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Informatics, Volume 8, Issue 2

June 2021 - 20 articles

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Cover Story: Universities and colleges have implemented various technologically based platforms to replace the physical classrooms during the spread of Coronavirus. The effectiveness of these technologies, as well as their educational impact on the educational sector, has been the concern of researchers during the spread of the pandemic. Consequently, the current study is an attempt to explore the effect of Google Meet, and it examines the effect of a perceived fear factor on Arab students in the Arab world, specifically in Oman, UAE and Jordan. View this paper.

Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,706 Views
17 Pages

Segmentation and Identification of Vertebrae in CT Scans Using CNN, k-Means Clustering and k-NN

  • Nicola Altini,
  • Giuseppe De Giosa,
  • Nicola Fragasso,
  • Claudia Coscia,
  • Elena Sibilano,
  • Berardino Prencipe,
  • Sardar Mehboob Hussain,
  • Antonio Brunetti,
  • Domenico Buongiorno and
  • Andrea Guerriero
  • + 4 authors

The accurate segmentation and identification of vertebrae presents the foundations for spine analysis including fractures, malfunctions and other visual insights. The large-scale vertebrae segmentation challenge (VerSe), organized as a competition at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,191 Views
14 Pages

State of the Art Research on Sustainable Use of Water Hyacinth: A Bibliometric and Text Mining Analysis

  • Aman Basu,
  • Amit Kumar Hazra,
  • Shibani Chaudhury,
  • Andrew B. Ross and
  • Srinivasan Balachandran

This study aims to present a systematic data-driven bibliometric analysis of the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) infestation problem around the globe. As many solutions are being proposed in academia for its management, mitigation, and utilizat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,954 Views
20 Pages

Defining Valid Activity Monitor Data: A Multimethod Analysis of Weight-Loss Intervention Participants’ Barriers to Wear and First 100 Days of Physical Activity

  • Stephanie L. Orstad,
  • Lauren Gerchow,
  • Nikhil R. Patel,
  • Meghana Reddy,
  • Christina Hernandez,
  • Dawn K. Wilson and
  • Melanie Jay

Despite the popularity of commercially available wearable activity monitors (WAMs), there is a paucity of consistent methodology for analyzing large amounts of accelerometer data from these devices. This multimethod study aimed to inform appropriate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,787 Views
22 Pages

A Graph Database Representation of Portuguese Criminal-Related Documents

  • Gonçalo Carnaz,
  • Vitor Beires Nogueira and
  • Mário Antunes

Organizations have been challenged by the need to process an increasing amount of data, both structured and unstructured, retrieved from heterogeneous sources. Criminal investigation police are among these organizations, as they have to manually proc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
16,060 Views
16 Pages

Blockchain and Smart Contracts: A Solution for Payment Issues in Construction Supply Chains

  • Samudaya Nanayakkara,
  • Srinath Perera,
  • Sepani Senaratne,
  • Geeganage Thilini Weerasuriya and
  • Herath Mudiyanselage Nelanga Dilum Bandara

The construction industry has dynamic supply chains with multiple suppliers usually engaged in short-term relationships. Government legislation, novel types of payment agreements, conventional information technology solutions, and supply chain manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,196 Views
14 Pages

The Intention and Influence Factors of Nurses’ Participation in Telenursing

  • Mei-Ying Chang,
  • Fang-Li Kuo,
  • Ting-Ru Lin,
  • Chin-Ching Li and
  • Tso-Ying Lee

This study aimed to identify factors that significantly affect the behavioral intention of nursing staff to practice telenursing, applying the decomposed theory of planned behavior (DTPB) as the research framework. This cross-sectional survey study c...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,146 Views
21 Pages

A Systematic Review of Design Workshops for Health Information Technologies

  • Mustafa Ozkaynak,
  • Christina M. Sircar,
  • Olivia Frye and
  • Rupa S. Valdez

Background: Design workshops offer effective methods in eliciting end-user participation from design inception to completion. Workshops unite stakeholders in the utilization of participatory methods, coalescing in the best possible creative solutions...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,284 Views
33 Pages

Convolutional Extreme Learning Machines: A Systematic Review

  • Iago Richard Rodrigues,
  • Sebastião Rogério da Silva Neto,
  • Judith Kelner,
  • Djamel Sadok and
  • Patricia Takako Endo

Much work has recently identified the need to combine deep learning with extreme learning in order to strike a performance balance with accuracy, especially in the domain of multimedia applications. When considering this new paradigm—namely, the conv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
10,321 Views
20 Pages

Factors Affecting the Use of Smart Mobile Examination Platforms by Universities’ Postgraduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Empirical Study

  • Muhammad Turki Alshurideh,
  • Barween Al Kurdi,
  • Ahmad Qasim AlHamad,
  • Said A. Salloum,
  • Shireen Alkurdi,
  • Ahlam Dehghan,
  • Mohammad Abuhashesh and
  • Ra’ed Masa’deh

Recent years have seen an increasingly widespread use of online learning technologies. This has prompted universities to make huge investments in technology to augment their position in the face of extensive competition and to enhance their students’...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,663 Views
22 Pages

This systematic review addresses problems identified in existing research on survey measurements of individuals’ information privacy concerns in online contexts. The search in this study focused on articles published between 1996 and 2019 and yielded...

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