Smarter Research Articles

Increasing standardization for smart(er) contracts

Abstract Legal standardization traditionally played an important role in contractual relations. With technological and commercial development and expansion of trade from the individual and collective levels to internationalization, it became necessary to create a set of standards to keep pace with this development and facilitate the contractual process. Although smart contracts are considered a leap in the contractual relationship, it cannot be overlooked that these contracts share many characteristics with traditional contracts. To gain a greater position in the global market, smart contracts also need to be well functioning and efficient. In this context, the article tackles the phenomenon of legal standardization and identifies the main weaknesses of smart contracts—to answer two crucial questions: how can these contracts be smarter, and how should we employ standardization to ensure their efficiency?

CISSA: Modelo Conceitual de Cidade Inteligente e Segura Baseado em Sistema Autoadaptativo

As cidades inteligentes representam ambientes urbanos inovadores que fazem uso intensivo das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TICs) que aliadas ao paradigma de Internet of Things (IoT) visam aumentar a eficiência na prestação de serviços públicos e possibilitam que os cidadãos tenham suas demandas atendidas quase que em tempo real. Um dos principais desafios da governança urbana é a Segurança Pública que emerge como um componente indispensável para que a cidade possa atingir o seu objetivo estratégico de melhorar as condições de vida da população. Em função do exposto, este trabalho teve como principal objetivo desenvolver um modelo conceitual aqui denominado Cidade Inteligente e Segura baseado em Sistema Autoadaptativo (CISSA). Para tanto, utilizou-se de uma pesquisa exploratória e bibliográfica com abordagem metodológica qualitativa. O modelo CISSA está organizado em três camadas: conceito, demandas e infraestrutura. As camadas de conceito e demandas abordam uma definição própria de cidade inteligente e apresentam uma estrutura de identificação e classificação das demandas de segurança pública. Essas camadas contribuem para fornecer diretrizes sobre as quais a camada de infraestrutura por meio do sistema autoadaptativo monitora o ambiente e gerencia autonomamente o processo de seleção das soluções, adaptando quando necessário o seu comportamento para resolver os desafios da segurança pública na cidade. Com os resultados obtidos percebeu-se que o modelo CISSA pode guiar os administradores das cidades.

Artificial intelligence: a disruptive tool for a smarter medicine.

Although highly successful, the medical R&D model is failing at improving people's health due to a series of flaws and defects inherent to the model itself. A new collective intelligence, incorporating human and artificial intelligence (AI) could overcome these obstacles. Because AI will play a key role in this new collective intelligence, it is necessary that those involved in healthcare have a general knowledge of how these technologies work. With this comprehensive review, we intend to provide it. A broad-ranging search has been undertaken on institutional and non-institutional websites in order to identify relevant papers, comments and reports. We firstly describe the flaws and defects of the current R&D biomedical model and how the generation of a new collective intelligence will result in a better and wiser medicine through a truly personalized and holistic approach. We, then, discuss the new forms of data collection and data processing and the different types of artificial learning and their specific algorithms. Finally, we review the current uses and applications of AI in the biomedical field and how these can be expanded, as well as the limitations and challenges of applying these new technologies in the medical field. This colossal common effort based on a new collective intelligence will exponentially improve the quality of medical research, resulting in a radical change for the better in the healthcare model. AI, without replacing us, is here to help us achieve the ambitious goal set by the WHO in the Alma Ata declaration of 1978: "Health for All".

Design and Development of an IoT & Raspberry Pi Based Smart Mirror

There is never an end to the devices that can be made smarter and smarter with the help of the adequate technology. There are a lot of smart display devices but mirrors provide an interactive environment while displaying these information’s. This paper presents the design and the development of a Smart mirror using raspberry pi with some additional features which provides face recognition for security and smart unlocking process. The contents are displayed on an LED monitor who is enclosed in a wooden frame and covered with a sheet of reflective one way mirror. The mirror provides basic detail like time, news details, weather of a city and display current message. All the computing is done with the help of a raspberry pi.

Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Book Review: The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, by Amanda Ripley

Book Review: <i>The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way</i>, by Amanda Ripley

TypeCase: making the smartphone smarter for all abilities

TypeCase: making the smartphone smarter for all abilities

Political Ecologies of Water Capture in an Indian ‘Smart City’

ABSTRACTThe historical water catchments of India’s capital city were foundational to the flourishing of settlements that spanned centuries. Today, those water features are held up as ‘wise’ models of water stewardship for the people who criticise the Indian government’s water management shortcomings. This article investigates historical imaginations of infrastructures past with attention to how their example leads to demands for ‘smart(er)’ water management regimes. It also shows how efforts to revive past water catchments can make meaningful contributions to water stewardship, but that they still risk perpetuating the water access inequalities and middle-class priorities that are identified in a growing body of scholarship on India’s water politics. Since the existing scholarship predominantly focuses on exploitative rural-to-urban and inter-urban water flows, this text argues that water politics – including political ecologies of water – are also poignantly revealed in the study of seemingly proactive solutions such as the expansion of urban water catchments.

The Value of Smarter Teachers

The Value of Smarter Teachers

Smarter AIs could help us understand how our brains interpret the world

Smarter AIs could help us understand how our brains interpret the world

Smart Neuroprosthetics Becoming Smarter, but Not for Everyone?

Smart Neuroprosthetics Becoming Smarter, but Not for Everyone?

More fish-happier mom, smarter child?

More fish-happier mom, smarter child?

Does moving to the music make you smarter? The relation of sensorimotor entrainment to cognitive, linguistic, musical, and social skills:

Several studies have shown the benefits of music training on multiple musical and non-musical skills. Because our perception of music is inherently rhythmic, it is possible that the underlying mech...

Challenge management: smarter courage, reasoned judgment, wiser fortitude

Challenge management: smarter courage, reasoned judgment, wiser fortitude

Retracted: Significant benefits from libraries in web 3.0 environment

Web 3.0 emergence established various opportunities that helped users to reach their objectives through utilizing modern technology and developments. It is noticed that Web 3.0 will be more integrated and smarter. So, libraries can wait without benefiting the developments gained by Web 3.0 use as they shall adopt the use of information technology to provide and deliver their services to users more effectively. Hence, this article shed the light and discusses in deep the role of the libraries in the Web 3.0 environment and the innovated service to cope up with this generation. The major achieved results of this article reveal the following facts: Library 3.0 will provide access to references and services to users without focusing the geographic area. Web 3.0 application came with the wide spread of smart phones, so that their application are designed to be used on mobiles. The study proposed several recommendations including: the necessity to find out more applications and software to serve libraries and beneficiaries. Libraries have to develop their services based on Web 3.0 and its new opportunities.

Book Review: Bharat Wakhlu and Savita Bhan Wakhlu, Navigating the Maze: Simple, Smarter Strategies to Fast-track Success

Bharat Wakhlu and Savita Bhan Wakhlu, Navigating the Maze: Simple, Smarter Strategies to Fast-track Success, SAGE Publications, 2017, 188 pp, 599. ISBN 978-93-860-4237-8

An Innovative Technology to Support Independent Living: The Smarter Safer Homes Platform.

Australian population aged over 65 years is 14% (3.3 million) and this expected to increase to 21% by 2053 (8.3 million), of which 1.9% to 4.2% is attributed to Australians over 85 years. With increase in ageing, there is high prevalence in long-term health conditions and more likely multiple visits to the doctors or the hospitals, particularly when one's functional condition declines. This adds burden to the already stretched health system such as the overcrowding of emergency departments in hospitals. This is partly due to many ageing patients with high care needs occupying significant number of hospital beds because they are waiting for entry to the limited placements in residential care. To address this increase in ageing population and its impact in the society, the Australian government has funded aged care reforms for initiatives for older community stay at home longer. Recently, this was implemented through consumer directed age care reform. Advances in information and communication technologies, particularly in the advancement of lifestyle technologies and its increased use, show promise in the uptake of telehealth approach to support older people to live longer in their homes. In 2011, CSIRO took the initiative to a develop consumer designed innovative platform that would assist and support the older community in their functional ability and health for day to day living in their home environment. This platform was called the Smarter Safer Homes technology. The Smarter Safer Homes platform infers the Activities of Daily Living information from a passive sensor-enabled environment and correlates the information with home-based health monitoring measurements. The use of sensors enables the information to be captured in an unobtrusive manner. This information is then provided to the individual in the household through an iPad application while information can also be shared with formal and informal carers. The platform has undergone a few pilot studies to explore an objective and individualised approach to Activities of daily living based on an individual's profile and its applicability in multi-resident home setting in individual's in regional Queensland. Furthermore, the platform is being validated in a clinical study for its application in the aged care service in various geographical settings such as in urban and remote communities. This paper describes the platform, outcomes of pilot studies, and its future application.

Smart Hospital-Room and Modern Photonics Emerging Clinical Reality Based on Optical Systems

Numerous solutions have been proposed for the emerging “Smart Hospital-Room”, however, there is little progress made yet. Interesting approaches include the Amplion Smart (er) Room of the Future, the IBM-UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical-Center), the NXT-Health-program of the US-Department of Defense and the EU-Agency for Network and Information Security. Nevertheless, a Hospital Smart-Room has to be cost-effective and it is the aim of this project, to pinpoint the most important catches. Crucial delay-factors and high-cost sources have been traced, by following the innovation trail, as reflected upon numerous Hospital-Technology related Patents and other research Publications, synopsizing the obstacles for achieving an acceptable and interoperable Electronic Medical Record and the enhanced Cognitive-computing based ways to harness, share, manage and trace big-data. On the other hand, increased Patient-interactivity and participation, is a cardinal challenge for the future’s Smart-Room and the Health-care providers need access to real-time, Point-of-care feedback, on a continuous basis. Finally, Technology supporting overloaded clinical-staff causes frequently complications and tension. Therefore, Clinical-workflow improvements require goal-oriented training, based on Patient-care-plans and supported by mature and cost-effective Technologies. Cost, lack of education and short-term focusing lead to cul-de-sac. The Hospital-leaders must realize that the world is changing dramatically; in order to survive, they have to offer Smart, innovative, efficient and above all affordable and cost-effective Health-care. Modern Photonics may improve dramatically the smooth operation of the “Smart Hospital-Room”, as it is proven in the detailed created “Patent mappings” relating Photonics Technology and Health-care.

Making Clothing Smarter: Rita Paradiso of Smartex is Engineering Clothes That Can Monitor a Wearer?s Condition.

As bedtime approaches, take note! Your pajamas may have something important to tell you.

Book review—Toward a smarter, more engaged, and bolder workforce

Book review—Toward a smarter, more engaged, and bolder workforce