Academic Articles & Research Papers

Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress in Ghana: an open-label, cluster, crossover trial

Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, invasive mechanical ventilation is often not available for children at risk of death from respiratory failure. We aimed to determine if continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a for...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity professionals should stay current on developments with whistleblowing systems. Countries have rapidly moved to enact laws aimed at protecting critical infrastructure. They have also been moving to protect personal privacy. The...

On Formalizing Fairness in Prediction with Machine Learning

Machine learning algorithms for prediction are increasingly being used in critical decisions affecting human lives. Various fairness formalizations, with no firm consensus yet, are employed to prevent such algorithms from systematically dis...

Statistics in Criminal Justice

Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies

ℤ₂ × ℤ₂ Equivariant Quantum Neural Networks: Benchmarking against Classical Neural Networks

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the performance of Equivariant Quantum Neural Networks (EQNNs) and Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs), juxtaposed against their classical counterparts: Equivariant Neural Networks (ENNs) and Deep Ne...

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 prospective cohort study examining exposure to incarceration and cardiovascular disease (Justice-Involved Individuals Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology – JUSTICE study): a protocol paper

Abstract Background People who have been incarcerated have high rates of cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension and smoking, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of hospitalizations and mortality in this population...

An Ethics Framework for Public Health

More than 100 years ago, public health began as an organized discipline, its purpose being to improve the health of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health perennially faces dilemmas ...

Urban Sprawl and Public Health

This article discusses the relationship between sprawl and health based on eight considerations: air pollution, heat, physical activity patterns, motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian injuries and deaths, water quality and quantity, mental heal...

Aligning machines with human values: opacity and ethical sustainability of AI

Abstract The increasingly rapid development of deep learning algorithms is radically transforming society. The potential of neural models is paving the way for the automation of areas previously unrelated to AI, from medical diagnostics to ...

L’IGF A L’EPREUVE DU CONTROLE SYSTEMIQUE ET DE LA DIGITALISATION : MUTATIONS DU CONTROLE FINANCIER PUBLIC EN RDC (2020-2027)

Résumé : Cette étude analyse la transformation de l’Inspection Générale des Finances (IGF) de la RDC à travers les réformes de 2020-2023 et l’annonce de son plan stratégique 2025-2027 articulant contrôle systémique et digitalisation. A part...

Le magistrat congolais face au blanchiment d’argent sale

Résumé : L’étude menée par nous qui se solde par la présentation des résultats sous format d’un article porte sur « le magistrat congolais face au blanchiment d’argent sale ». Il répond à la question de savoir si le magistrat congolais peut...

Navigating the Ethical Terrain of AI-Generated Text Tools: A Review

This review examines the ethical, social, and technical challenges posed by AI-generated text tools, focusing on their rapid advancement and widespread adoption. An exhaustive literature search across many databases, strict inclusion/exclus...

Human Behavior Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey on Techniques, Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Human Behavior Analysis (HBA) has emerged as a critical interdisciplinary field, combining psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, and data science to model, understand, and predict human behavior across diverse domains. This paper ...

Automatic Identification of Brain Injury Mechanism Based on Deep Learning

ObjectiveTo apply the convolutional neural network （CNN） Inception_v3 model in automatic identification of acceleration and deceleration injury based on CT images of brain, and to explore the application prospect of deep learning technology...

Machine Learning

As one of the most comprehensive machine learning texts around, this book does justice to the field's incredible richness, but without losing sight of the unifying principles. Peter Flach's clear, example-based approach begins by discussing...

Health Equity Journal: Special Issue Guest Editorial

The practices of contemporary clinical decision-making and care rely heavily on racial biological essentialism, which is a set of ideas originating in modern science that describes populations as comprising distinct subpopulations with uniq...

Trustworthy artificial intelligence

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) brings forth many opportunities to contribute to the wellbeing of individuals and the advancement of economies and societies, but also a variety of novel ethical, legal, social, and technological challe...

Governing with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative forces of the 21st century, becoming an integral part of digital government worldwide. Governments’ use of AI can facilitate automated and tailored internal processes and public...