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This study aims to analyze the Chan-Vese model's performance using a variety of tumor images. The processes involve the tumors' segmentation, detecting the tumors, identifying the segmented tumor region, and extracting the...

Health Information Systems Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems

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Evidence suggest that promoting a combination of healthy lifestyle behaviors instead of exclusively focusing on a single behavior may have a greater impact on blood pressure (BP). We aimed to evaluate...

Hypertension blood pressure cardiovascular risk Healthy lifestyle Humans Cholesterol Risk Factors Cross-Sectional Studies Life Style blood pressure Police

We propose two analytical models to characterize the relationship between technological upgrading and innovation in the oil & gas industry. The first one is an “optimization model” which focuses on the trade-offs between profit...

Business Intelligence Business and Management Business Information Systems

This chapter draws from Australian studies to explore policies associated with behavioral interventions for environmental stewardship. Each case focuses on attempts to influence the eco-behaviors of recreational users of aquatic...

Policy & Reform Government and Law Public and Sector Management Social Sciences and Humanities Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences

Very few academic programs in pre-service teacher education include opportunities for current and future K-12 educators to develop the necessary skills to teach in an online setting. While limited research has been done related...

Blended & Mobile Learning Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology

Flavonoid compounds modulate the cytochrome P450 3A4 enzyme activity and inhibit the mutagenic activity of mammalian cells, preventing carcinogen activation and cellular DNA damage. In this work, the quantitative...

Chemistry Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Chemistry

With the aim of preventing malnutrition, it has been proposed to provide information to consumers about the nutritional content of food using labelling on packages to promote healthier eating habits. Since the way in which the...

Recently, the issue pertinent to sensor network security is a popular topic. Especially, due to the restriction of energy supplied by battery power of the sensors, symmetric cryptography is one of the suitable choices for the...

Digital Crime & Forensics Security and Forensics IT Security and Ethics

Recently, global e-commerce businesses have been blooming due to the convenience they offer, their product range, and the individualized products and services they offer. To maintain an entire ecosystem, effective...

Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology IT Research and Theory

The ability to predict the patients with long-term length of stay (LOS) can aid a hospital's admission management, maintain effective resource utilization and provide a high quality of inpatient care. Hospital discharge data...

IT Research & Theory Computer Science and Information Technology Data Mining and Databases

In this study, the authors extended the perceived risk-value model to include customer involvement to conceptualize an adoption intention model in the context of internet-only bank services (IOBSs). Hypotheses were tested using...

End-User Computing Social Sciences and Humanities Human Aspects of Technology

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