Barriers and facilitators to oral pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among adolescents girls and young women at elevated risk of HIV acquisition in Lilongwe, Malawi: A qualitative stu... by Simon C Nicholas, Maureen Matewere, Agatha Bula, Mercy Tsidya, Mina C Hosseinipour, Mitch Matoga, Alinane Linda Nyondo Mipando

“…The data were digitally recorded, managed using NVivo software and analysed using a thematic approach guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). …”
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A clinically accessible small multimodal radiology model and evaluation metric for chest X-ray findings by Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, Shih-Cheng Huang, Yanbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Naoto Usuyama, Sheng Zhang, Fei Wang, Yujia Xie, Mahmoud Khademi, Ziyi Yang, Hany Awadalla, Julia Gong, Houdong Hu, Jianwei Yang, Chunyuan Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yu Gu, Cliff Wong, Mu Wei, Tristan Naumann, Muhao Chen, Matthew P. Lungren, Akshay Chaudhari, Serena Yeung-Levy, Curtis P. Langlotz, Sheng Wang, Hoifung Poon

“…Abstract Large foundation models show promise in biomedicine but face challenges in clinical use due to performance gaps, accessibility, cost, and lack of scalable evaluation. …”
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AI-Driven Advancements in Orthodontics for Precision and Patient Outcomes by David B. Olawade, Navami Leena, Eghosasere Egbon, Jeniya Rai, Aysha P. E. K. Mohammed, Bankole I. Oladapo, Stergios Boussios

“…While AI offers tremendous potential, challenges remain in areas such as data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the cost of adopting AI technologies. …”
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Survey Influencing Factors on Prenatal Care in mothers referring to health care ‎centers in Rasht city in ‎‏2008‏ by fataneh bakhshi, nasrin mokhtari, shahin jefruodi, jila shekani, moohamad abasi, zahra atrkarruoshan

“…‎ Conclusion: In existence of prenatal care in health centers, almost half of women do not use these ‎care provided. Among barriers to utilization of care were not knowing the manner and number of ‎prenatal care, compliance with the women's privacy in time of providing care and providers manner ‎of communication in health centers. …”
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Fighting Fire with Fire: Reclaiming Social Media to Promote Healthy Eating Behaviors among Children by Babu George, Martha Ravola

“…The paper emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations in implementing social media interventions for children, addressing privacy concerns, data security, and the need for age-appropriate, culturally sensitive content. …”
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A Web-Based Interface That Leverages Machine Learning to Assess an Individual’s Vulnerability to Brain Stroke by Divyansh Bhandari, Arnav Agarwal, R. Reena Roy, Rajaram Priyatharshini, Rodriguez Rivero Cristian

“…To bridge the gap between complex predictive models and end-users, we deploy this model in an intuitive web interface (built with Streamlit) that non-technical individuals and healthcare providers can easily use. This interface requires no specialized knowledge, preserves user privacy by avoiding any data storage, and provides clear explanations of results. …”
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A Novel Crowdsourcing-Assisted 5G Wireless Signal Ranging Technique in MEC Architecture by Rui Lu, Lei Shi, Yinlong Liu, Zhongkai Dang

“…This study designs a progressive solution by (1) building a crowdsourced data collection network, using mobile terminals equipped with GPS technology to automatically collect device signal features, replacing inefficient manual drive tests; (2) developing a progressive signal update algorithm that integrates real-time crowdsourced data and historical signals to optimize the signal fingerprint database in dynamic environments; (3) establishing an edge service architecture to offload signal matching and trajectory estimation tasks to MEC nodes, using lightweight computing engines to reduce the load on the core network. …”
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Retracted: An Enhanced Hybrid Glowworm Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Traffic-Aware Vehicular Networks by Pratima Upadhyay, Venkatadri Marriboina, Shiv Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Mohd Asif Shah

“…Also, the safety messages are modified or discarded by the attacker or any other node and it may lead to the loss of privacy, integrity, confidentiality, and authentication of the data.So to enhance the security of VANETs, it is very much essential to invent a secure communication protocol, to protect the infrastructure of the network and the confidentiality of the data. …”
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Advancing the Sensitivity Frontier in digital contact tracing: Comparative analysis of proposed methods toward maximized utility by Junko Ami, Yanbo Pang, Hiroshi Masui, Takashi Okumura, Yoshihide Sekimoto

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries adopted Digital Contact Tracing (DCT) technology to control infections. However, the widely-used Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based DCT requires both the infected individual and the contact to have the application activated to detect exposure. …”
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Potential of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) applications in building a smart healthcare system: A systematic review by Ruby Dwivedi, Divya Mehrotra, Shaleen Chandra

“…However mass adoption seems challenging due to factors like privacy and security of data, management of large amount of data, scalability and upgradation etc. …”
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A blockchain technology for improving financial flows in humanitarian supply chains: benefits and challenges by Saurav Negi

“…Key challenges identified include scalability issues, high cost and resource requirements, lack of network reliability, data privacy, supply chain integration, knowledge and training gaps, regulatory frameworks and ethical considerations. …”
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A novel integration of multi-stocked gated variant recurrent units and Kolmogorov-Arnold tuned deep training networks for anchoring the intrusion detection against computer attacks by M. Saritha, Saidireddy Malgireddy

“…The major components of the proposed model: (1) Data-Collection and Pre-processing (2) Feature Extraction using MSV-GRU (3) FKA-DLN model for the better classification. …”
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Enhancing Incentive Schemes in Edge Computing through Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning by Gowtham R, Vatsala Anand, Yadati Vijaya Suresh, Kasetty Lakshmi Narasimha, R. Anil Kumar, V. Saraswathi

“… Edge learning is a distributed approach for training machine learning models using data from edge devices. It preserves privacy by avoiding direct data sharing. …”
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Multimodal dataset for sensor fusion in fall detection by Carla Taramasco, Miguel Pineiro, Pablo Ormeño-Arriagada, Diego Robles, David Araya

“…This dataset was compiled from simulations of ten different fall types by ten participants, ensuring a wide array of scenarios. Data were collected using four types of sensors: a mobile phone equipped with a single-channel, three-dimensional accelerometer; a far infrared (FIR) thermal camera; an $8×8$ LIDAR; and a 60–64 GHz radar. …”
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Client Selection for Generalization in Accelerated Federated Learning: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach by Dan Ben Ami, Kobi Cohen, Qing Zhao

“…Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning (ML) paradigm used to train models across multiple nodes (i.e., clients) holding local data sets, without explicitly exchanging the data. …”
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The Effect of Viral Promotional Advergames on the Behavioral Reactions by Mostafa Heidari Haratemeh

“…This research used data from pre-measure and post-measure assessments within a real viral marketing campaign. …”
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Exploring the barriers and facilities migrants face in accessing COVID-19 vaccines in Malaysia: A qualitative study. by Tharani Loganathan, Amirah Zafirah Zaini, Hazreen Abdul Majid

“…Digital appointment systems excluded many migrants due to language and literacy barriers, data privacy concerns, and the need for identity documents. …”
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Barriers and facilitators of the electronic medical record adoption among healthcare providers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Tadesse Alemu Bekele, Lemma Derseh Gezie, Herman Willems, Jonathan Metzger, Biruhtesfa Abere, Blen Seyoum, Loko Abraham, Naod Wendrad, Selamawit Meressa, Bethel Desta, Tariku Nigatu Bogale

“…Methods A descriptive-phenomenological approach was used. Data were collected from one hospital and three health centers from 5–13 June, 2023, that implemented the EMR. …”
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Digital technologies for the Sustainable Development Goals by Dharmendra Hariyani, Poonam Hariyani, Sanjeev Mishra

“…This study is motivated by the growing significance of DTs in addressing sustainability challenges and their critical contribution to achieving the SDGs while identifying barriers to their adoption. Using a systematic review, this review examines the contributions of various DTs, i.e., AI, IoT, blockchain, cloud computing, big data analytics, remote sensing, and GIS in addressing SDGs. …”
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Zero-Touch Network Security (ZTNS): A Network Intrusion Detection System Based on Deep Learning by Emad-Ul-Haq Qazi, Tanveer Zia, Muhammad Hamza Faheem, Khurram Shahzad, Muhammad Imran, Zeeshan Ahmed

“…The rapid evaluation of smart cities has revolutionized the research and development field to a very extensive level which presents challenges in handling massive amounts of data. However, the integration of IoT into various aspects of life has introduced various challenges related to the security and privacy of IoT systems. …”
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