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Resource provisioning for cloud-assisted body area network in a smart home environment
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
In recent years, cloud-assisted body area network (CABAN) technologies have made their entrance in the Smart healthcare field, such as Smart home environment, and play a significant role for healthcare data storage, ...
The Practice Of City Planning And Design In The Gulf Region: The Case Of Abu Dhabi, Doha And Manama
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ArchNet
, 2018 , Article)
This research study explores the Arabian Gulf region’s practice of city planning and design in response to the active forces of globalization. The focused scope of analysis is justified by the commonalities that unite the ...
Heuristic and Exact Algorithms for the Two-Machine Just in Time Job Shop Scheduling Problem
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Hindawi Limited
, 2016 , Article)
The problem addressed in this paper is the two-machine job shop scheduling problem when the objective is to minimize the total earliness and tardiness from a common due date (CDD) for a set of jobs when their weights equal ...
HW/SW co-design based implementation of Gas discrimination
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
A gas discrimination system is mainly made of two parts, the sensing part and the processing part. As an alternative solution to pure software or hardware implementation of the processing part of a gas identification system, ...
A modular IoT platform for real-time indoor air quality monitoring
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
The impact of air quality on health and on life comfort is well established. In many societies, vulnerable elderly and young populations spend most of their time indoors. Therefore, indoor air quality monitoring (IAQM) is ...
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: an assessment of the 2012 London Games Legacies
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Springer
, 2017 , Article)
The London 2012 Olympics were the first Games with a legacy plan already in execution well before the beginning of the event. This study aims at evaluating the legacies of this Olympic edition, with particular regard to ...
Quartz crystal microbalance electronic interfacing systems: A review
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MDPI AG
, 2017 , Article Review)
Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) sensors are actively being implemented in various fields due to their compatibility with different operating conditions in gaseous/liquid mediums for a wide range of measurements. This ...
Investigating Determinants of Student Satisfaction in the First Year of College in a Public University in the State of Qatar
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Hindawi Limited
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose. A first-year student's life is a web of interrelated academic and social experiences. Most universities have rigorous processes to achieve excellence or reach high-quality standards, with "Student Satisfaction" ...
Relay-Assisted Primary and Secondary Transmissions in Cognitive Radio Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
We assume a set of cognitive relay nodes that assists both primary and secondary transmissions in a time-slotted cognitive radio networks. To regulate the channel access of the various nodes in the network, we propose an ...
Italo-Australian Transnational Houses: Critical Review of a Qualitative Research Study
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OMICS International
, 2015 , Article Review)
The research study aimed to understand how first generation Italian migrants in Brisbane have influenced the form of a specific typology of dwelling, the archetypal ‘house on a quarter-acre block’, in the post WWII period.
In ...