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Neuroadaptive Incentivization in Healthcare using Blockchain and IoT
Financially incentivizing health-related behaviors can improve health record outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Blockchain and IoT technologies...
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Information Integrity in Participatory Crowd-Sensing via Robust Trust Models
In this chapter, we propose a recipe for event truthfulness scoring and user reputation scoring framework that is immune to the cold start problem in...
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FINESSE: Fair Incentives for Enterprise Employees
Service enterprises typically motivate their employees by providing incentives in addition to their basic salary. Generally speaking, an incentive...
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Digital Financial Inclusion and Resilience – A Crowd-Funded Microloan Platform in Indonesia
Digital financial inclusion (DFI) aims to offer better opportunities for poor women who often face unequal access to financial services. Platformed...
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A survey of mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing strategies for smart mobile device users
Smart handheld devices such as smartphones are capable of sensing and interacting with surrounding environments. This emerging capability of...
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Modeling Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for Optimal Investment and Operational Decisions
This paper focuses on making optimal investment and operational recommendations for a Hybrid Renewable Energy System (HRES). For this purpose, we...
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Asset logging in the energy sector: a scalable blockchain-based data platform
Due to a steeply growing number of energy assets, the increasingly decentralized and segmented energy sector fuels the potential for new digital use...
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Comparing 2 Years of Empowering Families to Solve Real-World Problems with AI
Over the course of 2 years a global technology education nonprofit engaged ~ 20,000 under-resourced 3rd-8th grade students, parents and educators...
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The impacts of mobile insurance and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Kenya
This paper investigates how mobile insurance (M-insurance) works and its impact on the customer, stakeholders, and microfinance institutions (MFIs)...
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From applied ethics and ethical principles to virtue and narrative in AI practices
The question of how we can use ethics and ethical frameworks to avert the negative consequences of AI through guidance on human behaviour and the...
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Bypassing Non-Outsourceable Proof-of-Work Schemes Using Collateralized Smart Contracts
Centralized pools and renting of mining power are considered as sources of possible censorship threats and even 51% attacks for decentralized...
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Introduction
This chapter presents an introduction to biometric and, in particular, fingerprint recognition systems and provides some historical timeline on...
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A Socio-Temporal Perspective on Pilot Implementation: Bootstrap** Preventive Care
Systems for preventive care seek to provide healthcare services to citizens at risk of develo** disease. In doing so they wrestle with identifying...
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Securing Fingerprint Systems
This chapter discusses the security issues and countermeasures that can be used to build secure fingerprint recognition systems. After an...
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An association between fingerprint patterns with blood group and lifestyle based diseases: a review
In the current era of the digital world, the hash of any digital means considered as a footprint or fingerprint of any digital term but from the...
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The Role of Digital Platforms in Disrupting Agricultural Value Chains in Develo** Countries
Mobile devices and the platforms they support are increasingly being mainstreamed into agricultural value chains. While the extant literature on the...
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Determinants of research efficiency in Canadian business schools: evidence from scholar-level data
Using a large sample of faculty members of Canadian business schools, this article attempts to shed new light on the efficiency of academic research...
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A Reverse Auction Framework for Hybrid Access in Femtocell Network
In the two-tier macro-femto heterogeneous network, hybrid access is regarded as the most ideal access control approach to mitigating macro-femto...
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Fragmentation of Finance
In this chapter, we will cover the technological changes that are currently challenging the status quo in finance. By delving into the technical...
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Issues in Designing a Bitcoin-like Community Currency
The invention of the Bitcoin protocol has opened the door to new forms of financial interaction. One such form may be to adapt Bitcoin technology for...