2023 January - 49 articles
Illegal software manipulation is one of the biggest issues in software security. This includes the legally relevant software which are now crucial modules in weight and measuring instruments such as weighbridges. Despite the advancement and complexit...
In energy supply chain management (ESCM), the supply chain members try to make long-term contracts for supplying energy stably and reducing the cost. Currently, optimizing ESCM is a complex problem with two social issues: environmental regulations an...
With the rapid development of communication technologies, the Internet use has become the main channel for citizens to obtain information and knowledge. It has been widely established that Internet use can have a significant impact on citizens’...
Smart technologies have dramatically improved environmental risk perception and altered the way organizations share knowledge and communicate. As a result of the increasing amount of data, there is a need for using business intelligence and data mini...
(1) Background: Risk perception is a key factor in motivating people to comply with preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Appropriate risk perception is important to enhance beliefs and promote emergency management response to public hea...
Multimodal sentiment analysis is an actively growing field of research, where tensor-based techniques have demonstrated great expressive efficiency in previous research. However, existing sequential sentiment analysis methods only focus on a single f...
Disease is one of the major threats to human life and health, and historically there have been many cases which threatened human life due to infectious diseases. In almost all cases, specific triggers for the emergence of disease can be identified, s...
At present, emerging technologies, such as machine learning, deep learning, or various forms of artificial intelligence are penetrating different fields of education, including foreign language education (FLE). Moreover, the current young generation...
Due to the fourth industrial revolution, manufacturing companies are looking to implement digital twins in their factories to be more competitive. However, the implementation of digital twins in manufacturing systems is a complex task. Factories need...
Encouraging the usage of new energy vehicles (NEVs) in big cities is not only a key area of priority for the government to encourage the transformation of the automobile industry, but it is also a crucial step in reducing environmental pollution. Big...
The mechanism of the impact of inter-firm social networks on innovation capabilities has attracted much research from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. However, as a special emerged and developing complex production system, how the scenari...
In the recent years, blockchain technology has gained significant attention in the healthcare sector. It has the potential to alleviate a wide variety of major difficulties in electronic health record systems. This study presents an elaborate overvie...
With the progress of globalization, the environment for enterprises’ survival and development has become increasingly complex. More and more enterprises realize that their sustainable competitive advantage is closely related to the development...
Chaos-based image encryption schemes are applied widely for their cryptographic properties. However, chaos and cryptographic relations remain a challenge. The chaotic systems are defined on the set of real numbers and then normalized to a small group...
The recent increase in computational capability has led to an unprecedented increase in the range of new applications where machine learning can be used in real time. Notwithstanding the range of use cases where automation is now feasible, humans are...
The Curriculum Sequencing (CS) problem is a challenging task to tackle in the field of online teaching and learning system development. The current methods of education management might still possess certain drawbacks that would cause ineffectiveness...
China’s rapid technological growth and aggressive globalization policies have led to an increasing interest in Chinese patents abroad. This study uses strategic emerging industries (SEIs) that are important for the future development of the wor...
Maintenance activities mostly depend on the specific conditions of individual equipment, being defined as personalized businesses. In order to improve the efficiency of maintenance activities for complex equipment in lots, the thinking of mass custom...
Adaptive learning systems have gained popularity within higher education, given the affordances that claim to enhance student learning outcomes by providing personalised learning trajectories that allow students to interact with course content at the...
In the context of very current trends in digital language education generally supported by governments and educational institutions, it seems necessary to evaluate the efficiency of these tools from various points of psycholinguistics and applied lin...
In recent years, agriculture has become an essential activity in Colombia, despite the challenges faced by farmers due to low yields and insufficient resources to improve their main activities, such as irrigation systems, agricultural practices, and...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being applied in multiple domains, including smart homes and energy management. This work aims to tighten security in IoTs using fingerprint authentications and avoid unauthorized access to systems for safeguarding use...
With the significant growth of the cyber environment over recent years, defensive mechanisms against adversaries have become an important step in maintaining online safety. The adaptive defense mechanism is an evolving approach that, when combined wi...
In this paper, we regard policyholders, insurance companies, and government departments to be an anti-fraud supervision system, and we explore the supervision of motor vehicle insurance fraud from the perspective of a tripartite game. Taking into con...
This study integrated the augmented reality (AR) technology into the “Coding Ocean” board game to provide players with real-time simulation of ship paths and learning scaffolds. Combined with Scratch block-based programming, an interactiv...
The rapid development of high-speed rail has markedly shortened the travel time from one city to another. However, the impact of space–time compression brought about by high-speed rail on city innovation has not received sufficient attention. T...
Planning for the intensive use of renewable energy sources (RESs) has attracted wide attention to limit global warming and meet future load growth. Existing studies have shown that installing projects such as transmission lines, energy storage system...
The World Health Organization estimates that 5 to 15% of amputees in any given population have access to a prosthesis. This figure is likely to worsen as the amputee population is expected to double by 2050, straining the limited capacity of prosthet...
Video-based scoring using neural networks is a very important means for evaluating many sports, especially figure skating. Although many methods for evaluating action quality have been proposed, there is no uniform conclusion on the best feature extr...
This study involves the analysis of the residential segregation patterns in Jakarta, Indonesia, one of the largest global metropolitan cities. Our objective is to determine whether similarities in religion or socioeconomic status are more dominant in...
The importance of a port’s strategic position has long been recognized, during which process inter-port competition is becoming increasingly fierce. This paper aims to assess the domestic and international competition patterns of 43 coastal con...
We employed a forward intensity approach to predict the multi-period defaults of Chinese-listed firms during the period 2001–2019 on a monthly basis. We introduced the firm’s default heterogeneity into the model, and each firm’s act...
The new pattern of “dual circulation” is a new development model for China to seek mutual promotion between international and domestic markets in the new era. In this context, this paper explores the synergistic relationship between two-w...
M&As have been regarded significantly as an alternative entry mode in facilitating firms’ internalization strategy. Limited studies uncover the integrative role of M&As on the firms’ financial performance from various market persp...
A digital twin is a digital replica of a physical entity that can be remotely controlled, which allows for sophisticated control for a variety of reasons. Digital twins are made possible using various technologies such as Internet of Things, sensor t...
In this paper, new LC lumped components and composite lines are used to create a filtering branch line coupler (FBLC) with a small size and wide suppression band. New composite lines are proposed using applied LC lumped components, which are used as...
The explosive evolution of the internet has paved the path for the rise of social networks, which can help people connect remotely. Currently, social networks are commonly used for sharing thoughts, feelings, information, and personal life, which var...
Ongoing environmental issues and degradation provoke the implementation of relevant incentives to overcome them without restrictions of economic growth. Considering the Chinese sustainable development policy, each province should provide the effectiv...
In the context of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, digital green innovation development is becoming more and more important for enterprises. In order to effectively improve green competitiveness and increase profits, photovoltaic building materials...
Based on the resource orchestration theory, this study built a research model to understand the effect of supply chain network insight and supply chain integration on enterprise performance. We also involved the contingency theory to investigate the...
Receiving public support for the development of research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) projects means assuming the obligation to comply with the communication and transparency requirements established by state and European regulations....
Solutions will be effective if they are aligned with the problems that they are trying to solve. This paper studied the most relevant social impacts of the textile industry and how appropriately textile companies manage these social impacts, in order...
In China, the number of public–private partnership (PPP) projects in the museum field is relatively small, and the success rate is quite low, which highlights the drawback of an insufficient depth of overall promotion. To break through this dil...
According to the traditional theory of industrial organizations, differentiated competition leads to higher returns. However, Chinese eCommerce platforms tend to homogenize in the choice of operational strategies, which deviates from the principle of...
The development of a green economy has become a global consensus. More and more manufacturers are greening their production to build green supply chains. At the same time, retailers are employing green marketing efforts for green products. In additio...
Based on the enterprise knowledge-based view, this study follows the basic logic of “knowledge acquisition-knowledge transformation-knowledge creation” to explore the effects of cross-border search and knowledge co-creation on the service...
Cholera kills between 21,000 and 143,000 people globally each year. It is often fatal, killing up to 50% of the severely symptomatic patients; but death by cholera is preventable with timely treatment, so that the fatality rate can drop to less than...
Blockchain has completely changed how business is performed today, thus making it one of the most disruptive technologies in recent times. However, it is a challenging task to adopt and implement blockchain technologies in different services and indu...
Immersive journalism has been promoted as an alternative way of producing content that allows users to experience first-hand the events depicted in the news story. This mixed-method study examines how immersive journalism impacts the user experience...
