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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,051 Views
24 Pages

10 February 2022

The Primordial Group hypothesis states that only sufficiently young open clusters (OCs) can be multiple, and old OCs are essentially isolated. We tested this postulate through four different studies using a manual search of Gaia EDR3 and extensive li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,339 Views
23 Pages

In the present study, we continue testing the Primordial Group hypothesis (Casado 2022), which postulates that only sufficiently young open clusters can be binary or multiple, and old clusters are essentially single. To this end, we revisit all the r...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,579 Views
10 Pages

Clustering Batik SMEs: Open Innovation for Environmental Sustainability

  • Amelia Kurniawati,
  • Fahmy Habib Hasanudin,
  • Fandi Achmad,
  • Raihan Abdurrahman and
  • Rizki Fajar Ahmad Gurnita

Environmental sustainability is challenging for SMEs, mainly due to SMEs’ limited resources. To achieve environmental sustainability, SMEs must innovate their production process and waste management. SMEs can utilize open innovation to counter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,482 Views
21 Pages

Similarities and Differences between EU Platforms in the AHA and AAL Domains from a Software Viewpoint

  • Matjaž Gams,
  • Žiga Kolar,
  • Zdenko Vuk,
  • Christina Samuelsson,
  • Bernhard Jäger and
  • Erik Dovgan

21 February 2022

The EU PlatformUptake project’s main goal is to investigate the usage of EU open and partly-open platforms in active and healthy aging (AHA) and ambient-assisted living (AAL) domains, from a software viewpoint. The aim of the project was to pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,966 Views
16 Pages

Spatial Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera in the Neretva Channel (Croatia Coast): Faunal Response to Environmental Parameters

  • Lucilla Capotondi,
  • Sergio Bonomo,
  • Andrea Graiani,
  • Michele Innangi,
  • Sara Innangi,
  • Federico Giglio,
  • Mariangela Ravaioli and
  • Luciana Ferraro

17 December 2022

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages have been studied at 11 sediment surface samples located in the Neretva Channel covering the delta habitat and the adjacent open sea areas. The major objective of the investigation was to explore the main environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,425 Views
21 Pages

A Scattered Star Group in the Orion A Region of the Milky Way

  • Sergei Vereshchagin,
  • Natalya Chupina,
  • Kristina Lyzenko,
  • Anatoly Kalinkin,
  • Nikolay Kondratev,
  • Dana Kovaleva and
  • Sergei Sapozhnikov

19 September 2023

Using Gaia DR3 data, we identified an extended a ~60 pc group of stars sharing common motion but scattered in space, including from 150 to 300 probable members, named Group V. It can be associated with a group identified by Getman et al. (2019) and b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,220 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Interaction Effects of the Different Pollenizers on the Blatina Variety (Vitis vinifera L.) Grape Cluster and Seed Characteristics

  • Tatjana Jovanović-Cvetković,
  • Vide Šutalo,
  • Muhammed Kupe,
  • Sezai Ercisli,
  • Aleksandar Životić and
  • Boris Pašalić

3 February 2022

Indigenous grape varieties represent a significant potential for viticultural diversification. Due to fertilization problems, certain varieties from this group require suitable pollenizers for successful fertilization and in order to achieve high-qua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,730 Views
26 Pages

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are pivotal for advancing maritime capabilities. These networks predominantly utilize acoustic communication, characterized by an open and shared acoustic channel and energy-limited underwater nodes, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,143 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Influenza Vaccination on Rate of Influenza Virus Infection in Chinese Military Personnel, 2015–2016: A Cluster Randomized Trial

  • Yapin Li,
  • Jianxing Yu,
  • Qingfeng Li,
  • Dan Yu,
  • Wenjing Song,
  • Qi Liu,
  • Dongqi Gao,
  • Qiulan Chen,
  • Haiyang Zhang and
  • Gang Zeng
  • + 4 authors

31 August 2023

Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The protective effect of a trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) is undetermined in military personnel. We conducted an open-label, cluster randomized trial on active-duty servicemen of Beijing, Tian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,714 Views
12 Pages

This study aims to use group technology to classify students at the classroom level into clusters according to their learning style preferences. Group technology is used, due to the realization that many problems are similar, and that by grouping sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,918 Views
27 Pages

Non-Classical Approach to Identifying Groups of Countries Based on Open Innovation Indicators

  • Pavel Baboshkin,
  • Natalia Yegina,
  • Elena Zemskova,
  • Diana Stepanova and
  • Serhat Yuksel

This article aims to highlight various methods and approaches to grouping countries, according to the behavior of their open innovation indicators. GDP, inflation and unemployment are the most important indicators of the economic and social policies...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,173 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2020

A large number of metallaborane clusters and their derivatives with various structural arrangements are known. Among them, M2B5 clusters and derivatives constitute a significant class. Transition metals present in these species span from group 4 to g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,634 Views
14 Pages

Cluster Analysis and Macroeconomic Indicators and Their Effects on the Evolution of the Use of Clean Energies

  • Karime Chahuán-Jiménez,
  • Rolando Rubilar-Torrealba,
  • Hanns de la Fuente-Mella and
  • Valeska V. Geldres-Weiss

14 November 2023

The aim of this research is to relate clean energies, CO2 emissions, and economic variables. Relationships can be generated that characterize countries that manage to relate the use of clean energy with GDP, economic openness, and economic growth. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,280 Views
17 Pages

Recommendation of Music Based on DASS-21 (Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales) Using Fuzzy Clustering

  • Eunyoung Wang,
  • Hyeokmin Lee,
  • Kyunghee Do,
  • Moonhwan Lee and
  • Sungtaek Chung

30 December 2022

The present study proposes a music recommendation service in a mobile environment using the DASS-21 questionnaire to distinguish and measure certain psychological state instability symptoms—viz. anxiety, depression, and stress—that anyone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,528 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2018

The sustainability of agriculture depends as much on the natural resources required for production as it does on the stakeholders that manage those resources. It is thus essential to understand the variables that influence the decision-making process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,244 Views
28 Pages

Development of Evaluation Model for Building Energy Usage: Methodology Development and Case Study on Day-Care Centers in South Korea

  • Jinhyung Park,
  • Kwangwon Choi,
  • Chan-Hyuk Mo,
  • Abu Talib,
  • Semi Park,
  • Deuk-Woo Kim and
  • Jaewan Joe

17 September 2025

This study proposes a methodology for fairly assessing the building energy usage level of occupants using a public open dataset. A case study of day-care centers in South Korea was conducted to demonstrate the methodology. An open dataset of monthly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
650 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2025

In the modern globalized context, innovation represents a key driver of economic growth, while international trade plays an important role in fostering it. This study examines the relationship between the degree of trade openness and innovation perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,167 Views
25 Pages

Recently, open-domain question-answering systems have achieved tremendous progress because of developments in large language models (LLMs), and have successfully been applied to question-answering (QA) systems, or Chatbots. However, there has been li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,818 Views
16 Pages

10 March 2021

Clustering approaches are widely used to group similar objects and facilitate problem analysis and decision-making in many fields. During short-term planning of open-pit mines, clustering aims to aggregate similar blocks based on their attributes (e....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,176 Views
17 Pages

A Research Agenda on Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Co-Word Analysis

  • Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado,
  • Juan-José Nájera-Sánchez and
  • Eva-María Mora-Valentín

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of the literature on open innovation and entrepreneurship. Several studies have applied bibliometric methods to innovation and entrepreneurship separately. However, no study has considered these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,929 Views
20 Pages

Monitoring the Arctic Seas: How Satellite Altimetry Can Be Used to Detect Open Water in Sea-Ice Regions

  • Felix L. Müller,
  • Denise Dettmering,
  • Wolfgang Bosch and
  • Florian Seitz

1 June 2017

Open water areas surrounded by sea ice significantly influence the ocean-ice-atmosphere interaction and contribute to Arctic climate change. Satellite altimetry can detect these ice openings and enables one to estimate sea surface heights and further...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,846 Views
17 Pages

22 May 2024

To better understand the habitat preferences and behavioural ecology of Sparus latus, we performed an experiment using box-shaped reefs as habitat enrichment materials, allowing us to determine the behavioural strategies and drivers involved in the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,807 Views
17 Pages

Use of Digitalisation and Machine Learning Techniques in Therapeutic Intervention at Early Ages: Supervised and Unsupervised Analysis

  • María Consuelo Sáiz-Manzanares,
  • Almudena Solórzano Mulas,
  • María Camino Escolar-Llamazares,
  • Francisco Alcantud Marín,
  • Sandra Rodríguez-Arribas and
  • Rut Velasco-Saiz

22 March 2024

Advances in technology and artificial intelligence (smart healthcare) open up a range of possibilities for precision intervention in the field of health sciences. The objectives of this study were to analyse the functionality of using supervised (pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,780 Views
26 Pages

The Sensor Web is a growing phenomenon where an increasing number of sensors are collecting data in the physical world, to be made available over the Internet. To help realize the Sensor Web, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed open st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
568 Views
29 Pages

Group Counterfactual Explanations: A Use Case to Support Students at Risk of Dropping Out in Online Education

  • Pamela Buñay-Guisñan,
  • Alberto Cano,
  • Aurea Anguera,
  • Juan A. Lara and
  • Cristóbal Romero

This paper proposes the novel application of group counterfactual explanations to the problem of predicting students at risk of dropout. Our objective is to explain how to recover the largest possible number of students while minimizing effort and co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,939 Views
22 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Flower Volatiles from Nine Citrus at Three Blooming Stages

  • Muhammad Azam,
  • Min Song,
  • Fangjuan Fan,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Yaying Xu,
  • Changjie Xu and
  • Kunsong Chen

13 November 2013

Volatiles from flowers at three blooming stages of nine citrus cultivars were analyzed by headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME)-GC-MS. Up to 110 volatiles were detected, with 42 tentatively identified from citrus flowers for the first time....

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,126 Views
21 Pages

3 February 2021

Monitoring the spatial and temporal variability of yield crop traits using remote sensing techniques is the basis for the correct adoption of precision farming. Vegetation index images are mainly associated with yield and yield-related physiological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
5,483 Views
17 Pages

The main aim of the article is to fill the gap concerning the recognition of constructs of programme management supporting open innovations. Current knowledge on this subject is mainly limited to identifying success factors of open innovation and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,842 Views
17 Pages

1 August 2021

During the last several years, a tremendous increase in the popularity of online shopping has been observed. There are several possible reasons behind it, some of them, like competitive pricing, convenience or low cost of information search, consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,066 Views
31 Pages

14 August 2025

In recent years, the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly transformed higher education, particularly among Generation Z students who are more open to new technologies. Tools such as ChatGPT are increasingly being used for le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,394 Views
16 Pages

Imaging of Artificial Bubble Distribution Using a Multi-Sonar Array System

  • Ho Seuk Bae,
  • Won-Ki Kim,
  • Su-Uk Son and
  • Joung-Soo Park

25 November 2022

Bubble clusters present in seawater can cause acoustic interference and acoustic signal distortion during marine exploration. However, this interference can also be used as an acoustic masking technique, which has significant implications for militar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,804 Views
13 Pages

Phenomapping of Patients with Primary Breast Cancer Using Machine Learning-Based Unsupervised Cluster Analysis

  • Sara Ferro,
  • Daniele Bottigliengo,
  • Dario Gregori,
  • Aline S. C. Fabricio,
  • Massimo Gion and
  • Ileana Baldi

5 April 2021

Primary breast cancer (PBC) is a heterogeneous disease at the clinical, histopathological, and molecular levels. The improved classification of PBC might be important to identify subgroups of the disease, relevant to patient management. Machine learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,167 Views
19 Pages

Open Active Transparency in Spain: Regional Conglomerates and the Role of Accounting Information

  • Ricardo Curto-Rodríguez,
  • Rafael Marcos-Sánchez and
  • Daniel Ferrández

25 February 2025

Active transparency is developed through the provision of information by public administrations. However, for this information to be reusable, it must be offered through free licenses and open formats, two characteristics present in open data. This p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
330 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2026

Background/Objectives: To identify distinct sonographic phenotypes of complex malformations of the fetal ventral wall. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of ultrasound reports from 160 fetuses diagnosed with complex ventral wall defects a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,578 Views
13 Pages

13 January 2022

This study evaluates institutional research performance in benchmark technological universities in Taiwan through intelligent research databases (SciVal) in digital libraries with Ministry of Education open data to explore the performance of research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,203 Views
24 Pages

Landowner Acceptability of Silvicultural Treatments to Restore an Open Forest Landscape

  • Arne Arnberger,
  • Paul H. Gobster,
  • Ingrid E. Schneider,
  • Kristin M. Floress,
  • Anna L. Haines and
  • Renate Eder

17 May 2022

This study examined the acceptability of different silvicultural treatments to restore pine barrens, an open, fire-dependent forest landscape type globally imperiled across the northern Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. In an online...

  • Article
  • Open Access
868 Views
15 Pages

Background: Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus type 2 (PRRSV-2) remains a significant threat to swine production globally, including Japan. While the genetic diversity of PRRSV-2 has been reported previously, the potential associatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
130 Citations
5,858 Views
41 Pages

Multiple Populations in Star Clusters

  • Antonino P. Milone and
  • Anna F. Marino

We review the multiple population (MP) phenomenon of globular clusters (GCs): i.e., the evidence that GCs typically host groups of stars with different elemental abundances and/or distinct sequences in photometric diagrams. Most Galactic and extragal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,245 Views
18 Pages

A New Clustering Approach for Automatic Oscillographic Records Segmentation

  • Vitor Hugo Ferreira,
  • André da Costa Pinho,
  • Dickson Silva de Souza and
  • Bárbara Siqueira Rodrigues

18 October 2021

The analysis of waveforms related to transient events is an important task in power system maintenance. Currently, electric power systems are monitored by several event recorders called phasor measurement units (PMUs) which generate a large amount of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,446 Views
17 Pages

5 July 2024

Spin models like the Heisenberg Hamiltonian effectively describe the interactions of open-shell transition-metal ions on a lattice and can account for various properties of magnetic solids and molecules. Numerical methods are usually required to find...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
29 Citations
15,872 Views
11 Pages

Helping Agribusinesses—Small Millets Value Chain—To Grow in India

  • Ademola Adekunle,
  • Darwin Lyew,
  • Valérie Orsat and
  • Vijaya Raghavan

Small millets, a group of highly nutritious food, have taken a back seat in the Indian agriculture landscape in recent years, due to government policies and failings in the value chain. In this commentary, the unusual decline of small millets in comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,832 Views
23 Pages

Addressing the Vaccine Hesitancy Continuum: An Audience Segmentation Analysis of American Adults Who Did Not Receive the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine

  • Shoba Ramanadhan,
  • Ezequiel Galarce,
  • Ziming Xuan,
  • Jaclyn Alexander-Molloy and
  • Kasisomayajula Viswanath

15 July 2015

Understanding the heterogeneity of groups along the vaccine hesitancy continuum presents an opportunity to tailor and increase the impact of public engagement efforts with these groups. Audience segmentation can support these goals, as demonstrated h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,938 Views
12 Pages

Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Fasting and Plant-Based Diet in Rheumatoid Arthritis (NutriFast): Nutritional Supply and Impact on Dietary Behavior

  • Anika M. Hartmann,
  • Marina D’Urso,
  • Melanie Dell’Oro,
  • Daniela A. Koppold,
  • Nico Steckhan,
  • Andreas Michalsen,
  • Farid I. Kandil and
  • Christian S. Kessler

7 February 2023

This study aimed at comparing the nutrient supply and dietary behaviors during a plant-based diet (PBD) combined with time-restricted eating (TRE) to standard dietary recommendations in rheumatoid arthritis patients. In this open-label, randomized, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,234 Views
22 Pages

Age-Related Alterations in EEG Network Connectivity in Healthy Aging

  • Hamad Javaid,
  • Ekkasit Kumarnsit and
  • Surapong Chatpun

5 February 2022

Emerging studies have reported that functional brain networks change with increasing age. Graph theory is applied to understand the age-related differences in brain behavior and function, and functional connectivity between the regions is examined us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,388 Views
10 Pages

Inbreeding in Chinese Fir: Insight into the Rare Self-Fertilizing Event from a Genetic View

  • Rong Huang,
  • Weishan Zeng,
  • Houyin Deng,
  • Dehuo Hu,
  • Runhui Wang and
  • Huiquan Zheng

13 November 2022

Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.) is a fast-growing conifer with great forestation value and prefers outcrossing with high inbreeding depression effect. Previously, we captured a special Chinese fir parent clone named as ‘cx56...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
12,590 Views
13 Pages

Development of Supervised Speaker Diarization System Based on the PyAnnote Audio Processing Library

  • Volodymyr Khoma,
  • Yuriy Khoma,
  • Vitalii Brydinskyi and
  • Alexander Konovalov

13 February 2023

Diarization is an important task when work with audiodata is executed, as it provides a solution to the problem related to the need of dividing one analyzed call recording into several speech recordings, each of which belongs to one speaker. Diarizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,866 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2022

Government regulation with respect to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has been actively developing in the world in the past three decades, mainly in form of carbon taxation and emission trading systems with a carbon price as their basic rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,471 Views
20 Pages

The preparation and crystal structures of four β-ketoimines with bulky aryl nitrogen substituents (2,6-diisopropylphenyl and 2,4,6-trimethylphenyl) and varying degrees of backbone methyl substitution are reported. Backbone substitution “pinches” the...

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