The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has greatly facilitated the lives of humans. Due to the mass manufacturing of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles and the support of related scientific research, it can now be used in lighting shows, ju...
This paper proposes a noble multi-robot path planning algorithm using Deep q learning combined with CNN (Convolution Neural Network) algorithm. In conventional path planning algorithms, robots need to search a comparatively wide area for navigation a...
Person-centered navigation (PCN) in healthcare refers to a proactive collaboration among professionals, researchers, patients, and their families to guide individuals toward timely access to screening, treatment, follow-up, and psychosocial support....
Collaboration between staff and students for improved curriculum design is presented as highly beneficial in many contexts. In particular, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is seen as facilitating co-design and collaboration. However, stude...
The application of intravehicular robotic assistants (IRA) can save valuable working hours for astronauts in space stations. There are various types of IRA, such as an accompanying drone working in microgravity and a dexterous humanoid robot for coll...
Instance Image Navigation (IIN), an embodied navigation task, requires an agent to autonomously explore unknown environments and navigate to the vicinity of a target object indicated by an image. The core challenges are efficient semantic exploration...
Three-dimensional (3D) maps have many potential applications, such as navigation and urban planning. In this article, we present the use of a 3D virtual world platform Meshmoon to create intelligent open data 3D maps. A processing method is developed...
As a manifestation of technological innovation achievements, patents reflect the frontier of technological development in the field. The aim of this research is to investigate the spatial evolution of patent collaboration networks and cooperation act...
Operations and maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) are challenging, with manual operators constantly exposed to hazardous environments. Due to the high task complexity associated with the OWT, the transition to unmanned solutions remains sta...
This research investigates the collaboration competencies among architecture students at Eastern Mediterranean University, in North Cyprus, highlighting the necessity for curricular enhancements to foster teamwork skills essential for professional pr...
3 November 2026
Fitness influencers increasingly convert follower trust into purchasing behavior through seeding, group-buying, and social selling arrangements within South Korea’s hyperconnected, appearance-oriented digital ecosystem. Yet how they assess bran...
There are calls for the democratisation of higher education in line with the principles of social justice. Collaboration with students offers the potential for creating a more inclusive higher education environment, and open textbook development init...
Civilian–military collaboration in humanitarian crises has been encouraged globally; however, little is known about their diverse ethical viewpoints towards challenging and critical situations, which may cause difficulties in the partnership, a...
In recent years, applications with robots collaborating actively with humans have been increasing. The transition from Industry 4.0 to 5.0 rearranges the focus of fully automated processes to a human-centered system that allows more customization and...
Community-based participatory strategies are a promising approach to addressing disparities in community health outcomes. This paper details the efforts of Siteman Cancer Center to achieve breast health equity over the past 15+ years. We begin by des...
Underwater vehicles (UVs) are pivotal for ocean exploration, yet their effectiveness is fundamentally constrained by acoustic performance in noisy and dynamic seas. Self-noise, non-stationary interference, and extreme conditions not only degrade sens...
(1) Background. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a substantial global health threat with profound economic implications. Acknowledging the imperative for a One Health (OH) strategy to combat this menace, Belgium introduced an annual national OH r...
Our story starts in April 2020, in the early stages of the UK’s first national COVID-19 lockdown. A multidisciplinary team of researchers and artists began a collaboration with Migrateful, a charity that runs cookery classes led by refugees, as...
The concept of 21st-century skills refers to the knowledge, skills, and emotions that are critical to successfully navigating today’s world. Game jams can act as spaces to develop these skills and thus boost cooperative learning, problem-based...
Principals in mainstream schools occupy a pivotal yet underexplored position in supporting neurodivergent learners within resource-constrained settings. Guided by the transformational leadership theory lens, this study examines how mainstream school...
7 June 2025
Entrepreneurial Competence (EC) is increasingly recognized as essential to foster innovation and enhance educational quality. This study explores how education professionals perceive and develop the EC within educational centres, using a qualitative...
Our paper presents a case for co-learning, a novel hybridization of teacher professional learning and student out-of-school learning wherein students and teachers collaborate and learn together. The benefits of collaborative learning are well documen...
In open-field agricultural environments, the inherent unpredictable situations pose significant challenges for effective human–robot interaction. This study aims to enhance natural communication between humans and robots in such challenging con...
This paper investigates the advantages and challenges associated with synchronous and asynchronous activities in intercultural virtual collaboration (IVC) projects, particularly in relation to student satisfaction and learning outcomes. This study dr...
This paper explores the use of physical scale models as immersive prototypes in the design and development of Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) environments. SAR integrates digital projections with physical spaces, offering benefits for spatial reasoni...
This article examines how everyday architecture can advance spatial justice in post-active conflict cities through ethnographic and participatory design. Drawing on a decade of work by the StreetSpace studio in Belfast (2015–2025), the paper ex...
Reflective practice is crucial for deepening learning in Intercultural Collaborative Learning (ICL), yet how students’ cultural backgrounds shape these reflections remains under-explored. This study examines how Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnames...
Students of Color have historically faced explicit and implicit forms of discrimination and oppression in educational settings. Unfortunately, not much has changed over the decades as Students of Color continue to experience white supremacy and other...
Agriculture 5.0 represents a breakthrough transformation from Agriculture 4.0, addressing the needs for safety, sustainability, and resilience in human–robot collaboration in agriculture. By integrating technologies such as artificial intellige...
This study investigates safety management and risk prevention on Mount Olympus, Greece, focusing on challenges having an impact on visitors and professionals operating in the area. The research is grounded in theories of safety, risk management, and...
With growing concerns about climate change and environmental degradation, students’ understanding of sustainability and climate change has become an increasingly prominent topic in science curricula. This has increased the need for learning exp...
Active customers play a critical role in the successful implementation of support schemes, paving the way for the emergence of an energy community. This analysis explores the cooperation among active customers and the implications for developing ener...
18 January 2020
In health-promoting interventions, a main difficulty is that low socioeconomic status (SES) groups especially seem to experience barriers to participation. To overcome this barrier, the current study focused on the success factors and obstacles in th...
The development of a suitable public charging system for electric vehicles relies on inputs from many complementary organizations that need to synchronize interdependencies across different activities, organizations, and industries. Research on tempo...
Traditional professional development for informal educators often relies on brief, lecture-based sessions that reinforce familiar teaching practices. In collaboration with 27 informal learning organizations across four years, we attended to the need...
Robotics in precision agriculture has the potential to improve competitiveness and increase sustainability compared to current crop production methods and has become an increasingly active area of research. Tractor guidance systems for supervised nav...
This paper proposes a neurodynamics-based motion planning framework for fatigue-aware human–robot collaborative assembly (HRCA). The proposed framework integrates human fatigue information into robot motion planning to generate fatigue-dependen...
Digital exclusion compounds the challenges that migrant and refugee parents already face in supporting their children’s education. As schooling becomes increasingly digitally mediated, this shift can intensify existing inequalities, particularl...
Higher technical education plays a strategic role in equipping the workforce to navigate rapid technological advancements and evolving labor market demands. Within the Rome Technopole framework, Spoke 4 targets ITS Academies, promoting the developmen...
Migraine is a prevalent neurological disorder that significantly impacts the quality of life for affected individuals. The pathogenesis behind migraines is not yet fully understood, but hormonal changes, especially fluctuations in, estrogen and proge...
This study aims to explore the relationship between a company manager’s activities and their impact on business performance. Networking is considered a worthy factor in professional and organizational success, providing access to important rese...
Patients with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) utilize various adaptive techniques and devices designed to assist them with activities of daily living (ADLs). The purpose of this study was to assess the assistive devices used by patients with IRDs,...
What counts as meaningful change in a closed forensic inpatient institution when social reintegration and independent living are not realistic possibilities? Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in Belgian forensic psychiatry, this article...
Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution consisting of the digitalization of processes facilitating an incremental value chain. Smart Manufacturing (SM) is one of the branches of the Industry 4.0 regarding logistics, visual inspection of piec...
This research activity, conducted in collaboration with the Aero-Naval Operations Department of the Guardia di Finanza of Bari as part of the Special Commissioner for urgent measures of reclamation, environmental improvements and redevelopment of Tar...
The increasing digitalisation of healthcare has created a pressing need for health professionals to develop robust digital skills. This paper explores the imperative of equipping health professionals with the necessary digital proficiency to enhance...
On 24 February 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified a broader sense of precarity across Eastern Europe, including Romania, and longstanding anxieties related to threat, instability, and loss—rooted in the Cold War past—res...
The saliency feature is a key factor in achieving vision-based tracking for multi-UAV control. However, due to the complex and variable environments encountered during multi-UAV operations—such as changes in lighting conditions and scale variat...
University-based makerspaces are receiving increasing attention as promising innovations that may contribute to the development of future engineers. Using a theory of social boundary spaces, we investigated whether the diverse experiences offered at...
In this study, the NeQuick G and Klobuchar models are evaluated by monitoring performance issues related to ionosphere activity for single-frequency users. The effects of radio frequency (RF) signal propagation through the ionosphere may have a signi...
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