In this study, sustainable development is defined through achieving rural community development, and ensuring environmental well-being, under climate change, and is attainable through a system thinking approach. The ...
This study is concerned with the politics of visibility and the politics of recognition that pervade the current political climate in Palestine shaping how the struggle of Palestinians circulates locally and on an international ...
The increasing dependence on wireless communication systems has yielded rapid
development in these systems and increasing demand for robust and adaptive structures
and methods that achieve different wireless communication ...
Reaction-diffusion precipitation processes engender the formation of beautiful exotic strata of bands, in a way similar to the geochemical self-organization inherent in the morphology of some rocks. Liesegang patterning ...
We consider a double-sided platform which objective is to match customers with providers. Such platforms are the enablers of the so-called gig economy or crowdworking phenomenon. Double sided platforms offer convenience ...
Oil and gas production systems are getting deeper, more complex, and far away offshore where energy companies are targeting further resources. These complexities are transforming the problem of field layout design optimization ...
HPC services provide users with a variety of configurations. Differences between
these configurations usually depend on the amount of memory and cores or the type
of hardware that is provided to the user. It is up to the ...
Integration of flexible and soft materials into electric circuits has enabled a new generation of bio-medical and wearable devices for continuous health monitoring and health diagnosis. Such circuits are attractive due to ...
Background: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by the Philadelphia chromosome, a reciprocal t (9;22) chromosomal translocation leading to the fusion of the BCR gene on chromosome ...
In network semi-supervised learning problems, only a subset of the network nodes is able to access the data labeling. This thesis formulates a decentralized optimization problem where agents represent classifiers that may ...
Ablution is an important aspect in the everyday lives of Muslims. It is a required process to attain purity in order to perform necessary prayers. As many prayers occur during the day, when people are at work, there was a ...
Introduction: A disaster is an occurrence that disrupts the normal conditions of existence and causes a level of suffering that is beyond the capacity of adjustment of the affected population of community (WH0, 2022) on ...
Chronic pain has a major impact on quality of life. Treatment options for chronic pain include device-based electrical stimulation or pharmaceutical solutions. The challenges of these treatment options include safety of ...
Animals, objects, food, plants, and other non-human terms are commonly used as a source of metaphors to describe females, in formal and slang language. Comparing women to non-human items not only reflects cultural views ...
Body-adapted radio frequency systems and antennas offer a bundle of possibilities in enabling lightweight, low-cost, accurate, reliable, and portable wireless sensing devices. The integration of these devices into wearable ...
The Ambivalent Sexism theory divides sexism into two-dimensional ideologies: benevolent sexism and hostile sexism. Hostile sexism has been associated with short-term harmful impacts, and benevolent sexism has been proven ...
Due to increased competition in today’s market, catering to diverse customer needs and
preferences became a top priority for successful firms. A critical task in the early stages
of product development (PD) is determining ...
This thesis explores the notion of elderly care, how it materializes in an institutionalized setting, and what it means for bodies to grow old. It delves into themes of aging, kinship, intimacy, trust, care, and their ...
Implantable, bioresorbable, and flexible bioelectronics are leading the evolution towards non-invasive, high fidelity next-generation implanted devices, especially for recording acute/chronic neurophysiological signals ...
Background: Non-Convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) consists of prolonged seizures without tonic muscle stiffening or clonic rhythmic activity. In a clinical setting, NCSE is often underdiagnosed due to difficulties in ...