Academic Articles & Research Papers

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...

Lessons Learned From a Sequential Mixed-Mode Survey Design to Recruit and Collect Data From Case-Control Study Participants: Formative Evaluation

BackgroundSequential mixed-mode surveys using both web-based surveys and telephone interviews are increasingly being used in observational studies and have been shown to have many benefits; however, the application of this survey design has...

Prior Season Crop Type Masks for Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting: A US Case Study

Monitoring and forecasting crop yields is a critical component of understanding and better addressing global food security challenges. Detailed spatial information on crop-type distribution is fundamental for in-season crop condition monito...

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...

Detecting command injection attacks in web applications based on novel deep learning methods

Abstract Web command injection attacks pose significant security threats to web applications, leading to potential server information leakage or severe server disruption. Traditional detection methods struggle with the increasing complexity...

The smartHEALTH European Digital Innovation Hub experiences and challenges for accelerating the transformation of public and private organizations within the innovation ecosystem

Digital innovation can significantly enhance public health services, environmental sustainability, and social welfare. To this end, the European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) initiative was funded by the European Commission and national gov...

Practical Employment of Granular Computing to Complex Application Layer Cyberattack Detection

Network and information security are regarded as some of the most pressing problems of contemporary economy, affecting both individual citizens and entire societies, making them a highlight for homeland security. Innovative approaches to ha...

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...

Addressing Industry 4.0 Cybersecurity Challenges

Awareness is building on how managers should be involved in Industry 4.0 cybersecurity. This awareness and concern derives from heavy dependence of integrated information systems and technology for Industry 4.0. Manufacturing companies rely...

Bacteriophage-based control of Pseudomonas spp.: research trends and biotechnological challenges.

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...

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...

A Review on Cybersecurity

In recent years the cybersecurity has evolved significantly in order to cater to the changes that occur within the cyberspace. Cybersecurity is the means by which a country or organization can utilize to protect its products and information...

Recent Advances on Federated Learning for Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity for Federated Learning for Internet of Things

Decentralized paradigm in the field of cybersecurity and machine learning (ML) for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) has gained a lot of attention from the government, academia, and industries in recent years. Federated cybersecurity (F...

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....

A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

The “black-box” nature of artificial intelligence (AI) models has been the source of many concerns in their use for critical applications. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a rapidly growing research field that aims to create mac...

Automated monitoring innovations for efficient and safe construction practices

As construction projects increase in complexity, there are growing challenges with conventional monitoring methods in terms of efficiency, safety, and competitiveness. Traditional supervision techniques are labour-intensive, intermittent, a...

Hardware-Anchored ES-SPA: A Dynamic Zero-Trust Architecture for Secure eSIM Provisioning in 6G IoT via Moving Target Defense

The rapid evolution of 6G networks and large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments intensifies security and privacy challenges in embedded SIM (eSIM) Remote SIM Provisioning (RSP), particularly during the bootstrap and profile delivery...

THE ROLE OF OPERATIONAL UNITS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE IN PREVENTING CYBERCRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION AND EXISTENTIAL CHALLENGES

The study focuses on the conceptual, theoretical, empirical and methodological foundations of a legal and economic nature, concerning the legal support for the activities of operational units of the National Police in preventing cybercrime,...