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...
Permission-related issues in Android apps have been widely studied in our research community, while most of the previous studies considered these issues from the perspective of app users. In this paper, we take a different angle to revisit the permis...
Both theism and atheism assume that God permits evil. But neither theism nor atheism make this assumption with due attention to what I call, following Wittgenstein, the grammar of the term ‘permission’. When this grammar is examined, it becomes clear...
The building permission process is to a large extent an analogue process where much information is handled in paper format or as pdf files. With the ongoing digitalisation in society, there is a potential to automate this process by integrating Build...
The proper use of Android app permissions is crucial to the success and security of these apps. Users must agree to permission requests when installing or running their apps. Despite official Android platform documentation on proper permission usage,...
With the growing era of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more devices are connecting with the Internet using android applications to provide various services. The IoT devices are used for sensing, controlling and monitoring of different process...
A major development in the field of access control is the dominant role-based access control (RBAC) scheme. The fascination of RBAC lies in its enhanced security along with the concept of roles. In addition, attribute-based access control (ABAC) is a...
In interlanguage pragmatics, effective communication enhances pragmatic awareness and mutual understanding, while the art of asking permission enables the speaker to convey clear information, allowing the listeners to comprehend, respond and decide....
Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) are widely used in embedded systems to ensure deterministic task execution, predictable responses, and concurrent operations, which are crucial for time-sensitive applications. However, the growing complexity of em...
A novel, simple, four-dimensional hyperchaotic memristor circuit consisting of two capacitors, an inductor and a magnetically controlled memristor is designed. Three parameters (a, b, c) are especially set as the research objects of the model through...
Users encounter privacy and permission settings across digital platforms, yet often struggle to understand, locate, and manage them effectively. Despite regulatory efforts such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and platform mechanisms...
Video surveillance systems (VSS), used as a measure of security strengthening as well as investigation, are provided principally in heavily crowded public places. They record images of moving objects and transmit them to the control center. Typically...
Malware family classification is grouping malware samples that have the same or similar characteristics into the same family. It plays a crucial role in understanding notable malicious patterns and recovering from malware infections. Although many ma...
Bitcoin is an innovative and path-breaking technology that has influenced numerous industries across the globe. It is a form of digital currency (cryptocurrency) that can be used for trading and has the potential to replace fiat money, where the unde...
Android devices are currently widely used in many fields, such as automatic control, embedded systems, the Internet of Things and so on. At the same time, Android applications (apps) always use multiple permissions, and permissions can be abused by m...
Malware applications (Apps) targeting mobile devices are widespread, and compromise the sensitive and private information stored on the devices. This is due to the asymmetry between informative permissions and irrelevant and redundant permissions for...
Black women in higher education have always been under pressure to prove that they belong in their positions, and often have taken on more work to prove this. The events of 2020—the COVID-19 global pandemic and the racial and social unrest that swept...
22 October 2020
The Internet has experienced a rapid increase in use globally. Specifically, more than 90% of Hong Kong’s citizens use the Internet, and 70% of children in the age group of 6–17 years have daily access to it. However, internet addiction c...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy management is one of the most viable solutions to incentivize prosumers in renewable energy microgrids. As the application of blockchain expends from the finance field to energy field, blockchain technology provides a new op...
Smartphone adaptation in society has been progressing at a very high speed. Having the ability to run on a vast variety of devices, much of the user base possesses an Android phone. Its popularity and flexibility have played a major role in making it...
The existing federated learning framework is based on the centralized model coordinator, which still faces serious security challenges such as device differentiated computing power, single point of failure, poor privacy, and lack of Byzantine fault t...
Permissioned blockchains can be applied for sharing data among permitted users to authorise the data access requests in a permissioned blockchain. A consensus network constructed using pre-selected nodes should verify a data requester’s credent...
A permissioned blockchain includes a user in the network after verifying the user’s identity, in contrast to Bitcoin, which is a public blockchain that allows network participation without third-party approval. The two types of permissioned blo...
The evolution of mobile technology has increased correspondingly with the number of attacks on mobile devices. Malware attack on mobile devices is one of the top security challenges the mobile community faces daily. While malware classification and d...
Blockchain technology leverages a cryptographic system to provide secure and immutable storage of transaction histories within a decentralised framework. While various industries have demonstrated interest in integrating blockchain into their IT syst...
Modern permissioned blockchain systems increasingly adopt hybrid data architectures in which critical metadata are anchored on-chain, while large or sensitive payloads are stored off-chain using infrastructures such as IPFS and cloud services. Althou...
Parental permissiveness toward alcohol use is associated with increased drinking among college students. In the U.S., Greek-affiliated students drink more and experience more negative consequences than other students. This study explored associations...
Mobile apps are essential for communication, transactions and leisure and frequently rely on access to personal data. This study examines Google Play’s Data Safety section and declared permissions five years after the GDPR came into force, focu...
The permissioned blockchain system has recently become popular in a wide range of scenarios, such as artificial intelligence, financial applications and the Internet of things, due to its dominance in terms of distribution, decentralization, reliabil...
As a promising decentralized paradigm, the verifiable and redactable blockchain offers a feasible solution for achieving authorized and controlled redaction of on-chain data. However, existing schemes suffer from rapidly expanding ledgers caused by a...
Baculovirus infection follows a transcriptionally controlled sequence of gene expression that occurs by activation of different viral gene promoter sequences during infection. This sequence of promoter activation may be disrupted by cellular defenses...
Mandarin fish ranavirus (MRV) infection poses a substantial challenge to the mandarin fish culture industry as no effective preventive or therapeutic measures currently exist. The creation of a highly permissive cell line from a natural host is cruci...
Purpose: This study examined the effect of permissive underfeeding compared to target feeding and intensive insulin therapy (IIT) compared to conventional insulin therapy (CIT) on the inflammatory mediators monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1),...
Introduction: Permissive hypercapnia has become an integral component of lung-protective ventilation strategies during one-lung ventilation (OLV), particularly in thoracic surgery. Its potential immunomodulatory effects have attracted increasing inte...
The development of information technology has brought great convenience to our lives, but at the same time, the unfairness and privacy issues brought about by traditional centralized systems cannot be ignored. Blockchain is a peer-to-peer and decentr...
Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a leading permissioned blockchain platform designed for enterprise applications. However, it faces significant security risks from Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks targeting its core components. This study systematically in...
The main method for assessing the seismic resistance of buildings in the standards of most countries is the linear-spectral method. This method allows for the calculation of the spatial model of a building for seismic load in the elastic range withou...
Permissioned blockchains are widely used in scenarios such as digital assets, supply chains, government services, and Web 3.0, but their development is hindered by low throughput and scalability. Blockchain sharding addresses these issues by dividing...
The transactive response DNA-binding protein (TARDBP/TDP-43) influences the processing of diverse transcripts, including that of histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6). Here, we assessed TDP-43 activity in terms of regulating CD4+ T-cell permissivity to HIV-1...
A key requirement for an integrated digital tool chain is secure access and control of data assets. Not all stakeholders will have the same access to or control over the flow of information, some will be able to input or change data whilst others wil...
Increasing demand for electricity, as well as rising environmental and economic concerns have resulted in renewable energy sources being a center of attraction. Integration of these renewable energy resources into power systems is usually achieved th...
Document authentication remains a pressing challenge in various domains, including financial services, academic credentialing, healthcare, and supply chain management. Existing centralized verification systems are vulnerable to manipulation, ineffici...
12 September 2022
During the early years, children’s outdoor play is dependent on parental supervision. Parents’ perceptions are likely to influence what the child is permitted to do. To better understand the involved mechanisms in parents’ decision...
Zika virus (ZIKV) exhibits distinct selectivity for infection of various cells and tissues, but how host cellular factors modulate varying permissivity remains largely unknown. Previous studies showed that the neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-AS (express...
19 August 2021
Drowning is a leading cause of fatality among children in the United States, and pool/spa aquatic structures represent common locations of submersion incidents. This study employed narrative case review to understand characteristics related to permis...
Background: Depression is a major public health concern and remains a challenge despite traditional care approaches. This study sought to answer the following research question: how do participants in a program based on Permission Theory describe the...
Higher education policy on generative artificial intelligence has developed rapidly, yet much of this development remains stronger on governance, permission, disclosure, and assurance than on pedagogy. Universities increasingly move beyond blanket pr...
In order to conveniently and efficiently determine the Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) of organic chemicals in the workplace, this study employed Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship (QSAR) modeling to predict properties related to o...
Recently, smartphone usage has increased tremendously, and smartphones are being used as a requirement of daily life, equally by all age groups. Smartphone operating systems such as Android and iOS have made it possible for anyone with development sk...
The Android platform has become the most popular smartphone operating system, which makes it a target for malicious mobile apps. This paper proposes a machine learning-based approach for Android malware detection based on application features. Unlike...
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