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Decreased weight gain and enhanced serum biochemical parameters in rats after vitamin D and Ca supplementation
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Malaysian Journal of Nutrition
, 2018 , Article)
Introduction: Obese individuals tend to have lower plasma concentrations of calcidiol and higher levels of plasma parathyroid hormone (PTH). Objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of vitamin D and Ca ...
LAMANCO: A lightweight anonymous mutual authentication scheme for n -times computing offloading in IoT
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Nowadays in many application scenarios of Internet of Things (IoT), low latency is achieved at the cost of computing-complexity which is beyond the capabilities of IoT devices. Offloading the computing intensive tasks to ...
Optimal Preamble Design in Spatial Group-Based Random Access for Satellite-M2M Communications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Satellite communication is expected to play a pivotal role in supporting the ubiquitous machine-to-machine (M2M) connection. Due to its wide beam coverage, however, one of the major challenges is to accommodate massive and ...
Proposed formulas for estimating splitting tensile, shear and flexural strengths, and long term deflection assessment of self-compacting concrete elements
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American Scientific Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
This paper investigated the splitting tensile and shear strengths and the modulus of rupture of Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) elements with fly ash, micro silica and polycarboxylate ether superplasticizer for various ...
Security and privacy preservation in fog-based crowd sensing on the internet of vehicles
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Academic Press
, 2019 , Article)
The emergence of fog computing enables fog-based vehicle crowd sensing (FBVC) to be utilized in various fields. However, existing privacy issues represent a primary challenge that limits the degree of participation by ...
A hybrid boost modular multilevel converter-based bipolar high voltage pulse generator
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Conventional Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) with Half-Bridge Sub-Modules (HB-SMs) can be used effectively as a solid-state high-voltage pulse generator to chop a high-voltage dc input into a bipolar pulsed output voltage ...
Evaluating Reputation Management Schemes of Internet of Vehicles Based on Evolutionary Game Theory
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Conducting reputation management is very important for Internet of vehicles. However, most of the existing work evaluate the effectiveness of their schemes with settled attacking behaviors in their simulation, which cannot ...
Managing sustainable development through goal programming model and satisfaction functions
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Springer New York LLC
, 2019 , Article)
Managing the sustainable development path of a nation requires the aggregation of incommensurable and conflicting objectives related to economic, environmental and social dimensions. Their aggregation requires some tradeoffs ...
Linear stability analysis of finite length journal bearings in laminar and turbulent regimes
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Dynamic coefficients of a finite length journal bearing are numerically calculated under laminar and turbulent regimes based on Ng-Pan-Elrod and Constantinescu models. Linear stability charts of a flexible rotor supported ...
A Probabilistic Source Location Privacy Protection Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
With the recent developments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), computing and communication have experienced huge advancement. Meanwhile, security has not received the same attention to go along with such developments. ...