Many memory institutions hold heritage items belonging to Indigenous peoples. There are current efforts to share knowledge about these heritage items with their communities; one way this is done is through digital access. This paper examines The Great Lakes Research Alliance for…

Internet applications rely on Secure Socket Layer (SSL)/Transport Security Layer (TSL) certifications to establish secure communication. However, the centralized nature of certificate authorities (CAs) poses a risk, as malicious third parties could exploit the CA to issue fake ce…

Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a crucial role in the public health workforce, particularly within underserved communities where they enhance access to healthcare, address social determinants of health, and advocate for health-related policy changes. This Perspective examine…

An adequate charging infrastructure is key to enabling high personal electric vehicle (EV) adoption rates. However, urban flooding—whose frequency and intensity are increasing due to climate change—may be an impediment. Here, we study how geographically-correlated outages due to…

Agricultural intensification, afforestation and land abandonment are major drivers of biodiversity loss in semi‐natural grasslands across Europe. Reversing these losses requires the reinstatement of plant–animal interactions such as pollination. Here we assessed the differences i…

Civic food networks and agrifood forums: a social infrastructure for civic engagement

The public health systems in Latin America are being transformed and restructured with the help of digital technologies and the use of Data analytics. This transformation is occurring in countries where there is a significant imbalance between the amount and quality of health car…

Informed by Communication Infrastructure Theory (CIT), this article explores the ways community organizations and ethnic media serve as communicative resources and form into storytelling networks with different health-enhancing purposes for Filipina household service workers (FHS…

Hospitals play a critical role during disasters where they provide critical medical care to disaster victims and help the community to respond more effectively and recover quicker. However, hospitals face risks from the natural environment, such as flood risks. Amid the increasin…

Property crime in Nigeria incurs billions of Naira in annual rehabilitation costs, significantly straining government budgets and hindering resource allocation for sustainable urban development. This study investigates how public infrastructure development in Nigerian citiesis im…

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant global public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Effective TB case management requires comprehensive strategies that extend beyond clinical treatment and involve community engagement and networks. This narra…

Floods pose a significant threat to road networks globally, disrupting transportation, isolating communities, and causing economic losses. This study proposes a four-stage methodology (avoidance, endurance, recovery, and adaptability) to enhance the resilience of road networks. W…

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged as a resilient and adaptable solution for disaster response communication, offering self-healing and self-organizing capabilities that ensure uninterrupted connectivity in emergency scenarios. Traditional communication infrastructures of…

Public spaces have a significant impact on social interactions and community dynamics, particularly during times of disruption and change. This study investigates the role of public space in fostering community resilience. It introduces a conceptual framework to identify the attr…

Real-time data- and location-sharing using mesh networking radios paired with smartphones may improve situational awareness and safety in remote environments lacking communications infrastructure. Despite being increasingly used for wildland fire and public safety applications, t…

Modern societies can be understood as the intersection of four interdependent systems: (1) the natural environment of geography, climate and weather; (2) the built environment of cities, engineered systems, and physical infrastructure; (3) the social environment of human populati…

This article adopts and evaluates an AI-enabled Smart Video Solution (SVS) designed to enhance safety in the real world. The system integrates with existing infrastructure camera networks, leveraging recent advancements in AI for easy adoption. Prioritizing privacy and ethical st…

NEST studies education systems transformation in India, Peru, and South Africa, tracing how mindsets, power, and relationships define school success.

The text argues that effective broadband adoption requires not only robust infrastructure but also affordable access to devices and digital literacy training, particularly for marginalized populations. It highlights the necessity of community-level partnerships and local government involvement to en…

The advancement of smart emergency management systems, with a focus on stray animal rescue and gas leakage detection, is comprehensively reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the integration of sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced artificial intelligenc…

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are revolutionizing wireless communication networks, enabling diverse applications in military, public safety, and wireless communication. UAV-enabled networks, at the intersection of aerial robotics and communications, address accessibility and sc…

This study explores the business expansion strategies of 'MELAYA' in Indonesia, with a focus on leveraging community partnerships. Over the past decade, Indonesia's music and events industry has experienced substantial growth, driven by increasing public interest in concerts and…

Development of smart public transportation system in Jakarta city based on integrated IoT platform

Public and religious facilities, like mosques, often suffer from substantial energy waste due to large physical footprints, manual control, and highly intermittent, non-linear occupancy patterns. This chronic inefficiency results in high utility bills, diverting scarce community…

An AI-Driven framework for smart waste classification and recycling: enabling circular economy through CNN and IoT integration

The growing interest in intelligent surveillance systems has been mainly driven by the necessity to guarantee public security, control sensitive areas, and detect threats in a proactive and timely manner. Traditional surveillance systems that depend on the centralized backend clo…

Effective waste management is crucial for maintaining environmental health and sustainability. This study examines the key challenges and potential solutions in waste management, particularly in developing regions, where inadequate infrastructure, weak regulations, and low public…

The accelerated urbanization process and the growing complexity of constructed environments have aggravated the fire-related hazards in contemporary urban areas and brought the need to develop smarter and more integrated approaches to fire safety. The implementation of modern dig…

The unprecedented global spread of the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 has significantly promoted novel Internet-of-things (IoT)-based solutions to prevent, combat, monitor, or predict virus spread in the population. The proliferation of these technologies has fostered their utiliz…

In a post-pandemic era, increasing emphasis has been placed on the capacity of cities to respond to societal challenges through effective government action and participatory community governance. This has led to scholarly interest in innovative approaches to urban governance that…

With the interest and attention that the Blockchain and the Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have recently demanded, the technology is advancing at a very high rate. With investors and applications in a wide variety of fields, a lot of funding and efforts are being driven in…

Hearing loss is a critical global health issue that affects over 1.5 billion people worldwide, with a disproportionate burden in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). These regions face significant challenges, including limited access to audiological services, a shortage of h…

: Rapid urbanization has led to a significant rise in air pollution levels, posing severe risks to public health and environmental sustainability. This research presents an IoT-driven real-time air quality monitoring and alert system tailored for urban environments. By deploying…

Reliable water quality monitoring is critical for safeguarding public health and ensuring the sustainability of ecosystems, especially in regions facing growing environmental and industrial pressures. This paper presents a novel edge-intelligent framework that combines Graph Neur…

This interview with British fashion designer and educator Ruth Eaton provides an in-depth exploration of grassroots efforts in response to the personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the contributions of home s…

The Trump administration's 2026 Dear Colleague Letter mischaracterizes schools' obligations under civil rights law regarding discipline, promoting harmful stereotypes and ineffective practices while discouraging efforts to address racial disparities. It erroneously claims that any race-conscious pol…

The NSF is launching new programs and initiatives, including the Office of Metascience and two Grand Research Challenge competitions, to enhance the U.S. science and technology landscape, promote cross-disciplinary collaboration, and support the development of exceptional talent in STEM fields. Thes…

This paper introduces a design and simulation of a locally optimized network coding protocol, called PlayNCool, for wireless mesh networks. PlayN-Cool is easy to implement and compatible with existing routing protocols and devices. This allows the system to gain from network codi…

The diffusion of molecules (“penetrants”) of variable size, shape, and chemistry through dense cross-linked polymer networks is a fundamental scientific problem broadly relevant in materials, polymer, physical, and biological chemistry. Relevant applications include separation me…

Long-range Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) have recently gained popularity by offering wide-area coverage to low-power Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring devices in remote areas. LoRAWAN suits long-distance, low-power consumption, low-bandwidth, and multi-connection IoT devices. Ho…

Deep learning method to optimize the quality of services in UAV-aided 5G/6G networks

By leveraging resources from the Fed4Fire+ City-Lab testbed, we design the PiGeon edge computing platform that experiments solution that enable ICN based edge services in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). PiGeon combines into a platform several trends in edge computing namely the IC…

The advancements in 5G mobile networks and Edge computing offer great potential for services like augmented reality and Cloud gaming, thanks to their low latency and high bandwidth capabilities. However, the practical limitations of achieving optimal latency on real applications…

Fault-tolerant interference-aware topology control in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks

In multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh networks (MCMR WMNs), assigning each radio with an appropriate channel to maximize the performance is a challenging problem. In this optimization, the primal concern lays on how to mitigate effects of interference to avoid performance de…

Mesh backhauls are getting attention for 5G networks, but not only. A backhaul mesh is attractive due to its multiple potential paths that grants redundancy and robustness. The real topology and its properties, however, is heavily influenced by the characteristics of the place wh…

Lay people’s knowledge influences healthcare service utilisation, but the literature on people’s knowledge-seeking and sharing about different healthcare services across social networks is patchy and not well integrated. This scoping review was undertaken to map how different stu…

Access to emergency services like police, fire, rescue, and EMS is life or death during natural disasters. Disaster management faces three critical problems for emergency services - technology constraints (Network infrastructure), demand-supply management (a large number of victi…

Internet of Things has revolutionized the way services are distributed in smart environments, approaching the computation where data are generated. However, IoT devices have limited resources and reconfiguring them can be very difficult. In these cases, Edge computing represents…

Performance Optimizations for Deploying VoIP Services in Mesh Networks

This paper tackles the problem of frequent disconnections in the Quality-of-Service Optimized Link State Routing (QoS-OLSR) protocol due to mobility in mesh networks. Different routing protocols are proposed for mesh networks, such as Better Approach to Mobile Ad-hoc Networking (…

Background Many countries face an increasing demand for home-based healthcare services, and consequently experience a mismatch between expectations and available financial and human resources. It is therefore important to utilize human resources more efficiently, while at the sam…

The majority of secure messengers have single, centralized service providers that relay ciphertexts between users to enable asynchronous communication. However, in some scenarios such as mass protests in censored networks, relying on a centralized provider is fatal. Mesh messenge…

Although LoRa (Long Range) wireless communication technology is most commonly used in the form of LoRaWAN, a single-hop Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) protocol, recent advancements have seen the emergence of multi-hop and mesh LoRa networks. Among these, research on linear L…

The 'debasement trade' refers to the significant rise in precious metals prices driven by investor fears that fiscal and monetary policies will devalue fiat currencies, particularly in the context of high public debt and geopolitical risks. This phenomenon is evidenced by the clustering of price inc…

The United States exhibits a paradox of high economic growth accompanied by declining well-being, as evidenced by significant drops in measures such as trust in government and social support. This trend challenges traditional economic assumptions that higher income correlates with greater utility, s…

The SECURE 3.0 proposal outlines actionable reforms to improve retirement savings access and security for American workers, addressing gaps in the current system such as inadequate targeting of tax subsidies and the lack of lifetime income options. Key recommendations include expanding access to emp…

The shift of the U.S. from being a net importer to a net exporter of oil has fundamentally changed its economic response to global oil supply shocks, which now tend to boost domestic economic activity rather than trigger recessions. This transformation, driven by the shale revolution, allows for inc…

In line with the concept of urban farming, urban aquaculture is the utilization of small, unused spaces in densely populated urban areas, transforming them into productive areas through the application of aquaculture technology. Generally, urban aquaculture can be defined as fish…

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in recent years has played a significant role in the advancement of smart cities. Sustainable cities and communities are a main goal of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which aims to make urban areas safe, re…