Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Covers new empirical terrain in the study of depoliticisation, with an in-depth case study of health technology regulation;Analyses depoliticisation from a novel analytical perspective, examining how depoliticised institutions are resilient to external pressure for politicisation;Posits a distinctive framework for analysing resilience, drawing on c...

This paper presents results from an experiment on the effects of retail-price recommendations (RPRs) on consumer and retailer behavior. Despite their non-binding nature, RPRs may influence consumers’ willingness to pay by setting a reference point. Loss averse consumers will then be reluctant to pay a price higher than the recommended one. Furthermore, at a given price level consumers will dema...

Video streaming over packet-loss networks faces the challenges that the networks are error-prone, transmission bandwidth is limited and fluctuating, the user device capabilities vary, and networks are heterogeneous. These challenges necessitate the need for smart adaptation of the precoded video. The focus of the thesis is error-resilient rate shaping for streaming precoded video over packet-lo...

Privacy-preserving and Byzantine-resilient machine learning has been an important research issue, many centralized methods have developed. However, it is difficult for these to achieve fast high accuracy simultaneously. In contrast, federated based on local model masking like Byzantine-Resilient Secure Aggregation (BREA), a promising approach simultaneously them. Despite the advantage of light ...

By leveraging the principle of software polyculture to ensure security in a network, we propose vulnerability-based diversity metric determine how network topology can be adapted minimize vulnerability while maintaining maximum connectivity. Our proposed estimates node using vulnerabilities packages installed on nearby nodes attack paths reachable node. diversity-based adaptation (SDA) scheme e...

With the advent of 6G and its mission-critical tactile Internet applications running in a virtualized environment on same physical infrastructure, even shortest service disruptions have severe consequences for thousands users. Therefore, network hypervisors, which enable such virtualization, should tolerate failures or be able to adapt sudden traffic fluctuations instantaneously, i.e., well-pre...

Resilient modulus of pavement materials is a key property required for the pavement thickness design. This paper describes the results of an experimental study on the effects of temperature and loading frequency on the resilient modulus of a SBS polymer modified asphalt concrete under dry and saturated conditions. Dynamic creep tests were conducted on dry and saturated specimens of the mixture ...