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Yarmouk University
Education•Irbid, Irbid, Jordan•
About: Yarmouk University is a education organization based out in Irbid, Irbid, Jordan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cognitive radio. The organization has 2419 authors who have published 4849 publications receiving 58943 citations. The organization is also known as: YU & Yarmuk University.
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University of Sfax1, University of Münster2, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases3, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg4, University of Gafsa5, Rio de Janeiro State University6, University of Twente7, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart8, Estácio S.A.9, American University in the Emirates10, Imam Khomeini International University11, University of Paris12, University of Genoa13, University of Arkansas14, Stanford University15, University of Toulouse16, Assiut University17, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology18, Georgia Southern University19, Government of Extremadura20, University Medical Center Groningen21, University of Ulm22, Yarmouk University23, University of Jordan24, University of Porto25, Loughborough University26, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense27
TL;DR: Results indicate that isolation is a necessary measure to protect public health, but results indicate that it alters physical activity and eating behaviours in a health compromising direction.
Abstract: Background: Public health recommendations and governmental measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in numerous restrictions on daily living including social distancing, isolation and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on health behaviours and lifestyles at home is undefined. Therefore, an international online survey was launched in April 2020, in seven languages, to elucidate the behavioural and lifestyle consequences of COVID-19 restrictions. This report presents the results from the first thousand responders on physical activity (PA) and nutrition behaviours. Methods: Following a structured review of the literature, the “Effects of home Confinement on multiple Lifestyle Behaviours during the COVID-19 outbreak (ECLB-COVID19)” Electronic survey was designed by a steering group of multidisciplinary scientists and academics. The survey was uploaded and shared on the Google online survey platform. Thirty-five research organisations from Europe, North-Africa, Western Asia and the Americas promoted the survey in English, German, French, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and Slovenian languages. Questions were presented in a differential format, with questions related to responses “before” and “during” confinement conditions. Results: 1047 replies (54% women) from Asia (36%), Africa (40%), Europe (21%) and other (3%) were included in the analysis. The COVID-19 home confinement had a negative effect on all PA intensity levels (vigorous, moderate, walking and overall). Additionally, daily sitting time increased from 5 to 8 h per day. Food consumption and meal patterns (the type of food, eating out of control, snacks between meals, number of main meals) were more unhealthy during confinement, with only alcohol binge drinking decreasing significantly. Conclusion: While isolation is a necessary measure to protect public health, results indicate that it alters physical activity and eating behaviours in a health compromising direction. A more detailed analysis of survey data will allow for a segregation of these responses in different age groups, countries and other subgroups, which will help develop interventions to mitigate the negative lifestyle behaviours that have manifested during the COVID-19 confinement.
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26 Aug 2021
TL;DR: The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillance, precision agriculture, and civil infrastructure inspection.
Abstract: The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains, including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, search and rescue, delivery of goods, security and surveillance, precision agriculture, and civil infrastructure inspection. Smart UAVs are the next big revolution in the UAV technology promising to provide new opportunities in different applications, especially in civil infrastructure in terms of reduced risks and lower cost. Civil infrastructure is expected to dominate more than $45 Billion market value of UAV usage. In this paper, we present UAV civil applications and their challenges. We also discuss the current research trends and provide future insights for potential UAV uses. Furthermore, we present the key challenges for UAV civil applications, including charging challenges, collision avoidance and swarming challenges, and networking and security-related challenges. Based on our review of the recent literature, we discuss open research challenges and draw high-level insights on how these challenges might be approached.
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TL;DR: The scientific community raced to uncover the origin of the virus, understand the pathogenesis of the disease, develop treatment options, define the risk factors, and work on vaccine development.
Abstract: In December 2019, a cluster of fatal pneumonia cases presented in Wuhan, China. They were caused by a previously unknown coronavirus. All patients had been associated with the Wuhan Wholefood market, where seafood and live animals are sold. The virus spread rapidly and public health authorities in China initiated a containment effort. However, by that time, travelers had carried the virus to many countries, sparking memories of the previous coronavirus epidemics, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and causing widespread media attention and panic. Based on clinical criteria and available serological and molecular information, the new disease was called coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), and the novel coronavirus was called SARS Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), emphasizing its close relationship to the 2002 SARS virus (SARS-CoV). The scientific community raced to uncover the origin of the virus, understand the pathogenesis of the disease, develop treatment options, define the risk factors, and work on vaccine development. Here we present a summary of current knowledge regarding the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes.
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TL;DR: The suitability of hybrid beamforming methods, both, existing and proposed till first quarter of 2017, are explored, and the exciting future challenges in this domain are identified.
Abstract: The increasing wireless data traffic demands have driven the need to explore suitable spectrum regions for meeting the projected requirements. In the light of this, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication has received considerable attention from the research community. Typically, in fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications is realized by the hybrid transceivers which combine high dimensional analog phase shifters and power amplifiers with lower-dimensional digital signal processing units. This hybrid beamforming design reduces the cost and power consumption which is aligned with an energy-efficient design vision of 5G. In this paper, we track the progress in hybrid beamforming for massive MIMO communications in the context of system models of the hybrid transceivers’ structures, the digital and analog beamforming matrices with the possible antenna configuration scenarios and the hybrid beamforming in heterogeneous wireless networks. We extend the scope of the discussion by including resource management issues in hybrid beamforming. We explore the suitability of hybrid beamforming methods, both, existing and proposed till first quarter of 2017, and identify the exciting future challenges in this domain.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the attitudes of bank customers towards Islamic banks are discussed, together with the perceived unique characteristics of Islamic banks by their customers, and the importance of selected patronage factors in choosing conventional and Islamic banks.
Abstract: The attitudes of bank customers towards Islamic banks are
discussed, together with the perceived unique characteristics of Islamic
banks by their customers, and the importance of selected patronage
factors in choosing conventional and Islamic banks. It is concluded that
in considering motives responsible for selecting Islamic banks as
depository institutions, religious motives did not stand out as being
the only significant ones; bank customers are profit motivated; the
evidence generated in the study did not find an important consideration
of the new branches′ role in increasing the utilisation of services
provided by Islamic banks; peer group influence plays an important role
in selecting Islamic banks as depository institutions; and there is a
high degree of awareness on the part of bank customers of the advantage
of the profit‐loss‐sharing modes of investment and of the economic and
social development role of the Islamic banking system.
401 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Peter Wagner | 137 | 1512 | 99949 |
Christopher Neu | 110 | 840 | 57781 |
Massimo Casarsa | 102 | 893 | 47367 |
Paul von Ragué Schleyer | 99 | 888 | 51421 |
Jochen Jens Heinrich | 82 | 670 | 28569 |
S. Moed | 80 | 438 | 25715 |
Marilyn M. Olmstead | 77 | 762 | 24240 |
P. Wilson | 76 | 667 | 25054 |
Shafaqat Ali | 72 | 517 | 18442 |
Ali H. Nayfeh | 71 | 618 | 31111 |
J. Antos | 68 | 354 | 24371 |
E. Brubaker | 65 | 285 | 16900 |
Roy W. Chantrell | 64 | 597 | 16420 |
Adam Wolisz | 52 | 389 | 12082 |
Heinrich Lang | 52 | 931 | 16185 |