In Sharing We Trust. Taking Advantage of a Diverse Consortium to Build a Transparent Data Service in Catalonia by Clara Llebot, Mireia Alcalá, Lluís M. Anglada i de Ferrer

“…Through sharing each other’s experiences, values and priorities, the result is better than separate ad-hoc solutions. The process also creates a community of practitioners that develop expertise together with the help of professional development opportunities organized by CSUC, like recurrent self-learning labs focused on data curation tools, techniques and processes. …”
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Caractérisation et délimitation de la catégorie des libfixes en anglais by Caroline Marty

“…From a diachronic perspective, the libfix is first used by speakers to coin new ad hoc expressions, and it then becomes entrenched as a full-fledged construction capable of yielding a series of types.…”
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Detecting and Mitigating Smart Insider Jamming Attacks in MANETs Using Reputation-Based Coalition Game by Ashraf Al Sharah, Taiwo Oyedare, Sachin Shetty

“…Security in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is challenging due to the ability of adversaries to gather necessary intelligence to launch insider jamming attacks. …”
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Blind Corner Propagation Model for IEEE 802.11p Communication in Network Simulators by Sanchai Jaktheerangkoon, Kulit Na Nakorn, Kultida Rojviboonchai

“…Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) has been developed to enhance quality of road transportation. …”
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Energy Efficient and Load Balanced Routing for Wireless Multihop Network Applications by Vahid Nazari Talooki, Jonathan Rodriguez, Hugo Marques

“…Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can benefit from ad hoc networking technology characterized by multihop wireless connectivity and infrastructure less framework. …”
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ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING IN LAGOS MEGACITY, NIGERIA by Adetokunbo O. Ilesanmi

“…The paper identified the associative factors for the housing deficit and those implicating deficiencies in infrastructure development, to include: one-off and ad-hoc approaches to housing problems; inappropriate implementation of housing and urban policies; inaccessibility and high costs of lands; under-investment in infrastructural expansion; poor maintenance and upgrading culture; systemic failures in mortgage schemes for home-ownership; and problems related to urban governance. …”
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Therapeutic adherence and factors involved in young people and adults with problematic substance use by María Pilar Giacinti, Paloma Navarro Illia, Elizabeth Jorge

“…Methodology: Ex post-exploratory / descriptive study with mixed design. Two ad hoc questionnaires were applied, clinical histories and an observation grid were used. …”
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Driver Distraction Identification with an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks by Hesham M. Eraqi, Yehya Abouelnaga, Mohamed H. Saad, Mohamed N. Moustafa

“…Existing work of distracted driver detection is concerned with a small set of distractions (mostly, cell phone usage). Unreliable ad hoc methods are often used. In this paper, we present the first publicly available dataset for driver distraction identification with more distraction postures than existing alternatives. …”
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Transmission Power Control with the Guaranteed Communication Reliability in WSN by Dae-Young Kim, Zilong Jin, Jungwook Choi, Ben Lee, Jinsung Cho

“…In a wireless sensor network, sensor nodes are deployed in an ad hoc fashion and they deliver data packets using multihop transmission. …”
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La evaluación del desempeño docente en la universidad by Mario Rueda Beltrán

“…Predomina la evaluación del desempeño docente mediante la opinión de los estudiantes, obtenida a través de cuestionarios; ésta supone una alta especialización de conocimiento técnico de quienes asumen esta responsabilidad, por lo que las universidades deben facilitar la participación de especialistas y el desarrollo de programas de formación profesional ad hoc. Aún son pocos los esfuerzos de evaluación vinculados con acciones institucionales de apoyo a los académicos para mejorar su labor como docentes. …”
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Handover Management of Net-Drones for Future Internet Platforms by Kyung-Nam Park, Jin-Hyeok Kang, Byeong-Moon Cho, Kyung-Joon Park, Hwangnam Kim

“…In order to resolve the bandwidth issue, we can consider aerial networks by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or the so-called drones for establishing a three-dimensional mobile network in an ad hoc manner. By deploying a network from the sky, we can use the otherwise idle wireless medium and high mobility free from ground obstacles. …”
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Towards a Standard Benchmarking Framework for Domain Adaptation in Intelligent Fault Diagnosis by Mohammed M. Farag

“…Existing studies often use ad-hoc evaluation methods with inconsistent dataset partitioning, labeling, and evaluation criteria. …”
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Evaluating network test scenarios for network simulators systems by Anis Zarrad, Izzat Alsmadi

“…A large-scale simulation model was implemented using ad hoc on-demand distance vector and destination-sequenced distance vector routing protocols to compare performance, correctness, and usability. …”
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An Efficient Cluster Authentication Scheme Based on VANET Environment in M2M Application by You-Boo Jeon, Keun-Ho Lee, Doo-Soon Park, Chang-Sung Jeong

“…Intelligent vehicle section shows severe changes in position between vehicles and has numerous large scales of networks in its components; therefore, it is required to provide safety by exchanging information between vehicles equipped with wireless communication function via VANET (vehicular ad hoc network) and fixed apparatus at roadside regarding the status of road. …”
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GENOCIDNA NAMERA – ESENCIJA ZLOČINA GENOCIDA – problem interpretacije elemenata genocidne namere u postupku utvrđivanja zločina genocida – by Milan Palevic, Milan Rapajic

“…Neka tradicionalna rešenja sučeljena su sa novim koncepcijskim pristupima i dostupnom sudskom praksom, pre svega praksom dva ad hoc tribunala, kao i stavovima i mišljenjima sudija Međunarodnog suda pravde, datih povodom tri predmeta genocida koji su izneti pred njim. …”
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Russification and Russianization in Modern Historiography: Recent Developments and Future Directions by Nicholas W. Sessums

“…Instead, scholars now generally argue that policies were applied on a more ad hoc basis depending on the ethnic and national contexts of individual borderlands. …”
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A Linear Algebraic Framework for Dynamic Scheduling Over Memory-Equipped Quantum Networks by Paolo Fittipaldi, Anastasios Giovanidis, Frederic Grosshans

“…The policies are compared in terms of information availability, localization, and overall network performance through an ad hoc simulator that admits user-provided network topologies and scheduling policies in order to showcase the potential application of the provided tools to quantum network design.…”
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Conditions Affecting the Performance of Peripheral Vein Cannulation during Hospital Placement: A Case Study by Monika Ravik, Anton Havnes, Ida Torunn Bjørk

“…Data were collected in late 2012 using multiple data sources: semistructured interviews, ad hoc conversations, and video recordings. Video recordings of the two students’ cannula implementations were used to help clarify and validate the descriptions and to identify gaps between what students said and what they did. …”
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Tardive Dyskinesia, Oral Parafunction, and Implant-Supported Rehabilitation by S. Lumetti, G. Ghiacci, G. M. Macaluso, M. Amore, C. Galli, E. Calciolari, E. Manfredi

“…Implant failures were all in the maxilla and stopped when a rigid titanium structure was placed to connect implants. Ad hoc designed studies are desirable to elucidate the mutual influence between oral movement disorders and implant-supported rehabilitation.…”
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Relación entre desempeño innovador y madurez de capacidades de conocimiento y competencia by José Enrique Arias-Pérez, Germán Alfredo Schäfer-Elejalde, Carlos Andrés Aristizábal-Botero

“…En cuanto a lo metodológico, se aplicó un cuestionario y se elaboraron tablas de contingencia que describen la relación entre el desempeño innovador, sea inferior, similar o superior frente a la competencia, y la madurez de las capacidades de innovación, manifestada en tres niveles: Ad hoc y limitado, formalizado y predecible, e integración, sinergia y autonomía. …”
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