Sybil attacks pose a serious threat for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) security. They can create problems in routing, voting schemes, decision making, distributed storage and sensor re-programming. In a Sybil attack, the attacker masquerades as multiple sensor identities that are actually controlled by one or a few existing attacker nodes. Sybil identities are fabricated out of stolen keys, obt...

In this paper we consider a method for monitoring a clinical trial whose patients are sequentially evaluated for response. We focus on a parameter representing treatment effect. Adopting a Bayesian approach we suggest to update progressively prior information on this unknown quantity: in particular, we monitor the trend of the posterior probability that the parameter is larger than a minimally ...

The present paper extends the idea of job shop scheduling problem with resting constraints to the train scheduling problem with the Muslim praying considerations. For this purpose, after proposing the new mathematical model, a heuristic algorithm based on the Electromagnetism-Like algorithm (EM) which is well adjusted to scheduling problems is employed to solve the large-size practical cases. T...

in this research, gelatin nanoparticles were synthesized via inverse miniemulsion method by employing a mixture of a water soluble carbodiimide (cdi) and n-hydroxysuccinimide (nhs) as a non-toxic cross-linking system. the gelatin nanoparticles were characterized for their size and size distribution, morphology and stability and were compared with those of nanoparticles cross-linked by glutarald...

This study focuses on the estimation of the mean grain size of mechanically induced Hydroxyapatite (HA) through the artificial neural network (ANN) model. The mean grain size of HA and HA based nanocomposites at different milling parameters were obtained from previous studies. The data were trained and tested by the neural network modeling. Accordingly, all data (55 sets) were based on the mecha...

High levels of loneliness are associated with poorer outcomes for physical and mental health a large body research has examined how using social media sites such as Facebook is loneliness. Time spent on tends to be higher loneliness, whereas larger number Friends more active use lower However, whilst the network size structure ‘offline’ networks have been still unclear. In this study, participa...

In this paper, conventional SAPO-34 and Cerium Hierarchical SAPO-34 zeolites are synthesized using a hydrothermal method for methanol-to-propylene (MTP) reaction. The Ce-H-SAPO-34 catalyst shows a slightly larger crystal size, bimodal pore size distribution (microporous and mesoporous) and lower surface acidity compared to conventional SAPO-34 catalysts. According to these physicochemical prope...

Among structured Peer-to-Peer systems, Chord has a general popularity due to its salient features like simplicity, high scalability, small path length with respect to network size, and flexibility on node join and departure. However, Chord doesn’t take into account the topology of underlying physical network when a new node is being added to the system, thus resulting in high routing late...