Research Title: Context-aware traffic light self-scheduling algorithm for intelligent transportation systems

Author: Maram Bani Younes, Published Year: 2016

2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Doha, Qatar

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: Traffic lights are located on the road intersections to control and manage the competing traffic flows. Several algorithms have been proposed considering the real-time traffic characteristics of each competing traffic flow at the road intersection. Emergency vehicles such as ambulance, fire truck and police vans should have higher priorities to cross any road intersection first. Whenever an emergency vehicle appears close to any road intersection, all vehicles on the competing flows should stop and allow that vehicle to proceed first. However, this may cause a hazards situation in the case that any driver miss-behaves or insists to follow the current traffic light phase. In this paper, we aim at designing a context-aware traffic light self-scheduling (CA-TLS) algorithm. This algorithm uses the traffic characteristics of the traffic flows and the emergency vehicles presence on the competing flows at any signalized road intersection. First, these parameters are gathered using periodic advertisement messages of traveling vehicles. Then, the CA-TLS algorithm sets the phases of each traffic light cycle according to the traffic gathered data. The green phase of any traffic flow can be interrupted to enable the fast proceeding of the appeared emergency vehicles. An extensive set of experiments have shown that this algorithm decreases the delay time of emergency vehicles at the signalized road intersections.

Keywords: Vehicles , Roads , Law enforcement , Algorithm design and analysis , Schedules , Delays , Scheduling algorithms

Research Title: An intelligent vehicular traffic prediction (ITP) protocol

Author: Maram Bani Younes, Published Year: 2015

2015 IEEE 40th Local Computer Networks Conference Workshops (LCN Workshops), Clearwater Beach, FL, USA

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: Several traffic evaluation and congestion detection protocols have been proposed in the literature for the vehicular networks. These protocols gather and analyze the basic traffic data of all traveling vehicles at each area of interest to obtain the vehicular traffic evaluations. All vehicles should be equipped by wireless transceiver in order to send and receive the packets of their traffic data individually. In general, the accuracy of typical traffic evaluation protocols depends mainly on the correctness and the quantity of the gathered data. In this paper, we propose an intelligent vehicular traffic prediction protocol (ITP) that estimates the traffic characteristics of each road segment in urban areas. ITP requires the basic traffic data of only some vehicles traveling on the investigated road segment. It then uses the gathered data to predict traffic characteristics of that road segment. The paper also investigates the minimum number vehicles that should participate broadcasting their data in order to obtain accurate traffic evaluation of the investigated road segment. From the experimental results, we can infer that the ITP protocol predicts an accurate level of the traffic evaluation when 25% of the traveling vehicles or more are equipped by wireless transceivers.

Keywords: Vehicles , Roads , Protocols , Transceivers , Wireless communication , Silicon , Urban areas

Research Title: A Study of Mapping Some Popular Schemes into the Hex-Cell

Author: Maram Bani Younes, Published Year: 2009

Journal of Applied Sciences Research, 5

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: One of the most attractive features of the Hex-Cell HC (d) topology is the fact that it has an embedding capability of other topological structures. In this paper, we propose some algorithms for mapping linear array, ring, mesh (2D array), binary tree and multi 3D hypercube topology onto the HC (d) topology. Then, we compute the dilation, congestion and the expansion of each mapping algorithm to measure that algorithm efficiency.

Keywords: Hex-Cell

Research Title: Multi-Destinations Round Trip Planner Protocol

Author: Maram Bani Younes, Published Year: 2019

2018 Fifth International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology (ISIICT), Jordan

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: The traffic over the downtown areas have been incredibly increasing. This prevents many drivers from reaching their targeted destinations on time. This issue becomes more severe in multi-destinations trips, when the driver plan to visit several destinations during the same trip and face un-expected traffic that causes severe delay. In these scenarios, drivers end up canceling some destinations or wasting long exhausted time on the trip. Efficiently planning the multi-destinations trips helps drivers to reach their destinations successfully and estimate the required time of the entire trip. This paper presents a multi-destinations trip planner protocol. The proposed protocol mainly considers the relative locations of the targeted destinations and the traffic characteristics over the road network. A set of simulated experiments have been used to test the performance of this protocol in round trip scenarios

Keywords: Multi-destinations route, Traffic over downtowns

Research Title: PSMD12 haploinsufficiency in a neurodevelopmental disorder with autistic features

Author: Raida W. Khalil, Published Year: 2018

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric, 177

Faculty: Science

Abstract: Protein homeostasis is tightly regulated by the ubiquitin proteasome pathway. Disruption of this pathway gives rise to a host of neurological disorders. Through whole exome sequencing (WES) in families with neurodevelopmental disorders, we identified mutations in PSMD12, a core component of the proteasome, underlying a neurodevelopmental disorder with intellectual disability (ID) and features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We performed WES on six affected siblings from a multiplex family with ID and autistic features, the affected father, and two unaffected mothers, and a trio from a simplex family with one affected child with ID and periventricular nodular heterotopia. We identified an inherited heterozygous nonsense mutation in PSMD12 (NM_002816: c.367C>T: p.R123X) in the multiplex family and a de novo nonsense mutation in the same gene (NM_002816: c.601C>T: p.R201X) in the simplex family …

Keywords: PSMD12 autistic

Research Title: Immunological Changes in SECONDARY SJOGRAN SYNDROME(sSs) (comparative study)

Author: Raida W. Khalil, Published Year: 2014

17th International Congress on Oral Pathology and Medicine,, Istanbul, Turkey

Faculty: Science

Abstract: Immunological Changes in SECONDARY SJOGRAN SYNDROME(sSs) (comparative study)

Keywords: Immunological SECONDARY SJOGRAN SYNDROME(sSs)

Research Title: The association between Toll-Like Receptor 4(TLR4) gene polymorphism and Jordanian type 2

Author: Raida W. Khalil, Published Year: 2010

the International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS) conference- , Bad Hofgastein’s Kungress Zentrum-Austria

Faculty: Science

Abstract: The polymorphisms Toll-like receptor and Type 2 diabetes among Jordanian Patients, Three SNPs studied

Keywords: TOll 4, Type 2 diabetes , Jordan

Research Title: Seroprevalence and zoonotic potential of Neospora species infection in Jordanian women with miscarriage

Author: Raida W. Khalil, Published Year: 2010

British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting and Trypanosomiasis& LeishmaniasisSeminarCardiff, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

Faculty: Science

Abstract: Serological detection of Neospora spp. was carried out on 445 Jordanian women with miscarriage, using the indirect fluorescent antibody test and N. caninum antigen. The type of hospital, age, cat and dog contact, raw meat and wild plant consumptions, number of miscarriages and stillbirths, were tested as risk factors for the seroprevalence using univariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses. At cutoff titers of 1:200 and 1:400 the seroprevalences of Neospora were 25% and 6% for IgG and 12% and 7% for IgM, respectively. Neospora-IgG-seropositivity was associated with having a dog in the household or in the immediate environment with odds ratios of 2.6 and 4.1 respectively, and had stillbirth with an odds ratio of 0.1. Neospora-IgM-seropositivity was associated with women with miscarriage visiting a private hospital. The current results provide serological and epidemiological evidence for the emerging zoonotic potential of Neospora species infection to be categorized as a level one zoonosis.

Keywords: Neospora, miscarriage, Jordan

Research Title: Characterization and Identification of the Negative Regulatory Element (NRE) Binding Transcription Factors (TFs) within the Humaninsulin Promoter.

Author: Raida W. Khalil, Published Year: 2008

5th Congress of Scientific Research Outlook in the Arab World Scientific innovation and Sustained Development (SRO 5) , Fez, Morocco:

Faculty: Science

Abstract: Identification of Transcription factors Bounded to to the negative regulatory elements of the human insulin gene promoter : TWO AWARDS obtained: 1-Fakhri Bazzaz (Distinguished scientist)-ward 2- Best Paper Award-Biotechnology

Keywords: NRE , Insulin gene , Negative regulatory element

Research Title: “The sterol regulatory binding protein role in regulating the insulin gene expression”. (Abstract-Poster) Experimental Biology

Author: Raida W. Khalil, Published Year: 2004

Experimental Biology , Washington DC, USA

Faculty: Science

Abstract: The Role of SREB in regulating the human insulin gene expression

Keywords: NRE , Insulin gene , Negative regulatory element