Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker, Omar Haider Chowdhury, Daniel L. Millimet
The impact of participation in group‐based credit programs, by gender of participant, on the health status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is investigated. These credit programs are well suited to studies of how gender‐specific resources alter intra‐household allocations because they induc...
Xianglin Bao, Cheng Su, Yan Xiong, Wenchao Huang et al.
Federated learning (shorted as FL) recently proposed by Google is a privacy-preserving method to integrate distributed data trainers. FL is extremely useful due to its ensuring privacy, lower latency, less power consumption and smarter models, but it could fail if multiple trainers abort training or...
Ayesha Siddika, Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, Wahid Ferdous, Ashish Kumer Saha et al.
Automatic construction systems have become the focus of the construction industry and research projects worldwide. Numerous technologies involving 3D printing (3DP) of concrete elements have been developed, and their application in construction projects has been growing. The 3DP in concrete construc...
Anichur Rahman, Md. Jahidul Islam, Antonio Montieri, Mostofa Kamal Nasir et al.
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Blockchain are leading technologies used worldwide to establish safe network communication as well as build secure network infrastructures. They provide a robust and reliable platform to address threats and face challenges such as security, privacy, flexibility,...
Muhammad Baqer Mollah, Md. Abul Kalam Azad, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Over the last few years, smart devices are able to communicate with each other and with Internet/cloud from short to long range. As a consequence, a new paradigm is introduced called Internet of Things (IoT). However, by utilizing cloud computing, resource limited IoT smart devices can get various b...
Yun Chang, Kamak Ebadi, Christopher E. Denniston, Muhammad Fadhil Ginting et al.
Search and rescue with a team of heterogeneous mobile robots in unknown and large-scale underground environments requires high-precision localization and mapping. This crucial requirement is faced with many challenges in complex and perceptually-degraded subterranean environments, as the onboard per...
Sk. Tanzir Mehedi, Adnan Anwar, Ziaur Rahman, Kawsar Ahmed et al.
Security concerns for Internet of Things (IoT) applications have been alarming because of their widespread use in different enterprise systems. The potential threats to these applications are constantly emerging and changing, and, therefore, sophisticated and dependable defense solutions are necessa...
Gabriel Eweje, Aymen Sajjad, Shobod Deba Nath, Kazunori Kobayashi
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the concept of multi-stakeholder partnerships in relation to the United Nations' sustainable development goals and propose a renewed multi-stakeholder partnerships framework that enables the implementation of the sustainable development goal...
Rezwana Reaz, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, M. Sohel Rahman
Supertree methods construct trees on a set of taxa (species) combining many smaller trees on the overlapping subsets of the entire set of taxa. A 'quartet' is an unrooted tree over 4 taxa, hence the quartet-based supertree methods combine many 4-taxon unrooted trees into a single and coherent tree o...
Md. Shezad Dihan, Anwar Islam Akash, Zinat Tasneem, Prangon Das et al.
A Digital Twin (DT) is a digital copy or virtual representation of an object, process, service, or system in the real world. It was first introduced to the world by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Apollo Mission in the '60s. It can successfully design a virtual o...
Selina Sharmin, Tanvir Ahammad, Md. Alamin Talukder, Partho Ghose
Breast cancer is a prevalent and life-threatening disease that requires effective detection and diagnosis methods to improve patient outcomes. Deep learning (DL) and machine learning (ML) techniques have emerged as powerful tools in breast cancer detection, offering benefits such as improved accurac...
Md Reazul Islam, Khondokar Oliullah, Md. Mohsin Kabir, Munzirul Alom et al.
Agriculture plays a vital role in feeding the growing global population. But optimizing crop production and resource management remains a significant challenge for farmers. This research paper proposes an innovative ML-enabled IoT device to monitor soil nutrients and provide accurate crop recommenda...
M. F. Mridha, Aklima Akter Lima, Kamruddin Nur, Sujoy Chandra Das et al.
With the evolution of the Internet and multimedia technology, the amount of text data has increased exponentially. This text volume is a precious source of information and knowledge that needs to be efficiently summarized. Text summarization is the method to reduce the source text into a compact var...
Mehedi Hasan, Md. Jobayer Hossein, Mainul Hossain, Hasan U. Zaman et al.
A novel design of a hybrid Full Adder (FA) using Pass Transistors (PTs), Transmission Gates (TGs) and Conventional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CCMOS) logic is presented. Performance analysis of the circuit has been conducted using Cadence toolset. For comparative analysis, the performan...
Zheng Zhang, Peng Mu, Jingxian He, Zhaoqi Zhu et al.
Abstract Solar steam generation is a highly promising technology for harvesting solar energy and desalination. Here, a new solar steam generation system is introduced based on a surface‐modified polyurethane sponge with bilayered structures for efficient solar steam generation. The top layer, coated...