Personalized federated learning for heterogeneous data: A distributed edge clustering approach.

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique that allows multiple devices (e.g., smartphones and IoT devices) to collaborate in the training of a shared model with each device preserving the privacy of its local data.

Self-Controllable Secure Location Sharing for Trajectory-Based Message Delivery on Cloud-Assisted VANETs.

In vehicular ad hoc networks, trajectory-based message delivery is a message forwarding strategy that utilizes the vehicle’s preferred driving routes information to deliver messages to the moving vehicles with the help of roadside units. For the purpose of supporting trajectory-based message delivery to a moving vehicle, the driving locations of the vehicle need to be shared with message senders. However, from a security perspective, vehicle users do not want their driving locations to be exposed to others except their desired senders for location privacy preservation.

Internal dosimetry for intake of 18FDG using spot urine sample.

In nuclear medicine, workers handle unsealed radioactive materials. Among the materials, (18)FDG is the most widely used in PET/CT technique. Because of the short half-life of (18)F, it is very challenging to monitor internal exposure of nuclear medicine workers using in vitro bioassay.

External dose-rate conversion factors of radionuclides for air submersion, ground surface contamination and water immersion based on the new ICRP dosimetric setting.

For the assessment of external doses due to contaminated environment, the dose-rate conversion factors (DCFs) prescribed in Federal Guidance Report 12 (FGR 12) and FGR 13 have been widely used. Recently, there were significant changes in dosimetric models and parameters, which include the use of the Reference Male and Female Phantoms and the revised tissue weighting factors, as well as the updated decay data of radionuclides. In this study, the DCFs for effective and equivalent doses were calculated for three exposure settings: skyshine, groundshine and water immersion.