The ubiquitous and heterogeneous deployment of internet of things (IoT) devices in smart homes has created new opportunities to extract knowledge, awareness, and intelligence via monitoring and understanding the devices’ interactions with their environments and users. Meaningful information from network traffic of IoT devices in smart homes can...

Recently, the surge in Internet-of-things (IoT) device deployment within smart homes has led to a large need for understanding user activities through the vast data generated by these devices. While studies have explored individual device behaviors and network traffic patterns, there remains a gap in leveraging this data collectively to infer and monitor...

Background Recent advances in catalysis by single-atom catalysts (SACs) and cluster catalysts have highlighted the unique catalytic properties of highly dispersed metal species. The use of single metal atoms or small clusters for catalysis is not only cost-effective but also significantly enhances the selectivity of a targeted reaction, resulting in...

Smart phones are very popular and used by over seven billion people. Each day seven million dollars worth of cell phones is lost or stolen. Without an authentication device, personal data stored on the device can be used for identity theft or the phone can be used for unauthorized purposes. Most authentication systems authenticate a user only once when...

The extracellular-signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway is a major component of the MAPK signaling pathway, and its activation plays an important role in cell growth, proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis. Thus, dysfunction in the ERK pathway may contribute to numerous diseases including cancer, diabetes, inflammation, autoimmunity and so on....