e-government

Exposure to disasters and public health emergencies negatively affects mental health. Research documenting the psychosocial responses to these calamities in China increased dramatically after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. However, there is no comprehensive assessment of the available literature on China's mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) responses to these events. This scoping review systematically maps existing published research and grey literature sources regarding MHPSS to disasters and emergencies in China...

Object detection methods based on deep learning have been used in a variety of sectors including banking, healthcare, e-governance, and academia. In recent years, there has been a lot of attention paid to research endeavors made towards text detection and recognition from different scenesor images of unstructured document processing. The article's novelty lies in the detailed discussion and implementation of the various transfer learning-based different backbone architectures for printed text recognition. In this research article, the authors compared the ResNet50, ResNet50V2, ResNet152V2, Inception, Xception, and VGG19 backbone architectures with preprocessing techniques as data resizing, normalization, and noise removal on a standard OCR Kaggle dataset...

With the rapid growth of information and communication technologies, governments worldwide are embracing digital transformation to enhance service delivery and governance practices. In the rapidly evolving landscape of information technology (IT), secure data management stands as a cornerstone for organizations aiming to safeguard sensitive information. Robust data modeling techniques are pivotal in structuring and organizing data, ensuring its integrity, and facilitating efficient retrieval and analysis. As the world increasingly emphasizes sustainability, integrating eco-friendly practices into data management processes becomes imperative...

The secure authentication of user data is crucial in various sectors, including digital banking, medical applications and e-governance, especially for images. Secure communication protects against data tampering and forgery, thereby bolstering the foundation for informed decision-making, whether managing traffic, enhancing public safety, or monitoring environmental conditions. Conventional visual cryptographic protocols offer solutions, particularly for color images, though they grapple with challenges such as high computational demands and reliance on multiple cover images...

In this era of digitalization, the role of information and communication technology (ICT) has significantly increased. The integration of ICT into the government system has improved efficiency and working processes. Some countries such as China have successfully integrated ICT into their governance system. However, many other countries especially the developing world are yet to effectively utilize the role of ICT in their governance structure and these countries are struggling to produce a better governance system...

The 21st century information and communication industries have played the pivotal role of bio-sensing technologies, refining privacy policies for human performance, facilitating scientific innovation, shaping e-governance, and reinforcing public confidence using nanotechnology. Human body is a thermodynamic heat engine in providing effective mechanical work as a function of psyche, conventional fuel transformation into enriched protein meal, and balancing of work-life fulcrum. The triboelectric effect of rubbing surfaces, interfaces, and interphases is invincible from the large field of the planet to nanodomains...

Drawing upon Hofstede's cultural model, this study establishes a framework for examining the factors influencing citizens' continuous use of e-government websites. This paper, employing quantile regression, reveals that collectivism, masculinity, long-term orientation, and constraint culture exhibit varying degrees of influence on different levels of continuous use of China's e-government websites. Moreover, it has been observed that masculine culture exerts a limiting effect on the continuous use of e-government websites by the Chinese public, but this restriction diminishes beyond the 50th percentile of continuous usage level...

The placenta is a membrane that separates the fetus from the maternal circulation, and in addition to protecting the fetus, plays a key role in fetal growth and development. With increasing drug use in pregnancy, it is imperative that reliable models of estimating placental permeability and safety be established. In vitro methods and animal models such as rodent placenta are limited in application since the species-specific nature of the placenta prevents meaningful extrapolation to humans. In this regard, in silico approaches such as quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPRs) are useful alternatives to reduce animal testing...

BACKGROUNDS: Effective risk communication depends on the government's ability to deploy the latest communication technologies to promptly educate its citizens of new hazards and assist them in making informed decisions. This study investigates the influence of risk information seeking, social media competency and trust in the government on the intention to adopt e-government apps for communicating public health risks. DESIGN AND METHODS: To achieve the study's objective, a convenience sample of 149 Malaysian residents residing in Shah Alam was obtained via a structured questionnaire and subsequently analyzed using the Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Method...

In today's digital landscape, securing multimedia visual information-specifically color images-is of critical importance across a range of sectors, including the burgeoning fields of logistics and supply chain management. Traditional Visual Cryptography (VC) schemes lay the groundwork for encrypting visual data by fragmenting a secret image into multiple shares, thereby ensuring no single share divulges the secret. Nevertheless, VC faces challenges in ascertaining the integrity of reconstructed images, especially when shares are manipulated maliciously...

OBJECTIVES: To synthesise current evidence addressing implementation approaches, challenges and facilitators, and impacts of national standards for comprehensive care in acute care hospitals. METHODS: Using Whittemore & Knafl's five-step method, a systematic search was conducted across five databases, including Medline (EBSCO), CINAHL (EBSCO), Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Scopus, to identify primary studies and reviews. In addition, grey literature (i...

BACKGROUND: This study raises two key arguments: First, government health expenditure (GHE) and per capita out-of-pocket expenditures on healthcare (OPEH) are sensitive to contemporary good governance practices, giving policy importance to the exogeneity of healthcare determinants, i.e., governance for health rather than health governance. Second, it is the income level of countries that reflects the volatility of the governance spillovers on the subject. METHODS: The present study constructs a composite governance index (CGI) and employs a set of panel data for 144 countries over the period from 2002 to 2020...

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INTRODUCTION: As society ages and the digital economy continues to develop, accessibility to information and communication technology (ICT) has emerged as a critical factor influencing the mental health of older adults. Particularly, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for non-face-to-face communication has significantly increased older adults' reliance on ICT for accessibility. This transition from a self-motivated engagement to a more socially passive mode of interaction highlights the importance of creating a digitally inclusive aging society...

A problematic manifestation of the COVID-19 pandemic is a related digital 'infodemic' with widespread dissemination of rumors, conspiracy theories, and other misinformation about the impact of the crisis on aspects of political and socio-economic life. Those spreading the misleading information did so through social media. In response, public, private and non-government stakeholders around the world have proposed a wide range of e-government policy approaches to combat this new digital phenomenon. For this Viewpoint I identified, analyzed, and classified the most interesting strategies, platforms, and tools proposed or already used by public decision-makers to combat the spread of false information related to the pandemic in a digital society...

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BACKGROUND: Climate change is a major global threat to human health and puts tremendous pressure on health systems. Therefore, a resilient health system is crucial to enhance, maintain, and restore the population's health. This study aimed to identify interventions and actions to strengthen a climate-resilient health system to deal with the adverse health effects of climate change. METHOD: This study was a scoping review. Five databases and Google Scholar search engine were searched using relevant keywords...

In recent years, limited works on EOG (electrooculography)-based biometric authentication systems have been carried out with eye movements or eye blinking activities in the current literature. EOGs have permanent and unique traits that can separate one individual from another. In this work, we have investigated FSST (Fourier Synchrosqueezing Transform)-ICA (Independent Component Analysis)-EMD (Empirical Mode Decomposition) robust framework-based EOG-biometric authentication ( one-versus-others verification) performances using ensembled RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) deep models voluntary eye blinkings movements...

From the COVID-19 pandemic, e-government is a crucial tool in managing crisis and coping with change through communication and collaboration between the government, private, and civil sectors. The objective of this study was to develop an e-government development success model from the perspective of Thai citizens using integrated multiple concepts and to examine factors affecting the behavioral intention of citizens in e-government. A sample is Thai people in all regions of Thailand (n = 540) and analyzes by Structural Equation Model (SEM)...