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Development of Data Lake Core Open
This thesis detailed the development of a data lake core microservice in Java and Clojure, using IPFS as an append-only storage. It provides a HTTP interface for data ingestion, query and extraction, with a query abstract syntax tree denot…
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Blockchain-Based, Decentralized Access Control for IPFS Open
Large files cannot be efficiently stored on blockchains. On one hand side, the blockchain becomes bloated with data that has to be propagated within the blockchain network. On the other hand, since the blockchain is replicated on many node…
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Hadoop, MapReduce and HDFS: A Developers Perspective Open
The applications running on Hadoop clusters are increasing day by day. This is due to the fact that organizations have found a simple and efficient model that works well in distributed environment. The model is built to work efficiently on…
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Big Data and Hadoop-a Study in Security Perspective Open
Big data is the collection and analysis of large set of data which holds many intelligence and raw information based on user data, Sensor data, Medical and Enterprise data. The Hadoop platform is used to Store, Manage, and Distribute Big d…
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A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Data Storage and Access Framework for PingER Open
The blockchain is an innovative technology which opened doors to new applications for solving numerous problems in distributed environments. In this study, we design a blockchain-based data storage and access framework for PingER (worldwid…
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Quantification of a Distributive Fluvial System: The Salt Wash DFS of the Morrison Formation, SW U.S.A. Open
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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends Open
For a decade, the Ceph distributed file system followed the conventional wisdom of building its storage backend on top of local file systems. This is a preferred choice for most distributed file systems today because it allows them to bene…
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Impact of Postoperative Complications on Survival and Recurrence After Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases Open
Objective: To study the effect of postoperative complications (POC) on overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) after surgical resection of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM). Summary Background Data: Morbidity rates after liv…
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Blockchain-Based Distributed Patient-Centric Image Management System Open
In recent years, many researchers have focused on developing a feasible solution for storing and exchanging medical images in the field of health care. Current practices are deployed on cloud-based centralized data centers, which increase …
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LineFS Open
In multi-tenant systems, the CPU overhead of distributed file systems (DFSes) is increasingly a burden to application performance. CPU and memory interference cause degraded and unstable application and storage performance, in particular f…
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Application of Blockchain to Supply Chain: Flexible Blockchain Technology Open
It has been ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto created bitcoin and introduced the concept of a blockchain. The original goal was to propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. Now, Blockchain proves to hav…
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Design for Safety: Multiple Stakeholders in the Singapore Construction Industry Open
This paper aims to investigate the design for safety (DfS) knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of multiple stakeholders, including architects, civil and structural (CS) engineers, mechanical and electrical (ME) engineers, developers/cl…
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Immutability and Decentralized Storage: An Analysis of Emerging Threats Open
The widespread adoption of the new generation of decentralised architectures, leveraged by blockchain and decentralised file storage (DFS) systems, enables a myriad of new applications and opportunities. Nevertheless, their remarkable feat…
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Performance of prognostic scores and staging systems in predicting long‐term survival outcomes after surgery for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma Open
Introduction We sought to validate the commonly used prognostic models and staging systems for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) in a large multi‐center patient cohort. Methods The overall (OS) and disease free survival (DFS) prognosti…
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A Secure File Sharing System Based on IPFS and Blockchain Open
There is a great interest in many approaches towards blockchain in providing a solution to record transactions in a decentralized way. However, there are some limitations when storing large files or documents on the blockchain. In order to…
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Influence of Androgen Receptor Expression on the Survival Outcomes in Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis Open
Expression of AR in breast cancer might be associated with better survival outcomes, especially in patients with HR-positive tumors and TNBC, and women. Based on this meta-analysis, we propose that AR expression might be related to prognos…
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GekkoFS - A Temporary Distributed File System for HPC Applications Open
We present GekkoFS, a temporary, highly-scalable burst buffer file system which has been specifically optimized for new access patterns of data-intensive High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications. The file system provides relaxed POSIX…
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Dealing with Small Files Problem in Hadoop Distributed File System Open
The usage of Hadoop has been increasing greatly in recent years. Hadoop adoption is widespread. Some notable big users such as Yahoo, Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon use Hadoop mainly for unstructured data analysis as Hadoop framework works …
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Blockchain Private File Storage-Sharing Method Based on IPFS Open
Under the current national network environment, anyone can participate in publishing. As an important information resource, knowledge files reflect the workload of publishers. Moreover, high-quality knowledge files can promote the progress…
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Fast Enumeration of Large k-Plexes Open
K-plexes are a formal yet flexible way of defining communities in networks. They generalize the notion of cliques and are more appropriate in most real cases: while a node of a clique C is connected to all other nodes of C, a node of a k-p…
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Job schedulers for Big data processing in Hadoop environment: testing real-life schedulers using benchmark programs Open
At present, big data is very popular, because it has proved to be much successful in many fields such as social media, E-commerce transactions, etc. Big data describes the tools and technologies needed to capture, manage, store, distribute…
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Knowledge, Access, and Decision-Making Open
In resource-constrained economies, lack of financial participation prohibits women’s economic empowerment and opportunities to improve circumstances. With the advent of Digital Financial Services (DFS), a growing emphasis has been placed o…
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Fractional Skipping: Towards Finer-Grained Dynamic CNN Inference Open
While increasingly deep networks are still in general desired for achieving state-of-the-art performance, for many specific inputs a simpler network might already suffice. Existing works exploited this observation by learning to skip convo…
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Implementation of a secure and privacy-aware E-Health record and IoT data sharing using blockchain Open
Medical applications are fast growing in popularity, both for professional use and for patient-centered apps. The current Health record and IoT data sharing systems however have a fair amount of problems associated with privacy and securit…
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Attribute based honey encryption algorithm for securing big data: Hadoop distributed file system perspective Open
Hadoop has become a promising platform to reliably process and store big data. It provides flexible and low cost services to huge data through Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) storage. Unfortunately, absence of any inherent security m…
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Design for safety implementation factors: a literature review Open
Purpose Decisions made during the design stage of construction works can significantly reduce the risk of occurrence of occupational accidents, injuries and illnesses. Moreover, it has been established that design is one of the major contr…
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Contribution of Immunoscore and Molecular Features to Survival Prediction in Stage III Colon Cancer Open
Background The American Joint Committee on Cancer staging and other prognostic tools fail to account for stage-independent variability in outcome. We developed a prognostic classifier adding Immunoscore to clinicopathological and molecular…
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Metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis as prognostic factors in head and neck cancer: Systematic review and meta‐analysis Open
The role of metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) in head and neck cancer (HNC) prognosis is not well established. We conducted a systematic review focusing on MTV and TLG measured by 18 F‐FDG positron‐emission tom…
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Diclofenac sodium ion exchange resin complex loaded melt cast films for sustained release ocular delivery Open
DFSfree + DFS:IR combination loaded matrix films were able to deliver and maintain therapeutic DFS concentrations in the anterior ocular chamber for up to 8 h. Thus, free drug/IR complex loaded matrix films could be a potential topical ocu…
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Should Governments Tax Digital Financial Services? A Research Agenda to Understand Sector-Specific Taxes on DFS Open
Digital financial services (DFS) have rapidly expanded across Africa and other low-income countries. At the same time, low-income countries face strong pressures to increase domestic resource mobilisation, and major challenges in taxing th…