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An implementation and evaluation of MPTCP-based IoT router
The evolving Internet of Things (IoT) promisingly improves the quality of life and transforms many industries. However, the IoT application challenges the wireless networks since the resource-constrained IoT d...
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Open AccessA viral pan-end RNA element and host complex define a SARS-CoV-2 regulon
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, generates multiple protein-coding, subgenomic RNAs (sgRNAs) from a longer genomic RNA, all bearing identical termi...
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Cross-Scale Geomechanics of Wellbores in Depleted Reservoirs
Uniaxial models are commonly used to describe the change in magnitude of horizontal principal stresses in depleted reservoirs and consequently to analyze the stability of infill wellbores. The accuracy of the...
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Open AccessCOVID-19 plasma exosomes promote proinflammatory immune responses in peripheral blood mononuclear cells
Elevated serum cytokine production in COVID-19 patients is associated with disease progression and severity. However, the stimuli that initiate cytokine production in patients remain to be fully revealed. Viru...
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Open AccessAccurate discharge and water level forecasting using ensemble learning with genetic algorithm and singular spectrum analysis-based denoising
Forecasting discharge (Q) and water level (H) are essential factors in hydrological research and flood prediction. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a viable technique for capturing the non-linear ...
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Open AccessWhen AI meets store layout design: a review
An efficient store layout presents merchandise to attract customer attention and encourages customers to walk down more aisles which exposes them to more merchandise, which has been shown to be positively corr...
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Open AccessAccurate 3D hand mesh recovery from a single RGB image
This work addresses hand mesh recovery from a single RGB image. In contrast to most of the existing approaches where parametric hand models are employed as the prior, we show that the hand mesh can be learned ...
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AR-CNN: an attention ranking network for learning urban perception
An increasing number of deep learning methods is being applied to quantify the perception of urban environments, study the relationship between urban appearance and resident safety, and improve urban appearanc...
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An experimental study on performance of private blockchain in IoT applications
Blockchain includes distributed records that are immutable and transparent through replicating among public or private networks. The open-source Ethereum is one of the emerging blockchain platforms featuring s...
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Hierarchical fusion network for periocular and iris by neural network approximation and sparse autoencoder
The eye region is one of the most attractive sources for identification and verification due to the representative availability of such biometric modalities as periocular and iris. Many score-level fusion appr...
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A secure location-based alert system with tunable privacy-performance trade-off
Monitoring location updates from mobile users has important applications in many areas, ranging from public health (e.g., COVID-19 contact tracing) and national security to social networks and advertising. How...
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An experimental feasibility study on applying SDN technology to disaster-resilient wide area networks
The Internet may get catastrophic impacts when unexpected disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami, etc. happen. Therefore, it is necessary to equip resilient technologies for the Internet backbones in order to ...
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Open AccessSteric interactions lead to collective tilting motion in the ribosome during mRNA–tRNA translocation
Translocation of mRNA and tRNA through the ribosome is associated with large-scale rearrangements of the head domain in the 30S ribosomal subunit. To elucidate the relationship between 30S head dynamics and mR...
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A systematic review of the treatment for female stress urinary incontinence by ACT® balloon placement (Uromedica, Irvine, CA, USA)
(1) To describe the minimally invasive adjustable continence therapy (ACT)® balloon placement surgical technique. (2) To analyse the results of ACT® balloon in the treatment for female stress urinary incontinence...
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Video Streaming with Network Coding
Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in multimedia streaming applications over the Internet. Notably, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as two effective pa...
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Oncologic outcome after radical prostatectomy in men with PSA values above 20 ng/ml: a monocentric experience
To assess the cancer control afforded by radical prostatectomy (RP) in patients with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values above 20 ng/ml.
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Collaborative Distributed Admission Control (CDAC) for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Admission control algorithms have been widely researched for many years to guarantee the Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia applications over the wired Internet. With the recent surge of wireless home networ...