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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Bridging the Gap: A Survey and Classification of Research-Informed Ethical Hacking Tools

  • Paolo Modesti,
  • Lewis Golightly,
  • Louis Holmes,
  • Chidimma Opara and
  • Marco Moscini

The majority of Ethical Hacking (EH) tools utilised in penetration testing are developed by practitioners within the industry or underground communities. Similarly, academic researchers have also contributed to developing security tools. However, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,829 Views
13 Pages

27 September 2019

Creative holography could still be considered a fringe medium or methodology, compared to mainstream art activities. Unsurprisingly, work using this technology continues to be shown together with other holographic works. This paper examines the merit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,508 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

The fragmented provision of training for early childhood educators has highlighted the imperative need for research-informed professional development (PD) programmes to enhance educator professionalism. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,013 Views
13 Pages

This study provides an insight into the challenges faced in establishing a closer collaboration between educational research and its use in the policy-making process. It aims to identify the factors influencing transfer from research to policy-making...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,969 Views
9 Pages

1 August 2017

This methodology paper recommends that, when possible, qualitative research on activism should be designed to enable each participant to choose between using a pseudonym and one’s actual name. The stance is informed by life history data collection en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,991 Views
10 Pages

27 March 2020

With the steady increase in the number of data sources to be stored and processed by higher education and research institutions, it has become necessary to develop Research Information Systems, which will store this research information in the long t...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,596 Views
8 Pages

In the context of open science, universities, research-performing and funding organizations and authorities worldwide are moving towards more responsible research assessment (RRA). In 2022, the European Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (Co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,007 Views
20 Pages

22 July 2019

As educators, we want to guide our students so that they develop to the best of their ability and are emancipated. As researchers in education, we often use action research. We use proven theories to guide our intervention to emancipate our students....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,703 Views
17 Pages

Analyzing Natural Digital Information in the Context of Market Research

  • Evgenii Konnikov,
  • Olga Konnikova,
  • Dmitriy Rodionov and
  • Oksana Yuldasheva

22 September 2021

The dynamics of irreversible multidimensional digitalization of production and consumption processes can be described today with a linear-positive or even exponential function. A significant part of the information background of a product, enterprise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
14,679 Views
21 Pages

Does Mentoring Directly Improve Students’ Research Skills? Examining the Role of Information Literacy and Competency Development

  • Anesito Cutillas,
  • Eingilbert Benolirao,
  • Johannes Camasura,
  • Rodolfo Golbin,
  • Kafferine Yamagishi and
  • Lanndon Ocampo

This work proposes a structural model highlighting the research skills of undergraduate students. Due to the stages in their research project implementation, mentoring students becomes a crucial initiative in higher education institutions. Despite su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,923 Views
12 Pages

19 November 2022

This study aimed to determine why university students performed relatively low on a writing assignment. In phase 1, questionnaire and performance data were collected and analyzed. This evidence-informed approach revealed that students’ relative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,538 Views
13 Pages

Data Quality as a Critical Success Factor for User Acceptance of Research Information Systems

  • Otmane Azeroual,
  • Gunter Saake,
  • Mohammad Abuosba and
  • Joachim Schöpfel

6 April 2020

In our present paper, the influence of data quality on the success of the user acceptance of research information systems (RIS) is investigated and determined. Until today, only a little research has been done on this topic and no studies have been c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,868 Views
16 Pages

This article describes a complex CRIS (current research information system) implementation project involving the migration of around 120,000 legacy publication records from three different systems. The project, undertaken by Tampere University, encou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,802 Views
14 Pages

Recommendation (recommender) systems have played an increasingly important role in both research and industry in recent years. In the area of publication data, for example, there is a strong need to help people find the right research information thr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
16,929 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2023

The United Nations (UN) emphasizes the necessity of reducing the social and material losses imposed by water disasters, with an emphasis on protecting the most vulnerable social groups to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). Several objectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,132 Views
16 Pages

3 October 2023

Based on various factors in information sharing between innovation alliance groups, this paper analyzes innovation information sharing under the influence of various factors and its evolutionary path to provide a reference for the decision-making of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,633 Views
20 Pages

An open, standardized data management and related service infrastructure is a crucial requirement for a seamless storage and exchange of data and information within research projects, for the dissemination of project results and for their application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,906 Views
20 Pages

Research on the Application of Topic Models Based on Geological Disaster Information Mining

  • Gang Cheng,
  • Qinliang You,
  • Gangqiang Li,
  • Youcai Li,
  • Daisong Yang,
  • Jinghong Wu and
  • Yaxi Wu

10 December 2024

Geological disasters, as a common occurrence, have a serious impact on social development in terms of their frequency of occurrence, disaster effects, and resulting losses. To effectively reduce the casualties, property losses, and social effects cau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,260 Views
27 Pages

26 April 2023

Quantum information is an emerging scientific and technological discipline attracting a growing number of professionals from various related fields. Although it can potentially serve as a valuable source of skilled labor, the Internet provides a way...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,209 Views
21 Pages

5 October 2022

Most research projects are data driven. However, many organizations lack proper information systems (IS) for managing data, that is, planning, collecting, analyzing, storing, archiving, and sharing for use and re-use. Many research institutions have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,563 Views
24 Pages

9 June 2025

Research with population groups who have undergone circumstances of vulnerability demands a careful ethical approach to ensure that the study is conducted with the utmost respect and sensitivity, addressing potential challenges not only in regards to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,519 Views
18 Pages

24 June 2022

A scientific research project is always full of uncertainties and risks. In this condition, full exchange and complementarity of information resources among project team members are necessary and important to meet the information needs for project ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
983 Views
16 Pages

We report on the results of the application of a method and tool for ontology construction in the research information domain, held in the context of an open data initiative of Flanders. The method emphasizes the use of natural language descriptions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,688 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
2,974 Views
16 Pages

2 August 2024

This study investigates the impact of Information Technology and employee engagement on the implementation of Knowledge Management within the Research and Development processes of pharmaceutical companies. Based on Dynamic Capabilities Theory, this r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
102 Citations
18,199 Views
34 Pages

26 September 2019

In the recent decade, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has widely been adopted in the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry and completely upended the way we build. While BIM continues gain momentum in the industry, it has als...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,536 Views
17 Pages

Optimizing Patient Information Material for a New Psycho-Oncological Care Program Using a Participatory Health Research Approach in Germany

  • Theresia Krieger,
  • Sandra Salm,
  • Antje Dresen,
  • Anna Arning,
  • Kathrin Schwickerath,
  • Andrea Göttel,
  • Stefanie Houwaart,
  • Holger Pfaff and
  • Natalia Cecon

High-quality patient information material (PIM) is essential for patients´ informed decision-making, and its quality may influence a care program’s acceptance. In the new psycho-oncological care program, isPO, the initial PIM was develope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,393 Views
12 Pages

In the beginning of 2015, a consortium consisting of 13 Danish municipalities with 240 schools, almost 80,000 students and 10,000 professionals together with a university based research institution and a competence development center launched the sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,910 Views
20 Pages

Evidence-based practice is a salient solution that has been presented to address the persistent educational attainment gap linked to economic disadvantage. However, most schools do not engage with research, and we know little about facilitating schoo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,008 Views
20 Pages

Background: Injecting drug use is a global public health challenge with multifaceted consequences, not only for people who inject drugs (PWIDs) but also for society at large. Their vulnerability necessitates a deeper exploration of their health infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,542 Views
14 Pages

The Clinical and Psychosocial Outcomes for Women Who Received Unexpected Clinically Actionable Germline Information Identified through Research: An Exploratory Sequential Mixed-Methods Comparative Study

  • Laura E. Forrest,
  • Rowan Forbes Shepherd,
  • Erin Tutty,
  • Angela Pearce,
  • Ian Campbell,
  • Lisa Devereux,
  • Alison H. Trainer,
  • Paul A. James and
  • Mary-Anne Young

7 July 2022

Background Research identifying and returning clinically actionable germline variants offer a new avenue of access to genetic information. The psychosocial and clinical outcomes for women who have received this ‘genome-first care’ deliver...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
21,796 Views
31 Pages

12 February 2024

The success of modern businesses hinges on their capability to recognize and explore emerging patterns in consumer behavior within the context of information technology (IT). While the study of consumer behavior has made notable progress, there remai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,909 Views
7 Pages

Informed Consent and Protection of Personal Data in Genetic Research on COVID-19

  • Piergiorgio Fedeli,
  • Roberto Scendoni,
  • Mariano Cingolani,
  • Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci,
  • Roberto Cirocchi and
  • Nunzia Cannovo

11 February 2022

The particular characteristics of COVID-19 demand the careful biomedical study of samples from patients who have shown different symptomatology, in order to understand the genetic foundations of its phenotypic expression. Research on genetic material...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,510 Views
20 Pages

Representation of Slovak Research Information (A Case Study)

  • Danica Zendulková,
  • Boris Rysuľa and
  • Andrea Putalová

22 March 2021

In the light of the increasing importance of the societal impact of research, this article attempts to address the question as to how social sciences and humanities (SSH) research outputs from 2019 are represented in Slovak research portfolios in com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,697 Views
24 Pages

Applying the Action-Research Method to Develop a Methodology to Reduce the Installation and Maintenance Times of Information Security Management Systems

  • Antonio Santos-Olmo,
  • Luis Enrique Sánchez,
  • David G. Rosado,
  • Eduardo Fernández-Medina and
  • Mario Piattini

Society is increasingly dependent on Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), and having these kind of systems has become vital for the development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). However, these companies require ISMS that have b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
106 Citations
22,215 Views
23 Pages

In recent years, the use of new technologies is rapidly transforming the way working activities are managed and carried out. In the construction industry, in particular, the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is ever increasing as a means to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
18,956 Views
61 Pages

8 October 2017

The research evidence for early childhood intervention practices performance checklists is described. Performance checklists include lists of the tasks or steps required to complete a practice competently. The checklists were developed using a concep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,315 Views
23 Pages

Research on Group Behavior Modeling and Individual Interaction Modes with Informed Leaders

  • Yude Fu,
  • Jing Zhu,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Xu Han,
  • Wenhui Tan,
  • Qizi Huangpeng and
  • Xiaojun Duan

12 April 2024

This study investigates coordinated behaviors and the underlying collective intelligence in biological groups, particularly those led by informed leaders. By establishing new convergence condition based on experiments involving real biological groups...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,130 Views
13 Pages

2 April 2023

Drones are increasingly being introduced to support healthcare delivery around the world. Most Drones for Health projects are currently in the pilot phase, where frontline staff are testing the feasibility of implementing drones into their healthcare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,193 Views
36 Pages

13 September 2025

Systemic racism, high turnovers of teachers and administrators, and deindustrialization in Flint, Michigan, have created an environment that limits the opportunities of Flint youth to engage in and succeed in STEM. This paper describes a partnership...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,875 Views
9 Pages

16 January 2023

The handling of incidental findings (IFs) in brain imaging studies has been a source of contention among scientists and bioethicists. A conceptual framework informed by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and distributive justice approaches, namel...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,972 Views
29 Pages

Bench Research Informed by GWAS Results

  • Nikolay V. Kondratyev,
  • Margarita V. Alfimova,
  • Arkadiy K. Golov and
  • Vera E. Golimbet

15 November 2021

Scientifically interesting as well as practically important phenotypes often belong to the realm of complex traits. To the extent that these traits are hereditary, they are usually ‘highly polygenic’. The study of such traits presents a challenge for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,085 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2021

Design science (DS) approaches have been emerging in engineering, management and other disciplines operating at the interface between design research and the natural or social sciences. Research informed by DS is challenging because it involves “mixi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,823 Views
10 Pages

Informed Consent in COVID-19-Research: An Ethical Analysis of Clinical Studies Performed during the Pandemic

  • Katja Voit,
  • Tobias Skuban-Eiseler,
  • Marcin Orzechowski and
  • Florian Steger

Health crises such as the current COVID-19 pandemic pose challenges to the conduct of clinical studies. Aspects of research ethics, such as obtaining informed consent (IC), can be complicated. We are concerned with whether or not the proper IC proced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,460 Views
18 Pages

Collecting, integrating, storing and analyzing data in a database system is nothing new in itself. To introduce a current research information system (CRIS) means that scientific institutions must provide the required information on their research ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,517 Views
18 Pages

Accurately modeling the system dynamics of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is imperative to facilitating the implementation of intelligent control. In this research, we introduce a physics-informed neural network (PINN) method to model the dyna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,901 Views
29 Pages

11 March 2019

As a necessarily political act, the theorizing, debating and enacting of ecological economies offer pathways to radical socio-economic transformations that emphasize the ecological and prioritize justice. In response to a research agenda call for eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,396 Views
11 Pages

Research Ethics, Open Science and CRIS

  • Joachim Schöpfel,
  • Otmane Azeroual and
  • Monika Jungbauer-Gans

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how current research information systems (CRIS) take into account ethical issues, especially in the environment of open science. The analysis is based on a review of the literature on research information manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,462 Views
16 Pages

Children’s Understanding of Informed Assents in Research Studies

  • Hortense Cotrim,
  • Cristina Granja,
  • Ana Sofia Carvalho,
  • Carlos Cotrim and
  • Rui Martins

The assent procedure reflects an effort to enable the minor to understand, to the degree they are capable of, what their participation in the decision making process would involve. Aims: To evaluate the minors’ ability to understand the information p...

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