The explosive amount of data generated at the network edge makes mobile computing an essential technology to support real-time applications, calling for powerful processing and analysis provided by machine learning (ML) techniques. In particular, federated (FEL) becomes prominent in securing privacy owners keeping locally used train ML models. Existing studies on FEL either utilize in-process o...

A key concern in multi-hop wireless networks is energy-efficiency due to batterypower constrained mobile nodes. The network interface is a significant consumer of energy [7, 8, 15] causing a substantial amount of energy to be wasted by sending packets that cannot be used by the receiver. Given the small MAC layer packet sizes of wireless channels as compared to multimedia application data frame...

Results CDC: the children are 74% short; 26% normal stature (median: 109 cm), 21.9% underweight; 69.4% normal weight; 6.1% overweight; and 2.6% obese (median: 18 kg). WHO: 72.4% of the children are normal stature; 20.9% stunted; 6.6% severely stunted, 84.7% normal weight; 6.6% risk of overweight; 6.6% wasted; 1% overweight; 0.5% obese; 0.5% severe wasted. Conclusions To interpret the growth sta...

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) is considered the most important genetic cause of respiratory disorders, mainly COPD in its emphysematous phenotype [1, 2]. In high risk populations, i.e. those in which a high prevalence of AATD is suspected on the ground of previous data [3], up to 2% of the cases of COPD may, in fact, be due to AATD [4]. This prompted WHO to issue a recommendation that a...

A previous Editorial (Chapman, 2006) provided the background for issues regarding sewage discharged by the City of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) and environs (the Capital Regional District, CRD). In brief, the sewage receives preliminary screening to remove solids larger than 6 mm prior to discharge more than 1 km offshore in roughly 60 m deep, well-mixed marine waters with strong tidal c...

INTRODUCTION The equipment for taking body weights (scales) are more frequently used in Cameroon health centres than measuring boards for heights. Even when the later exist there are some difficulties inherent in their qualities; thus the height measurement is not always available or accurate. Our objective for this study was to construct statistical models for predicting wasting from weight-fo...