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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the incidence and mortality of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: national interrupted time series analyses for Scotland and Wales

BMC Medicine, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing national lockdowns have dramatically changed the healthcare landscape. The pandemic’s impact on people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains poorly understood.
Mohammad A. Alsallakh, Shanya Sivakumaran, Sharon Kennedy, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Ronan A. Lyons, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh, Gwyneth A. Davies, on behalf of the EAVE II Collaborators   +8 more
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Chatbots: Security, privacy, data protection, and social aspects

Concurrency and Computation, 2021
Chatbots are artificial communication systems becoming increasingly popular and not all their security questions are clearly solved. People use chatbots for assistance in shopping, bank communication, meal delivery, healthcare, cars, and many other ...
M. Hasal, J. Nowaková, K. Saghair, H. Abdulla, V. Snás̃el, L. Ogiela   +5 more
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Transcriptome analysis revealed enrichment pathways and regulation of gene expression associated with somatic embryogenesis in Camellia sinensis

Scientific Reports, 2023
The high frequency, stable somatic embryo system of tea has still not been established due to the limitations of its own characteristics and therefore severely restricts the genetic research and breeding process of tea plants.
Hao-Zhen Li, Hui Wu, Kang-Kang Song, Hui-Hui Zhao, Xiao-Yan Tang, Xiao-Hua Zhang, Di Wang, Shao-Lin Dong, Feng Liu, Jun Wang, Zhong-Cong Li, Long Yang, Qin-Zeng Xiang   +12 more
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Boosting OER activity of stainless steel by cathodic plasma surface modification

Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2021
Developing an effective method to promote the electrocatalytic activity of stainless steel for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) remains challenging. In this paper, cathodic plasma bombardment (CPB) has been employed to modify the surface of 304 stainless ...
Fei Wu, Zhixiang Yao, Kang Huang, Bowei Zhang, Jiuyang Xia, Zhibin Chen, Junsheng Wu   +6 more
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Technology, privacy and identity: a Hong Kong perspective [PDF]

, 2008
This article explores the concepts of privacy and identity in Hong Kong in relation to the law relating to data protection. It first considers the notions of privacy and identity in the light of Hong Kong's socioeconomic situation and recent postcolonial
Wong, R, Yap, JL
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Corrosion Behaviour of Three Kinds of Arc Sprayed Coatings in Soil

International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2019
The corrosion resistance of a pure Zn coating, a ZnAl alloy coating and a ZnAl pseudo-alloy coating in a Beijing area was studied. The corrosion products were analysed by XRD, and the electrochemical processes of the three coatings were analysed by ...
Dongjiu Zhang, Qiong Yao, Jialiang Song, Zhaoliang Li, Ziheng Bai, Yali Feng, Chaofang Dong, Kui Xiao   +7 more
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Revisiting Shared Data Protection Against Key Exposure

, 2020
This paper puts a new light on secure data storage inside distributed systems. Specifically, it revisits computational secret sharing in a situation where the encryption key is exposed to an attacker.
Bertoni Guido, Bertoni Guido, Coron Jean-Sébastien, Jason, Kapusta K., Krawczyk Hugo, Maurer Ueliand, Rivest Ronald L.   +7 more
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Microbial corrosion behavior and mechanism of 5A06 aluminum alloy under low dose proton radiation

Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2023
Low-dose proton radiation is one of the important factors that have a major impact on microorganisms in spacecraft. In this paper, the changes in the life activity characteristics of Penicillium oxalate and its impact on the corrosion behavior and ...
Nana Chen, Qianqian Liu, Yali Feng, Shiwen Zou, Qiong Yao, Lin Lu, Junsheng Wu, Kui Xiao   +7 more
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Data Protection

D 1.2 Data protection and user management requirements (R, PU, DCS, M12, Task 1.2)
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Standardization of power system protection settings using IEC 61850 for improved interoperability [PDF]

, 2013
One of the potential benefits of smart grid development is that data becomes more open and available for use by multiple applications. Many existing protection relays use proprietary formats for storing protection settings.
Blair, Steven Macpherson, Booth, Campbell, Catterson, Victoria, Dysko, Adam, Hong, Qiteng, Rahman, Tahasin   +5 more
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