Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Prospective Observational Study of Infantile Dermatoses in Infants Aged 29 Days to 12 Months at a Rural Tertiary Care Center in North India.

Interhospital Transfer Dependency and Delays to Arterial Puncture in UK Thrombectomy Centres: A National Observational Study.

Association of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Virus Infections With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of Virological, Histopathological, and Molecular Evidence.

Visible yet unseen: unpacking the (in)visibilities of food-delivery riders in public space

Food-delivery riders embody a constitutive paradox of platform-mediated labour. Although visible and physically exposed in public space, their labour is obscured, their subjectivities unacknowledged, and their presence marginalised. This ar...

Non-Motorized License Plate Recognition and Localization Method Based on Semantic Alignment and Hierarchical Optimization

Holding non-motorized vehicles accountable for legal violations effectively enhances urban traffic safety. Non-motorized vehicle license plates are characterized by small size, dense distribution, and ease of being obscured, which leads to ...

BP Neural Network–Based Kalman Filtering Method Under Multiple Cyberattacks

This paper proposes a Kalman-gain-driven neural Kalman filtering (KF) defense framework, termed KFDBP, for secure state estimation in cyber–physical systems (CPSs) under denial-of-service (DoS), spoofing, and replay attacks. Unlike end-to-e...

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Our concern in this Essay is to explain the epistemic origins of political conflict. Citizens who agree that the proper object of law is to secure society's material well-being are still likely to disagree-intensely-about what policies will...

International Data Access Network (IDAN)

With legal frameworks changing, administrative data can increasingly be utilised both for official statistics and to facilitate new research, enabling the development of evidence-based policy for the public benefit. Secure access conditions...

Public Food Procurement as a Driving Force for Building Local and Agroecological Food Systems: Farmers’ Skepticism in Vega Baja del Jarama, Madrid (Spain)

In the last decade, efforts to re-localize the food system have been gaining ground in a way that is intended to induce changes in the primary sector, thereby improving its conditions and sustainability. The European Union has identified fo...

How the social media impact women’s psychological well-being in the patriarchal structure? The moderating effect of social capital

Abstract Background Despite technological, political and economic progress, Pakistan is still a traditionally patriarchal society, and cultural norms curb women’s freedom of socialization, which contributes to poor mental health. The digita...

ICT-enabled supply chain integration capabilities and firms’ financial performance: an empirical study of Tanzania’s manufacturing SMEs

The spectacular advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has shaped the way firms conduct their business, interact and communicate with customers and suppliers along their supply chains (SC). Yet, there exists limited k...

Communicatively Constructing the Bright and Dark Sides of Hope: Family Caregivers’ Experiences during End of Life Cancer Care

(1) Background: The communication of hope is complicated, particularly for family caregivers in the context of cancer who struggle to maintain hope for themselves and their loved ones in the face of terminality. In order to understand these...

Parallelly Running k-Nearest Neighbor Classification Over Semantically Secure Encrypted Data in Outsourced Environments

Cloud services with powerful resources are popularly used to manage exponentially increasing data and to carry out data mining to analyze the data. However, a data mining involving query can cause privacy problems by disclosing both the dat...

One-year outcomes of an innovative laparoscopic pectopexy procedure using inverted T-mesh for treatment of advanced uterine and anterior vaginal prolapse

Abstract This prospective pilot study was conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an innovative laparoscopic pectopexy (LP) technique employing an inverted T-mesh for the concomitant treatment of advanced uterine and anterior vagin...

Cloud geographies

The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, and drone strikes. Developing an analogy with the cloud chamb...

Instrumental Variables Estimation in Political Science: A Readers’ Guide

The use of instrumental variables regression in political science has evolved from an obscure technique to a staple of the political science tool kit. Yet the surge of interest in the instrumental variables method has led to implementation ...

School Business Administration : A Planning Approach

All chapters conclude with Summary, Suggested Activities, Suggested Readings, and Notes. Preface. 1. School Business Administration: Context, Function, Practice, and Process. The Evolving Context. The Organizational Context of the Administr...

A Trust-Boundary Reference Architecture for Secure Cyber-Physical Agriculture: Design and Software-Based Proof-of-Concept for Smart Irrigation

Smart irrigation is an operational technology (OT) problem as much as an Internet of Things (IoT) one: software decisions act directly on valves, pumps, pressure and water delivery, so a spoofed reading or a replayed command has physical co...

The Roles of Marketing and Industrial Design in Discontinuous New Product Development *

Radical or “discontinuous” products based on new technological breakthroughs are playing an ever‐increasing role in the success of firms. However, little research has been conducted that investigates the roles of marketing and industrial de...