A Systematic Review of the State of Cyber-Security in Water Systems

Critical infrastructure systems are evolving from isolated bespoke systems to those that use general-purpose computing hosts, IoT sensors, edge computing, wireless networks and artificial intelligence. Although this move improves sensing and control capacity and gives better integration with business requirements, it also increases the scope for attack from malicious entities that intend to conduct industrial espionage and sabotage against these systems. In this paper, we review the state of the cyber-security research that is focused on improving the security of the water supply and wastewater collection and treatment systems that form part of the critical national infrastructure. We cover the publication statistics of the research in this area, the aspects of security being addressed, and future work required to achieve better cyber-security for water systems.

From Theory to Science: Publication Characteristics of Medical Thesis Composed by Anesthesia Reanimation Residents in Turkey

INTRODUCTION: Completing a medical thesis (MT) is regarded as a complementary component of residency training in Turkey. We believe, announcing these precious scientific records in worldwide accepted scientific journals is the most reliable way to promote their accessibility. In the presented research, our aim is to examine the publication statistics and the scientific quality of the MT written in the field of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (A&R). METHODS: We collected the data about MTs from the web-site of the National Thesis data center of the Academic Educational Board in Turkey, and scanned the author name, title, and keywords of the MTs in the search engines of PubMed, Google Scholar, and Turkish Academic Network and Information Center Turkish Database. RESULTS: Between the years 1975-2019, three thousand three hundred and fifty-two MTs were published, and we accessed to full texts of 1207 (36%) MTs. The publication rate was 11.3% (n=137), and 76 (55.4%) of these theses were published in a journal indexed in SCI/SCIE databases. MTs focusing on peripheral blocks, algology, and the subjects related to the problems in outpatient clinics had higher publication rates (p=0.003; p=0.022; p=0.014, respectively). According to Levels of Evidence and Grades of Recommendation System only 21 MTs were in Level III (15.3%). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: MTs in the field of A&R have low publication rates. The foremost cause of the problem is that most MTs have low scientific evidence levels.

Cancer Publication Portal: an online tool for summarizing and searching human cancer-genomic publications

A search of PubMed lists >582,000 citations with the keywords “cancer” and “gene”. The large volume of cancer genomic publications necessitates the development of text-mining tools to help cancer researchers navigate and summarize articles efficiently. We developed a Cancer Publication Portal (CPP) to help researchers efficiently search and summarize cancer genomic publications, based on one or more genes of interest. CPP integrates data from several sources, including PubTator, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database; the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee human gene name database; PubMed, a database of biomedical literature citations; and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Thesaurus. Following each query, results are summarized and include the publication frequency for each cancer type, as well as publication frequencies for cancer terms, pharmacological agents, genomic mutations, and additional genes stratified by cancer type. Cancer terms were identified by comparing titles and abstracts from cancer-related (N=851,868) and non-cancer related articles (N=2,607,020). CPP allows a user to quickly obtain publication statistics, such as the frequency of articles mentioning EGFR across cancer types, and to explore associations, such as the association between pharmacological agent and cancer type. Result summaries are interactive, so additional filters can be easily added as the literature is explored. After a search is completed, a PubTator collection can be quickly created, in order to view article titles and abstracts in PubTator. CPP currently includes information for ~1.1 million cancer-related publications associated with >23,000 human genes. Database URL: https://gdancik.github.io/bioinformatics/CPP/.

Statistics of Poland – the First Yearbook of Polish Lands: Authors and Content

The beginning of the twentieth century is a time of the development of official statistics in European countries. Due to the lack of its own independent state, it was not possible to publish a Yearbook of Poland at the time. In this context, the Polish Statistical Association (PSA) was founded in Cracow in 1912. One of its main tasks was to merge statistical information on Polish lands dispersed among statistical offices of Russia, Germany and Austria and to issue its own statistical yearbooks for Polish lands and their population. Before the beginning of World War I, the PSA was able to prepare the publication Statistics of Poland, printed in 1915, whose main authors were: A. Krzyżanowski and K. W. Kumaniecki. Many people from the intellectual elite of the country were involved in the project. The territorial scope of Statistics of Poland is interesting. It covers the territory of the first Polish Republic and the area of Upper Silesia and the southern Masuria, where Poles were the majority. Statistical data contained in Statistics of Poland amaze by their abundance even today. The importance of Statistics of Poland is that it gave arguments for the Polish delegation in the con­duct of the discussions on the shape of the territory of reborn Poland in 1918 carried out at the peace conference in Versailles.

Research on Database Research Based on VLDB and SIGMOD

In today's world, there are several most authoritative international academic conferences in the fi eld of databases,such as vldb, sigmod, and icde, which provide a platform for discussion and exchange of database researchers,developers and applications, Guide and promote the development of database disciplines. We can see the hotspots oftoday’s database technology and discover the future trends of related topics from the researchers at these conferences.First, we analyzed the vldb and sigmod conferences in 2008, 2009 and 2010 accepted the core database technology onthe paper. We also cite the 'Observation on Database Research Trends via Publication Statistics' for statistics on thesetwo meetings from 1997 to 2006. We classify the paper into 28 classes, of which 22 are based on traditional databasetechniques and the other six classes are new categories that we added during the analysis. Then, we predicted that sixnew categories will be popular and become a new hotspot in the future, which is a major feature of this article. Finally,we analyze the trend of database technology hotspots in recent years, and deduce the development trend of futuredatabase technology.

Analyzing compound activity records and promiscuity degrees in light of publication statistics

For the generation of contemporary databases of bioactive compounds, activity information is usually extracted from the scientific literature. However, when activity data are analyzed, source publications are typically no longer taken into consideration. Therefore, compound activity data selected from ChEMBL were traced back to thousands of original publications, activity records including compound, assay, and target information were systematically generated, and their distributions across the literature were determined. In addition, publications were categorized on the basis of activity records. Furthermore, compound promiscuity, defined as the ability of small molecules to specifically interact with multiple target proteins, was analyzed in light of publication statistics, thus adding another layer of information to promiscuity assessment. It was shown that the degree of compound promiscuity was not influenced by increasing numbers of source publications. Rather, most non-promiscuous as well as promiscuous compounds, regardless of their degree of promiscuity, originated from single publications, which emerged as a characteristic feature of the medicinal chemistry literature.

Academic work/life balance: A brief quantitative analysis of the Australian experience

In this article, we explore the discourse of work/life balance and how academics experience and understand it. Using survey data from research conducted in 2014, the article argues that the concept of ‘life’ within the dichotomy of work/life has often assumed characteristics. While we find in our survey work that academics are indeed working longer hours and often sacrificing leisure time for outputs such as publications, it is still widely unknown how academics understand ‘life’ in relation to their occupation/vocation. Our data indicates further that pressures on academics to establish their credentials through quantifiable data (such as publication statistics) causes notions of work/life balance to become porous, with many academics reporting working from home and in ‘non-labour time’ such as the weekend. Despite these results, we argue that a more nuanced account of work/life balance needs to be attained for the discussion to proceed further.