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This paper discusses several areas in the real estate and mortgage industries that a blockchain could be applied to and grow from. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that contains a ledger recording transactions hosted on the platform of tokenized assets, which smart contracts govern using transaction protocols. After interviewing...
Milk discovery and processing enabled human settling and thriving in various settings. The discovery of cheese led to the production of whey as dairy by-product. Although it can find application in food, beverages, personal care products, pharmaceuticals and medical treatment, cheese whey is a massive dairying residue world-wide (154 Mm3·y-1)...
For blockchain governance, data is an asset, and the time parameter is strategic and sensitive. This document aims to explore this issue for blockchain. It analyses the issues related to two properties associated with the parameter time : the ability to measure time (timestamp), and the guarantee of the ordering...
White supremacy begins and ends with Columbus. Cancel Columbus. Cancel white supremacy. Imagine a world Where human beings Treat human beings Like human beings Why is that so hard to imagine?
Conventional sociology tends to reproduce rather than resolve social injustice. Rather than perpetuating that odious tradition, in this article the author proposes a remedy for racism. Sociologists often sneer at “activist” science of this nature. However, scientists in other fields tend to agree with Karl Popper’s (1999) conviction that good...
CERN’s accelerator complex generates a very large amount of data. A large volumen of heterogeneous data is constantly generated from control equipment and monitoring agents. These data must be stored and analysed. Over the decades, CERN’s researching and engineering teams have applied different approaches, techniques and technologies for this purpose....
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world. It is cultivated in about 70 countries in South America, Africa, and Asia and more than 8m tons of coffee are produced annually. The two most successful species of coffee are the Arabica and the Robusta. In the US...
Background: Migrant studies offer a unique opportunity to analyze variation in disease occurrence due to background factors. The role of environmental and lifestyle exposures are of particular interest in cancer research, and migrant studies can be considered as natural experiments in epidemiological research. Large numbers of immigrants from different regions...
Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communication technology, which has recently been thoroughly studied and adopted by 3GPP standard (Release 15) due to its dynamic, flexible, and flying nature, is expected to be an integral part of future wireless communications and Internet of drones (IoD) applications. However, due to the...
Ensuring the security of the Internet of Things (IoT) is deemed as one of the most critical challenges and needs that have to be addressed in order to guarantee the successful deployment of IoT in emerging technologies like 5G. In an effort to address this challenge, in this work, an...