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A Cluster-based Approach of Smartphone Camera Fingerprint for User Profiles Resolution within Social Network
Distributed Ledger and Text Watermarking for Fine-Grain Provenance Checking of Textual Content
Information disorder has become a major societal challenge, impacting public discourse and democracy. This phenomenon has been exacerbated by the spread of social media platforms, affecting various areas, ranging from national elections to public health. Addressing fake news through a manual approach (e.g., human fact-checking) is unfeasible due to the rapid production of textual content. At the same time, applying automatic tools is equally challenging, primarily due to the ambiguity of natural language. In this paper, we addressed online information disorder from a different perspective by proposing a platform that supports trustworthy and reputable news producers and enhances awareness among readers across various social media. Specifically, the proposed platform enables news producers to automatically embed a unique watermark in the text they create, ensuring that the news cannot be manipulated or misattributed. The watermarking is embedded in a fine-grained way, allowing even small extracts of the news to be shared while preserving traceability. Additionally, the association between the watermark and the news item is recorded in a distributed ledger, preventing further manipulation that could arise from centralised management. The aim is to enable readers to make more informed decisions about the content they encounter, even when engaging with excerpts of the original document, minimising reliance on external fact-checking organisations
Balancing Calories with Smartphone
Background: People gain weight when assume more calories than their body can consume. Instead, they lose weight when they consume more than what they eat. Comparing the body to a closed system, we can call calorie balance the difference between the input and output calories. However, keep a balanced diet regime is never a rewarding activity and often people give up.
Objectives: The goal is to help subjects with overweight problems: educate these people reduces the number of people that might migrate in the obese class. We propose an application to encourage healthier lifestyles, whose innovative feature is an automatic adaptive monitoring of the daily calorie balance. The system uses a familiar device and motivates the users to reach best result with the diet.
Methods: The energy consumption is related to the oxygen consumption, obviously also if combined with physical activity. The heart rate is directly related to the supply of oxygen. Using this simple relation, the heartbeats are bound to the calorie consumption.
Results: People achieve a greater awareness about food dosage and its calories weight. Moreover the application allows a more careful choice in food selection in order to not vanish the efforts made to change the lifestyles.
Conclusions: We have obtained good result with off-theshelf hardware and user friendly software solutions. The users consider the system like a game where they have to keep higher the burned calories level. A motivational application has been found to be a winning card to promote healthier lifestyles, without intimidating the user
Balancing Calories with Smartphone
Background: People gain weight when assume more calories than their body can consume. Instead, they lose weight when they consume more than what they eat. Comparing the body to a closed system, we can call calorie balance the difference between the input and output calories. However, keep a balanced diet regime is never a rewarding activity and often people give up.
Objectives: The goal is to help subjects with overweight problems: educate these people reduces the number of people that might migrate in the obese class. We propose an application to encourage healthier lifestyles, whose innovative feature is an automatic adaptive monitoring of the daily calorie balance. The system uses a familiar device and motivates the users to reach best result with the diet.
Methods: The energy consumption is related to the oxygen consumption, obviously also if combined with physical activity. The heart rate is directly related to the supply of oxygen. Using this simple relation, the heartbeats are bound to the calorie consumption.
Results: People achieve a greater awareness about food dosage and its calories weight. Moreover the application allows a more careful choice in food selection in order to not vanish the efforts made to change the lifestyles.
Conclusions: We have obtained good result with off-theshelf hardware and user friendly software solutions. The users consider the system like a game where they have to keep higher the burned calories level. A motivational application has been found to be a winning card to promote healthier lifestyles, without intimidating the user
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