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2021

Equal opportunities in the access to quality online health information? A multi-lingual study on Wikipedia

Authors
Couto, L; Lopes, CT;

Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPEN COLLABORATION (OPENSYM)

Abstract
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, and collaborative online encyclopedia. Nowadays, it is one of the largest sources of online knowledge, often appearing at the top of the results of the major search engines, being one of the most sought-after resources by the public searching for health information. The collaborative nature of Wikipedia raises security concerns since this information is used for decision-making, especially in the health area. Despite being available in hundreds of idioms, there are asymmetries between idioms, namely regarding their quality. In this work, we compare the quality of health information on Wikipedia between idioms with 100 million native speakers or more, and also in Greek, Italian, Korean, Turkish, Persian, Catalan and Hebrew, for historical tradition. Quality metrics are applied to health and medical articles in English, maintained by WikiProject Medicine, and their versions in the above idioms. With this, we contribute to a clarification of the role of Wikipedia in the access to health information. We demonstrate differences in both the quantity and quality of information available between idioms. English is the idiom with the highest quality in general. Urdu, Greek, Indonesian, and Hindi achieved lower values of quality.

2021

Behavior based price personalization under vertical product differentiation

Authors
Garella, P; Laussel, D; Resende, J;

Publication
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Abstract
We study price personalization in a two period duopoly with vertically differentiated products. In the second period, a firm not only knows the purchase history of all customers, as in standard Behavior Based Price Discrimination models, but it also collects detailed information on its old customers, using it to engage in price personalization. The analysis reveals that there exists a natural market for each firm, defined as the set of customers that cannot be poached by the rival in the second period. The equilibrium is unique, except when firms are ex-ante almost identical. In equilibrium, only the firm with the largest natural market poaches customers from the rival. This firm has highest profits but not necessarily the largest market share. Aggregate profits are lower than under uniform pricing. All consumers gain, total welfare is higher herein than under uniform pricing if firms' natural markets are sufficiently asymmetric. The low quality firm chooses the minimal quality level and a quality differential arises, though the exact choice for the high quality depends upon the cost specification.

2021

Balancing the Detection of Malicious Traffic in SDN Context

Authors
Machado, BS; Silva, JMC; Lima, SR; Carvalho, P;

Publication
12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UBIQUITOUS AND FUTURE NETWORKS (ICUFN 2021)

Abstract
Huge efforts and resources are spent every year on prevention and recovery of cyberattacks targeting users, services and network infrastructures. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a technology providing advances to the field of security with the ability of programming the network, promoting high-performance solutions and efficient resource utilization at low costs, as the use of specialized hardware is avoided. The present paper aims at exploring the SDN paradigm to develop an SDN-based framework for prevention and mitigation of malicious attacks throuhgt the network. The framework design and proposal has concerns regarding the efficient use of network and computational resources, distributing the inspection of suspicious flows by distinct Intrusion Detection Systems. For this purpose, a load-balancing strategy for traffic inspection is devised, allowing to balance both the usage of resources and the analysis of traffic flows. In this way, this paper also sheds light on the usage of OpenFlow messages to build distributed SDN-based applications with the mentioned properties.

2021

Multiparameter Plasmonic Resonance Sensor using a D-shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber

Authors
Romeiro, AF; Cardoso, MP; Silva, AO; Costa, JCWA; Giraldi, MTR; Santos, JL; Baptista, JM; Guerreiro, A;

Publication
2021 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE AND OPTOELECTRONICS CONFERENCE (IMOC)

Abstract
This paper proposes a scheme to determine multiple parameters of a medium using multiple localized surface plasmon resonances (SPR) in a D-shaped photonic crystal fiber (PCF) whose flat surface is covered by two adjacent gold layers of different thicknesses. We show how to customize plasmon resonances at different wavelengths with very low cross-talk between them, thus allow obtaining the optical dispersion, the average refractive index and the temperature of the sample. Since the surface plasmon resonances are excited at distinct spectral channels, the sensing structure can be used to determine simultaneously these parameters.

2021

Financial innovation, corruption, and economic growth: Analysis of Sub-Saharan African countries

Authors
Botelho, A; Au Yong Oliveira, M; Jungo, J; Madaleno, M;

Publication
International Journal of Business Innovation and Research

Abstract

2021

Autonomous High-Resolution Image Acquisition System for Plankton

Authors
Resende, J; Barbosa, P; Almeida, J; Martins, A;

Publication
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SYSTEMS AND COMPETITIONS (ICARSC)

Abstract
This paper presents a high-resolution imaging system developed for plankton imaging in the context of the MarinEye integrated biological sensor [1]. This sensor aims to produce an autonomous system for marine integrated physical, chemical and biological monitoring combining imaging, acoustic, sonar, and fraction filtration systems (coupled to DNA/RNA preservation) as well as sensors for targeting physical-chemical variables in a modular and compact system that can be deployed on fixed and mobile platforms, such as the TURTLE robotic deep sea lander [2]. The results obtained with the system both in laboratory conditions and in the field are presented and discussed, allowing the characterization and validation of the performance of the Autonomous High-Resolution Image Acquisition System for Plankton.

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