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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,301 Views
13 Pages

Effectiveness of a Video-Versus Text-Based Computer-Tailored Intervention for Obesity Prevention after One Year: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Kei Long Cheung,
  • Inga Schwabe,
  • Michel J. L. Walthouwer,
  • Anke Oenema,
  • Lilian Lechner and
  • Hein De Vries

Computer-tailored programs may help to prevent overweight and obesity, which are worldwide public health problems. This study investigated (1) the 12-month effectiveness of a video- and text-based computer-tailored intervention on energy intake, phys...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,920 Views
11 Pages

From Evidence-Based Research to Practice-Based Evidence: Disseminating a Web-Based Computer-Tailored Workplace Sitting Intervention through a Health Promotion Organisation

  • Katrien De Cocker,
  • Greet Cardon,
  • Jason A. Bennie,
  • Tracy Kolbe-Alexander,
  • Femke De Meester and
  • Corneel Vandelanotte

Prolonged sitting has been linked to adverse health outcomes; therefore, we developed and examined a web-based, computer-tailored workplace sitting intervention. As we had previously shown good effectiveness, the next stage was to conduct a dissemina...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,150 Views
16 Pages

An Animation- Versus Text-Based Computer-Tailored Game Intervention to Prevent Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in Adolescents: Study Protocol

  • Marta Lima-Serrano,
  • Pablo Fernández-León,
  • Liesbeth Mercken,
  • José Manuel Martínez-Montilla and
  • Hein de Vries

The purpose of this paper is to describe the protocol for the design, implementation, and evaluation of an animation- versus text-based computer tailoring game intervention aimed at preventing alcohol consumption and binge drinking (BD) in adolescent...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,155 Views
21 Pages

Background: Web-based computer-tailored interventions can assist prostate cancer survivors to become more physically active by providing personally relevant behaviour change support. This study aimed to explore how changing the website architecture (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,551 Views
15 Pages

Evaluation of a Computer-Tailored Healthy Ageing Intervention to Promote Physical Activity among Single Older Adults with a Chronic Disease

  • Janet M. Boekhout,
  • Brenda A. J. Berendsen,
  • Denise A. Peels,
  • Catherine A. W. Bolman and
  • Lilian Lechner

This study explores the effectiveness of the Active Plus65 intervention designed to stimulate physical activity among single older adults with a chronic physical impairment. A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test study was performed. The interventio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,489 Views
22 Pages

Acceptability and Preliminary Efficacy of a Web- and Telephone-Based Personalised Exercise Intervention for Individuals with Metastatic Prostate Cancer: The ExerciseGuide Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

  • Holly E. L. Evans,
  • Daniel A. Galvão,
  • Cynthia C. Forbes,
  • Danielle Girard,
  • Corneel Vandelanotte,
  • Robert U. Newton,
  • Andrew D. Vincent,
  • Gary Wittert,
  • Ganessan Kichenadasse and
  • Camille E. Short
  • + 2 authors

25 November 2021

Preliminary research has shown the effectiveness of supervised exercise-based interventions in alleviating sequela resulting from metastatic prostate cancer. However, many individuals encounter barriers that limit the uptake of face-to-face exercise....

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,945 Views
22 Pages

Computer-Aided Engineering Environment for Designing Tailored Forming Components

  • Tim Brockmöller,
  • Renan Siqueira,
  • Paul C. Gembarski,
  • Iryna Mozgova and
  • Roland Lachmayer

27 November 2020

The use of multi-material forming components makes it possible to produce components adapted to the respective requirements, which have advantages over mono-material components. The necessary consideration of an additional material increases the poss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,690 Views
19 Pages

eHealth interventions aimed at improving physical activity (PA) can reach large populations with few resources and demands on the population as opposed to centre-based interventions. Active Plus is a proven effective computer-tailored PA intervention...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,598 Views
12 Pages

Tailoring Large Asymmetric Laguerre–Gaussian Beam Array Using Computer-Generated Holography

  • Sumit Kumar Singh,
  • Yoshikazu Adachi,
  • Kenji Kinashi,
  • Naoto Tsutsumi,
  • Wataru Sakai and
  • Boaz Jessie Jackin

24 February 2023

Laguerre–Gaussian beams are structured light beams with a donut-shaped symmetric intensity profile and a helical phase profile. The beam profile is defined by a quantized parameter known as the mode number which extends to infinity. The availab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
20 Pages

1 January 2026

The urgent need for sustainable innovation in the construction industry necessitates a reevaluation of how architecture engages with materials and fabrication processes. This paper introduces tailored fiber placement (TFP) as a novel fabrication meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,059 Views
19 Pages

Development and Piloting of Co.Ge.: A Web-Based Digital Platform for Generative and Clinical Cognitive Assessment

  • Angela Muscettola,
  • Martino Belvederi Murri,
  • Michele Specchia,
  • Giovanni Antonio De Bellis,
  • Chiara Montemitro,
  • Federica Sancassiani,
  • Alessandra Perra,
  • Barbara Zaccagnino,
  • Anna Francesca Olivetti and
  • Maria Giulia Nanni
  • + 3 authors

3 September 2025

Background/Objectives: This study presents Co.Ge. a Cognitive Generative digital platform for cognitive testing. We describe its architecture and report a pilot study. Methods: Co.Ge. is modular and web-based (Laravel-PHP, MySQL). It can be used to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,644 Views
18 Pages

8 May 2020

It has become clear over the last decade that the building industry must rapidly change to meet globally pressing requirements. The strong links between climate change and the environmental impact of architecture mean an urgent necessity for alternat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
917 Views
20 Pages

Smart Water Conservation: A Behaviourally-Grounded Recommender System for Demand Management Programs

  • Md Shamsur Rahim,
  • Khoi Anh Nguyen,
  • Rodney Anthony Stewart,
  • Damien Giurco and
  • Michael Blumenstein

23 September 2025

Water utilities are increasingly turning to digital solutions to promote conservation behaviours among households; however, traditional campaigns often suffer from limited personalisation, low interactivity, and modest long-term impact. Though comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,680 Views
19 Pages

Correlates of the Intention to Implement a Tailored Physical Activity Intervention: Perceptions of Intermediaries

  • Denise Peels,
  • Aart Mudde,
  • Catherine Bolman,
  • Rianne Golsteijn,
  • Hein De Vries and
  • Lilian Lechner

The public health impact of health behaviour interventions is highly dependent on large-scale implementation. Intermediaries—intervention providers—determine to a large extent whether an intervention reaches the target population, and hence its impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
561 Views
19 Pages

Computational Modeling to Guide the Design of Mesalazine Nanoparticles Tailored for the Incorporation of Chitosan

  • Leda Maria Gorla Robusti,
  • Fernanda Isadora Boni,
  • Leonardo M. B. Ferreira,
  • Natália Noronha Ferreira,
  • Deiver Alessandro Teixeira and
  • Maria Palmira Daflon Gremião

18 November 2025

The main objective of treatment with MSZ is to ensure that the drug reaches the colon, where it exerts its therapeutic effect. However, due to pH variation throughout the gastrointestinal tract and the risk of degradation or premature absorption, a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,158 Views
12 Pages

Holographic Tailoring of Structured Light Field with Digital Device

  • Zhensong Wan,
  • Zijian Shi,
  • Qiang Liu and
  • Xing Fu

Structured light fields have attracted much attention due to rich spatial degrees of freedom. The tailoring of an arbitrary structured light field on demand is the precondition for the application of structured light. Therefore, the computer holograp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,808 Views
19 Pages

8 April 2022

Personalization is an important factor to increase the user experience (UX) and effectiveness of mHealth solutions. In this paper, we present an innovative approach to the personalization of mHealth apps. A profiling function has been developed based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,535 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2023

Auxetic structures, renowned for their unique lateral expansion under longitudinal strain, have attracted significant research interest due to their extraordinary mechanical characteristics, such as enhanced toughness and shear resistance. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,389 Views
28 Pages

Engagement Analysis Using Electroencephalography Signals in Games for Hand Rehabilitation with Dynamic and Random Difficulty Adjustments

  • Raúl Daniel García-Ramón,
  • Ericka Janet Rechy-Ramirez,
  • Luz María Alonso-Valerdi and
  • Antonio Marin-Hernandez

20 September 2024

Background: Traditional physical rehabilitation involves participants performing repetitive body movements with the assistance of physiotherapists. Owing to the exercises’ monotonous nature and lack of reward, participants may become disinteres...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,174 Views
10 Pages

3 August 2020

The AISI316 austenitic stainless steel die was prepared and nitrided at 673 K for 14.4 ks. Through this low temperature plasma nitriding, the AISI316 die was homogeneously hardened up to 1400 HV within its surface layer of 50 μm. This nitrided AIS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,280 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2025

This paper describes a Krylov subspace iterative method designed for solving linear systems of equations with a large, symmetric, nonsingular, and indefinite matrix. This method is tailored to enable the evaluation of error estimates for the computed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,286 Views
18 Pages

Comparing Computational Peritoneal Dialysis Models in Pigs and Patients

  • Sangita Swapnasrita,
  • Joost C. de Vries,
  • Joanna Stachowska-Piętka,
  • Carl M Öberg,
  • Karin G. F. Gerritsen and
  • Aurélie Carlier

28 June 2025

Computational models of peritoneal dialysis (PD) are increasingly useful for optimizing treatment in patients with kidney disease requiring dialysis (KDRD). However, although several mathematical models have been developed in the past few decades, a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,974 Views
28 Pages

21 January 2021

The accuracy of two-dimensional hydrodynamic models (2D models) is improved when high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are used. However, the entailed high spatial discretisation results in excessive computational expenses, thus prohibiting...

  • Review
  • Open Access
551 Views
28 Pages

Glycoproteins pose significant challenges for specific recognition due to their structural complexity and microheterogeneity. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have emerged as promising synthetic receptors, offering high stability and tailorable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,952 Views
23 Pages

1 February 2022

This study investigates using tailor-developed combustion and air-handling system concepts to achieve high-efficiency, clean gasoline compression ignition (GCI) combustion, aimed at addressing a future heavy-duty ultralow NOx standard of 0.027 g/kWh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,729 Views
18 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Live Video Analytics for Drones via Edge Computing

  • Piyush Nagasubramaniam,
  • Chen Wu,
  • Yuanyi Sun,
  • Neeraj Karamchandani,
  • Sencun Zhu and
  • Yongzhong He

7 November 2024

The use of lightweight drones has surged in recent years across both personal and commercial applications, necessitating the ability to conduct live video analytics on drones with limited computational resources. While edge computing offers a solutio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,994 Views
25 Pages

21 August 2022

This study describes the Computing Platforms (CPs) and the hardware reliability issues of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, which recently attracted significant attention in mission and safety-critical applications demanding a failure-free...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,288 Views
16 Pages

27 December 2023

The computational performance requirements of space payloads are constantly increasing, and the redevelopment of space-grade processors requires a significant amount of time and is costly. This study investigates performance evaluation benchmarks for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,596 Views
32 Pages

18 April 2024

This paper introduces a multidisciplinary conceptual perspective encompassing artificial intelligence (AI), artificial general intelligence (AGI), and cybernetics, framed within what we call the formalism of generalized neuromorphism. Drawing from re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,572 Views
21 Pages

Modeling Electric Fields in Transcutaneous Spinal Direct Current Stimulation: A Clinical Perspective

  • Matteo Guidetti,
  • Stefano Giannoni-Luza,
  • Tommaso Bocci,
  • Kevin Pacheco-Barrios,
  • Anna Maria Bianchi,
  • Marta Parazzini,
  • Silvio Ionta,
  • Roberta Ferrucci,
  • Natale Vincenzo Maiorana and
  • Alberto Priori
  • + 3 authors

Clinical findings suggest that transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) can modulate ascending sensitive, descending corticospinal, and segmental pathways in the spinal cord (SC). However, several aspects of the stimulation have not b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,200 Views
12 Pages

10 September 2021

The study of AGB stars necessarily covers a wide range of topics, from the primary astronomical observations to their interpretation in terms of fundamental physics. All that requires proper ad hoc methodologies, among which numerical modeling of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
16 Pages

RISC-Based 10K+ Core Finite Difference Method Accelerator for CFD

  • Yanqiong Gong,
  • Biwei Liu,
  • Dongchang Huang,
  • Wen Lai and
  • Xuhui Wei

27 June 2025

Computational limitations of computers have emerged as a critical barrier to the advancement of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Consequently, exploring novel accelerator architectures tailored for large-scale CFD applications and closely integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,431 Views
26 Pages

A Novel Equivalent Method for Computing Mechanical Properties of Random and Ordered Hyperelastic Cellular Materials

  • Jian Li,
  • Jianfeng Zhao,
  • Qianhua Kan,
  • Yuyu Tian,
  • Li Yu,
  • Yunqiang Peng and
  • Xicheng Huang

31 October 2023

Simulating the mechanical behavior of cellular materials stands as a pivotal step in their practical application. Nonetheless, the substantial multitude of unit cells within these materials necessitates a considerable finite element mesh, thereby lea...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,878 Views
6 Pages

Computational Simulator Models and Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring as Tools for Precision Medicine in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

  • Giovanna Manzi,
  • Cristiano Miotti,
  • Marco Valerio Mariani,
  • Silvia Papa,
  • Federico Luongo,
  • Gianmarco Scoccia,
  • Beatrice De Lazzari,
  • Claudio De Lazzari,
  • Raymond L. Benza and
  • Roberto Badagliacca
  • + 2 authors

24 December 2021

Precision medicine, providing the right therapeutic strategy for the right patient, could revolutionize management and prognosis of patients affected by cardiovascular diseases. Big data and artificial intelligence are pivotal for the realization of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,908 Views
27 Pages

Hands-On Quantum Cryptography: Experimentation with the B92 Protocol Using Pulsed Lasers

  • Sara P. Gandelman,
  • Alona Maslennikov and
  • Georgi Gary Rozenman

28 February 2025

Quantum cryptography continues to be an area of significant research and educational interest. Here, a straightforward and reliable approach to both the experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum key distribution is presented, tailored for senio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,995 Views
19 Pages

This study proposes a strategy for decomposing the computational domain to solve differential equations using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and progressively saving the trained model in each subdomain. The proposed progressive domain decom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,432 Views
12 Pages

29 June 2025

Background: Conventional machine learning courses are usually designed for academic learners, instead of working professionals. This study addresses this gap by proposing a new instructional framework that builds practical computational thinking skil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,955 Views
29 Pages

Reaction Diffusion Voronoi Diagrams: From Sensors Data to Computing

  • Alejandro Vázquez-Otero,
  • Jan Faigl,
  • Raquel Dormido and
  • Natividad Duro

29 May 2015

In this paper, a new method to solve computational problems using reaction diffusion (RD) systems is presented. The novelty relies on the use of a model configuration that tailors its spatiotemporal dynamics to develop Voronoi diagrams (VD) as a part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,710 Views
20 Pages

An Initial Case Study of the Computational Modeling of Cord–Rubber Segments

  • Daniel Láštic,
  • Kamil Řehák,
  • Aleš Prokop,
  • David Krpalek,
  • Jan Šplíchal and
  • Pavel Žlábek

29 January 2024

This paper presents an initial study of the computational modeling for determining the stress–strain behavior of the cord–rubber segment, tailored to be used as a flexible member in the construction of torque transfer coupling in railway...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,655 Views
13 Pages

26 December 2020

The tether structure plays the role of transferring the traction force of an airborne wind energy system (AWES) to the fixed or mobile ground system with less motion and maintains the flying airborne system as a critical component. The implementation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,856 Views
25 Pages

Secure Multiparty Computation Using Secure Virtual Machines

  • Danko Miladinović,
  • Adrian Milaković,
  • Maja Vukasović,
  • Žarko Stanisavljević and
  • Pavle Vuletić

The development of new processor capabilities which enable hardware-based memory encryption, capable of isolating and encrypting application code and data in memory, have led to the rise of confidential computing techniques that protect data when pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,744 Views
15 Pages

The aim of this research is to develop an automated pallet inspection architecture with two key objectives: high performance with respect to defect classification and computational efficacy, i.e., lightweight footprint. As automated pallet racking vi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
14,095 Views
27 Pages

Cloud-Native Workload Orchestration at the Edge: A Deployment Review and Future Directions

  • Rafael Vaño,
  • Ignacio Lacalle,
  • Piotr Sowiński,
  • Raúl S-Julián and
  • Carlos E. Palau

16 February 2023

Cloud-native computing principles such as virtualization and orchestration are key to transferring to the promising paradigm of edge computing. Challenges of containerization, operative models and scarce availability of established tools make a thoro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,151 Views
26 Pages

26 May 2021

Computer Vision is a cross-research field with the main purpose of understanding the surrounding environment as closely as possible to human perception. The image processing systems is continuously growing and expanding into more complex systems, usu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,598 Views
12 Pages

Assessing the Efficacy of an Accessible Computing Curriculum for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Abdu Arslanyilmaz,
  • Margaret L. Briley,
  • Gregory V. Boerio,
  • Katie Petridis and
  • Ramlah Ilyas

There is a limited amount of research dedicated to designing and developing computing curricula specifically tailored for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and thus far, no study has examined the effectiveness of an accessible computing c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,710 Views
40 Pages

Revolutionizing Molecular Design for Innovative Therapeutic Applications through Artificial Intelligence

  • Ahrum Son,
  • Jongham Park,
  • Woojin Kim,
  • Yoonki Yoon,
  • Sangwoon Lee,
  • Yongho Park and
  • Hyunsoo Kim

29 September 2024

The field of computational protein engineering has been transformed by recent advancements in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and molecular modeling, enabling the design of proteins with unprecedented precision and functionality. Computati...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,034 Views
26 Pages

17 September 2019

Solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) are one of the cornerstones of computational science. For large problems, they involve huge amounts of data that need to be stored and transmitted on all levels of the memory hierarchy. Often, bandwid...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,428 Views
7 Pages

25 October 2024

We introduce a reverse-engineered scheme for achieving the precise control of population transfer in nonlinear quantum systems characterized by a 1:2 resonance. This scheme involves the use of two resonant laser pulses that transition from initial an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,427 Views
18 Pages

23 June 2021

There are no doubts that quantum programming and, in general, quantum computing, is one of the most promising areas within computer science and one of the areas where most expectations are being placed in recent years. Although the days when reliable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,819 Views
40 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized connected devices, with applications in healthcare, data analytics, and smart cities. For time-sensitive applications, 5G wireless networks provide ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and f...

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