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2 Citations
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5 March 2025

With the advent of cloud computing and the era of big data, there is an increasing focus on privacy computing. Consequently, homomorphic encryption, being a primary technique for achieving privacy computing, is held in high regard. Nevertheless, the...

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  • Open Access
931 Views
16 Pages

In this study, we investigate the learning opportunities offered in the enactment of a finger pattern activity with numbers exceeding 10 that shows how smaller units can be composed into larger units. Research on early arithmetic learning shows the i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
10,428 Views
10 Pages

Soundscape has been growing steadily as a research field since its interdisciplinary concepts were first introduced about 50 years ago in music theory and acoustic ecology, and it currently affects a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from social...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,021 Views
14 Pages

1 January 2019

The existing theories of heat transfer in combustion chambers of boiler units fail to take into account a number of important factors that affect the reliability of results, and the methodological approaches to optimizing combustion processes can be...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,836 Views
13 Pages

Bibliometric Analysis of Information Theoretic Studies

  • Weng Hoe Lam,
  • Weng Siew Lam,
  • Saiful Hafizah Jaaman and
  • Pei Fun Lee

25 September 2022

Statistical information theory is a method for quantifying the amount of stochastic uncertainty in a system. This theory originated in communication theory. The application of information theoretic approaches has been extended to different fields. Th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,899 Views
19 Pages

10 January 2023

This paper uses CiteSpace software to conduct a bibliometric analysis of research literature under the topic of game theory which specifically focuses on energy and natural resources in the Web of Science Core Collection. The results show that: since...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,847 Views
21 Pages

The purpose of the article is to reveal the problem (and to determine the possibility of solving the structural choice problem) as one of the areas in modern portfolio theory development. The article also argues that portfolio analysis is a method of...

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  • Open Access
139 Citations
25,434 Views
26 Pages

Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Environmental Science: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

  • Hongyun Si,
  • Jian-gang Shi,
  • Daizhong Tang,
  • Shiping Wen,
  • Wei Miao and
  • Kaifeng Duan

Since the theory of planned behavior (TPB) was proposed by Ajzen in 1985, it has attracted extensive interest and been widely applied worldwide. Although an increasing number of studies have employed the TPB in the domain of environmental science, th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,646 Views
21 Pages

27 October 2020

Ecological stoichiometry (ES), as an ecological theory, provides a framework for studying various ecological processes, and it has been applied successfully in fields ranging from nutrient dynamics to biogeochemical cycling. Through the application o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,597 Views
20 Pages

Megaproject Management Research: The Status Quo and Future Directions

  • Hongping Yuan,
  • Wenbo Du,
  • Zeyu Wang and
  • Xiangnan Song

23 November 2021

Megaproject practices worldwide have triggered increasing research in megaproject management issues and led to an increasing number of papers being published during the last decade. However, it is demonstrated by the literature that there is no syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,657 Views
23 Pages

Generalized NTRU Algorithms on Algebraic Rings

  • Qinghao Wu,
  • Juan Zhang and
  • Zichen Li

31 October 2024

The NTRU (Number Theory Research Unit) is a prominent post-quantum public key cryptography algorithm and a current focus of research. Although many NTRU variants have been proposed, a comprehensive generalization of these variants is still lacking. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
13,873 Views
23 Pages

Cost Estimating Using a New Learning Curve Theory for Non-Constant Production Rates

  • Dakotah Hogan,
  • John Elshaw,
  • Clay Koschnick,
  • Jonathan Ritschel,
  • Adedeji Badiru and
  • Shawn Valentine

16 October 2020

Traditional learning curve theory assumes a constant learning rate regardless of the number of units produced. However, a collection of theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that learning rates decrease as more units are produced in some cases...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,347 Views
23 Pages

Resilient City: Characterization, Challenges and Outlooks

  • Chengwei Wu,
  • Jeremy Cenci,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Jiazhen Zhang

The increasingly severe environmental pollution and the Earth’s ecological crisis make the concept of resilient cities (RCs) a hot topic in urban research. We ran a bibliometric analysis to analyze the research progress, areas, hotspots, and st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,237 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2022

Spatial planning has become an important measure for countries and regions to promote sustainable development. However, there remains a lack of systematic and quantitative research on spatial planning worldwide. In this study, CiteSpace was used to p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
361 Citations
31,054 Views
37 Pages

19 January 2020

Land degradation is a global issue receiving much attention currently. In order to objectively reveal the research situation of land degradation, bibliometrix and biblioshiny software packages have been used to conduct data mining and quantitative an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,119 Views
12 Pages

Forecasting Quantitative Risk Indicators of Investors in Projects of Biohydrogen Production from Agricultural Raw Materials

  • Anatoliy Tryhuba,
  • Taras Hutsol,
  • Szymon Glowacki,
  • Inna Tryhuba,
  • Sylwester Tabor,
  • Dariusz Kwasniewski,
  • Dmytro Sorokin and
  • Serhii Yermakov

29 January 2021

Hydrogen is increasingly considered as an environmentally friendly energy source as it stores a large amount of chemical energy per unit mass (142 MJ·kg−1) that can be released without the emission of combustion by-products. The presente...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,483 Views
20 Pages

Recently, a number of researchers from different fields have taken a keen interest in the domain of fractional q-calculus on the basis of fractional integrals and derivative operators. This has been used in various scientific research and technology...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,903 Views
12 Pages

24 May 2021

The New Urban Agenda—the global urbanization framework agreement adopted by acclamation by all 193 countries of the United Nations—contains no fewer than eight paragraphs on the importance of public space, three of which outline its role in achieving...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,220 Views
25 Pages

1 May 2018

As a useful technical measure to deal with the problem of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been highly regarded in both theory and practice under the promotion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,963 Views
13 Pages

9 April 2020

Datum transformations are a fundamental issue in geodesy, Global Positioning System (GPS) science and technology, geographical information science (GIS), and other research fields. In this study, we establish a general total least squares (TLS) theor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,521 Views
20 Pages

Towards Understanding and Sustaining Natural Resource Systems through the Systems Perspective: A Systematic Evaluation

  • Yong S. Nyam,
  • Julius H. Kotir,
  • Andries J. Jordaan,
  • Abiodun A. Ogundeji,
  • Adetoso A. Adetoro and
  • Israel R. Orimoloye

25 November 2020

A bibliometric and network analysis was performed to explore global research publication trends and to investigate relevant policy recommendations in the field of sustainability of natural resources, system dynamics, and systems thinking, to solve wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,499 Views
20 Pages

Social Media Marketing for Small and Medium Enterprise Performance in Uganda: A Structural Equation Model

  • Cliff R. Kikawa,
  • Charity Kiconco,
  • Moses Agaba,
  • Dimas Ntirampeba,
  • Amos Ssematimba and
  • Billy M. Kalema

3 November 2022

Thanks to the ongoing expansion of internet access and, most recently, the movement restrictions that were put in place globally to stop COVID-19 spread, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are prepared to use social media platforms to market th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,629 Views
25 Pages

16 September 2021

With the rapid development of society, the number of hydropower projects has increased. During the construction of these projects, due to excavation-induced unloading, the high sidewalls of the hydropower station are often subject to splitting failur...

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  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,332 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Chemical Structure and Salt Concentration on the Crystallization and Ionic Conductivity of Aliphatic Polyethers

  • Jorge L. Olmedo-Martínez,
  • Leire Meabe,
  • Andere Basterretxea,
  • David Mecerreyes and
  • Alejandro J. Müller

9 March 2019

Poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) is the most widely used polymer in the field of solid polymer electrolytes for batteries. It is well known that the crystallinity of polymer electrolytes strongly affects the ionic conductivity and its electrochemical perfo...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,477 Views
25 Pages

14 May 2023

The remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of rolling bearings based on vibration signals has attracted widespread attention. It is not satisfactory to adopt information theory (such as information entropy) to realize RUL prediction for complex vibra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,373 Views
26 Pages

Accident Prevention Analysis: Exploring the Intellectual Structure of a Research Field

  • Rui Huang,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Hongliang Ma,
  • Yujie Qiang,
  • Kai Pan,
  • Xiaoqing Gou,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Dong Ye,
  • Haining Wang and
  • Adam Glowacz

18 July 2022

Accident prevention is of great significance in avoiding or reducing all kinds of casualties and economic losses, and is one of the main challenges for social sustainable development. Hence, it has been an active research field for many decades aroun...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,574 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2015

This essay is an engagement with a series of propositions about literacy and reading in the United States: that large numbers of people struggle with what one might call narrative complexity; that they resolve such struggles by falling back onto narr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,187 Views
11 Pages

Scoping Review on Ethical Considerations in Research on the Work–Family Interaction Process

  • Miguel Valencia-Contrera,
  • Flérida Rivera-Rojas,
  • Jenifer Villa-Velásquez,
  • Daniella Cancino-Jiménez,
  • Solange Vallejos-Vergara and
  • Naldy Febré

23 January 2025

Background: The complex nature of the work–family interaction process means special ethical considerations are required in its study. Symphonology can guide ethical analysis in this area, as it pertains to the study of agreements and the elemen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,200 Views
15 Pages

An Identity-Based Anti-Quantum Privacy-Preserving Blind Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Hongfei Zhu,
  • Yu-an Tan,
  • Liehuang Zhu,
  • Xianmin Wang,
  • Quanxin Zhang and
  • Yuanzhang Li

22 May 2018

With the development of wireless sensor networks, IoT devices are crucial for the Smart City; these devices change people’s lives such as e-payment and e-voting systems. However, in these two systems, the state-of-art authentication protocols b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,555 Views
13 Pages

15 February 2022

Electoral contests around the world are suffering from an increasing distrust triggered by the dissemination of conspiracy theories. Extant research on political communication has largely studied this phenomenon, but, in some cases, it has neglected...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,402 Views
21 Pages

15 June 2022

The use of a free-trade zone (FTZ) has emerged as a smart land tool in increasing trading, attracting foreign investment, attempting financial openness and conducting other pilot economic reforms, which adds higher requirements for smart spatial plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,720 Views
30 Pages

22 November 2018

This paper identifies the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics, research hotspots, research frontiers and knowledge base of green development research by using the bibliometric method, mapping knowledge domains and spatial analysis metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,920 Views
30 Pages

1 June 2019

Employee motivation has always been a matter of concern for both public and private sector organizations. Since the industrial revolution in the late 18th century, organizations have struggled to foster workforce motivation and morale to enhance prod...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,961 Views
17 Pages

7 April 2023

This paper resulted from 1775 pieces of literature from the WoS database and 1923 from the CNKI database. The research framework, development process, internal relations, and key hot topics of green design were explored through the tool of CiteSpace...

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  • Open Access
2,136 Views
10 Pages

Advancing Equity through Effective Youth Engagement in Public Health to Operationalize Racism as a Public Health Crisis: The Flint Public Health Youth Academy Model

  • Kent D. Key,
  • Kayla Shannon,
  • Everett Graham,
  • Cruz Duhart,
  • Tomás Tello,
  • Cole Mays,
  • Christian Mays,
  • Tyshae Brady,
  • Jasmine Hall and
  • Kahlil Calvin
  • + 3 authors

20 March 2024

Background: The underrepresentation of BIPOC youth in the fields of public health, medicine, and research may be a factor contributing to the disproportionate rates of health disparities in BIPOC communities. In 2004, the Sullivan Commission on Diver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,406 Views
31 Pages

16 June 2018

Recent advances in cooperative theory have focused on membership heterogeneity as being a significant challenge for cooperative sustainability. We use predictive analytics to forecast U.S. farmer cooperative sustainability at an aggregate level and i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
806 Views
20 Pages

Logarithmic NTRU-Based Certificateless Ring Signature in E-Voting Applications

  • Wen Gao,
  • Tianyou Fu,
  • Simeng Ren,
  • Shixuan Jin,
  • Xiaoli Dong and
  • Zhen Zhao

In electronic voting systems, a large number of voters are often required to vote. It is also necessary to ensure the security of the voters and the fairness of the vote. The use of ring signatures is very suitable for e-voting systems because of the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,800 Views
20 Pages

17 May 2024

Gait and balance have emerged as a critical area of research in health technology. Gait and balance studies have been affected by the researchers’ slow follow-up of research advances due to the absence of visual inspection of the study literatu...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,091 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2021

The land topic has generally become a major socioeconomic issue that currently attracts attention globally. To explore the issue, various countries devote much attention to land use planning. This paper searches the Core Collection of the Web of Scie...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,171 Views
16 Pages

A Review of Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability and Resilience: Implications for the Rocky Desertification Control

  • Haiyan Liu,
  • Kangning Xiong,
  • Yanghua Yu,
  • Tingling Li,
  • Yao Qing,
  • Zhifu Wang and
  • Shihao Zhang

27 October 2021

With a changing climate and socio-economic development, ecological problems are increasingly serious, research on ecosystem vulnerability and ecological resilience has become a hot topic of study for various institutions. Forests, the “lungs of the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,975 Views
21 Pages

7 June 2024

The present research aimed to measure the degree of connectivity and create a map of the ecological connectivity that highlights the real or potential presence of green, ecological, or ecotourism circuits integrating the green infrastructure of San J...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,154 Views
20 Pages

7 March 2025

Background: Music therapy in neonatal care is a rising interdisciplinary interest in clinical practice and research. Studies showed that music therapy benefits preterm infants and their parents. We aimed to explore the possible influence of music the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,684 Views
17 Pages

The Potential Determinants for Smartphone Recycling Behaviour Sustainability in UAE

  • Taher Ben Yahya,
  • Noriza Mohd Jamal,
  • Balan Sundarakani and
  • Siti Zaleha Omain

17 February 2022

Repeated actions and behaviours are characteristic of people’s daily lives. However, there is a dilemma when this repeated action is associated with mobile phone recycling since convincing mobile users to recycle sustainably is challenging. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,754 Views
21 Pages

Spatiotemporal Evolution and Frontier Focus Analysis Based on Coal Fire Control Body of Knowledge

  • Dandan Han,
  • Guchen Niu,
  • Bing Liu,
  • Feiran Wang,
  • Yongbo Ren,
  • Chang Su,
  • Yutong Yao and
  • Zining Zhao

30 May 2024

Mine fire accidents frequently constitute a major threat to mining safety, and their potential consequences are extremely severe, which highlights the urgency of fire prevention and control research. In this study, the CiteSpace software was used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,337 Views
15 Pages

Family Social Capital and Delinquent Behavior in the United Kingdom

  • John P. Hoffmann,
  • Jared D. Thorpe and
  • Mikaela J. Dufur

6 October 2020

Research suggests that juvenile delinquency has a number of deleterious effects on adolescents’ lives. A promising way to discourage delinquent behavior is by increasing social capital, which involves social connections adolescents have to othe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,144 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2022

Globalization has created a highly competitive and diverse market, an uncertain and risky business environment, and changing customer expectations. An effective manufacturing strategy reduces complexity and provides organizations with a well-organize...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,902 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2022

The adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and the growth in the number of women entrepreneurs in the MENA region is likely to change the rules of the game. A growing body of research is addressing this and t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
865 Views
21 Pages

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have a wide range of applications, where issues related to data authentication and communication are critical for enhancing underwater resource utilization and ensuring secure data transmission. Sensor node...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,697 Views
21 Pages

25 November 2022

Social enterprises today are a worldwide phenomenon that has had a major impact on local communities and societies. Apart from pursuing their mission within the market, social enterprises are closely linked through scientific theories with the concep...

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