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While environmental and energy concerns have become global issues, the government of South Korea has made notable efforts and formulated plans for the diffusion of renewable energy generation facilities for the nation’s public and governmental instit...

The origins, development, implementation, and application of AEROM, NASA’s patented reduced-order modeling (ROM) software, are presented. Using the NASA FUN3D computational fluid dynamic (CFD) code, full and ROM aeroelastic solutions are computed at...

This work aims to develop a conceptual model to support countries, institutions, and firms toward the accomplishment of present Agenda 2030 sustainability goals. The last two decades have seen a growing interest in sustainability. Climate change, res...

Most research projects are data driven. However, many organizations lack proper information systems (IS) for managing data, that is, planning, collecting, analyzing, storing, archiving, and sharing for use and re-use. Many research institutions have...

This work presents a software-defined radio ionosonde (ISDR) developed at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy) and the Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine) and installed at the Ukrainian Antarctic Station in 2017. Fo...

The current global context demands the development of new solutions that prioritize energy efficiency, time optimization, safety, and sustainability. Urban transportation is one of the sectors undergoing significant transformation. Pursuing new urban...

This study examines the role of public procurement of artificial intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for transformative change in State functions. Building on the concept of transformative law, it argues that law should not merely regulate technological...

This article examines the configuration of carceral Islam in Algeria as an instrument of moral governance and civic re-education. Drawing on a multi-year qualitative investigation conducted within several research projects and framed by a comparative...

Central to any medical domain is the challenging patient to medical professional assignment task, aimed at getting the right patient to the right medical professional at the right time. This task is highly complex and involves partially conflicting o...

Two-thirds of UK higher education institutions operate as energy-intensive buildings and have failed to achieve the 2020 goal of reducing emissions by 43% from 2005 levels, as pledged in 2005. Converting existing buildings into low-emission ones is c...

The study presents a systematic review of the state of the art on Information Technology (IT) governance research. Following the PRISMA 2020 protocol and drawing on Scopus and Web of Science, covering publications from 1999 to May 2025, 380 relevant...

The digitalization of rural areas has emerged as a crucial strategy for promoting economic development, yet the phenomenon of “digital suspension” poses a challenge, where the lack of digital integration in certain sectors may hinder econ...

Medical institutions face a variety of challenges as they seek to enhance their reputation and increase the influence of their social media accounts. Becoming a social media influencer in the health field in today’s complex online environment r...

Background: With the increasing burden of cancer worldwide, a need exists to investigate patterns of healthcare utilization and costs. This study aimed to investigate whether the area of residence is associated with the likelihood of a patient receiv...

The advancements in communication speeds have enabled the centralized financial market to be faster and more complex than ever. The speed of the order execution has become exponentially faster when compared to the early days of electronic markets. Th...

Following the guidelines of the Basel III agreement (2013), large financial institutions are forced to incorporate additional collateral, known as Initial Margin, in their transactions in OTC markets. Currently, the computation of such collateral is...

Institutional collective actions (ICAs) provide a fascinating framework for comprehending collaborative urban initiatives. We defined ICAs as groups of people and organizations working together to promote a shared goal they could not pursue on their...

In the climate of great uncertainty characterizing the COVID-19 pandemic, health communication played a significant role: several communicative strategies and channels were used to inform, educate and alert. Entropy-related risks were soon translated...

The perspective from the parents of non-university students is essential in determining inclusive education in a school. The Index of Inclusion is one of the most widely used self-assessment tools and strategies to help teaching teams self-assess the...

Social conflicts related to biodiversity conservation and adaptation policy to climate change in coastal areas illustrate the need to reinforce understanding of the “matters of concern” as well as the “matters of fact”. In thi...

While an increasing amount of attention has been paid in the last decade to mindfulness meditation, the broader impact of Buddhism on healthcare in the United States, or any industrialized Western countries, is still much in need of scholarly investi...

Green innovation is essential for companies to achieve their dual carbon goals. However, academics have been researching how to encourage enterprises in resource-based cities to take the initiative to implement green innovations. In contrast, we cons...

There is a growing interest and need for zoos to develop and implement welfare assessment tools that are practical to use and provide meaningful results that can inform management decisions. This paper presents a process that was developed to support...

Micro-abrasion remains a test configuration hugely used, mainly for thin coatings. Several studies have been carried out investigating the parameters around this configuration. Recently, a new study was launched studying the behavior of different bal...

Driving a car is pivotal to supporting Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) independence and quality of life. The problem of reconfiguring a vehicle to meet both the PwD’s needs and the (local or supranational) regulations is far from trivial since...

A local area configures a socio-economic system in which several institutions interact. As stakeholders hold different values and perhaps conflicting interests, managing local area performance is a dynamic and complex issue. In these inter-institutio...

This two-stage sequential mixed-methods study explores the contextual configuration of perceived high-performance work systems (HPWSs) and its association with psychological empowerment (PE), trust in immediate managers (ET), affective commitment (AC...

The urban carbon administration discussion is becoming dominant in the carbon emission reduction landscape. China, the world’s paramount carbon emitter, has instituted a series of policies geared towards carbon emissions reduction. The co-depen...

Debates persist regarding the win/lose dichotomy of the implications of contract farming (CF). We address these debates by examining the rule configurations of CF and the power dynamics behind it in a case study in a peripheral rural area in China. U...

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are hardware-based security primitives that can produce unique digital identifiers from electronic devices. They are particularly useful for Internet of Things (IoT) applications due to their low cost and ability...

The optimal planning of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations (ECSs) with advanced control algorithms is very important to accelerate the development of EVs, which is a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions of conventional internal combusti...

We investigated the predictive capability of various configurations of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model version 4.4, to predict hub height offshore wind speed and wind power density in the Northeast US wind farm lease areas. The selec...

Electronic medical record (EMR) data vary between institutions. These data should be converted into a common data model (CDM) for multi-institutional joint research. To build the CDM, it is essential to integrate the EMR data of each hospital and loa...

New artificial intelligence- (AI) based marker-less motion capture models provide a basis for quantitative movement analysis within healthcare and eldercare institutions, increasing clinician access to quantitative movement data and improving decisio...

The constant upward movement of data-driven medicine as a valuable option to enhance daily clinical practice has brought new challenges for data analysts to get access to valuable but sensitive data due to privacy considerations. One solution for mos...

The agricultural sector in developing countries is one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change and water scarcity. Iran is one Middle Eastern country facing a growing water crisis. Rafsanjan county, located in the province of Kerman, is losi...

Increasing problems of air pollution caused by petrol-fueled vehicles had a positive impact on the expanded use and acceptance of the electric vehicles (EVs). Currently, both academic and institutional researchers are conducting studies to explore al...

While gamification has been paired with computer programming education on numerous occasions, most of the scientific reports covering the evaluation of its learning outcomes pertain to single-case specialized gamification applications with none or li...

Responding to the influences of climate change, on the one hand, and selected benefits of digital technology, on the other hand, an energy transition of global scale appears to be underway. Many observers project that a significant element of the ene...

In the food sector, new configurations of supply chains, as opposed to global conventional ones, are drawing the attention of researchers and institutions all over the world. These are presented as a panacea for the recovery of rural economies and, i...

Indoor positioning systems for smartphones are often based on Pedestrian Dead Reckoning, which computes the current position from the previously estimated location. Noisy sensor measurements, inaccurate step length estimations, faulty direction detec...

In recent years, fusion energy has assumed an important role in the energy scenario, being a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and practically inexhaustible energy source. Fusion energy could play a crucial role in fully decarbonized electricity...

This paper presents a methodological framework for selectively optimizing computer vision models for safety-critical applications. Through systematic processes of hyperparameter tuning alongside multitask learning, we attempt to create a highly inter...

Visions for tomorrow’s Arctic include complementary and conflicting ideas such as sustainability, security, prosperity, biodiversity, Indigenous rights, and more. Implicit in many of these views is the assumption that the right combination of policy...

This paper aims to investigate innovation capacity mechanisms at a municipal level, through a comparative case study of public sector innovation labs from Boston (US) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania). We employed a qualitative approach, using as a primary t...

In the present paper, we extend the current literature in algorithmic trading with Markov-switching models with generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (MS-GARCH) models. We performed this by using asymmetric log-likelihood functions (...

Deep learning-based algorithms have led to tremendous progress over the last years, but they face a bottleneck as their optimal development highly relies on access to large datasets. To mitigate this limitation, cross-silo federated learning has emer...

Forest tenure functions as a critical institutional mechanism globally for curbing deforestation and degradation and advancing sustainable forest administration, ultimately underpinning the provision of vital ecosystem services. However, research on...

People living with HIV (PLWH) faced diverse challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, including disruptions to care, housing instability, emotional distress, and economic hardship. This study used graph-based clustering methods to analyze pandemic-era...

The question of how the complexity of water governance may be understood beyond a heuristic concept remains unanswered. In this paper, we propose a Water Governance Complexity Framework to address the complexity of water governance. Through a literat...