
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness

Networking and cryptography library with a non-repudiation flavor for blockchain
Blockchain is currently one of the most widely discussed inventions in the information and communication technology industry. It is a pillar of the fourth industrial revolution and it is a cryptographically demanding technology that is regarded as one of the most influential topics in academia. Many blockchain platforms currently utilize third-party cryptographic libraries that offer many cryptographic primitives in order to ensure users' protection against cyber-attacks. The Networking and Cryptography library (NaCl) is an open-source library for cryptographic primitives. NaCl is known to be

Fractional Order Systems: Optimization, Control, Circuit Realizations and Applications
Fractional Order Systems: Optimization, Control, Circuit Realizations and Applications consists of 21 contributed chapters by subject experts. Chapters offer practical solutions and novel methods for recent research problems in the multidisciplinary applications of fractional order systems, such as FPGA, circuits, memristors, control algorithms, photovoltaic systems, robot manipulators, oscillators, etc. This book is ideal for researchers working in the modeling and applications of both continuous-time and discrete-time dynamics and chaotic systems. Researchers from academia and industry who

Mathematical Techniques of Fractional Order Systems
Mathematical Techniques of Fractional Order Systems illustrates advances in linear and nonlinear fractional-order systems relating to many interdisciplinary applications, including biomedical, control, circuits, electromagnetics and security. The book covers the mathematical background and literature survey of fractional-order calculus and generalized fractional-order circuit theorems from different perspectives in design, analysis and realizations, nonlinear fractional-order circuits and systems, the fractional-order memristive circuits and systems in design, analysis, emulators, simulation

Wastewater Treatment: Recycling, Management, and Valorization of Industrial Solid Wastes
Wastewater Treatment: Recycling, Management, and Valorization of Industrial Solid Wastes bridges the gap between the theory and applications of wastewater treatments, principles of diffusion, and the mechanism of biological and industrial treatment processes. It presents the practical applications that illustrate the treatment of several types of data, providing an overview of the characterization and treatment of wastewaters, and then examining the different biomaterials and methods for the evaluation of the treatment of biological wastewaters. Further, it considers the various types of

Aloe Vera Tissue Modeling and Parameter Identification Using Meta-heuristic Optimization Algorithm
The agricultural industry's use of non-invasive bioimpedance monitoring methods is expanding quickly. These measured impedance fluctuations reflect imperceptible biophysical and biochemical changes in living and non-living tissues. Bioimpedance circuit modeling is a valuable method for fitting the measured impedance in biology and medicine. A study on two samples of Aloe Vera leaves is conducted to identify the best model representing Aloe Vera leaves, and two different interelectrode spacing distances are used to measure each sample. An electrochemical station (SP150) is used to detect bio

Energy Harvesting Management Unit for Wearable Devices
Energy harvesting materials and systems have become a popular study topic that is rapidly expanding. The harvesters will be used for a variety of applications, including distributed wireless sensor nodes for structural health monitoring, embedded and implanted sensor nodes for medical applications, recharging large system batteries, monitoring pressure in automobiles, powering unmanned vehicles, and running security systems in domestic settings. Components and devices at micro-macro sizes, spanning materials, electronics, and integration, have recently been developed. Energy harvesting has

Sentiment Analysis: Amazon Electronics Reviews Using BERT and Textblob
The market needs a deeper and more comprehensive grasp of its insight, where the analytics world and methodologies such as 'Sentiment Analysis' come in. These methods can assist people especially 'business owners' in gaining live insights into their businesses and determining wheatear customers are satisfied or not. This paper plans to provide indicators by gathering real world Amazon reviews from Egyptian customers. By applying both Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers 'Bert' and 'Text Blob' sentiment analysis methods. The processes shall determine the overall satisfaction
Light-Weight Intelligent Egyptian Food Detector For Diabetes Management
Diabetic patients need a management tool that combines multiple features and tracks and views detailed data time-efficiently. Effective food logging is an important element of health monitoring. In this paper, we propose 'Suger.ly', a lightweight mobile application with artificial intelligence food recognition for diabetes management. The system has been trained to recognize 101 distinct types of food, with a focus on Egyptian cuisine. The app can then get nutritional value and insulin calculations. The results obtained from the Single-Shot multibox Detection (SSD) MobileNet-V1 food detection

Sustainable Energy-Aware Task Scheduling for Wearable Medical Device Using Flower Pollination Algorithm
Power management and energy conservation are crucial for medical wearable devices that rely on energy harvesting. These devices operate under strict power budgets and require prolonged and stable operation. To achieve this, Energy-aware task scheduling is proposed as a solution to minimize energy consumption while ensuring the continued operational capabilities of the device. our paper presents a task scheduling method using the Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA). The proposed task scheduling focuses on managing the activity of key components such as the heart rate sensor, temperature sensor

Energy Aware Tikhonov-Regularized FPA Technique for Task Scheduling in Wearable Biomedical Devices
Harvesting the energy from environmental sources is a promising solution for perpetual and continuous operation of biomedical wearable devices. Although the energy harvesting technology ensures the availability of energy source, yet power management is crucial to ensure prolonged and stable operation under a stringent power budget. Thus, power-aware task scheduling can play a key role in minimizing energy consumption to improve system durability while maintaining device functionality. This chapter proposes a novel biosensor task scheduling of energy harvesting-based biomedical wearable devices