The Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a new type of P2P file system, enables people to obtain data from other peer nodes in a distributed system without the need to establish a connection with a distant server. However, IPFS suffers from low resolut...
Blockchain technology, with its characteristics of decentralization, immutability, auditability, and traceability, has gradually become a core infrastructure in the digital economy era, demonstrating great potential in fields such as finance, governm...
As the importance of vehicle data increases, it has become very important to safely store them. However, because onboard diagnostics scanners generally used to store vehicle data are IoT devices, security and capacity issues exist to store data safel...
The current state of the web, which is dominated by centralized cloud services, raises several concerns regarding different aspects such as governance, privacy, surveillance, and security. A way to address these issues is to decentralize the platform...
The growing frequency of cybersecurity incidents, coupled with the increasing significance of blockchain technology in today’s digital landscape, highlights the urgent need for enriched, hands-on educational programs within Computer Science and...
Under the current national network environment, anyone can participate in publishing. As an important information resource, knowledge files reflect the workload of publishers. Moreover, high-quality knowledge files can promote the progress of society...
Due to frequent traffic accidents around the world, people often take out car insurance to mitigate their losses and receive compensation in a traffic accident. However, in the existing car insurance claims process, there are problems such as insuran...
The emergence of Industry 5.0 has highlighted the significance of information usage, processing, and data analysis when maintaining physical assets. This has enabled the creation of the Digital Twin (DT). Information about an asset is generated and c...
The secure and efficient storage and sharing of medical images have become increasingly important due to rising security threats and performance limitations in existing healthcare systems. Centralized systems struggle to provide adequate privacy, rap...
High-stakes online assessment produces suspicious-event records, yet storage placement and burst admission remain insufficiently characterized. This article presents a Kubernetes-deployed provenance pipeline integrating Hyperledger Fabric, IPFS, SHA-...
In response to the Cybersecurity Law, organizations face numerous management and technical requirements. Detection techniques such as vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are employed to identify risks. Addressing these vulnerabilities dema...
Blockchain-based electronic health system growth is hindered by privacy, confidentiality, and security. By protecting against them, this research aims to develop cybersecurity measurement approaches to ensure the security and privacy of patient infor...
IoT sensor deployments increasingly export measurement streams to edge gateways and content-addressed storage such as IPFS, but access control decisions must be enforced without disclosing sensor owner policies, requester attributes, or stale data ve...
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras and black boxes are indispensable for road safety and accident management. Visible highway surveillance cameras can promote safe driving habits while discouraging moving violations. According to CCTV laws, foo...
In the digital age, ensuring the authenticity and security of academic certificates is a critical challenge faced by educational institutions, employers, and individuals alike. Traditional methods for verifying academic credentials are often cumberso...
Attribute spoofing is a major security threat in information exchange solutions based on Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based-Encryption (CP-ABE) and distributed CP-ABE (dCP-ABE), which can compromise privacy and security. This threat occurs when an att...
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw training records, but it does not inherently provide verifiable model provenance, enforceable fairness policies, or auditable control over aggregation. This paper p...
The ECM propagates processes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), leading to progressive lung scarring. We established an IPF-conditioned matrix (IPF-CM) system as a platform for testing drug candidates. Here, we tested the involvement of a PGE2 a...
In recent years, there has been a growing recognition within the medical community that idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) cannot be effectively managed through a singular focus on the disease itself. Instead, a dual approach is essential, one that...
In this work, Electric Vehicles (EVs) are charged using a new and improved charging mechanism called the Mobile-Vehicle-to-Vehicle (M2V) charging strategy. It is further compared with conventional Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) ch...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an interstitial lung disease characterized by irreversible scarring of lung tissue, leading to death. Despite recent advancements in understanding its pathophysiology, IPF remains elusive, and therapeutic option...
Background and Objectives: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has a variable clinical course, which ranges from being asymptomatic to progressive respiratory failure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the novel clinical parameters of IPF pat...
Background: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are secreted by cells from their membrane within circulation and body fluids. Knowledge of the involvement of EVs in pathogenesis of lung diseases is increasing. The present study aimed to evaluate the express...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a long-term condition with an unidentified cause, and currently there are no specific treatment options available. Alveolar epithelial type II cells (AT2) constitute a heterogeneous population crucial for secret...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a form of chronic and irreversible fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown etiology. Although antifibrotic treatments have shown a reduction of lung function decline and a slow disease progression, IPF is ch...
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are extremely private data in the medical industry. Clinicians use the patient data that the EMR stores to quickly assess a patient’s status and save diagnostic information. In the conventional medical model, i...
Background/Objectives: In patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive disease characterized by lung tissue scarring, the impact of comorbidities is only partially understood. In particular, the prognostic implications of pulmonar...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, pulmonary-limited, interstitial lung disease with a poor prognosis. This condition is characterized by different clinical scenarios, ranging from the most typical slow and progressive deterioration of...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive interstitial lung disease (ILD) with unknown etiology in which gradual fibrotic scarring of the lungs leads to usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) and, ultimately, to death. IPF affects thr...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a pathological condition wherein lung injury precipitates the deposition of scar tissue, ultimately leading to a decline in pulmonary function. Existing research indicates a notable exacerbation in the clinical...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common type of fibrosis in lungs, characterized as a chronic and progressive interstitial lung disease involving pathological findings of fibrosis with a median survival of 3 years. Despite the knowledg...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has a detrimental prognosis despite antifibrotic therapies to which individual responses vary. IPF pathology is associated with oxidative stress, inflammation and increased activation of SRC family kinases (SFK). T...
Objectives: In idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), alterations in the pulmonary surfactant system result in an increased alveolar surface tension and favor repetitive alveolar collapse. This study aimed to assess the usefulness of electrical impedan...
Background: New biomarkers are urgently needed to facilitate diagnosis in Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD), thus reducing the need for invasive procedures, and to enable tailoring and monitoring of medical treatment. Methods: In this study we investi...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, fibrotic interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology. At present, the mortality rate of the deadly disease is still very high, while the existing treatments only delay the progression o...
The MUC5B rs35705950 mutant T allele is the strongest genetic risk factor for familial and sporadic IPF. We sought to determine whether MUC5B genotype influences radiological patterns of IPF at diagnosis, as well as their change over time, in patient...
The fibrotic fibroblasts derived from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) are surrounded by specific environments, characterized by increased stiffness, aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) composition, an...
Mitochondria play important roles in the maintenance of intracellular homeostasis; hence, the quality control of mitochondria is crucial for cell fate determination. Mitochondria dynamics and mitochondria-specific autophagy, known as mitophagy, are t...
To investigate the role of diffuse pulmonary ossification (DPO) in disease severity in a population of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) patients. This retrospective study was carried out on 95 IPF patients—44 with DPO on high resolution comp...
In this article the co-existence of pulmonary emphysema with lung fibrosis of typical pattern and distribution for usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) was compared with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) alone. Author discusses the etiopathogenesis o...
We previously reported higher ACE2 levels in smokers and patients with COPD. The current study investigates if patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) such as IPF and LAM have elevated ACE2, TMPRSS2, and Furin levels, increasing their risk fo...
Rationale: The role of the innate immune system in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains poorly understood. However, a functional myeloid compartment is required to remove dying cells and cellular debris, as well as to mediate innate immune res...
There are increasing efforts to better predict adverse outcomes for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Our aim was to assess the prognostic potential of ischemia-modified albumin (IMA), an established circulating marker of ischemia and, more recent...
Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive fibrotic pulmonary disease with rising incidence. In this study the effectiveness of pirfenidone, as measured by longitudinal change in individual slope of forced vital capacity...
Background: The aim of the research presented here was to find a set of parameters enabling discrimination between three types of fibroblasts, i.e., healthy ones and those derived from two disorders mimicking each other: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
This study examines the issues of privacy protection, data security, and query efficiency in blockchain-based electronic medical record (EMR) sharing. It proposes a secure storage and sharing scheme for EMR based on Hyperledger Fabric and the InterPl...
Background: There is an increasing interest in employing electronic nose technology in the diagnosis and monitoring of lung diseases. Interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are challenging in regard to setting an accurate diagnosis in a timely manner. Thus...
Building information modeling (BIM)-based collaborative design can support sustainable construction, but current workflows often transmit complete models even when minor changes have been made and rely on centrally controlled records. This study prop...
W artykule porównano rozedmę płuc współistniejącą z włóknieniem płuc o typie zwykłego śródmiąższowego zapalenia płuc (CPFE) z samoistnym włóknieniem płuc (IPF). Przedyskutowano różnice w etiopatogenezie, odmienności przewodzenia sygnałów na poziomie...
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are the healthcare sector’s core digital strategy meant to improve the quality of care provided to patients. Despite the benefits afforded by this digital transformation initiative, adoption among healthcare orga...
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