Domestic violence remains a pressing complex social problem of people of any gender,
age, socio-economic status, and ethno-cultural background, an issue that worsened …

The market of wearable devices has been growing over the past decades. Smart wearables
are usually part of IoT (Internet of things) systems and include many functionalities such as …

The main research motivation of this article is the fight against gender-based violence and
achieving gender equality from a technological perspective. The solution proposed in this …

Water contamination has intensified over the past years as the world's population and
industrial activities have grown. Heavy metals (HMs) are among the environmental …

Audiovisual communication is greatly contributing to the emerging research field of affective
computing. The use of audiovisual stimuli within immersive virtual reality environments is …

Emotion recognition is benefitting from the latest research into physiological monitoring and
wireless communications, among other remarkable achievements. These technologies can …

Identification of emotions triggered by different sourced stimuli can be applied to automatic
systems that help, relieve or protect vulnerable groups of population. The selection of the …

Emotions present in speech provide a lot of information about the emotional state of a
speaker. Affective Computing is an emerging field that analyses these states and tries to …

Gender-based Violence constitutes a violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms
recognised by the 1993 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against …

Abstract TOMAS, Nestor and RUPARE, Gideon. Nursing students' perception on their
readiness to combat gender-based violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health SA …