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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,963 Views
17 Pages

A Hybrid Recommendation System for Marine Science Observation Data Based on Content and Literature Filtering

  • Xiaoyang Song,
  • Yonggang Guo,
  • Yongguo Chang,
  • Fei Zhang and ,
  • Junfeng Tan,
  • Jie Yang and
  • Xiaolong Shi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2020

With the development of ocean exploration technology and the rapid growth in the amount of marine science observation data, people are faced with a great challenge to identify valuable data from the massive ocean observation data. A recommendation sy...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
599 Views
15 Pages

We introduce a similarity-based ensemble framework for assessing the AI-readiness of topic-based technical content in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) contexts. Rather than evaluating RAG performance through query-and-answer measurements, the pro...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th International Global Conference Series on ICT Integration in Technical Education & Smart Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,773 Views
19 Pages

The quality of the user-generated content of citizen science platforms has been discussed widely among researchers. Content is categorized into data and information: data is content stored in a database of a citizen science platform, while informatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science)
  • Essay
  • Open Access
604 Views
23 Pages

11 June 2026

This study addresses the high degree of subjectivity and the supply–demand imbalance in wetland park science communication. Taking the Nanjing Longpao Yangtze River Provincial Wetland Park as a case study, it develops a data-driven, sustainabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,121 Views
32 Pages

7 January 2026

This study develops an immersive marine Information and Communication Technology (ICT) convergence framework designed to enhance coastal climate resilience by improving accessibility, visualization, and communication of scientific research on Dokdo (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies and Collaborative Approaches for Sustainable Engineering and Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,847 Views
47 Pages

The European Space Agency (ESA) defines Earth observation (EO) Level 2 information product the stack of: (i) a single-date multi-spectral (MS) image, radiometrically corrected for atmospheric, adjacency and topographic effects, with (ii) its data-der...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GEOBIA in a Changing World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,652 Views
22 Pages

30 October 2020

Electronic Learning (e-learning) has made a great success and recently been estimated as a billion-dollar industry. The users of e-learning acquire knowledge of diversified content available in an application using innovative means. There is much e-l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Social Data and Artificial Intelligence 2019)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,586 Views
46 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis and Investigation of the Public Discourse on Twitter about Exoskeletons from 2017 to 2023

  • Nirmalya Thakur,
  • Kesha A. Patel,
  • Audrey Poon,
  • Rishika Shah and ,
  • Nazif Azizi and
  • Changhee Han
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 October 2023

Exoskeletons have emerged as a vital technology in the last decade and a half, with diverse use cases in different domains. Even though several works related to the analysis of Tweets about emerging technologies exist, none of those works have focuse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Text Mining Techniques and Applications for Knowledge Discovery)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
385 Views
12 Pages

A Comparison of Information Architectures of Software Documentation in RAG-Based Delivery Scenarios

  • Julian Muschinski,
  • Julian Reiling,
  • Rika Westenhoff and
  • Wolfgang Ziegler

This paper examines the relevance of information architectures of content used for RAG-based systems within the domain of software documentation. It specifically focuses on how information architectures impact the retrieval performance of such docume...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th International Global Conference Series on ICT Integration in Technical Education & Smart Society)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
416 Views
12 Pages

This paper examines how semantic information architectures within technical communication shape topic ensemble properties being relevant for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. They allow for investigating the AI-readiness of technical cont...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th International Global Conference Series on ICT Integration in Technical Education & Smart Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,482 Views
16 Pages

Social media and other forms of volunteered geographic information (VGI) are used frequently as a source of fine-grained big data for research. While employing geographically referenced social media data for a wide array of purposes has become common...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,997 Views
19 Pages

19 November 2020

This study explores two World Heritage Sites (WHS) as tourism destinations by applying several uncommon techniques in these settings: Smart Tourism Analytics, namely Text mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Market Basket Analysis, to highlight patterns a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science in Tourism and Hospitality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,440 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2021

In the cultural tourism field, there has been an increasing interest in adopting data-driven approaches that are aimed at measuring the service quality dimensions through online reviews. To date, studies measuring quality dimensions in cultural touri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Science in Tourism and Hospitality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,118 Views
20 Pages

Binge Drinking (BD) is a common risky behaviour that people hardly report to healthcare professionals, although it is not uncommon to find, instead, personal communications related to alcohol-related behaviors on social media. By following a data-dri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessing, Evaluating and Changing Health Behaviours Using IT-based Tools (e- & mHeath))
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
288 Views
12 Pages

This paper addresses content reuse analytics and AI readiness assessment in the domain of maritime product component suppliers, with a particular emphasis on RAG processes and the role of reuse-related metrics. Built on previous research in technical...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 8th International Global Conference Series on ICT Integration in Technical Education & Smart Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Views
32 Pages

FDNet: A Lightweight Feature-Dominated U-Net for Hippocampus Segmentation in Brain MRI

  • Mehmet Halis Korkmaz,
  • Özkan Bingöl and
  • the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

29 October 2026

Background/Objectives: Hippocampus segmentation in brain MRI is challenging because the structure is small, irregularly shaped, and poorly contrasted against surrounding tissue. Increasingly complex U-Net variants improve accuracy at computational co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 4th Edition: AI/ML-Based Medical Image Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,081 Views
18 Pages

Conditional Knowledge Extraction Using Contextual Information Enhancement

  • Zhangbiao Xu,
  • Botao Zhang,
  • Jinguang Gu and
  • Feng Gao

14 April 2023

Conditional phrases provide fine-grained domain knowledge in various industries, including medicine, manufacturing, and others. Most existing knowledge extraction research focuses on mining triplets with entities and relations and treats that triplet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,566 Views
17 Pages

A Multi-Modal Entity Alignment Method with Inter-Modal Enhancement

  • Song Yuan,
  • Zexin Lu,
  • Qiyuan Li and
  • Jinguang Gu

Due to inter-modal effects hidden in multi-modalities and the impact of weak modalities on multi-modal entity alignment, a Multi-modal Entity Alignment Method with Inter-modal Enhancement (MEAIE) is proposed. This method introduces a unique modality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,216 Views
18 Pages

Entity and relation linking are the core tasks in knowledge base question answering (KBQA). They connect natural language questions with triples in the knowledge base. In most studies, researchers perform these two tasks independently, which ignores...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,800 Views
17 Pages

Type Hierarchy Enhanced Event Detection without Triggers

  • Youcheng Yan,
  • Zhao Liu,
  • Feng Gao and
  • Jinguang Gu

10 February 2023

Event detection (ED) aims to detect events from a given text and categorize them into event types. Most of the current approaches to ED rely heavily on the human annotations of triggers, which are often costly and affect the application of ED in othe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,926 Views
19 Pages

6 March 2023

In medical texts, temporal information describes events and changes in status, such as medical visits and discharges. According to the semantic features, it is classified into simple time and complex time. The current research on time recognition usu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,264 Views
15 Pages

This study deals with the implementation of cognitively challenging tasks for students in science education following professional development interventions for teachers based on the theory of change. These tasks require non-routine behaviors and enc...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,737 Views
27 Pages

Beyond Accuracy: Explainable Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection Using Structural MRI Data

  • Tamal Chakroborty,
  • Adam Colafranceschi,
  • Yang Liu and
  • for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

2 December 2025

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition that gradually deteriorates memory and cognitive abilities, posing a significant global health challenge. While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to structural magnetic resona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,959 Views
18 Pages

The evolving landscape of data science education poses challenges for instructors in general education classes. With the expansion of higher education dedicated to cultivating data scientists, integrating data science education into university curric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
34 Pages

Background/Objectives: Predicting how fast a patient with Alzheimer’s disease will decline over the next year remains a challenge. Existing blood transcriptomic studies have not established whether probe selection is reproducible, whether the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Bioinformatics for Precision and Next-Generation Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2026

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes progressive damage to brain neurons, leading to declines in cognitive and behavioral abilities. This deterioration often results in changes in personality and increasing diffi...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,933 Views
16 Pages

Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Subjects in Integrated STEM Teaching

  • Anna Kellinghusen,
  • Sandra Sprenger,
  • Catharina Zieriacks,
  • Anna Orschulik and ,
  • Katrin Vorhölter and
  • Sandra Schulz
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study examines students’ perceptions of the subjects geography, mathematics, and computer science in integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lessons. Although the importance of an integrated approach in STEM edu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interdisciplinary Approaches to STEM Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,880 Views
15 Pages

27 June 2022

In the United States, assessment is seen as a lever that can facilitate high-quality education. This study on English learners, students whose native language is not English, was based on data from eighth-grade English learners’ performance on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Quality Education Equity for Promoting Educational Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,936 Views
26 Pages

For the task of answering complex logical queries on large-scale incomplete knowledge graphs, the promising approach is to embed the knowledge graph and complex logical queries into a low-dimensional space and perform iterative reasoning to find the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,995 Views
30 Pages

5 February 2025

Data science education is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field, with curricula continually evolving to meet societal needs. This paper aims to report a bibliometric analysis focused on the pedagogical aspects and teaching/learning strateg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Research in Data Science Education)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,247 Views
5 Pages

The aim of this paper is to analyze the philosophical implications of the techno-scientific promises and discourses that generally surround big data, but also to nuance their content with respect to the concrete uses of these technologies in the natu...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,231 Views
19 Pages

DataPLAN: A Web-Based Data Management Plan Generator for the Plant Sciences

  • Xiao-Ran Zhou,
  • Sebastian Beier,
  • Dominik Brilhaus,
  • Cristina Martins Rodrigues and ,
  • Timo Mühlhaus,
  • Dirk von Suchodoletz,
  • Richard M. Twyman,
  • Björn Usadel and
  • Angela Kranz
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 October 2023

Research data management (RDM) combines a set of practices for the organization, storage and preservation of data from research projects. The RDM strategy of a project is usually formalized as a data management plan (DMP)—a document that sets o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,447 Views
18 Pages

Simulation Data-Based Dual Domain Network (Sim-DDNet) for Motion Artifact Reduction in MR Images

  • Seong-Hyeon Kang,
  • Jun-Young Chung,
  • Youngjin Lee and
  • for The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly susceptible to motion artifacts that degrade fine structural details and undermine quantitative analysis. Conventional U-Net-based deep learning approaches for motion artifact reduction typically opera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,198 Views
13 Pages

25 May 2026

This study examines the research data curation processes used in the comprehensive open distance e-learning (CODeL) institution that supports open science. As a result, this study discusses the research data curation processes employed by the institu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,258 Views
16 Pages

Biomedical Courses Should Also Be Designed for Dental Students: The Perceptions of Dental Students

  • Fanny Mussalo,
  • Terhi Karaharju-Suvanto,
  • Päivi Mäntylä and
  • Eeva Pyörälä

16 August 2021

Introduction: It can be challenging integrating biomedical sciences into dentistry programs. The aim was to examine students’ perceptions of how joint biomedical courses with medical students and courses tailored for dental students supported their c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dental Education)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,692 Views
18 Pages

Study on Rapid Inversion of Soil Water Content from Ground-Penetrating Radar Data Based on Deep Learning

  • Zhilian Li,
  • Zhaofa Zeng,
  • Hongqiang Xiong,
  • Qi Lu and ,
  • Baizhou An,
  • Jiahe Yan,
  • Risheng Li,
  • Longfei Xia,
  • Haoyu Wang and
  • Kexin Liu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

2 April 2023

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is an efficient and nondestructive geophysical method with great potential for detecting soil water content at the farmland scale. However, a key challenge in soil detection is obtaining soil water content rapidly and i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture for Agricultural Purposes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
337 Views
17 Pages

Advancing Earth System Sciences (ESS) depends on our ability to integrate highly diverse data from a range of disciplines, including geographical information sciences, palaeontology, marine science, biodiversity research, atmospheric sciences and bio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,584 Views
23 Pages

Integrated STEM for Teacher Professional Learning and Development: “I Need Time for Practice”

  • Andrea C. Burrows,
  • Mike Borowczak,
  • Adam Myers,
  • Andria C. Schwortz and
  • Courtney McKim

5 January 2021

This study compares three pre-collegiate teacher professional learning and development (PLD) integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences framed in astronomy. The study is set in the western United States (USA) and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative/Collaborative Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,408 Views
14 Pages

25 August 2022

The prediction of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression plays a very important role in the early intervention of patients and the improvement of life quality. Cognitive scales are commonly used to assess the patient’s status. However, due...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,705 Views
11 Pages

Super-Resolution for Brain MR Images from a Significantly Small Amount of Training Data

  • Kumpei Ikuta,
  • Hitoshi Iyatomi,
  • Kenichi Oishi and
  • on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

We propose two essential techniques to effectively train generative adversarial network-based super-resolution networks for brain magnetic resonance images, even when only a small number of training samples are available. First, stochastic patch samp...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,950 Views
44 Pages

20 November 2025

In today’s world, preparing future science teachers is vital because they have the power to transform society and build a sustainable world by raising global citizens. In this manner, the purpose of the present study was to develop pre-service...

(This article belongs to the Collection Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,354 Views
14 Pages

14 February 2022

This article presents an overview of the ecosystem of citizen science development in Lithuania and its potential to address United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). As citizen science is still in the early development stage in Lithuania,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Citizen Science Projects for Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,350 Views
16 Pages

Morphometric Similarity Patterning of Amyloid-β and Tau Proteins Correlates with Transcriptomics in the Alzheimer’s Disease Continuum

  • Lorenza Brusini,
  • Giorgio Dolci,
  • Lorenzo Pini,
  • Federica Cruciani and ,
  • Fabrizio Pizzagalli,
  • Paolo Provero,
  • Gloria Menegaz and
  • Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

29 November 2024

Bridging the gap between cortical morphometric remodeling and gene expression can help to clarify the effects of the selective brain accumulation of Amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau proteins occurring in the Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To this aim, we derived mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Therapy—Third Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,338 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2023

While recognizing the vital role of teachers in augmented reality (AR) integration, a noticeable literature gap exists regarding how science educators address challenges related to technology, pedagogy, and content during AR instructional design and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Technology in Education: Progress, Problems, and Possibilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access

Background: Integrated medical curricula commonly require the review of foundational science concepts in the context of clinical applications. A detailed analysis of the Des Moines University second-year medical curricula revealed that such reviews,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,277 Views
22 Pages

13 September 2022

Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a comparative international assessment study conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). TIMSS aims to study how educational opportun...

(This article belongs to the Section STEM Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,546 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2023

Teaching and learning experienced a rapid change in spring 2020, and the learning environments for university students changed almost overnight. An integrative science centre education informal learning course for Finnish teaching students has been a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Technology in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment during and Post-COVID-19: Opportunities for Innovation and Challenges)
  • Review
  • Open Access
901 Views
25 Pages

The Role of Citizen Science Data Standardization for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Implementation

  • Vasiliki Myrintzou,
  • Nikolaos Kokkos,
  • Dor Edelist,
  • Garabet Kazanjian and
  • Georgios Sylaios

24 April 2026

Over the past two decades, Citizen Science (CS) has experienced rapid growth, driven by technological advancements and the rise of digital platforms. This work examines the necessity for standardization in Citizen Science data management and discusse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,591 Views
21 Pages

30 October 2023

In recent decades, the integration of technology, particularly data logging, has become a cornerstone of effective science teaching, placing increased emphasis on the cultivation of teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)....

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
246 Views
9 Pages

Scientific Literacy requires educational approaches across both formal and informal context, including Science Education and Science Communication (SC) on social media. This paper presents an educational research study involving Grade 5 and 8 student...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Education Sciences)

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