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Western Michigan University

2015

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Fault Zone Hydrogeology In Crystalline And Sedimentary Aquifers In Arid Regions: Remote Sensing, Hydrological And Geoloectrical Methods, Lamees M. Mohamed Apr 2015

Fault Zone Hydrogeology In Crystalline And Sedimentary Aquifers In Arid Regions: Remote Sensing, Hydrological And Geoloectrical Methods, Lamees M. Mohamed

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An integrated study was conducted using remote sensing, hydrological and geophysical methods to investigate the role of structural elements in controlling the groundwater accumulation and flow in fractured basement complex. This research shows that the structural elements as fault and shear zones could act as a conduit or a barrier for the groundwater depending on the direction of these elements with the groundwater flow. Similar findings are observed in Central Sinai as it was found in Southern Sinai. These findings will help in more understanding of the fractured basement aquifers.


Ranked Based Procedures For Ordered Alternative Models, Yuanyuan Shao Apr 2015

Ranked Based Procedures For Ordered Alternative Models, Yuanyuan Shao

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The ordered alternatives in a one-way layout with k ordered treatment levels are appropriate for many applications, especially in psychology and medicine. There is an extensive literature in this area, and many parametric and nonparametric approaches have been introduced. This study uses rank based estimators to robustify the Abelson-Tukey method. The approach extends to the two-way layout with b blocks and k treatments. One of the two statistics having maximum asymptotic local power and the greatest efficiency when the alternative hypothesis consists of a specific pattern, and extended research has been completed on detecting ordered alternatives with unknown peaks.


Protecting User's Privacy In Electronic Prescribing Systems With Apb, Raed M. Salih Apr 2015

Protecting User's Privacy In Electronic Prescribing Systems With Apb, Raed M. Salih

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Electronic prescribing (or e-prescribing) systems are used to record and transmit millions of electronic prescriptions between prescribers and pharmacies. During a dissemination of e-prescriptions, a patient's sensitive data might leak or be disclosed to unauthorized parties. Examples of sensitive data included in prescriptions are patient's name, home address, and names of mental illness medications. We propose the use of Active Privacay Bundles (APB) for protecting privacy of e-prescribing users (patients, prescibers, or pharmacy benefit managers). APB protects prescriptions that are being disseminated among different authorized parties within an electronic prescribing system.


Protection Of Sensitive Data In Clouds Using Active Privacy Bundles And Agent-Based Multi-Party Computation, Akram Sarhan Apr 2015

Protection Of Sensitive Data In Clouds Using Active Privacy Bundles And Agent-Based Multi-Party Computation, Akram Sarhan

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The lack of the protection tools and the fast pace of technological advancement make people unable to control privacy of their data in clouds and other distribution environments. We propose an approach called Active Privacy Bundles with Multi-Party Computation (APB-MPC), that protects senesitive data and identities of their owners/guardians during the entire data lifecycle in clouds or other distribution systems. Our research has three goals: (i) proctecting sensitive data without centralized trusted third parties (TTPs); (ii) using APB and MPC for identity management without centralized TTPs; and (iii) exploiting parallelism for efficient data dissemination.