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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,693 Views
24 Pages

24 December 2024

This study explores the practices of distributed teaching presence (DTP) to promote students’ shared metacognitive responsibilities in online learning. The DTP practices included providing explicit instruction on DTP techniques and guiding stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Strategies to Address Challenges of Online Teaching and Learning)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,044 Views
16 Pages

Shared Presence via XR Communication and Interaction Within a Dynamically Updated Digital Twin of a Smart Space: Conceptual Framework and Research Challenges

  • Lea Skorin-Kapov,
  • Maja Matijasevic,
  • Ivana Podnar Zarko,
  • Mario Kusek and ,
  • Darko Huljenic,
  • Vedran Skarica,
  • Darian Skarica and
  • Andrej Grguric
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 August 2025

The integration of emerging eXtended Reality (XR) technologies, digital twins (DTs), smart environments, and advanced mobile and wireless networks is set to enable novel forms of immersive interaction and communication. This paper proposes a high-lev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extended Reality (XR) and User Experience (UX) Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,101 Views
16 Pages

13 August 2024

Shared market opinions and beliefs by market participants generate a set of constraints that mediate information through a not-so-unstable system of expected target prices. Price trajectories, within these sets of constraints, confirm or disprove the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complexity in Financial Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,825 Views
22 Pages

PLS-SEM Algorithmic Modeling of High-Tech and High-Touch Hospitality Experiences with Moderating Roles of Employee Presence and Technology Identity

  • Ibrahim A. Elshaer,
  • Osman Elsawy,
  • Alaa M. S. Azazz,
  • Mohammed Ali R. Aldossary and ,
  • Mahmoud Ahmed Salama and
  • Sameh Fayyad
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 April 2026

As tourism businesses increasingly integrate anthropomorphic and AI-impowered technologies into service functions, a key managerial and theoretical challenge is adjusting high-tech performance with high-touch human involvement. Addressing this issue,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,237 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2020

Tacit knowledge is an important strategic resource to the sustainable development of organizations. Although scholars and practitioners have noticed the growing use of social media in transferring tacit knowledge, extant empirical research has been f...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,244 Views
20 Pages

11 September 2024

One new factor driving the banking industry towards long-term, high-quality growth is digital marketing, which has arisen within the framework of the digital economy. The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of digital marketing on the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,615 Views
29 Pages

22 May 2023

Feature creep captures the phenomenon that additional features result in product complexity and even decrease the usability of products. According to consumers’ heterogeneous tastes for products’ sophisticated features, we divide them int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adoption of Management Strategies and Technologies for Sustainable Production: A Solution to Reduce Environmental Emissions Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,821 Views
14 Pages

The objective of this study is to explore the prevalence and characteristics of data sharing policies in library and information science (LIS) journals, focusing on their relationship with journal metrics, publisher volume (number of journals managed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,876 Views
22 Pages

16 October 2018

This paper reports a new control strategy to improve sharing of unbalanced currents in islanded LV microgrids. This technique provides fast and effective sharing of positive-, negative- and zero-sequence currents, and is the first example of zero-seq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Operation and Control of Power Distribution Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,868 Views
13 Pages

Cooperative Secret Sharing Using QR Codes and Symmetric Keys

  • Yang-Wai Chow,
  • Willy Susilo,
  • Joseph Tonien,
  • Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska and
  • Guomin Yang

4 April 2018

Secret sharing is an information security technique where a dealer divides a secret into a collection of shares and distributes these to members of a group. The secret will only be revealed when a predefined number of group members cooperate to recov...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Cooperative Applications III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,190 Views
16 Pages

Impact Evaluation of Bike-Sharing on Bicycling Accessibility

  • Mingzhu Song,
  • Kaiping Wang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Meng Li and ,
  • He Qi and
  • Yi Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 July 2020

The presence of bike-sharing has a significant influence on the ease of trips by bike, which is one critical aspect of bicycling accessibility (BAcc). The existing measurements of BAcc rarely consider the factor of ownership of bikes, which means tha...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,613 Views
11 Pages

We show that a model of “the spirit of capitalism”, or the concern for social status, can generate a high degree of international risk sharing as measured by asset prices, even when consumption and portfolio holdings exhibit “home b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Management in Capital Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,796 Views
25 Pages

14 January 2025

According to self-expansion theory, sharing novel experiences with a romantic partner can help prevent boredom and maintain relationship quality. However, in today’s globalized modern world, partners spend less time together and are more likely...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Science of Mating, Love, and Attachment in Romantic Relationships)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,092 Views
18 Pages

10 August 2021

Brain areas must be able to interact and share information in a time-varying, dynamic manner on a fast timescale. Such flexibility in information sharing has been linked to the synchronization of rhythm phases between areas. One definition of flexibi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Processing in Neuronal Circuits and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,163 Views
18 Pages

Phytosociological Factors Determining Forest Management in Forests with Share of Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)

  • Monika Konatowska,
  • Paweł Rutkowski,
  • Agnieszka Ramion-Harkawik,
  • Łukasz Nikonowicz and ,
  • Tomasz Babiak,
  • Arkadiusz Kukliński,
  • Tomasz Kowalczyk and
  • Daniel Lemke
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 December 2025

The distribution of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), similar to other tree species, depends on habitat conditions (climate, soil, and location), which are further affected by forest management. The analysis of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest Management Planning and Decision Support)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,105 Views
22 Pages

15 December 2020

In recent years, shared mobility services have had a growing presence in cities all over the world. Developing methodologies to measure and evaluate the impacts of shared mobility has therefore become of critical importance for city authorities. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shared Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,800 Views
15 Pages

NSD1 Mutations and Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas: A Comparative Genomic Study in Primary and Recurrent Tumors

  • Antonio d’Amati,
  • Arianna Nicolussi,
  • Evelina Miele,
  • Angela Mastronuzzi and ,
  • Sabrina Rossi,
  • Francesca Gianno,
  • Francesca Romana Buttarelli,
  • Simone Minasi,
  • Pietro Lodeserto and
  • Manila Antonelli
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

Pediatric high-grade gliomas represent a heterogeneous group of tumors with a wide variety of molecular features. We performed whole exome sequencing and methylation profiling on matched primary and recurrent tumors from four pediatric patients with...

(This article belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,259 Views
22 Pages

16 January 2026

In the pragmaticalization of ya ves que… ‘you see that…’, the perceptual basis of the verb becomes diluted, keeping its deictic profile. Most of its pragmatic values extend to non-perceptual phenomena, implying shared knowle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pragmatic Diachronic Study of the 20th Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,561 Views
13 Pages

Software Agents as Information-Sharing Enhancers in Security-Sensitive Organizations

  • Yonit Rusho,
  • Daphne Ruth Raban,
  • Michal Chalamish and
  • Vered Pnueli

18 August 2025

This study examines the influence of software agents on information-sharing behavior within security-sensitive organizations, where confidentiality and hierarchical culture often limit the flow of knowledge. While such organizations aim to collect, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information and Future Internet Security, Trust and Privacy—3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,930 Views
21 Pages

Structural Interface Forms and Their Involvement in Stabilization of Multidomain Proteins or Protein Complexes

  • Jacek Dygut,
  • Barbara Kalinowska,
  • Mateusz Banach,
  • Monika Piwowar and ,
  • Leszek Konieczny and
  • Irena Roterman
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 October 2016

The presented analysis concerns the inter-domain and inter-protein interface in protein complexes. We propose extending the traditional understanding of the protein domain as a function of local compactness with an additional criterion which refers t...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,569 Views
10 Pages

In 2020, breast cancer was the most frequent type of cancer in 158 countries. To advise the population about risk factors and the importance of preventive measures, celebrities can be of great help, acting as spokespersons for reliable scientific inf...

(This article belongs to the Collection Potential Risks and Factors of Women's Health Promotion)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,739 Views
4 Pages

Neurodegenerative disorders (NDDs), including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases, are a highly prevalent class of disorders that share the presence of aberrant aggregates called amyloids in the nervous system [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Amyloid Structures and Disease: A Continuing Challenge in Health Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,105 Views
17 Pages

Sharing Information and Threshold Ambiguity in Public Bads Prevention

  • Islam Md Tawhidul,
  • Kenta Tanaka and
  • Koji Kotani

1 January 2025

Public bads prevention problems, such as climate change, require people to cooperate above a certain threshold, which is ambiguous and varies in many situations. In that case, people conjecture and share some information about the threshold. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,146 Views
19 Pages

Reputation Effects in Socially Driven Sharing Economy Transactions

  • Maarten Ter Huurne,
  • Amber Ronteltap,
  • Chenhui Guo,
  • Rense Corten and
  • Vincent Buskens

30 July 2018

Reputation has often been proposed as the central mechanism that creates trust in the sharing economy. However, some sharing platforms that focus primarily on social rather than economically driven exchanges have managed to facilitate exchanges betwe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sharing Economy and Its Role in Fostering Sustainability: How Trust and Regulation Shape Relations of Providers and Consumers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
255 Views
12 Pages

9 October 2026

Conversational artificial intelligence can provide individual study support, but the educational significance of its responses depends on how they are examined and used. We develop a conceptual framework comparing Individual Chatbot Interaction and S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creative Thinking and Visual Arts Education: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ecologies of Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,964 Views
16 Pages

Shared but Clean Household Toilets: What Makes This Possible? Evidence from Ghana and Kenya

  • Prince Antwi-Agyei,
  • Isaac Monney,
  • Kwaku Amaning Adjei,
  • Raphael Kweyu and
  • Sheillah Simiyu

Shared sanitation facilities are not considered as basic sanitation owing to cleanliness and accessibility concerns. However, there is mounting evidence that some shared household toilets have a comparable level of service as private toilets. This st...

(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Solutions for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,786 Views
19 Pages

4 January 2024

Quantum key distribution protocols allow two honest distant parties to establish a common truly random secret key in the presence of powerful adversaries, provided that the two users share a short secret key beforehand. This pre-shared secret key is...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,423 Views
13 Pages

A Two-Step E-Nose System for Vehicle Drunk Driving Rapid Detection

  • Fangrong Wang,
  • Dongsheng Bai,
  • Zhaoyang Liu,
  • Zongwei Yao and ,
  • Xiaohui Weng,
  • Conghao Xu,
  • Kaidi Fan,
  • Zihan Zhao and
  • Zhiyong Chang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

9 March 2023

With the rapid development of shared cars, to reduce the phenomenon of drunk driving in shared cars, we have studied the onboard drunk driving rapid detection electronic nose system suitable for shared cars. To accurately judge whether the driver is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,070 Views
28 Pages

23 October 2024

Bike sharing facilitates the public’s daily lives and possesses substantial market demand, yet its overwhelming presence has triggered some environmental problems. To enhance resource utilization efficiency, we examine the decision-making strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,185 Views
14 Pages

1 October 2025

In response to the growing relevance of shared housing models such as co-living and co-housing, this study investigates how spatial configuration affects the experience and negotiation of privacy in shared domestic environments. While privacy is ofte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Architecture, Urbanization, and Design)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,922 Views
12 Pages

Domestic Dogs Exposed to Orthopoxvirus in Urban Areas of Brazil

  • Débora de Meneses,
  • Ana G. Stoffella-Dutra,
  • Vicenzo S. Blaso,
  • Iara M. de Almeida and ,
  • Karolina L. Dias,
  • Iago José da S. Domingos,
  • Gabriela P. Ribeiro,
  • Wendel Coura-Vital,
  • Alexandre B. Reis and
  • Giliane de S. Trindade
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

17 January 2025

Domestic animals can share viral pathogens with humans, acting mainly as a bridge host. The Orthopoxvirus genus hosts important zoonotic species that have emerged in urban areas worldwide. Nevertheless, the role of companion animals, such as dogs and...

(This article belongs to the Collection Poxviruses)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,736 Views
29 Pages

Oncogenic Signalling Pathways in Cancer Immunotherapy: Leader or Follower in This Delicate Dance?

  • Douglas Cartwright,
  • Andrew C. Kidd,
  • Sonam Ansel,
  • Maria Libera Ascierto and
  • Pavlina Spiliopoulou

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have become a mainstay of treatment in many solid organ malignancies. Alongside this has been the rapid development in the identification and targeting of oncogenic drivers. The presence of alterations in oncogenic driver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring Therapeutic Targets in the Evolving Landscape of Cancer Immunotherapy)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,081 Views
18 Pages

The objective of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the firms’ ownership and control structure, in particular the presence of foreign capital, and their internationalization levels, measured in terms of intensity and...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,142 Views
15 Pages

Efficient and Reliable Power-Conditioning Stage for Fuel Cell-Based High-Power Applications

  • Mehroze Iqbal,
  • Amel Benmouna,
  • Frederic Claude and
  • Mohamed Becherif

24 June 2023

Mainstream power-conditioning devices such as boost converters are frequently utilized for developing a compatible interface between a fuel cell, electrical storage, and high power loads. The conventional power stage comprising a unique boost convert...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrogen-Based Hybrid Energy Systems: Optimization, Control and Economic Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,820 Views
19 Pages

Intraguild Predation and Chemical Cue Responses Between Phytoseiulus persimilis and Neoseiulus californicus in Laboratory Assays

  • Fatma Sh. Kalmosh,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Nikola Đukić,
  • Abdulaziz Alamri and ,
  • Salman Alrokayan and
  • Xuenong Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2026

Species sharing the same trophic level can interact not only through competition for resources but also through intraguild predation (IGP). Therefore, an important step toward implementing successful multiple predator releases in biological control s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Insect Pathogens as Biocontrol Agents Against Pests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,259 Views
18 Pages

Fair Allocation in Crowd-Sourced Systems

  • Mishal Assif,
  • William Kennedy and
  • Iraj Saniee

15 August 2023

In this paper, we address the problem of fair sharing of the total value of a crowd-sourced network system between major participants (founders) and minor participants (crowd) using cooperative game theory. We use the framework of a Shapley allocatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithmic and Computational Game Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,565 Views
16 Pages

10 May 2023

With the rapid development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), particularly the introduction of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), vehicles can efficiently share data with one another. However, edge computing nodes are vulnerable to various network attacks, pos...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,922 Views
18 Pages

Corporate Governance and Earnings Management in a Nordic Perspective: Evidence from the Oslo Stock Exchange

  • Frode Kjærland,
  • Ane Tolnes Haugdal,
  • Anna Søndergaard and
  • Anne Vågslid

The purpose of the study is to examine the relation between Nordic corporate governance practices and earnings management. We find that the presence of employee representation on the board and the presence of an audit committee are both practices tha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Finance, Governance, and Social Responsibility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,393 Views
12 Pages

13 September 2020

This study investigates how the structural mix of USA regional economies affects their volatility of economic growth. Four exogenous sectors are chosen for this investigation: Federal Government, construction, manufacturing, and tourism. Perhaps unsu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,907 Views
23 Pages

17 May 2024

The significance of developing shared road infrastructure in cities throughout the world is growing. Driven by the need to improve traffic management in ways that enhance multiple sustainability outcomes, developing the tools needed to test shared sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Emerging Simulation Technologies in Achieving Sustainable Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,223 Views
15 Pages

Following the advances in modern head-mounted displays, research exploring the human experience of virtual environments has seen a surge in interest. Researchers have examined how to promote individuals’ sense of presence, i.e., their experienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,750 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Leaf Litter from Cistus ladanifer L. on the Germination and Growth of Accompanying Shrubland Species

  • Juan Carlos Alías Gallego,
  • Jonás González Caro,
  • Virginia Hinojal Campos and
  • Natividad Chaves Lobón

7 May 2020

Most communities with the presence of Cistus ladanifer are characterised by the low richness of accompanying species, with C. ladanifer, in most cases, exceeding 70% of the coverage of woody species. This fact could be due to the allelopathic activit...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Ecology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,509 Views
20 Pages

Biochars in Iron Ores Sintering Process: Effect on Sinter Quality and Emission

  • Marian Niesler,
  • Janusz Stecko,
  • Sławomir Stelmach and
  • Anna Kwiecińska-Mydlak

22 June 2021

The article presents results of the research on the use of chars produced during pyrolysis of residual biomass as a substitutional fuel in the iron ore sintering process. Such an approach allows to implement circular economy and industrial symbiosis...

(This article belongs to the Section J: Thermal Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,075 Views
14 Pages

Seasonality of Coxiella burnetii among Wild Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and the Hyalomma lusitanicum (Acari: Ixodidae) in a Meso-Mediterranean Ecosystem

  • María Sánchez,
  • Félix Valcárcel,
  • Julia González,
  • Marta G. González and ,
  • Raquel Martín-Hernández,
  • José M. Tercero,
  • Pablo González-Jara and
  • A. Sonia Olmeda
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

29 December 2021

(1) Background: Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii that have cases reported in humans and animals almost everywhere. The aim of this study was to describe the seasonality of Coxiella burnetii in the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Latest Advances in the Knowledge of Ticks and the Diseases They Transmit)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,040 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2018

Agricultural expansion and intensification enabled growth of food production but resulted in serious environmental changes. In light of that, debates concerning sustainability in agriculture arises on scientific literature. Land sharing and land spar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,042 Views
31 Pages

13 August 2022

This paper targets a supply chain system consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer and studies the optimal dynamic carbon reduction, marketing, and coordination strategies under the cap-and-trade regulation with the presence of consumers’ env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,992 Views
14 Pages

17 June 2025

This chapter will focus on the presence of musical notation in literary texts, their aesthetic, (inter-)medial presence and potentialities, in paradigmatic Modern short stories such as Katherine Mansfield’s “The Wind Blows” (1915),...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Music and the Written Word)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,722 Views
19 Pages

Lightweight Detection of Inserted Chirp Symbols in Radio Transmission from Commercial UAVs

  • Krzysztof K. Cwalina,
  • Piotr Rajchowski and
  • Jarosław Sadowski

23 July 2025

Most small, commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) maintain continuous two-way radio communication with the controller. Signals emitted by the UAVs can be used for detection of their presence, but as these drones use unlicensed frequency bands th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Detection, Classification, and Tracking)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,630 Views
12 Pages

This review explores the processes underlying the deleterious effects of the presence of insoluble or colloidal depositions within the central nervous system. These materials are chemically unreactive and can have a prolonged residence in the brain....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Environmental Neurotoxicology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,235 Views
17 Pages

16 March 2026

People increasingly rely on photographs shared by others when deciding where to travel. Although human presence in such images is prevalent and often assumed to enhance place appeal, little research has examined whether it might also produce unintend...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)

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