Academic Articles & Research Papers

Digital games based learning for history – problem solving or problematic?

This study follows the design and development of an educational digital game, Tales of Iona, which was designed to be used to promote understanding of the ancient Scottish island of Iona in upper primary or early secondary schools. The game...

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...

Real-time obstacle avoidance of mobile robots using state-dependent Riccati equation approach

Abstract In this paper, state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) method-based optimal control technique is applied to a robot. In recent years, issues associated with the robotics have become one of the developing fields of research. Accordi...

The Interactive Effects of Robot Anthropomorphism and Robot Ability on Perceived Threat and Support for Robotics Research

The present research examines how a robot's physical anthropomorphism interacts with perceived ability of robots to impact the level of realistic and identity threat that people perceive from robots and how it affects their support for robo...

Catheter pose-dependent virtual angioscopy images for endovascular aortic repair: validation with a video graphics array (VGA) camera

Previous research reported catheter pose-dependent virtual angioscopy images for endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) (phantom studies) without any validation with video images. The goal of our study focused on conducting this validation using...

Modern Robotics

This introduction to robotics offers a distinct and unified perspective of the mechanics, planning and control of robots. Ideal for self-learning, or for courses, as it assumes only freshman-level physics, ordinary differential equations, l...

On the way to a distributed systems calculus

Network calculus is a min-plus system theory which facilitates the efficient derivation of performance bounds for networks of queues. It has successfully been applied to provide end-to-end quality of service guarantees for integrated and di...

Building reliable distributed systems with CORBA

New classes of large-scale distributed applications will have to deal with unpredictable communication delays, with partial failures, and with networks that partition. In addition, sophisticated applications such as teleconferencing, video-...

Cybersecurity Issues in Generative AI

Generative AI technology is being applied in various fields. However, the advancement of these technologies also raises cybersecurity issues. In fact, there are cases of cyber attack using Generative AI, and the number is increasing. Theref...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity focuses on the threat prevention and risk management of digital data, as well as the protection of associated physical hardware and infrastructure. Cybersecurity is more a question of trusted partnerships, where everyone, from...

Cybersecurity of Online Proctoring Systems

The online proctored examinations are adopted exceedingly in all forms of academic education and professional training. AI with Machine Learning technology take the leading role in supporting authentication, authorization, and operational c...

Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

Integrating computer vision and natural language processing is a novel interdisciplinary field that has received a lot of attention recently. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive introduction of the integration of computer vision and ...

Neural Networks for Chemical Engineers

Part 1 Theoretical issues: an introduction to artificial neural networks, D.T. Pham unsupervised neural learning, E. Oja back-propagation and its variations, D. Tsaptsinos the general approximation problem for feed-forward neural networks, ...

On Interpretability of Artificial Neural Networks: A Survey

Deep learning as represented by the artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) has achieved great success recently in many important areas that deal with text, images, videos, graphs, and so on. However, the black-box nature of DNNs has become ...

Joint Optimization of Transform and Quantization for High Efficiency Video Coding

In high efficiency video coding (HEVC), transformation and quantization are separately performed to eliminate the perceptual redundancy of visual signals. However, a uniform quantizer can inevitably degrade the compression efficiency of fix...

Indocyanine green fluorescence–guided laparoscopic anatomical hepatectomy for radical resection of hepatocellular carcinoma: a clinical study.

Mucosal protrusion angle measured on capsule endoscopy for the diagnosis of small bowel submucosal tumors: a preliminary exploration of diagnostic accuracy based on a case series.

Factors associated with postoperative ileus after laparoscopic radical resection for colorectal cancer and development and internal validation of a postoperative risk-stratification nomogram.

The Mode of Constructing Safe Trajectories of Motion of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle while Monitoring Power Lines Considering the Influence of their Electromagnetic Fields

The aim of this paper is to increase the flight safety of an unmanned aerial vehicle that monitors power lines under the negative influence of electromagnetic fields on the on-board equipment. This problem was solved with algorithms for pho...

The relationship between preoperative anxiety, self-efficacy, and positive coping style in lung cancer patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a cross-sectional study.