Shadow work continues to witness a significant uptick in the context of mobile shopping. Therefore, we question whether shadow work perceived by mobile shoppers may become a bigger problem, create fatigue for mobile shoppers, and lead them to discont...
29 June 2026
With the rapid advancement of digital technology, the self-service model has emerged, introducing a new work model known as digital shadow work (DSW). In this model, consumers perform tasks traditionally performed by employees, such as item scanning...
While Langevin integrators are popular in the study of equilibrium properties of complex systems, it is challenging to estimate the timestep-induced discretization error: the degree to which the sampled phase-space or configuration-space probability...
Background/Objectives: The previous literature has identified increased work-related stress among healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study analyzes work-related perceived stress experienced by therapists during the COVID-19...
Globally, sex workers have highlighted the harms that accompany anti-prostitution efforts advanced via anti-trafficking policy, and there is a growing body of social science research that has emerged documenting how anti-trafficking efforts contribut...
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has transformed how individuals work and learn and how they can apply cyber-security requirements in their, mostly remote, environments. This transformation also affected the university student pop...
Online platforms shape and facilitate our social, economic, and political activities. Sex workers have long pioneered their use for advertising, providing services, screening clients, collecting payments, and peer-interaction, among other activities....
The human brain is an extraordinarily complex organ responsible for all aspects of cognition and control. Billions of neurons form connections with thousands of other neurons, resulting in trillions of synapses that create a vast and intricate networ...
2 November 2023
Neuroinflammation, a core pathological feature observed in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is rapidly gaining attention as a target in understanding the molecular underpinnings of these disorders. Glial c...
Through the increasing use of unmanned aerial vehicles as remote sensing tools, shadows become evident in aerial imaging; this fact, alongside the higher spatial resolution obtained by high-resolution mounted cameras, presents a challenging issue whe...
We investigate the shadow of a rotating black hole in the infrared limit of asymptotically safe gravity (ASG), focusing on how different plasma distributions affect photon propagation and shadow properties. Using the Hamilton–Jacobi formalism,...
A secret image sharing (SIS) scheme inserts a secret message into shadow images in a way that if shadow images are combined in a specific way, the secret image can be recovered. A 2-out-of-2 sharing digital image scheme (SDIS) adopts a color palette...
Face photographs taken on a bright sunny day or in floodlight contain unnecessary shadows of objects on the face. Most previous works deal with removing shadow from scene images and struggle with doing so for facial images. Faces have a complex seman...
This work is mainly focused on improving the differential evolution algorithm with the utilization of shadowed and general type 2 fuzzy systems to dynamically adapt one of the parameters of the evolutionary method. Previously, we have worked with bot...
Shadow-retargeting maps depict the appearance of real shadows to virtual shadows given corresponding deformation of scene geometry, such that appearance is seamlessly maintained. By performing virtual shadow reconstruction from unoccluded real-shadow...
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a dual-hop cooperative decode-and-forward (DF) relaying system with beamforming under different adaptive transmission techniques over
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Analysis of aerial images provided by satellites enables continuous monitoring and is a central component of many applications, including precision farming. Nonetheless, this analysis is often impeded by the presence of clouds and cloud shadows, whic...
A subtopic of visual secret sharing (VSS) is information hiding-based VSS (IH-VSS), which embeds secret messages into images using an information hiding technique. In the IH-VSS scheme, stego-images are divided into shadows under the guidance and con...
Current automatic shadow compensation methods often suffer because their contrast improvement processes are not self-adaptive and, consequently, the results they produce do not adequately represent the real objects. The study presented in this paper...
Secret image sharing (SIS) is an important application of the traditional secret sharing scheme, which has become popular in recent years. In an SIS scheme, a confidential image is encrypted into a group of shadows. Any set of shadows that reaches th...
As a popular technology in information security, secret image sharing is a method to guarantee the secret image’s security. Usually, the dealer would decompose the secret image into a series of shadows and then assign them to a number of partic...
Worksheets are common in science classrooms with an aim to support pupils’ meaning-making, e.g., for guiding them in performing hands-on activities and documenting their experiences of such activities. Yet, there have been few systematic studie...
With the rapid development of deep learning, pavement crack detection has started to shift from traditional manual visual inspection to automated detection; however, automatic detection is still a challenge due to many complex interference conditions...
Shadows severely affect the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. A proper description of this effect is useful for sizing and simulating PV systems when shadows cannot be avoided. Shading factors represent the basis for simulating the effe...
In this work, we investigate the shadow properties of the Kerr–Newman–Anti-de Sitter black hole coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. The shadow is constructed by employing the celestial coordinate approach for an observer located at a fi...
This study focuses on the recovery of information from shadowed pixels in RGB or multispectral imagery sensed from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The proposed technique is based on the concept that a property characterizing a given surface is its s...
The shadowed type-2 fuzzy systems are used more frequently today as they provide an alternative to classical fuzzy logic. The primary purpose of fuzzy logic is to simulate reasoning in a computer. This work aims to use shadowed type-2 fuzzy systems (...
The masking of cloud shadows in optical satellite imagery is an important step in automated processing chains. A new method (the TIP method) for cloud shadow detection in multi-spectral satellite images is presented and compared to current methods. T...
Ukraine had had its ups and downs in recent years. It has, for example, dramatically improved its ease of doing business (EOBB), and it has made some progress reducing the relative size and influence of its shadow economy (Shadow). But, the Russian i...
Accurate assessment of light properties is essential and is measured with photometric and colorimetric standardized methods. However, the spatial characteristic of light—harshness—remains difficult to quantify. Building on the authors&rsq...
In this article, we present a systematic investigation on a multistep nanosphere lithography technique to uncover its potential in fabricating a wide range of two- and three-dimensional nanostructures. A tilted (polar angle) electron beam shower on a...
Recent developments in intelligence surveillance camera systems have enabled more research on the detection, tracking, and recognition of humans. Such systems typically use visible light cameras and images, in which shadows make it difficult to detec...
This article aims to explore and record the role of shadowing in preparation for a qualitative study involving children and families with sensitive health issues. The researcher was engaged for a study involving qualitative research involving paediat...
This paper explores two paths that depth psychology, particularly the work of C. G. Jung, offers to the project of decolonizing knowledge. Jung was a complex intellectual pioneer who embodied and projected the limiting colonialist scientific presuppo...
Having in mind the main debate “grease the wheels” vs. “sand the wheels”, the main objective of this study is to find the way in which corruption and shadow economy influence economic and sustainable development. A large cross...
The existing slender target detection methods based on optical satellite images are greatly affected by the satellite perspective and the solar perspective. Due to limited data sources, it is difficult to implement a fully data-driven approach. This...
This paper presents new voltage-mode shadow filters employing a low-power multiple-input differential difference transconductance amplifier (MI-DDTA). This device provides multiple-input voltage-mode arithmetic operation capability, electronic tuning...
To detect deforestation using Earth Observation (EO) data, widely used methods are based on the detection of temporal changes in the EO measurements within the deforested patches. In this paper, we introduce a new indicator of deforestation obtained...
Mathematician and philosopher Charles Howard Hinton posited a plausible correlation between higher-dimensional spaces, also referred to as ‘hyperspaces’, and the allegorical concept articulated by the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato in hi...
Renewable energy today is no longer just an affordable alternative, but a requirement for mitigating global environmental problems such as climate change. Among renewable energies, the use of solar energy is one of the most widespread. Concentrating...
When the shale gas reservoir is fractured, stress shadows can cause reorientation of hydraulic fractures and affect the complexity. To reveal the variation of stress shadow with perforation spacing, the numerical model between different perforation s...
This paper examines the changes in the level of informal and shadow economy, mapping their evolution within the EU and measuring their implications on economic growth. The study also addresses the issue of conceptual differences in the methodology fo...
Low clouds significantly impact weather, climate, and multiple environmental and economic sectors such as agriculture, fire risk management, aviation, and renewable energy. Accurate knowledge of cloud base height (CBH) is critical for optimizing crop...
This article mainly focuses on the utilization of shadowed type-2 fuzzy systems used to achieve the goal of dynamically adapting the parameters of two already known algorithms in the literature: the harmony search and the differential evolution algor...
Weather conditions have significant impacts on the solar concentration processes of the heliostat fields in solar tower power plants. The cloud shadow movements may cause varying solar irradiance levels received by each heliostat. Hence, fixed aiming...
Improving the quality of life in urban areas has become a major concern in the last few decades. With a constantly increasing urban population and in a climate change context, detailed knowledge of the impact of urban elements on the outdoor thermal...
The purpose of this study is to obtain oil tank volumes from high-resolution satellite imagery to meet the need to measure oil tank volume globally. A preprocessed remote sensing HSV image is used to extract the shadow of the oil tank by Otsu thresho...
Building solar protection regulations is essential to save energy in hot climates. The protection performance is assessed using a shading factor computation that models the sky irradiance and the geometry of shadow obstructing the surface of interest...
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