Saint Joseph's College

Can the United Nations Prevent Modern Wars?

The United Nations (UN) was created in 1945 after two devastating world wars, with maintaining international peace at the center of its mission. Yet wars and armed conflicts remain common. This raises an important question: how effective is the UN in preventing modern wars? This...

PQMDSBS: Post-quantum multivariate digital signature-based blockchain security scheme for mobile edge IoT applications

Abstract Integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing (EC) presents significant challenges, particularly in guaranteeing secure communication amid IoT devices and cloud systems formerly to data aggregation. Existing aggregation schemes often compromise on cost-effec...

A general physiologically driven representation of leaf turnover in grasslands in the QUINCY land surface model (revision: 974a6b7f)

Abstract. Terrestrial vegetation plays an important role in shaping the Earth's climate due to its control on the global carbon cycle. Understanding and predicting vegetation phenology and biomass turnover into soil organic matter is therefore of great importance for our understa...

A Novel Three-Layered Security Framework for Enhancing Data Confidentiality in Cloud Storage Environments

Objectives: Cloud data confidentiality is conventionally achieved by increasing the computational strength of a single encryption algorithm, which raises processing time and ciphertext size in proportion to security level. This study aims to achieve high confidentiality with low...

Robust adaptive graph signal estimation using Pseudo–Huber loss

Graph Signal Processing (GSP) has become a crucial tool for analyzing data distributed over irregular and complex domains. Most widely used representations in GSP are the Graph Fourier Transform (GFT) and the Graph Shift Operator (GSO). GFT is the frequency-domain representation,...

Joint Modeling of Random Initiation Time and Thermal Damage in Rocks Using a Hybrid Variational Bayesian Approach

ABSTRACT Thermal damage significantly influences the reliability and service life of rock materials in many engineering applications, including underground structures, geothermal systems and energy storage. In practice, damage initiates internally at unknown and random times unde...

Enhancement of mechanical and antibacterial properties of glass ionomer cement using oyster shell-derived TiO2-hydroxyapatite nanorods for dental restoration application

Glass ionomer cement (GIC) is widely used in restorative dentistry due to its capability to form a chemical bond with tooth tissue and its biocompatibility. Nevertheless, its limited mechanical strength and antibacterial capabilities hinder its long-term success in dental restora...