Zoos worldwide use codes of conduct to regulate visitor behavior. Despite their global popularity, the ethical management of zoo visitors remains an underexplored area of research. This study analyzes 899 statements from 27 Chinese zoos and 22 zoos i...
Zoos consistently implement codes of conduct in efforts to manage visitor behaviour. However, few studies have examined the use of the codes of conduct in zoos, even though they carry significant ethical implications regarding the relationship betwee...
Electronics companies throughout Asia recognize the benefits of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) for gaining competitive advantage. A large majority of electronics companies in Taiwan have recently adopted the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coal...
1 January 2020
The objectives of the present study were to assess general perceptions of safety in snow parks (SPs), general knowledge of rules existence, and both active and passive awareness of the International Ski Federation (FIS) rules contained in its Code of...
With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) and bioscience technology, wearable smart devices are developing toward advanced trends such as flexibility, convenience and environmental-friendliness. Poly (p-styrenesulfonic acid) (PSS), as a...
Corporate codes of conduct address various issues, some of which can be country-specific. A tentative analysis of the content of 42 codes of the leading Russian private companies implies that about a quarter of them consider patriotism, which general...
Promoting animal welfare is one of the basic tenets of the veterinary profession and, in doing so, veterinarians are expected to abide to the highest legal and professional standards. However, the Portuguese veterinary code of conduct, established in...
Environmental practices are often considered external to the business, and the impacts of self-regulation and other CSR company practices on environmental practices are important but not fully understood—especially in transitional and developin...
Kruger National Park is one of the most well-preserved national parks in the Southern Hemisphere. However, cases of visitors participating in deviant leisure practices (DLPs) are reported in the park, threatening the sustainability of sensitive touri...
The subject of this article is a determination of the potential of the prohibition of unfair commercial practice, as an institution of consumer law, established to strengthen consumers’ protection, to contribute to the achievement of corporate...
This paper describes the influence of thermal parameters—conductivity, transmittance, and thermal mass—in the estimation of comfort and energy demand of a building with rammed earth walls, and consequently, the compliance with standards....
12 January 2023
The goal of the article is an axiological analysis of the Ethical Code of Conduct for Physiotherapists. The basic ethical values constituting the axiological basis of physiotherapy are care, professionalism, responsibility, fairness, professional int...
In the recent decades, fashion brands and retailers in the West have introduced supplier’s Codes of Conduct (CoC) to strengthen international labour standards in their supply chain. Drawing from the concept of workers’ agency and the theo...
The increasing complexity of web applications and systems, driven by ongoing digitalization, has made software security testing a necessary and critical activity in the software development lifecycle. This article compares the performance of open-sou...
The Gulf of Gabès, located off the southern coast of Tunisia, is a region of significant ecological and economic importance, yet it faces a growing threat from abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear, commonly known as ghost gear. This p...
Academic, medical, and research communities are struggling to quickly and effectively address unethical conduct within their professional ranks. Without a policy in place, individuals and institutes are subject to convoluted procedures and unnecessar...
Simulation software like ANSYS, COMSOL, and SimScale excel at modeling heat transfer phenomena, but their extensive functionalities necessitate a deep understanding, making them less suitable and too expensive for use in educational settings below th...
Levels of boat traffic in coastal seas have been steadily increasing in many parts of the world, introducing pressures on marine wildlife through disturbance. The appropriate management of human activities is important not only to preserve wildlife,...
Forensic sciences aggregate a series of scientific and technological domains that aid the judiciary and judicial system. Despite the highly specialized and qualified professionals taking a role in forensic practice, this paradigmatic integration of l...
In the field of responsibility and climate change, much attention has been paid to actions and what we need to do in order to take responsibility. This paper shifts the perspective from what we should do to how we should be in order to be responsible...
This paper investigates and examines the role of the Muslim religious code of conduct known as Sharia or Islamic law in relation to the protection of children, in particular child neglect, within Australian Muslim communities. Australia has a secular...
Climate change is recognised as one of the key challenges humankind is facing. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector including data centres generates up to 2% of the global CO2 emissions, a number on par to the aviation sector con...
Despite calls to counter unsustainable urbanization, dense, concrete, and overheated urban spaces remain a reality. However, ideological assumptions and priorities related to creating livable urban spaces are only a part of a broader chain of actions...
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has become an important topic in the academic community and in policy circles, but it has not yet been systematically included in the innovation process of companies. We discuss how companies can integrate RR...
Farm data license agreements are legal documents that play an important role in informing farmers about farm data processing practices such as collection, use, safeguarding, and sharing. These legal documents govern the exchange, access, and dissemin...
The goal of this paper is to assess the journal publication process from value and ethical perspectives. The specific objectives are: (1) To define fundamental values relevant to scientific journal publication; (2) To identify stakeholders involved i...
The ability of GIFs to generate emotionality in social media marketing strategies is analyzed. The aim of this work is to show how neuroscience research techniques can be integrated into the analysis of emotions, improving the results and helping to...
The manufacturing of inserts for micro injection moulding made of mortar material is presented in this work. The fabrication of the mortar insert described in this publication relied on a versatile and relatively fast rapid prototyping process based...
Code search is a process that takes a given query as input and retrieves relevant code snippets from a code base. The relationship between query and code is commonly built on code annotation, which is extracted from code comments or other documents....
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of QR (quick response) codes in explaining the proper method for orthotic use after orthopedic surgery. A questionnaire survey was adopted to evaluate patient satisfaction with education and traini...
Building energy codes are essential tools for achieving energy efficiency in buildings. However, the full energy savings potential of these codes can only be realized if buildings are constructed in compliance with them. Therefore, evaluating buildin...
Source code summarization refers to the natural language description of the source code’s function. It can help developers easily understand the semantics of the source code. We can think of the source code and the corresponding summarization a...
In this article, we present a technique that allows us to generate parallel tiled code to calculate general linear recursion equations (GLRE). That code deals with multidimensional data and it is computing-intensive. We demonstrate that data dependen...
The recent use of large language models (LLMs) in code generation and code summarization tasks has been widely adopted by the software engineering community. New LLMs are emerging regularly with improved functionalities, efficiency, and expanding dat...
The cruise industry has significant environmental impacts. Ethical prescriptions in codes of conduct of cruise companies can contribute to the development of pro-environmental behaviors. The content of the codes of conduct of the world’s larges...
Source code summarization focuses on generating qualified natural language descriptions of a code snippet (e.g., functionality, usage and version). In an actual development environment, descriptions of the code are missing or not consistent with the...
The paper presents a modification of the interleaver used to construct Parallel Concatenated Block (PCB) codes with flexible lengths. This is accomplished for PCB codes whose interleaved message blocks have at most two bits of a message block. For th...
Generalized bicycle (GB) codes is a class of quantum error-correcting codes constructed from a pair of binary circulant matrices. Unlike for other simple quantum code ansätze, unrestricted GB codes may have linear distance scaling. In addition, low-d...
Central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a frequent source of health complication for patients of all ages, including for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (PCTU)...
A novel dual-message QR code is proposed for carrying two individual messages that can be read by standard QR code readers: one from a close range and the other from a large distance. By exploring the module value determining the rule of typical QR c...
As the most widely used description code in digital circuits and system on chip (SoC), the security of register transfer level (RTL) code is extremely critical. Code obfuscation is a typical method to ensure the security of RTL code, but popular obfu...
It is believed that the codon–amino acid assignments of the standard genetic code (SGC) help to minimize the negative effects caused by point mutations. All possible point mutations of the genetic code can be represented as a weighted graph wit...
The baseband signal of the 406 MHz COSPAS-SARSAT emergency beacon is a 144-bit or 112-bit data with 0 and 1 code, including the information bits and error correcting check bits. In order to improve the coding efficiency of the baseband signal for the...
The previous study, where the void fraction predictability of three different thermal-hydraulic system codes was assessed against PSBT (PWR Subchannel and Bundle Test) benchmark data, indicated a general overprediction tendency of all system codes, e...
Context: Code smells are associated to poor design and programming style, which often degrades code quality and hampers code comprehensibility and maintainability. Goal: identify published studies that provide evidence of the influence of code smells...
Our previous study showed that automatically generated attribute grammars were harder to comprehend than manually written attribute grammars, mostly due to unexpected solutions. This study is an internally differentiated replication of the previous e...
Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile practice of writing test code before production code, following three stages: red, green, and refactor. In the red stage, the test code is written; in the green stage, the minimum code necessary to make the t...
This paper presents the construction and analysis of a novel class of alternant codes over Gaussian integers, aimed at enhancing error correction capabilities in high-reliability communication systems. These codes are constructed using parity-check m...
Code clone detection is an important research topic in the field of software engineering. It is significant in developing software and solving software infringement disputes to discover code clone phenomenon effectively in and between software system...
The commitment of electrification and decarbonization goals in the United States (U.S.) will significantly change the performance of future buildings. To meet these goals, it is critical to summarize the existing research related to building electrif...
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