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As security issues in vehicular networks continue to intensify, ensuring the trustworthiness of message exchanges among vehicles, infrastructure, and cloud platforms has become increasingly critical. Although trust authentication serves as a fundamen...

Since image recognition systems use image data acquired by image sensors for analysis by AI technology, an important security issue is guaranteeing the authenticity of data transmitted from image sensors to successfully perform inference using AI. Th...

This study aims to analyze the forward/reverse causal relationships between belief (risk perception), attitude (judgment), and behavior (acceptance). A traditional view stresses forward causal relationships between the three variables. However, recen...

We address the role of the phase-insensitive trusted preparation and detection noise in the security of a continuous-variable quantum key distribution, considering the Gaussian protocols on the basis of coherent and squeezed states and studying them...

High levels of trust in government are important in addressing complex issues, including the realization of the mainstream sustainability agenda. However, trust in government has been declining for decades across the western world, undermining legiti...

There is a paucity of literature on the roles of media exposure, general trust, and their interactions in long-term post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after a natural disaster. Trying to address this knowledge gap, our study aimed to (a)...

This study mainly examines the relationship between generalized/horizontal/social trust and economic growth in countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, considering the substantial decline in their trust values since 2005. The stud...

Trust and reciprocity have paramount importance in cooperative relationships. The influence of psychological effects such as framing and anchoring on trust and reciprocity has been investigated; however, the impact of an order effect on them is still...

Corporate governance is a complex, adaptive open system; yet it is usually modeled, in the classical agency tradition, as a closed matrix of legal and financial contracts. Adopting an open systems perspective, we decode the “social software&rdq...

On a crowdsourcing platform, in order to cheat for rewards or sabotage the crowdsourcing processes, spam workers may submit numerous erroneous answers to the tasks published by requesters. This type of behavior extremely reduces the completion rate o...

Currently, trust is one of the key factors that ensures the acceptable mechanisms of economic and social relationships. It is not only an element of correct communication, but also a factor in inter-organizational bonds and a source of social dialogu...

In the present generational context, talent management approaches and practices have evolved from the stage of “war for talent”, defined by competitiveness and elitism, to a more collaborative and inclusive “post-war stage”. I...

Reducing disaster risk is a precondition for sustainable urban development, and residents’ risk perception determines whether protective policy is accepted and acted upon. Risk objectivism, subjectivism, and constructivism each explain this per...

Cross-border e-commerce offers consumers broader product access, yet uncertainty surrounding returns continues to suppress online purchase decisions. This study conceptualizes digital local return services as a digital assurance mechanism in cross-bo...

The revitalization of time-honored brands has been identified as a strategic priority in China’s national development agenda, yet many long-established brands continue to face declining market share and limited engagement with younger consumers...

This study investigates the financial interconnections among Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), sukuk (Islamic bonds), and oil in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations. The study sample comprises S&P GCC Composite Equity Real Estate Investme...

Social Internet of Things (SIoT) relationships enable service discovery and create pathways for malware propagation. We develop a heterogeneous susceptible–exposed–infected–recovered model coupling resource-constrained patching with...

Counterparty risk in pseudonymous cryptocurrency transactions is difficult to manage using mechanisms that depend on stable legal identities, trusted intermediaries, reversible payments, or effective post-transaction dispute resolution. This conceptu...

In this paper, we propose a health data sharing infrastructure which aims to empower a democratic health data sharing ecosystem. Our project, named Health Democratization (HD), aims at enabling seamless mobility of health data across trust boundaries...

Greenwashing leads to consumer skepticism of all green products as well as doubts about company claims regarding sustainability. However, the understanding of how to regain green consumer trust after greenwashing is rather limited. The authors fill t...

In the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), connected vehicles generate high-load perception tasks with large-scale and multimodal sensitive data, imposing strict requirements on latency, computing, and privacy. Existing solutions still suffer from high task...

Bi-directional gaze-based communication offers an intuitive and natural way for users to interact with systems. This approach utilizes the user’s gaze not only to communicate intent but also to obtain feedback, which promotes mutual understandi...

In order to avoid malicious competition and select high quality crowd workers to improve the utility of crowdsourcing system, this paper proposes an incentive mechanism based on the combination of reverse auction and multi-attribute auction in mobile...

With accelerated urbanization in China, an increasing number of the migrant elderly following children (MEFC) have appeared. This study aims to explore the effects of living conditions, subjective integration, and social networks on the health-relate...

Trust and pair bonding are central to human social life, and their violation through infidelity carries a measurable psychological cost. Whether individual differences in such behavior are partly genetic remains contested, because the available evide...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in tourism platforms and services, yet continued participation often coexists with residual privacy concerns, accountability uncertainty, and uneven governance visibility. This study examines mult...

Cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms require secure transaction-level admission decisions when tasks, relay roles, control privileges, or mission assets are transferred between aircraft. Existing authentication and intrusion-detection mec...

Federated learning (FL) enables data owners to collaboratively train a machine learning model without revealing their private data and sharing the global models. Reliable and continuous client participation is essential in FL for building a high-qual...

The big challenge regarding social violence is relationships and the quest for societies to live together. As a result, this has affected, in different ways, how various demographics are composed, economies are built and religions are practiced. This...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a major public health concern in Saudi Arabia, affecting approximately 18.3% of adults. Although over 95% of people in the Qassim region own smartphones, limited information exists regarding how and why patients with...

Background: Overdose is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among people who inject drugs. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl is now a major driver of opioid overdose deaths. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 participants...

Polymers have long been central to modern materials science, but their durability has also made them major contributors to environmental pollution. A new generation of bio-based and nanostructured polymers is now reshaping this field, offering materi...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD)—the most common cause of dementia in the elderly—is characterized by progressive memory loss and β-amyloid protein (Aβ) accumulation in the brain. Recently, loneliness was found to be a high risk f...

This paper analytically explores the value of blockchain technology in building consumer trust in recyclers. We focus on an e-commerce closed-loop supply chain composed of an online platform and a manufacturer. In the forward chain, the platform sele...

Background/Objectives: Low vaccination coverage and the persistence of zero-dose children remain the principal challenges for immunization efforts in Madagascar. To address these barriers, a socio-anthropological study was conducted to identify the d...

Background/Objectives: As healthcare increasingly utilizes digital delivery systems, equitable access and engagement are critical, particularly for caregivers of older adults in rural regions. This study examines how education levels and geographic r...

Feline coronavirus (FCoV) is a major pathogen causing feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a lethal disease in cats, necessitating accurate diagnostic methods. This study developed and compared novel primers targeting the FCoV membrane (M) gene for e...

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) shifts digital government from systems that generate recommendations toward networked systems that perceive, plan, communicate, invoke tools, initiate actions, and adapt with limited direct supervision. This artic...

Medical drone delivery (MDD), defined as the use of uncrewed aerial vehicles to transport medical products, is an emerging technological innovation responding to persistent health supply chain challenges in rural and low-resource settings. Within sub...

Food neophobia is the fear or loathing of novel food, which may result in the rejection of the unfamiliar food item. The most frequently used and most reliable tool to measure adult food neophobia is the Food Neophobia Scale (FNS), which has been tra...

In recent years, the Reverse Mentoring (RM) model has gained popularity in large companies. Although the prevailing RM model—junior employees mentoring senior employees—benefits both groups and promotes innovation, small and medium-sized...

The present study surveys the opinion of the residents of the Athens area in Greece on a wide range of issues related to climate change, such as their environmental consciousness and awareness and their willingness to take action against climate chan...

With the advent of cloud computing, outsourced computing has emerged as an increasingly popular strategy to reduce the burden of local computation. Optimal location query (OLQ) is a computationally intensive task in the domain of big data outsourcing...

Sustainability awareness across various economic sectors requires firms to use logistics outsourcing to reduce logistics-related emissions with compliant logistics service providers (LSPs). LSPs apply advanced information technologies to help achieve...

Firmware forms the persistent software layer controlling embedded and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, industrial controllers, automotive systems, and cyber-physical infrastructure. Vulnerabilities in firmware enable remote compromise, supply-chain...

The aim of this study is to explore whether and how school-based social capital (SSC) may increase or reduce inequalities in the academic achievement and well-being of students from different backgrounds (class, gender, and ethnicity). SSC here refer...

The reverse logistics process (RLP) has become a key process for the supply chain (SC) given its importance for treating the increasing quantity of returned or recovered products and its impact on sustainability. However, the RLP is complex and invol...

Given the renewed interest in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), we are keenly focused on exploring the possible connection between climate change and return volatility of US equity REITs, as well as the role of technology innovation for environm...

Using a global panel of bilateral digitally delivered services exports for 192 economies from 2006 to 2022, together with large-scale international news data, this study examines the impact of international media sentiment on digital service exports,...

Some financial disruptions that started in California, U.S., in March 2023, resulting in the closure of several medium-size U.S. banks, shed new light on the role of liquidity in business cycle dynamics. In the normal path of the business cycle, liqu...