Numerous studies have shown that android or truncal obesity is associated with a risk for metabolic and cardiovascular disease, yet there is evidence that gynoid fat distribution may be protective. However, these studies have focused on adults and obese children. The purpose of our study was to determine if the android/gynoid fat ratio is positively correlated with insulin resistance, HOMA2-IR,...

With the rapid growth of the mobile market, security of mobile platforms is receiving increasing attention from both research community as well as the public. In this paper, we make the first attempt to establish a baseline for security comparison between the two most popular mobile platforms. We investigate applications that run on both Android and iOS and examine the difference in the usage o...

Google’s Android is a comprehensive software framework for mobile communication devices (i.e., smartphones, PDAs). The Android framework includes an operating system, middleware and a set of key applications. The incorporation of integrated access services to the Internet on such mobile devices, however, increases their exposure to damages inflicted by various types of malware. This paper provi...

Till today, there are more than 1 billion smartphone users worldwide. With smartphones become more popular, more security instances have been reported. Therefore, it is important to study the security issues of smartphones and develop effective approaches to safeguard them. This research is focused on Android based systems, in particular, the security of Android Debug Bridge (ADB). As an import...

We propose Dagger, a lightweight system to dynamically vet sensitive behaviors in Android apps. Dagger avoids costly instrumentation of virtual machines or modifications to the Android kernel. Instead, Dagger reconstructs the program semantics by tracking provenance relationships and observing apps’ runtime interactions with the phone platform. More specifically, Dagger uses three types of low-...

BACKGROUND Upper body fat distribution is associated with the early development of insulin resistance in obese children and adolescents. OBJECTIVE To determine if an android to gynoid fat ratio is associated with the severity of insulin resistance in obese children and adolescents, whereas peripheral subcutaneous fat may have a protective effect against insulin resistance. SETTING The pedia...

In recent years, mobile devices, such as smart phones, have spread at an exponential rate. The most used system running on these devices, accounting for almost 80% of market share for smart phones world-wide, is the Android software stack. This system runs Android applications that users download from an application market. The system is called a permission-based system since it limits access t...

UNLABELLED The AIM of the study was to compare the levels of certain adipose tissue hormones in women with the two main morphological types of obesity - android and gynoid obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 2 groups of age- and weight-matched women with android (n = 32) and gynoid (n = 27) type of obesity, and a group of age-matched healthy women (n = 24) with normal weight and...

Recent malware often collects sensitive information from third-party applications with an illegally escalated privilege to the system level (the highest level) on the Android platform. An attack to obtain root-level privilege in an Android environment can pose a serious threat to users because it breaks down the whole security system. RGBDroid (Rooting Good-Bye on Droid) is an extension to the ...

With the rapid growth of the mobile market, security of mobile platforms is receiving increasing attention from both research community as well as the public. In this paper, we make the first attempt to establish a baseline for security comparison between the two most popular mobile platforms. We investigate applications that run on both Android and iOS and examine the difference in the usage o...