Academic Articles & Research Papers

Relationship between grief and coping strategies among nurses dealing with patient deaths: a descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study

Abstract Background Nurses often face significant emotional distress and grief when dealing with patient deaths, especially in acute hospital settings. Despite extensive literature offering guidance on nursing practices for providing optima...

Psychometric facets of Antifragility: Tolerance of Ambiguity, Hardiness, and Growth

This paper considers the issues, which are concerned with a new concept of antifragility. Quite recently, considerable attention has been paid to the concept of antifragility. Antifragility gains a special importance in studying psychologic...

Early Stage Risk Identification and Governance of Major Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Double-Case Study Based on the Chinese Context

Xuefeng Li,1,2 Hui Jiang,1 Xiaoyu Liang1 1School of Engineering Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Public Policy and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Scien...

Real-Time Power Electronics Laboratory to Strengthen Distance Learning Engineering Education on Smart Grids and Microgrids

In the science and engineering fields of study, a hands-on learning experience is as crucial a part of the learning process for the student as the theoretical aspect of a given subject. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, educational instit...

How Demographic and Academic Factors Relate to Critical Thinking Skills among Indonesian Nursing Students

Background: Critical thinking is a core competency for nursing students because it supports clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and patient safety. However, evidence on critical thinking among nursing students in Indonesia remains l...

Prevalence of comorbid depression and associated factors among hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Hunan, China

Abstract Background Depression and diabetes are major health challenges, with heavy economic social burden, and comorbid depression in diabetes could lead to a wide range of poor health outcomes. Although many descriptive studies have highl...

UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF VLSs ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITAS PGRI SUMATERA BARAT

The objectives of this study were obviously to determine the most and least commonly used vocabulary learning strategies by the students. In addition, it was to identify the reasons behind their use of these strategies. An explanatory mixed...

Event-Based Moving Target Defense in Cloud Computing With VM Migration: A Performance Modeling Approach

The domain of information security is undergoing significant evolution to address the increasingly complex challenges aimed at bolstering system resilience against attacks. The Moving Target Defense (MTD) methodology, which entails altering...

Hybrid spatio-temporal transformer and variational autoencoder framework for advanced sports injury prediction and analysis

Sports injuries significantly affect sports performance and overall health, making using accurate and reliable prognostic models imperative. Conventional algorithms for injury prediction, e.g., random forest and XGBoost, generally cannot un...

Data Mining Techniques for Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing Industries a Comprehensive Review

Predictive maintenance (PdM) is one of the major methods used in modern manufacturing to realize downtime minimization, lower the cost of maintenance and maximize machine service life by analyzing the collected data using data mining method...

Text Mining in Cybersecurity

The growth of data volume has changed cybersecurity activities, demanding a higher level of automation. In this new cybersecurity landscape, text mining emerged as an alternative to improve the efficiency of the activities involving unstruc...

Cybersecurity

This chapter introduces the theme of cybersecurity, its importance in the actual scenario, and the challenges of the new Information Society, whose critical development factors are the technological revolution and innovation. The revolution...

Integrating Adversarial Scenarios into LLM Security Labs: An Experience Report on a Hands-On Approach

This paper presents an exploratory case study detailed as a pedagogical experience report on integrating adversarial Large Language Model (LLM) scenarios into a graduate cybersecurity curriculum. In addition to prompt injection, sophisticat...

A Review of the Insider Threat, a Practitioner Perspective Within the U.K. Financial Services

The insider threat within organisational cybersecurity continues to be of great concern globally. The current insider threat detection strategies are acknowledged as ineffective, evidenced by the increased reported events in high-profile in...

Cybersecurity in DevOps Environments: A Systematic Literature Review

This systematic literature review provides a comprehensive analysis of the most critical cybersecurity challenges in DevOps environments. Through a rigorous examination of 62 peer-reviewed articles published between 2016 and 2025, we identi...

System Approach to Coherent Cybersecurity Strategy

Cyber-attacks affect not only our daily lives, but also national security by influencing elections, the economy, and communication. This article is an attempt to give an answer to the question included in the topic “How to build a coherent ...

Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and Blockchain: A Review

In this paper, we identify and review key challenges to bridge the knowledge-gap between SME's, companies, organisations, businesses, government institutions and the general public in adopting, promoting and utilising Blockchain technology....

The role of national cybersecurity strategies on the improvement of cybersecurity education

Support for mask use as a COVID-19 public health measure among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students

Abstract Background Youth voice has been largely absent from deliberations regarding public health measures intended to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission, despite being one of the populations most impacted by school-based policies. To inform ...

Protocol to evaluate sequential electronic health record-based strategies to increase genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer risk across diverse patient populations in gynecology practices

Abstract Background Germline genetic testing is recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) for individuals including, but not limited to, those with a personal history of ovarian cancer, young-onset (...