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  • Open Access
60 Citations
18,883 Views
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26 June 2023

In the era of the digital economy, traditional industries have begun to realize digital transformations. For commercial banks, digital transformation is a trend and a requirement and is the only way to achieve sustainable development. At the same tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation, Digital Transformation and Process Improvement Towards a Better Efficiency on Industrial and Management Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
379 Views
16 Pages

1 September 2026

Attack execution is a fundamental determinant of performance in sabre fencing, requiring athletes to integrate technical precision, tactical decision-making, perceptual abilities, and neuromuscular control within extremely short time intervals. The p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Athlete Assessment and Performance Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
620 Views
30 Pages

14 August 2026

(1) Background: Physical artificial intelligence is progressing beyond performing tasks. As embodied AI systems integrate sensing, context-sensitive inference, orchestration, and physical actuation, the central issue shifts from automation efficiency...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Socio-Technical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,212 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Game Actions and Performance in Young Soccer Players: A Study Using Sequential Analysis

  • Alejandro Sabarit,
  • Juan P. Morillo-Baro,
  • Rafael E. Reigal,
  • Juan A. Vázquez-Diz and ,
  • Antonio Hernández-Mendo and
  • Verónica Morales-Sánchez
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 October 2022

The objective of this research is to analyze the performance of actions in a reduced game situation in a sample of young soccer players. This is a game format in which possession of the ball has to be maintained. The sample consisted of 85 young play...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sports Psychology and Performance)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,926 Views
24 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Technologies

  • Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares,
  • Angelo Perkusich,
  • Aldenor Falcão Martins,
  • Mohammed B. Alshawki and
  • Chris Seline

14 August 2023

The main characteristics of blockchains, such as security and traceability, have enabled their use in many distinct scenarios, such as the rise of new cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications (dApps). However, part of the information exchanged...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain of Things: Benefits, Challenges and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
29 Pages

25 September 2026

Effective collaboration between artificial intelligence and human capital has become an important organizational foundation for improving corporate carbon emissions. Drawing on socio-technical systems theory, we examine the effect of human–AI c...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,815 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2023

A firm’s sustainable technological innovation (STI) is an important strategy to cope with the global challenges of the climate emergency and resource constraints. To encourage firms to pursue sustainable innovation, the government put its effor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,488 Views
17 Pages

Success from the Spot: Insights into Penalty Performance in Elite Women’s Football

  • Pablo Cidre-Fuentes,
  • Alfonso Gutiérrez-Santiago and
  • Iván Prieto-Lage

31 October 2025

This study analyzed penalty kick performance in elite women’s football, focusing on contextual, situational, and technical factors across the Spanish Liga F and the English Women’s Super League during the 2022/23 to 2024/25 seasons. Using...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sports Science and Biomechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
479 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2026

Industrial digital transformation has become a strategic priority for manufacturing organizations, yet many initiatives still struggle to move from digital ambition to organizational execution. In Industry 4.0-oriented contexts, this gap persists bec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation in the Era of Technological Disruption: The Reshaping and Application of Emerging Technologies on Management Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
805 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Rule Modifications on the Quality and Manner of Technical Skill Execution in Youth Volleyball

  • José M. Palao,
  • Ruth Alvarado-Ruano,
  • Jesús Salado and
  • Enrique Ortega-Toro

26 March 2026

The aim was to assess the effect of changes in both the net height and the court size, as well as serve limitations on the manner of execution of the technical-tactical actions in youth volleyball. A total of 29 female under-14 volleyball players fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
950 Views
22 Pages

A Swan on the Water? Technical Execution and Graphic Strategy in an Epigravettian Portable Art Object from Grotta Paglicci

  • Simona Arrighi,
  • Erika Moretti,
  • Matteo Rossini,
  • Jacopo Crezzini and ,
  • Stefano Ricci,
  • Annamaria Ronchitelli and
  • Francesco Boschin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Palaeolithic engraved portable art provides a valuable record for investigating the technical aspects of Palaeolithic graphic production. In this study, we analyse an engraved portable art object from the Epigravettian sequence of Grotta Paglicci (so...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Studies on Archaeological Worked Bone Heritage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,109 Views
25 Pages

18 January 2026

Technical job interviews have become a vulnerable environment for social engineering attacks, particularly when they involve direct interaction with malicious code. In this context, the present manuscript investigates an exploratory case study, aimin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Research in Artificial Intelligence for Code Analysis and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,782 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2026

We develop a method for calculating multichannel wavefunctions in the spirit of quantum defect theory, based on numerically calculated reference functions. We benchmark the method by calculating cold collisional properties of 85Rb and 6Li in the pres...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Chemistry, Computational Chemistry and Molecular Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,587 Views
40 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern agriculture from experience-driven practices to data-driven production paradigms. To provide an in-depth analysis of AI technologies in intelligent agriculture, we retrieved literature from Web of S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,871 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2023

In the context of the digital economy, the external connection of executives provides enterprises with a good idea to amplify their potential for digital transformation with the help of external forces. Therefore, we conduct a theoretical exploration...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation, Social Innovation and Sustainable Business Model Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,446 Views
22 Pages

22 March 2020

This paper theoretically explores the impact of the incentive preferences of executives (i.e., short-term incentives and long-term incentives) on corporate social responsibility (CSR) decisions (i.e., institutional CSR and technical CSR). Further, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Risk Management and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,306 Views
22 Pages

26 November 2021

An athlete’s sporting performance depends to a large extent on the technical execution of the athletic motion in order to achieve maximum effectiveness in physical performance. Performance analysis provides an important means of classifying and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Sensors for Human Movement Analysis Related to Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,077 Views
10 Pages

Over the past decade, high-fidelity medical simulation has become an accepted and widely used teaching method in pediatrics. Both simulation and work in the real conditions of emergency departments are accompanied by stress that affects the executive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Medical and Health Professions Education: Are We Stepping Forward?)
  • Review
  • Open Access
147 Views
31 Pages

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables a server to evaluate a neural network on encrypted inputs. The Cheon–Kim–Kim–Song (CKKS) scheme supports approximate arithmetic over packed vectors, making it suitable for the linear comput...

(This article belongs to the Section Cryptography Reviews)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,882 Views
12 Pages

An Incongruent 2-Minute Stroop Task Alters the Response Time Performance in Semi-Elite Soccer Players: A Pilot Study

  • Andrés Prieto-Sánchez,
  • Juan M. García-Ceberino,
  • Juan Luis Leon-Llamas and
  • Santos Villafaina

8 November 2024

Introduction: Mental fatigue is a key factor in soccer that can affect physical performance. Mental fatigue protocols based on the Stroop test used in soccer involve extensive time, ranging from 10 to 30 min. Offering a protocol with a shorter durati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exercise, Fitness, Human Performance and Health: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,834 Views
15 Pages

Short-Term Effects of a Structured Boxing Program on Technical Skill Acquisition in Novice Female Students

  • Francesca Martusciello,
  • Andrea Perazzetti,
  • Arben Kaçurri,
  • Sead Bushati and ,
  • Aldo Muçalliu and
  • Antonio Tessitore
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background: Despite the increasing interest in combat sports within higher education, studies on technical skill acquisition among novice female students remains limited. This study examined the effects of a short-term structured boxing program on th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimizing Performance: Training Strategies to Improve Strength, Speed, Power, and Endurance, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
287 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2026

The Free Aerial Cartwheel is a complex balance beam skill requiring precise coordination under a limited support surface. This study examined event-specific joint-angle characteristics of the Free Aerial Cartwheel and their associations with technica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomechanics and Human Movement Analysis in Sport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,041 Views
13 Pages

Optimizing Powerlifting Bench Press Technique Using Contextual Interference via Antagonist Task Selection

  • Simone Montenegro,
  • Pascal Izzicupo,
  • Iris Prestanti,
  • Sofia Serafini and ,
  • Andrea Fusco and
  • Francesco Sartor
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 June 2026

Background: Contextual interference (CI), defined as interleaved practice, improves motor skill learning in powerlifters. However, previous protocols lacked ecological validity. This study evaluated an alternative, highly specific CI exercise (the se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
92 Views
40 Pages

5 November 2026

Large language model agents are increasingly used to analyze data, generate code, and execute operations in data-engineering environments. However, successful technical execution does not guarantee that an operation is authorized or that its results...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative and Multi-Agent AI for Next-Generation Electronic and Software Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,164 Views
18 Pages

Design and Validation of a Test to Evaluate the Execution Time and Decision-Making in Technical–Tactical Football Actions (Passing and Driving)

  • Guillermo Andres Calle-Jaramillo,
  • Enoc Valentin Gonzalez-Palacio,
  • Lewis Adrian Perez-Mendez,
  • Andres Rojas-Jaramillo and
  • Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Jurado

26 January 2023

Reaction time and decision-making (DMA) in football have usually been evaluated using edited images or videos of game situations. The purpose of this research is to design and validate a test that simultaneously evaluates execution time (ET) and deci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognitive Control and Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,603 Views
12 Pages

6 December 2020

The adaptation of sports equipment seeks to adjust the learning environment to students’ characteristics. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of adapting the basket height on the execution and decision-making of technical–t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity, Education and New Methodologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,122 Views
37 Pages

7 January 2026

Road technical condition assessment and maintenance decision-making rely heavily on technical standards whose clauses, computational formulas, and decision logic are often expressed in unstructured formats, leading to fragmented knowledge representat...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
930 Views
41 Pages

18 June 2026

Over the past decade the industry has developed technical, contractual and managerial tools for road construction without recognizing their capacity as solutions to land access restrictions. This systematic review analyzes the strategies for executin...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,080 Views
34 Pages

Rehabilitation Engineering Approach to Frozen Shoulder Treatment: Performance Analysis Using Landmark-Based Motion Detection and Assistive Feedback Systems

  • Thanawat Srikaewsiew,
  • Sarunya Kanjanawattana,
  • Nuntawut Kaoungku,
  • Parin Sornlertlamvanich and
  • Komsan Srivisut

This paper presents a preliminary technical feasibility study of a landmark-based motion analysis system designed for potential future application in home-based rehabilitation monitoring for frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis), developed using comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Research in Human–Computer Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,046 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2021

The market performance of a company is greatly influenced by the functional experience of the chief executive. In the case of a small startup, the functional experience of the chief executive is even greater. Based on career data of chief executives,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Entrepreneurship-Sustainability Nexus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
682 Views
61 Pages

BLOW: A Systematic Approach to Behavior-Driven Development in a Layered Organization of Work-Centers

  • Nicolas Afonso-Alonso,
  • Juan A. Holgado-Terriza,
  • Miguel A. Oltra-Rodríguez and
  • Paul Stonehouse

Agile teams often struggle to translate business requirements into maintainable, high-quality software due to the persistent ambiguity in the roles and relationships of behavior-driven development (BDD), Acceptance Test-driven Development (ATDD), and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Software Engineering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Best Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,642 Views
21 Pages

Tunneling projects face several risks during the execution stage that affect the execution objectives (cost, time, quality, and safety). This study aimed to define the main execution activities of machinery tunnels with the associated risk factors an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Applications in Geotechnical and Structural Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
11,919 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Teaching Games on Decision Making and Skill Execution: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Manuel Tomás Abad Robles,
  • Daniel Collado-Mateo,
  • Carlos Fernández-Espínola,
  • Estefanía Castillo Viera and
  • Francisco Javier Giménez Fuentes-Guerra

The question of how games should be taught is still a controversial subject. There has been a growing number of studies on teaching games and coaching sports since the first publication of Bunker and Thorpe on Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Developments in Physical Education and Sport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,778 Views
25 Pages

26 August 2025

Current IoT systems are structured around Edge, Fog, and Cloud layers to manage data and resource constraints more effectively. Although several studies have examined IoT simulators from a functional angle, few have combined technical comparisons wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,349 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2025

This paper deals with the occurrence of construction defects, particularly those due to water penetration in buildings. The considered defects mainly originated from improper management of validation checks during the design or execution phases. From...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,108 Views
30 Pages

Generative AI-Driven Digital Twin Architecture for Urban Mobility Simulation and Decision Support

  • Pablo Vicente-Martínez,
  • Emilio Soria-Olivas,
  • Adrián Chust-Ros,
  • María Ángeles García-Escrivà and ,
  • Edu William-Secin and
  • Manuel Sánchez-Montañés
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Urban mobility planning in smart cities requires sophisticated simulation tools, yet their complexity often creates a technical barrier for non-expert stakeholders. This paper presents a novel architecture that integrates generative artificial intell...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Sustainable and Resilient Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,952 Views
27 Pages

25 May 2024

In recent years, there has been growing recognition that the stability of the top management team (TMT) significantly impacts the operation and management of companies. However, few studies have focused on the impact of TMT stability on innovation su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Management and Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
340 Views
8 Pages

Artificial Intelligence in Technical Project Management: A Critical Incident Study

  • Csenge Kálmán,
  • Barbara Eszter Huszár and
  • András Aschenbrenner

16 October 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly supports project management tasks in technical, technological and innovation-oriented environments. This paper examines how AI is used in technical project management through a qualitative critical incident t...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2026)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,598 Views
10 Pages

The Effect of Recovery Duration on Technical Proficiency during Small Sided Games of Football

  • Scott McLean,
  • Hugo Kerhervé,
  • Mitchell Naughton,
  • Geoff P. Lovell and ,
  • Adam D. Gorman and
  • Colin Solomon
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 July 2016

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of increasing the duration of the recovery periods separating serial bouts of small sided games (SSG) of football on technical skills (TS). Twelve semi-professional footballers (mean ± SD; age 21 ± 3...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance in Soccer)
  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
14,805 Views
30 Pages

Precision Fertilization and Irrigation: Progress and Applications

  • Yue Lu,
  • Mingzheng Liu,
  • Changhe Li,
  • Xiaochu Liu and ,
  • Chengmao Cao,
  • Xinping Li and
  • Za Kan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture are required to address its shortcomings and deficiencies, which have resulted in environmental pollution or water problems. Precision agriculture emerged at the historic moment to solve the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,819 Views
13 Pages

20 February 2020

The article presents original complex methodology for the effective control of the entire process of executing floors made of cement-based materials. This methodology has been lacking in literature so far. The methodology was developed on the basis o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Destructive Testing of Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,681 Views
16 Pages

Variability and the Correlation of Kinematic and Temporal Parameters in Different Modalities of the Reverse Punch Measured by Sensors

  • Vesna Vuković,
  • Anton Umek,
  • Milivoj Dopsaj,
  • Anton Kos and ,
  • Stefan Marković and
  • Nenad Koropanovski
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 September 2023

The influence of joint motion on punch efficiency before impact is still understudied. The same applies to the relationship between the kinematic and temporal parameters of a reverse punch (RP) that determines a score. Therefore, the aim of this stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wearable Devices for Sports)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,289 Views
10 Pages

Performance and Psychophysiological Responses to Mental Fatigue in Artistic Swimming

  • Stavroula Ntomali,
  • Eleni Stravakou,
  • Lydia Kainourgiou,
  • Argyris G. Toubekis and
  • Petros G. Botonis

18 October 2025

Background: We investigated the effect of mental fatigue (MF) on artistic swimmers’ (AS) physiological and cognitive responses and physical and technical AS performance. Methods: Twelve young female ASs completed a free team routine (FT) involv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,563 Views
12 Pages

The Image of Group Fitness Instructors: An Intra- and Inter-Country Comparison Between Portugal and Romania

  • Viorel Petru Ardelean,
  • Vlad Adrian Geantă,
  • Corina Dulceanu,
  • Claudiu Bulzan and ,
  • Sónia Brito-Costa,
  • Guilherme Eustáquio Furtado,
  • Ricardo Gomes,
  • Fernando Martins and
  • Francisco Campos
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

13 December 2024

Fitness instructors play an essential role in fitness services, as they require both technical and interpersonal skills. A good image of a fitness instructor can be defined as having a pleasant appearance and good presentation in terms of hygiene and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral and Psychosocial Dynamics of Sports and Exercise)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,832 Views
16 Pages

5 January 2023

The Internet of Things (IoT) systems are inherently distributed with many concurrent behaviors. In order to apply behavior-driven development (BDD), a proven agile practice of software development that brings many benefits, we must ensure that the sp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the IoT and Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,875 Views
12 Pages

The purpose was to examine the effect of 6-week eccentric single-leg decline squat (SLDSe) training with two technical execution times (3 s or 6 s) on changes related to the structural properties of the vastus lateralis (VL) and patellar tendon (PT)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stress and Training Load Effects on Recovery, Well-Being and Sports Performance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,200 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2025

This study investigates the relationship between the compressive strength of two-course masonry specimens and three-course masonry specimens extracted from previously constructed walls, to correlate the execution control specimens with the retest spe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Composite Materials Processing, Modeling and Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,179 Views
19 Pages

8 November 2022

This paper focuses on application of a technical debt prioritisation technique in telecommunication software managing a fleet of devices for a video surveillance system. Technical debt for this application was gathered, categorised and prioritised ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,846 Views
16 Pages

Resilience of Urban Technical Networks

  • Serban Raicu,
  • Eugen Rosca and
  • Dorinela Costescu

12 September 2019

The need to overcome the insulated treatment of urban technical infrastructures according to the nature of the transferred flows is argued. The operation of urban technical networks is affected by endogenous and exogenous random events with consequen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Scale-Dependence in Urban Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,123 Views
34 Pages

28 February 2022

In the context of automation and digitalization technologies and due to the existing trends of re-urbanization, autonomous vehicles for execution of services such as package delivery, transportation, vegetation care and street cleaning are considered...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories)

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