
Software and Communications

Microstrip Coupled Line Bandpass Filter: A Stochastic Model
Coupled line microstrip filter is regarded to be a strong contender for high frequency and wireless applications, due to its compact size, inexpensive cost, and simple engineering manufacturing. The stochastic study of the proposed microstrip filter, based on the Monte Carlo Model, presented in this paper explores the uncertainties in the microstrip filter's design parameters and their influence on the filter's functionality. The filter's microstrip thickness, lengths, and spacing are all considered as design factors. The analysis investigates the variation of the standard deviations, the mean

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

Pseudo Random Number Generators Employing Three Numerical Solvers of Chaotic Generators
Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) is required for various applications, especially cryptography. PRNGs are employed in symmetric-key algorithms, where a single key is used as a seed to the PRNG to generate a sequence of random numbers that are employed to encrypt and decrypt certain data. This work proposes a PRN G system that employs the time series generated from the numerical solution of systems of chaotic-generators Differential Equations (DEs) utilizing three different DEs solvers; Euler, Runge-Kutta 4th order, and Runge-Kutta 5th order. Various systems were solved using each of the

Comparison of Parallel and Serial Execution of Shortest Path Algorithms
Shortest Path Algorithms are an important set of algorithms in today's world. It has many applications like Traffic Consultation, Route Finding, and Network Design. It is essential for these applications to be fast and efficient as they mostly require real-Time execution. Sequential execution of shortest path algorithms for large graphs with many nodes is time-consuming. On the other hand, parallel execution can make these applications faster. In this paper, three popular shortest path algorithms-Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, and Floyd Warshall-Are both implemented as serial and parallel programs

A Robust Deep Learning Detection Approach for Retinopathy of Prematurity
Retinal retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an abnormal blood vessel formation, can occur in a baby who was born early or with a low birth weight. It is one of the primary causes of newborn blindness globally. Early detection of ROP is critical for slowing and stopping the progression of ROP-related vision impairment which leads to blindness. ROP is a relatively unknown condition, even among medical professionals. Due to this, the dataset for ROP is infrequently accessible and typically extremely unbalanced in terms of the ratio of negative to positive images and the ratio of each stage of it

In the Identification of Arabic Dialects: A Loss Function Ensemble Learning Based-Approach
The automation of a system to accurately identify Arabic dialects many natural language processing tasks, including sentiment analysis, medical chatbots, Arabic speech recognition, machine translation, etc., will greatly benefit because it’s useful to understand the text’s dialect before performing different tasks to it. Different Arabic-speaking nations have adopted various dialects and writing systems. Most of the Arab countries understand modern standard Arabic (MSA), which is the native language of all other Arabic dialects. In this paper we propose a method for identifying Arabic dialects

Deep Learning Approaches for Epileptic Seizure Prediction: A Review
Epilepsy is a chronic nervous disorder, which disturbs the normal daily routine of an epileptic patient due to sudden seizure onset that may cause loss of consciousness. Seizures are periods of aberrant brain activity patterns. Early prediction of an epileptic seizure is critical for those who suffer from it as it will give them time to prepare for an incoming seizure and alert anyone in their close circle of contacts to aid them. This has been an active field of study, powered by the decreasing cost of non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) collecting equipment and the rapid evolution of

Light-Weight Food/Non-Food Classifier for Real-Time Applications
Today, automatic food/non-food classification became extremely important for many real-time applications, specifically since the pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. Such that the 'no food policy' now became applied more than ever to help decrease the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Consequently, many studies used deep neural networks for the food/non-food classification task, yet these deep neural networks were computationally expensive. As a result, in this paper, a lightweight Convolution Neural Network (CNN) is proposed and put into use for classifying foods and non-foods. Compared to prior