Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Evaluation of Childhood Overweight Studies from South Africa: A Bibliometric Review from 2003-2023Mere IdamokoroOverweight/obesity exists as a severe threat to the well-being of children globally, with its prevalence in South Africa steadily increasing in recent years. Childhood obesity/overweight can be linked to several life-threatening ailments and, in some cases, death. The present bibliometric review aimed to quantify and map out scholarly outputs on obesity/overweight research published in South Africa through a bibliometric analysis. … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 25, Issue 2 · 5 Mar 2025 · 4,909 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSystem for Securing Timestamping and Electronic Signing of PDF Documents: Standards, Schematic, and ImplementationMoussa Habiboulaye, Harouna Naroua, Chaibou KadriThis article investigates the standards and principles for implementing electronic signatures in PDF documents, focusing on security and compliance with legal regulations. The current state of digital signatures is examined, highlighting the importance of authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation. A detailed analysis is provided on the process of generating and verifying electronic signatures using Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) and cryptographic techniques. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 21, Issue 11 · 19 Dec 2025 · 1,870 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe European Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) as a Reservoir of Tuberculosis: Ecological Drivers and Management ImplicationsGiovanna Liguori, Renato Lombardi, Fabio Castagna et al.Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), an infectious disease primarily caused by Mycobacterium bovis and other members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, represents a significant challenge to both animal and public health. Despite successful control programs in numerous regions, the presence of wildlife reservoirs, notably wild boar (Sus scrofa), impedes complete eradication and sustains disease propagation. bTB prevalence varies across Europe, with higher … …American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 20, Issue 3 · 16 Nov 2025 · 2,628 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBurden of Early Pregnancy and Reach of Cash Incentive Scheme for Promoting Institutional Delivery in IndiaAnjali Srivastava, Priyanka Ribhu, Purujit PraharajThe burdenof early pregnancy and high out-of-pocket costs necessitate the use ofinstitutional care, qualified medical staff, and financial incentives to boostthe quality of maternal health services. In response, the Indian governmentintroduced the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) scheme in2005, which offers cashtransfers to underprivileged women using public health facilities for childdelivery. Using the data from the National Family Health Survey-5 and … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 21, Issue 1 · 5 Jun 2025 · 6,913 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImprovement of Menezes-Vanstone Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem Based on Quadratic Bézier Curve TechniqueDua M. Ghadi, Adil AL-RammahiCryptography is one of the most important applications and widely used in our life especially in the information security that needed by many government institutions, banks, communications and others to keep data over internet and other transportations that it is ensure safety of transfers between the sender and the recipient. The most important system in cryptography is public key cryptography … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 5 · 4 Jun 2020 · 8,223 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractE-Participation Success Factors: A Systematic Literature ReviewElgamar Syam, Alawiyah Abd Wahab, Abdullah HusinE-participation which has emerged from the development of electronic government, is a very interesting phenomenon to study today. However, when e-participation was first introduced, various problems arose, such as the reluctance of citizens to use e-participation as a system that was considered suitable to carry out the process of public participation in government. This problem encourages many researchers to find … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 20, Issue 9 · 10 Jul 2024 · 5,689 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractE-Government Diffusion in Jordan: Employees' Perceptions Toward Electronic Government in JordanWasfi AlrawabdehA number of countries, in both developed and developing nations, have started e-government programs that aim to provide public services online, improve government procedures and, most importantly, provide improved services for citizens. The aim of this paper is to identify the factors that are currently influencing the development and diffusion of e-government in Jordan as perceived by government employees involved … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 16 Jan 2017 · 7,637 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractAn Opportunity for the Agricultural Sector: The Renewable Energy SourcesRiccardo Testa, Salvatore TudiscaToday, among the most important issue for energy decisions by policymakers, there are security challenges and environmental impacts on climate change and economic aspects. Since the seventies, in fact, global warming and environmental issues have had an increasing importance in international debate, attracting the attention of several scientific studies (Landi and Benelli, 2016). Many of these studies denoted that over … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 6 Sep 2016 · 8,098 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOrganizational Well-Being in a Public Research Agency: The Point of View of Administrative Staff and ResearchersElisa Colì, Antonella RissottoThe aim of this paper is to investigate organizational well-being in a Public Research Agency, exploring the point of view of two different categories of workers, administrative staff and researchers, employed in the same organization. We hypothesized that, in a complex organization, the kind of work performed, along with other factors, could influence the representation of organizational well-being. The study … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 22 Oct 2015 · 7,177 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCarving Secret Messages out of Public InformationNaya Nagy, Marius Nagy, Selim G. AklThis study shows that secret information can be shared or passed from a sender to a receiver even if not encoded in a secret message. In the protocol designed in this study, no parts of the original secret information ever travel via communication channels between the source and the destination, no encoding/decoding key is ever used. The two communicating partners, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 25 Feb 2015 · 8,043 accessesView PDFCite