COVID-19: A Relook at Healthcare Systems and Aged Populations

Using data from the WHO’s Situation Report on the COVID-19 pandemic from 21 January 2020 to 30 March 2020 along with other health, demographic, and macroeconomic indicators from the WHO’s Application Programming Interface and the World Bank’s Development Indicators, this paper explores the death rates of infected persons and their possible associated factors. Through the panel analysis, we found consistent results that healthcare system conditions, particularly the number of hospital beds and medical staff, have played extremely important roles in reducing death rates of COVID-19 infected persons. In addition, both the mortality rates due to different non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and rate of people aged 65 and over were significantly related to the death rates. We also found that controlling international and domestic travelling by air along with increasingly popular anti-COVID-19 actions (i.e., quarantine and social distancing) would help reduce the death rates in all countries. We conducted tests for robustness and found that the Driscoll and Kraay (1998) method was the most suitable estimator with a finite sample, which helped confirm the robustness of our estimations. Based on the findings, we suggest that preparedness of healthcare systems for aged populations need more attentions from the public and politicians, regardless of income level, when facing COVID-19-like pandemics.

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OPTIMADE, an API for exchanging materials data

Scientific Data ◽

10.1038/s41597-021-00974-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Casper W. Andersen ◽

Rickard Armiento ◽

Evgeny Blokhin ◽

Gareth J. Conduit ◽

Shyam Dwaraknath ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Application Programming Interface ◽

Worked Examples ◽

Materials Design ◽

The Public ◽

Software Packages ◽

Application Programming ◽

Programming Interface ◽

Universal Application

AbstractThe Open Databases Integration for Materials Design (OPTIMADE) consortium has designed a universal application programming interface (API) to make materials databases accessible and interoperable. We outline the first stable release of the specification, v1.0, which is already supported by many leading databases and several software packages. We illustrate the advantages of the OPTIMADE API through worked examples on each of the public materials databases that support the full API specification.

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Serverless Geospatial Data Processing Workflow System Design

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi11010020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 20

Author(s):

Mete Ercan Pakdil ◽

Rahmi Nurhan Çelik

Keyword(s):

Data Processing ◽

System Design ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

Proof Of Concept ◽

The Public ◽

Workflow System ◽

Application Programming ◽

Open Geospatial Consortium ◽

Programming Interface

Geospatial data and related technologies have become an increasingly important aspect of data analysis processes, with their prominent role in most of them. Serverless paradigm have become the most popular and frequently used technology within cloud computing. This paper reviews the serverless paradigm and examines how it could be leveraged for geospatial data processes by using open standards in the geospatial community. We propose a system design and architecture to handle complex geospatial data processing jobs with minimum human intervention and resource consumption using serverless technologies. In order to define and execute workflows in the system, we also propose new models for both workflow and task definitions models. Moreover, the proposed system has new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Application Programming Interface (API) Processes specification-based web services to provide interoperability with other geospatial applications with the anticipation that it will be more commonly used in the future. We implemented the proposed system on one of the public cloud providers as a proof of concept and evaluated it with sample geospatial workflows and cloud architecture best practices.

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Mining and YouTube Data Analysis using Hadoop

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.b7922.019320 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 1461-1465

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Data Set ◽

Apache Hadoop ◽

Informed Decisions ◽

Hadoop Distributed File System ◽

Application Programming ◽

Using Data ◽

Programming Interface ◽

Social Media Tool

Analysis of structured and consistent data has seen remarkable success in past decades. Whereas, the analysis of unstructured data in the form of multimedia format remains a challenging task. YouTube is one of the most popular and used social media tool. It reveals the community feedback through comments for published videos, number of likes, dislikes, number of subscribers for a particular channel. The main objective of this work is to demonstrate by using Hadoop concepts, how data generated from YouTube can be mined and utilized to make targeted, real time and informed decisions. In our paper, we analyze the data to identify the top categories in which the most number of videos are uploaded. This YouTube data is publicly available and the YouTube data set is described below under the heading Data Set Description. The dataset will be fetched from the Google using the YouTube API (Application Programming Interface) and going to be stored in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Using MapReduce we are going to analyze the dataset to identify the video categories in which most number of videos are uploaded. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate Apache Hadoop framework concepts and how to make targeted, real-time and informed decisions using data gathered from YouTube.

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What You Can Scrape and What Is Right to Scrape: A Proposal for a Tool to Collect Public Facebook Data

Social Media + Society ◽

10.1177/2056305120940703 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 205630512094070 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Moreno Mancosu ◽

Federico Vegetti

Keyword(s):

Personal Information ◽

Public Information ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Published Data ◽

The Public ◽

Ethical Concerns ◽

The Social ◽

Application Programming ◽

Ethical And Legal Issues ◽

Programming Interface

In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has restricted the access to its Application Programming Interface (API). This new policy has damaged the possibility for independent researchers to study relevant topics in political and social behavior. Yet, much of the public information that the researchers may be interested in is still available on Facebook, and can be still systematically collected through web scraping techniques. The goal of this article is twofold. First, we discuss some ethical and legal issues that researchers should consider as they plan their collection and possible publication of Facebook data. In particular, we discuss what kind of information can be ethically gathered about the users (public information), how published data should look like to comply with privacy regulations (like the GDPR), and what consequences violating Facebook’s terms of service may entail for the researcher. Second, we present a scraping routine for public Facebook posts, and discuss some technical adjustments that can be performed for the data to be ethically and legally acceptable. The code employs screen scraping to collect the list of reactions to a Facebook public post, and performs a one-way cryptographic hash function on the users’ identifiers to pseudonymize their personal information, while still keeping them traceable within the data. This article contributes to the debate around freedom of internet research and the ethical concerns that might arise by scraping data from the social web.

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Automation of Data Consumption by Pluggable Module Software

Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology ◽

10.51201/jusst/21/06479 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (06) ◽

pp. 1672-1681

Author(s):

Vinay Balamurali ◽

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Prof. Venkatesh S ◽

Keyword(s):

Software Design ◽

Data Science ◽

Source Code ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Related Information ◽

Server Systems ◽

Data Consumption ◽

Application Programming ◽

Using Data ◽

Programming Interface

Servers are required to monitor the health of the various I/O cards connected to it to alert the required personnel to service these cards. The Data Collection Unit (DCU) is responsible for detecting the I/O cards, sending their inventory as well as monitoring their health. Currently, the keys required to detect these I/O cards are manually coded into the source code. Such a task is highly laborious and time-consuming. To eliminate this manual work, a Software Pluggable Module was devised which would read the I/O card-related information from the I/O component list. This software design aims at using Data Science and OOPS concepts to automate certain tasks on server systems. The proposed methodology is implemented on a Linux system. The software design is modular in nature and extensible to accommodate future requirements. Such an automation framework can be used to track information maintained in Excel Spreadsheets and access them using an Application Programming Interface (API).

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Disease Prediction and Drug Recommendation Android Application using Data Mining (Virtual Doctor)

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.c6038.098319 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 6996-7001

Keyword(s):

Data Mining ◽

Research Work ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Machine Learning Algorithms ◽

Useful Knowledge ◽

Medical Databases ◽

Application Programming ◽

Mining Procedure ◽

Using Data ◽

Programming Interface

Data Mining is a method that requires analyzing and exploring large blocks of data to glean meaningful trends and patterns. In today’s period, every person on earth relies on allopathic treatments and medicines. Data mining techniques can be applied to medical databases that have a vast scope of opportunity for textual as well as visual data. In medical services, there are myriad obscure data that needs to be scrutinized and data mining is the key to gain useful knowledge from these data. This paper provides an application programming interface to recommend drugs to users suffering from a particular disease which would also be diagnosed by the framework through analyzing the user's symptoms by the means of machine learning algorithms. We utilize some insightful information here related to mining procedure to figure out most precise sickness that can be related with symptoms. The patient can without much of a stretch recognize the diseases. The patients can undoubtedly recognize the disease by simply ascribing their issues and the application interface produces what malady the user might be tainted with. The framework will demonstrate complaisant in critical situations where the patient can't achieve a doctor's facility or when there are situations, when professional are accessible in the territory. Predictive analysis would be performed on the disease that would result in recommending drugs to the user by taking into account various features in the database. The experimental results can also be used in further research work and for Healthcare tools.

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An Analysis of Self-reported Longcovid Symptoms on Twitter

10.1101/2020.08.14.20175059 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Shubh Mohan Singh ◽

Chaitanya Reddy

Keyword(s):

Acute Infection ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Search Term ◽

Shortness Of Breath ◽

Public Health Importance ◽

The Public ◽

Streaming Application ◽

Application Programming ◽

Multiple Symptoms ◽

Programming Interface

Abstract Objectives: A majority of patients suffering from acute COVID-19 are expected to recover symptomatically and functionally. However there are reports that some people continue to experience symptoms even beyond the stage of acute infection. This phenomenon has been called longcovid. Study design: This study attempted to analyse symptoms reported by users on twitter self-identifying as longcovid. Methods: The search was carried out using the twitter public streaming application programming interface using a relevant search term. Results: We could identify 89 users with usable data in the tweets posted by them. A majority of users described multiple symptoms the most common of which were fatigue, shortness of breath, pain and brainfog/concentration difficulties. The most common course of symptoms was episodic. Conclusions: Given the public health importance of this issue, the study suggests that there is a need to better study post acute-COVID symptoms.

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BrAPI—an application programming interface for plant breeding applications

Bioinformatics ◽

10.1093/bioinformatics/btz190 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (20) ◽

pp. 4147-4155 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Peter Selby ◽

Rafael Abbeloos ◽

Jan Erik Backlund ◽

Martin Basterrechea Salido ◽

Guillaume Bauchet ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Plant Breeding ◽

Data Exchange ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Multiple Systems ◽

The Public ◽

Collaborative Community ◽

Application Programming ◽

Developer Tools ◽

Modern Genomic ◽

Programming Interface

Abstract Motivation Modern genomic breeding methods rely heavily on very large amounts of phenotyping and genotyping data, presenting new challenges in effective data management and integration. Recently, the size and complexity of datasets have increased significantly, with the result that data are often stored on multiple systems. As analyses of interest increasingly require aggregation of datasets from diverse sources, data exchange between disparate systems becomes a challenge. Results To facilitate interoperability among breeding applications, we present the public plant Breeding Application Programming Interface (BrAPI). BrAPI is a standardized web service API specification. The development of BrAPI is a collaborative, community-based initiative involving a growing global community of over a hundred participants representing several dozen institutions and companies. Development of such a standard is recognized as critical to a number of important large breeding system initiatives as a foundational technology. The focus of the first version of the API is on providing services for connecting systems and retrieving basic breeding data including germplasm, study, observation, and marker data. A number of BrAPI-enabled applications, termed BrAPPs, have been written, that take advantage of the emerging support of BrAPI by many databases. Availability and implementation More information on BrAPI, including links to the specification, test suites, BrAPPs, and sample implementations is available at https://brapi.org/. The BrAPI specification and the developer tools are provided as free and open source.

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Search Engine Get Application Programming Interface

Jurnal Sains dan Informatika ◽

10.34128/jsi.v5i2.175 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 88-97

Author(s):

M. Fuadi Aziz Muri ◽

Hendrik Setyo Utomo ◽

Rabini Sayyidati

Keyword(s):

Web Service ◽

Search Engine ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

Function Concept ◽

The Public ◽

Representational State Transfer ◽

State Transfer ◽

General Search ◽

Application Programming ◽

Programming Interface

Application Programming Interface (API) is a function concept that can be called by other programs. The API works as a link that unites various applications of various types of platforms, commonly known as API public names. The public API has been widely spread, while its users, programmers who want to search for public APIs, must browse through various methods such as general search engines, repository documentation or directly in web articles. The user does not yet have a system specifically for collecting public-public APIs, so that users have difficulty in performing API public link searches. The solution to these problems can be solved by building a web framework with a search engine interface that provides specific public-public searches for the API, so that users can search the API public more easily. Web Service is an API that is made to support the interaction between two or more different applications through a network. Representational State Transfer (ReST) is one of the rules.

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BloodPAC Data Commons for Liquid Biopsy Data

JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics ◽

10.1200/cci.20.00179 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 479-486

Author(s):

Robert L. Grossman ◽

Jonathan R. Dry ◽

Sean E. Hanlon ◽

Donald J. Johann ◽

Anand Kolatkar ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Liquid Biopsy ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Application Programming Interface ◽

The Public ◽

Data Platform ◽

Working Groups ◽

The Commons ◽

Application Programming ◽

Using Data ◽

Data Commons

PURPOSE The Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer (BloodPAC) Data Commons (BPDC) is being developed and is operated by the public-private BloodPAC Consortium to support the liquid biopsy community. It is an interoperable data commons with the ultimate aim of serving as a recognized source of valid scientific evidence for liquid biopsy assays for industry, academia, and standards and regulatory stakeholders. METHODS The BPDC is implemented using the open source Gen3 data commons platform ( https://gen3.org ). In particular, the BPDC Data Exploration Portal, BPDC Data Submission Portal, the BPDC Workspace Hub, and the BloodPAC application programming interface (API) were all automatically generated from the BloodPAC Data Model using the Gen3 data commons platform. BPDC uses Gen3's implementation of the data commons framework services so that it can interoperate through secure, compliant APIs with other data commons using data commons framework service, such as National Cancer Institute's Cancer Research Data Commons. RESULTS The BPDC contains 57 studies and projects spanning more than 4,100 cases. This amounts to 5,700 aliquots (blood plasma, serum, or a contrived sample) that have been subjected to a liquid biopsy assay, quantified, and then contributed by members of the BloodPAC Consortium. In all, there are more than 31,000 files in the commons as of December 2020. We describe the BPDC, the data it manages, the process that the BloodPAC Consortium used to develop it, and some of the applications that have been developed using its API. CONCLUSION The BPDC has been the data platform used by BloodPAC during the past 4 years to manage the data for the consortium and to provide workspaces for its working groups.

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