Using Sm-doped Ceria electrolytes (SDC) in SOFCs (solid oxide fuel cell), the open circuit voltage (OCV) becomes lower than the Nernst voltage (Vth), which is obtained using Yttria-stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) electrolytes. Classically, OCV is calculated with Wagner’s equation. However, experimental verification of leakage currents using SDC electrolytes is necessary, both qualitatively and quanti...

Privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) is a subdiscipline of computer science which in many respects is parallel to statistical disclosure control (SDC) within statistics. See [12] for a survey of recent developments in PPDM. We focus here on the connections between k-anonymity, a concept arisen in the PPDM community, and microaggregation, a family of methods developed within SDC. This is discus...

The purpose of statistical disclosure control (SDC) of microdata, a.k.a. data anonymization or privacy-preserving data mining, is to publish data sets containing the answers of individual respondents in such a way that the respondents corresponding to the released records cannot be re-identified and the released data are analytically useful. SDC methods are either based on masking the original ...

This paper presents the implementation and performance evaluation of the SDC-II, the Super Database Computer II. The SDC-II is a highly parallel relational database server, which consists of eight data processing modules interconnected by two networks, where each module contains up to seven processors connected by two busses and four disk drives. The SDCII employs several key techniques to effi...

BACKGROUND Successful embryonic implantation depends on a synchronized embryo-maternal dialogue. Chemokines, such as chemokine ligand 1 (CXCL1), play essential roles in the maternal reproductive tract leading to morphological changes during decidualization, mediating maternal acceptance towards the semi-allograft embryo and induction of angiogenesis. Chemokine binding to their classical G-prote...

BACKGROUND To analyze the regular dental care behavior and prevalence of edentulism in adult Danes, reported in sequential cross-sectional oral health surveys by the application of a marginal approach to consider the possible clustering effect of birth cohorts. METHODS Data from four sequential cross-sectional surveys of non-institutionalized Danes conducted from 1975-2005 comprising 4330 res...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common bacterial infections, and over 50% of women will have a UTI during their lifetimes. Antibiotics are used for prophylaxis of recurrent UTIs but can lead to emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Therefore, it is reasonable to investigate nutritional strategies for prevention of UTIs. Cranberry juices and supplements have been u...

BACKGROUND Salivary ductal carcinoma (SDC) of parotid gland is a rare and aggressive entity; accounting for 1-3 % of all malignant salivary gland tumors, 0.2 % of epithelial salivary gland neoplasms, 0.5 % of salivary gland carcinomas, and 1.1 % of parotid gland carcinomas. Here in we aimed to evaluate the clinico-pathological features and treatment outcomes of parotid gland SDC in Saudi popula...

Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC, for short) studies the problem of privacy-preserving data publishing in cases where the data is expected to be used for statistical analysis. An original dataset T containing sensitive information is transformed into a sanitized version T ′ which is released to the public. Both utility and privacy aspects are very important in this setting. For utility, T ′ ...