East West University

A rare case report of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome as a pulsatile neck mass with an internal carotid artery aneurysm

Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, also known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV, is a rare inherited connective tissue disorder caused by autosomal-dominant pathogenic variants in the COL3A1 gene. Defective type III collagen results in marked fragility of arteries and hollow organs...

STGen: A Lightweight Process-Based Testbed for Scalable IoT Protocol Evaluation with Physically Validated Synthetic Sensor and Anomaly Generation

This paper introduces the Sensor Traffic Generator (STGen), a lightweight, pure-software testbed for evaluating IoT application- and transport-layer protocols at scale. Relative to existing software-based IoT evaluation platforms, STGen combines three design decisions that, to th...

Digital device usage and psychological well-being in the post-COVID-19 era: insights from a cross-sectional survey

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital technology adoption worldwide, yet limited evidence links post-pandemic multi-purpose online behavior with health outcomes and psychological well-being (PWB) in a single, integrated analysis. This study examines how digital devic...