Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cybersecurity for Connected Diabetes Devices

Diabetes devices are increasingly connected wirelessly to each other and to data-displaying reader devices. Threats to the accurate flow of information and commands may compromise the function of these devices and put their users at risk of...

Leveraging human factors in cybersecurity: an integrated methodological approach

Computer and Information Security (CIS) is usually approached adopting a technology-centric viewpoint, where the human components of sociotechnical systems are generally considered as their weakest part, with little consideration for the en...

Doctrine for Cybersecurity

A succession of doctrines for enhancing cybersecurity has been advocated in the past, including prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective. Proposals that are now being made view cybersecur...

Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy

Blockchain technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or t...

Natural language processing in mental health applications using non-clinical texts

Abstract Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be used to make inferences about peoples’ mental states from what they write on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. These inferences can then be used to create online pathways ...

Natural Language Processing of Nursing Notes

Natural language processing includes a variety of techniques that help to extract meaning from narrative data. In healthcare, medical natural language processing has been a growing field of study; however, little is known about its use in n...

Suicide Note Classification Using Natural Language Processing: A Content Analysis

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 25-34 year olds and the third leading cause of death among 15-25 year olds in the United States. In the Emergency Department, where suicidal patients often present, estimating the risk of r...

Natural Language Processing

Hints of the outbreak are detected through the modified circumstances favoring the outbreaks, like the warm weather contributing to epidermal outbreaks or the loss of sanitation leading to cholera outbreaks typically relying on the routine ...

Application of Protein-Protein Interaction Network Analysis in Order to Identify Cervical Cancer miRNA and mRNA Biomarkers

Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the world’s most common and severe cancers. This cancer includes two histological types: squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and adenocarcinoma (ADC). The current study aims at identifying novel potential candidate ...

Neuromodulation Effect According to Lesion Location After Dual-Mode Brain Stimulation in Patients with Subacute Stroke: A Preliminary Study

Dual-mode non-invasive brain stimulation using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation is known to help neurorehabilitation in patients with stroke. However, this neuromodulation effect may v...

CD44-Receptors-Mediated Multiprong Targeting Strategy Against Breast Cancer and Tumor-Associated Macrophages: Design, Optimization, Characterization, and Cytologic Evaluation

Zahid Hussain,1,2 Lama Abdulrahim Abdul Moti,1 Jayalakshmi Jagal,2 Hnin Ei Thu,3 Shahzeb Khan,4 Mohsin Kazi5 1Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, 27272, United Arab...

Supporting engagement, behavior change, and equitable self-management in menstrual and menopausal health: A multi-agent digital-health framework.

Association of Case Management Nursing with Swallowing and Voice Recovery and Quality of Life After Transoral Thyroidectomy: A Retrospective Study with Predictive Modeling.

Factors associated with advance directive completion among older adults with and without cognitive impairment: a nationwide cross-sectional study.

Policy Recommendations for Chagas Disease: An Emerging Concern of Public Health Significance for the U.S. Military.

Analytically Computing the Moments of a Conic Combination of Independent Noncentral Chi-Square Random Variables and Its Application for the Extended Cox–Ingersoll–Ross Process with Time-Varying Dimension

This paper focuses mainly on the problem of computing the γth, γ>0, moment of a random variable Yn:=∑i=1nαiXi in which the αi’s are positive real numbers and the Xi’s are independent and distributed according to noncentral chi-square distri...

Generational Differences in Dietary Behaviours: A Cross-Sectional Study of Generations X, Y, and Z [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]

Background Dietary behaviours influence obesity and chronic disease. In Saudi Arabia, Westernised diets and sedentary lifestyles have driven rising obesity. This study explores generational dietary patterns to inform Saudi Vision 2030 plann...

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollutant mixture on blood pressure in typical areas of North China

Background: Studies about the combined effects of gaseous air pollutants and particulate matters are still rare. Objectives: This study was performed based on baseline survey of the Diverse Life-Course Cohort in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (B...

Associations of subclinical autistic-like traits with brain structural variation using diffusion tensor imaging and voxel-based morphometry

Abstract Background Previous case–control studies of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) have identified altered brain structure such as altered frontal and temporal cortex volumes, or decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) within the inferior ...

Evaluation of the implementation of International Classification of Diseases, 11th revision for morbidity coding: Rationale and study protocol

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) has been used for many years in many countries to manage health information. The World Health Organization (WHO) will soon replace ICD-...