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Urban infrastructure development-human security nexus: Flows, spaces, and livelihoods framework for comparative research in Africa's post-colonies

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
This desktop study paper suggests a “flows and livelihoods” framework for comparative studies on displaceability in the context of infrastructure and investment/projects in diverse post-colonial settings.
Beacon Mbiba
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An examination of sleep spindle metrics in the Sleep Heart Health Study: superiority of automated spindle detection over total sigma power in assessing age-related spindle decline

BMC Neurology, 2023
Background Sleep spindle activity is commonly estimated by measuring sigma power during stage 2 non-rapid eye movement (NREM2) sleep. However, spindles account for little of the total NREM2 interval and therefore sigma power over the entire interval may ...
Kalyan Palepu, Kolia Sadeghi, Dave F. Kleinschmidt, Jacob Donoghue, Seth Chapman, Alexander R. Arslan, M. Brandon Westover, Sydney S. Cash, Jay Pathmanathan   +8 more
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Attitudes and access of Irish general surgery trainees to robotic surgical training

Surgery Open Science, 2022
Background: Although the use of robotic-assisted surgery is now mainstream for procedures such as robotic prostatectomy and hysterectomy, its role in general surgery is less well established. Access to training in robotics for general surgery trainees in
Lauren V. O'Connell, MB, BCh, BAO, MRCSI, Cathal Hayes, MB, BCh, BAO, MRCSI, Mohamed Ismail, MB, BCh, MRCSI, PhD, Diarmuid S. O'Ríordáin, FRCSI, MD, Adnan Hafeez, FRCSI, MD   +4 more
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Design of a new series of potent and selective beta-3 adrenergic receptor (β3-AdrR) antagonists for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure

Results in Chemistry, 2022
The design of a new series of β3-Adrenergic receptor (β3-AdrR) antagonists is described. The use of a spiro building block in the core of the molecule provided novel compounds with reduced aromaticity and antagonist activity at the human β3-AdrR.
Thuy-Anh Tran, Bryan Kramer, Young-Jun Shin, Quyen-Quyen Do, Brett Ullman, Vasudeva Sagi, John W. Adams, Yunqing Shi, Hsin-Hui Shu, David J. Unett, Joel Gatlin, Michael E. Morgan, Jaimie Reuter, Anthony Blackburn, Carleton R. Sage, Graeme Semple   +15 more
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Climate warriors down under: Contextualising Australia’s youth climate justice movement

npj Climate Action, 2023
This perspective brings together published peer reviewed primary research on youth climate activism in Australia and provides context of the political and social landscapes in which young people are taking climate action.
M. Hohenhaus, S. Rutherford, J. Boddy, E. Borkoles   +3 more
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Possibilities of Using Bluetooth Low Energy Beacon Technology to Locate Objects Internally: A Case Study

Technologies, 2023
The developments that are occurring in relation to Industry 4.0 are making it possible to automate a huge number of production activities. Automation includes the possibility of automatically identifying individual elements of a system.
Jan Ližbetin, Jan Pečman
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An Enhanced Indoor Positioning Technique Based on a Novel Received Signal Strength Indicator Distance Prediction and Correction Model

Sensors, 2021
Indoor positioning has become a very promising research topic due to the growing demand for accurate node location information for indoor environments. Nonetheless, current positioning algorithms typically present the issue of inaccurate positioning due ...
Mohammed Nagah Amr, Hussein M. ELAttar, Mohamed H. Abd El Azeem, Hesham El Badawy   +3 more
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Prototype of an Emergency Response System Using IoT in a Fog Computing Environment

Computers, 2023
Currently, the internet of things (IoT) is a technology entering various areas of society, such as transportation, agriculture, homes, smart buildings, power grids, etc. The internet of things has a wide variety of devices connected to the network, which
Iván Ortiz-Garcés, Roberto O. Andrade, Santiago Sanchez-Viteri, William Villegas-Ch.   +3 more
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Adaptive scheduled partitioning technique for reliable emergency message broadcasting in VANET for intelligent transportation systems

Automatika, 2023
This paper aims to enable accurate and reliable emergency message broadcast in Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET). The VANET is the most common topology used in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), where changes in standard topology due to the ...
M. Ramya Devi, I. Jasmine Selvakumari Jeya, S. Lokesh   +2 more
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Design and Implementation Proximity Based IoT for Smart Attendance System

Buletin Pos dan Telekomunikasi: Media Komunikasi Ilmiah, 2023
The reporting of course attendance is an essential component of academic administration. This research designs and deploys a smart attendance system by leveraging proximity-based IoT. The smart attendance system is built upon the Android operating system
Nur Hayati, Aditiyo Eka Nugraha
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