Platforms have the ability to create connected digital spaces where different actors co-exist and work together. The paper explores the power of platforms as enablers of a new channel of proximity, called digital proximity. It argues that platforms e...
Inductive proximity sensors (IPSs) are widely used in position detection given their unique advantages. To address the problem of temperature drift, this paper presents an analog-digital mixed measurement method based on the two-dimensional look-up t...
This article advances a critical rethinking of digital transformation in craft-based and socially embedded production systems by examining ateliers of social integration as community-led solidarity spaces where sewing and embroidery practices interse...
Future social networks will rely heavily on sensing data collected from users’ mobile and wearable devices. A crucial component of such sensing will be the full or partial access to user’s location data, in order to enable various locatio...
The ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can be acknowledged as one of the most significant public health emergencies the world has encountered in the last few decades. The purpose of the current review is to understand the significan...
Nowadays, mobile–mobile interaction is becoming a fundamental methodology for human–human networking services since mobile devices are the most common interfacing equipment for recent smart services such as food delivery, e-commerce, ride...
With rapid advancements in digital twin technology within the Industrial Internet of Things, integrating digital twins with industrial robotic arms presents a promising direction. This integration promotes the remote operation and intelligence of ind...
Informed by Alfred Schütz’s phenomenology of social relations and its recent developments addressing online relationality, this essay reflects on the differences between online and offline death-related experiences in contemporary Romania....
In a modern pandemic outbreak, where collective threats require global strategies and local operational defence applications, data-driven solutions for infection tracing and forecasting epidemic trends are crucial to achieve sustainable and socially...
Nails are highly keratinized skin appendages that exhibit continuous growth under physiological conditions and full regeneration upon removal. These mini-organs are maintained by two autonomous populations of skin stem cells. The fast-cycling, highly...
Coworking spaces—shared work-spaces in which freelancers, entrepreneurs, but also employees ‘work alone together’—are presented as an example of the blurring of spaces within the knowledge economy. These are spaces in which ke...
Tenosynovitis of the digital flexor tendon sheath (DFTS) is diagnosed using ultrasonography and contrast tenography. Nevertheless, making a precise preoperative diagnosis is challenging. This study aimed to determine and compare the sensitivity and s...
Background: Digital deformities represent a common presenting abnormality and target for surgical intervention in podiatric medicine and surgery. The objective of this investigation was to compare the radiographic width of the heads of the lesser dig...
We investigated the digital technology innovation association’s spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors using social network analysis and a negative binomial gravity regression model. The model was based on the transfer of...
Combining multiple proximal sensors within a wireless sensor network (WSN) enhances our capacity to monitor vegetation, compared to using a single sensor or non-networked setup. Data from sensors with different spatial and temporal characteristics c...
Rapid advances in digital technologies are reshaping value creation and the trade landscape of global financial services, yet the channels through which they influence the spatial evolution of financial services global value chains (GVCs) remain insu...
Under carbon peaking and neutrality goals, building integrated with photovoltaics and energy storage system clusters (BIPECs) enable efficient on-site renewable energy use and can act as dispatch units for the public grid. However, BIPECs face signif...
Energy efficiency is widely recognized as a critical strategy for reducing energy consumption in industrial systems. Improving energy efficiency has become a central point in industrial systems aiming to reduce energy consumption and operational cost...
The maintenance of power distribution lines is critically challenged by vegetation encroachment, posing significant risks to the reliability and safety of power utilities. Traditional manual inspection methods are resource-intensive and lack the prec...
Going beyond previous work, this paper presents a systematic literature review that explores the deployment of satellites, drones, and ground-based sensors for yield prediction in agriculture. It covers multiple aspects of the topic, including crop t...
Inductive proximity sensors (IPSs) present a unique no-contact advantage. They are widely preferred for displacement measurement in various industrial fields (e.g., aviation and aerospace), and they are improved continuously. When the inductance and...
The manufacturing systems face growing demands due to the instability of the market, the demanding sustainability policies, and the high rate of old equipment, but traditional planning structures are mostly fixed and deterministic, leading to the ine...
The search for sustainable land use has increased in Brazil due to the important role that agriculture plays in the country. Soil detailed classification is related with texture attribute. How can one discriminate the same soil class with different t...
Advances in IoT, AI, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computational Intelligence, and Big Data Analytics require organizations and workforce to be able and willing to learn how to interact with digital technology. In organizations, coordination and cooperatio...
Users’ payment behaviors have changed. The diffusion of mobile devices makes people suitable for proximity mobile payment (PMP) services without traditional payment. Existing mobile payment literature mainly focuses on the adoption and continuous usa...
The objective of this study was to estimate multiple soil property local regression models, confirm the accuracy of the predicted values using visible near-infrared subsurface diffuse reflectance spectra collected by a mobile proximal soil sensor, an...
Mandibular osteoma is a benign bone tumour that is frequently discovered incidentally during a routine radiographic examination. Surgical management may be challenging when the lesion is located close to the inferior alveolar nerve, due to the potent...
Digital terrain models (DTM) have been used in soil mapping worldwide. When using such models, improved predictions are often attained with the input of extra variables provided by the use of proximal sensors, such as magnetometers and portable X-ray...
The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the accuracy of the proximal and occlusal contacts of single implant crowns fabricated with four data capture methods. The resin models were mounted on an articulator, digitized using a laboratory sca...
This study examines patterns of digital inclusion in Ziguinchor, Senegal, using household survey data combined with spatial indicators of infrastructure and access. We construct a Digital Inclusion Index (DII) capturing realized digital practices and...
Focusing on fingers with proximal interphalangeal joint flexion contractures, this study seeks to determine whether significant differences exist between the joint passive range of motion PROM improvement when receiving higher doses of daily total en...
The scientific field of precision agriculture employs increasingly innovative techniques to optimize inputs, maximize profitability, and reduce environmental impact. However, obtaining a high number of soil samples is challenging in order to make pre...
Low-accessible Cultural Heritage, including hypogeal sites, rupestrian architectures, and fragile structures, represents a major challenge for conservation, documentation, and continuous monitoring. These limitations stem from multiple inaccessibilit...
The absorbance spectra for air-dried and ground soil samples from Ontario, Canada were collected in the visible and near-infrared (VIS-NIR) region from 343 to 2200 nm. The study examined thirteen combination of six preprocessing (1st derivative, 2nd...
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This paper proposes an innovative, intelligent shopping cart system with an interdisciplinary approach using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons. The research integrates online and offline retail strategies by presenting campaigns and ads to the custo...
Soil organic matter (SOM), as the greatest carbon storage in the terrestrial environment, is inextricably related to the global carbon cycle and global climate change. Accurate estimation and mapping of SOM content are crucial for guiding agricultura...
This study assessed whether stratifying agricultural areas into macro- and micro-variability regions allows targeted sampling to better capture soil attribute variability, thus improving digital soil maps compared to regular grid sampling. Allocating...
Quantitative sediment analyses performed in the laboratory are often used throughout archaeological excavations to critically reflect on-site stratigraphic delineation. Established methods are, however, often time-consuming and expensive. Recent stud...
Peatlands constitute extremely valuable areas because of their ability to store large amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC). Investigating different key peat soil properties, such as the extent, thickness (or depth to mineral soil) and bulk density, i...
The accurate characterisation of soil spatial variability is essential for the development of site-specific and sustainable agricultural practices. This study proposes an integrated methodology for effective soil mapping in Mediterranean environments...
Mapping soil fertility attributes at fine spatial resolution is crucial for site-specific management in precision agriculture. This paper evaluated the performance of mobile measurements using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (vis–NIR) to...
Very often, the root of problems found to produce food sustainably, as well as the origin of many environmental issues, derive from making decisions with unreliable or inexistent data. Data-driven agriculture has emerged as a way to palliate the lack...
Yield assessment has been identified as critical topic for grape and wine industry. Computer vision has been applied for assessing yield, but the accuracy was greatly affected by fruit occlusion affected by leaves and other plant organs. The objectiv...
Visible and near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy has proven to be a straightforward method for sample preparation and scaling soil testing, while the increasing availability of high-resolution remote sensing (RS) data has further facilitated the unde...
The operational slowness in the execution of direct methods for estimating forage mass, an important variable for defining the animal stocking rate, gave rise to the need for methods with faster responses and greater territorial coverage. In this con...
The fine-scale mapping of soil organic matter (SOM) in croplands is vital for the sustainable management of soil. Traditionally, SOM mapping relies on laboratory methods that are labor-intensive and costly. Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles...
Proximal soil sensing (PSS) provides high-density soil data for precision agriculture and soil monitoring. This study combines a bibliometric analysis with a narrative synthesis to describe how agricultural research that identifies itself as PSS deve...
Spatial prediction requires determining how sampled observations support estimates at unsampled locations. Existing methods commonly represent these relationships in geographic space, environmental feature space, or through a global statistical relat...
Self-efficacy is task-referenced, yet it is often treated as a single subject-level belief. Drawing on the specificity and correspondence principles of self-efficacy theory, this study asks whether learning experiences that more closely match a judge...
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Postaxial polydactyly of the foot is one of the most common congenital malformations. Only a few cases of postaxial polydactyly with a partial duplication of the fifth metatarsal without a supernumerary digit have been reported, and both metatarsal h...
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