End-to-End Framework for Identifying Vulnerabilities of Operational Technology Protocols and Their Implementations in Industrial IoT by Matthew Boeding, Michael Hempel, Hamid Sharif

“…Furthermore, this framework can test protocol compliance, performance, and security in a controlled environment before deploying devices in live production networks and addressing cybersecurity concerns.…”
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Economic and ecological perspectives of farmers on rice insect pest management by M.T.N. Cabasan, J.A.G. Tabora, N. Cabatac, C.M. Jumao-as, J.O. Soberano, J.V. Turba, N.H.A. Dagamac, E. Barlaan

“…Thus, efficient, safe, low cost pest control strategies are needed to reduce reliance of farmers to pesticides and to improve agricultural production and food security of smallholder farmers in the Philippines.…”
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Tampered text detection via RGB and frequency relationship modeling by Yuxin WANG, Boqiang ZHANG, Hongtao XIE, Yongdong ZHANG

“…In recent years, the widespread dissemination of tampered text images on the Internet constitutes an important threat to the security of text images.However, the corresponding tampered text detection (TTD) methods have not been sufficiently explored.The TTD task aims to locate all text regions in an image while judging whether the text regions have been tampered with according to the authenticity of the texture.Thus, different from the general text detection task, TTD task further needs to perceive the fine-grained information for real-world and tampered text classification.TTD task has two main challenges.One the one hand, due to the high similarity in texture between real-world texts and tampered texts, TTD methods that only learn from RGB domain features have limited capability to distinguish these two-category texts well.On the other hand, as the different detecting difficulty exists in real-world texts and tampered texts, the network cannot well balance the learning process of the two-category texts, resulting in the imbalance detection performance between real-world and tampered texts.Compared with RGB domain features, the discontinuity of text texture in frequency domain can help the network to identify the authenticity of text instances.Accordingly, a new TTD method based on RGB and frequency information relationship modeling was proposed.The features in the RGB and frequency domains were extracted by independent feature extractors respectively.Thus, the identification ability of tampered texture can be enhanced by introducing frequency information during the texture perception.Then, a global RGB-frequency relationship module (GRM) was introduced to model the texture authenticity relationship between different text instances.GRM referred to the RGB-frequency features of other text instances in the same image to assist in judging the authenticity of the current text instance, which solved the problem of imbalanced detection performance.Furthermore, a new TTD dataset (Tampered-SROIE) was proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed method, which contains 986 images (626 training images and 360 test images).By evaluating on the Tampered-SROIE, the proposed method obtains 95.97% and 96.80% in F-measure for real-world and tampered texts respectively and reduces the imbalanced detection accuracy by 1.13%.The proposed method will give new insights to the TTD community from the perspective of network structure and detection strategy.Tampered-SROIE also provides an evaluation benchmark for future TTD methods.…”
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Empowering Diabetes Management Through Blockchain and Edge Computing: A Systematic Review of Healthcare Innovations and Challenges by K. Tlemcani, K. Azbeg, E. Saoudi, L. Fetjah, O. Ouchetto, S. Jai Andaloussi

“…In the evolving landscape of health information management, the application of blockchain and edge computing technologies to chronic disease management remains underexplored, despite the urgent need for scalable, secure, and real-time solutions. This systematic review examines the integration of these technologies in healthcare, with a specific focus on diabetes management. …”
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War and criminal law policy of Ukraine: challenges and responses by Yu. V. Orlov, N. O. Pribytkova

“…The empirical basis of the study is made up of the materials of 225 court verdicts for the commission of criminal offenses provided for by Articles 111, 111-1, 111-2, 114-2, 436-2, 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, as well as the results of expert assessments and surveys of 92 employees of pre-trial investigation bodies of the National of the police, 35 employees of the prosecutor’s office, 30 investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia regions. …”
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GloRice, a global rice database (v1.0): I. Gridded paddy rice annual distribution from 1961 to 2021 by Hanzhi Xie, Jingxian Li, Tingting Li, Xinqing Lu, Qiwen Hu, Zhangcai Qin

“…Abstract Paddy rice, one of the world’s primary cereals, plays a critical role in food security and environmental sustainability. Existing global rice distribution datasets provide valuable insights but are often constrained by time and coverage. …”
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Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond by Anna Pancheshnikov, C Nicholas Cuneo, Wilfredo R Matias, Rebeca Cázares-Adame, Abner Gamaliel Santos López, Ryan M Paxton, Chi Chiung Grace Chen

“…The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of life globally and laid bare the pervasive inequities in access to education, employment, healthcare and economic security in both high-resource and low-resource settings. …”
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Validation of the Food Safe Zone questionnaire for families of individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome by Elisabeth M. Dykens, Elizabeth Roof, Hailee Hunt-Hawkins, Theresa V. Strong

“…To avoid life-threatening obesity in their children, families implement food security strategies (e.g., locking food sources, constant supervision around food, alerting others). …”
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Developing the Preventing Model of Transnational Crimes in Russia and Indonesia in the Age of Sanctions and Global Economic Instability by Toebagus Galang Windi Pratama, Ruslan Puzikov, Sergey Lantsov, Vadim Ponkratov, Ekaterina Khomenko, Larisa Vatutina, Gustavo Henrique Rodrigues Pessoa

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Index-based livestock insurance schemes to manage climate risks in Ethiopia: determinants of farmer’s willingness to pay and lessons learned from Dasenech district, South Omo by Tagesse Melketo, Degefa Tolossa, Meskerem Abi, Sisay Bedeke, Tenaw Fentaw

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Does heatwaves/above-average temperature increase interpersonal violent behavior? A scoping review by Daniela ACQUADRO MARAN, Gaia DIBIASE, Sofia FILIPPETTI, Riccardo SANDRETTO, Antonella VARETTO, Claudio Giovanni CORTESE, Elisabetta CARRARO

“…., promoting green spaces and reducing pollution) and at the level of individual city institutions, which can monitor the phenomenon and take action, such as increasing the presence of security personnel in anticipation of periods of highest temperatures.…”
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Enhancing privacy and traceability of public health insurance claim system using blockchain technology by Andry Alamsyah, I. Putu Sadhu Setiawan

“…Initial tests of the prototype confirm the feasibility and robustness of the proposed solution, illustrating how blockchain can facilitate traceability and preserve confidentiality.DiscussionThe blockchain-based design addresses pressing concerns surrounding data security and accountability in large-scale health insurance systems. …”
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A deep learning ICDNET architecture for efficient classification of histopathological cancer cells using Gaussian noise images by Hui Zong, Wenlong An, Xin Chen, Zhanhui Yang, Heng Zhou, Xiangchao Liu, Jianchu Lin, Chuanyue Zong

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Bearing Defect Detection with Unsupervised Neural Networks by Jianqiao Xu, Zhaolu Zuo, Danchao Wu, Bing Li, Xiaoni Li, Deyi Kong

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Systemic Crisis in the US-Turkish Relations Under the Presidency of D. Trump by A. A. Davydov

“…Its depth and scale is so significant that it affects the long-term foreign policy strategies of both countries, as well as the process of building a unified security architecture. In the study the author raises a question to what extent the current crisis in the US-Turkish relations is systemic? …”
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Reducing Plate Waste in Latvian Schools: Evaluating Interventions to Promote Sustainable Food Consumption Practices by Jelena Lonska, Sergejs Kodors, Juta Deksne, Lienite Litavniece, Anda Zvaigzne, Inese Silicka, Inta Kotane

“…Food waste (FW) threatens food security, environmental sustainability, and economic efficiency, with about one-third of global food production lost or wasted. …”
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Biodegradable mulch as microclimate modification effort for improving the growth of horenso; Spinacia oleracea L. by A. Iriany, F. Hasanah, D. Roeswitawati, M.F. Bela

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Increasing global temperature imposes large risks to food security globally and regionally. Besides, adaptation effort on cultivation practices, such as mulching, is urgent to overcome environmental problem due to certain material used, commonly plastic that is not biodegradable. …”
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Blockchain-driven demand side management in P2P energy markets for islanded microgrid systems by Abdullah Umar, Sumit Kumar Jha, Deepak Kumar, Tirthadip Ghose, Subhransu Ranjan Samantaray

“…This integration enhances transparency, security, and efficiency in the microgrid. During the registration phase, all devices are authenticated and authorized through a secure, transparent blockchain ledger. …”
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‘In the shadows of a giant?’ A spatial analytical method for assessing coastal proximity using R: a case-study from the Bronze Age Saronic Gulf (Greece) by Christopher Nuttall

“…Instead, it reveals a complex pattern where coastal proximity was not solely dictated by maritime capabilities:  it was a strategic choice influenced by a myriad of factors, including security, agricultural potential, external trade relations and climatic change.  …”
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FAIR data – the photon and neutron communities move together towards open science by B. M. Murphy, A. Götz, C. Gutt, C. McGuinness, H. M. Rønnow, A. Schneidewind, S. Deledda, U. Pietsch

“…FAIR data also affect the carbon footprint related to large amounts of data and raise questions related to user authentication, rights of access and cyber security. The RIs alone cannot achieve such a transformational process. …”
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