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11 Citations
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12 September 2023

In response to the common issues of lacking a comprehensive quantitative assessment system and insufficient dynamic understanding of emergency response capability in prefabricated construction safety, this study proposes a research methodology based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Proactive and Advanced Research on Construction Safety Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,359 Views
21 Pages

The Cybersecurity Focus Area Maturity (CYSFAM) Model

  • Bilge Yigit Ozkan,
  • Sonny van Lingen and
  • Marco Spruit

13 February 2021

The cost of recovery after a cybersecurity attack is likely to be high and may result in the loss of business at the extremes. Evaluating the acquired cybersecurity capabilities and evolving them to a desired state in consideration of risks are inevi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Intelligent Security and Privacy Approaches against Cyber Threats)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,270 Views
43 Pages

Digital maturity models are widely used to support transformation; however, many remain organization-level, lack transparency, and are only weakly linked to implementation prioritization. These limitations are especially consequential in purchasing,...

(This article belongs to the Section Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,859 Views
19 Pages

Coal Mine Fire Emergency Rescue Capability Assessment and Emergency Disposal Research

  • Kejiang Lei,
  • Dandan Qiu,
  • Shilong Zhang,
  • Zichao Wang and
  • Yan Jin

24 May 2023

Nowadays, underground coal mine accidents occur frequently, causing huge casualties and economic losses, most of which are gas explosion accidents caused by fires. In order to improve the emergency rescue capability of coal mine fires and reduce the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Mining and Emergency Prevention and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,475 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2025

Conventional teacher assessment is labor-intensive and subjective. Prior LLM-based systems improve scale but rely on post hoc rationales and lack built-in trust controls. We propose an explainable-by-design framework that couples (i) Dual-Lens Hierar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Educational Innovation with Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,498 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Heat Transfer Modeling Capabilities of CFD Software for Involute-Shaped Plate Research Reactors

  • Cezary Bojanowski,
  • Ronja Schönecker,
  • Katarzyna Borowiec,
  • Kaltrina Shehu and ,
  • Julius Mercz,
  • Frederic Thomas,
  • Yoann Calzavara,
  • Aurelien Bergeron,
  • Prashant Jain and
  • Jeremy Licht
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

12 July 2025

The ongoing efforts to convert High-Performance Research Reactors (HPRRs) using Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) fuel require reliable thermal–hydraulic assessments of modified core designs. The involute-shaped fuel p...

(This article belongs to the Section B4: Nuclear Energy)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,779 Views
29 Pages

28 May 2024

This study aims to highlight the importance of a systematic approach to process capability assessment and the importance of following a sequence of steps. Statistical process control provides several different ways of assessing process capability. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,386 Views
19 Pages

Using the Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Inference Systems to Compare the Impact of Speed and Space Perception on the Occurrence of Road Traffic Accidents

  • Marjana Čubranić-Dobrodolac,
  • Libor Švadlenka,
  • Svetlana Čičević,
  • Aleksandar Trifunović and
  • Momčilo Dobrodolac

10 September 2020

A constantly increasing number of deaths on roads forces analysts to search for models that predict the driver’s propensity for road traffic accidents (RTAs). This paper aims to examine a relationship between the speed and space assessment capa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Fuzzy Optimization and Fuzzy Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,374 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2023

Innovation has become one of the most important sources of a company’s sustainable competitiveness. Therefore, every company strives continuously to improve its innovation capability. A company’s innovation capability is largely determine...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
151 Citations
25,726 Views
36 Pages

Putting GPT-4o to the Sword: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Language, Vision, Speech, and Multimodal Proficiency

  • Sakib Shahriar,
  • Brady D. Lund,
  • Nishith Reddy Mannuru,
  • Muhammad Arbab Arshad and ,
  • Kadhim Hayawi,
  • Ravi Varma Kumar Bevara,
  • Aashrith Mannuru and
  • Laiba Batool
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

3 September 2024

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, evaluating their comprehensive capabilities becomes significant for their application in various fields. This research study comprehensively evaluates the language, vision, speech, and multimodal c...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,650 Views
21 Pages

11 September 2023

This paper discusses the measurement of smart cities using efficiency indices and proposes a comprehensive tool based on the triple-helix model to assess the learning, research, and development capabilities of smart cities. Existing smart city models...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,718 Views
27 Pages

7 January 2025

In the rapidly changing digital economy, manufacturing companies are under growing pressure to adopt new approaches to business management by developing digital capabilities. This research explores the role of digital technologies in enabling these c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enablers and Capabilities for the Digital Supply Chain)
  • Review
  • Open Access
408 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2026

This conceptual article responds to the growing need for universities to embed sustainability education within programs to develop graduates capable of addressing complex global challenges. Drawing on the literature relating to education for sustaina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,854 Views
24 Pages

22 October 2025

Infrastructure asset management faces major challenges in maintaining ageing assets while adapting to technological changes and budget constraints. This paper addresses the lack of a clear definition for “operations and maintenance (O&M) ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,335 Views
30 Pages

6 November 2024

This study looks at how basic research capabilities develop within enterprise clusters, focusing on the complex and adaptive nature of these systems. It builds a conceptual model using systems theory and applies information entropy to measure how muc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,091 Views
17 Pages

11 November 2021

Effective development of technological innovations requires efficient management at the stages of their generation, realisation, and their implementation. For this aim, concepts such as foresight, technology assessment, and organisational capabilitie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foresight Research: Trends and Grand Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
12,760 Views
21 Pages

Product Innovation, Market Intelligence and Pricing Capability as a Competitive Advantage in the International Performance of Startups: Case of Peru

  • Romina Gómez-Prado,
  • Aldo Alvarez-Risco,
  • Berdy Briggitte Cuya-Velásquez,
  • Marián Arias-Meza and ,
  • Nilda Campos-Dávalos,
  • Luis Juarez-Rojas,
  • Maria de las Mercedes Anderson-Seminario,
  • Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales and
  • Jaime A. Yáñez
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2022

Since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, various options have been created to export products, with the creation and development of startups becoming a viable and significant option. Previous research has described the influence of competitive business a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in COVID-19 Pandemic Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,771 Views
24 Pages

13 December 2023

The current research plans to investigate the role of e-leadership qualities in managing innovation with dynamic capability as a mediator with the aim to assess and measure how the rapidly changing demands are fulfilled for business sustainability th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Current Practices and Future Directions of Sustainable Digital Transformation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,711 Views
17 Pages

Role of Body-Fluid Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

  • Thuy Trang Nguyen,
  • Qui Thanh Hoai Ta,
  • Thi Kim Oanh Nguyen,
  • Thi Thuy Dung Nguyen and
  • Van Giau Vo

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that requires extremely specific biomarkers for its diagnosis. For current diagnostics capable of identifying AD, the development and validation of early stage biomarkers is a top...

(This article belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
24,526 Views
31 Pages

In an era defined by technological disruption, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business processes is both strategic and challenging. As AI continues to disrupt and reshape industries and revolutionize business processes, organiza...

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  • Open Access
91 Citations
12,360 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2022

Sustainability has profound implications for environmental competitiveness, yet little has been done to study the feasibility of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices as a predictor of organizational performance (operational and enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Logistics and Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,738 Views
25 Pages

25 December 2015

The purpose of this research is to study the vulnerability of construction enterprises’ innovation capabilities (CEIC) and their respective primary influencing factors. This paper proposed a vulnerability system framework of CEIC, designed two compre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Models)
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  • Open Access
1,417 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2025

Every year, more and more general and other types of cargo are transported by containers, and many ports, including small and medium-sized ones, are trying to join the container transportation processes. Port connectivity with container shipping is a...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,330 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2023

Sustainability has become a critical issue for the software industry as the environmental impact of software development and use increases. To address this issue, organizations need a framework for developing and accessing sustainable software practi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,567 Views
14 Pages

Remote Welfare Monitoring of Rodents Using Thermal Imaging

  • Carina Barbosa Pereira,
  • Janosch Kunczik,
  • Leonie Zieglowski,
  • René Tolba and ,
  • Ahmed Abdelrahman,
  • Dietmar Zechner,
  • Brigitte Vollmar,
  • Heike Janssen,
  • Thomas Thum and
  • Michael Czaplik
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 October 2018

Animal research has always played a crucial role in various medical and scientific breakthroughs. They offer, inter alia, insights into diseases mechanisms, genetic predisposition to a disease, and drug therapy. However, the use of animals for medica...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
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  • Open Access
150 Views
30 Pages

20 October 2026

Institutional evaluation in higher education is increasingly shaped by multiple, coexisting systems, including research assessment, university rankings, accreditation and quality assurance, and responsible research assessment. Although these systems...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
18,576 Views
32 Pages

29 June 2023

Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) provides a necessary framework for using novel additive manufacturing (AM) technologies for engineering innovations. Recent AM advances include shaping nickel-based superalloys for lightweight aerospace applic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing – Process Optimisation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,090 Views
21 Pages

6 December 2018

In product generation management, the assessment for sustainability, together with risks potential, requires a holistic life cycle management approach, especially when it comes to the question of obsolete management of components. But, so far, the ec...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,452 Views
25 Pages

Leveraging Supply Chain Reaction Time: The Effects of Big Data Analytics Capabilities on Organizational Resilience Enhancement in the Auto-Parts Industry

  • Marcelo Bronzo,
  • Marcelo Werneck Barbosa,
  • Paulo Renato de Sousa,
  • Noel Torres Junior and
  • Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira

18 August 2024

Big data analytics capabilities (BDACs) are strategic capabilities that expedite decision-making processes, empowering organizations to mitigate the impacts of supply chain disruptions. These capabilities enhance the ability of companies to be more p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supply Chain in the New Business Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,847 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2023

The research described in this article aims to propose the creation of a framework that would enable the self-optimization of IoT device networks. The work is based on two foundations: distributed graph transformations and a flexible IoT network supp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Secure Integration of IoT & Digital Twins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,134 Views
18 Pages

Digital Financial Capability Scale

  • Kelmara Mendes Vieira,
  • Taiane Keila Matheis and
  • Eliete dos Reis Lehnhart

Financial digitization is an irreversible phenomenon. The objective of this study is to construct the Digital Financial Capability Scale (DFCS). Starting with the development of a definition, we created a multidimensional scale composed of digital fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The New Horizons of Global Financial Literacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,050 Views
20 Pages

Development and Exploratory Validation of the Clinical Research Nursing Competencies-Self-Efficacy Scale

  • Mattia Bozzetti,
  • Laura Apadula,
  • Arianna Magon,
  • Gianluca Conte and ,
  • Daniele Napolitano,
  • Giulia Villa,
  • Monica Guberti and
  • Rosario Caruso
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 February 2026

Background/Objectives: The objective of this study was to develop and validate the Clinical Research Nursing Competencies–Self-Efficacy (Se-CRN) scale, a theory-grounded instrument to assess perceived capability in clinical research nursing pra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Evidence-Based Practice to Knowledge Translation in Nursing Care)
  • Article
  • Open Access
506 Views
33 Pages

Design and Evaluation of a Focus Area Maturity Model for Privacy-by-Design

  • Friso van Dijk,
  • Michel Muszynski,
  • Marco Spruit,
  • Sjaak Brinkkemper and
  • Matthieu Brinkhuis

30 August 2026

Privacy-by-design (PbD) considers privacy in the entire lifecycle of information systems and personal data. Although a wide variety of techniques for PbD exist, a framework that considers privacy in the full context of both systems design and organiz...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Security and Privacy Protection: Trends and Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
13,032 Views
9 Pages

Digital Twin: Financial Technology’s Next Frontier of Robo-Advisor

  • Muhammad Anshari,
  • Mohammad Nabil Almunawar and
  • Masairol Masri

This research examines the concept of a robo-advisor with digital twin capabilities for personal financial management. Using an exploratory study, the researchers developed an interactive and interpretive model that analyses the most critical variabl...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,384 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2016

Smart grids have been constructed so as to guarantee the security and stability of the power grid in recent years. Power transformers are a most vital component in the complicated smart grid network. Any transformer failure can cause damage of the wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Transformer Diagnostics, Monitoring and Design Features)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,532 Views
17 Pages

A resilient safety culture is characterized by the capability of addressing the changing and unforeseen safety risks associated with the increasingly complex nature of sociotechnical systems, and creating an ultrasafe organization. An assessment of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction Workplace Trends and Work Health and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,912 Views
16 Pages

Jordan’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP): A Reflection on COVID-19 Response

  • Khalid A. Kheirallah,
  • Mohammed Al-Nusair,
  • Shahed Aljabeiti,
  • Nadir Sheikali and ,
  • Abdallah Alzoubi,
  • Jomana W. Alsulaiman,
  • Abdel-Hameed Al-Mistarehi,
  • Hamed Alzoubi,
  • Ayman Ahmad Bani Mousa and
  • Mohammed Z. Allouh
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear to the world that better preparedness for future pandemics is paramount. This study aims to explore how the 2018 Jordan’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) assessment plan (conducted utilizing a standardi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fighting against COVID-19: Latest Advances, Challenges and Methodologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,556 Views
26 Pages

With the ongoing changes in global economic and social environments, project organization resilience has emerged as a core competency in addressing environmental uncertainty, thereby becoming a prominent research area within construction management....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Infrastructure and Resilient, Sustainable Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,607 Views
14 Pages

New Approach for Process Capability Analysis Using Multivariate Quality Characteristics

  • Moath Alatefi,
  • Abdulrahman M. Al-Ahmari and
  • Abdullah Yahia AlFaify

24 October 2023

The evaluation of manufacturing processes aims to ensure that the processes meet the desired requirements. Therefore, process capability indexes are used to measure the capability of a process to meet customer requirements and/or engineering specific...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,347 Views
24 Pages

7 January 2023

In response to competition and other market challenges, many consumer manufacturing companies are offering Product–Service Systems (PSSs) in order to improve their sustainability performance. This paper aims to examine the relationship between...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,949 Views
22 Pages

Based on the theoretical frameworks on dynamic capabilities and business model innovation, we conducted a comprehensive survey and analysis involving 451 Chinese university student enterprises. The primary objective was to investigate the synergistic...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Technology and Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,289 Views
19 Pages

This work presents a space-oriented extension of an existing research program focused on developing innovative approaches and design solutions for rotorcraft. The study builds upon recent research conducted at the Military University of Technology, w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 15th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space Towards Sustainability Today and Tomorrow)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,366 Views
9 Pages

29 March 2023

Many studies in the literature have examined older adults’ past and current lifestyles in either positive or negative association with their life satisfaction levels. Health capabilities naturally decline with aging and can consequently be rela...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive, Emotional, and Psychological Changes in Healthy and Pathological Aging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,174 Views
18 Pages

Industry 4.0 Maturity of General Contractors: An In-Depth Case Study Analysis

  • Priyadarshini Das,
  • Srinath Perera,
  • Sepani Senaratne and
  • Robert Osei-Kyei

22 December 2023

Industry 4.0 technologies have business process re-engineering capabilities that can radically improve process performance and increase the effectiveness of communication and collaboration between actors. Despite the significant emphasis on technolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Project Development and Construction Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,089 Views
34 Pages

Mobile Robot for Security Applications in Remotely Operated Advanced Reactors

  • Ujwal Sharma,
  • Uma Shankar Medasetti,
  • Taher Deemyad,
  • Mustafa Mashal and
  • Vaibhav Yadav

18 March 2024

This review paper addresses the escalating operation and maintenance costs of nuclear power plants, primarily attributed to rising labor costs and intensified competition from renewable energy sources. The paper proposes a paradigm shift towards a te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,251 Views
21 Pages

In some ports, there are separate very narrow places between the quays and other navigational obstacles, where the distance between the quays or between the quays and navigational obstacles is very small. Narrow gaps or channels in the water area, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Navigability and Mooring (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,822 Views
32 Pages

28 January 2025

In the context of the rapid development of the global economy, promoting corporate economic development while taking into account sustainable development has gradually become the focus of attention of countries around the world. The ESG performance r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Economic Development)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,184 Views
6 Pages

Background: The aim of this study was to assess if thermography as an objective and non-invasive research tool is capable of identifying the changes in the surface temperature of the body as a response to muscle stimulation in Vojta therapy. The rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
6,691 Views
20 Pages

Key Assessment Criteria for Organizational BIM Capabilities: A Cross-Regional Study

  • Mohammad Sadra Rajabi,
  • Afiqah R. Radzi,
  • Mohammad Rezaeiashtiani,
  • Alireza Famili and ,
  • Mohammad Emad Rashidi and
  • Rahimi A. Rahman
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging process for managing the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of a facility. While BIM has developed in diverse aspects, the lack of organizational BIM capabilities remains a barrier to i...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,017 Views
18 Pages

17 August 2024

Applying information technology capabilities (ITC) to business processes is critical in the current data and information age. However, various bottlenecks and barriers restrict the adoption of ITC. To address these obstacles, fostering an entrepreneu...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)

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