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  • Open Access
1,648 Views
32 Pages

Market and government are the main bodies in solving the problem of income inequality, especially as both undergo electronic informatization. This study explores the effect of e-commerce and e-government on regional income inequality, along with its...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Intelligence Empowering the Dual Carbon Strategy and E-Commerce)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,099 Views
18 Pages

6 March 2023

In collaborative innovation, personal relationships between boundary personnel of knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) enterprises and organizational customers have a “double-edged sword” effect on inter-organizational relations. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,204 Views
23 Pages

21 August 2020

Managerial Pro-Social Rule Breaking (MPSRB) is a prevalent leadership behavior in China, characterized by conflict between favor and rule. Despite emerging interest in this behavior, two theoretical questions remain unsolved. First, its definition, d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Transition toward Innovation-Led Sustainable Governance under the 2020 Paris Regime in Asia)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
15,302 Views
24 Pages

13 February 2025

As the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace increases, investigating its impact on work engagement is crucial for optimizing human resource management and enhancing organizational productivity and competitiveness. Based on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,227 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2024

Enterprise social media (ESM) refers to a platform built on Web 2.0 technology dedicated to online collaboration and information sharing among employees within an organization. With the advent of the information age, ESM as a kind of information tool...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,576 Views
18 Pages

9 April 2026

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly involved in creative processes, designers encounter a fundamental tension regarding creative control—the degree to which they dominate design direction and iterative decision-makin...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,768 Views
21 Pages

Double-Edged Sword Effect of Pyroptosis: The Role of Caspase-1/-4/-5/-11 in Different Levels of Apical Periodontitis

  • Zhiwu Wu,
  • Mingming Li,
  • Xiaolin Ren,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Jinfeng He,
  • Li Cheng,
  • Ran Cheng and
  • Tao Hu

8 November 2022

The study was to investigate the effect of canonical and noncanonical pyroptosis in apical periodontitis. Proteins’ profiles of human apical periodontitis tissue were analyzed by label-free proteomics. Immunofluorescence was used to detect prot...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,380 Views
23 Pages

9 December 2025

Grounded in regulatory focus theory, this study investigates the double-edged sword effect of generative AI adoption on sustainable entrepreneurial intentions and its underlying mechanisms. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among 357 busines...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
19,119 Views
27 Pages

26 June 2023

This study explores the double-edged sword effect of FWAs on employee innovation performance based on the Demand–Resource–Individual Effect (DRIVE) model. A total of 411 valid questionnaires from knowledge-based employees were collected i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Psychology and Behavior: Managing and Developing People within the External and Organizational Environment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,782 Views
41 Pages

Double-Edged Sword Effect of Diet and Nutrition on Carcinogenic Molecular Pathways in Breast Cancer

  • Anca-Narcisa Neagu,
  • Claudiu-Laurentiu Josan,
  • Taniya M. Jayaweera,
  • Krishan Weraduwage,
  • Niyogushima Nuru and
  • Costel C. Darie

15 October 2024

Environmental exposure to a mixture of chemical xenobiotics acts as a double-edged sword, promoting or suppressing tumorigenesis and the development of breast cancer (BC). Before anything else, we are what we eat. In this review, we highlight both &l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Mechanisms of Bioactive Nutrients Promoting Human Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,237 Views
23 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing the ways of interaction between humans and machines, and smart interactions have become one of the hot topics of artificial intelligent in-home voice assistants (AVAs) by connecting humans, machi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Interactive Marketing in the Digital Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,028 Views
23 Pages

23 December 2025

With the deep development and iterative upgrading of algorithmic technology, the management practice of platform enterprises using intelligent algorithmic technology has become a hot issue. However, there is little research on the impact of perceived...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,062 Views
21 Pages

16 September 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable resource in contemporary higher education, providing substantial benefits to both students and institutions. As its adoption accelerates, it is important to balance these advantages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
526 Views
33 Pages

31 July 2026

The mobile commerce era witnesses widespread data collection by various apps. These data practices optimize service experience. They also trigger broad public concerns regarding privacy leakage. Transparency about information use in privacy policies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploring the Dynamics of Consumer Behavior in Digital Commerce)
  • Article
  • Open Access
468 Views
17 Pages

16 June 2026

Venture novelty enables startups to overcome entry barriers and establish differentiated competitive advantages. However, research examining its antecedents from an epistemic control perspective remains limited. Drawing on survey data from 230 entrep...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,782 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2025

While previous research has examined the role of team resources on team resilience from a resource-based perspective, the underlying mechanisms of team resilience emergence from a process perspective remain insufficiently discussed. Drawing on team s...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
581 Views
24 Pages

2 July 2026

With recent breakthroughs in affective computing and AI algorithms, government chatbots are evolving from function-oriented tools to emotionally responsive agents capable of detecting, decoding, and responding to citizens’ emotional cues. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Cognitive Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
31 Pages

1 October 2026

Amid the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and growing environmental pressures, this study empirically examines the impact of AI adoption intensity on green innovation ambidexterity (GIA), drawing on organizational ambidext...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
5,861 Views
27 Pages

12 June 2022

Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China, this paper uses a two-way fixed effect model to empirically test the influence of regional digital economy development on the level of low-carbon, inclusive growth. The empirical study shows that: (1) T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
11,218 Views
20 Pages

With the rapid development and widespread popularity of the Internet, employee social media use at work has become an increasingly common phenomenon in organizations. This paper analyzes 105 related papers from the Social Science Citation Index in We...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
886 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2026

Migrant workers are a unique group under China’s urban–rural dual system, and improving their well-being is an intrinsic requirement for achieving common prosperity. In recent years, human–robot collaboration has come forth as a nov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,590 Views
29 Pages

19 July 2025

As inevitable outcomes of the digital economy’s low-carbon development, green data centers play a crucial role in environmental impact and underlying mechanisms. This study focuses on green data center establishment as a representative practice...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,779 Views
30 Pages

Capsaicinoids and Their Effects on Cancer: The “Double-Edged Sword” Postulate from the Molecular Scale

  • Francisco Luján-Méndez,
  • Octavio Roldán-Padrón,
  • J. Eduardo Castro-Ruíz,
  • Josué López-Martínez and
  • Teresa García-Gasca

4 November 2023

Capsaicinoids are a unique chemical species resulting from a particular biosynthesis pathway of hot chilies (Capsicum spp.) that gives rise to 22 analogous compounds, all of which are TRPV1 agonists and, therefore, responsible for the pungency of Cap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Products in the Treatment of Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
650 Views
13 Pages

Chronic inflammation contributes to various metabolic and immune disorders. Plant-derived phytochemicals and fermented foods have attracted attention as dietary modulators of inflammation. This study evaluated the anti-inflammatory potential of sword...

(This article belongs to the Section Probiotic Strains and Fermentation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,343 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2025

This study examines the complex effects of empathic concern on mental health and behavioral manifestations and the potential indirect paths through excessive adaptation. A cross-sectional design with 1355 participants was employed. Empathic concern,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,604 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Changes in Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity Was “A Double-Edged Sword”: It Improved for Some and Worsened for Others

  • Albertas Skurvydas,
  • Ausra Lisinskiene,
  • Daiva Majauskiene,
  • Dovile Valanciene,
  • Ruta Dadeliene,
  • Natalja Istomina and
  • Asta Sarkauskiene

15 August 2022

The objective was to determine the contributions to changes in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during the COVID-19 restrictions by age, gender, education, place of residence, type of work, type of sport, Body Mass Index (BMI), subjectiv...

(This article belongs to the Topic Impact of COVID-19 Global Crisis on the Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,132 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Bacillus Subtilis-Fermented White Sword Bean Extract on Adipogenesis and Lipolysis of 3T3-L1 Adipocytes

  • Yujeong Choi,
  • Da-Som Kim,
  • Min-Chul Lee,
  • Seulgi Park,
  • Joo-Won Lee and
  • Ae-Son Om

19 June 2021

To investigate the adipogenesis and lipolysis effects of the Bacillus subtilis-fermented white sword bean extract (FWSBE) on 3T3-L1 adipocytes, we treated 3T3-L1 preadipocytes before and after differentiation with FWSBE and measured triglyceride, fre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Future Trends in Fermented and Functional Foods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,655 Views
16 Pages

21 October 2024

With the widespread application of AI technology, the skills and abilities required by employees in their work are undergoing fundamental changes, redefining the roles of employees. This research aims to explore the effect of job skill demands under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Employee Behavior on Digital-AI Transformation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,964 Views
17 Pages

12 July 2022

Allergy is an immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated process, and its incidence and prevalence have increased worldwide in recent years. Therapeutic agents for allergic diseases are continuously being developed, but side effects follow when used for a long-...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Public Health)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,334 Views
14 Pages

13 April 2021

Pathogenic microbial contamination is significantly influenced by the crop surface properties and surfactant use, which are crucial factors for the postharvest washing process. However, there is little information on the interaction between surfactan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Method Optimization of Various Food Processing Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,870 Views
29 Pages

This study reports a dose-dependent pro-apoptotic action of synthetic cannabimimetic N-stearoylethanolamine (NSE) on diverse cancer cell lines, including multidrug-resistant models. No antioxidant or cytoprotective effects of NSE were found when it w...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
9,617 Views
18 Pages

10 April 2014

Recent studies have found conflicting evidence on the role of α-tocopherol (αTF) on bone health. This nonsystematic review aimed to summarize the current evidence on the effects of αTF on bone health from cell culture, animal, and human studies in or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,774 Views
16 Pages

16 October 2023

Sword bean (SB) contains various phytochemicals, such as flavonoids, tannins, saponins, and terpenoids. Although the evaluation of its potential functions, including antioxidant, anti-obesity, anti-inflammatory, liver protection, and antiangiogenic a...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,112 Views
13 Pages

Synthesis of Cobalt Particles and Investigation of Their Electromagnetic Wave Absorption Characteristics

  • Hong Li,
  • Hongyang Li,
  • Bo Sheng,
  • Bing Zheng,
  • Sujun Shi,
  • Qing Cai,
  • Wenqi Xu,
  • Xiuchen Zhao and
  • Ying Liu

29 December 2023

As the integration technology for integrated circuit (IC) packaging continues to advance, the issue of electromagnetic interference in IC packaging becomes increasingly prominent. Magnetic materials, acknowledged for their superior electromagnetic ab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Electronic Packaging Technology: From Hard to Soft)
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,973 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2014

The use of volatile anesthetics, a group of general anesthetics, is an exceedingly common practice. These anesthetics may have neuroprotective effects. Over the last decade, anesthetic induced neurotoxicity in pediatric populations has gained a certa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neurotoxicity and General Anaesthetics in the Young)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,138 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2022

Jet mixings of a coplanar alternating-lobe nozzle (CoALN), scarfing alternating-lobe nozzle (ScALN), sword alternating-lobe nozzle (SwALN), and sword and chevron alternating-lobe nozzle (SwChALN) were numerically investigated using three different fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,491 Views
17 Pages

TiO2 Nanoparticles and Their Effects on Eukaryotic Cells: A Double-Edged Sword

  • Jan Gojznikar,
  • Bogdan Zdravković,
  • Marko Vidak,
  • Brane Leskošek and
  • Polonca Ferk

15 October 2022

Nanoparticulate TiO2 (TiO2 NPs) is a widely used material, whose potential toxicity towards eukaryotic cells has been addressed by multiple studies. TiO2 NPs are considered toxic due to their production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can, am...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interaction of Nanomaterials with Cells and Tissues)
  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,512 Views
16 Pages

4 December 2018

Hypertension is a growing global epidemic. Developmental programming resulting in hypertension can begin in early life. Maternal nutrition status has important implications as a double-edged sword in the developmental programming of hypertension. Imb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrients Intake and Hypertension)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,121 Views
16 Pages

20 January 2023

In Kendo, there is no consensus as to which hand should produce more pressure when attacking the opponent with the bamboo sword, let alone how to teach the pressure distribution during coaching. There is the theory that a Kendo attack can be divided...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Sensors for Human Movement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,804 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2023

In the heavy petroleum industry, the development of efficient demulsifiers for the effective breaking of interfacially active asphaltenes (IAA)-stabilized water-in-heavy oil (W/HO) emulsions is a highly attractive but challenging goal. Herein, a nove...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers Collection in Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,330 Views
14 Pages

10 June 2025

Loess, predominantly distributed in arid and semi-arid regions of central and western China, exhibits low shear strength and structural instability, rendering it prone to geological hazards such as landslides and collapses, which pose significant thr...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,507 Views
32 Pages

Lactylation in Vascular Diseases: A Double-Edged Sword

  • Siyao Luo,
  • Yafang Wang,
  • Zhimo Luo,
  • Aiguo Dai and
  • Qing Dai

14 December 2025

In recent years, lactate has transitioned from being considered a mere metabolic end-product to being regarded as a critical signaling molecule that links cellular metabolism with gene regulation. Protein lactylation, a post-translational modificatio...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,499 Views
18 Pages

Sound Synthesis of Objects Swinging through Air Using Physical Models

  • Rod Selfridge,
  • David Moffat and
  • Joshua D. Reiss

16 November 2017

A real-time physically-derived sound synthesis model is presented that replicates the sounds generated as an object swings through the air. Equations obtained from fluid dynamics are used to determine the sounds generated while exposing practical par...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sound and Music Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,857 Views
14 Pages

The Effects of Quenching with Clay on the Microstructure and Corrosion Performance of Steel Blades

  • Wei Wu,
  • Chaoqun Bu,
  • Shuoyang Li,
  • Shunhua Du,
  • Qian Chen and
  • Xiaocen Li

7 November 2023

Coating a sword with a layer of clay prior to water quenching is one way to promote hardening and improve corrosion resistance. In this study, two types of clay coating were prepared on two identical steel swords (L04 and L05) in order to explore the...

(This article belongs to the Section Corrosion, Wear and Erosion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,049 Views
23 Pages

An Enzyme-Induced Carbonate Precipitation Method for Zn2+, Ni2+, and Cr(VI) Remediation: An Experimental and Simulation Study

  • Yi Bian,
  • Yanbo Chen,
  • Liangtong Zhan,
  • Han Ke,
  • Yunqi Gao,
  • Qingyang Wang and
  • Guangwei Qi

26 July 2024

Heavy metal contamination has long been a tough challenge. Recently, enzyme-induced carbonate precipitation (EICP) has been proposed to handle this problem. This paper aims to explore the efficacy, process, and mechanisms of EICP using crude sword be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,663 Views
14 Pages

The Double-Edged Sword of Oleuropein in Ovarian Cancer Cells: From Antioxidant Functions to Cytotoxic Effects

  • Stefania Scicchitano,
  • Eleonora Vecchio,
  • Anna Martina Battaglia,
  • Manuela Oliverio,
  • Monica Nardi,
  • Antonio Procopio,
  • Francesco Costanzo,
  • Flavia Biamonte and
  • Maria Concetta Faniello

Oleuropein plays a key role as a pro-oxidant as well as an antioxidant in cancer. In this study, the activity of oleuropein, in an in vitro model of ovarian (OCCs) and breast cancer cells (BCCs) was investigated. Cell viability and cell death were an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Natural Products in Immunopharmacology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,592 Views
17 Pages

Double-Edged Sword of Vitamin D3 Effects on Primary Neuronal Cultures in Hypoxic States

  • Maria Loginova,
  • Tatiana Mishchenko,
  • Maria Savyuk,
  • Svetlana Guseva,
  • Maria Gavrish,
  • Mikhail Krivonosov,
  • Mikhail Ivanchenko,
  • Julia Fedotova and
  • Maria Vedunova

The use of vitamin D3 along with traditional therapy opens up new prospects for increasing the adaptive capacity of nerve cells to the effects of a wide range of stress factors, including hypoxia-ischemic processes. However, questions about prophylac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brain Hypoxia: Mechanisms of Resilience and Tolerance)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,515 Views
9 Pages

24 September 2019

Peroxynitrite (ONOO−) is one of the sources of oxidation stress involved in many biological signaling pathways. The role of ONOO− being a double-edged sword in biological systems drives the development of effective detection tools. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selective and Sensitive Detection of Biological and Chemical Species)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,582 Views
14 Pages

Even though research on perceiving a calling has been growing, our understanding of its double-edged sword effects and psychological mechanisms remain unclear, especially in terms of work engagement and workaholism. Based on the heavy working investm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Workaholism Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,680 Views
20 Pages

The Role and Therapeutic Potential of the Integrated Stress Response in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

  • Elías Marlin,
  • Cristina Viu-Idocin,
  • Montserrat Arrasate and
  • Tomás Aragón

In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients, loss of cellular homeostasis within cortical and spinal cord motor neurons triggers the activation of the integrated stress response (ISR), an intracellular signaling pathway that remodels translation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neuropharmacology and Neurodegenerative Diseases)

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