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Study of Approaches to Implement the Prism-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors are increasingly in demand due to their high sensitivity, better accuracy, and improved detection limit. Such performance parameters make these sensors suitable for biological and medical field’s applications. During the last decade, prism coupling-based SPR sensors had been a preferred choice among the designer and developers across the globe. This article

Software and Communications
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness

Comparative Study of Vehicular Proactive Caching between Cellular and VLC Networks

The rapid growth of vehicle demand, such as information sharing, entertainment, and multimedia contents, overwhelms the back-haul network. Due to this nature of the network that suffers from high link disconnections and limited resources, it is challenging to develop a new strategy to satisfy users' requirements. Proactive caching is a useful technique to mitigate the load on core networks, and

Software and Communications

Optimized Edge Detection Technique for Brain Tumor Detection in MR Images

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are intended to look for the optimum solution by eliminating the gene strings with the worst fitness. Hence, this paper proposes an optimized edge detection technique based on a genetic algorithm. A training dataset that consists of simple images and their corresponding optimal edge features is employed to obtain the optimum filter coefficients along with the optimum

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Circuit Theory and Applications

Classifying Upper Limb Activities Using Deep Neural Networks

This paper presents a classification method using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) in order to classify six human upper limb activities. The study was also carried out to investigate whether theses activities are being performed normally or abnormally using two different neural networks: Artificial neural network (ANN) and convolutional neural network (CNN). Human activities that were included in

Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare
Mechanical Design

Resource Allocation and Interference Management Techniques for OFDM-Based VLC Atto-Cells

In this paper, a resource partitioning scheme combined with a new multi-carrier optical modulation technique for indoor visible light communication (VLC) system is proposed. In VLC systems, the coverage area is divided into multiple atto-cells. In each atto-cell, multiple LED arrays are used as access points (APs) serving the assigned users. The coverage area of APs might be overlapped to avoid

Software and Communications

Gum Arabic polymer-stabilized and Gamma rays-assisted synthesis of bimetallic silver-gold nanoparticles: Powerful antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities against pathogenic microbes isolated from diabetic foot patients

In this research, irradiation by gamma rays was employed as an eco-friendly route for the construction of bimetallic silver-gold nanoparticles (Ag-Au NPs), while Gum Arabic polymer was used as a capping agent. Ag-Au NPs were characterized through UV–Vis., XRD, EDX, HR-TEM, FTIR, SEM/mapping and EDX analysis. Antibiofilm and antimicrobial activities were examined against some bacteria and Candida

Healthcare

Self-Driving Car Lane-keeping Assist using PID and Pure Pursuit Control

Detection of lane boundaries is the primary role for monitoring an autonomous car's trajectory. Three lane identification methodologies are explored in this paper with experimental illustration: Edge detection, Hough transformation, and Birds eye view. The next step after obtaining the boundary points is to add a regulation rule to effectively trigger the regulation of steering and velocity to the

Artificial Intelligence
Software and Communications
Mechanical Design

Real-Time Geometric Representation of Lane-Change Decision for Autonomous Vehicles Using Dynamic Optimization Algorithm

This paper develops a lane-change geometric representation that can be used in an on-road vehicle. The design of the proposed system uses the data collected from active a host vehicle and measures the relative speed between host vehicle and obstacle vehicles in real-time. The available distance to the target lanes measures the separated distance between the host and obstacle vehicles in real-time

Software and Communications

Cache-Aided Combination Networks with Interference

Centralized coded caching and delivery is studied for a radio access combination network (RACN), whereby a set of H edge nodes (ENs), connected to a cloud server via orthogonal fronthaul links with limited capacity, serve a total of K user equipments (UEs) over wireless links. The cloud server is assumed to hold a library of N files, each of size F bits; and each user, equipped with a cache of

Software and Communications

Modified P3HT:PCBM Active Material with LiF Vertical Cylinders for Organic Solar Cells

In this paper, we introduce active material for an organic solar cell with a modified composition. A combination of P3HT: PCBM with parallel vertical LiF cylinders formulate the active material structure. The collection efficiency in the active material reaches 92.2%. The operating wavelength where the maximum collection efficiency occurs is adjusted and matched with the wavelength where the

Energy and Water
Mechanical Design