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Blockchain-based Supply Chain Financing Solutions for Qatar
( College of Business and Economics, Qatar University , 2021 , Other)When it comes to trade, operations or expansion, access to finance from conventional sources such as financial institutions (FIs) can become a major hurdle for companies (International Chamber of Commerce [ICC], 2020). ... -
Blockchain-empowered digital twins collaboration: Smart transportation use case
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)Digital twins (DTs) is a promising technology in the revolution of the industry and essential for Industry 4.0. DTs play a vital role in improving distributed manufacturing, providing up-to-date operational data representation ... -
Blockchain-Enhanced Data Sharing with Traceable and Direct Revocation in IIoT
( IEEE Computer Society , 2021 , Article)The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) supports recent developments in data management and information services, as well as services for smart factories. Nowadays, many mature IIoT cloud platforms are available to serve ... -
Blockchain-Enhanced High-Confidence Energy Sharing in Internet of Electric Vehicles
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)To introduce the opportunities brought by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to the energy Internet, we propose a local vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) energy trading architecture based on fog computing in social hotspots ... -
Blockchain-of-blockchains: An interoperable blockchain platform for ensuring IoT data integrity in smart city
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)We propose a hierarchical blockchain-based platform for ensuring the integrity of smart city Internet-of-Things (IoT) data and blockchain interoperability in this paper. The well-defined structural hierarchy of managing ... -
A Blockchain-SDN-Enabled Internet of Vehicles Environment for Fog Computing and 5G Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)The goal of intelligent transport systems (ITSs) is to enhance the network performance of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Even though it presents new opportunities to the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) environment, there ... -
A blockchainized privacy-preserving support vector machine classification on mobile crowd sensed data
( Elsevier B.V. , 2020 , Article)The voluminous amount of data generated by individuals’ mobile sensors and wearable devices is considered of a great value for the benefits of patients and clinical research. Recent advances incorporating data mining and ... -
Blockchains: A Conceptual Assessment from a Product Lifecycle Implementation Perspective
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2020 , Conference Paper)PLM systems are heavily distributed collaborative platforms resulting in multiple challenges related to the integrity and reliability of the exchanged information. Such issues are usually difficult to address using traditional ... -
BlockTag: Design and applications of a tagging system for blockchain analysis
( Springer New York LLC , 2019 , Conference Paper)Annotating blockchains with auxiliary data is useful for many applications. For example, criminal investigation of darknet marketplaces, such as Silk Road and Agora, typically involves linking Bitcoin addresses, from which ... -
Blogs as an Effective Social Media Tool in Education
( Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) , 2019 , Conference Proceedings)Abstract: The growth of web 2.0 tools is increasingly influencing higher education. Educators debate the effectiveness of social media tools in educational environment. Some empirical studies reported positive evidences ... -
Blood glucose control for patients with acute coronary syndromes in Qatar
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)Background: Blood glucose is known to be elevated in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes. However a gap in knowledge exists regarding effective management strategies once admitted to acute care units. It is ... -
Blood Homocysteine Levels Mediate the Association Between Blood Lead Levels and Cardiovascular Mortality
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Lead is a heavy, toxic metal and its exposure to humans can lead to increased risk of cardiovascular disease development and mortality. Lead exposure has been shown to induce hyperhomocysteinemia (HHCy) which may be a major ... -
Blood pressure and bladder cancer risk in men by use of survival analysis and in interaction with NAT2 genotype, and by Mendelian randomization analysis
( Public Library of Science , 2020 , Article)The association between blood pressure (BP) and bladder cancer (BC) risk remains unclear with confounding by smoking being of particular concern. We investigated the association between BP and BC risk among men using ... -
Blood Proteomics Analysis Reveals Potential Biomarkers and Convergent Dysregulated Pathways in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an umbrella term that encompasses several disabling neurodevelopmental conditions. These conditions are characterized by impaired manifestation in social and communication skills with ... -
Blue blood students of occupational dynasties and their university choice: the moderating role of parent-child occupational following
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)This study sheds light on a new category of students in higher education marketing literature-namely, occupational followers. We draw on expectancy-value theory, occupational following theory, and consumer buying behaviour ... -
The Blue Button Project: Engaging Patients in Healthcare by a Click of a Button
( American Health Information Management Association , 2015 , Article)The Blue Button project has become a way for many Americans to download their health records by just a click in any way that suits them, such as in print, on a thumb drive, or on their mobile devices and smartphones. Several ... -
Blue collar laborers’ travel pattern recognition: Machine learning classifier approach
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This paper proposes a pattern recognition model to develop clusters of homogenous activities for blue-collar workers in the State of Qatar. The activity-based data from the travel diary of 1051 blue-collar workers collected ... -
Blue Laser Light Counteracts HSV-1 in the SH-SY5Y Neuronal Cell Model of Infection
( MDPI , 2022 , Other)Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is wide-spread virus that triggers painful and recurrent infections, as herpes labialis, causing blister lesions on the lip. HSV-1 infection can be a lifelong condition starting from childhood ... -
Blue photobiomodulation LED therapy impacts SARS-CoV-2 by limiting its replication in Vero cells
( Wiley , 2021 , Other)The study of any intervention able to counteract SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is considerably envisaged. It was previously shown, in in vitro models of infections, that the LED blue light is able to decrease the viral load of HSV-1 ... -
Blue-collar workplace communicative practices: a case study in construction sites in Qatar
( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the role of language in multilingual blue-collar workplaces by investigating how communication is realized in construction sites in Qatar. The State of Qatar ...