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Blue collar laborers’ travel pattern recognition: Machine learning classifier approach
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This paper proposes a pattern recognition model to develop clusters of homogenous activities for blue-collar workers in the State of Qatar. The activity-based data from the travel diary of 1051 blue-collar workers collected ... -
BM3D VS 2-LAYER ONN
( IEEE Computer Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)Despite their recent success on image denoising, the need for deep and complex architectures still hinders the practical usage of CNNs. Older but computationally more efficient methods such as BM3D remain a popular choice, ... -
BNNC: Improving Performance of Multipath Transmission in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)Nowadays, multipath transmission scheme in heterogeneous vehicular networks has become an emerging topic. It is a great challenge to overcome the unreliability of heterogeneous wireless network in vehicle-to-ground multipath ... -
Bond and shear-strengthening performance of FRCM composites
( ISEC Press , 2019 , Conference Paper)This paper is aimed at studying the bond and shear-strengthening performance of fabric reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) systems. Three FRCM systems were compared, namely, polyparaphenylene benzobisoxazole (PBO)-FRCM, ... -
Bond characteristics of different FRCM systems
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) composites are usually applied on the concrete surface for the purpose of strengthening reinforced concrete structures. The efficiency of FRCM as a strengthening ... -
Bond durability and service life prediction of BFRP bars to steel FRC under aggressive environmental conditions
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study presents an experimental investigation on the bond durability of helically wrapped basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars embedded in plain and steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) under the combined ... -
Bond durability of basalt FRP bars to fiber reinforced concrete in a saline environment
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study investigates the influence of basalt fiber reinforced concrete (BFRC) on the bond durability of helically wrapped basalt fiber reinforced polymers (HWBFRP) bars subjected to harsh saline environmental conditions. ... -
Bond Performance of Near-Surface Mounted BFRP Bars to Concrete
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference Paper)This paper presents the test results of a study on the bond performance of near-surface mounted (NSM) basalt fiber reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars to concrete. Twelve C-shape concrete specimens were tested under direct ... -
Bond performance of tensile lap-spliced basalt-FRP reinforcement in high-strength concrete beams
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This paper investigates the bond between high-strength concrete (HSC) and tensile lap-spliced basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars. Ten large-scale BFRP-reinforced concrete beams (300 x 450 x 3900 mm) were fabricated ... -
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells preconditioned with nitric-oxide-releasing chitosan/PVA hydrogel accelerate diabetic wound healing in rabbits
( IOP Publishing Ltd , 2021 , Article)Impaired diabetic wounds are one of the major pathophysiological complications caused by persistent microbial infections, prolonged inflammation, and insufficient angiogenic responses. Here, we report the development of ... -
Boost inverter-based HVDC transmission system with inherent blocking capability of AC side contribution during DC side faults
( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)Semiconductor advancements in the past three decades have positioned the voltage source converter-based HVDC (VSC-HVDC) solution as a practical and popular alternative to its line-commutated converter high voltage DC ... -
Boosting domestic energy efficiency through accurate consumption data collection
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Domestic user behavior shapes overall power consumption, necessitating the development of systems that analyze and help foster energy efficient behavior. The most important step in the process is the collection and management ... -
Bootstrap-Based Quality Metric for Scarce Sensing Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper considers Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) systems that suffer from scarce participant availability due to small sample sizes in each sensing cycle. With such small sample sizes, a sample in error would dramatically ... -
Boron removal from saline water by a microbial desalination cell integrated with donnan dialysis
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Boron has toxic effects on plant growth and thus its removal is necessary from desalinated saline water for irrigation application. Microbial desalination cells (MDCs) are a new approach for effective desalination but boron ... -
Bovine reticulum derived extracellular matrix (b-REM) for reconstruction of full thickness skin wounds in rats
( Elsevier GmbH , 2016 , Article)Thirty six clinically healthy adult Wistar rats of either sex were used in the study and randomly divided into three groups having twelve animals in each group. Under general anesthesia, a full-thickness skin wound (20 ? ... -
BPFL: A Blockchain Based Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Scheme
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)Federated Learning (FL), which allows multiple participants to co-train machine Learning models without exposing local data, has been recognized as a promising method in the past few years. However, in the FL process, the ... -
Brain mr image enhancement for tumor segmentation using 3d u-net
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)MRI images are visually inspected by domain experts for the analysis and quantification of the tumorous tissues. Due to the large volumetric data, manual reporting on the images is subjective, cumbersome, and error prone. ... -
Brain Tumor Segmentation and Classification from Sensor-Based Portable Microwave Brain Imaging System Using Lightweight Deep Learning Models
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Automated brain tumor segmentation from reconstructed microwave (RMW) brain images and image classification is essential for the investigation and monitoring of the progression of brain disease. The manual detection, ... -
Breaking HK17 in Practice
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)In November 2017, Hecht and Kamlofsky submitted HK17, a quaternion(octonion)-based Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol, to NIST post-quantum cryptography project, and thought that at least O(p8) arithmetic operations are ... -
Breast cancer image classification using pattern-based Hyper Conceptual Sampling method
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)The increase in biomedical data has given rise to the need for developing data sampling techniques. With the emergence of big data and the rise of popularity of data science, sampling or reduction techniques have been ...