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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,985 Views
16 Pages

ePlan, as a digital cadastral data initiative, is a collaborative program between the land authorities and the surveying industry which aims to replace paper and PDF cadastral plans and surveys with digital data. ePlan is currently operational in Aus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,122 Views
21 Pages

Moving Towards a Single Smart Cadastral Platform in Victoria, Australia

  • Hamed Olfat,
  • Behnam Atazadeh,
  • Abbas Rajabifard,
  • Afshin Mesbah,
  • Farshad Badiee,
  • Yiqun Chen,
  • Davood Shojaei and
  • Mark Briffa

Various jurisdictions are currently in the process of reforming their cadastral systems to achieve a smart and multidimensional system that provides a range of land administration services to the wider community. The state of Victoria in Australia ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,187 Views
24 Pages

16 November 2023

The introduction of digitization has changed all spheres of business on a global level, including geospatial data. The general goal of the paper includes the formation of a new model of geospatial data management. The authors propose the formation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,657 Views
12 Pages

5 June 2012

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) tools appear to enhance the possibilities offered by a collaborative approach to planning. The present paper analyzes both the results of experiences of the author and of those available in the literature, hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,576 Views
9 Pages

11 October 2021

Background: E-business and Information Technology (IT) are critical components in the improvement of logistics functions. As logistics contributes to the entire strategic planning of a firm, e-business and IT applications support the implementation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,369 Views
18 Pages

3 October 2023

The growing prominence of e-learning in education has led to the need for a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing learning outcomes. This study aims to investigate the combined effects of e-learning orientation, Moodle usage, and lea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,708 Views
34 Pages

13 October 2024

This study addresses the growing need for sustainable and personalized learning solutions in online education by optimizing cross-course learning paths. With the increasing volume of e-learning resources, students often struggle to select appropriate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,153 Views
28 Pages

15 October 2021

The impacts of mass tourism and COVID-19 crisis demonstrate the need for healthy, peaceful, and authentic recreation options, giving prominence to emerging destinations, such as remote Mediterranean islands. These, although endowed with exquisite lan...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,169 Views
10 Pages

28 November 2022

The hollow metal waveguides are attractive components for millimeter-wave circuits owing to low loss. To integrate with the front-end circuit, a transition from microstrip line to waveguide is required. In this article, a microstrip-to-waveguide tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,274 Views
27 Pages

15 November 2017

The concept of sustainable development requires us to explore a completeness model of low carbon transport and service in the light of the advancement of changes in world cooperation policy. Various kinds of carbon constraints not only limit emission...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,998 Views
29 Pages

3 July 2024

With the expansion of Chinese university campuses, electric bikes (E-bikes) have become the most sustainable and effective commuting option because they are a flexible and energy-saving travel mode. Consequently, campus E-bike charging piles have bec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,781 Views
24 Pages

Innovative Aesthetic and Functional Orthodontic Planning with Hard and Soft Tissue Analyses

  • Andra-Alexandra Stăncioiu,
  • Alexandru Cătălin Motofelea,
  • Anca Adriana Hușanu,
  • Lorena Vasica,
  • Adelina Popa,
  • Riham Nagib and
  • Camelia Szuhanek

23 June 2025

Background/Objectives: This study aims to investigate the correlation between facial soft tissues, teeth, and skeletal growth patterns in order to provide an accurate diagnosis and orthodontic treatment plan using digital examination of lateral cepha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,451 Views
30 Pages

Research on eVTOL Air Route Network Planning Based on Improved A* Algorithm

  • Mian Ye,
  • Jinchen Zhao,
  • Quanli Guan and
  • Xuejun Zhang

9 January 2024

With the continuous opening of low-altitude airspace and the development of aircraft such as electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, urban air traffic has become a sustainable and green development direction for future transportation....

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  • Open Access
1,795 Views
16 Pages

A Dual-Band Low-Profile Microstrip Antenna with Fan-Shaped and Rectangular Beams

  • Xue-Ping Li,
  • Meng-Meng Li,
  • Jun-Fei Ji,
  • Qian-Qian Sun,
  • Wei Li and
  • An-Xue Zhang

26 September 2023

In this article, a dual-frequency microstrip antenna capable of radiating sector beams and rectangular beams is designed. Firstly, the characteristic mode of microstrip antennas is analyzed, and the principle of half-power beam width (HPBW) enhanceme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,965 Views
22 Pages

The gradual institutionalization of public participation increasingly compels local authorities to partially share their power over the transformation of urban areas. The smooth running of a participatory session is based on selecting the appropriate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
14,453 Views
27 Pages

23 July 2022

Cutting-edge technological advancements have turned many electronic devices into waste within a short time of usage. Electronic waste (e-waste) has become a global problem. Due to the adverse impact of e-waste on the environment and human health, a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,986 Views
13 Pages

Design and Development of a 3D Digital Cadastre Visualization Prototype

  • Davood Shojaei,
  • Hamed Olfat,
  • Abbas Rajabifard and
  • Mark Briffa

The massive property development of high-rises and complex structures above and below the ground surface in cities indicates the lack of land and high demand to use spaces. However, the existing land and property administration systems are mainly two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,161 Views
17 Pages

Electric tilt-wing flying cars are an efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly solution to urban traffic congestion and travel efficiency issues. This article addresses the high energy consumption and obstacle interference during the takeo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,978 Views
18 Pages

Planning Suitable Transport Networks for E-Scooters to Foster Micromobility Spreading

  • Martina Fazio,
  • Nadia Giuffrida,
  • Michela Le Pira,
  • Giuseppe Inturri and
  • Matteo Ignaccolo

15 October 2021

Micromobility has a high potential to change mobility habits towards the use of sustainable transport modes. The shared mobility paradigm encourages the development of new mobility services, such as bike and e-scooter sharing, potentially reducing th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,668 Views
16 Pages

Vision-Based Decision Support for Rover Path Planning in the Chang’e-4 Mission

  • Yexin Wang,
  • Wenhui Wan,
  • Sheng Gou,
  • Man Peng,
  • Zhaoqin Liu,
  • Kaichang Di,
  • Lichun Li,
  • Tianyi Yu,
  • Jia Wang and
  • Xiao Cheng

14 February 2020

In planetary rover missions, rover path planning is critical to ensure the safety and efficiency of the rover traverse and in situ explorations. In the Chang’e-4 (CE-4) mission, we have proposed and developed vision-based decision support metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
527 Views
27 Pages

19 December 2025

This study examines how platformized e-commerce logistics reshapes urban land use at the neighborhood scale, using Shanghai as an empirical case. It argues that last-mile logistics infrastructure operates through two intertwined mechanisms: as physic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,021 Views
34 Pages

13 May 2021

Planning a city is a systematic process that includes time, space, and groups of people who must communicate. However, due to security problems in such war-ravaged countries as Afghanistan, the traditional forms of public participation in the plannin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,704 Views
13 Pages

To improve the rapidity of path planning for drones in unknown environments, a new bio-inspired path planning method using E-DQN (event-based deep Q-network), referring to introducing event stream to reinforcement learning network, is proposed. First...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,055 Views
21 Pages

Path Planning and Motion Control of Indoor Mobile Robot under Exploration-Based SLAM (e-SLAM)

  • Rohit Roy,
  • You-Peng Tu,
  • Long-Jye Sheu,
  • Wei-Hua Chieng,
  • Li-Chuan Tang and
  • Hasan Ismail

30 March 2023

Indoor mobile robot (IMR) motion control for e-SLAM techniques with limited sensors, i.e., only LiDAR, is proposed in this research. The path was initially generated from simple floor plans constructed by the IMR exploration. The path planning starts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,540 Views
16 Pages

15 March 2023

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted nations globally to adopt lockdown policies, resulting in a substantial shift in people’s travel behavior. This pandemic has influenced micro-mobility, an emerging urban transportation mode, inclu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,294 Views
22 Pages

29 April 2022

Despite the great potential of LPS and BIM to improve construction project productivity, the full integration of these modern production and information management systems at the data processing level is not yet achieved. After matching the literatur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,118 Views
20 Pages

The Flash Floods Risk in the Local Spatial Planning (Case Study: Lublin Upland, E Poland)

  • Bogusława Baran-Zgłobicka,
  • Dominika Godziszewska and
  • Wojciech Zgłobicki

11 February 2021

Flash floods pose a significant threat to humans but the state of our knowledge on the occurrence and related risk of such phenomena is insufficient. At the same time, many climate change models predict that extreme rainfall events will occur more an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,720 Views
12 Pages

High Gain SIW H-Plane Horn Antenna with 3D Printed Parasitic E-Plane Horn

  • Sheng Huang,
  • King Yuk Chan,
  • Yu Wang and
  • Rodica Ramer

30 September 2021

Substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology that combines 3D and 2D structures has been successfully utilized due to its notable advantages, including in its application to H-plane horn antennas. As this type of antenna is commonly constructed on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,956 Views
9 Pages

Uncertainty in Population Estimates for Endangered Animals and Improving the Recovery Process

  • Aaron M. Haines,
  • Matthew Zak,
  • Katie Hammond,
  • J. Michael Scott,
  • Dale D. Goble and
  • Janet L. Rachlow

13 August 2013

United States recovery plans contain biological information for a species listed under the Endangered Species Act and specify recovery criteria to provide basis for species recovery. The objective of our study was to evaluate whether recovery plans p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,578 Views
22 Pages

11 March 2021

In many e-learning settings, allowing students to choose which skills to practice encourages their motivation and contributes to learning. However, when given choice, students may prefer to practice skills that they already master, rather than practi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,127 Views
20 Pages

eXplainable AI Framework for Automated Lesson Plan Generation and Alignment with Bloom’s Taxonomy

  • Deborah Olaniyan,
  • Julius Olaniyan,
  • Ibidun C. Obagbuwa and
  • Anthony K. Tsetse

13 November 2025

This paper presents an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) framework for the automated generation of lesson plans aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy. The proposed system addresses the dual challenges of accurate cognitive classification and pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
991 Views
15 Pages

A millimeter-wave multi-layer and miniaturized multibeam antenna fed by an E-plane Butler matrix (BM) in substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) technology is proposed. For the beam-forming network (BFN), a folded E-plane 4 × 4 BM is proposed, who...

  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
22,386 Views
17 Pages

23 July 2021

Accounting information systems (AISs), the core module of any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, are usually designed as centralised systems. Nowadays, the continuous development and applications of blockchain, or more broadly—distributed led...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,617 Views
20 Pages

A broadband rectangular waveguide to substrate integrated waveguide power divider for hybrid beam forming networks is presented. Rectangular waveguide symmetric E-plane irises are used to realize a multi-section matching network. A hybrid circuit and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,558 Views
20 Pages

Public participation is significant for the success of any urban planning project. However, most members of the general public are not planning professionals and may not understand the technical details of a 2D paper-based plan, which might hamper th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,333 Views
15 Pages

Examining the Factors Influencing E-Tax Declaration Usage among Academics’ Taxpayers in Jordan

  • Hamzah Al-Mawali,
  • Abdul Rahman Al Natour,
  • Hala Zaidan,
  • Farah Shishan and
  • Ghaleb Abu Rumman

Purpose: This research attempts to profoundly understand the factors influencing the usage of e-tax declarations. Design/methodology/approach: In a cross-sectional survey, partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is used to examine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,547 Views
23 Pages

18 October 2022

As a new mode of transportation in the future, electric vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (eVTOL UAV) can undertake the task of logistics distribution and carry people in urban areas. It is challenging to carry out research desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,807 Views
22 Pages

Unified Fuzzy Divergence Measures with Multi-Criteria Decision Making Problems for Sustainable Planning of an E-Waste Recycling Job Selection

  • Pratibha Rani,
  • Kannan Govindan,
  • Arunodaya Raj Mishra,
  • Abbas Mardani,
  • Melfi Alrasheedi and
  • D. S. Hooda

2 January 2020

In the literature of information theory and fuzzy set doctrine, there exist various prominent measures of divergence; each possesses its own merits, demerits, and disciplines of applications. Divergence measure is a tool to compute the discrimination...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,633 Views
20 Pages

Design of 1 × 2 MIMO Palm Tree Coplanar Vivaldi Antenna in the E-Plane with Different Patch Structure

  • Nurhayati Nurhayati,
  • Eko Setijadi,
  • Alexandre Maniçoba de Oliveira,
  • Dayat Kurniawan and
  • Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin

30 December 2022

In this paper, 1 × 2 MIMO of Palm Tree Coplanar Vivaldi Antenna is presented that simulated at 0.5–4.5 GHz. Some GPR applications require wideband antennas starting from a frequency below 1 GHz to overcome high material loss and achieve d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,842 Views
28 Pages

4 March 2021

Indonesia is a developing country with a low-level e-waste management system based on a limited number of informal initiatives. E-waste requires proper management procedures, which involve the design of a reverse logistics management network. Consume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,747 Views
40 Pages

8 April 2025

This paper describes flight planning supported by modeling, guidance, and feedback control for an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) QuadPlane small Uncrewed Aircraft System (sUAS). Five Lift+Cruise sUAS waypoint types are defined and use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
272 Views
17 Pages

Coordinated Source–Network–Storage Expansion Planning of Active Distribution Networks Based on WGAN-GP Scenario Generation

  • Dacheng Wang,
  • Xuchen Wang,
  • Minghui Duan,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Yougong Su,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Xiangyi Wu,
  • Hailong Nie,
  • Fengzhang Luo and
  • Shengyuan Wang

31 December 2025

To address the challenges of insufficient uncertainty characterization and inadequate flexible resource coordination in active distribution network (ADN) planning under high-penetration distributed renewable energy integration, this paper proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,497 Views
19 Pages

Energy-Environmental Planning of Electric Vehicles (EVs): A Case Study of the National Energy System of Pakistan

  • Anam Nadeem,
  • Mosè Rossi,
  • Erica Corradi,
  • Lingkang Jin,
  • Gabriele Comodi and
  • Nadeem Ahmed Sheikh

21 April 2022

Energy-environmental planning for road transportation involves a vast investigation of vehicles’ technologies and electricity production. However, in developing countries where the public transportation sector is growing quickly, energy-environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,499 Views
19 Pages

Leadership and Knowledge Management in an E-Government Environment

  • Sherry D. Ryan,
  • Xiaoni Zhang,
  • Victor R. Prybutok and
  • Jason H. Sharp

3 February 2012

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) is well known to assess quality and business processes in a variety of sectors, including government. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aspects of the MBNQA’s leadership triad a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,511 Views
22 Pages

Fintech Adoption and Dispositional Innovativeness in E-Gold Investment: Evidence from India

  • Lata Kumari Pandey,
  • Jayashree Bhattacharjee,
  • Ranjit Singh,
  • H. Kent Baker and
  • Rohit Kumar Sharma

In the digital age, investing in e-gold is increasing in popularity. This study’s objective is to assess the moderating role of dispositional innovativeness between fintech adoption and the intention to invest in e-gold, as well as to understan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,578 Views
15 Pages

22 April 2022

E-bike sharing is considered a new mode of transport that is rapidly developing in China. In order to better understand the factors affecting the intention to use e-bike sharing, this study is based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the tec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,920 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2023

The current problems of the low digital upgrading of rural e-commerce, single marketing method and high homogeneous competition will seriously hinder the development of rural e-commerce and rural revitalization. Therefore, finding how to guide the di...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,374 Views
15 Pages

Background: Alloplastic temporomandibular joint (TMJ) replacement is a well-established procedure in maxillo-facial surgery. However, the surgical management of large excision in this area requires complex reconstruction beyond the standard TMJ prost...

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  • Open Access
77 Citations
8,255 Views
21 Pages

10 March 2020

A smart city is one of the latest concepts in the development of modern cities. It has evolved from the foregoing smart cities 1.0 and 2.0 to the smart city 3.0, where members of the local community play the main role as not only the recipients of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,517 Views
11 Pages

The positive effects of e-bikes on physical activity, health, and the environment have been confirmed in many studies. Their choice, as well as of cycling in general, was previously considered from, among others, the socio-psychological aspect (often...

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