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Digital2026, 6(4), 91;https://doi.org/10.3390/digital6040091 
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31 October 2026

This research was based on teaching experience as an architecture lecturer who taught a lighting course for undergraduate students in the Department of Architecture. Simulation software is often used to teach lighting to learners. However, in practic...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multimedia-Based Digital Learning)
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39 Pages

25 October 2026

Neonatal cerebral atrophy is a serious form of structural brain anomaly observed in up to 15% of newborns admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Early and accurate assessment is clinically important because it can inform prognosis, guide...

(This article belongs to the Topic Health Monitoring in the Context of Medical Big Data)
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31 Pages

A Local Edge Companion Architecture for Human-Aware Communication and Service Augmentation in Cloud-Controlled Service Robots

  • Kazuma Ito,
  • Tomihiro Utsumi,
  • Tianjia Lan,
  • Min Lu and ,
  • Iori Sasaki,
  • Ryo Sato and
  • Masatoshi Arikawa
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22 October 2026

Commercial cloud-controlled service robots are increasingly deployed in shared public facilities, yet many remain task-centric delivery platforms that cannot be easily extended with surrounding-people recognition, situated communication policy, or co...

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22 October 2026

Accurately identifying whether a vehicle is controlled by a human driver or by an autonomous policy is critical in future mixed-traffic environments for safety monitoring and liability attribution. To achieve accurate classification or identification...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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Early Prediction of Academic Outcomes in Virtual Learning Environments via a Hybrid Transformer–XGBoost Model

  • Salim Lafdoul,
  • Sana Baadou,
  • Abderrafik Laakel Hemdanou,
  • Youssef Achtoun and ,
  • Mohammed Lamarti Sefian and
  • Ahmed Bendahmane
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21 October 2026

Early-warning systems aim to identify students at risk of failing or withdrawing in time to act. On two modules of the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset, we evaluated a hybrid model in which a Transformer encoder summarises ten weeks of virt...

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27 Pages

13 October 2026

Learned resource allocators for sixth-generation edge networks usually treat operational limits as penalties and may return infeasible decisions. This paper studies energy minimization in multi-cell uplink non-orthogonal multiple access mobile edge c...

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198 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2026

In digital decision-support environments, users continuously generate analytical experiences, annotations, and metadata while interacting with data warehouse systems. Reusing these experiences can improve decision-making, reduce redundant analytical...

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232 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2026

When an operator’s instruction conflicts with a codified safety rule, an assistant should recognize the conflict and defer to the rule. This is a pragmatic problem with an objective answer: the correct action follows from a published regulation...

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33 Pages

30 September 2026

Context: The increasing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has transformed digital marketing into a software-intensive, data-driven ecosystem requiring continuous optimization under uncertainty. Existing decision-support approaches pri...

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30 September 2026

The long-term reliability of selective laser melting (SLM) equipment is constrained by the latent degradation and coupled faults of multiple underlying hardware systems under continuous high-load operations. Transitioning from passive defect detectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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25 September 2026

Facility-layout decisions in small manufacturing firms are often evaluated with heterogeneous indicators, which complicates comparison and reproducibility. This study develops a traceable decision-support workflow and applies it to two manufacturing...

(This article belongs to the Topic Integrating Human Factors and AI: Driving the Transition to Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0)
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452 Views
24 Pages

21 September 2026

Data are becoming increasingly crucial to business and social digitalization, as such data have become a strategic asset that accelerates economic competitiveness and digitalization of society. In a societal context, it is important to maintain compl...

(This article belongs to the Topic Digital Platform Analytics for Societal Development Across Sectors)
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45 Pages

Human Digital Twins for Smart and Sustainable Hospital Operations: Trends Analysis and a Value-Sensitive Framework

  • Lucia Gazzaneo,
  • Francesco Longo,
  • Atam Kumar Menghwar,
  • Giovanni Mirabelli and
  • Vittorio Solina

5 September 2026

Human Digital Twins (HDTs) extend traditional Digital Twin (DT) concepts by modeling both humans and hospital processes to support smarter and more human-centered healthcare. By integrating Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies with the human-centric prin...

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38 Pages

Bridge Surface Defect Detection via Heterogeneous Feature Fusion and Multi-Scale Enhancement

  • Baoyong Zhang,
  • Xueqiu Wang,
  • Zhipeng Liu,
  • Songyun Hu and ,
  • Chuanyi Ma and
  • Jian Liu
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3 September 2026

Automated bridge surface defect detection is essential for improving the efficiency and objectivity of infrastructure inspection under complex field imaging conditions. This study proposes a Multi-Scale Detection Transformer (MS-DETR), an RT-DETR-bas...

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21 Pages

1 September 2026

The increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into classroom practice has created the need for valid instruments to assess teachers’ readiness for AI integration. The present study developed and psychometrically validated the Teach...

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712 Views
28 Pages

From Users to Designers: An In-Service Teacher Workshop for Mobile Game-Based Learning Experiences

  • João Ferreira-Santos,
  • Lúcia Pombo,
  • Margarida M. Marques,
  • Rita Rodrigues and
  • Teresa B. Neto

1 September 2026

STEAM approaches create new opportunities for students to develop thinking skills connected to technical and scientific education. By combining different areas of knowledge, STEAM encourages students to explore ideas from multiple perspectives and fi...

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639 Views
24 Pages

28 August 2026

This exploratory mixed-methods study examines how an edge artificial intelligence (edge AI) gas-sensing project is associated with vocational upper-secondary students’ self-reported problem-solving attitudes in an authentic classroom setting. T...

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1 Citations
1,189 Views
39 Pages

24 August 2026

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are fundamental to the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), yet severe node energy constraints remain the primary bottleneck for remote environmental monitoring where power infrastructure is unavailable. Because...

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493 Views
30 Pages

24 August 2026

Manufacturing sectors and ecosystems can improve their innovation performance through digital platforms, connected intelligence, and organisational settings that enable collaboration among experts and ecosystem members. The convergence of skills and...

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408 Views
39 Pages

Digitally Driven Agricultural New Quality Productive Forces and Cultivated Land Multifunctionality in the Yangtze River Basin

  • Xinying Li,
  • Zhanpeng Qu,
  • Shuohuan Yan,
  • Shanni Wang and ,
  • Haozhaoxing Liao,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Siyuan Li and
  • Yue Wang
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22 August 2026

Transitioning cultivated land from a narrowly defined production resource into a coordinated multifunctional asset is a cornerstone of agricultural modernization. Despite this imperative, current land utilization in China remains largely constrained...

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22 Pages

A Semantic Clustering Framework for Discovering Latent Offense Patterns: A Case Study of Thai Police Records

  • Krittakom Srijiranon,
  • Tanatorn Tanantong,
  • Nattanon Keeratiwattapong,
  • Nawarerk Chalarak and
  • Usanut Sangtongdee

18 August 2026

Crime offense descriptions are often recorded as unstructured text, making large-scale analysis and categorization difficult. This study proposes a semantic clustering framework for Thai crime offense descriptions using sentence embeddings, dimension...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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32 Pages

17 August 2026

Today, data are no longer confined to numerical values arranged in row-by-column matrices or stored neatly within relational databases. One of the defining characteristics of big data is its high variety, encompassing unstructured and multimodal form...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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987 Views
32 Pages

Deep Learning in Lunar Regolith Image Processing: A Review

  • Shengming Guo,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Lingxin Wang,
  • Kaibo Shang and ,
  • Shengyuan Jiang,
  • Yixin Bao and
  • Yifeng Wang
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7 August 2026

Recent lunar missions have generated a growing demand for automated and reliable processing of lunar regolith images. However, imaging degradations, limited annotations, and the lack of paired clean–degraded reference data still hinder the robu...

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445 Views
15 Pages

Vis/NIR-Based Wireless Sensing for Potatoes

  • Chunling Liu,
  • Ruihua Zhang,
  • Wenjing Zhao,
  • Yuhan Gong and ,
  • Yingle Du,
  • Tao Sun,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Xinqing Xiao
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5 August 2026

Potato quality is determined by multiple physicochemical indicators, including dry matter content (DC), starch content (SC), and color parameters (lightness L*, redness a*, yellowness b*, and browning index (BI)). Conventional spectrometers are costl...

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711 Views
17 Pages

5 August 2026

Image interpolation plays an important role in many computer vision and image processing tasks, such as image resizing, denoising, and restoration. Most traditional interpolation algorithms work on the time domain and deal with all image regions in a...

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2,138 Views
34 Pages

Integrating AI into Smart Logistics Management: A Comprehensive Review

  • Shifat Shima Akter,
  • Muhammad Omair Khan,
  • Md Ariful Islam Mozumder,
  • Yungsun Choi and
  • Hee Cheol Kim

29 July 2026

This paper provides a comprehensive and systematic review of artificial intelligence (AI) integration in smart logistics management, evaluating seven core technology clusters: machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NL...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Supply Chain Practices in A Digital Age)
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16 Pages

Development and Validation of MyHTCare: An mHealth Application for Remote Monitoring and Self-Management of Hypertension

  • Prajwal Lemuel Salins,
  • Poornima P. Kundapur,
  • Sabu Karakka Mandapam,
  • Reshmi Bhageerathy and ,
  • Suma Nair,
  • Kirthinatha Ballala,
  • Roshan David Jathanna and
  • Raksha Kamath
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28 July 2026

(1) Background: Hypertension is a prevalent chronic condition requiring sustained self-management to prevent complications; however, long-term adherence to monitoring, medication, and lifestyle modification remains suboptimal. Mobile health (mHealth)...

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855 Views
23 Pages

Comparative Assessment of Machine Learning and Neural Network Models for Asbestos–Cement Detection in VNIR Images

  • Gabriel Elías Chanchí-Golondrino,
  • Isaac Esteban Camargo Freile,
  • Julio Eduardo Mejía Manzano,
  • Manuel Saba and
  • Manuel Alejando Ospina-Alarcón

27 July 2026

Hyperspectral imaging is a well-established remote sensing technique for material detection and classification, relying on hundreds of reflectance bands to exploit the spectral signatures of surface materials. Although hyperspectral imagery has demon...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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833 Views
23 Pages

14 July 2026

Customer prioritization in e-commerce remains dominated by value-based logics that allocate retention effort to the most profitable customers, even though risk-based targeting can be ineffective when intervention responsiveness is ignored. This study...

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941 Views
30 Pages

10 July 2026

This study describes the second iteration of VLEPIC, a gamified and personalised virtual learning environment (VLE) for secondary English students in Ecuador. Adopting a design-based research approach, it focuses on student interaction and system imp...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multimedia-Based Digital Learning)
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1,366 Views
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A Big Data Analytics Framework with Interactive Dashboards for Decision-Support in Ecuador’s Agricultural Sector

  • Ashley Aguilar-Serrano,
  • Jean Ávila-Villaprado,
  • Maritza Pinta and
  • Bertha Mazon-Olivo

Ecuador’s agricultural sector plays a strategic role in the national economy; however, agricultural data remains fragmented across heterogeneous and isolated sources, limiting integrated analysis and evidence-based decision-making. This study p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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A Systematic PRISMA Survey on Fault-Tolerant DNN Accelerator Architectures for Safety-Critical Systems

  • Farah Natiq Qassabbashi,
  • Shawkat Sabah Khairullah and
  • Shefa A. Dawwd

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly being used in the design of industrial safety-critical autonomous applications such as autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics, and medical instrumentation and control systems. Ensuring reliable and robus...

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2 Citations
1,694 Views
33 Pages

A Scoping Review of Digital Twins Across Environmental and Territorial Applications

  • Letizia Artioli,
  • Giovanni Borga,
  • Pietro Costa,
  • Federica D’Acunto and
  • Filippo Iodice

25 June 2026

Digital twin (DT) technology has expanded far beyond its industrial origins, increasingly finding application across environmental and territorial domains. This review provides a structured mapping of DT deployments at environmental and territorial s...

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1,404 Views
23 Pages

18 June 2026

Traditional dementia care training often falls short in equipping staff with the knowledge and skills needed to improve quality of life for people with dementia. Virtual Reality (VR)-based experiential learning has emerged as a promising approach, en...

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1,190 Views
22 Pages

A Digital Twin-Based Framework for Biomechanical Ergonomics Assessment in Human–Robot Collaboration

  • Jörg Miehling,
  • Matthias Guertler,
  • Marc Carmichael,
  • Richardo Khonasty and ,
  • Louis Fernandez,
  • Sandro Wartzack and
  • Christopher Löffelmann
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17 June 2026

In today’s manufacturing industry, work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) remain among the most prevalent occupational health issues. Collaborative robots (cobots) represent a promising technology to address this challenge. Consequently...

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1,258 Views
22 Pages

Assessment of Learning Through Educational Video Games in Preservice Teacher Education

  • Juan Luis Cabanillas-García,
  • Francisca Angélica Monroy-García and
  • Desirée Ayuso-del Puerto

17 June 2026

In today’s educational context, Game-Based Learning (GBL) has emerged as a promising methodology for promoting active learning in an engaging and motivating way. This study aims to analyze the impact of a video game-based intervention on the de...

(This article belongs to the Collection Multimedia-Based Digital Learning)
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CMYD-SurfaceNet: Scale-Aware Cascaded Multimodal MRI Segmentation via Representation-Level Structural Decoupling and Boundary-Constrained Learning

  • Chaymae El Mechal,
  • Mostefa Mesbah,
  • Loubna Mazgouti,
  • Fatima Zahra Ammor and
  • Najiba El Amrani El Idrissi

16 June 2026

Reliable delineation of brain tumor boundaries in multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) remains challenging despite substantial advances in deep learning–based segmentation. Although modern encoder–decoder architectures achieve stro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications: 2nd Edition)
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1,041 Views
34 Pages

15 June 2026

This study aims to investigate the integration of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and advanced large language models (LLMs) in financial sentiment research, focusing on improving the accuracy and robustness of financial sentiment classificat...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications: 2nd Edition)
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1,404 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2026

Digital resilience has become an increasingly important concept in information systems research due to growing dependence on digital infrastructures, escalating cyber threats, and the emergence of regulatory frameworks that formalize resilience oblig...

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1,447 Views
21 Pages

Pipelines remain the primary mode of oil and gas transportation but are vulnerable to leaks that pose environmental and safety risks, particularly in two-phase flow systems. Conventional detection methods often struggle under transient multiphase con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Management in Data Analysis)
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21 Pages

With the rapid growth of edge computing applications, optimizing both edge server placement and task offloading decisions is critical for minimizing system latency in edge–cloud environments. However, these two problems are tightly coupled and...

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28 Pages

Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are being introduced in the European Union to support circular economy strategies, improve product transparency, and enable lifecycle-based compliance and decision-making. Despite growing interest, research on DPPs re...

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