The Industrial Revolution is commonly periodized through mechanization, steam, electricity, mass production, computing, digital networks, and artificial intelligence. This article proposes an alternative variable of historical observation: the functi...
In the context of Internet of Things (IoT) intelligent systems, the latest research regarding delegation using an access control model has gained attention, reflecting the need for models to support more functionalities in relation to hierarchical de...
Scientific conferences are invaluable for knowledge exchange, yet pose growing environmental concerns, especially through long-distance travel. This work quantifies and compares the environmental burdens of a national conference (30 delegates, Pisa,...
Resource consumption in residential areas requires novel contributions in the field of consumer information management and collaborative mechanisms for the exchange of resources, in order to optimize the overall consumption of the community. We propo...
Widely used and disseminated, Arnstein’s ladder is considered a reference for citizen participation. It, nevertheless, involves a recurrent bias and a certain confusion when confronted with projects in the Belgian and French working-class distr...
Agentic AI is changing enterprise cybersecurity as AI systems move beyond passive content generation toward autonomous planning, tool use, delegated execution, and operational action. As agents connect to email, code repositories, security operations...
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) changes digital retail from consumer-led search to delegated decision making, increasing both the potential value and the agency risks of recommendation. This conceptual article asks the following: Under what arch...
The aims of this article are, first, to describe the Swedish authorities’ strategy for dealing with the sudden onset of novel coronavirus in early 2020 and, second, to explain why that strategy differed markedly from those in nearly all other E...
This paper argues that the most significant challenge artificial intelligence poses to theological anthropology is not ontological but epistemic. Rather than asking whether machines can think, feel, or bear the image of God, this paper redirects atte...
IoT devices provide real-time data to a rich ecosystem of services and applications. The volume of data and the involved subscribe/notify signaling will likely become a challenge also for access and core networks. To alleviate the core of the network...
In recent years, several hospitals have begun using health information systems to maintain electronic health records (EHRs) for each patient. Traditionally, when a patient visits a new hospital for the first time, the hospital’s help desk asks them t...
In a multimedia cloud computing system, suppose all cloud users outsource their own data sets to the cloud in the encrypted form. Each outsourced set is associated with an access structure such that a valid data user, Bob, with the credentials satisf...
Breastfeeding or standard infant formulas, alongside phenylalanine (Phe)-free protein substitutes, constitute the dietary management for infants with PKU to guarantee protein requirements are met in compliance with metabolic tolerance. This work aims...
We present a scheme for teleporting an unknown, two-particle entangled state with a message from a sender (Alice) to a receiver (Bob) via a six-particle entangled channel. We also present another scheme for teleporting an unknown one-particle entangl...
With the prevalence of cloud computing, the outsourcing of computation has gained significant attention. Clients with limited computing power often outsource complex computing tasks to the cloud to save on computing resources and costs. In outsourcin...
Early childhood caries (ECC) is a complex, multifactorial disease shaped by biofilm ecology, host susceptibility, diet and behaviors, and structural determinants of health. Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is an effective non-restorative option for arre...
In transportation networks, incomplete information is ubiquitous, and users often delegate their route choice to distributed route planners. To model and study these systems, we introduce network control games, consisting of multiple actors seeking t...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) need to be accessible for every single person in the globe. Governments and companies are starting to regulate products and services to ensure digital accessibility as a mandatory requirement. A recent...
Electronic Health Records (EHRs: digital compilations of patient health status and diagnosis) are typically shared, analyzed, and stored on cloud servers. One operational challenge is to guarantee the accurate storage of EHRs, for instance, by utiliz...
The metaverse provides us with an attractive virtual space in which the value of the virtual property has been increasingly recognized. However, the lack of effective cross-metaverse trading tools and the reputation guarantee makes it difficult to tr...
From an interbehavioral and contingential perspective, family dialogues about sexuality are understood as patterns of verbal interaction regulated by social, gender, and caregiving contingencies rather than as individual attitudes or intentions. Back...
This article rereads Akira Kurosawa’s 1960 film The Bad Sleep Well as a modern Hamlet that relocates Shakespeare’s crisis of action from dynastic succession to postwar bureaucratic and corporate modernity. It shifts attention away from pl...
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence in automotive applications, particularly in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and smart battery management on electric vehicles, increases the demand for efficient near-sensor processing. While...
AI-assisted systems redistribute cognitive work before final decisions are made, yet broad labels such as assistance, automation, and human involvement do not fully describe these arrangements. This theory-led structured narrative review connects Fun...
29 September 2023
One of the greatest challenges in the domain of emotional regulation is comprehending the functionality of strategies and their utilization in various social contexts. In this sense, this study analyzes differences in the use and efficacy of regulati...
Citizen participation has become an important aspect in the design of smart cities. This paper investigates the frame and modality of citizen participation in a European Horizon2020 smart city project, +CityxChange, in Trondheim. +CityxChange aims at...
The redactable blockchain has emerged as a promising technique in mobile crowdsensing, allowing users to break immutability in a controlled manner selectively. Unfortunately, current fine-grained redactable blockchains suffer two significant limitati...
Authorization is a core function of access control in distributed systems, where decisions and enforcement may span heterogeneous components and administrative domains. This paper presents a standards-informed taxonomy and applies it in a systematic...
The universal blind quantum computation protocol (UBQC) enables an almost classical client to delegate a quantum computation to an untrusted quantum server (in the form of a garbled quantum circuit) while the security for the client is unconditional....
Route planning in a multi-agent system (MAS) is still a complex task, especially if there is need for a continuous, decentralized planner of the routes for physical agents in a dynamic environment. It is a planner of this kind that is required in the...
This paper examines the innovation spending gap associated with overborrowing in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Based on the double agency problem of the banking sector, the authors hypothesize that SOEs are more inclined to a higher l...
In cloud computing environments, security challenges emerge due to compromised firmware and supply chain attacks that target devices deployed within data centers. The Secure Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) has been widely adopted for device attestatio...
Background: Healthcare delivery models in Wales are changing in response to unprecedented pressure on the National Health Service UK (NHS). Community pharmacies will be prioritised to address public health and clinical needs at a local level. To supp...
Many Internet of Things (IoT) services utilize an IoT access network to connect small devices with remote servers. They can share an access network with standard communication technology, such as IEEE 802.11ah. However, an authentication and key mana...
Artificial intelligence is moving from the administrative margins of religious life into doctrinal explanation, personalized guidance, translation, counseling, heritage reconstruction, and embodied ritual representation. This study develops a framewo...
The transformation of religious authority in the digital age is shaped by the interactions between human actors, digital media and algorithmic systems. This study uses digital ethnography to examine how religious authority is constructed and negotiat...
This study investigated how Digital Media students judged acceptable and problematic forms of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) involvement in creative learning. An embedded mixed-methods analysis examined 48 completed and consented baseline...
Embedded systems increasingly require on-device deep learning, yet their processors must simultaneously handle real-time sensing, networking administration, and data control. Existing Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators typically target...
Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence reshapes clinical practice, and its effect on the clinician–patient relationship requires reconsideration of the frameworks that have shaped modern medical ethics. When clinicians delegate expertis...
Algorithmic decision-making has become ubiquitous in our societal and economic lives. With more and more decisions being delegated to algorithms, we have also encountered increasing evidence of ethical issues with respect to biases and lack of fairne...
Against the global imperative to advance higher education for sustainable development and institutional transformation in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), coherent governance architectures have been recognized as a...
With the rise of partially automated cars, drivers are more and more required to judge the degree of responsibility that can be delegated to vehicle assistant systems. This can be supported by utilizing interfaces that intuitively convey real-time re...
12 March 2019
In October 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting to identify key research needs, bringing together leading experts from WHO, WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Research Network...
Background/Objectives: Early residency is not only about building clinical knowledge. It also involves learning how to communicate, collaborate, and regulate one’s behavior throughout real-world pressure—skills that shape teamwork and eve...
9 April 2021
To provide web services adapted to the users’ functional capabilities, diversity must be considered from the conceptualization and design phases of the services’ development. In previous work, we proposed a model that allows the provisioning of adapt...
Over-the-air (OTA) updating is a critical mechanism for secure internet of things (IoT) systems for remotely updating the firmware (or keys) of IoT devices. Message queue telemetry transport (MQTT) is a very popular internet of things (IoT) communica...
Power operates across multiple scales, from physical action to complex social dynamics, and is constrained by fundamental principles. In the social realm, power is shaped by interactions and cognitive capacity: socially-facilitated empowerment enhanc...
The “11th International Congress on Biocatalysis (biocat2024)” was part of a biennial series that unites the fields of biology and chemistry, attracting researchers from the life sciences, engineering, and computer science. This internati...
This paper presents a DC microgrid architecture with autonomous decentralized control that exhibits high resilience against increasingly common threats, such as natural disasters and cyber-physical attacks, as well as its operational characteristics...
Animal functional trait data are essential for macroecology, but massive datasets remain locked in unstructured scientific literature. Traditional manual extraction is inefficient, and general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems struggle wit...
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