29 July 2016

Inderscience is media partner for Forensics Europe 2017

Inderscience is a media partner for Forensics Europe Expo (3-4 May 2017, London, UK).

The journals involved are:

Call for papers: "Asian Consumer and Family Behaviour"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Revenue Management.

This special issue aims to highlight the application of revenue management practices to analysing consumption and investment behaviour. Today there are tremendous opportunities to explore the rationale behind consumption and investment behaviour in the discipline of revenue management.

Since the application of revenue management practices to predicting consumer behaviour and to explaining consumer investment behaviour in equity and real estate markets in an Asian context are recent research trends, this issue seeks to publish high-quality papers that help promote revenue management practices with a focus on Asian consumer and family behaviour. Papers that are the joint work of practitioners and academicians are particularly welcome.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 2016 Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association conference, but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Revenue management for consumer behaviour
  • Revenue management for investor behaviour
  • Revenue management for consumer/family economics
  • Revenue management for marketing management
  • Revenue management for political science
  • Revenue management for education
  • Revenue management for psychology
  • Revenue management for sociology
  • Revenue management for social work
  • Revenue management for microfinance
  • Revenue management for social security

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 28 February, 2017

26 July 2016

Special issue published: "Technology-Mediated Proactive Learning"

International Journal of Services and Standards 11(2) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Technology in Education.
  • A case study from a Japanese flipped engineering research course
  • The importance of online dictionaries in language learning: a case study on third language acquisition of German
  • Factor analysis of social context of statistics learning within an IT environment between student genders
  • Adopting and adapting open textbooks: school teachers' readiness and expectations
  • Academic analytics: a meta-analysis of its applications in higher education

Call for papers: "Machine Learning and the Internet of Things"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance.

Machine learning through computer systems, which propagates from network to network, is at the heart of computer intelligence. Machine learning is the key to simplifying the definition of a problem-solving platform. Basically, it is a mechanism for pattern search and building intelligence into a computer (e.g. machine) to be able to learn, implying that it will be able to do better in the future from its own experience.

This special issue aims to present machine learning research pertaining to the Internet of Things (IoT). Machines learning from IoT devices, networks and data, in particular to detect and unveil possible hidden structures and regularity patterns associated with their generation mechanism, is important. This issue will promote analysis and understanding of the nature of the machine learning data, which can be used to make predictions for future decisions and actions for computer processing. Its objective is to develop and publish efficient algorithms for designing models and analysis for machine learning prediction and to present research on how to analyse data for such applications in a way that meets demands for algorithms to be computationally efficient and at the same time robust in their performance.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at 2nd International Conference on Research in Intelligent and Computing in Engineering (RICE-2017), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Internet of Things
  • Smart cities
  • Big data
  • Machine learning
  • Medicine, health, bioinformatics and systems biology
  • Industrial and engineering applications
  • Security applications
  • Game playing and problem solving
  • Intelligent virtual environments
  • Economics, business and forecasting applications, etc.
  • Distributed and parallel learning algorithms and applications
  • Feature extraction and classification
  • Neural networks
  • Theories and models for plausible reasoning including:
  • computational learning theory
  • cognitive modelling
  • Hybrid learning algorithms

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 15 May, 2017
Notification to authors: 15 July, 2017
Final versions due: 15 September, 2017


New Editor for International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering

Prof. Raghuraj Singh from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology in India has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering.

Special issue published: "Telemedicine in India"

International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices 1(3) 2016
  • A model for comparative analysis of medical bone X-ray images using image segmentation
  • Teleradiology in India - utilisation, benefits and challenges
  • Tapping TV white space spectrum for telemedicine applications in India
  • Telemedicine for Indian primary health centres: is there a need for super specialist consultation
  • Telenursing in e-health - determinants for future forward
Additional papers
  • Design of telemedicine system for brain signal analysis
  • Identifying herbal leaves using shape context with ant colony and bipartite matching
  • Integrated models and features-based speaker independent emotion recognition

25 July 2016

Call for papers: "Developments and Issues in Medical Imaging"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology.

Today, medical imaging becomes a crucial part of the medical management of diseases. Biomedical imaging has undergone rapid technological advancements over the last several decades and has seen the development of many new applications. New techniques have been gaining recognition in areas ranging from basic research to clinical applications, and from the cellular level to the whole-organ level. It is an interdisciplinary field that requires teamwork among biologists, medical physicists, computer scientists, biomedical engineers and clinicians of all specialities.

At the same time, issues like radiation during diagnostics seriously affect the human body. The higher the dose of radiation delivered at any one time, however, the greater the risk of long-term damage. If a patient receives repeated doses, harm can also occur from the cumulative effect of those multiple doses over time. Conversely, using insufficient radiation may increase the risk of misdiagnosis, delayed treatment, or, if the initial test is inadequate, repeat testing with the patient exposed to even more radiation.

The purpose of this special issue is to publish original, high-quality papers on innovative research and development in the analysis of medical imaging and issues in medical imaging.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at The IEEE Sponsored 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISCO), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call for public calls.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Medical image analysis (e.g. pattern recognition, classification, segmentation, and registration) of anatomical structures and lesions
  • Computer-aided detection/diagnosis (e.g. for lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, brain disease, acute disease, and chronic disease)
  • Multi-modality fusion (e.g. MRI/PET, PET/CT, projection X-ray/CT, X-ray/ultrasound) for diagnosis
  • analysis and image-guided interventions
  • Image reconstruction (e.g. expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, statistical methods, iterative
  • reconstruction) for medical imaging (e.g. CT, PET, MRI, X-ray)
  • Image retrieval (e.g. context-based retrieval)
  • Cellular image analysis (e.g. genotype, phenotype, classification, identification, and cell tracking)
  • Molecular/pathologic image analysis (e.g. PET, digital pathology)
  • Dynamic, functional, physiologic, and anatomic imaging
  • Radiation issues
  • Other issues in medical imaging

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 10 April, 2017
Notification to authors: 15 June, 2017
Final versions due: 15 August, 2017

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management

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  • Development of an integrated demand-supply balancing system for supply chain exception handling
  • Diagnosing organisational health: a case study of Pakistani banks
  • Factors influencing innovation at individual, group and organisational levels: a content analysis
  • Learning as a change agent in ERP enabled organisations - a case analysis

Special issue published: "Clean Energy to Combat Global Warming"

International Journal of Global Warming 10(1/2/3) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the 13th International Conference in Clean Energy (ICCE-2014).
  • Using emission index to determine energy efficiency and environmental parameters of a turbofan engine at various flight phases
  • Numerical modelling of effects of hydrogen supply on combustion behaviours of low calorific value coal gases
  • A review on socio-economic aspects of sustainable biofuels
  • Implementation of a sustainable energy action plan for municipality of Ptolemaida
  • Concept mapping sustainable energy management for a holistic approach to energy strategies
  • Arsenic pollution of soils and morbidity prevalence in Racha-Lower Svaneti district of Georgia
  • Gaseous fuel for lower emissions during the cold start and warming up of spark ignition engines
  • Potential for efficiency improvement of four-stroke marine diesel gensets by utilisation of exhaust gas energy
  • Modelling residential house electricity demand profile and analysis of peaksaver program using ANN: case study for Toronto, Canada
  • Sulphur removal from Artvin-Yusufeli lignite with acidic hydrogen peroxide solutions
  • Clean development mechanism in Iran: does it need a revival?
  • Application of life cycle assessment to the case studies of new nitrogen fertiliser production
  • Modelling of ammonia combustion characteristics at preheating combustion: NO formation analysis 
  • Combined processing of waste organic polymers and manganese bearing waste/low grade ores into fuels and low-carbon manganese alloys
  • Alternative solution via car window filming implementation to combat global warming and resulted benefits around geographic Europe and the European Union
  • Complex processing of manganese bearing waste and low-grade ores by autoclaving method
Additional papers
  • Vulnerability and adaptation assessment a way forward for sustainable sectoral development in the purview of climate variability and change: insights from the coast of Tamil Nadu, India
  • Effects of regional climate variability on the prevalence of diseases and their economic impacts on households in the Lake Victoria basin of Western Kenya
  • Green hydrogen energy system: a policy on reducing petroleum-based global unrest

New Editor for International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research

Dr. Mohammad I. Merhi from Indiana University South Bend in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Behavioural and Healthcare Research. The previous Editor in Chief, Dr. Demetri Kantarelis, will remain with the journal in the role of Honorary Editor.

21 July 2016

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Technology and Globalisation

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Technology and Globalisation are now available here for free
  • Towards an aerospace system of production in Mexico?
  • The lion with wings: innovation system dynamics in the aerospace industry of Singapore
  • Evolution of the sectoral system of innovation of India's aeronautical industry
  • China's catching up in aerospace
  • Russian aircraft industry: between forging ahead and falling behind
  • Embraer and the growth of the Brazilian aircraft industry
  • Technology policy learning and innovation systems life cycle: the Canadian aircraft industry
  • From 'aircraft manufacturer' to 'architect-integrator': Airbus's industrial organisation model



20 July 2016

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from International Computer Symposium 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Computer Symposium (15-17 December 2016, Chiayi, Taiwan) will be published by the following journals:

Call for papers: "Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering.

Numerous technologies (e.g., clouding computing, big data, deep learning, Internet of Things, social media, multicore, and mobility) and their applications are changing our daily life. For these technologies, computer science constructs a solid foundation. It is also one of the most important driving forces behind these technologies. With the rapid growth of computer science related technologies, this change is continuously moving forward.

This special issues aims to explore future trends and applications in computer technologies.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at The International Computer Symposium 2016, but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Algorithms, bioinformatics, and computation theory
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Computer architecture, embedded systems, VLSI/EDA, and applications
  • Computer networks, web service technologies, and software defined networking
  • Cryptography and information security
  • Database, data mining, big data, and information retrieval
  • Image processing, computer graphics, and multimedia
  • Information literacy and social media
  • mobile computing and wireless communications
  • High-performance computing, parallel processing, and cloud computing
  • Cyber-physical system and Internet of Things
  • Wearable computing for smart services
  • Green systems and applications over next generation network

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 28 February, 2017
Notification to authors: 1 June, 2017
Final versions due: 31 July,, 2017

19 July 2016

Special issue published: "Software Defined High Performance and Networking Systems"

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 9(4) 2016
  • Event-driven hybrid MAC protocol for a two-tier cognitive wireless sensor network: design and implementation
  • The integration of access control levels based on SDN
  • Synchronisation cost of multi-controller deployments in software-defined networks
  • Embedding lightweight proxy re-encryption for efficient attribute revocation in cloud computing
  • Vector-based data prediction model for wireless sensor networks
  • Federated selection of network and cloud services for high-performance software-defined cloud computing
  • Efficient and secure software-defined mobile cloud computing infrastructure
  • Service architecture for multi-environment mobile cloud services

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from 7th International Congress of Information and Communication Technology

Extended versions of papers presented at the 7th International Congress of Information and Communication Technology (1-2 January 2017, SanYa, China) will be published by the following journals:

Call for papers: "Recent Advances in Vehicle Noise, Vibration and Harshness"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Vehicle Performance.

The performance of vehicle noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) has become an important evaluation index of the product research and development for automobile enterprises, and also a core concern for consumers. Vehicle noise and vibration problems are unfriendly to the environment and would degrade ride and comfort of the occupant dramatically, moreover statistical results show that about one third of vehicle component faults are related to vehicle NVH problems.

The research about vehicle NVH always combines simulation method and test technology. The theories and methods of modelling include the lumped parameters, multi-body dynamics, finite element, mode synthesis, boundary element, statistical energy analysis method etc. By these methods, mechanisms of NVH problem and its suppressing measures can be analysed systematically, while test technologies have been developed and generally used to verify simulation results and the validity of those measures.

This special issue aims at providing a platform intended to present emerging ideas of accurate and rational modelling method, mechanism analysis, suppressing method and subjective-objective evaluation method of vehicle NVH problems.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Air noise, electromagnetic noise
  • Mechanical noise (gear noise, tyre noise, brake noise, etc.)
  • Sound quality and its quantitatively objective evaluation
  • The advanced methods of test, data acquisition and processing
  • Suppressing measures of noise and vibration: vibration isolation or elimination components/optimisation/control/prediction

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 30 December, 2016

18 July 2016

Special issue published: "Evidence-Based Management Practices in Accounting and Finance"

International Journal of Management Practice 9(3) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference of Evidence Based Management 2015.
  • Investor sentiment, stock market returns and volatility: evidence from National Stock Exchange of India
  • Impact of elections on stock price graph: a case of US elections
  • Signalling power of cash dividend announcements and risk: evidence from India
  • Mutual fund ownership and sponsor background: effect on performance and risk strategy
  • Analysing the fair value measurement audit process using interpretive structural modelling: an empirical study
  • Board independence and firm performance in India

Free sample articles newly available from Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal

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  • Magnetic field effect on fluid flow through a rotating rectangular straight duct with large aspect ratio
  • Wall temperature considerations in a two-stage swirl non-premixed furnace
  • Hydrodynamic interaction between two swimming bacterial flagella in a viscous fluid - a numerical study using an immersed boundary method
  • Assessment of rheological models for prediction of transport phenomena in stenosed artery
  • Actuator disc modelling based on aerodynamic data extraction from direct rotor modelling of the NREL Phase VI turbine
  • A rotation/curvature correction for turbulence models for applied CFD

New Editor for International Journal of Abrasive Technology

Prof. Xun Chen from Liverpool John Moores University in the UK has been appointed to take over from Prof. Jun Wang as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Abrasive Technology. Prof. Wang will remain with the journal as Honorary Chief Editor.

Special issue: "Intellectual Capital for Learning and Innovation in the Globalised Environment"

International Journal of Innovation and Learning 20(2) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at MakeLearn/TIIM 2015.
  • Erasmus student mobility flows - the national-level social network analysis of Slovenia
  • Factors of green purchasing behaviour
  • The LAB studio model: enhancing entrepreneurship skills in higher education
  • Rethinking performance management: a behaviour-based perspective
  • How firms use external knowledge to improve innovation performance. Evidence from Polish manufacturing industry
  • An intermediary as a trust enabler in a spatial business ecosystem
  • Corporate brand identity measurement - an application to the services sector

15 July 2016

Special issue published: "Open Web Communities for Social Evolution"

International Journal of Web Based Communities 12(3) 2016
  • When the web supports communities of place: the 'Social Street' case in Italy
  • Understanding online communities on social networks via the notion of imagined communities: the case of Tripdvisor
  • Understanding key factors affecting young people's WeChat usage: an empirical study from uses and gratifications perspective
  • Evaluation of the functional status of learning networks based on the dimensions defining communities of practice
  • Towards sustainability of virtual business community through trustworthy behaviour-based mechanism 

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Services Technology and Management

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Services Technology and Management are now available here for free:
  • Behavioural analysis of subjects interacting with information technology: categorising the behaviour of e-consumers
  • The effect of national and international R&D cooperation: differences between manufactures and services
  • Using fuzzy logic approach in estimating individual guest loyalty level for international tourist hotels
  • A clash of personality? The relationship among consumer personality, brand personality and word-of-mouth with social-cognitive perspective: generation as the moderator
  • Measuring the effect of brand equity on the consumers' purchase intention
  • Empathic facilitation in innovation: combining diagnostic and dialogic practices
  • High customer service quality in the beauty service design
  • Technology support from cluster development initiatives to SMEs: a study of motor spare parts enterprises in Sri Lanka
  • Client-consultant interaction: the dynamics of and conflicts in value co-creation and co-destruction
  • Thilawa special economic zone and the single window
  • Open source ERP - a change maker in emerging countries
  • Change in the Finnish healthcare: managerial sensemaking in the private sector

Special issue published: "Environment, Health and Business Management: Linking Efficiency and Effectiveness to Viable Sustainability – Part 2"

International Journal of Environment and Health 8(1) 2016
  • A service-system paradigm for governing corporate sustainability: the (forgotten) role of governing body in shaping sustainability and context
  • Life cycle assessment as a tool to integrate environmental indicators in food products: a chocolate LCA case study
  • Sustainability reporting of logistics service providers in Europe
  • Corporate social responsibility and sustainability: theory and practice in Lebanon
  • Understanding medical tourism within the field of neo-institutionalism: an ethical insight

Research Picks Extra – July 2016

Paper wait
German researchers have developed a paper identification system that could be used to sort recycling materials into different types and grades of paper one of the most pressing issues facing modern recycling facilities. The system could use 26 different characteristics of a paper sample, including, weight, colour, texture, the presence of optical brighteners to classify papers. However, the team found that analysing just six of ten classifiers was sufficient to achieve 94 to 100% accuracy in automatically distinguishing between newspapers, magazines, advertisement, white office papers, grey office papers, and brown corrugated board. There is still room for improvement for other categories and the team is working towards that.
Gottschling, A. and Schabel, S. (2016) ‘Pattern classification system for the automatic analysis of paper for recycling’, Int. J. Applied Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.38–58.

Voice validation
A low-cost and non-proprietary approach to authenticating and validating a VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) communication has been developed by Italian researchers. The system ensures that both correspondents in a conversation can be sure of each other’s identity and neither can erroneously or fraudulently interfere with the ongoing transaction or alter the communication afterwards without the other knowing. The system would be inexpensive to implement and is built on existing open and standard technologies. The non-repudiation of this form of communication now makes the use of VoIP suitable for business and sensitive transactions that might not have previously lent themselves to this technology, opening up connections where conventional telephonic infrastructure was too expensive, unreliable or unavailable but where the internet can be accessed.
Cattaneo, G., Catuogno, L., Petagna, F. and Roscigno, G. (2016) ‘Ensuring non-repudiation in human conversations over VoIP communications’, Int. J. Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.315–334.

Drunk in charge
New research from China confirms that the gradual increase in alcohol (ethanol) concentration in the bloodstream has distinct phases of adverse effect on driving capacity. Zero alcohol intake is a baseline, medium consumption leads to a state in which drivers are more timid but high consumption leads to generally more aggressive driving, less consistent lane discipline and abrupt manoeuvres not seen in the control group, according to the team. This study clarifies the levels at which certain quantities of alcohol per kilogram of body weight begin to cause drivers to behave dangerously. “The study on driver behaviour plays an important role on constructing the early warning model, so as to put forward the corresponding intervention measures of unsafe driving behaviour and improve vehicle safety in reducing accidents due to drinking and/or drunk driving on public roads”, the team concludes.
Chen, H., Zhang, G., Chen, R., Chen, L. and Feng, X. (2016) ‘Comparison of driving performance during the blood alcohol concentration ascending period and descending period under alcohol influence in a driving simulator’, Int. J. Vehicle Safety, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp.72–84.

A ton of feathers and a ton of soil
Feathers are mostly composed of the fibrous protein keratin, the same substance that makes up animal hair, nails, hooves, and scales. Its strength and resilience make feathers a difficult by-product of the poultry industry to deal with. Now, researchers in India have collected soil samples from sites where feathers have been dumped in the hope of finding bacteria that can degrade this waste or perhaps convert it into a biomaterial that might be more useful than plucked feathers. Of various strains tested, one emerged that uses the enzyme keratinase to hydrolyse keratin, Bacillus cereus. This microbe could completely degrade feathers within three days and so might be useful as a biological agent for waste remediation from this industry.
Rajesh, T.P., Rajasekar, S., Karthick Hari Mathan, R. and Anandaraj, B. (2016). ‘Isolation and identification of feather degrading bacteria from feather-dumped soil’, Int. J. Environment and Sustainable Development, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp.293–299.


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14 July 2016

Special issue published: "Advances in Data Mining and its Applications"

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology 9(1) 2016
  • An efficient service composition using frequent service sequence patterns over extended web service architecture
  • Mining frequent arrangements and sequencing of events for diseases prognosis using reference event-based temporal relations
  • Biclustering microarray gene expression data using modified Nelder-Mead method
  • New under-sampling methods to address the problem of unbalanced sentiment classification: application on Arabic datasets
  • Analysis on impact of redundant time on train rescheduling in high speed railway
  • An expert system based on LS-SVM and simulated annealing for the diagnosis of diabetes disease
  • A multilevel genetic algorithm for the clustering problem
  • A hybridise approach for data clustering based on cat swarm optimisation

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Industrial Electronics and Drives

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  • Minimising losses of SEIG using constrained particle swarm optimisation considering voltage regulation
  • Power electronics in renewable energy smart grid: a review
  • An advanced control approach for current harmonic cancellation using shunt active power filter
  • Elimination of torque dips due to back EMF non-ideality in brushless DC motors with surface-mounted magnets
  • Adaptive backstepping control using combined direct and indirect adaptation for a single-link flexible-joint robot
  • Improvement of voltage stability in power system using SVC and STATCOM

International Journal of Export Marketing presented at 2016 Academy of Marketing Conference

The inaugural issue of the International Journal of Export Marketing was presented this year at theAcademy of Marketing Conference 2016 at the Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University in the UK. This is the main annual event for the Academy of Marketing and 290 articles were presented. There were 25 different tracks in the marketing field and more than 400 participants. The event is generally considered as the major conference in marketing science. The journal's inaugural issue was presented in the special session 'Meet the Editors', and a stand displayed copies of the inaugural issue and the journal's webpage.


Special issue published: "Advancements in Modern Machining Methods"

International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials 18(4) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Newest Drifts in Mechanical Engineering (ICNDME-2014).
  • Study the drilling behaviour of aluminium 6061 metal matrix composites using Taguchi's methodology
  • An investigation on thermal necrosis during bone drilling
  • Empirical modelling of surface quality in electrochemical-mechanical finishing of bevel gears 
  • Machining of metal matrix composites: influence of B4C ceramic particulate addition on cutting forces and surface roughness of 6061Al alloy
  • Modelling and process optimisation for wire electric discharge machining of metal matrix composites
  • Investigation of wire electrical discharge machining of ZrSiO4p/Al 6063 MMC
  • Performance of Cu-Cr-Zr electrodes in electrical discharge machining of tungsten carbide composite material base using Taguchi method
  • The delamination effect of drilling and electro-discharge machining on the tensile strength of woven composites as studied by X-ray computed tomography

13 July 2016

Special issue published: "Services Technology and Services Design"

International Journal of Services Technology and Management 22(1/2) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the 13th Wuhan International Conference on e-Business (WHICEB 2014).
  • The effect of service guarantee strength on service quality of online merchants
  • The effect of e-WOM on country image and purchase intention: an empirical study on Korean cosmetic products in China
  • An analysis of dynamic game strategy of privacy protection in personalisation
  • What determines online consumers to migrate from PCs to mobile devices? - An empirical approach on consumers' internet cross-channel behaviours
  • Term structure analysis based on a static model of inter-bank bond market
  • A review of brand research (1990-2010): classification, application and development trajectory
  • Measuring service quality in Macau luxury hotels using the QFD method: a case study
  • Towards a problem-value-constraint framework for maximising business value through minimising under design and over design

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environment and Health

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  • Asterococcus superbus as a biosorbent of copper, zinc, cadmium and lead: adsorption isotherm and kinetic modelling
  • Effect of the surfactant benzalkonium chloride in the sorption of paraquat and cadmium on montmorillonite
  • Dynamic laser speckle and fuzzy mathematical morphology applied to studies of chemotaxis towards hydrocarbons
  • Mechanisms of arsenic and fluoride release from Chacopampean sediments (Argentina)
  • Arsenic biotransference to alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
  • Water decontamination by silver and copper montmorillonite
  • Biocatalysed acidification and metal leaching processes in sediments of polluted urban streams

Call for papers: "Liner Shipping and Terminal Operations"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics.

The global liner shipping industry has been built on a sophisticated network of containerised cargo traffic with scheduled services around the world. In comparison to other shipping segments and to other modes of transport, the liner sector has been growing rapidly and has shown a significant degree of innovation in new systems and equipment to reduce costs and externalities (e.g. carbon footprint, noise). The growth of the industry has been characterised by a gradual increase in the size of ocean-going containerships, mostly as a consequence of scale economies and the impact of megacarriers on the global transport systems and has been the subject of extensive academic and industry debates. The sector has also traditionally been characterised by an unusual competition regime that has evolved in the last decade to rely on alliances and new institutional players. The changes in the sector organisation, combined with the introduction of new technologies, are likely to have considerable impact on developing countries and new markets, the geography of transport and on the development in other transport modes, among others. While the traditional bulk shipping business can be said to have reached maturity to some degree, liner shipping is still developing, innovating and redesigning itself.

The development of the liner-shipping sector is strongly connected to the hinterland side of container transport, including container terminals, freight forwarding business and supply-chain management in general. Major carriers have also expanded in the logistics and terminal operation businesses to optimise the entire cargo flow and gain cost-leadership and strengthen their market position. In addition to its traditional business and customer profile, liner shipping spills over the general cargo market and attracts new customers with its low-cost, unitised and speed service advantages.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME 2016, Hamburg) , but we also strongly encourage authors unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Liner shipping alliances
  • Liner shipping networks: design and optimisation
  • Mega-ships, ULCSs and scale economics
  • Liner shipping finance and risks
  • Pricing in liner shipping
  • Sustainability in liner shipping
  • Marketing in port and liner shipping business
  • Container terminal competition and cooperation
  • Container port efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
  • Container terminal management
  • Container port competition
  • Container port congestion and mitigation strategies
  • Green port management
  • Panama canal expansion and its influence on liner shipping and port
  • Intermodality and hinterland development

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 30 November, 2016

12 July 2016

Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from 15th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC2017)

Extended versions of papers presented at the 15th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week) (31 January - 3 February 2017, Geelong, Australia) will be published by the following journals:

Protect yourself from shoulder surfers with a HoneyString

Shoulder surfing can be a serious security and privacy concern for the naive internet user, logging in at a cybercafé, airport or even their place of work, where a glance at their computer screen, tablet or other mobile device could reveal to a third party the sites they are visiting, the subjects they are searching for or even their login details. New research published in the International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and Communications, offers “HoneyString” an alternative to a honey trap to protect unwary users.

Nilesh Chakraborty and Samrat Mondal Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, explain that there are screen protectors, browser plugins and other approaches that can be used to protect users from shoulder surfers. The physical systems reduce the viewable angle of an LCD or LED screen, while plugins attempt to camouflage what is being displayed but require the user to have a pair of spectacles with red lenses, for instance.

With HoneyString, the team hopes to reduce the need for user intervention in protecting themselves. Where a username and password or PIN are to be entered on a devices, the HoneyString approach asks the user for input, such as 3rd letter, number or other character of the password, 1st, 5th, then another until a sufficient portion of the password or PIN is completed. This way the casual crowd surfer, not knowing the password in advance, obviously, would not be able to easily see what is being entered at a specific point in the process nor what the prompt was. The HoneyString approach overcomes earlier protection methods known as tag digit-based schemes. In addition to requesting characters from the actual password be entered sequentially at a given prompt, interspersed among those characters are prompts for banal letters from string of characters unrelated to the password, the HoneyString.

For example, if the password is “(pUrput4” and the HoneyString is “bAcb7*”, the HoneyString prompt might ask the use to enter the second character from the password – U – then the third character from the honeytrap word – c – and so on until the password is sufficiently complete. The protection only needs to obfuscate the real password from someone attempting to view the user’s screen from over their shoulder, as it were. The system would suit ATM, automated teller machine, security as well as PIN entry for mobile and other devices.

If the shoulder-surfing attacker has noted the responses they will not be able to login elsewhere at their leisure because they will have some characters from the password but not necessarily in the correct order interspersed with HoneyString characters too. The new HoneyString prompts will be different in all subsequent sessions and because the attacker never actually gained access to the complete password in the first place, they will fail to complete the login successfully.

The team points out that the HoneyString system is simple to use and does not extend login time too much, but prevents third-party and malicious access to the account into which the user is logging in.


Chakraborty, N. and Mondal, S. (2015) ‘HoneyString: an improved methodology over tag digit-based honeypot to detect shoulder surfing attack’, Int. J. Trust Management in Computing and Communications, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.93–114.

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New Editor for International Journal of Power Electronics

Prof. Firuz Zare from the University of Queensland in Australia has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Power Electronics.

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Special issue published: "Judging in the 21st Century: Migration and Nationality Concerns"

International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 2(3) 2016
  • The revised Reception Conditions Directive and adequate and dignified material reception conditions for those seeking international protection
  • China's One Child Policy, forcible sterilisation and membership of a particular social group: an Irish perspective
  • Fairness and the right to legal aid in asylum and asylum related cases
  • The unlawfulness of existing pre-departure integration conditions applied in family reunification scenarios - urgent need to change national laws in the European Union
  • Human trafficking and the position of 'vulnerability' for victims in Europe

11 July 2016

Free sample articles newly available from African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance

The following sample articles from the African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance are now available here for free:
  • Corporate social responsibility and financial performance
  • Internal governance mechanisms and the external audit quality: theoretical review of the relational issues
  • The effect of credit risk on the performance of commercial banks in Nigeria
  • Systemic risk of the Greek financial institutions: application of the SRISK model
  • Accounting for multinationals: the Sierra Leone Development Corporation

New Editor for International Journal Public Law and Policy

Associate Prof. Evelyne J.B. Srensen from Aarhus University in Denmark has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Public Law and Policy.

8 July 2016

Special issue published: "Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Models and Approaches"

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research 11(1) 2016
  • Ant colony optimisation for a 2-stage capacitated vehicle routing problem with probabilistic demand increases
  • On the usability of real option valuation model types under different types of uncertainty
  • Environmental decision-making under uncertainty using a biologically-inspired simulation-optimisation algorithm for generating alternative perspectives 
  • AHP and weak consistency in the evaluation of works of art - a case study of a large problem 
  • Can size-, industry-, and leverage-adjustment of valuation ratios benefit the value investor? 
  • A review of real options approaches: applying models to value a medical device project 
  • Managing uncertainty in long life cycle investments: unifying investment planning, management, and post-audit with a fuzzy DSS
  • Credibilistic risk aversion and prudence

Call for papers: "Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures: Recent Advances and Future Directions"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures.

Critical infrastructures are vital assets for public safety, economic welfare and the national security of countries. Vulnerability of critical infrastructures have increased with widespread use of information technologies.

Due to the rapid increase of sophisticated cyber threats targeting critical infrastructures with significant destructive effects, cyber security of critical infrastructures have become an agenda item for the academics, practitioners and policy makers. Hitherto cyber security studies showed that a holistic view which covers technical, policy, human, and behavioural aspects is essential to handle cyber security of critical infrastructures effectively
.
In this special issue, both research and practical aspects of cyber security considerations in critical infrastructures are of interest. Aligned with the interdisciplinary nature of the cyber security, authors from academia, government, and industry are welcome to contribute.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
  • Cyber security for critical infrastructures including health and banking systems
  • Security of the smart grid
  • Security of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems
  • Cyber security of complex and distributed critical infrastructures
  • Cyber security of industrial control systems
  • Cyber security modelling and simulation
  • Cyber threat modelling and analysis
  • Visual analytics and risk management techniques for cyber security
  • Cyber security test beds, tools, and methodologies.
  • Safety-security interactions
  • System vulnerabilities
  • Cyber security engineering
  • Human awareness and training
  • Behavioural modelling
  • Network security and protocols
  • Threat profiling
  • Security, privacy and legal issues of big data and the internet of things
  • Cyber threat intelligence
  • Situational awareness
  • Attack modelling, prevention, mitigation, and defence
  • Cyber-physical systems security approaches and algorithms
  • Critical infrastructure security policies, standards and regulations
  • Vulnerability and risk assessment methodologies for distributed critical infrastructures
  • Simulation and test beds for the security evaluation of critical infrastructures
  • Resiliency and security of cyber systems
  • Risk management and cyber insurance
  • Cyber security and privacy policy

Important Dates
Submission of Manuscripts: 15 October, 2016
Notification to Authors: 15 December, 2016
Final Versions Due: 1 February, 2017

7 July 2016

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Special issue published: "Internationalisation and Competitiveness of Emerging Economy Firms"

International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets 8(3) 2016
  • A temporal bracketing perspective on the internationalisation propensity of SMEs from post-communist transition economies
  • A contingent view on the importance of inertia and mimicry in location choices by Chinese MNCs
  • An analysis of Chinese acquisitions of Italian firms in the manufacturing sector
  • Adoption of corporate entrepreneurship: managing domestic and global competitiveness through the lens of entrepreneurial orientation
  • Emerging markets firms' catch-up strategy in new product development: cases from Chinese companies
  • Southern MNCs in Switzerland and regional productivity spillovers in services/construction industry

New Editor for International Journal of Ecological Bioscience and Biotechnology

Prof. George Perry from University of Texas in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Ecological Bioscience and Biotechnology. Prof. Rudolph J. Castellani of the University of Maryland will be joining him as Executive Editor.

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6 July 2016

First issue: International Journal of Corporate Strategy and Social Responsibility (free sample issue available)

The possibility that firms can develop a competitive edge over rivals by investing in social initiatives has been made increasingly likely over recent years by changes in consumer behaviour and policy choices towards society. The International Journal of Corporate Strategy and Social Responsibility fosters discussion on unresolved theoretical and empirical issues relating to the strategic implications of CSR and acknowledges that analysis of these implications can be hampered by cross-cultural differences. This perspective recognises the role of a firm's value chain in attaining competitive advantage through CSR.

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Call for papers: "Learning for Robotics"

For a special issue of the International Journal of Embedded Systems.

The integration of artificial intelligence and robotic technologies has become a topic of increasing interest for both researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide. It is foreseeable that artificial intelligence will be the main approach of the next generation of robotic research. The explosive number of artificial intelligence algorithms and the increasing computational power of computers has significantly extended the number of potential applications for robotic technologies. It has also brought new challenges to the artificial intelligence community. The aim of this special issue is to provide a platform to share up-to-date scientific achievements in this field.

The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at The 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIR2016), but we also strongly encourage researchers unable to participate in the conference to submit articles for this call.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Multimedia processing for robotics
  • Deep learning for robot vision
  • Big data analysis for computer vision
  • Intelligent and learning control
  • Robust and nonlinear control
  • Robot calibration
  • Vision-based robotic manipulation
  • HPC GPU for deep learning

Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 30 January, 2017
Notification to authors: 30 March, 2017
Final versions due: 15 May, 2017

5 July 2016

International Journal of Embedded Systems to publish expanded papers from AIR2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (13-16 December 2016, Wuhan, China) will be published by the International Journal of Embedded Systems.

Special issue published: "Intelligent Systems for Distributed Cloud and Grid Computing"

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing 7(2) 2016
  • A novel near-parallel version of k-means algorithm for n-dimensional data objects using MPI
  • Cognitive distributed computing: a new approach to distributed data centres with self-managing services on commodity hardware
  • A multi-agent protocol for service level agreement negotiation in cloud federations
  • A hybrid particle swarm optimisation-genetic algorithm applied to grid scheduling
  • A framework for cloud-aware development of bag-of-tasks scientific applications
  • DynamoGraph: extending the Pregel paradigm for large-scale temporal graph processing
  • A comparison of techniques to detect similarities in cloud virtual machines

Special issue published: "Sustainable Practices in the Built Environment"

International Journal of Sustainable Society 8(2) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the Second International Conference on Sustainable Systems and the Environment (ISSE’14).
  • Risk-based GIS model for hazardous materials routing in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates as a case study
  • Recycling cementitious constituents of construction demolition waste in asphalt mixes: the case of Lebanon
  • A framework for green project management processes in construction projects
  • Improving signalised intersections performance for better built environment
  • Investigation of infiltration rates under different experimental conditions
  • Phosphorus and algae removal via adsorption: batch tests

4 July 2016

Special issue published: "Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling For Regulatory Purposes: Part III"

International Journal of Environment and Pollution 58(4) 2015

Extended versions of papers presented at the 16th International Conferences on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes.
  • Assessment of port-related air quality impacts: geographic analysis of population
  • Lagrangian micromixing modelling of reactive scalar statistics: scalar mixing layer in decaying grid turbulence
  • Hints to discriminate the choice of wet deposition models applied to an accidental radioactive release 
  • Application of WRF-Chem to forecasting PM10 concentration over Poland
  • Comparison between different dynamical downscaling methods using WRF-Chem for urban applications: Madrid case study
  • Empirical background model of total ozone density over Bulgaria
  • A sensitivity study of the WRF-Chem ozone forecast for Slovenia

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Vehicle Noise and Vibration

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  • Ride comfort performance of a vehicle using active suspension system with active disturbance rejection control
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First issue: International Journal of Computational Complexity and Intelligent Algorithms (free sample issue available)

Modern systems are becoming more sophisticated but traditional analytic- and numeric-based methods have sufficed until now, frequently simplifying problems to allow analytical tractability. To deal comprehensively with the new systems, a wide range of intelligent methodologies and techniques (including intelligent algorithms of computation, optimisation, control and system theory) are increasingly required. The International Journal of Computational Complexity and Intelligent Algorithms aims to become a leader in the exciting field of computational intelligence theory and its applications, with the emphasis on analysis and measurement of computational complexity.

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Special issue published: "Biotechnological Interventions in Environmental and Sustainable Development"

International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development 15(3) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainable Technologies (BEST2015).
  • Biosorption of hexavalent chromium from paint industrial effluent by Saraca indica leaves using with and without gel entrapment method
  • Green synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles from Mimosa pudica root extract
  • Optimisation and kinetics of biosorption of Coomassie Brilliant Blue G250 dye from synthetic effluent using Pennisetum purpureum biosorbent
  • Microbial growth and degradation kinetics of perchlorate by Proteus sp. LMNCRE in a batch reactor system
  • Corrosivity of Pongamia pinnatta biodiesel on zinc and its alloy - a comparison
  • Studies on adsorption potential of oil-extracted marine macro algae Padina gymnospora for the removal of methylene blue
  • Recycling of domestic wastewater by subsurface flow constructed wetland for construction purposes
  • Isolation and identification of feather degrading bacteria from feather-dumped soil
  • Biogas production from food waste codigested with sewage treatment plant sludge using biochemical methane potential method
  • Biophotovoltaics and Biohydrogen through artificial photosynthesis: an overview
  • Performance evaluation of sewage treatment plant at a residential building

3 July 2016

Thematic issue published: "Internationalisation of Social Entrepreneurship"

European Journal of International Management 10(4) 2016
  • Validation of a measure of social entrepreneurship
  • The performance advantage of business planning for small and social retail enterprises in an economically disadvantaged region
  • The evolution of social marketing and social entrepreneurship education in business and management schools: conceptions, misconceptions and trends
  • How social entrepreneurship emerges, develops and internationalises during political and economic transitions
  • Different innovation policies for different types of innovative companies? Social implications
  • Social capital, absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial behaviour in an international context

Special issue published: "Challenges and Opportunities in Marketing in the Contemporary Technological Environment"

International Journal of Technology Marketing 11(3) 2016

Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Contemporary Marketing
Issues (ICCMI) 2014.
  • Implications of the use of social media for pre-purchase information searches for automobiles
  • Critical success factors of online music streaming services - a case study of applying the fuzzy cognitive maps method
  • Extending E-S-QUAL with hedonic dimensions to measure the quality of internet travel services and its effects on perceived value, loyalty and switching barriers
  • Multi-sided search platforms: global and local
  • Social network analysis and social capital in marketing: theory and practical implementation
  • Cultural values reflected in the adoption of social networking sites

2 July 2016

Special issue published: "Recent Advances in Serious Games"

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics 6(3) 2016
  • Enhanced visual appearance, punch-style weight and physical characteristics based Leap Motion game
  • Automatic image resizing in android application development
  • Online hand gesture recognition using enhanced $N recogniser based on a depth camera
  • An effective facial expression recognition approach for intelligent game systems
  • Analysis of serious games based on pedagogical features and proposal of civil defence training game
  • Inventive problem-solving puzzle game design and development
  • Effects of money simulation application on persons with intellectual disabilities with money transaction difficulties
  • Usability test of game-based learning in safe-medication education for older adults
  • A study on the elements of game development using the content of the Nuri curriculum
  • Integrating serious games into the engineering curriculum - a game-based learning approach to power systems analysis
  • A case study of learning assessment, flow, satisfaction and expressiveness of the music game: focused on elementary students' music appreciation learning
  • Reading comprehension by content-related audiovisual feedback in children's story application (app)
  • Study of relationship between a session of video games with respect to the permanent time frames of gaming process

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Inventory Research

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  • Cost allocation in a full truckload shipment consolidation game
  • A two-period dynamic game for a substitutable product inventory control problem
  • Dynamic inventory control game for perishable products with concurrent probabilistic demands from two-fare classes
  • Game theoretic analysis of a multi-period fashion supply chain with a risk averse retailer
  • Economic manufacturing quantities of components in supply chains
  • Game theoretic analysis of an inventory problem with substitution, stochastic demand, and uncertain supply
  • Game theoretical models of two-level supply chain with a strategic consumer

Special issue published: "Sustainable Technology, Innovation and Management"

International Journal of Sustainable Economy 8(3) 2016
  • Management of environmentally driven change projects
  • Development perspectives on improved environmental performance through lean philosophy
  • Lean agile technology transfer approach
  • Communicating sustainability: large companies and their web-based approach
  • Sustainability assessment of the petrochemical and energy sectors in Thailand: global implications

1 July 2016

Special issue published: "Assistive Technologies for Safe Operation of Complex Technological Systems"

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 19(3) 2016
  • The challenge of quantifying and modelling risk elements within collaborative infrastructures
  • A multicriteria risk measure in a military context: application to the Commander's Advisory System for Airspace Protection case
  • Linking causal factors and the human element in maritime accidents using K-means clustering
  • Bayesian network to predict environmental risk of a possible ship accident
Additional paper
  • A flood wave disaster recovery model for under construction dam projects: findings from Greece

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Special issue published: "High Performance Data Intensive Computing Methodology and Practice"

International Journal of Big Data Intelligence 3(2) 2016
  • A framework for collective I/O style optimisations at staging I/O nodes
  • Towards cost-effective and high-performance caching middleware for distributed systems
  • Rainfall forecasting by relevant attributes using artificial neural networks - a comparative study
  • Multi approach for real-time systems specification: case study of GPU parallel systems

Research Picks – July 2016

Adolescent online social relationships
Social relationships on the internet have a lot in common with adolescent social relationships, researchers from Spain report, adding that such relationships are fluid, indefinite, confused, always under construction, not anchored, fixed or lasting; they are power struggles but without domination. Moreover, the relationships may even be perceived as a game, albeit often a serious one. Unlike a story, online activity is ongoing and discontinuous, interminable dialogue. The team’s study of Spanish adolescents shifts the sociological interest from understanding what adolescents do in this online space and its consequences to the problem of what this artefact formally imposes on communication and on their relationship interests.
Callejo, J. and Gutiérrez, J. (2016) ‘Social networks: dialogic artefacts’, Int. J. Society Systems Science, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.99–113.

Facial recognition by ear
Given that our facial expressions change, face recognition software must have the ability to cope with the movements of our eyebrows and mouths for instance. Now, researchers in Poland have added ears to the biometric mix in order to improve accuracy and efficiency of 3D facial recognition when different facial expressions are being presented to the system. When strong facial expressions are being presented, the addition of characteristics of a person’s ears can boost efficacy reducing the equal error rate so that it does not exceed 6.25% percent. Particularly effective, the team says is to combine powerful conventional 3D face recognition with analysis that includes their ear recognition algorithm.
Krotewicz, P. (2016) ‘Novel ear-assisted 3D face recognition under expression variations’, Int. J. Biometrics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.65–81.

Whistle while you work…or not
People stay “on task” and work more effectively if they listen to pleasant music relative to control groups working with no music. However, if unpleasant music is played while they work, heart rate and other cardiovascular measures rise and they make errors in the task. Heart and breathing rate are found to be lower in those working while listening to pleasant music. Other biometrics that were recorded in the experiments were blood oxygen saturation and arterial pressure. Of course, the difficulty in applying such research to the workplace is that people have different tastes in music.
Geethanjali, B., Adalarasu, K., Jagannath, M. and Rajasekaran, R. (2016) ‘Influence of pleasant and unpleasant music on cardiovascular measures and task performance’, Int. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp.128–144.

Going viral
Marketers would really like to know what factors makes an online update, graphic, video or other digital entity “go viral”, what factors lead to the mass sharing of such an entity that can lead to huge numbers of potential customers or clients seeing the clip or information and perhaps even buying or signing up for a product or service with which it is associated. Unfortunately, despite many years of searching for a formula that would contrive to make an update go viral, nothing has yet been found that works reliably and repeatedly. However, researchers in Germany have now delineated the psychological principles and find seven specific concepts that might work together to make the chances of a given digital entity being a viral hit.
Wolter, J., Barth, V., Barthel, E-M., Gröbel, J., Linden, E., Wolf, Y. and Walther, E. (2016) ‘Inside the host’s mind: psychological principles of viral marketing’, Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, Vol. 10. Nos. 1/2, pp.54–89.


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