Information, Volume 15, Issue 7

This research focuses on examining the responses of interest groups listed in the European Transparency Register to the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war. Its aim is to investigate the nuanced reactions of 2579 commercial and business associations and...

Data visualization has several advantages, such as representing vast amounts of data and visually demonstrating patterns within it. Manifold learning methods help us estimate lower-dimensional representations of data, thereby enabling more effective...

The ever-growing web application landscape, fueled by technological advancements, introduces new vulnerabilities to cyberattacks. Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks pose a significant threat, exploiting the difficulty of distinguishing between benign...

Current AI detection systems often struggle to distinguish between Arabic human-written text (HWT) and AI-generated text (AIGT) due to the small marks present above and below the Arabic text called diacritics. This study introduces robust Arabic text...

The existing Siamese trackers have achieved increasingly successful results in visual object tracking. However, the interactive fusion among multi-layer similarity maps after cross-correlation has not been fully studied in previous Siamese network-ba...

Separating overlapped nuclei is a significant challenge in histopathology image analysis. Recently published approaches have achieved promising overall performance on nuclei segmentation; however, their performance on separating overlapped nuclei is...

Students’ perceptions of tools with which they learn affect the outcomes of this learning. GenAI tools are new tools that have promise for students’ learning, especially higher education students. Examining students’ perceptions of...

Currently, telemedicine and telehealth have grown, prompting healthcare institutions to seek innovative ways to incorporate them into their services. Challenges such as resource allocation, system integration, and data compatibility persist in health...

The object detection model in UAV aerial image scenes faces challenges such as significant scale changes of certain objects and the presence of complex backgrounds. This paper aims to address the detection of small objects in aerial images using NATC...

Paradoxical decision-making behaviours such as preference reversal often arise from imprecise or noisy human preferences. Harnessing the physical principle of magnetisation reversal in ferromagnetic nanostructures, we developed a model that closely r...

This research was conducted to determine the reasons behind users’ discontinuation of talent pool information system use. A qualitative approach was chosen to explore these factors in depth. Respondents were selected using purposive sampling te...

Ginkgo leaf disease poses a grave threat to Ginkgo biloba. The current management of Ginkgo leaf disease lacks precision guidance and intelligent technologies. To provide precision guidance for disease management and to evaluate the effectiveness of...

Educational technology has advanced tremendously in recent years, with several major developments becoming available in healthcare professionals’ education, including nursing. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in obligatory physical d...

Memristor crossbars offer promising low-power and parallel processing capabilities, making them efficient for implementing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in terms of delay time, area, etc. However, mapping large CNN models like ResNet-18, ResNe...

A method fusing spectral and image information with a one-dimensional convolutional neural network(1D-CNN) for the detection of moisture content in Orah mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) was proposed. The 1D-CNN model integrated with three differen...

Joint entity-relation extraction is a fundamental task in the construction of large-scale knowledge graphs. This task relies not only on the semantics of the text span but also on its intricate connections, including classification and structural det...

This study proposes the integration of change management with a knowledge management framework to address knowledge retention and successful change management in the context of Industry 5.0. Using the ADKAR model, it is suggested to implement strateg...

Recent advancements in cognitive neuroscience, particularly in electroencephalogram (EEG) signal processing, image generation, and brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), have opened up new avenues for research. This study introduces a novel framewor...

The novelty of this paper is in determining and using hyperparameters to improve the Extended Isolation Forest (EIF) algorithm, a relatively new algorithm, to detect malicious activities in network traffic. The EIF algorithm is a variation of the Iso...

Cognitive network science has increased our understanding of how the mental lexicon is structured and how that structure at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels influences language and cognitive processes. Most of the research using this approach has...

A digital microscope plays a crucial role in the better and faster diagnosis of an abnormality using various techniques. There has been significant development in this domain of digital pathology. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disorder that...

The International Council on Systems Engineering, the leading authority in the realm of systems engineering (SE), defines this field of study as a transdisciplinary and integrative approach to enabling the realization of the entire life cycle of any...

In the modern era of the Internet of Things (IoT), especially with the rapid development of quantum computers, the implementation of postquantum cryptography algorithms in numerous terminals allows them to defend against potential future quantum atta...

In the industrial sector, accurate fault identification is paramount for ensuring both safety and economic efficiency throughout the production process. However, due to constraints imposed by actual working conditions, the motor state features collec...

Online platforms have become the primary means for travellers to search, compare, and book accommodations for their trips. Consequently, online platforms and revenue managers must acquire a comprehensive comprehension of these dynamics to formulate a...

The transportation of patients in emergency medical situations, particularly in rural areas, often faces significant challenges due to long travel distances and limited access to healthcare facilities. These challenges can result in critical delays i...

A sustainable smart tourism ecosystem relies on building digital networks that link tourists to destinations. This study explores the potential of web and immersive technologies, specifically the Virtual Romania (VRRO) platform, in enhancing sustaina...

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) play a significant and evolving role in various industries and applications in the current technological landscape. They are widely known for their flexibility, rapid prototyping, reconfigurability, and design d...

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great promise in detecting heart disease. However, to ensure the clinical adoption of ML models, they must not only be generalizable and robust but also transparent and explainable. Therefore, this...

In the realm of disaster-related tweet classification, this study presents a comprehensive analysis of various machine learning algorithms, shedding light on crucial factors influencing algorithm performance. The exceptional efficacy of simpler model...

With the support of big data mining techniques, utilizing social media data containing location information and rich semantic text information can construct large-scale daily activity OD flows for urban populations, providing new data resources and r...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of fields, including image recognition, natural language processing, and speech processing. However, recent studies indicate that DNNs are highly vulnerable to well-cra...

Effective safety management is crucial in the construction industry. The growing interest in employing Knowledge Graphs (KGs) for safety management in construction is driven by the need for efficient computing-aided safety practices. This paper syste...

Hiking and cycling have gained popularity as ways of promoting well-being and physical activity. This has not gone unnoticed by Portuguese authorities, who have invested in infrastructure to support these activities and to boost sustainable and natur...

This paper investigates the stability and motion of two interactive oscillating agents. Multiple agents can be controlled in a centralized and/or distributed manner to form specific patterns in cooperative tracking, pursuit, and evasion games, as wel...

The learning equations of an ANN are presented, giving an extremely concise derivation based on the principle of backpropagation through the descendent gradient. Then, a dual network is outlined acting between synapses of a basic ANN, which controls...

In wireless networks, drone base stations (DBSs) offer significant benefits in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) improvement due to their line-of-sight (LoS) transmission capabilities and adaptability. However, LoS links can suffer degradation in com...

Serious games play a key role in the medical field, particularly in enhancing cognitive abilities in the elderly. However, the sensory organs of the elderly decline over time, and the intervention effect of traditional serious games for older adults....

The expressions on human faces reveal the emotions we are experiencing internally. Emotion recognition based on facial expression is one of the subfields of social signal processing. It has several applications in different areas, specifically in the...

E-commerce allows consumers to make online purchases easier, faster and at any time, making it different from traditional commerce. This technology has grown recently and has become popular among younger generations. This is the case of Generation Z,...

Distantly supervised relation extraction (DSRE), first used to address the limitations of manually annotated data via automatically annotating the data with triplet facts, is prone to issues such as mislabeled annotations due to the interference of n...

Generative AI applications have played an increasingly significant role in real-time tracking applications in many domains including, for example, healthcare, consultancy, dialog boxes (common types of window in a graphical user interface of operatin...

In the context of isolated photovoltaic (PV) installations, selecting the optimal combination of modules and batteries is crucial for ensuring efficient and reliable energy supply. This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) designed to aid i...

This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing trends in federated learning (FL) using automatic semantic keyword clustering. The authors collected a dataset of FL research papers from the Scopus database and extracted keywords to form a collectio...

The dynamic progression of technology has induced a profound metamorphosis within the realm of commerce, ushering in novel prospects and trials for enterprises spanning diverse sectors. In contemporary times, the rise in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) an...

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful models capable of managing intricate connections in non-Euclidean data, such as social networks, physical systems, chemical structures, and communication networks. Despite their effectiveness, the large-scale...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) strive to adapt to the specific characteristics of sustainable urban environments. Accurate 3D object detection with LiDAR is paramount for autonomous driving. However, existing research predominantly relies on the 3D object...

Low-current grounding systems are the main grounding method used in power distribution networks and belong to non-direct grounding systems. The most common fault in this type of system is a single-phase grounding fault, which may cause electrical fir...

Ontological knowledge graph (OKG) is a well-formed visual representation that depicts knowledge organization in formal elements (e.g., entities and attributes) and their interrelationships. OKG is crucial for innovation management analysis as it prov...

This paper disseminates our research findings that we conducted on university students in the years 2021, 2022, and 2023, with the year 2021 taken as the base year. Our research mined and excavated a concealed prevalence of social anxiety as an impor...