ...
Arrhythmia classification using DWT-coefficient energy ratios
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Certain features present in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are used to detect different heart conditions. Hence, by developing a system to extract these features, useful information related to the heart conditions could ...
CheckThat! at CLEF 2019: Automatic identification and verification of claims
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
We introduce the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2019 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes two complementary tasks. Task 1: predict which claims in a political debate should be ...
Efficient parallel skyline query processing for high-dimensional data
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Given a set of multidimensional data points, skyline queries retrieve those points that are not dominated by any other points in the set. Due to the ubiquitous use of skyline queries, such as in preference-based query ...
Exploring risk factors of diarrheal diseases from male workers’ perspectives in Qatar: A qualitative approach.
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Ministry of Public Health
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Background:
According to WHO, diarrhea is an infection in the intestinal tract, which can be caused by a variety of bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms. The infection spreads through contaminated food or drinking ...
Smart ambulance system for highlighting emergency-routes
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
An ambulance is a vehicle equipped with medical devices to guarantee the transportation of patients to healthcare institutions such as specialized hospitals and general hospitals. They are designed to allow paramedics ...
Green data center networks: A holistic survey and design guidelines
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Data Center Networks (DCNs) are attracting immense interest from the industry, research and academia to keep pace with the increase of Internet services demands. One of the major concerns that draws the attention of ...
"I want to ... Change": Micro-moment based recommendations can change users' energy habits
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SciTePress
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Since electricity consumption of households in developing countries is dramatically increasing every year, it is now more prudent than ever to utilize technology-based solutions that assist energy end-users to improve ...