The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has endorsed High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) as an alternative means of providing UMTS wireless services. The utilisation of HAPs (High Altitude Platforms) in the access part of the upcoming UMTS networks can provide great flexibility to UMTS from the viewpoint of service provisions and fast infrastructure installation. Moreover, they offer these ...

Living plants produce a diversity of chemicals that share structural and functional properties with vertebrate hormones. Wildlife species interact with these chemicals either through consumption of plant materials or aquatic exposure. Accumulating evidence shows that exposure to these hormonally active phytochemicals (HAPs) often has consequences for behavior, physiology, and fecundity. These f...

An information system formed by HAP (High Altitude Platform) will be a new generation-system for the wireless communications and HAPS (HAP Station) communication system combines the advantages of both terrestrial and satellite communication systems and avoids, to different extents, their disadvantages. Third generation (3G) mobile technology which is specified by the third generation partnershi...

We investigate the performance and coexistence techniques for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) delivered from high altitude platforms (HAPs) and terrestrial systems in shared 3.5 GHz frequency bands. The paper shows that it is possible to provide WiMAX services from individual HAP systems. The coexistence performance is evaluated by appropriate choice of parameters, which...

Air pollution has emerged as a pressing global issue in recent decades. While criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases contribute to the problem, this article explicitly addresses hazardous air (HAPs). This work estimates country-wide cumulative human health impacts from exposure HAPs. Kuwait is used case study due data availability non-fragmentation of data. At present, evaluation multi-pathwa...

The global averaged civilian positioning accuracy is still at meter level for all existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), and the performance even worse in urban areas. At lower altitudes than satellites, high altitude platform stations (HAPS) offer several benefits, such as latency, less pathloss, likely smaller overall estimation error parameters associated pseudorange equation....

In recent years, satellite communication (SatCom) systems have been widely used for navigation, broadcasting application, disaster recovery, weather sensing, and even spying on the Earth. As number of satellites is highly increasing with radical revolution in wireless technology, eavesdropping SatCom will be possible next-generation networks. this context, we introduce approach, where an spacec...

The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common primary liver cancer, is increasing in the US and tripled during the past two decades. The reasons for such phenomenon remain poorly understood. Texas is among continental states with the highest incidence of liver cancer with an annual increment of 5.7%. Established risk factors for HCC include Hepatitis B and C (HBV, HCV) viral ...

Edge intelligence, a new paradigm to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) applications by leveraging computing resources on the network edge, can be used improve intelligent transportation systems (ITS). However, due physical limitations and energy-supply constraints, powers of edge equipment are usually limited. High altitude platform station (HAPS) considered promising extension computing....