2026 July - 21 articles
The increasing aging population in Australia necessitates innovative caregiving solutions to address the growing needs of elderly residents. Humanoid robots, with their physical embodiment and human-like attributes, offer a promising technological in...
Precise brain tumour delineation is vital for therapy protocols and tracking. However, standard Rectified Linear Units (ReLU) struggle to capture subtle necrotic-core variations due to zero-gradient behaviour in the negative domain. To address this,...
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) impose a substantial burden on people with diabetes and healthcare systems. The post-healing “transition phase” remains clinically challenging with limited guideline support. While large language models (LLMs)...
This study investigates consumer perceptions of procedural and distributive fairness/unfairness in service interactions involving AI versus human providers. It also examines how these perceptions are influenced by technology-related discomfort and th...
Background/Objectives: The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for obtaining health-related information has raised concerns regarding the quality and reliability of the information they provide. This study aimed to compare the qua...
Causality extraction is an important task in natural language processing, yet it remains underexplored in informal Arabic social media text, particularly in dialectal contexts. This study investigates causal-reason extraction from Saudi Arabic tweets...
MDPI, along with all other academic publishers, recognizes the potential benefits and real challenges posed by the advent of Generative AI [GenAI] [...]
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) plays a central role in modern diabetes management, yet CGM data are often confined within proprietary manufacturer ecosystems, limiting interoperability and reuse. This paper presents OpenGluco, an open-source and...
In order to evaluate regional sustainability, a comprehensive framework is needed that can integrate a number of economic and environmental variables into a transparent and policy-relevant evaluation approach. The present study presents a data-driven...
Few-shot multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA), constrained by limited annotated data, often suffers from large cross-modal semantic alignment gaps and difficulty in capturing fine-grained sentiment cues, making it challenging to fully exploit the comp...
Smartwatches are commonly used IoT wearable devices, which contain sensors that can support the data management process of smartwatch data. This process is essential for providing data-based insights that can motivate users to achieve their physical...
Public complaints exhibit strong spatiotemporal dependencies, where issues often propagate across categories within short timeframes, yet existing studies largely overlook cross-category recurrence and underutilize embedding representations for struc...
Assembling expert teams under strict skill-coverage and communication-distance constraints is a fundamental challenge in collaborative knowledge work. Existing learning-based approaches excel at probabilistic link prediction but cannot reliably enfor...
Annotated text datasets are increasingly reused as classifier targets, annotation candidates, and inputs to aggregate profiles, yet their labels often circulate without enough information about how they were produced. This article presents a reproduc...
This study presents a Markov chain-based metric called the Reliability Reserve (τ), designed to estimate the time available for operator intervention during the ayran fermentation process. This indicator can be integrated into a digital twin fore...
Chatbots are becoming increasingly significant entry points to digital services and are used in areas including job support, education, healthcare, and customer services. On the other hand, less is known about how chatbots affect people individually,...
Background: Although pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective for HIV prevention, identifying individuals who may benefit from PrEP and delivering personalized prevention recommendations remain challenging in routine and digital health set...
Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss, and its early diagnosis remains critically important yet challenging. Traditional assessment based on the cup-to-disc ratio is often insufficient at early stages, whereas the retinal vascular n...
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The rapid growth of the green bond market has intensified the need for transparent and reliable monitoring systems, particularly in circular-economy environments characterized by complex, multi-stakeholder, and dynamic interactions. However, existing...
Modern inpatient care generates irregular streams of heterogeneous clinical events, yet most predictive models require fixed feature matrices, predefined time windows, or discretization of continuous measurements. We developed CHaRT, a decoder-only a...
