PARTICIPATION by lay citizens in technically complex political controversies often raises questions about the competence of participants and the quality of their contributions to decision-making. One way of addressing such concerns has been to establish temporary advisory bodies that involve lay people in cooperative deliberation informed by expert advice. Citizen juries, consensus conferences,...

Minor-aged patients are often brought to the pediatrician for nonurgent acute medical care, physical examinations, or health supervision visits by someone other than their legally authorized representative, which, in most situations, is a parent. These surrogates or proxies can be members of the child’s extended family, such as a grandparent, adult sibling, or aunt/uncle; a noncustodial parent ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, many governments tried to contain spread of virus by legally restricting social life and imposing national lockdowns. The Swedish government did not enforce a lockdown, but instead appealed individual’s self-responsibility follow specific containment recommendations developed Public Health Agency. Sweden is thus an especially interesting case study becaus...

In our previous work, we developed a security system which detects malicious behaviors at systemcall level. It first creates users’ personal profiles for all users of a close environment and an attacker profile for all hackers to keep track of their usage behaviors as the computer forensic features, and then determines whether or not a legally login user u is the account holder or a hacker by c...

Internet design principles do not focus on commercial service provisioning. Hence, support mechanisms need to be implemented in order to ensure that value added services can be offered in a competitive context. Commercial product offerings base on contractual agreements concluded between service providers and service customers. Contracts need to reflect business-driven requirements originating ...

Minor-aged patients are often brought to the pediatrician for nonurgent acute medical care, physical examinations, or health supervision visits by someone other than their legally authorized representative, which, in most situations, is a parent. These surrogates or proxies can be members of the child's extended family, such as a grandparent, adult sibling, or aunt/uncle; a noncustodial parent ...

The proposed approach aims to track multiple moving people in a colour video acquired with a single camera. The first phase of the approach consists in precisely detecting multi-human inside moving foregrounds. The input to this phase is foreground pixels which were extracted from the scene using any background subtraction technique. These moving foregrounds are then further segmented into mult...