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Decreased weight gain and enhanced serum biochemical parameters in rats after vitamin D and Ca supplementation
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Malaysian Journal of Nutrition
, 2018 , Article)
Introduction: Obese individuals tend to have lower plasma concentrations of calcidiol and higher levels of plasma parathyroid hormone (PTH). Objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of vitamin D and Ca ...
Improving biogas production from agricultural waste by photo-Fenton process
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AIChE
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
The Study investigates the enhancement of biogas production from a mixture of agricultural solid waste, wastewater and manure by Photo-Fenton prices process. The effect of the total solids, organic content, nutrient and ...
Modeling prepositioning of resources for humanitarian logistics
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IEOM Society
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Prepositioning of resources for humanitarian assistance to the victims of natural disaster is an important consideration to mitigate the problem that occurs due to the shortage in the supply of resources. Prepositioned ...
LAMANCO: A lightweight anonymous mutual authentication scheme for n -times computing offloading in IoT
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Nowadays in many application scenarios of Internet of Things (IoT), low latency is achieved at the cost of computing-complexity which is beyond the capabilities of IoT devices. Offloading the computing intensive tasks to ...
Optimal Preamble Design in Spatial Group-Based Random Access for Satellite-M2M Communications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Satellite communication is expected to play a pivotal role in supporting the ubiquitous machine-to-machine (M2M) connection. Due to its wide beam coverage, however, one of the major challenges is to accommodate massive and ...
Proposed formulas for estimating splitting tensile, shear and flexural strengths, and long term deflection assessment of self-compacting concrete elements
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American Scientific Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
This paper investigated the splitting tensile and shear strengths and the modulus of rupture of Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) elements with fly ash, micro silica and polycarboxylate ether superplasticizer for various ...
Security and privacy preservation in fog-based crowd sensing on the internet of vehicles
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Academic Press
, 2019 , Article)
The emergence of fog computing enables fog-based vehicle crowd sensing (FBVC) to be utilized in various fields. However, existing privacy issues represent a primary challenge that limits the degree of participation by ...
A hybrid boost modular multilevel converter-based bipolar high voltage pulse generator
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Conventional Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) with Half-Bridge Sub-Modules (HB-SMs) can be used effectively as a solid-state high-voltage pulse generator to chop a high-voltage dc input into a bipolar pulsed output voltage ...
Evaluating Reputation Management Schemes of Internet of Vehicles Based on Evolutionary Game Theory
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Conducting reputation management is very important for Internet of vehicles. However, most of the existing work evaluate the effectiveness of their schemes with settled attacking behaviors in their simulation, which cannot ...
Optimal Allocation of Multiple Distributed Generators and Shunt Capacitors in Distribution System Using Flower Pollination Algorithm
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Optimal siting and sizing of Distributed generators (DGs) and capacitors helps in enhancing the overall performance of distribution system. A proficient method to optimally allocate DGs and shunt capacitors in distribution ...