Usability Evaluation of Scientific Journal Websites using the System Usability Scale (Case Study of the OPSI Journal Website)

The government has initiated the accreditation of journals as publication media to improve the quality and quantity of research in Indonesia to have competitiveness against international publication media. As one of the scientific journals, the OPSI Journal has just received a Sinta 3 rating in journal accreditation. To improve the quality of the journal, it is necessary to evaluate the usability level of the OPSI Journal website so that the strategies that must be used in improving its quality can be identified. The usability level evaluation is carried out using the System Usability Scale (SUS), which has many advantages. The evaluation was carried out on users of the OPSI journal website categorized into four groups: reviewers, authors, editors, and readers. Based on the results of the research conducted, it was found that the highest usability value was in the author group, and the lowest was in the editor group.

Key articles and guidelines for the pediatric clinical pharmacist from 2019 and 2020

Purpose To summarize recently published research reports and practice guidelines deemed to be significantly impactful for pediatric pharmacy practice. Summary Our author group was composed of 8 board-certified pediatric pharmacists. Eight major themes were identified: critical care, hematology/oncology, medication safety, general pediatrics, infectious diseases, neurology/psychiatry, gastrointestinal/nutrition, and neonatology. The author group was assigned a specific theme(s) based on their practice expertise and were asked to identify articles using MEDLINE and/or searches of relevant journal articles pertaining to each theme that were published from January 2019 through December 2020 that they felt were “significant” for pediatric pharmacy practice. A final list of compiled articles was distributed to the authors, and an article was considered significant if it received a vote from 5 of the 8 authors. Thirty-two articles, including 16 clinical practice guidelines or position statements and 16 review or primary literature articles, were included in this review. For each of these articles, a narrative regarding its implications for pediatric pharmacy practice is provided. Conclusion Given the heterogeneity of pediatric patients, it is difficult for pediatric pharmacists to stay up to date with the most recent literature, especially in practice areas outside their main expertise. Over the last few years, there has been a significant number of publications impacting the practice of pediatric pharmacists. This review of articles that have significantly affected pediatric pharmacy practice may be helpful in staying up to date on key articles in the literature.

Identifying the Author Group of Malwares through Graph Embedding and Human-in-the-Loop Classification

Malware are developed for various types of malicious attacks, e.g., to gain access to a user’s private information or control of the computer system. The identification and classification of malware has been extensively studied in academic societies and many companies. Beyond the traditional research areas in this field, including malware detection, malware propagation analysis, and malware family clustering, this paper focuses on identifying the “author group” of a given malware as a means of effective detection and prevention of further malware threats, along with providing evidence for proper legal action. Our framework consists of a malware-feature bipartite graph construction, malware embedding based on DeepWalk, and classification of the target malware based on the k-nearest neighbors (KNN) classification. However, our KNN classifier often faced ambiguous cases, where it should say “I don’t know” rather than attempting to predict something with a high risk of misclassification. Therefore, our framework allows human experts to intervene in the process of classification for the final decision. We also developed a graphical user interface that provides the points of ambiguity for helping human experts to effectively determine the author group of the target malware. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our human-in-the-loop classification framework via extensive experiments using real-world malware data.

Correction to: Modeling Urban Futures: Data-Driven Scenarios of Climate Change and Vulnerability in Cities

In the original version of the book, the chapter authors of Chapter 9 had missed to include their co-author Dr. Rocio Carrero to the author group unfortunately. The chapter has been updated now with Dr. Rocio Carrero's name and affiliation.

Correction to: Levoketoconazole improves clinical signs and symptoms and patient-reported outcomes in patients with Cushing’s syndrome

The original version of the article unfortunately contained an error in the first name and the surname of one of the authors in the author group. The last author name was incorrectly published as ‘F. Pecori Giraldi’ and the corrected name is ‘Francesca Pecori Giraldi’ (First name: Francesca; Surname: Pecori Giraldi).

Correction to: A New Intraepithelial γδ T-Lymphocyte Marker for Celiac Disease Classification in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Duodenal Biopsies

The original version of the article unfortunately contained an error in the first name and the surname of the all authors in the author group. Below is the corrected first name and the surname of the authors.

Nonzero Staircase Modulation Scheme for Switching DC-DC Boost Converter

This paper presents a novel modulation scheme known as the nonzero staircase modulation scheme for switching DC-DC boost converters. This modulation scheme generates two distinct pulse trains/firing signals when a 50 Hz nonzero staircase modulating signal is compared with a 1.5 kHz triangular wave signal. Unlike the conventional modulation schemes, the proposed novel modulation scheme provides two distinctive trains of pulse-width modulated signals for mitigating low and high harmonics. It also possesses 0.56% total harmonic distortions (THD) of the output voltage waveform system, a power output of 4591 W, and THD of 1.12% in the DC-DC boost converter system. It has a simple design and low power loss of 209 W. The proposed scheme enables the single switch boost DC-DC converter used to have an efficiency of 96%. The proposed scheme can be applied in single switch or double switch boost DC-DC converter based-hospital equipment.

Retraction: CSTM: Cluster-based Security Trust Mechanism for VANET (IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng 688 044051)

This article has been retracted by IOP Publishing following an allegation that this article heavily plagiarises another article by a different author group [1]. IOP Publishing has investigated in line with the COPE guidelines, and agree the article constitutes serious plagiarism. IOP Publishing wishes to credit the anonymous whistleblowers for bringing the issue to our attention. To date the authors of the article have not responded to our requests for an explanation, if the authors wish to contest this retraction they are welcome to contact [email protected]. 1. A. Kchaou, R. Abassi and S. G. El Fatmi, "Towards a Secured Clustering Mechanism for Messages Exchange in VANET," 2018 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2018, pp. 88-93, doi: 10.1109/WAINA.2018.00068 Retraction published: 30 November 2021

Correction to: Case report: acute clinical presentation and neonatal management of primary hyperparathyroidism due to a novel CaSR mutation

In the published article [1], an error has been noticed in the author group section.

Correction to: Cinnamon extract induces tumor cell death through inhibition of NFκB and AP1

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors have re-evaluated the authorship for this article. The updated author group is: