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Ethereum smart contract system has seen a steady adoption as it continues to support tens of thousands of contracts. This feature has evolved to give a practical shape to the ideas leading up to fractional ownership transfer, using advanced smart contracts such as ERC-981. However, alongside its numerous benefits, various risks arise with the actual…

Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var durum) is among the most important crops in the world. High and stable grain yield in diverse environments is the major objective in durum breeding programs. This trait is linked to the quantitative trait loci (QTL). For the detection of QTL linked to the grain yield, it is necessary…

We describe the control design strategy used to control a soft robotic artificial muscle composed of silicone rubber using hand gesture signals. This artificial muscle is actuated with pneumatics, and therefore, the control strategy employed is through the regulation of air pressure within the inner chambers. Using the hand gestures of bringing the hands apart…

The Covid-19 is a pandemic issue that is causing widespread global disruption forcing lockdowns in many countries including Malaysia as an effort in disconnecting the virus from spreading. As an initiative, the Malaysia government has call for the Movement Control Order (MCO) as one of the lockdown alternatives starting on 18th March 2020. Due to…

The family can be referred to as a basic nucleus of society, where it must be fully formed as a group and guarantee the safety and development of its members. Increasing social inequality affects society and also the families that comprise it. It is a study with a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental, descriptive and…

Several challenges like changes in brightness, dynamic background, occlusion and inconsistency of camera position make the recognition of hand gestures difficult in any vision-based method. Diversity in finger shape, size, distribution and motion dynamics is also a big constraint. This leads to the motivation in developing a dense Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) flow based…

This article discusses the problem of handwriting recognition in Kazakh and Russian languages. This area is poorly studied since in the literature there are almost no works in this direction. We have tried to describe various approaches and achievements of recent years in the development of handwritten recognition models in relation to Cyrillic graphics. The…

Stop and Wait (SW) ARQ, Go Back N (GBN) ARQ, and Selective Repeat (SR) ARQ are the main ARQ (Automatic-Repeat-reQuest) protocols used to ensure reliable delivery of digital data at correct sequence. These protocols are implemented at the DLC (Data Link Control) sub layer of Data Link Layer (DLL) of OSI (Open System Interconnection) network…

Due to high failure rates many students end up spending unnecessary years struggling to qualify and subsequently accumulate unnecessary debt. In this paper, our principal contribution is to provide an expert system that statistically predicts the success of a first year student in an undergraduate Science programme given only academic merit in their subject matter.…

This study aims to review English as a foreign language learning students’ perception of blended learning on various aspects of learning process. The study seeks to answer the question as to whether there is any correlation among students derived independent variable and their perception with respect to the merits and demerits of online blended learning.…

Nowadays, heart diseases cause the maximum death in the world. Also, due to the noticeable increase of heart diseases, studying this field is one of the important matters in medical community. Therefore, this study tries to benefit using information in data base of cardiac arrhythmia and employ arterial intelligent and neural network, in order to…

This paper extends the gamification interactive typing for Primary School Visually Impaired in Indonesia with some development according to previous user’s feedback. This study focuses in to renew the application and evaluate the updated application for visually impaired children developed by utility Unity software. Besides, standards of good gamification are worthy of study and can…

This investigation deals with the identification of the suitable empirical models for predicting radio wave propagation path losses in Erbil city of Kurdistan region in Iraq. For this purpose, two sites of Korek Telecom operating at 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz have been selected at urban and sub-urban environments in the city and seven different…

Objectives: Describe the clinical characteristics and home care of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in a Primary Healthcare Facility of the “Mi Peru” district, in the Callao Region, Peru. Materials and methods: Observational and descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 84 subjects with positive results for Rapid Test IgM / IgG or molecular test (RT-PCR) participated.…

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a potentially common sleep disorder manifested in upper airways’ collapse, either partially or completely. If diagnosed late and untreated, it may result in serious complications. The standard golden method, useful for treating OSA, remains the full night Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). Yet, due to the ensuing discomfort it incurs…

This work presents an innovative solution for parking-sharing of private institutions based on daily occupancy patterns and using different real time tracking methods of vacant parking slots. The research objective consists in finding the most accurate cars detection method, for determining of vacant parking slots and updating them on application web page. Beside the technical…

This paper presents a comparative study for using the classic networks in remote sensing images classification. There are four deep convolution models that used in this comparative study; the DenseNet 196, the NASNet Mobile, the VGG 16, and the ResNet 50 models. These learning convolution models are based on the use of the ImageNet pre-trained…

Electrical and optical properties of polymer nanocomposite thin films have been analyzed to study their reliability and competency as a component for optoelectronic devices such as LED and solar cells. Polymer nanocomposite encounters various challenges, such as the dispersion of nanoparticles in the matrix that hinders their efficiency for potential devices. In this paper, two…

To properly simulate and implement a quadcopter flight control for intended load and flight conditions, the quadcopter model must have parameters on various relationships including propeller thrust-torque, thrust-PWM, and thrust–angular speed to a certain level of accuracy. Thrust-torque modeling requires an expensive reaction torque measurement sensor. In the absence of sophisticated equipment, the study comes…

The crisis linked to the COVID-19 and the uncertainty it generates in the unprecedented health, societal, economic and financial fields have had a strong impact on the stock markets. Indeed, in such a climate of very high uncertainty, it is to be expected that the excessive stock market price movements will continue, with both declines…

Dynamic modeling has been a crucial study in many areas of the engineering field. In this paper, we apply the Newton-Euler equation of motion to a two-DOF parallel mechanism solar tracker which is a close loop mechanism. The aim of this study is to show a simulation of the dynamical model with feedback control using…

The smartphone is a phenomenal device or tool that recently transform the habit of people. In this part, the smartphone serves not only as a communication device but also more complex functionality. The early research reported that smartphones are used by university students to support their social and academic activities. However, the research report that…

The functional priority of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is to ensure a timely transference of health data. Because of the frequency at which health records are transferred and the variety of health data HIEs receive, there are major challenges in efficiently accomplishing this. Cloud technology has become a generally accepted solution to remediate data transference…

This study primarily aims to identify the factors that helped emo kids in 2010 move through the emo-identity discrimination and be able to obtain a certain level of achievement. Facebook is the social network that allows users to track friends’ posts back over 10 years. Content analysis was conducted by using two coders to rate…

The study aims to demonstrate how the use of the design process can align a brand’s strategy with the interests of its target audience through a digital product based on a case study. Currently, Lexus internal studies show that there is a possibility to meet the needs of new audiences, beyond the traditional ones (men,…