Academic Articles & Research Papers

Dentists’ perception and use of AI and robotics in the care of persons with disabilities

Abstract Despite the growing role of AI and robotics in healthcare, little is known about their integration into dental care for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to assess dentists’ perceptions and attitude...

Killer Robots

abstract The United States Army's Future Combat Systems Project, which aims to manufacture a ‘robot army’ to be ready for deployment by 2012, is only the latest and most dramatic example of military interest in the use of artificially intel...

Cybersecurity, safety and robots: Strengthening the link between cybersecurity and safety in the context of care robots

This paper addresses the interplay between robots, cybersecurity, and safety from a European legal perspective, a topic under-explored by current technical and legal literature. The legal framework, together with technical standards, is a n...

Cybersecurity as praxis and as a state: The EU law path towards acknowledgement of a new right to cybersecurity?

The end of the second decade of the 21st century has been the best of times for EU's cybersecurity law and policy: Its NIS Directive has been transposed into all Member States’ national law, creating a new administrative structure at EU and...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL PERSONALITY

Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more sophisticated and play a larger role in society, arguments that they should have some form of legal personality gain credence. The arguments are typically framed in instrumental t...

Encyclopedia of nanotechnology

The Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary reference to the many fields relevant to the general field of nanotechnology. It aims to be a comprehensive and genuinely international reference work and wi...

Physical Activity and Public Health

In 1995 the American College of Sports Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published national guidelines on Physical Activity and Public Health.The Committee on Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation of the American Hea...

Analysing interventions designed to reduce tuberculosis-related stigma: A scoping review.

Stigma is a critical barrier for TB care delivery; yet data on stigma reduction interventions is limited. This review maps the available literature on TB stigma reduction interventions, using the Health Stigma and Discrimination framework a...

Unlocking Clinical Data from Narrative Reports: A Study of Natural Language Processing

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the automated detection of clinical conditions described in narrative reports. DESIGN: Automated methods and human experts detected the presence or absence of six clinical conditions in 200 admission chest radiograph ...

Formation Resources of the English Terminology of Inclusive Education

The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the resources of forming the English terminological system of inclusive education in the modern educational environment. The role of terminology as a tool for standardizing knowledge, co...

Approaches to Improve the Quality of Person Re-Identification for Practical Use

The idea of the person re-identification (Re-ID) task is to find the person depicted in the query image among other images obtained from different cameras. Algorithms solving this task have important practical applications, such as illegal ...

Feature Rescaling and Fusion for Tiny Object Detection

Recent years have witnessed rapid developments on computer vision, however, there are still challenges in detecting tiny objects in a large-scale background. The tiny objects knowledge become sparse and weak due to their tiny size, which ma...

Object detection in crowded scenes via joint prediction

Detecting highly-overlapped objects in crowded scenes remains a challenging problem, especially for one-stage detector. In this paper, we extricate YOLOv4 from the dilemma in a crowd by fine-tuning its detection scheme, named YOLO-CS. Speci...

Machine Learning in Computer Vision

During last few years the computer applications have gone dramatic transformation from simple data processing to machine learning, thanks to the availability and accessibility of huge volume of data collected through sensors and internet. T...

(Computer) vision without sight

Computer vision holds great promise for helping persons with blindness or visual impairments (VI) to interpret and explore the visual world. To this end, it is worthwhile to assess the situation critically by understanding the actual needs ...

Presenting the students’ academic achievement causal model based on goal orientation

Introduction: Several factors play a role in academic achievement, individual’s excellence and capability to do actions and tasks that the learner is in charge of in learning areas. The main goal of this study was to present academic ach...

Introduction to artificial intelligence

"Are we intelligent enough to understand intelligence? One approach to answering this question is "artificial intelligence," the field of computer science that studies how machines can be made to act intelligently. This book is intended to ...

Influence of tooth color value and gingival display on smile attractiveness rated by laypersons, general dentists, prosthodontists, and orthodontists: a cross-sectional image-based observational study.