Open science refers to both the practices and norms of more open and transparent communication and research in scientific disciplines and the discourse on these practices and norms. There is no such discourse dedicated to the humanities. Though the h...
The strategic goal of the project “National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE” is to create the conditions for a large-scale open-access transformation in accordance with the Alliance of German Science Organizations. In close collaborat...
It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this crisis has been the emergence of Open Access (OA) publishing, bringing scholarly literature out from...
Article processing charges (APCs) are one method of many to ensure open access to research literature, but studies that explore the funding sources for such payments, especially as related to open access publications in the arts, humanities, and soci...
Scholars have long recognized the value of moving beyond their disciplinary silos to view the world from a variety of different perspectives. Our understanding of humanity and the world in which we live has been greatly enhanced by the insights produ...
This study investigates the impact of openness on human capital in 112 countries worldwide in 2000–2019. An two-stage least square fixed-effect model with instrumental variables is used to unravel the complicated relationship between human capi...
Opening doors and drawers will be an important ability for future service robots used in domestic and industrial environments. However, in recent years, the methods for opening doors and drawers have become more diverse and difficult for robots to de...
The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of trade openness and human capital on economic growth in 19 Asian countries from 1985 to 2017. We selected two geographically distributed regions (Western and Southern Asia) based on difference in their...
This study investigates the relationship between Human Trophic Level (HTL) and trade openness within the context of seafood consumption patterns. Utilizing a comprehensive panel dataset spanning from 1990 to 2019 and covering 168 countries, this stud...
Human activity recognition (HAR) based on inertial measurement units (IMUs) embedded in wearable devices has gained increasing relevance in healthcare, wellness, and fitness monitoring. However, most existing classification methods assume a closed-se...
Open educational resources (OER) play an important role in teaching and learning, especially in lifelong learning. Educational resources should be created in a way that addresses lifelong learners’ needs. Human-centered design (HCD) is a design...
Humanities Open Access is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that aims for the highest research standards.[...]
Visual quality control increasingly relies on machine learning (ML), but reliable production adoption requires a governed data-model-service lifecycle rather than an isolated detector. This article presents an implementation-grounded Open Access Plat...
To extend the choice of inertial motion-tracking systems freely available to researchers and educators, this paper presents an alternative open-source design of a wearable 7-DOF wireless human arm motion-tracking system. Unlike traditional inertial m...
Green innovations such as renewable energy technologies and cleaner process modifications are important technical routes and critical directions for reducing carbon emissions from industrial production processes. This study examines the impact of int...
Data4HumanRights’ training materials have been developed as open-source and tailored to limited-resource settings, where community data collectors often live and work. Access to training on data collection, analysis, and visualisation to suppor...
In grassland open-pit mining areas, net primary productivity (NPP) is mainly affected by climate conditions and human activities. The identification and assessment of the influence of human activities on NPP is important for mining production and the...
This article presents AgoraAI, an open-source framework designed to enable dynamic, multi-participant conversations by integrating Multi-Persona Orchestration within a shared conversational environment. Unlike traditional single-agent Large Language...
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is the most common form of glaucoma. This condition leads to optic nerve degeneration and eventually to blindness. Tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, fast-food diets, obesity, heavy weight lifting, high-intensity...
Open government data (OGD) is a critical strategic measure for governments to unlock the value of data as a factor of production and a key approach to promoting high-quality economic development in the digital era. However, existing research has not...
The humanities and social sciences (HSS) have recently witnessed an exponential growth in data-driven research. In response, attention has been afforded to datasets and accompanying data papers as outputs of the research and dissemination ecosystem....
Remote, online learning provides opportunities for flexible, accessible, and personalised education, regardless of geographical boundaries. This study mode also promises to democratise education, making it more adaptable to individual learning styles...
This study reports on a Design-Based Research (DBR) project that implemented Project-Based Learning (PjBL) in an undergraduate psychology course on Human Resource Development (HRD). The purpose was to move beyond lecture-based instruction and explore...
In recent years, researchers have focused on analyzing humans’ daily living activities to study various performance metrics that humans subconsciously optimize while performing a particular task. In order to recreate these motions in robotic st...
Partaking in the editorial process of an academic journal is both a challenging and rewarding experience. It takes a village of dedicated individuals with a vested interest in the dissemination and sharing of high-quality research outputs. As members...
This study explores the drivers of income inequality using crude oil prices, consumer prices, economic development, trade openness, unemployment, and human capital as predictors. Despite a lot of research conducted on income inequality, there have be...
Urban open spaces of local natural environments can promote the health and well-being of both ecosystems and humans, and the management of the urban spaces can benefit from knowledge of individuals’/citizens’ perceptions of such environme...
(1) Background: With human pose estimation on the rise in the field of biomechanics, the need for scientific investigation of those algorithms is becoming evident. The validity of several of those algorithms has been presented in the literature. Howe...
This study investigates the dynamic relationship between trade openness, external debt, and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the period from 1990 to 2023. The research examines how trade openness and external debt impact regional ec...
The Australian Time Layered Cultural Map platform was created to help digital humanities scholars investigate how online geospatial tools could provide exemplars to their humanities colleagues on how historical collections and cultural data could be...
This work describes how open data and human computation can be brought together through blockchain to foster the collaboration of citizens on the continuous enhancement of open data portals. For that, it contributes with a set of enhancements to the...
Collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) not only improves employees’ work efficiency but also provides them with opportunities to participate in other behaviors. Among the various behaviors that have garnered the attention of organizati...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how firms search for, interpret, and act on externally generated knowledge in digital innovation ecosystems. Existing research motivates closer examination of how resource-constrained SMEs organize the interna...
Aiming at the problems of the low evaluation efficiency of the existing traditional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training mode and the considerable development of machine vision technology, a quality evaluation algorithm for chest compressions...
This paper explores the landscape of research data in the humanities in the European context, delving into their diversity and the challenges of defining and sharing them. It investigates three aspects: the types of data in the humanities, their repr...
The paper investigates the economic, social, and environmental determinants of Vietnam’s Human Development Index (HDI) for the years 1990–2023. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing method, short-run and long-run...
In this report, we present the contributions, outcomes, ideas, discussions and conclusions obtained at the PaleoMaps Workshop 2019, that took place at the Institute of Geography of the University of Cologne on 23 and 24 September 2019. The twofold ai...
Human–Robot interaction represents a cornerstone of mobile robotics, especially within the field of social robots. In this context, user localization becomes of crucial importance for the interaction. This work investigates the capabilities of...
Climate change is increasingly seen as a risk to the economy and financial systems. This is because weather patterns can affect how much people produce, inflation, trade, investment and how well the financial sector performs. These effects are especi...
Decades-old enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) systems lock operational data inside unstructured, human-readable reports, forcing slow, costly, error-prone manual re-keying. Because multimodal large language model (MLLM) capability is uneven, deployi...
Human activity recognition (HAR) is a popular and challenging research topic, driven by a variety of applications. More recently, with significant progress in the development of deep learning networks for classification tasks, many researchers have m...
Open access (OA) publishing is beneficial for researchers to improve recognition, representation, and visibility in academia. However, few studies have been conducted for studying the association between gender and OA publishing likelihood. Therefore...
The microclimate of traditional blocks, a key component of urban fabric, directly affects the overall urban thermal environment. Creating a suitable microclimate is crucial for improving urban living quality. Field measurements, ENVI-met simulations,...
This paper synthesizes vulnerability, risk, resilience, and sustainability (VRRS) in a way that can be used for decision evaluations about sustainable systems, whether such systems are called coupled natural–human systems, social–ecological systems,...
Smart lighting of public open spaces plays a crucial role in creating sustainable cities. Investing in optimal methods for improving the energy efficiency of urban lighting systems has become strategic for the economic, technological, and social deve...
The digital humanities are rapidly expanding access to scholarly and literary materials once largely confined to the university. No more: now, with free digital resources, like Giuseppe Mazzotta’s lecture series available for free through Open...
The in-use stability of 25 drug products (oralliquids) with sensitive active ingredients was tested with a new test design simulating the stress of practical use. The results showed in so me cases a dramatic degradation of the active ingredient and t...
Informal settlements form part of the socio-spatial landscape of urban areas. Yet little is known about their spatial aspects, compared to the social aspects. With global attention on sustainable cities and inclusive urban planning, there is a need t...
Determining human intention is a challenging task. Many existing techniques seek to address it by combining many forms of data, such as images, point clouds, poses, and others, creating multi-modal models. However, these techniques still often requir...
Falls are seriously threatening the health of elderly. In order to reduce the potential danger caused by falls, this paper proposes a two-stage fall recognition algorithm based on human posture features. For preprocessing, we construct the new key fe...
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