Academic Articles & Research Papers

Psychometric facets of Antifragility: Tolerance of Ambiguity, Hardiness, and Growth

This paper considers the issues, which are concerned with a new concept of antifragility. Quite recently, considerable attention has been paid to the concept of antifragility. Antifragility gains a special importance in studying psychologic...

Guiding the Self-Organization of Cyber-Physical Systems

Self-organization offers a promising approach for designing adaptive systems. Given the inherent complexity of most cyber-physical systems, adaptivity is desired, as predictability is limited. Here I summarize different concepts and approac...

Tumor probability mapping of fluorescence intensity during image-guided surgery of head and neck cancer

Abstract Achieving negative surgical margins remains a critical determinant of local recurrence and survival in head and neck cancer (HNC) surgery. Current intraoperative margin assessment techniques, including frozen section analysis, suff...

Design and Practice of Green and Low-Carbon Urban Rail Transit Planning

[Objective] To achieve cost efficiency and low-carbon transformation in rail transit, the planning, design, and implementation of green and low-carbon urban rail transit systems is investigated. [Method] Aiming at life-cycle sustainable dev...

New pathogenic ZNHIT3 variants causing fetal hydrops and lethality disrupt snoRNP assembly.

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...

The New Statistics

We need to make substantial changes to how we conduct research. First, in response to heightened concern that our published research literature is incomplete and untrustworthy, we need new requirements to ensure research integrity. These in...

Statistics for Dummies

The fun and easy way to get down to business with statistics Stymied by statistics? No fear ? this friendly guide offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that ...

Beyond Herd Immunity Against Strategic Attackers

Herd immunity, one of the most fundamental concepts in network epidemics, occurs when a large fraction of the population of devices is immune against a virus or malware. The few individuals who have not taken countermeasures against the thr...

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...

Text Mining in Cybersecurity

The growth of data volume has changed cybersecurity activities, demanding a higher level of automation. In this new cybersecurity landscape, text mining emerged as an alternative to improve the efficiency of the activities involving unstruc...

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks. It offers a taxonomy of high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organiza...

Blockchain for Cybersecurity in Smart Grid: A Comprehensive Survey

Blockchain is an immutable type of distributed ledger that is capable of storing data without relying on a third party. Blockchain technology has attracted significant interest in research areas, including its application in the smart grid ...

DELP-Net: A Differentiable Entropy Layer Pyramid Network for End-to-End Low-Rate DoS Detection

Low-rate Denial-of-Service (LDoS) attacks exploit periodic traffic pulses to trigger congestion while maintaining a low average rate, making them highly stealthy and difficult to distinguish from legitimate bursty traffic using threshold-ba...

SEC's cybersecurity disclosure guidance and disclosed cybersecurity risk factors

Security evaluation framework for cloud ERP systems using NIST and ISO standards

Abstract Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems serve as critical infrastructure for modern organizations, yet their security assessment lacks standardized evaluation frameworks. This study develops and applies a structured Security Mat...

Assessing the Microbial Quality of Shrimp (<i>Xiphonaeus kroyeri)</i> and Mussels (<i>Perna perna</i>) Illegally Sold in the Vitória Region, Brazil, and Investigating the Antimicrobial Resistance of <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates

The consumption of seafood is crucial for food security, but poor hygiene along the food production chain can result in low microbiological quality, posing significant risks for public health and seafood quality. Thus, this study aimed to a...

Exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) and prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Indonesia

Background: Recently emerging evidence suggests an association between particulate matter less than 2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) exposure and diabetes risk. However, evidence from Asia is limited. Here, we evaluated the association between PM...

Social Marketing and Public Health

Social marketing is the application of commercial marketing tools and principles to the design, implementation, and evaluation of health and social behaviour-change programmes. It focuses on target groups within the population, tailoring ca...

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...