Articles

This study introduces the VSAC model, a hybrid data compression approach designed for real-time, efficient transmission of vital signs in smart city healthcare systems. By combining lossy and lossless techniques within an edge-fog-cloud architecture, it addresses bandwidth and storage challenges while ensuring prompt health notifications.

This Perspective highlights the complex development challenges of road network expansion in sub-Saharan Africa, emphasizing the need for sustainable, evidence-based strategies that balance economic growth with environmental preservation through community engagement and transdisciplinary approaches.

This paper explores the well-being of students in an Indigenous University program at a historically disadvantaged South African university, framing its analysis within decolonial debates in Higher Education.