This paper explores the enhancement of adaptive reuse (AR) of buildings through the lens of the sustainability protocols within the context of circular economy (CE) in Italy. Cities and the built environment can play a key role in the transition to a...
Cooperative communication improves the link throughput of wireless networks through spatial diversity. However, it reduces the frequency reuse of the entire network due to the enlarged link interference range introduced by each helper. In this paper,...
The goal of this work is to suggest a method for assessing the state of salvaged glued laminated timber and deciding whether it is appropriate for reuse. After conducting a thorough analysis of the wood pathology, a decision tree mind map was created...
In wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency is mainly achieved by making nodes sleep. In this paper, we present the combination of SERENA, a new node activity scheduling algorithm based on node coloring, with TDMA/CA, a collision avoidance MAC pro...
The wastewater reuse is an important measure to face water shortage, thus improving the resilience of agricultural production chains. However, treated wastewater can contain residual organic micropollutants residues that may result in crop contaminat...
We present the first secure multiplicative aggregation protocol as a variant of secure aggregation. In this case, a server can compute the component-wise product of the input vectors of users while handling the possible dropout of users during protoc...
Plagiarism detection in history-based parametric 3D CAD models remains challenging, particularly when models are altered or manually reconstructed. This study proposes a multilevel protocol and an interactive software tool to support the analysis of...
Adaptive reuse projects frequently involve substantial plan-level reorganization; however, the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchy within interior layouts remains insufficiently examined at the building scale. Background: This study investigates how...
Generative systems can produce fluent museum prose, but fluency does not show whether a sentence is warranted by an object record. This article proposes Narrative Licence, a protocol that classifies each candidate sentence as ATTESTED, INFERRED or NO...
Full-duplex (FD) communication has been attractive as the breakthrough technology for improving attainable spectral efficiency since the 5G mobile communication system. Previous research focused on self-interference cancellation and medium access con...
Shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) is often projected in response to public health emergencies such as infection outbreaks and pandemics. Respiratory protective devices (RPDs), namely medical face masks and respirators, are considered th...
Adaptive reuse has become a central strategy for extending the cultural, environmental, and functional life of industrial heritage, yet the ways in which intervention logic becomes legible in multilayered heritage complexes remain insufficiently form...
The optimal development of biosensors is a costly and time-consuming task, since an enormous amount of experiments is required. Therefore, the possibility of reusing the biosensors is highly desirable. In this work, a protocol based on the use of for...
The increase in industry and population, together with the need for wastewater reuse, makes it necessary to implement new technologies in the circular economy framework. The aim of this research was to evaluate the quality of the effluent of an algae...
Arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides have been used as efficient electrophilic partners in Cu(I) catalysed Ullmann-type coupling. The synthetic protocols are mild and easy, and produced either N-alkylanilines, aryl ethers, or thioethers in fairly g...
This paper proposes a methodological approach to the re-use of reservoir sediments for coastal nourishment. The proposed approach represents a point of convergence between water and sediment management, coastal protection from erosion and the re-use...
In this study, a novel photoelectrocatalytic membrane (PECM) reactor was tested as an option for the desalination, disinfection, and detoxification of biologically treated textile wastewater (BTTWW), with the aim to reuse it in hydroponic farming. Th...
Steel production is a major contributor to resource use and greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for nearly 8% of global CO2 emissions, with structural steel accounting for more than half of this share. As the construction sector moves toward decarbo...
Attribute-based credentials (ABCs) provide an efficient way to transfer custody of personal and private data to the final user, while minimizing the risk of sensitive data revelation and thus granting anonymity. Nevertheless, this method cannot detec...
Aim: The objective of this in vitro study was to compare reused and sterilized versus new healing abutments to assess whether a decontamination and sterilization process performed on resued healing abutments was sufficient to remove residual proteins...
A protocol for the collection of vector data in Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) projects is proposed. VGI is a source of crowdsourced geographic data and information which is comparable, and in some cases better, than equivalent data from Na...
Considering the important role that wastewater reuse plays in the water cycle and in the current water scenario immersed in a severe drought, the search for technologies that allow obtaining quality water for reuse is increasingly relevant. In this s...
The adaptive reuse of historic hospitals requires comparing prospective functions against inherited architectural configurations, heritage constraints and contextual conditions, often under incomplete documentation. This study develops and internally...
Introduction: Expanded hemodialysis using medium cut-off (MCO) dialyzers effectively removes middle-molecule uremic toxins, comparable to hemodiafiltration, but their single-use designation increases the dialysis costs. This study evaluated the effic...
The global polymer waste burden has catalyzed a shift from linear “production–use–disposal” systems to circular models that prioritize recycling, reuse, and value retention. This article proposes an integrated, technology-read...
We propose a novel solution to streamline the migration of existing Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol implementations to a post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanism for Transport Layer Security (KEMTLS). By leveraging Identity-Based Encryption (...
5G acts as a highway enabling innovative digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our lives. It is undeniable that the success of such a paradigm shift hinges on robust security measures. Foremost among these is primary authenti...
This survey paper presents the state-of-the-art directional medium access control (MAC) protocols in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks (WAHSNs). The key benefits of directional antennas over omni-directional antennas are longer communication range,...
An efficient, economical, and green, sustainable synthesis of fused azines using Mg-Al hydrotalcite under a high-pressure Q-Tube reactor has been developed. This reaction proceeds through the aza-Michael addition of α,β-unsaturated ketone...
The development of green and sustainable protocols for synthetic routes is a growing area of research in chemistry worldwide. The development of sustainable processes and products through innovative catalytic materials and technologies, that allow a...
In the era of big data, data is key to the accuracy of analytical models, and cloud computing services are often used to efficiently process large volumes of data. However, outsourcing sensitive data to a third-party cloud service provider results in...
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are widely used for permutation flow shop scheduling, but reusing calibrated parameters at a new problem size raises a practical question: how much additional tuning is justified? This study evaluates a reliability-guided rul...
Documenting the paleontological process includes data produced by different techniques and protocols, which are used by paleontologists to prospect and eventually find a new fossil. Nowadays, together with the aforementioned data, a great amount of i...
The treated wastewater of Agadir M’zar plant has a good physico-chemical quality and it contains important nutrients (NPK: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). However, the reuse of this water, without disinfecting it, for irrigating the golf grass in t...
An immobilization protocol of a model enzyme into silica nanoparticles was applied. This protocol exploited the use of the bifunctional molecule triethoxysilylpropylisocyanate (TEPI) for covalent binding through a linker of suitable length. The enzym...
Widespread access to potable water is still far from being granted to populations of developing countries, especially in rural zones. For this reason, the development of easy-to-make, easy-to-use water purification devices is a topic of great social...
Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) is a lightweight, thermally insulating, and fire-resistant building material that has become prominent in sustainable construction due to its reduced production energy demands and minimal environmental impact. As an...
In a straightforward and fast protocol, a mixture of 1,3-dimethylimidazolium fluoride ([DMIM]F) and 1-butylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([Hbim]BF4) efficiently catalyzed the reaction of epoxides with ketene silyl acetals (KSA) to give various γ-lact...
Federated learning (FL) demonstrates significant potential in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) settings, as it allows multiple institutions to jointly construct a shared learning model by exchanging model parameters or gradient updates without th...
This paper studies sum rate maximization of a cognitive radio network, where a full-duplex relay (FDR) is considered to assist data transmission. An FDR equipped with multiple transmit/receive antennas is introduced to harvest energy from the radio f...
Tetronic acid, a five-membered heterocyclic moiety present in various natural products, has emerged as a significant building block for many pharmaceutically active compounds. In this study, a novel protocol for the synthesis of the bis-tetronic acid...
This paper evaluates the performance of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) technique within dense IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) network environments. As traditional CSMA/CA-based networks reach their scalability limits, this work inv...
At present, embedded devices have become a part of people’s lives, so detecting security vulnerabilities contained in devices becomes imperative. There are three challenges in detecting embedded device vulnerabilities: (1) Most network protocol...
Mobile ad hoc networks are self-organizing networks that do not rely on fixed infrastructure. Smart antennas employ advanced beamforming technology, enabling ultra-long-range directional transmission in wireless networks, which leads to lower power c...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming increasingly important in several fields of industrial applications and personal applications, such as medical e-health, smart cities, etc. The research into protocols and security aspects related to this area...
The potential of ad hoc networks, which enable flexible and dynamic network establishment only by mobile terminals equipped with wireless communication devices, has recently attracted attention for the coming IoT era. Although the nature of ad hoc ne...
In the classic energy sector, as well as in the manufacturing and process industries, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems are used for electrical substation control. However, PLCs frequently do not support the communication protocols defined...
Photoinduced chemical reactions and the development of new materials represent a current and significant topic. We present a sustainable and eco-friendly approach to the Knoevenagel condensation reaction involving carbonyl and active methylene compou...
A benchmarking study is reported on a series of modified carbocatalysts to efficiently promote the acetalization of 1,2-diols under heterogeneous conditions. Among the catalysts surveyed, a hydrothermal carbon generated from saccharose, a cheap, abun...
The long propagation delay of acoustic links leads to the complex randomness of packet collision, which reduces the network packet delivery rate (PDR) and aggravates network congestion. A single vector hydrophone with directional reception characteri...
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