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Monitoring security and quality of service is essential, due to the rapid growth of the number of nodes in wireless networks. In healthcare/industrial environments, especially in wireless body area networks (WBANs), this is even more important. Because the delays and errors can directly affect patients'/scientists' health. To increase the Monitoring Quality of Services (MQoS) in WBANs, a secure medium access control (MAC) protocol needs to be developed to provide optimal services. This article provides a comprehensive review of MAC protocols in WBANs with a technical security analysis approach. Time-based, contention-based, and hybrid protocols are compared in this article, regarding MQoS and their security vulnerabilities. We have considered delay, packet loss, and energy consumption as performance evaluation criteria in WBANs, which may be degraded under a cyberattack. This work shows that there is a research gap in the literature, which is the failure of covering security and privacy issues in the MAC layer protocols.

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Digital citizenship is about the citizenship of the algorithmic, datatified, connected, and sensorized world of metaverses, multiverses, big data, and artificial intelligence. It is the expression of a new type of architecture that promotes the emergence of a computational ecology made of people, data, algorithms, sensors, forests, weather, viruses, and cities. This connection challenges us to a new cognitive policy in the field of Education. The objective of the article is to discuss ways of knowing and producing knowledge related to the development of computational thinking in K-12 Education to understand how this language is promoted and produced in an immersion path in the city, understood as a territory of hybridizations. The experiences in the city are part of research conducted at the International Research Group on Digital Education, GPe-dU UNISINOS/CNPq, developed from inventive, sympoietic, interventionist, and gamified pedagogical practices. As a research method, it appropriates the intervention-research cartographic method for the production and analysis of data. The results presented are based on elements present in the reticular and connective epistemologies, in the theory of inventive cognition, and in the concepts of transorganic connective act, and atopic inhabitancy. The results indicate that computational thinking is being leveraged in the co-articulation between human and non-human entities, from a citizen OnLIFE Education perspective, contributing to its interdisciplinary and transversal understanding, as well as pointing to the emergence of an ecological cognitive policy in education.

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In contemporary society, there is a growing demand for professionals with the essential skills required in the 21st century. The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) disciplines have emerged as pivotal in facilitating the acquisition of these skills. Indeed, these disciplines have exhibited their capacity to enhance workforce performance and fortify a nation's innovation potential, emphasizing the critical need to promote STEAM education among students and integrate it into existing educational curricula. Nonetheless, the inclusion of students with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) in these disciplines presents formidable challenges. These challenges can be attributed to prevailing low expectations regarding the potential of disabled individuals to excel in STEAM fields, the inaccessibility of STEAM education curricula, and the limitations that educators face in fully supporting the integration of students with disabilities. In response to these challenges, we introduce the RoboSTEAMSEN project. The principal objective of the RoboSTEAMSEN project is to bolster educational processes by equipping teachers working with students with IDD with methodologies and tools that employ Robotics and Active Learning Methodologies to promote STEAM education. The project's overarching goals encompass comprehending the specific needs of disabled students and adapting robotics and active learning techniques to accommodate various disabilities, designing comprehensive training programs for teachers to enable them to individualize the learning experiences of students with IDD, establishing a community of practice supported by a technological ecosystem that serves as a central hub for educators and decision-makers to engage in discourse on how to achieve success in STEAM education for IDD students. The primary outcome of this project will be the enhancement of STEAM education for students with IDD. To achieve this objective, we will develop a taxonomy for the categorization of resources tailored to this demographic, institute a user model for personalized learning, generate guides, resources, and courses for teachers, formulate workshop models for the wider dissemination of project findings, and establish a technological ecosystem to facilitate a thriving community of practice dedicated to this important educational domain. © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors.

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