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28 December 2023

The data hierarchical Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) scheme implements multiple hierarchical data encryption of a single access policy, which reduces the computation and storage overhead. However, existing data hierarchical CP-...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,306 Views
13 Pages

4 May 2018

Recently, advancements in energy distribution models have fulfilled the needs of microgrids in finding a suitable energy distribution model between producer and consumer without the need of central controlling authority. Most of the energy distributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,443 Views
19 Pages

25 October 2022

The Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) is critical in improving electronic device precision, dependability, and productivity. Researchers are driving the development of digital healthcare systems by connecting available medical resources and healthcar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Internet of Things (IoT): Architecture, Protocols and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
802 Views
29 Pages

This paper proposes a model for account-holding proofs across multiple authorities and presents a concrete construction from JWT-derived evidence, enabling a verifier to evaluate the resulting artifact under specified system assumptions and acceptanc...

(This article belongs to the Section Security Engineering & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,391 Views
16 Pages

An Efficient ECC-Based CP-ABE Scheme for Power IoT

  • Rui Cheng,
  • Kehe Wu,
  • Yuling Su,
  • Wei Li and ,
  • Wenchao Cui and
  • Jie Tong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 July 2021

The rapid development of the power Internet of Things (IoT) has greatly enhanced the level of security, quality and efficiency in energy production, energy consumption, and related fields. However, it also puts forward higher requirements for the sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
5,811 Views
26 Pages

A Novel Secure Blockchain Framework for Accessing Electronic Health Records Using Multiple Certificate Authority

  • Aitizaz Ali,
  • Hasliza A Rahim,
  • Jehad Ali,
  • Muhammad Fermi Pasha and ,
  • Mehedi Masud,
  • Ateeq Ur Rehman,
  • Can Chen and
  • Mohammed Baz
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 October 2021

Blockchain is a promising technology in the context of digital healthcare systems, but there are issues related to the control of accessing the electronic health records. In this paper, we propose a novel framework based on blockchain and multiple ce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Blockchain Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,828 Views
15 Pages

10 June 2024

For more than a century, in the center of Sofia, the capital of the Republic of Bulgaria, there is and functions the church of St. Nikolai Mirlikiyski the Wonderworker, known as the Russian church. The church was built at the beginning of the 20th ce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Right to Freedom of Religion: Contributions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
865 Views
19 Pages

Can AI Write MCQs? A Comparison of ChatGPT-Generated and Educator-Authored Multiple-Choice Questions in Graduate Nursing Education

  • Nader Alnomasy,
  • Habib Alrashedi,
  • Maha Dardouri,
  • Soha Kamel Mosbah Mahmoud and ,
  • Petelyne Pangket,
  • Sang Bin You,
  • Aluem Tark,
  • Deborah Becker,
  • Richard Balacuit Maestrado and
  • Jiyoun Song
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

27 August 2026

Background/Objectives: High-quality multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are essential for valid assessment in graduate-level nursing programs, yet developing such items is resource-intensive for educators. Large language models such as ChatGPT may gener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Conversational Technologies and Digital Assistants in Nursing and Healthcare: Adoption, Impact, and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,912 Views
13 Pages

16 January 2020

For the future of the Internet, because information-centric network (ICN) have natural advantages in terms of content distribution, mobility, and security, it is regarded as a potential solution, or even the key, to solve many current problems. Named...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,348 Views
14 Pages

Scientific authorship is an evolving concept, being challenged by the numerous varieties in definition and practice of its ideational form. Variations in interpretation occur not only along the traditional demarcation line between hard sciences and t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Looking Forwards and Backwards: 10 Years of Publications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,256 Views
20 Pages

Secured and Privacy-Preserving Multi-Authority Access Control System for Cloud-Based Healthcare Data Sharing

  • Reetu Gupta,
  • Priyesh Kanungo,
  • Nirmal Dagdee,
  • Golla Madhu and ,
  • Kshira Sagar Sahoo,
  • N. Z. Jhanjhi,
  • Mehedi Masud,
  • Nabil Sharaf Almalki and
  • Mohammed A. AlZain
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

27 February 2023

With continuous advancements in Internet technology and the increased use of cryptographic techniques, the cloud has become the obvious choice for data sharing. Generally, the data are outsourced to cloud storage servers in encrypted form. Access con...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
9,002 Views
26 Pages

Risk Assessment of Combined Exposure to Multiple Chemicals at the European Food Safety Authority: Principles, Guidance Documents, Applications and Future Challenges

  • Irene Cattaneo,
  • Alexander D. Kalian,
  • Matteo R. Di Nicola,
  • Bruno Dujardin and ,
  • Sara Levorato,
  • Luc Mohimont,
  • Alexis V. Nathanail,
  • Edoardo Carnessechi,
  • Maria Chiara Astuto and
  • Jean Lou C. M. Dorne
  • + 12 authors+ 7 authors

4 January 2023

Human health and animal health risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals use the same steps as single-substance risk assessment, namely problem formulation, exposure assessment, hazard assessment and risk characterisation. The main u...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from MycoKey - MycoTWIN - ISM international conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,278 Views
14 Pages

24 June 2021

In discussing the arrival of Buddhism to China, Erik Zürcher describes the meeting of “a jungle of Buddhist metaphysics” with other local philosophies and practices. This period was a transformative encounter with wide-ranging ramifications, includin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Buddhist Traditions in Literature)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,976 Views
18 Pages

Previously, it was suggested that the “persona-driven” approach can contribute to producing sufficiently diverse synthetic training data for Large Language Models (LLMs) that are currently about to run out of real natural language texts....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,582 Views
17 Pages

6 September 2024

In recent years, a variety of multiple zeta values (MZVs) variants have been defined and studied. One way to produce these variants is to restrict the indices in the definition of MZVs to some fixed parity pattern, which include Hoffman’s multi...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,730 Views
16 Pages

27 August 2019

The triple helix (university-industry-government) is a dynamic cooperation model in the area of regional innovation. With the application of this model, the authors aim to address the mechanism of how multiple participants affect innovation efficienc...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,569 Views
23 Pages

30 June 2025

This article explores the potentialities of “translanguages” as a lens for interpreting transnational women authors whose writing navigates multiple languages. By “translanguages”, we refer to the generation of a collage that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender Knowledges and Cultures of Equalities in Global Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,076 Views
12 Pages

Supporting multi-rate transmission is an essential factor in current optical packet switching (OPS) networks. In this paper, the author studied a multi-rate scheme capable of forwarding packets with different signal rates based on label switching. Th...

  • Erratum
  • Open Access
3,933 Views
1 Page

The authors wish to make a change to their published paper [1]. Since 2013, the authors have performed multiple experiments in many animals, including mice and rats, at both the Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China) and China Medical University (...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
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2 Pages

Correction: Saadah et al. Developing Robust Safety Protocols for Radiosurgery within Patient Positioning System Framework. Machines 2024, 12, 106

  • Alaa Saadah,
  • Laszlo Fadgyas,
  • Donald Medlin,
  • Jad Saud and ,
  • Jason Henderson,
  • Tibor Koroknai,
  • Máté Koroknai,
  • Levente Menyhárt,
  • David Takacs and
  • Géza Husi
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

17 April 2025

After the publication of the paper, Endre Takacs from Clemson University contacted the corresponding author Alaa Saadah to ask for multiple individuals (Laszlo Fadgyas, Jason Henderson, Tibor Koroknai, Máté Koroknai, David Takacs, Peter...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,729 Views
35 Pages

3 December 2022

Determining the author of a text is a difficult task. Here, we compare multiple Artificial Intelligence techniques for classifying literary texts written by multiple authors by taking into account a limited number of speech parts (prepositions, adver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Based Methods and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,595 Views
11 Pages

Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

  • Thomas Gabriel Schreiner,
  • Iustina Mihoc,
  • Ecaterina Grigore and
  • Oliver Daniel Schreiner

22 March 2024

Cognitive impairment is one of the most significant burdens among the many neurological complaints in multiple sclerosis patients. Cognitive deficits negatively impact these patients’ quality of life, leading to partial or total loss of several...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neuropsychiatric and Quality of Life (QoL) Aspects of Multiple Sclerosis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,708 Views
22 Pages

A Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines and Treatment Recommendations for Cancer Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Alberto Zaniboni,
  • Michele Ghidini,
  • Francesco Grossi,
  • Alice Indini and ,
  • Francesca Trevisan,
  • Alessandro Iaculli,
  • Lorenzo Dottorini,
  • Giovanna Moleri,
  • Alessandro Russo and
  • Fausto Petrelli
  • + 13 authors+ 8 authors

29 August 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has inevitably caused those involved in cancer care to change clinical practice in order to minimize the risk of infection while maintaining cancer treatment as a priority. General advice during the pandemic suggests that most p...

(This article belongs to the Collection The Impact of COVID-19 Infection in Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,223 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2024

In this paper, we will study finite multiple T-values (MTVs) and their alternating versions, which are level two and level four variations of finite multiple zeta values, respectively. We will first provide some structural results for level two finit...

(This article belongs to the Section Algebra and Number Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,156 Views
24 Pages

Delivering ‘Thriving Net Zero Communities in the West Midlands’—Insights from a Participatory Systems Mapping Process for Local Authorities

  • Naomi Bennett-Steele,
  • Sophie Morris,
  • Sarah J. Moller,
  • James Hall and ,
  • Jenny Stocker,
  • Xinfang Wang,
  • Suzanne Bartington,
  • Zongbo Shi and
  • Alexandra Penn
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The UK has a legally binding commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and multiple statutory responsibilities related to mitigation actions are held at local or regional authority levels. However, local authorities face multip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applying Systems Science to Place-Based Systems Change Efforts: Theoretical and Methodological Advances)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,136 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2017

Microservices offer a compelling competitive advantage for building data flow systems as a choreography of self-contained data endpoints that each implement a specific data processing functionality. Such a ‘single responsibility principle’ design mak...

  • Retraction
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,403 Views

2 March 2015

We have become aware that a substantial part of the main text of [1] is copied from multiple other publications. In total, 46% of the main text was taken from publications by the same authors [2,3] and 10% from other papers [4,5]. Because of the exte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,798 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2021

The paper is a reflection on the author’s work with students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate elementary mathematics content and methods courses. Two specific pedagogical issues make up the focus of the paper. The first issue deals with demonst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Early Years and Teacher Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,074 Views
25 Pages

Weighted Attribute-Based Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme with Distributed Multi-Authority Attributes

  • Wenlong Yi,
  • Chuang Wang,
  • Sergey Kuzmin,
  • Igor Gerasimov and
  • Xiangping Cheng

30 July 2024

Existing attribute-based proxy re-encryption schemes suffer from issues like complex access policies, large ciphertext storage space consumption, and an excessive authority of the authorization center, leading to weak security and controllability of...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
491 Views
18 Pages

Intermodulation Component-Based Authentication for Civilian GNSS Signals

  • Muzi Yuan,
  • Honglei Lin,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Chunjiang Ma and
  • Xiaomei Tang

25 June 2026

We propose a navigation signal authentication scheme for civilian GNSS receivers that exploits the intermodulation components introduced by constant envelope modulation without relying on modernized authenticatable signals or direct access to authori...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Comment
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,753 Views
5 Pages

29 September 2022

A recent study published in Diagnostics attempted to visualize trigger points and contracture knots with high-definition ultrasound. Based on their findings, the authors reversed the commonly understood meaning of the two terms. However, they did so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Diagnostics Tools in Physiotherapy: from the Laboratory to the Clinical Setting 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,457 Views
14 Pages

The Inverse and General Inverse of Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers with Modified Elementary Row Operations

  • Mashadi,
  • Yuliana Safitri,
  • Sukono,
  • Igif Gimin Prihanto and ,
  • Muhamad Deni Johansyah and
  • Moch Panji Agung Saputra
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 March 2024

Trapezoidal positive/negative fuzzy numbers have no single definition; instead, various authors define them in relation to different concepts. This means that arithmetic operations for trapezoidal fuzzy numbers also differ. For the operations of addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,827 Views
12 Pages

20 December 2021

This paper addresses the problem of infrastructural breaks in two systems—the funeral market and maternity care. The authors analytically problematize how dysfunctions in the operation of these infrastructures shape the experiences of funeral a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,864 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2023

Elder Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Kheixwnéi, a poet and oral literary scholar and a mentor of the author, told the author “Life is a poem”. This essay will explore the ways in which the oral literary and visual arts of the Northwest Coa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Arts of the Northwest Coast)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,390 Views
39 Pages

29 September 2025

With the expected increase in drone operations, inter-operator fairness issues and congestion problems are expected to arise due to the strategic authorization approach mandated in European regulation. As an alternative, the proposed authorization me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Applications of Low-Altitude Urban Traffic System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,572 Views
42 Pages

Using AI to Empower Norwegian Agriculture: Attention-Based Multiple-Instance Learning Implementation

  • Mikkel Andreas Kvande,
  • Sigurd Løite Jacobsen,
  • Morten Goodwin and
  • Rashmi Gupta

21 May 2024

Agricultural development is one of the most essential needs worldwide. In Norway, the primary foundation of grain production is based on geological and biological features. Existing research is limited to regional-scale yield predictions using artifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Machine Learning and Remote Sensing in Crop and Vegetation Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,624 Views
21 Pages

SORA Methodology for Multi-UAS Airframe Inspections in an Airport

  • Carol Martinez,
  • Pedro J. Sanchez-Cuevas,
  • Simos Gerasimou,
  • Abhishek Bera and
  • Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez

24 November 2021

Deploying Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in safety- and business-critical operations requires demonstrating compliance with applicable regulations and a comprehensive understanding of the residual risk associated with the UAS operation. To support t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,644 Views
16 Pages

18 March 2024

Cloud computing has become one of the key technologies used for big data processing and analytics. User management on cloud platforms is a growing challenge as the number of users and the complexity of systems increase. In light of the user-managemen...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,432 Views
23 Pages

What Do We Know about Crowdfunding and P2P Lending Research? A Bibliometric Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Mustafa Raza Rabbani,
  • Abu Bashar,
  • Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar,
  • Muneer Shaik and
  • Mohammed Selim

In the era of fintech, businesses using technology other than traditional banks are providing financial services. Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending are two of the most exciting financial innovations of the twenty-first century. In this pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue FinTech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,188 Views
15 Pages

12 April 2021

This paper describes various statistical methods used by the author during multiple studies conducted by the author. Initially, the data were scrutinized to ensure normal distribution, and expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) or standard error...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Pediatric Heart Disease Research—Neonatal Interventions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,590 Views
25 Pages

Blockchain-Enabled Secure Data Sharing with Honey Encryption and DSNN-Based Key Generation

  • Reshma Siyal,
  • Jun Long,
  • Muhammad Asim,
  • Naveed Ahmad and ,
  • Hanaa Fathi and
  • Mohammad Alshinwan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 June 2024

Ensuring data confidentiality is a critical requirement for modern security systems globally. Despite the implementation of various access-control policies to enhance system security, significant threats persist due to insecure and inadequate access...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Cryptographic Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,648 Views
13 Pages

2 December 2022

Is liberation theology dead or in decline? This article analyzes factors that have led to that perception and provides evidence to the contrary. It demonstrates that the theology has survived multiple attempts by certain sectors of both church and st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Liberation Theologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,999 Views
29 Pages

23 March 2025

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) prioritizes system design through models rather than documents, and it is implemented with the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), which is the state-of-the-art language in academia and industry. Virtual Reality...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Engineering)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
10 Citations
141 Views

Avascular necrosis of the navicular is a painful, disabling condition that may appear spontaneously or secondary to other conditions. While the disorder is usually recognizable through the use of plain film radiography, the authors present a bilatera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,981 Views
12 Pages

28 July 2022

This paper proposes an algorithm that provides operational strategies for multiple heterogeneous mobile robot systems utilized in many real-world applications, such as deliveries, surveillance, search and rescue, monitoring, and transportation. Speci...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,217 Views
10 Pages

Automated vehicles (AVs) have given rise to a new field of study: human—automated vehicle interaction (H–AVI). Unfortunately, the H–AVI field has largely ignored the importance of context. To address this, this paper describes a socio-ecological view...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,367 Views
29 Pages

18 October 2023

Public key encryption with equality test (PKEET) is a cryptographic primitive that enables a tester to determine, without decryption, whether two ciphertexts encrypted with different public keys generate from the same message. In previous research, p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy and Cybersecurity in Mobile Crowdsensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,013 Views
20 Pages

The Use of Artificial Intelligence to Analyze the Exposome in the Development of Chronic Diseases: A Review of the Current Literature

  • Stefania Isola,
  • Giuseppe Murdaca,
  • Silvia Brunetto,
  • Emanuela Zumbo and ,
  • Alessandro Tonacci and
  • Sebastiano Gangemi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The “Exposome” is a concept that indicates the set of exposures to which a human is subjected during their lifetime. These factors influence the health state of individuals and can drive the development of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs)....

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