Association of Social Media Use with Family Connectedness and Parental Monitoring: A Survey Study of Young Adults in Pakistan

An increasing number of young adults are using social media platforms in collectivist family cultures like Pakistan, but little is known about how social media use is associated with family connectedness in this population. This study is aimed (a) at examining the social media usage patterns in Pakistani young adults and how they use it to...

The risks of using ChatGPT to obtain common safety-related information and advice

ChatGPT is a highly advanced AI language model that has gained widespread popularity. It is trained to understand and generate human language and is used in various applications, including automated customer service, chatbots, and content generation. While it has the potential to offer many benefits, there are also concerns about its potential...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Apps Designed to Reduce Mobile Phone Use and Prevent Maladaptive Mobile Phone Use: Multimethod Study

BACKGROUND: Mobile apps are a popular strategy for reducing mobile phone use and preventing maladaptive mobile phone use (MMPU). Previous research efforts have been made to understand the features of apps that have the potential to reduce mobile phone use and MMPU. However, there has been a lack of a comprehensive examination of the...

Is distraction on the road associated with maladaptive mobile phone use? A systematic review

Maladaptive Mobile Phone Use (MMPU) (also known as Smartphone Addiction, Nomophobia, Fear of Missing Out, or Problematic Mobile Phone Use) is a growing mental health problem. However, the health and safety consequences of MMPU remain unexplored in many real-life contexts. A potential setting where MMPU may have some negative repercussions is on...

Artificial jellyfish search algorithm-based selective harmonic elimination in a cascaded h-bridge multilevel inverter

This paper used an artificial jellyfish search (AJFS) optimizer suitable for selective harmonic elimination-based modulation for multilevel inverter (MLI) voltage control application. The main objective was to remove the undesired lower-order harmonics in the output voltage waveform of an MLI. This algorithm was motivated by the behavior of...

The validity of informed consent with regard to human genetic sequencing

Modern societies manage an ever increasing amount of data. By mining<br/>these data-sets, it is possible to gain understanding of problems. Through a<br/>process of informed consent companies have been able to sequence the genome<br/>of large populations. Providing insight to the consumer about their family<br/>lineage and possible future risks...

A critical review of flood risk management and the selection of suitable measures

Modern-day flood management has evolved into a variety of flood management alternatives. The selection of appropriate flood measures is crucial under a variety of flood management practices, approaches, and assessment criteria. Many leading countries appraise the significance of risk-based flood management, but the fixed return period is still...

Development of a preliminary-risk-based flood management approach to address the spatiotemporal distribution of risk under the kaldor–hicks compensation principle

All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures. Recently, risk-based flood management has received a significant appraisal, but the fixed return period is still the de facto standard for flood...

An engineering perspective of water sharing issues in Pakistan

Water sharing within the states/provinces of a country and cross-border is unavoidable. Conflicts between the sharing entities might turn more severe due to additional dependency on water, growing population, and reduced availability as a result of climate change at many locations. Pakistan, being an agricultural country, is severely water...

Chatbot - Embedded Systems

The most crucial choices a student will make is about which college and major they decide to join. Accord- ing to a statistical analysis performed by Koenig (2018) in the U.S. News World Report, majors such as Computer and information science, Engineering and Engineering technology yield the highest employment rates and salaries compared to...

Performance enhancement of reduced graphene oxide-modified carbon electrodes for vanadium redox-flow systems

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) suspended in an N,N′-dimethylformamide (DMF) solvent underwent electrophoretic deposition (EPD) on carbon paper (CP) electrodes. X-ray computed micro-tomography (XMT) indicates a 24 % increase in the specific surface area of CP modified with rGO in comparison to the untreated sample. Furthermore, XMT confirms that...

Online estimation of flood damage in The Netherlands

This paper presents a recently developed model in the Netherlands for the online estimation of damage caused by floods. The model attempts to fill the lack of a consistent framework for the assessment of damage for all water authorities and all floods in the Netherlands. A framework was necessaiy to be able to evaluate the cost and benefit of...

Risk-based planning and optimization of flood management measures in developing countries: Case Pakistan

About 95-97% of all deaths and a significant part of the economic losses caused by floods occur in developing countries. Despite the resources spent on different measures, flood management arrangements in developing countries are still unable to deliver satisfactory results. The objective of this thesis is ‘to maximize land-use benefits and...