Academic Articles & Research Papers

Reducing Health Anxiety in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Video Testimonials: Pilot Assessment of a Video Intervention

BackgroundHealth anxiety has many damaging effects on patients with chronic illness. Physicians are often unable to alleviate concerns related to living with a disease that has an impact on daily life, and unregulated websites can overrepre...

Human–robot creative interactions: Exploring creativity in artificial agents using a storytelling game

Creativity in social robots requires further attention in the interdisciplinary field of human–robot interaction (HRI). This study investigates the hypothesized connection between the perceived creative agency and the animacy of social robo...

Optimizing the Post Quantum Signature Scheme CROSS for Resource Constrained Devices

Post-quantum cryptosystems are currently attracting significant research efforts due to the continuous improvements in quantum computing technologies, which led the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to open standardizati...

FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN PROBLEMS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS FOR THE HARD-REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT

Software designed to function in a hard-real-time environment where strict timing constraints must be met often entails implicit assumptions about a programming language and the underlying system which supports it. Programs which are logica...

Ratings in Distributed Systems: A Bayesian Approach

For distributed systems at large and e-commerce systems in particular, ratings play an increasingly important role. Ratings confer reputation measures about sources. This paper reports our formalization of the rating process. This paper arg...

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

A foundational model of concurrency is developed in this thesis. It examines issues in the design of parallel systems and show why the actor model is suitable for exploiting large-scale parallelism. Concurrency in actors is constrained only...

Epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality in Guangdong Province, China, 2015

Abstract Background As the fourth leading cause of death, injury is an important public health concern in Guangdong Province, China. The epidemiological characteristics of injury mortality is changing along with the social development. This...

Modelling Potassium Properties in East African Soils Using Infrared Spectroscopy

Potassium (K) is an essential plant nutrient and is often in short supply in the highly weathered soils of East Africa. The development of effective and sustainable fertilisation strategies could be helped by developing rapid and relatively...

PRIMUS: Comprehensive proteomics of mouse intervertebral discs that inform novel biology and relevance to human disease modelling

Mice are commonly used to study intervertebral disc (IVD) biology and related diseases such as IVD degeneration. Discs from both the lumbar and tail regions are used. However, little is known about compartmental characteristics in the diffe...

AI-generated draft replies to patient messages: exploring effects of implementation

IntroductionThe integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has the potential to reduce administrative burden. Validating these tools in real-world clinical settings is essential for responsible implement...

On memory limitations in natural language processing

This paper proposes a welcome hypothesis: a computationally simple device is sufficient for processing natural language. Traditionally it has been argued that processing natural language syntax requires very powerful machinery. Many enginee...

High Performance GPU Strategies for Real-Time In-Cabin Monitoring

With the expeditious advancement in multicarrier automotive in-vehicle monitoring for a bus conforming environment with computer vision, there is an exigency for a setup subsisting on inspection cameras and an onboard embedded computing dev...

Hypofractionated and conventionally fractionated radiotherapy for synchronous bilateral breast cancer: clinical and dosimetric outcomes.

DSpix2pix: A New Dual-Style Controlled Reconstruction Network for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution

Super-resolution reconstruction is a critical task in remote sensing image classification, and generative adversarial networks (GANs) have emerged as a dominant approach in this field. Traditional generative networks often produce low-quali...

PERMEPSY: a multicentre, randomized, double-blind proof-of-concept trial of personalized metacognitive training for adults with psychosis — a study protocol

BackgroundWhile psychological interventions are effective at improving symptoms of psychosis, accessible, cost- and time-efficient treatments remain limited. Personalized medicine has emerged as a promising approach, tailoring interventions...

Assessing and Optimizing Socio-Moral Reasoning Skills: Findings From the MorALERT Serious Video Game

BackgroundSocial cognition and competence are a key part of daily interactions and essential for satisfying relationships and well-being. Pediatric neurological and psychological conditions can affect social cognition and require assessment...

Global impact of benthic denitrification on marine N₂ fixation and primary production simulated by a variable-stoichiometry Earth system model

Nitrogen (N) is a crucial limiting nutrient for phytoplankton growth in the ocean. The main source of bioavailable N in the ocean is delivered by N2-fixing diazotrophs in the surface layer. Since field observations of N2 fixation are spatia...

Highest methane concentrations in an Arctic river linked to local terrestrial inputs

Large amounts of methane (CH4) could be released as a result of the gradual or abrupt thawing of Arctic permafrost due to global warming. Once available, this potent greenhouse gas is emitted into the atmosphere or transported laterally int...