• Blockchain in healthcare and health sciences—A scoping review 

      Hasselgren, Anton; Kralevska, Katina; Gligoroski, Danilo; Pedersen, Sindre Andre; Faxvaag, Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background Blockchain can be described as an immutable ledger, logging data entries in a decentralized manner. This new technology has been suggested to disrupt a wide range of data-driven domains, including the health ...
    • Blockchain state channels with compact states through the use of RSA accumulators 

      Negka, Lydia; Katsika, Angeliki; Spathoulas, Georgios; Plagianakos, Vassilis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      One of the major concerns regarding currently proposed public blockchain systems relates to the feasible transaction processing rate. It is common for such systems to limit this rate to maintain the required levels of ...
    • Blockchain State Channels: A State of the Art 

      Negka, Lydia; Spathoulas, Georgios (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Blockchain technology has been quite popular during recent years and it finally seems to present a significant rise with respect to its use for real-world applications. This advancement has brought up a critical challenge ...
    • Blockchain Support For Time-Critical Self-Healing In Smart Distribution Grids 

      Gebraselase, Befekadu; Adrah, Charles Mawutor; Zerihun, Tesfaye Amare; Helvik, Bjarne Emil; Heegaard, Poul Einar (Chapter, 2022)
      Smart distribution grids have new protection concepts known as fault self-healing whereby Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) can automatically reconfigure the power circuits to isolate faults and restore power to the ...
    • Blockchain technology needs for sustainable mineral supply chains: A framework for responsible sourcing of Cobalt 

      Mugurusi, Godfrey; Ahishakiye, Emmanuel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Blockchain technology has recently become the go-to solution for companies and industries that seek to enhance value chain traceability of their products, and transparency in their supply chains. Because of these benefits, ...
    • Blockchain-based data privacy management with Nudge theory in open banking 

      Wang, Hao; Ma, Shenglan; Dai, Hong-Ning; Imran, Muhammad; Wang, Tongsen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Open banking brings both opportunities and challenges to banks all over the world especially in data management. A blockchain as a continuously growing list of records managed by a peer-to-peer network is widely used in ...
    • Blockchain-based digital contact tracing apps for COVID-19 pandemic management: Issues, challenges, solutions, and future directions 

      Sheikh, Mohammad Idrees; Nowostawski, Mariusz; Jameel, Roshan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has caused substantial global disturbance by affecting more than 42 million people (as of the end of October 2020). Since there is no medication or vaccine available, the only way to combat it is to ...
    • Blockchain-Based Power Energy Trading Management 

      Wang, Hao; Ma, Shenglan; Guo, Chaonian; Wu, Yulei; Dai, Hong-Ning; Wu, Di (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Distributed peer-to-peer power energy markets are emerging quickly. Due to central governance and lack of effective information aggregation mechanisms, energy trading cannot be efficiently scheduled and tracked. We devise ...
    • Blockchain-Based Privacy Preservation for 5G-Enabled Drone Communications 

      Wu, Yulei; Dai, Hong-Ning; Wang, Hao; Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      5G-enabled drones have potential applications in a variety of both military and civilian settings (e.g., monitoring and tracking of individuals in demonstrations and/or enforcing of social/ physical distancing during ...
    • A Blockchain-Empowered Cluster-based Federated Learning Model for Blade Icing Estimation on IoT-enabled Wind Turbine 

      Cheng, Xu; Tian, Weiwei; Shi, Fan; Zhao, Meng; Chen, Shengyong; Wang, Hao (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Wind energy is a fast-growing renewable energy but faces the blade icing. Data-driven methods provide talented solutions for blade icing detection but a considerable amount of data need to be collected to a central server, ...
    • Blockchain-Empowered Edge Intelligence for Internet of Medical Things Against COVID-19 

      Dai, Hong-Ning; Wu, Yulei; Wang, Hao; Imran, Muhammad; Haider, Noman (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We have witnessed an unprecedented public health crisis caused by the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which has severely affected medical institutions, our common lives, and social-economic activities. This crisis also ...
    • Blockchain-enabled Information Sharing within a Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review 

      Wan, Paul Kengfai; Huang, Lizhen; Holtskog, Halvor (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A supply chain consists of many stakeholders such as suppliers, carriers and customers. It is often complex due to the rapid development of economic globalization and the intense competition pressure in the market which ...
    • Blockchain-Powered Service Migration for Uncertainty-Aware Workflows in Edge Computing 

      Xu, Xiaolong; Geng, Qingfan; Cao, Hao; Mo, Ruichao; Wan, Shaohua; Qi, Lianyong; Wang, Hao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In edge computing, the workflow is used to simulate and manage computing tasks as well as information exchange for compute-intensive and data-intensive application, which is convenient for the various complex process to ...
    • Blockchain: The Emergence of Distributed Autonomous Institutions 

      Nowostawski, Mariusz; Frantz, Christopher K. (SOTICS;2016, Journal article, 2016)
      We present a novel institutional perspective on the distributed consensus and ledger technology known as blockchain. We discuss the concept of Distributed Autonomous Institutions that are able to facilitate global interactions, ...
    • Blodforyngelse 

      Hofmann, Bjørn; Olaussen, Richard W (Journal article, 2017)
    • Blood and feather concentrations of toxic elements in a Baltic and an Arctic seabird population 

      Fenstad, Anette; Bustnes, Jan Ove; Lierhagen, Syverin; Gabrielsen, Kristin Møller; Öst, Markus; Jaatinen, Kim; Hanssen, Sveinn Are; Moe, Børge; Jenssen, Bjørn Munro; Krøkje, Åse (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Wereport blood and feather concentrations of elements in the Baltic Sea and Arctic population of common eiders (Somateria mollissima). The endangered Baltic Sea population of eiders was demonstrably affected by element ...
    • Blood biomarkers on admission in acute traumatic brain injury: Relations to severity, CT findings and care path in the CENTER-TBI study 

      Czeiter, Endre; Amrein, Krisztina; Gravesteijn, BY; Lecky, Fiona; Menon, David K; Mondello, Stefania; Newcombe, Virginia F; Richter, Sophie; Steyerberg, Ewout W; Vande Vyvere, Thijs; Verheyden, Jan; Xu, Haiyan; Yang, Zhihui; Maas, Andrew I.R.; Wang, Kevin KW; Buki, Andras; Andelic, Nada; Andreassen, Lasse; Anke, Audny; Frisvold, Shirin; Helseth, Eirik; Røe, Cecilie; Røise, Olav; Skandsen, Toril; Vik, Anne; Åkerlund, Cecilia; Antoni, Anna; Audibert, Gerard; Azouvi, Philippe; Azzolini, Maria Luisa; Bartels, Ronald; Barzo, Pal; Beauvais, Romuald; Beer, Ronny; Bellander, Bo-Michael; Belli, Antonio; Benali, Habib; Berardino, Maurizio; Beretta, Luigi; Blaabjerg, Morten; Bragge, Peter; Brazinova, Alexandra; Brinck, Vibeke; Brooker, Joanne; Brorsson, Camilla; Bullinger, Monika; Cabeleira, Manuel; Caccioppola, Alessio; Calappi, Emiliana; Calvi, Maria Rosa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background: Serum biomarkers may inform and improve care in traumatic brain injury (TBI). We aimed to correlate serum biomarkers with clinical severity, care path and imaging abnormalities in TBI, and explore their incremental ...
    • Blood concentrations of carotenoids and retinol and lung cancer risk: an update of the WCRF–AICR systematic review of published prospective studies 

      Abar, Leila; Vieira, Ana Rita; Aune, Dagfinn; Stevens, Christophe; Vingeliene, Snieguole; Navarro Rosenblatt, Deborah A; Chan, Doris; Greenwood, Darren C; Norat, Teresa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Carotenoids and retinol are considered biomarkers of fruits and vegetables intake, and are of much interest because of their anti‐inflammatory and antioxidant properties; however, there is inconsistent evidence regarding ...
    • Blood gene expression and vascular function biomarkers in professional saturation diving 

      Kiboub, Fatima Zohra; Møllerløkken, Andreas; Hjelde, Astrid; Flatberg, Arnar; Loennechen, Øyvind; Eftedal, Ingrid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Saturation diving is an established way to conduct subsea operations with human intervention. While working, the divers must acclimatize to the hyperbaric environments. In this study, genome-wide gene expression and selected ...
    • Blood Glucose Control Using a Novel Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor and Repetitive Intravenous Insulin Boluses: Exploiting Natural Insulin Pulsatility as a Principle for a Future Artificial Pancreas 

      Skjaervold, Nils Kristian; Østling, Dan; Hjelme, Dag Roar; Spigset, Olav; Lyng, Oddveig; Aadahl, Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The aim of this study was to construct a glucose regulatory algorithm by employing the natural pulsatile pattern of insulin secretion and the oscillatory pattern of resting blood glucose levels and further to regulate the ...