Receiver-based ad hoc on demand multipath routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks

Decreasing the route rediscovery time process in reactive routing protocols is challenging in mobile ad hoc networks. Links between nodes are continuously established and broken because of the characteristics of the network. Finding multiple routes to increase the reliability is also important but requires a fast update, especially in high traffic load and high mobility where paths can be broken as well. The sender node keeps re-establishing path discovery to find new paths, which makes for long time delay. In this paper we propose an improved multipath routing protocol, called Receiver-based ad hoc on demand multipath routing protocol (RB-AOMDV), which takes advantage of the reliability of the state of the art ad hoc on demand multipath distance vector (AOMDV) protocol with less re-established discovery time. The receiver node assumes the role of discovering paths when finding data packets that have not been received after a period of time. Simulation results show the delay and delivery ratio performances are improved compared with AOMDV

The influence of nutritional factors and dietary patterns on the prevention and control of arterial hypertension: a review

Arterial hypertension is a growing public health problem worldwide with serious health consequences. However, hypertension can be prevented and controlled with a healthy diet and physical activity. For this reason, we conducted a search of recent articles and reviews on the influence of nutritional factors and dietary patterns on the prevention and control of arterial hypertension, then sifted and aggregated the data. Results showed that guidelines such as sodium restriction, weight control and moderate alcohol intake, improved diet (following the DASH diet or Vegetarian diet), and physical activity significantly impacted blood pressure control. Likewise, consuming less saturated fat with an increase in monounsaturated fatty acids and omega-3s, providing adequate calcium, magnesium, protein, vitamin D and fiber, and improving the antioxidant capacity of the diet also plays an important role in blood pressure control. In short, an appropriate diet combined with a healthy lifestyle will help achieve the best blood pressure, reduce cardiovascular risk factors, and thereby achieve many other health benefits.

Quora Insincere Questions Classification Using Attention Based Model

The online platform has evolved into an unparalleled storehouse of infor-mation. People use various social question-and-answer websites such as Quora, Form-spring, Stack-Overflow, Twitter, and Beepl to ask questions, clarify doubts, and share ideas and expertise with others. An increase in in-appropriate and insincere comments by users without a genuine motive is a major issue with such Q & A websites. Individuals tend to share harmful and toxic content intended to make a statement rather than look for helpful answers. In the world of natural language processing (NLP), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has been a game-changer. It has dominated performance benchmarks and thereby pushed the limits of researchers' ability to experiment and produce similar models. This resulted in improvements in language models by introducing lighter models while maintaining efficiency and performance. This study utilized pre-trained state-of-the-art language models for understanding whether posted questions are sincere or insincere with limited computation. To overcome the high computation problem of NLP, the BERT, XLNet, StructBERT, and DeBERTa models were trained on three samples of data. The metrics proved that even with limited resources, recent transformer-based models outscore previous studies with remarkable results. Amongst the four, DeBERTa stands out with the highest balanced accuracy, macro, and weighted f1-score of 80%, 0.83 and 0.96, respectively

Distributed space-frequency coding for cooperative diversity over broadband relay channels with DF relaying

Multipath fading is one of the main challenges in transmission over wireless broadband relay channels due to frequency selectivity, which may deteriorate the received signal. Exploiting the extra source of multipath diversity, aside from cooperative (user) diversity, is important when coping with these wireless channel limitations. In this correspondence, we propose a new distributed space-frequency code (SFC) for broadband fading relay channels that can exploit both the spatial and multipath diversities in a distributed fashion. An upper bound for pairwise error probability (PEP) is derived, and from this PEP bound, we show that the proposed code achieves a diversity of order NL, where N is the number of relay nodes, and L is the channel memory length. The decode-and-forward (DF) protocol and erroneous decoding at the relay nodes are considered. Moreover, it is shown that the proposed code structure achieves the maximum coding gain among the linearly coded systems over channels with uniform power delay profiles

Antimicrobial effect of different types of honey on Staphylococcus aureus

Honey exhibits antimicrobial activities against a wide range of bacteria in different milieu. This study aims to compare the effects of five types of honey (both imported and local Saudi honey) against Staphylococcus aureus. The five types of honey (Manuka Honey UMF +20, Manuka Honey UMF +16, Active +10 Manuka Honey, Sidr honey and Nigella sativa honey) were evaluated for their bactericidal/bacteriostatic activities against both methicillin resistant and sensitive S. aureus. The inhibitory effect of honey on bacterial growth was evident at concentrations of 20% and 10% (v/v). Manuka Honey showed the best results. Manuka Honey UMF +20 had a bactericidal effect on both methicillin resistant and sensitive S. aureus. However, Sidr and N. sativa honey exerted only a bacteriostatic effect. The efficacy of different types of honey against S. aureus was dependent on the type of honey and the concentration at which it was administered. Manuka Honey had the best bactericidal activity. Future experiments should be conducted to evaluate the effects of honey on bacterial resistance. Keywords: Manuka Honey, Sidr honey, Nigella sativa honey, Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Saudi Arabi