Publications by authors named "J Bernabe"
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- Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is usually asymptomatic in young children but can cause severe symptoms in adolescents and adults, especially in older adults or those with liver disease, with vaccination recommended in areas with lower endemicity like the Philippines.
- A study was conducted on 1242 participants from urban and rural areas to measure HAV-specific antibodies and evaluate demographic, hygiene, and health-related factors through surveys and tests.
- Results indicated low HAV prevalence, with urban participants showing a slightly lower seropositivity than rural ones; factors linked to higher seropositivity included lower educational levels, street food consumption, and inadequate handwashing practices.
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- The rise of mobile devices is driving the development of smart city services that handle significant amounts of personal data, which raises concerns about security and privacy.
- A proposed infrastructure features a distributed privacy-preserving identity management solution, a user-centric Consent Manager, and a GDPR-based Access Control mechanism to comply with GDPR requirements.
- This approach has been tested in the MiMurcia Smart City project, integrating with existing systems to demonstrate its practical feasibility.
Background And Aims: Gastric variceal bleeding (GVB) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. EUS-guided coil and cyanoacrylate (CYA) injection (EUS-CCI) has been shown to be an effective therapy in acute bleeding and secondary prophylaxis; however, there is a paucity of data on primary prophylaxis.
Methods: In this single-center observational study, adult patients with high-risk gastric varices (GV; size >10 mm or cherry red spot) without prior bleeding underwent EUS-CCI for the primary prophylaxis of GVB between June 2009 and December 2019.
Background: Early data suggests that endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) is a safe and efficacious option for gastric outlet obstruction (GOO). However, there is a scarcity of data comparing outcomes with open gastrojejunostomy (OGJ).
Methods: Single-center retrospective cohort study of adult patients hospitalized with GOO who underwent EUS-GE or OGJ between January 1, 2014 and February 28, 2020.
IoT systems can be leveraged by Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies, thereby strengthening their overall flexibility, security and resilience. In this sense, adaptive and policy-based security frameworks for SDN/NFV-aware IoT systems can provide a remarkable added value for self-protection and self-healing, by orchestrating and enforcing dynamically security policies and associated Virtual Network Functions (VNF) or Virtual network Security Functions (VSF) according to the actual context. However, this security orchestration is subject to multiple possible inconsistencies between the policies to enforce, the already enforced management policies and the evolving status of the managed IoT system.
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