Trusted Computing Strengthens Cloud Authentication by Eghbal Ghazizadeh, Mazdak Zamani, Jamalul-lail Ab Manan, Mojtaba Alizadeh

“…Cloud computing is a new generation of technology which is designed to provide the commercial necessities, solve the IT management issues, and run the appropriate applications. Another entry on the list of cloud functions which has been handled internally is Identity Access Management (IAM). …”
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A Cost Function Approach to the Prediction of Passenger Distribution at the Subway Platform by Xiaoxia Yang, Xiaoli Yang, Zhenling Wang, Yuanlei Kang

“…Simulation experiments are run for the model calibration and validation combining with the collected field data. …”
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Artificial Reefs in Florida 101: Effects on Fisheries--Part 4 of an Artificial Reef series by Lisa Chong, Angela B. Collins, Holly Abeels, Anna Braswell, Andrew Ropicki, Edward V. Camp

“…This publication, part 4 of the Artificial Reefs series, explores a complicated but fascinating aspect of artificial reefs—should we expect them to lead to better fishing in the long run? Many people think artificial reefs should be a “win-win” since both fish and fishers seem to like them. …”
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Optimizing Red Blood Cell Consumption Using Markov's Decision-Making Process (Case study: Blood Bank of Zanjan Province Blood Transfusion Center) by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad, Mehran Khayat Rasouli, Zohreh Khalilpour

“…By investigating different costs and comparing various (LIFO-LIFO), (FIFO-FIFO), and (LIFO, FIFO) policies, it can be concluded over iterations that policies (LIFO-LIFO) and (LIFO -FIFO) policies have better performances than the (FIFO-FIFO) policy, and will cost much less in the long run.…”
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Degradation State Recognition of Rolling Bearing Based on K-Means and CNN Algorithm by Qicai Zhou, Hehong Shen, Jiong Zhao, Xingchen Liu, Xiaolei Xiong

“…The proposed method was tested by bearing run-to-failure dataset provided by the Center for Intelligent Maintenance System, and the result proved the feasibility and reliability of the methodology.…”
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Total Thickness Bilateral Rupture of the Rectus Abdominis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Dernas Suhail, Olivia Smith, Philip Lim, Srinivas Chintapatla

“…Postoperatively, our patient could walk pain-free at 3 weeks, jog pain-free at 10 weeks, and run up to 2 miles at 25 weeks. As there is no consensus on the management of this rare injury, we conducted a literature review on all cases reporting rupture of the rectus abdominis from the year 2000. …”
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An Efficient GPU-Based Out-of-Core LU Solver of Parallel Higher-Order Method of Moments for Solving Airborne Array Problems by Zhongchao Lin, Yan Chen, Yu Zhang, Xunwang Zhao, Huanhuan Zhang

“…A parallel framework involving MPI and CUDA is adopted to ensure that the procedures run on a hybrid CPU/GPU cluster. An efficient two-level out-of-core scheme is designed to break the bottleneck of both GPU memory and physical memory when solving electrically large and complex problems. …”
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An Adaptive Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm with Lifecycle and Social Learning by Xiaohui Yan, Yunlong Zhu, Hao Zhang, Hanning Chen, Ben Niu

“…The bacteria could split, die, or migrate dynamically in the foraging processes, and population size varies as the algorithm runs. Social learning is also introduced so that the bacteria will tumble towards better directions in the chemotactic steps. …”
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Time Effort Prediction Of Agile Software Development Using Machine Learning Techniques by Muchamad Bachram Shidiq, Windu Gata, Sigit Kurniawan, Dedi Dwi Saputra, Supriadi Panggabean

“…To run a software development project, an effective and efficient project management mechanism is needed to coordinate the activities carried out. …”
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Analysis of the Impact of Magnetic Materials on Cogging Torque in Brushless DC Motor by K. Karthick, S. Ravivarman, Ravi Samikannu, K. Vinoth, Bashyam Sasikumar

“…The multiposition is simulated using a transient application that runs at constant speed. The results of cogging torque, rotational speed, angular position of BLDC motor, and magnetic flux density distribution have been presented. …”
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Accelerating Smith-Waterman Alignment for Protein Database Search Using Frequency Distance Filtration Scheme Based on CPU-GPU Collaborative System by Yu Liu, Yang Hong, Chun-Yuan Lin, Che-Lun Hung

“…The experimental results indicate that CUDA-SWfr runs 9.6 times and 96 times faster than the CPU-based SW method without and with FDFS, respectively.…”
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Fast Antinoise RFID-Aided Medical Care System by Ming-Hour Yang, Jia-Ning Luo

“…Besides, our proposed scheme guarantees anonymity on the RFID tags, so the patients' sensitive information and location privacy can be protected. Last, we run a simulation to show that compared with the related methods our proposed scheme requires the least transmission time and the lowest computation loads to generate a proof.…”
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Damage Detection of Composite Plates by Lamb Wave Ultrasonic Tomography with a Sparse Hexagonal Network Using Damage Progression Trends by C. J. Keulen, M. Yildiz, A. Suleman

“…Best case results show that damage is detected within 12 mm. The algorithm is also run on a more sparse network with no damage detection, therefore indicating that the selected arrangement is the most sparse arrangement with this configuration.…”
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A Study on the Enhanced Best Performance Algorithm for the Just-in-Time Scheduling Problem by Sivashan Chetty, Aderemi O. Adewumi

“…The current problem setting is the allocation of a large number of jobs required to be scheduled on multiple and identical machines which run in parallel. The due date of a job is characterized by a window frame of time, rather than a specific point in time. …”
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Optimal Method for Allocation of Tractors and Trailers in Daily Dispatches of Road Drops and Pull Transport by Hao Chen, Wenxian Wang, Birong Cheng, Min Zhou

“…In this mode, any tractors can only run with one semitrailer at a time or with no load. …”
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Arteriojejunal Fistula Presenting with Recurrent Obscure GI Hemorrhage in a Patient with a Failed Pancreas Allograft by Nirmit Desai, Sagar Patel, Chinyere Nwosu, Lok Sung, Carl Tack, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, Edward P. Nord, Nand K. Wadhwa

“…She subsequently developed hemorrhagic shock requiring emergent superior mesenteric arteriography. Run off images revealed an external iliac artery aneurysm with fistulization into the jejunum. …”
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ESTIMATING TURKISH STOCK MARKET RETURNS WITH APT MODEL: COINTEGRATION AND VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION by Özge SEZGİN ALP, Fazıl GÖKGÖZ, Güray KÜÇÜKKOCAOĞLU

“…The results have revealed that significant macroeconomic variables vary upon sectors and have a long-run effect in determining stock indices. Consequently, it should be noted that empirical tests of APT have robust estimations in analyzing the Turkish stock market.  …”
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Study of baryon-strangeness and charge-strangeness correlations in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE by Saha Swati

“…This work mainly focuses on the correlations between net-kaon and net-proton, and net-kaon and net-charge in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV using data recorded during LHC Run 2. The net-proton and net-kaon serve as proxies for net-baryon and net-strangeness, respectively, with measurements analyzed as a function of collision centrality. …”
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An Internet-Based Simulation Model for Nitrogen Management in Agricultural Settings by M.J. Shaffer, B.J. Newton, C.M. Gross

“…Servers handle much of the required data assembly and formatting, thus sparing the user�s resources. Model runs are executed on the servers and the results are transmitted to the user. …”
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Design and Construction of a Motor-Driven Conveyor Belt System. by Musiika, Justus

“…The project aims to design and implement a small-scale conveyor belt system run by a DC motor for controlled material transportation. …”
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