This study investigates how Greek professionals formulate upward requests and simultaneously manage rapport and workplace identity within hierarchical exchanges. The data comprise 400 written requests elicited through a discourse–completion tas...
This study offers a new perspective in analyzing 311 service requests (SRs) across the country by representing cities based on the types of their SRs. This not only uncovers temporal patterns of SRs in each city over the years but also detects cities...
Hurricane Harvey in 2017 marked an important transition where many disaster victims used social media rather than the overloaded 911 system to seek rescue. This article presents a machine-learning-based detector of rescue requests from Harvey-related...
This study explores how Spanish/Catalan bilinguals acquire requests in Greek as a Foreign Language (FL), focusing on the role of proficiency in different communicative contexts. Fifty-four learners of Greek from different proficiency levels and fifty...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) enable drivers to devote their primary attention to non-driving-related tasks (NDRTs). Consequently, AVs must provide intelligibility services appropriate to drivers’ in-situ states and in-car activities to ensure driv...
Context: In a social coding platform such as GitHub, a pull-request mechanism is frequently used by contributors to submit their code changes to reviewers of a given repository. In general, these code changes are either to add a new feature or to fix...
This study examines the effects of sustainability-related data requests—spurred by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)—on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Netherlands. Using a representative survey o...
This paper investigates the routing, modulation, and spectrum assignment (RMSA) problem for advance reservation (AR) requests in semi-filterless optical networks (semi-FONs). A link resource-aware (LRA) algorithm consisting of three parts is proposed...
In the past few years, the ability of wireless network operators to monitor audience using control frames emitted by client devices has been compromised, both by legislation treating client MAC addresses as private information and by the difficulty o...
The current experiment employs a variational pragmatics perspective to explore how the contextual variables of power, distance, and imposition jointly affect social groups’ and individuals’ choice of verb forms in requests in Madrid, Spai...
The selection of the delivery scheme is one of the most complicated problems and the results of its solution condition the sustainable development of the whole market of transportation services. Freight forwarders should consider numerous random para...
This study examined how cultural background and self-reported gender influence student–faculty email communication in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) settings. Advanced international language learners (N = 113) wrote emails in English to eithe...
We report two experiments on the emission of questions to request the names of unfamiliar stimuli by preschoolers. In the first experiment, 19 preschoolers with and without disabilities served as participants. Experiment 1 was a descriptive analysis...
We present a real-world dataset capturing thirty consecutive days of malicious HTTP traffic filtered and blocked by the OWASP ModSecurity Web Application Firewall (WAF) on a live production server. Each entry corresponds to a request that triggered o...
This paper introduces a novel model for virtual machine (VM) requests with predefined start and end times, referred to as scheduled virtual machine demands (SVMs). In cloud computing environments, SVMs represent anticipated resource requirements deri...
Mobile application (app) reviews are feedback about experiences, requirements, and issues raised after users have used the app. The iteration of an app is driven by bug reports and user requirements analyzed and extracted from app reviews, which is a...
Recently, open-source repositories have grown rapidly due to volunteer contributions worldwide. Collaboration software platforms have gained popularity as thousands of external contributors have contributed to open-source repositories. Although data...
In this paper, a home service problem is studied, where a capacitated vehicle collects customers’ parcels in one pick-up tour. We consider a situation where customers, who have scheduled their services in advance, may call to cancel their appoi...
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic required changes to be made, especially in formal education processes. In order for the students to stay safe and healthy, many educational institutions switched to the distance learning method for the rest of the s...
This paper addresses serialized approaches of the routing, modulation level, and spectrum assignment (RMLSA) problem in elastic optical networks, using multiple sequential sub-sets of requests, under Integer Linear Programming (ILP). The literature h...
Container drayage, as a pivotal element of door-to-door intermodal transportation, has garnered increasing attention due to its significant influence on container logistics costs. Although various types of transport requests have been defined in the...
With the further development of highly automated vehicles, drivers will engage in non-related tasks while being driven. Still, drivers have to take over control when requested by the car. Here, the question arises, how potentially distracted drivers...
Pull request templates are used to reduce inconsistencies in information included in submitted pull requests in GitHub. A few studies have explored the effectiveness of employing pull request template. However, there is still a lack of how to evolve...
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In sub-Saharan Africa, there is limited information about the use of microbiology laboratory services in patients with suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs). This cross-sectional study assessed the requests for urine culture in patients with susp...
When a conditionally automated vehicle controlled by the machine faces situations beyond the capability of the machine, the human driver is requested to take over the vehicle. This study aims to assess the short-term effects of three factors on the t...
Microservice deployment and request routing can help improve server efficiency and the performance of large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC). However, the joint optimization of microservice deployment and request routing is extremely challenging, as...
We introduce both the coexistence zone within the WiMAX frame structure and a PS-Request protocol for the coexistence of WiFi and WiMAX systems sharing a frequency band. Because we know that the PS-Request protocol has drawbacks, we propose a revised...
Wi-Fi network has an open nature so that it needs to face greater security risks compared to wired network. The MAC address represents the unique identifier of the device, and is easily obtained by an attacker. Therefore MAC address randomization is...
Nowadays, the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN) has been widely used for Internet access services around the world. Then, the unfairness or insufficiency in meeting the throughput request can appear among concurrently communicating hosts...
D2D coded caching, originally introduced by Ji, Caire, and Molisch, significantly improves communication efficiency by applying the multi-cast technology proposed by Maddah-Ali and Niesen to the D2D network. Most prior works on D2D coded caching are...
Background and Objective. The aim of this study was to establish whether Lithuanian women would request an elective cesarean section in a low-risk pregnancy and to compare how the women’s opinion changed during the 5-year period.
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In this paper, an index-coded Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) is studied in the perspectives of transmission efficiency and memory overhead. Motivated by reducing significant computational complexity from huge matrix inverse computation of random line...
Understanding the network usage patterns of university users is very important today. This paper focuses on the research of DNS request behaviors of university users in Shanghai, China. Based on the DNS logs of a large number of university users reco...
In this paper, we proposed a coarse-alignment method for strapdown inertial navigation systems based on attitude determination. The observation vectors, which can be obtained by inertial sensors, usually contain various types of noise, which affects...
To improve the stability of automatic retransmission requests, a competition control method for automatic retransmission requests of cooperative-based listening nodes is proposed. Because the number of source nodes involved in retransmission communic...
Monitoring the presence and movements of individuals or crowds in a given area can provide valuable insight into actual behavior patterns and hidden trends. Therefore, it is crucial in areas such as public safety, transportation, urban planning, disa...
In most situations of voluntary contribution people are willing to give at the beginning, however contribution rates decay over time. In a new setup we introduce non-enforceable sharing rules, as requests, in a repeated redistribution game (called ti...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) at SAE Levels 3 require a take-over request to switch from autonomous to manual mode when leaving the operational design domain (ODD). An appropriate take-over request lead time (TORlt) is necessary for safe interaction betw...
Conditionally automated driving (CAD) systems allow the driver to temporarily disengage from driving tasks. The significant concern of CAD is to ensure a safe and timely transition to the manual driving mode when the system exceeds its limits and iss...
Telco content delivery networks (CDNs) have envisioned building highly distributed and cloudified sites to provide a high-quality CDN service in the 5G era. However, there are still two open problems to be addressed. First, telco CDNs are operated up...
V2X communication is susceptible to attenuation and fading caused by external interference. This interference often leads to bit error and poor quality and stability of the wireless link, and it can easily disrupt packet transmission. In order to enh...
Work within next generation networks considers additional network convergence possibilities and the integration of new services to the web. This trend responds to the ongoing growth of end-user demand for services that can be delivered anytime, anywh...
The present study pursued three objectives: (i) to examine whether self-access web-based instruction could significantly improve EFL students’ ability to formulate pragmatically appropriate email requests; (ii) to determine whether L2 proficien...
Despite the increased use of diagnostic imaging in Africa, the completion of the Radiology Request Form (RRF) remains suboptimal, often relying on paper-based communication. To examine the practices surrounding RRF completion in the African continent...
There is a growing interest in phage therapy as a complementary tool against antimicrobial resistant infections. Since 2007, phages have been used sporadically to treat bacterial infections in well-defined cases in the Queen Astrid military hospital...
In recent years, facility management (FM) has adopted many computer technology solutions for building maintenance, such as building information modelling (BIM) and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). However, maintenance requests mana...
In conditional automation (level 3), human drivers can hand over the Driving Dynamic Task (DDT) to the Automated Driving System (ADS) and only be ready to resume control in emergency situations, allowing them to be engaged in non-driving related task...
In the context of partial autonomy, where autonomous vehicles and humans share control of the vehicle, bringing out-of-the-loop drivers back into the loop is a significant challenge. While warning signal design guidelines are commonly used to provide...
This paper uses on-line railway travel requests from the iRail schedule-finder application for assessing the suitability of that kind of big data for transportation planning and to examine the temporal and regional variations of the travel demand by...
In modern organizations, IT Service Management (ITSM) relies on the efficient handling of large volumes of unstructured textual data, such as support tickets and incident reports. This study investigates the automated classification of IT support req...
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