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A Blockchain Approach for Negotiating Trust in IoT
(2020-05)
“The internet is no longer a web that we connect to. Instead, its a computerized,
networked, and interconnected world that we live in. This is the future, and what
were calling the Internet of Things.”- Bruce Schneier, ...
Development of Plane Rotating Traction System: Based on the High-speed Rail (72+128+72) m Continuous Prestressed Concrete Beam Bridge
(2020-05)
With the advent of rotate construction techniques, it is easy to build a new bridge
crossing over existing structures, rivers and valleys quickly, easily and safely. Although the
general concept of the rotating method ...
Optimal Control of the Second Order Elliptic Equations with Biomedical Applications
(2020-05)
Dissertation analyzes optimal control of systems with distributed parameters described
by the general boundary value problems in a bounded Lipschitz domain for the linear
second order uniformly elliptic partial differential ...
Design of an Environmentally Responsive Grooming Tool to Aid in Underwater Navigation
(2020-05)
Underwater hull grooming is a proactive approach to ship hull husbandry. It has been
defined as the frequent and gentle wiping of a ship hull coating to maintain it free of fouling.
One of the challenges to implementing ...
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring Instructor Satisfaction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
(2020-05)
To support the pursuit of quality in MOOCs, this study follows the Sloan
Consortium online education quality framework. This framework includes five
pillars of quality online education that need to be assessed on an ...
Megafaunal Extinction in the Neotropics: A Landscape Approach
(2020-05)
A 20 million years reign of large terrestrial mammals, known as
megafauna (animals over 45 kg), came to an end during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Particularly apparent in the Americas, the sudden extinction
of ...
Enhancing Cybersecurity by Generating User-Specific Security Policy through the Formal Modeling of User Behavior
(2020-01)
Despite the ongoing efforts to develop cutting-edge security solutions, the question always remains whether these technologies can overcome system vulnerabilities that often result from poor security practices made by ...
On the Characterization of Natural Language Structure and Literary Stylometry - A Network Science Approach
(2020-05)
Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been through many advancements in recent years, linguistics and scientist utilized these techniques to solve
many challenges related to written language and literary. ...
Practical Adversarial Attacks Against Black Box Speech Recognition Systems and Devices
(2020-05)
With the advance of speech recognition technologies, intelligent voice control devices such as Amazon Echo have became increasingly popular in our daily life. Currently, most state-of-the-art speech recognition systems are ...
The Relationship between Place Attachment and Socioscientific Reasoning among High School Students in Puerto Rico after Negotiation with Local and Foreign Socioscientific Issues
(2020-05)
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to explore the relationship between
place attachment and socioscientific reasoning (SSR) of Puerto Rican high school students
through debate and discourse of local and foreign ...