US labs braced for anti-spying legislation

Effect of Anti-Smoking Legislation in Public Places

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of anti-smoking legislation in public places and public support for smoking ban. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in public places such as market, bus/railway station, workplaces and hospitals in Udaipur, India. Informed consent was obtained. The questionnaire comprised of details about their agreement with the current ...

Deep-Spying: Spying using Smartwatch and Deep Learning

Wearable technologies are today on the rise, becoming more common and broadly available to mainstream users. In fact, wristband and armband devices such as smartwatches and fitness trackers already took an important place in the consumer electronics market and are becoming ubiquitous. By their very nature of being wearable, these devices, however, provide a new pervasive attack surface threaten...

Virtual labs: a substitute for traditional labs?

Current technologies give us the ability to enhance and replace developmental biology classes with computer-based resources, often called virtual labs. In the process of using these resources, teachers may be tempted to neglect the simpler technologies and lab bench activities, which can be labor intensive. In this paper, I take a critical look at the role of computer-based materials for the te...

Changes in ETS following anti-smoking legislation.

Spying with the Crowd

The cooperative power of crowd workers has been recently shown to be effective in solving large-scale diverse tasks. We elaborately study one such application of collaborative crowdsourcing. In this paper, we discuss the viability and different facets of crowdspying, activity of spying with the power of crowd workers. This type of citizen involvement has diverse applications that also includes ...