End-to-End Security Mechanism Using Blockchain for Industrial Internet of Things by Muhammad Shahid Dildar, Adnan Shahid Khan, Irshad Ahmed Abbasi, Reema Shaheen Naseem Akhtar, Khalil Al Ruqaishi, Shakeel Ahmed Ghulam Sarwar

“…In this paper, an overall solution that employed the decentralized setup of blockchain was proposed for authentication, authorization, and data integrity for all devices. …”
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Robust Trading Decision-Making Model for Demand-Side Resource Aggregators Considering Multi-Objective Cluster Aggregation Optimization by Fei Liu, Shaokang Qi, Shibin Wang, Xu Tian, Liantao Liu, Xue Zhao

“…However, the response capability of demand-side resources is decentralized and fluctuating, which makes it difficult for them to effectively participate in power market trading. …”
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Implementation of Distributed Generation with Solar Plants in a 132 kV Grid Station at Layyah Using ETAP by Ghulam Mujtaba, Zeeshan Rashid, Farhana Umer, Shadi Khan Baloch, G. Amjad Hussain, Muhammad Usman Haider

“…Decentralized power generation efficaciously merges technological advances in a rapidly changing face of power networks introducing new power system components, advanced control, renewable sources, elegant communication, and web technology paving the way for the so called smart grids. …”
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An Ontology for Digital Medicine Outcomes: Development of the Digital Medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS) by Benjamin Rosner, Matthew Horridge, Guillen Austria, Tiffany Lee, Andrew Auerbach

“…We used a custom, decentralized, collaborative ontology engineering methodology, and were guided by Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) Foundry principles. …”
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City of Wars: the Representation of Wartime London in Two Novels of the 1940s: James Hanley’s No Directions and Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude by Jean-Christophe Murat

“…The Slaves of Solitude choisit de décentrer l’action vers la banlieue lointaine—et fictive—de Thames Lockdon, qui accueille des Londoniens évacués par les bombardements. …”
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A GIS-Based Estimation of Bioenergy Potential from Cereal and Legume Straw Biomasses in Alentejo, Portugal by Abel Rodrigues, Alexandre B. Gonçalves, Benvindo Maçãs, António Cordeiro, Paulo Brito

“…By contributing to the reduction of the large cereal dependence and the carbon emissions of the country, the proposed strategy would contribute to increasing the decentralized bioenergy production for applications in buildings and local facilities, significantly boosting the socio-economic dynamics of rural areas involved.…”
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Siphon-type hydroelectric plants: application for power generation in a low head dam in southern Brazil by Janaina Terhorst Pizutti, Carlos Henrique Pereira Assunção Galdino, Fernando Setembrino Cruz Meirelles, Alexandre Beluco

“…This type of plant is part of a specific and still evolving niche for decentralized power generation. The reduced structural requirements (generator, turbine, and suction tube), as well as the minimal intervention in the existing structure of the dam, the cessation of new socio-environmental and economic impacts related to the construction of a new plant are the main favorable characteristics of these facilities. …”
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How to convert a 3D printer to a personal automated liquid handler for life science workflows by Dulguunnaran Naranbat, Benjamin Phelps, John Murphy, Anubhav Tripathi

“…This study presents an innovative approach to decentralizing a liquid handling system by converting a low-cost 3D printer into a customizable and accurate liquid handler. …”
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Improving the Generalizability and Robustness of Large-Scale Traffic Signal Control by Tianyu Shi, Francois-Xavier Devailly, Denis Larocque, Laurent Charlin

“…Building upon the state-of-the-art previous model which uses a decentralized approach for large-scale traffic signal control with graph convolutional networks (GCNs), we first learn models using a distributional reinforcement learning (DisRL) approach. …”
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Contract Management and Health Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, Kabale Municipality. by Atwesigire, Banard

“…In a bid to reduce the rising cost of public administration and to remove any discrepancies or overlaps between hospitals and LGs, the study recommended that the Ministry of Health fully administratively decentralizes contract supervision activities to trusted administrators as a matter of policy. …”
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Contract Management and Health Service Delivery in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Regional Referral Hospital, Kabale Municipality. by Atwesigire, Banard

“…In a bid to reduce the rising cost of public administration and to remove any discrepancies or overlaps between hospitals and LGs, the study recommended that the Ministry of Health fully administratively decentralizes contract supervision activities to trusted administrators as a matter of policy. …”
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Comparative Results of “Epi-Off” Conventional versus “Epi-Off” Accelerated Cross-Linking Procedure at 5-year Follow-Up by Cristina Ariadna Nicula, Dorin Nicula, Anca Maria Rednik, Adriana Elena Bulboacă

“…Topographical indices such as thinnest corneal point (TP), corneal volume (CV), index vertical asymmetry (IVA), index of vertical asymmetry (ISV), index of height asymmetry (IHA), index of height decentration (IHD), Belin/Ambrosio Enhanced Ectasia Display (BAD_D), and Ambrosio retinal thickness (ART Max) were significantly statistically decreased compared with baseline at all time points, in both groups. …”
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Entrepreneurial Budgeting in the Iranian Government Budget: Obstacles and Solutions by Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi, Alireza Salmanian

“…With sufficient accountability and performance indicators, policymakers can trust bureaucratic systems to decentralize budget spending authority. The budget is allocated to organization managers in a lump sum to manage it as they see fit. …”
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Influence of preoperative variables on the 3-month functional outcomes of the Vivity extended depth-of-focus intraocular lens: a prospective case series by Giacomo Savini, Alice Galzignato, Catarina P. Coutinho, Jinhai Huang, Yue Wu, Piero Barboni, João Mendanha Dias, Filomena J. Ribeiro, Domenico Schiano-Lomoriello

“…Methods In a prospective, single-center, non-randomized study, axial length, keratometry, anterior chamber depth, scotopic and photopic pupil diameters, pupil decentration, corneal asphericity, corneal higher-order aberrations (HOAs), coma and spherical aberration were measured preoperatively. …”
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Skema Kredibilitas Sertifikat Berbasis Ilearning Gamifikasi Blockchain pada Kampus Merdeka by Qurotul Aini, Nur Azizah, Rahmat Salam, Nuke Puji Lestari Santoso, Fitra Putri Oganda

“…The primary purpose of this research is to apply Blockchain technology to increase the use of several encryption technologies authentication and decentralized data distribution for SHA256 data storage, namely the use of cryptography used in Blockchain. …”
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Advances and Prospects in Smart Border Studies Based on a Bibliometric Analysis by Yang Danxuan, Li Cansong, Hu Wei, Lai Zulan, Ge Xurui

“…Furthermore, the distribution of smart border research groups appears to be relatively decentralized, with only a small number of collaborative initiatives to date, and, as yet, no prominent networked group of authors, with a large proportion of the research being conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Canada, and Germany. …”
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Development of a sustainable, green, and solar-powered filtration system for E. coli removal and greywater treatment by R. Abdallat, A.N. Bdour, A. Abu Haifa, F.F. Al-Rawash, L. Almakhadmeh, S. Hazaimeh

“…To address this issue, a four-stage, low-energy, green, and decentralized solar filtration system for greywater treatment has been developed, which uses natural materials available in Jordan and activated carbon to reduce organic and solids content and remove pathogens. …”
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La question du logement social à New York by Catherine Pouzoulet

“…In particular, the debates about site selection pitted those who advocated a decentralized, low‑scale approach against those who pushed for slum clearance in central neighborhoods. …”
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Phenomenology of Organizational Silence (Case Study Farhangian University) by Iraj Mehdizadeh, Saeed Rajaipour, Seyed Ali Siadat

“…Organizing empowerment workshops for faculty members and managers on the administrative system and familiarity with laws. Decentralizing the university and delegating more authority to provincial university managers. …”
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Evolution, Characteristics and Inspirations of Management Zoning for National Parks in the United States by Zhenwei ZHANG, Hanyue XIAO, Yankang MAO

“…The development of the zoning system for national park management in the United States has a history of more than 80 years, which has experienced the goal shifting from “utilization − function” to “protection − control”, the concept shifting from “zoning by potentially conflicting human activities” to “multi-level zoning system based on management objectives”, and the form evolution from “unified formulation” to “decentralized autonomous formulation”. The zoning model of national park management in the United States tends to be localized, flexible, and dynamic. …”
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