The unequal distribution of costs and benefits of the energy transition is a challenge for energy justice and energy policy. Although the empowerment of consumers to participate in renewable energy communities (RECs) has great potential for a just en...
Energy poverty—involving a combination of factors, such as low household incomes, high energy prices, and low levels of residential energy efficiency—is identified as a complex and increasing issue affecting people’s physical health...
The primary objective of this work is to introduce a novel approach that modifies the method for analyzing and assessing the risk of water supply network failure. The approach aligns with recommendations from the World Health Organization and the Eur...
This study investigates the determinants of household borrowing choices in Thailand, with a focus on the risks associated with formal and informal credit markets. Using cross-sectional survey data from 6949 respondents across 77 provinces collected i...
18 February 2025
The consumer food environment is an important medium for understanding complex interactions regarding food consumption, health outcomes and social vulnerability. We aimed to analyze the diversity, variety and quality of natural and ultra-processed fo...
This study assesses the potential impact of sea level rise (SLR) on wood-consuming mills in coastal Georgia, a major forestry state in the southern United States. To assess the vulnerability of wood-consuming mills in coastal Georgia, two potential w...
In 2020, just before measures were established by governments to minimize the spread of SARS-CoV-2, such as social distancing, quarantine, lockdowns, and internal movement restrictions, people began to buy some products in quantities much superior to...
Access to traditional financial institutions plays a key role in enhancing positive financial outcomes. However, some consumers within the United States experience discrimination from these same institutions. In particular, discrimination based on ra...
The increasing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in mission-critical systems has made them more appealing to attackers. Cyberattacks on IoT devices have the potential to expose sensitive data, disrupt operations, and even endanger lives....
Organic foods carry a premium price. They are credence-based foods, i.e., it is difficult for consumers to evaluate the premium aspects of organic food under normal use. In global supply chains, organic food is purchased on institutional trust (certi...
Food security in Bangladesh has improved in recent years, but the country is now facing a double burden of malnutrition while also being highly vulnerable to climate change. Little is known about how this may affect food supply to different sectors o...
There is a critical vulnerability in the 5G AKA protocol of the 3GPP. We propose a protocol that compensates for these vulnerabilities and speed up the existing protocol; and the study implements this protocol to experiment with the vulnerabilities....
In view of concerns about consumers’ vulnerability to contemporary marketing tactics, this study aims to examine the extent to which compulsive buying affects beliefs about digital advertising. The results of a survey of 117 consumers suggest t...
Financial technology (Fintech) and sustainability are two of the main drivers in the transformation of many organizations. New innovative technologies create new services for consumers. The focus on sustainability is a necessary reaction to the many...
18 July 2024
The aim of this study was to examine the association between health vulnerability and food consumption according to the NOVA classification within primary care in a major Brazilian city. A cross-sectional study was conducted among adults over 20 year...
A plethora of software vulnerabilities are exposed daily, posing a severe threat to the Internet. It is almost impossible for security experts or software developers to deal with all vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is imperative to rapidly assess the...
Smart contracts are at the core of blockchain technology, but the cost of fixing their security vulnerabilities is high, making pre-deployment vulnerability detection crucial. Existing methods rely on fixed rules, which have limitations in accuracy a...
Software security is a very important aspect for software development organizations who wish to provide high-quality and dependable software to their consumers. A crucial part of software security is the early detection of software vulnerabilities. V...
Internet-based distributed systems dominate contemporary software applications. To enable these applications to operate securely, software developers must mitigate the threats posed by malicious actors. For instance, the developers must identify vuln...
“Ugly food” refers to agricultural products that are discarded because their appearance is not attractive, even though their nutritional content is unaffected. In this study, protection motivation theory (PMT) was applied to analyze wheth...
Light clients for distributed ledger networks can verify blockchain integrity by downloading and analyzing blockchain headers. They are designed to circumvent the high resource requirements, i.e., the large bandwidth and memory requirements that full...
Since a large number of Linux kernel vulnerabilities are discovered every year, many vulnerabilities cannot be patched in time. Security vendors often prioritize patching high-risk vulnerabilities, and the ratings of vulnerabilities need to be evalua...
Coastal areas are dynamic multidimensional systems challenged by the complex interactions between natural, environmental, and human-induced pressures, as well as the ever-changing climate. A comprehensive evaluation of their spatial and temporal feat...
Uncontrolled heap memory consumption, a kind of critical software vulnerability, is utilized by attackers to consume a large amount of heap memory and consequently trigger crashes. There have been few works on the vulnerability fuzzing of heap consum...
Socially responsible consumption benefits the environment, the consumer, and the producer. In Mexico, smallholder farmers are vulnerable, and the consumption of organic food products is low. Analysing the purchase intention of organic food products c...
In the digital age, consumer complaints have become significant indicators of operational vulnerabilities, with social media amplifying their impact. Mishandling such complaints has the potential to escalate minor issues into full-scale organizationa...
Security testing is fundamental to identifying security vulnerabilities on smart home-based IoT devices. For this, penetration testing is the most prominent and effective solution. However, testing the IoT manually is cumbersome and time-consuming. I...
Though consumers with vulnerabilities, such as visually impaired or blind and partially sighted people (BPSP), face several marketplace problems and challenges, existing literature provides limited guidance. The present study aims to examine the issu...
Graph theory is a branch of mathematics that is crucial to modelling applicable systems and networks using matrix representations. In this article, a novel graph-theoretic model was used to assess an urban water distribution system (WDS) in Saudi Ara...
The Italian export of agri-food products has been increasingly threatened by the unfair use of misleading Italian symbols (such as the national flag or the green-white-red colors) by non-Italian producers. This research paper investigated what Englis...
30 September 2019
As the global proportion of the elderly population has been growing rapidly, it has become important to better understand the holistic social factors involved in cognitive impairment in the elderly. To investigate the relationship between social vuln...
Vulnerability prediction, in which static analysis is leveraged to predict the vulnerabilities of binary programs, has become a popular research topic. Traditional vulnerability prediction methods depend on vulnerability patterns, which must be prede...
Prompted by rising concern about weak consumer switching and the practice of price discrimination, over the period of 2016–2019, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) undertook a series of trials on communication-based interventions...
Traditional tsunami vulnerability assessments often rely on empirical models and field surveys, which can be time-consuming and have limited accuracy. In this study, we propose a novel approach that integrates high-resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...
20 October 2022
Background: Slovenia ranks amongst the countries with the highest recorded alcohol consumption. The mortality rate attributed to alcohol-related causes of death in Slovenia also exceeds the EU average. The aim of our research was to confirm the chang...
WEB technology is utilized for the configuration, interaction, and management of network equipment, which has become ubiquitous in the intelligent industry and consumer electronics field. Unauthorized access on WEB allows unauthorized users to access...
Assessing the seismic vulnerability of large numbers of buildings is an expensive and time-consuming task, requiring the collection of highly complex and multifaceted data on building characteristics and the use of sophisticated computational models....
The decline of socio-ecological resilience has emerged as an unprecedented truth with high risks to local and global economies, thereby increasing the vulnerability of businesses and markets while potentially threatening the wellbeing of civil societ...
Adolescent girls are in the key stages of rapid physical and psychological development and have a great demand for iron. Anemia affects adolescent girls’ health, future development, and even the health of their offspring. There has been limited...
Cybersecurity failures have become increasingly detrimental to organizations worldwide, impacting their finances, operations, and reputation. This issue is worsened by the scarcity of cybersecurity professionals. Moreover, the specialization required...
Upon lifting lockdown measures, pent-up consumer demand resulted in a phenomenon known as “revenge-buying” that was influenced by cognitive and habitual factors. This study collected 629 samples from Beijing consumers using straightforwar...
22 November 2024
While past studies have provided enough evidence to show consumer attitude as a key predictor of the adoption and continuous usage intention of wearable activity trackers (WATs), limited studies have examined the antecedents of consumers’ attit...
Before consequences of climate change continue to intensify and increasingly affect the entire planet, immediate action must be taken. For instance, adopt the pro-environmental behaviors such as purchase of organic food to minimize the harmful human-...
Cost–benefit analysis of (iodine) biofortification at farm level is limited in the literature. This study aimed to analyze the economic feasibility of applying iodine-rich fertilizers (agronomic biofortification) to cabbage and cowpea in Northern Uga...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of our ecosystem and demonstrated a crucial need to address sustainability across the fashion supply chain, including the end-use consumer. As consumers become more conscious and demand sustainable...
Overall, 5G networks are expected to become the backbone of many critical IT applications. With 5G, new tech advancements and innovation are expected; 5G currently operates on software-defined networking. This enables 5G to implement network slicing...
Vulnerabilities are often accompanied by cyberattacks. CVE is the largest repository of open vulnerabilities, which keeps expanding. ATT&CK models known multi-step attacks both tactically and technically and remains up to date. It is valuable to...
IP cameras and digital video recorders, as part of the Internet of Surveillance Things (IoST) technology, can sometimes allow unauthenticated access to the video feed or management dashboard. These vulnerabilities may result from weak APIs, misconfig...
This study aims to analyze the actual heating energy consumption according to the location and size of apartment houses. The study shows the variation in heating energy consumption in accordance with the living pattern of residents in such apartments...
Environmentally sustainable (green) products are frequently advertised to consumers, yet it is debatable whether the consumers are aware whether these green labelled products are environmentally friendly or not. Greenwashing is a phenomenon used by c...
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