Smart cities are urban areas that use contemporary technology to improve citizens’ overall quality of life. These modern digital civil hubs aim to manage environmental conditions, traffic flow, and infrastructure through interconnected and data...
22 December 2015
Purpose: There is abundant evidence that neighborhood characteristics are significantly linked to the health of the inhabitants of a given space within a given time frame. This study is to statistically validate a web-based GIS application designed t...
(1) Background: Peritoneal metastasized colorectal cancer is associated with a worse prognosis. The combination of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) showed promising results in selected patients, but st...
My E-Diary for Activities and Lifestyle (MEDAL), a web-based application, was developed to assess the diets of children. This study examined the validity of school recess meals reported by children on MEDAL, using meal photography as the reference. R...
3 September 2014
Epidemiological studies have identified associations between mortality and changes in concentration of particulate matter. These studies have highlighted the public concerns about health effects of particulate air pollution. Modeling fine particulate...
In today’s era of rapid digitization and information technology advancement, web search and web data mining stand at the core of the technological progress of numerous web-based applications [...]
Food safety is an important indicator of public health, as foodborne illnesses continue to cause productivity and economic loss. In recent years, web-based applications have been extensively used by the online users’ population. Almost one thir...
Elderly people feel vulnerable especially after they are dismissed from health care facilities and return home. The purpose of this work was to alleviate this sense of vulnerability and empower these people by giving them the opportunity to unobtrusi...
Digital health interventions have shown promise in improving patient outcomes and experiences in various healthcare settings. However, their effectiveness in the context of cardiac surgery remains uncertain. This systematic review aims to evaluate th...
Nowadays, developing and applying advanced digital technologies for monitoring protected natural territories are critical problems. Collecting, digitalizing, storing, and analyzing spatiotemporal data on various aspects of the life cycle of such terr...
Avatar actions can be captured using certain gesture sensors or can be predefined by game designers through desktop applications. In other words, developing an online avatar editor could be necessary to specify the detailed actions for use by people...
The study of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) methylation has allowed important advances in the understanding of genetic diseases related to abnormal cell behavior. DNA methylation analysis tools have become especially relevant in recent years. However, t...
The evolution of digital technologies has resulted in the emergence of diverse interaction technologies. In this paper, we conducted a review of seven domains under a human-centric approach user interface design, human-centered web-based information...
Because the COVID-19 epidemic has limited human activities, it has touched almost every sector. Education is one of the most affected areas. To prevent physical touch between students, schools and campuses must adapt their complete learning system to...
Automated code generation and process flow management are central to web-based application development today. This database-centric approach targets the form and process management challenges faced by corporate companies. It minimizes the time losses...
Face recognition technology is a biometric technology, which is based on the identification or verification of facial features. Automatic face recognition is an active research field in the context of computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI)...
9 August 2024
Background: In biomedical imaging research, experimental biologists generate vast amounts of data that require advanced computational analysis. Breakthroughs in experimental techniques, such as multiplex immunofluorescence tissue imaging, enable deta...
Background: Current endometriosis classification systems have important limitations in accurately describing total disease burden and predicting clinical outcomes. Existing staging frameworks often fail to integrate adenomyosis and do not adequately...
Background: Hand-foot syndrome (HFS) is a dose-dependent toxicity of capecitabine that affects quality of life and may lead to treatment interruption. Currently, no clinical prediction tool exists to identify patients at high risk of developing moder...
The web application market has shown rapid growth in recent years. The expansion of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has created new web-based communication and sensing frameworks. Current security research utilizes so...
The rapid growth of the web has transformed our daily lives and the need for secure user authentication and authorization has become a crucial aspect of web-based services. JSON Web Tokens (JWT), based on RFC 7519, are widely used as a standard for u...
COVID-19 has imposed many challenges and barriers on traditional healthcare systems due to the high risk of being infected by the coronavirus. Modern electronic devices like smartphones with information technology can play an essential role in handli...
A ventilator central monitoring system (VCMS) that can efficiently respond to and treat patients’ respiratory issues in intensive care units (ICUs) is critical. Using Internet of Things (IoT) technology without loss or delay in patient monitori...
Imaging has become an invaluable tool in preclinical research for its capability to non-invasively detect and monitor disease and assess treatment response. With the increased use of preclinical imaging, large volumes of image data are being generate...
The importance of visual aids in communicating clinical examination findings or proposed treatments in dentistry cannot be overstated. Similarly, communicating dental research results with tooth surface-level precision is impractical without visual r...
This article offers a conceptual overview and functional analysis of the author’s web-based application LolyDash, a tool for managing personal finances through structured dashboards for expenses, income, notes, and group fundraising. The main f...
In recent years, excessive tillering caused by high temperatures during early growth has contributed to rice quality deterioration in warm regions of Japan. Accurate determination of midseason drainage timing is essential but remains difficult due to...
Information systems of companies and organizations are increasingly designed using web services that allow different applications written in different programming languages to communicate. These systems or some parts of them are often outsourced on t...
Web applications have become the foundation of many types of systems, ranging from cloud services to Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Due to the large amount of sensitive data processed by web applications, user privacy emerges as a major concern in...
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) cause environmental problems worldwide. Continuous monitoring and forecasting of harmful algal blooms are necessary for marine resources managers to detect the intensity and spatial extent of HABs and provide early warning...
Estimation methods are continuously being adapted to obtain better and clearer estimations needed to achieve development goals. Some estimation methods were invented before the modern mobile application technology that is currently available. Thus, t...
The increasing development and prevalence of web applications have contributed to a surge in web attacks, with injection vulnerabilities considered amongst the most pivotal, widespread, and severe. SQL injection attacks are a substantial type of atta...
With the rapid development of internet technologies in recent years, the shift from the desktop to the web platform can be seen within geospatial analysis. While analytical tools, such as buffer or clip, are routinely used in desktop environments, We...
The pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 has posed several questions about public health emergency risk communication. Due to the effort required for the population to adopt appropriate behaviors in response to the emergency, it is essential to inform the p...
Recent events have demonstrated the devastating impact of meteorological hazards on buildings and infrastructure. The possible effects of climate change on their frequency and intensity but also the rise in the value of assets may increase future ris...
Energy retrofit tools are considered by many countries as one of the strongest incentives to encourage homeowners to invest in energy renovation. These tools help homeowners to get an initial overview of suitable retrofit measures. Although a large n...
In recent years, large-scale watershed modeling has been implemented broadly in the field of water resources planning and management. Complex hydrological, sediment, and nutrient processes can be simulated by sophisticated watershed simulation models...
Background and objectives: Nutrients of concern (i.e., salt, sugars, and total fat/saturated fat) are associated with noncommunicable diseases (NCD); their intakes in adults across the EU are, on average, above the recommended intake. Reformulation p...
MOOCs offer great learning opportunities, but they also present several challenges for learners that hinder them from successfully completing MOOCs. To address these challenges, edX-LIMS (System for Learning Intervention and its Monitoring for edX MO...
Technology-enabled learning, using computers, smartphones, and tablets, to educate patients on their respiratory disease and management has grown over the last decade. This shift has been accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the need to so...
Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have an essential part to play in the management and planning of electricity distribution. Since the management of electricity network data was previously conducted in Tunisia based on paper maps and plans, the p...
User-centered developmental processes are critical to ensuring acceptability of e-health behavioral interventions, and yet physical activity research continues to be inundated with top-down developmental approaches. The IDEAS (Integrate, Design, Asse...
Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) remains a persistent threat to web applications due to the obfuscation, diversity, and evolving structure of malicious payloads, which limit the effectiveness of conventional rule and signature-based Web App...
The widespread adoption of web applications has led to a significant increase in the number of automated cyberattacks. Parameter tampering attacks pose a substantial security threat, enabling privilege escalation and unauthorized data exfiltration. T...
Web applications increasingly handle sensitive data in diverse use cases, but conventional encryption implementations apply a uniform level of cryptographic protection to all traffic, regardless of the associated risk. This static approach results in...
Software vulnerabilities in web applications are one of the sensitive points in data and application security. Although closing a vulnerability after it is detected in web applications seems to be a solution, detecting vulnerabilities in the source c...
Especially NMC-LCO 18650 cells, lithium-ion batteries are essential parts of electric vehicles (EVs), where their dependability and performance directly affect operating efficiency and safety. Predictive maintenance, cost control, and increasing user...
Dairy herd decisions about replacement, herd size, reproduction, and capital investments have long-lasting consequences for herd structure and farm cash flow. Yet most planning tools emphasize static budgets rather than the dynamic evolution of anima...
The increasing demand for high-quality geospatial visualizations in scientific publications has highlighted the need for accessible and standardized tools that support reproducible research. Researchers from various disciplines—often without ex...
29 April 2021
Background: Children and youth with disabilities participate less in leisure activities than their nondisabled peers. Increasing participation is a primary goal of rehabilitation interventions. However, valid measures that include the individual’s pe...
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