Most users have at least one browser extension or plugin running in their software. These add-ons commonly enhance the web browsing experience by provide tools that simplify password management, document viewing and editing, or assist in the viewing and interaction with a given web page. However, as with all software, extensions are vulnerable to the attention of malicious users and programmers who might intercept an extension in order to take control of a user’s computer, spy on the user, or steal their personal and private data.
Writing in the International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, Kailas Patil of the Department of Computer Engineering, at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT), in Pune, India, points out that permission controls preclude certain kinds of malicious attack that exploits a browser extension. However, such controls do not block all possible scripts that might breach one’s system and many users simply grant extensions all permissions without due consideration. He points out that content scripts pose a serious threat to user confidentiality and the integrity of web application data.
One permission that is commonly accepted by lay users is to allow a script to inject content into a web page. This usually adds functionality, such as page touch-up, page content translation, user input capturing, and other beneficial characteristics. However, once a content script is injected into a web page it has full privileges to access the web application’s resources. If such a script is rendered malicious by a hacker or rogue programmer or is simply offered by an unscrupulous organization then a user may be readily compromised by that extension. In Patil’s study of 50 extensions from ten different categories in the Google web store, more than three quarters of extensions injected content scripts into arbitrary websites.
Patil has now developed a kind of browser sandbox, which he refers to as SessionGuard. This system isolates content scripts in their own environment, the shadow DOM. From this virtual shadow world, any given content script only gets to see an encrypted view of the web application data passing between client and server, It can still carry out the tasks for which it is designed but without the extension itself being able to reveal data to a (malicious) third party.
“We have developed a proof-of-concept prototype in the Google Chrome web browser with little effect on normal browsing experience,” Patil says. “Our experiments with real-world browser extensions demonstrate the effectiveness of the SessionGuard in protecting the confidentiality and integrity of web application data against malicious content scripts.”
Patil, K. (2017) ‘Isolating malicious content scripts of browser extensions’, Int. J. Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.18–37.
29 September 2017
28 September 2017
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- A framework for privacy aware data management in relational databases
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International Journal of Project Organisation and Management to publish expanded papers from 3rd Social Science & Business Research Network (SSBRN) Symposium
Extended versions of papers presented at the 3rd Social Science & Business Research Network (SSBRN) Symposium (11-12 October 2018, Osaka Japan) will be published by the Int. J. of Project Organisation and Management.
27 September 2017
Special issue published: "Managing Business Challenges Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Global Business and Economics Review 19(5) 2017
- Innovation in small and medium enterprises: the impact of open innovation practices on firm's performance
- The impact of R&D and information technology on innovation performance of Greek SMEs
- Public relations and reputation in small organisations: creating identity and building reputation for success
- Economic sustainability of the olive oil high and super-high density cropping systems in Italy
- Cross border acquisitions and R&D activities: a comparative study in the Italian red biotech industry
- Corporate finance in renewable energy investments - a review about theory and practice
- Management control in Italian SMEs
- Cooperating for competing - a small Italian wineries' internationalisation strategy case study
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Abrasive Technology
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- Chip root analyses in peripheral longitudinal up-grinding by means of a new quick-stop devic
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- Polyolefins structure formation effected by addition of industrial natural diamond powders
- Two-axis ultrasonic vibration transducer driven by single actuator and its application in precision polishing
Coping with stressful organizational change
Stress is not a recent phenomenon, but the modern work environment seems to highlights its detrimental effects on employees. This is no more obvious than during times of organisational change. Research published in the International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, considers the impact of such changes on workers in a healthcare authority in New Zealand, highlighting the problems that any organization might face under such circumstances and pointing to possible methods to cope and remediate employee stress.
Stress is present to some degree in any organizational context as employees, including managers, grapple with a host of work demands, suggests Roy Smollan of the Department of Management, at Auckland University of Technology. Individuals all have different coping strategies although ultimately not everyone copes. It all depends on the specific stressors, the individual’s personality, emotional intelligence, and their social identity. Moreover, specific stressors need tailored coping strategies, suggests Smollan. He reports that stress is exacerbated when processes, such as organizational change exist in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty, when those processes are undertaken without consultation with employees, and when changes are either miscommunicated or not communicated at all.
Smollan’s case study of a New Zealand healthcare authority undergoing major restructuring represents a quite unique qualitative examination of the stresses of work life as those involved are caught up in the tumultuous processes of organizational change. It focused on how individuals attempted to maintain their psychological wellbeing during these changes and learned to cope with the stress. Fundamentally, while many people involved eschewed help from others and relied more on their strengths, in part for fear of appearing weak, accessing support networks was critical for others. For all involved being proactive in problem solving and managing one’s thoughts and emotions during stressful times were nevertheless important for everyone involved.
“Managers have a key role to play in anticipating when organizational change may elicit stress and in helping those affected to cope with it,” concludes Smollan.
Smollan, R.K. (2017) ‘Learning to cope with stressful organisational change’, Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.148–167.
Stress is present to some degree in any organizational context as employees, including managers, grapple with a host of work demands, suggests Roy Smollan of the Department of Management, at Auckland University of Technology. Individuals all have different coping strategies although ultimately not everyone copes. It all depends on the specific stressors, the individual’s personality, emotional intelligence, and their social identity. Moreover, specific stressors need tailored coping strategies, suggests Smollan. He reports that stress is exacerbated when processes, such as organizational change exist in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty, when those processes are undertaken without consultation with employees, and when changes are either miscommunicated or not communicated at all.
Smollan’s case study of a New Zealand healthcare authority undergoing major restructuring represents a quite unique qualitative examination of the stresses of work life as those involved are caught up in the tumultuous processes of organizational change. It focused on how individuals attempted to maintain their psychological wellbeing during these changes and learned to cope with the stress. Fundamentally, while many people involved eschewed help from others and relied more on their strengths, in part for fear of appearing weak, accessing support networks was critical for others. For all involved being proactive in problem solving and managing one’s thoughts and emotions during stressful times were nevertheless important for everyone involved.
“Managers have a key role to play in anticipating when organizational change may elicit stress and in helping those affected to cope with it,” concludes Smollan.
Smollan, R.K. (2017) ‘Learning to cope with stressful organisational change’, Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.148–167.
How old does your computer think you are?
Computerised face recognition is an important part of initiatives to develop security systems, in building social networks, in curating photographs, and many other applications. Systems that allow a computer to estimate with precision a person’s age based on an analysis of their face are discussed in the International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition.
Jayant Jagtap and Manesh Kokare of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, at the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Vishnupuri, Nanded, India, suggest that age classification adds a useful layer to such security systems, customer relationship management, and of course for surveillance. The team has carried out a detailed survey of age classification systems to reveal the pros and cons of each and to point new research in the right direction for the development of an even more accurate algorithm than any that currently exists. Indeed, their survey reveals that despite the best efforts of developers there is no real-time highly accurate algorithm for age classification yet in existence. The existing age classification systems commonly use geometric ratios of facial features and analysis of wrinkles in the skin.
One of the problems facing developers of such a tool is that databases containing images of a person’s face tend not to accumulate images at different ages. This limits how well an algorithm might be trained based on a database of photos at known ages. While there are many serious tools and many spurious or fun tools available on the internet, there are no public systems that allow a computer to guess how old you are with useful accuracy. This may well be a positive point to make from the personal privacy point of view but not for the wider implications of face recognition and age categorization.
Jagtap, J. and Kokare, M. (2017) ‘Human age classification via face images: a survey’, Int. J. Applied Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.246–260.
Jayant Jagtap and Manesh Kokare of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, at the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Vishnupuri, Nanded, India, suggest that age classification adds a useful layer to such security systems, customer relationship management, and of course for surveillance. The team has carried out a detailed survey of age classification systems to reveal the pros and cons of each and to point new research in the right direction for the development of an even more accurate algorithm than any that currently exists. Indeed, their survey reveals that despite the best efforts of developers there is no real-time highly accurate algorithm for age classification yet in existence. The existing age classification systems commonly use geometric ratios of facial features and analysis of wrinkles in the skin.
One of the problems facing developers of such a tool is that databases containing images of a person’s face tend not to accumulate images at different ages. This limits how well an algorithm might be trained based on a database of photos at known ages. While there are many serious tools and many spurious or fun tools available on the internet, there are no public systems that allow a computer to guess how old you are with useful accuracy. This may well be a positive point to make from the personal privacy point of view but not for the wider implications of face recognition and age categorization.
Jagtap, J. and Kokare, M. (2017) ‘Human age classification via face images: a survey’, Int. J. Applied Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.246–260.
26 September 2017
Chronic wasting disease
One of the most contagious of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is chronic wasting disease (CWD) which affects deer and represents a risk to human health and the health of farm animals. There are many problems facing livestock managers in North America in the face of CWD, a research paper published in the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, summarizes the efforts in disease surveillance and risk management of CWD and shows that past management strategies such as selective culling, herd reduction, and hunter surveillance have had only limited effectiveness. The summary points towards new advice for optimal, cost-effective strategies in aggressive disease control.
William Leiss of the University of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues there and elsewhere in Canada and the USA, explain how CWD is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of various species of animals in the cervid family of mammals. This family includes deer, elk, reindeer, caribou, and moose. The team points out that CWD is endemic in both wild (free-ranging) and captive (farmed) populations of these species which further complicates disease control. The disease is most prevalent among deer species, affecting in particular mule deer, but also black-tailed deer and white-tailed deer.
Chronic wasting disease is closely related to so-called “mad cow disease”, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the equivalent disease in sheep known as scrapie and the human disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). These various diseases are caused by the misfolding of proteins or protein fragments, known as prions, which self-replicate, or propagate, in tissue, specifically brain tissue, and lead to cell death and the ultimate demise of the affected organ.
The team points out that disease surveillance in North America has provided some qualitative assessments of the overall risk of CWD in Canada and the USA. Animals in almost half of all US states and two Canadian provinces are afflicted. The first case outside North America was identified in South Korea in 1997 and while the European Union has strict rules and surveillance in place, an afflicted farmed reindeer was identified in 2016 by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and subsequently two wild individuals. The problem is thus likely to become an intercontinental one unless more research is done to understand the disease and find ways to control it.
A new risk control strategy has been proposed for CWD in North America in which controlled forest fires are lit in areas where vegetation and soil are heavily contaminated with the pathogenic prions shed by animal waste and carcasses.
Leiss, W., Westphal, M., Tyshenko, M.G., Croteau, M.C., Oraby, T., Adamowicz, W., Goddard, E., Cashman, N.R., Darshan, S. and Krewski, D. (2017) ‘Challenges in managing the risks of chronic wasting disease‘, Int. J. Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.277-302.
William Leiss of the University of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues there and elsewhere in Canada and the USA, explain how CWD is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of various species of animals in the cervid family of mammals. This family includes deer, elk, reindeer, caribou, and moose. The team points out that CWD is endemic in both wild (free-ranging) and captive (farmed) populations of these species which further complicates disease control. The disease is most prevalent among deer species, affecting in particular mule deer, but also black-tailed deer and white-tailed deer.
Chronic wasting disease is closely related to so-called “mad cow disease”, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the equivalent disease in sheep known as scrapie and the human disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). These various diseases are caused by the misfolding of proteins or protein fragments, known as prions, which self-replicate, or propagate, in tissue, specifically brain tissue, and lead to cell death and the ultimate demise of the affected organ.
The team points out that disease surveillance in North America has provided some qualitative assessments of the overall risk of CWD in Canada and the USA. Animals in almost half of all US states and two Canadian provinces are afflicted. The first case outside North America was identified in South Korea in 1997 and while the European Union has strict rules and surveillance in place, an afflicted farmed reindeer was identified in 2016 by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and subsequently two wild individuals. The problem is thus likely to become an intercontinental one unless more research is done to understand the disease and find ways to control it.
A new risk control strategy has been proposed for CWD in North America in which controlled forest fires are lit in areas where vegetation and soil are heavily contaminated with the pathogenic prions shed by animal waste and carcasses.
Leiss, W., Westphal, M., Tyshenko, M.G., Croteau, M.C., Oraby, T., Adamowicz, W., Goddard, E., Cashman, N.R., Darshan, S. and Krewski, D. (2017) ‘Challenges in managing the risks of chronic wasting disease‘, Int. J. Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.277-302.
25 September 2017
Special issue published: "Data Analysis for Enabling Technological and Computational Enhancement in Design and Optimisation in Various Engineering Domains"
International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering 3(3) 2017
- CloudCampus: building an ubiquitous cloud with classroom PCs at a university campus
- Design of PID controller for magnetic leviation system using modified gravitational search algorithm
- Fast and effective image retrieval using colour and texture features with self-organising map
- TripletDS: a prototype of dataspace system based on triple data model
- A fireworks algorithm for solving travelling salesman problem
- Need for RADAR system utilisation for maritime traffic management: a case of Congo River Basin
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- Stock market capitalisation and economic growth: empirical evidence from Africa
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- Price discovery and risk transfer in the Brent crude oil futures market
- Electricity prices forecast analysis using the extreme value theory
Special issue published: "Second Indo-Canadian Symposium on Nanoscience and Technology (ICSNST 2016)"
International Journal of Nanotechnology 14(9/10/11) 2017
- Colloidal synthesis and characterisation of oleic acid capped TiO2 nanorods
- Nanostructured metal-oxide thin film towards the electronic device applications
- Synthesis, characterisation and spectroscopic properties of GdOF:Eu3+ phosphors and their Judd-Ofelt analysis
- Simple flame etching of pencil electrode for dopamine oxidation in presence of ascorbic acid and uric acid
- Antimony oxide nanobelts: synthesis by chemical vapour deposition and its characterisation
- A feasibility study on photocatalytic degradation of methyl benzene using N doped TiO2 nanoparticles
- Influence of interface structure on performance of organic field effect transistors
- Effects of monovalent cation doping on the structure and photoluminescence of GdAlO3:Eu3+ phosphor
- Study of (La,Gd)OCl:Eu3+ phosphors for WLEDs application: photoluminescence and Judd-Ofelt analysis
- Influence of amino acid corona, metallic core and surface functionalisation of nanoparticles on their in-vitro biological behaviour
- Combustion synthesis and characterisation of Eu3+-activated Y2O3 red nanophosphors for display device applications
- Photoluminescence, Raman and conductivity studies of CaSO4 nanoparticles
- Inkjet printed electroadhesive pads on paper
- Influence of trivalent (Gd3+, Cr3+) ion substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of Ni0.4Zn0.6Cr0.5GdxFe1.5-xO4 ferrite nanoparticles
- Optical properties of (TiO2)1-x(CuO)x pseudo binary oxides thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis technique
- Zinc doping effects on the magnetic properties of Nd0.65Ca0.35Mn0.9Zn0.1O3 nanomanganite
- Effect of short glass fibre and fillers on friction and wear performance of multi-phased thermoplastic copolyester elastomer composites
- Enhanced grain surface effect on magnetic properties of Pr0.57Ca0.43MnO3 nanomanganite
- Optimisation of testing parameters on two-body abrasive wear behaviour of nano-oMMT filled carbon-epoxy composites based on the Taguchi method
- Co3O4/CuO composite nanopowder/sodium dodecyl sulphate modified carbon paste electrode based voltammetric sensors for detection of dopamine
- Investigations on tensile creep of CNT-epoxy shape memory polymer nanocomposites
- Concentration dependent dielectric, AC conductivity and sensing study of ZnO-polyvinyl alcohol nanocomposite films
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- The relationships among information systems, knowledge sharing, and customer relationship management in banking industry
- Green marketing as a strategic tool for the sustainable development of less favoured areas of Greece: women's agro-tourism cooperatives
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24 September 2017
Thematic issue published: "HRM Implementation Effectiveness in Europe: Mechanisms and Contextual Factors Within the International Arena for Human Resource Management and Line Management"
European Journal of International Management 11(5) 2017
- HRM implementation in multinational companies: the dynamics of multifaceted scenarios
- HR professionals' use of influence in the effective implementation of HR practices
- HRM frames of HR managers and line managers: congruence, consequences and context
- Born-again globals: generational change and family business internationalisation
- Entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurial intentions: a cross-cultural study of university students
23 September 2017
Special issue published: "Management and Internationalisation of Latin America’s Firms"
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets 9(3) 2017
- Central American family business groups: internationalisation and diversification strategies
- Performance and consumer satisfaction with mobile telecommunications
- International expansion and performance of emerging multinationals: the case of Marcopolo
- Are there micromultinational enterprises in Brazil? Three cases studied from the perspective of their degrees of internationalisation and use of networking
- Co-evolutionary perspective on internationalisation: a multilevel analysis of Brazilian firms
- Nationalisation and privatisation in state-owned oil multilatinas
22 September 2017
Special issue published: "Efficiency, Demography and Poverty: A Multi-National Review"
International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies 10(3) 2017
- Enterprise risk management in China: the impacts on organisational performance
- The impact of supply chain management practices on competitive advantage
- Competitiveness as mediating variable in measuring supply chain performance
- Preparing ageing workers for the future: implication for facilitating middle-aged workforce following the decline of working age population in Korea
- Fishery poverty reduction in East Java: using sustainable livelihood approach
- The effectiveness analysis of grant scheme 'POKMAS' toward village community empowerment: a case study on Siak Regency of Riau province
15 September 2017
New Editor for International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems
Associate Prof. Sanghyuk Lee from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems.
Research Picks Extra – September 2017
The DNA decision maker
Scientists have long-recognised the information carrying and processing potential of the biological molecule we know as DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is the molecule of life and encoded within its sequence is the information necessary to build the proteins from which all life is built. The way in which biology transcribes and duplicates this information and the way in which proteins are assembled using the sequence of bases in DNA is at the heart of a possible future molecular computer built with DNA rather than the silicon chip. Researchers in Singapore have now demonstrated that DNA can be used to encode an algorithm that can make rational decisions when given a choice between various options themselves encoded in molecules to which the system is exposed.
Shu, J-J., Wang, Q-W. and Yong, K-Y. (2017) ‘Programmable DNA-mediated decision maker’, Int. J. Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.51–55.
Better bottles
Antimony trioxide is a well-known substance commonly used to make PET for soft drinks bottles and other packaging. It is deemed safe by the World Health Organization. One of its uses is as a flame retardant for plastics, paints, adhesives, rubber, and textile coatings. The manufacture of nanostructures commonly uses organic compounds, however, which themselves may not have the safety specification of the antimony oxide particles. As such, researchers have now developed a simple, room temperature method for manufacturing antimony oxide nanostructures for use in plastic bottle production that avoids the use of potentially toxic additives. As well as safety improvements, the process is inexpensive.
Shah, M.A. (2017) ‘Antimony oxide nanostructures synthesised in water and their possible use in packaging of mineral water’, Int. J. Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.343–349.
Bioremediation with blackberry leaves
The bioremediation of contaminated industrial sites and waste water is high on the environmental agenda and scientists are always looking for novel biological materials that might be used to sequester a particular contaminant. One rather troublesome chemical is the chromium(VI) ion. Researchers in India have now demonstrated that leaves from the blackberry (Rubus species) can absorb Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solution. Given the environmental health concerns with toxic and carcinogenic chromium(VI), also known as hexavalent chromium, the finding could represent and important biosorbent for remediation of water and soil contaminated with this chemical.
Mitra, T. and Das, S.K. (2016) ‘Adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution using blackberry leaves – column study’, Int. J. Environmental Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.225–244.
Accommodating advertising
It is more than two decades since the world wide web was opened up to the world of commerce and the diversity of advertising formats that users face each time they visit a website has grown considerably. From the user point of view, the advertisements are often an annoyance unless and so add-ons for web browsers that block those advertisements are widespread. From the advertisers’ point of view, however, it is the ad blockers that are the annoyance and they are forever looking for ways to work around such add-ons and to get their advertisements seen by users. Online advertising is growing in developing economies and now researchers from Vietnam and Australia have investigated consumer attitudes to the various formats of online advertisements in one such an economy to help advertisers offer consumers a more acceptable and effective form of advertising that keeps both seller and consumer/user happy. Fundamentally, the team found that the “conventional” banner advertisement, which is akin to the old-fashioned printed advertisement, has a much more positive response among users than so-called “pop-up” ads which users find irritating. This is especially true of the banner ad is very informative.
Le, T.D. and Vo, H. (2017) ‘Consumer attitude towards website advertising formats: a comparative study of banner, pop-up and in-line display advertisements’, Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.202–217.
Scientists have long-recognised the information carrying and processing potential of the biological molecule we know as DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is the molecule of life and encoded within its sequence is the information necessary to build the proteins from which all life is built. The way in which biology transcribes and duplicates this information and the way in which proteins are assembled using the sequence of bases in DNA is at the heart of a possible future molecular computer built with DNA rather than the silicon chip. Researchers in Singapore have now demonstrated that DNA can be used to encode an algorithm that can make rational decisions when given a choice between various options themselves encoded in molecules to which the system is exposed.
Shu, J-J., Wang, Q-W. and Yong, K-Y. (2017) ‘Programmable DNA-mediated decision maker’, Int. J. Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.51–55.
Better bottles
Antimony trioxide is a well-known substance commonly used to make PET for soft drinks bottles and other packaging. It is deemed safe by the World Health Organization. One of its uses is as a flame retardant for plastics, paints, adhesives, rubber, and textile coatings. The manufacture of nanostructures commonly uses organic compounds, however, which themselves may not have the safety specification of the antimony oxide particles. As such, researchers have now developed a simple, room temperature method for manufacturing antimony oxide nanostructures for use in plastic bottle production that avoids the use of potentially toxic additives. As well as safety improvements, the process is inexpensive.
Shah, M.A. (2017) ‘Antimony oxide nanostructures synthesised in water and their possible use in packaging of mineral water’, Int. J. Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.343–349.
Bioremediation with blackberry leaves
The bioremediation of contaminated industrial sites and waste water is high on the environmental agenda and scientists are always looking for novel biological materials that might be used to sequester a particular contaminant. One rather troublesome chemical is the chromium(VI) ion. Researchers in India have now demonstrated that leaves from the blackberry (Rubus species) can absorb Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solution. Given the environmental health concerns with toxic and carcinogenic chromium(VI), also known as hexavalent chromium, the finding could represent and important biosorbent for remediation of water and soil contaminated with this chemical.
Mitra, T. and Das, S.K. (2016) ‘Adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution using blackberry leaves – column study’, Int. J. Environmental Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.225–244.
Accommodating advertising
It is more than two decades since the world wide web was opened up to the world of commerce and the diversity of advertising formats that users face each time they visit a website has grown considerably. From the user point of view, the advertisements are often an annoyance unless and so add-ons for web browsers that block those advertisements are widespread. From the advertisers’ point of view, however, it is the ad blockers that are the annoyance and they are forever looking for ways to work around such add-ons and to get their advertisements seen by users. Online advertising is growing in developing economies and now researchers from Vietnam and Australia have investigated consumer attitudes to the various formats of online advertisements in one such an economy to help advertisers offer consumers a more acceptable and effective form of advertising that keeps both seller and consumer/user happy. Fundamentally, the team found that the “conventional” banner advertisement, which is akin to the old-fashioned printed advertisement, has a much more positive response among users than so-called “pop-up” ads which users find irritating. This is especially true of the banner ad is very informative.
Le, T.D. and Vo, H. (2017) ‘Consumer attitude towards website advertising formats: a comparative study of banner, pop-up and in-line display advertisements’, Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.202–217.
14 September 2017
Special issue published: "Intelligent Control: Design and Applications"
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics 5(3) 2017
- Discrete and continuous emotion recognition using sequence kernels
- Control of a photovoltaic system by fuzzy logic, comparative studies with conventional controls: results, improvements and perspectives
- Synthetic aperture radar image compression based on multi-scale geometric transforms
- Power quality improvement using fuzzy logic controlled voltage source PWM rectifiers
- New CSMA/CA prioritisation based on fuzzy control mechanism
- Diagnosis and classification using ANFIS approach of stator and rotor faults in induction machine
- Vehicle recognition system based on customised HOG for automotive driver assistance system
- Fuzzy regional inequality measurement: a new stochastic dominance approach with application to Tunisia
Special issue published: "Managing Business Challenges Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Global Business and Economics Review 19(5) 2017
- Innovation in small and medium enterprises: the impact of open innovation practices on firm's performance
- The impact of R&D and information technology on innovation performance of Greek SMEs
- Public relations and reputation in small organisations: creating identity and building reputation for success
- Economic sustainability of the olive oil high and super-high density cropping systems in Italy
- Cross border acquisitions and R&D activities: a comparative study in the Italian red biotech industry
- Corporate finance in renewable energy investments - a review about theory and practice
- Cooperating for competing - a small Italian wineries' internationalisation strategy case study
13 September 2017
Special issue published: "Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems and Applications"
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 10(4/5) 2017
- Diagnosabilities of regular networks under three-valued comparison models
- A sprouting graph-based approach to analysing timed workflow processes with shared resources
- Detecting spammers using review graph
- Evaluation and comparison of ten data race detection techniques
- Reliable broadcast in anonymous distributed systems with fair lossy channels
- Communication-aware task scheduling algorithm for heterogeneous computing
- An adaptive hybrid ARQ method for coexistence of ZigBee and WiFi
- Thwarting Android app repackaging by executable code fragmentation
- A service industry perspective on software defined radio access networks
- U-Search: usage-based search with collective intelligence
- An energy-aware task consolidation algorithm for cloud computing data centre
- Kernel mechanisms for turning a 3D MMOG from single into multi-server architecture
- Communication-aware virtual machine migration in cloud data centres
- Para-Join: an efficient parallel method for string similarity join
- Hardware support for message-passing in chip multi-processors
- Reboot-based recovery of performance anomalies in adaptive bitrate video-streaming services
- An energy-aware cooperative content distributed strategy based on MST for the mobile environment
- Optimising the deployment of virtual machine image replicas in cloud storage clusters
- Addressing statistical significance of fault injection: empirical studies of the soft error susceptibility
Special issue published: "Web-Based Communities: Autonomous Factor in Netiquette?"
International Journal of Web Based Communities 13(3) 2017
- A network analysis of financial conversations on Twitter
- Do corporate webs substitute annual reports for corporate governance disclosures in large Indonesian family corporations?
- How does social media affect the behaviours of managers and employees in non-democratic countries?
- Examining the effects of online social relations on product ratings and adoption: evidence from an online social networking and rating site
- The advent of the 'social moment of truth' in online communities
- The antecedents of intention to use Facebook: the case of female foreign spouses' community in Taiwan
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- Measuring generalized expectancies for negative mood regulation in Japan: the Japanese language NMR scale
- Determining item position effects in a computer-based test
- Measurement invariance techniques to enhance measurement sensitivity
- Multilevel analyses of families influence on adolescents literacy performances
- Students' intention to use computer technology: a structural equation modelling analysis
- Testing for mediation effects under non-normality and heteroscedasticity: a comparison of classic and modern methods
- Preschool attendance: a multilevel analysis of individual and community factors in 21 low and middle-income countries
Special issue published: "Contemporary Business Research Across Thailand"
Journal for Global Business Advancement 10(4) 2017
- A structural relationship model of factors affecting customer loyalty for retail convenience store businesses in Bangkok, Thailand
- A Thai banking industry organisational performance analysis
- Confirmatory factor analysis towards visionary leadership of supply chain managers in the manufacturing industry of Thailand
- Determinants of Thailand's MICE industry organisational effectiveness
- Green supply chain management performance within the Thai hotel industry: a structural equation model
- The mediating effect of knowledge-sharing behaviour on total quality management and organisational innovation capability
12 September 2017
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Automotive Composites
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Automotive Composites are now available here for free:
- Crashworthiness evaluation of composite vehicle side door with an innovative design
- Modelling of fatigue damage evolution in composite multilayered cylindrical shells
- A simplified higher-order shear deformation theory for hygrothermal analysis of FRP bridge deck
- Thermal stress analysis of laminated composite plates using exponential shear deformation theory
- Finite element modelling of the low velocity impact response of composite plates with block copolymer nano-reinforcements
Special issue published: "Large-Scale Educational Assessments"
International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education 4(1/2) 2017
- Higher education surveys from United States' National Center for Education Statistics
- Extending the internal/external frame of reference model to early-year cognitive abilities for children from diverse backgrounds
- Using large-scale educational data to test motivation theories: a synthesis of findings from Swedish studies on test-taking motivation
- Structural equation modelling trees for invariance assessment
- Investigating differential options functioning using multinomial logistic regression
- The validity of the parental academic support scale: associations among relational and family involvement outcomes
- A comparison of five methods for pretest item selection in online calibration
- An efficient standard error estimator of the DINA model parameters when analysing clustered data
International Journal of Forensic Engineering and Management to publish expanded papers from Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2017
Extended versions of papers presented at the Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2017 (8-10 December 2017, Aligarh, India) will be published by the International Journal of Forensic Engineering and Management.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Innovation in Education
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Innovation in Education are now available here for free:
- Self-assessment in higher education: empirical evidence from the Department of Business Administration of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
- To change or not to change: indicators of K-12 teacher engagement in innovative educational practices
- Innovation and structural change in German vocational education and training
- Reactions and perceptions of teachers to the implementation of a task-based survey and presentation course
- Cultivating spreadsheet usage in a finance subject through learning and assessment innovations
11 September 2017
Special issue published: "Education, Management and Development"
International Journal of Education Economics and Development 8(2/3) 2017
- The effect of geography and class on livelihoods in South Africa
- Migration as livelihood strategy - South Africa's East to West Corridor: altruism gone wrong
- Factors influencing student usage of an online learning community: the case of a rural South African university
- Over the rainbow: the role of academics in a 'post-hope' South Africa
- Critical success factors in introducing performance measurement metrics for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Enhancing citizen participation in South African e-government: technology, organisation and environment factors
- Guidelines for a job role-based approach on phishing awareness in an organisation
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management are now available here for free:
- Trace metal pollution and potential health risk assessment: a case study of Daye Lake over the past ten years (2000-2009)
- Effect of organic fertiliser on plant growth and heavy metals Cd(II), Pb(II) translocation in plants
- Understanding ecodesign through a communities of practice perspective
- Relationships between reservoir water quality and catchment habitat type
- Adsorption of hazardous dye Rhodamine B onto Brazilian natural bentonite
Special issue published: "Cultural Entrepreneurship"
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing 9(3) 2017
- Cultural entrepreneurs: identity and 'becoming' a cultural entrepreneur
- Cultural entrepreneurship in the arts sector: a case study of a 'curatepreneur'
- Art ventures as hybrid organisations: tensions and conflicts relating to organisational identity
- Managing creative individuals via freedom and control in film-making companies
- Early independent production entrepreneurs in the UK television: pioneering agents of neoliberal intervention
New Editor for International Journal of Computers in Healthcare
Prof. Yen-Wei Chen from Ritsumeikan University in Japan has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Computers in Healthcare.
9 September 2017
Special issue published: "New Approaches for Transport, Logistics and Transformation"
International Journal of Supply Chain and Inventory Management 2(1) 2017
- Hub location under uncertainty: a minimax regret model for the capacitated problem with multiple allocations
- A green perspective on capacitated time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows
- Inventory management in the presence of inventory inaccuracies: an economic analysis by discrete-event simulation
- Capturing the effect of demand change on inventory classification via transition point method
8 September 2017
Inderscience journals to publish expanded papers from IEEE Fourth Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD)
Extended versions of papers presented at the IEEE Fourth Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (13 November 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA) will be published by the following journals:
Special issue published: "Advances in Shipping, Maritime Transport and Logistics"
International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics 9(5) 2017
- An analysis of entry and exit decisions in shipping markets under uncertainty
- Estimating the performance of the logistics services attributes influencing customer satisfaction in the field of refrigerated transport
- Analysis of technical efficiency and eco-efficiency in container terminals
- A new hub network design integrating deep sea and short sea services at liner shipping operations
- The Brazilian cabotage market: a content analysis
- Robust optimisation of liner shipping network on Yangtze River with considering weather influences
- Optimal design of container terminal gate layout
International Journal of Comparative Management to publish expanded papers from National Conference Managing Change in Evolving Economic Scenario
Extended versions of papers presented at the National Conference Managing Change in Evolving Economic Scenario (5-6 December 2017, Gurugram, India) will be published by the International Journal of Comparative Management.
Special issue published: "A Synthesis of Innovative Skills and Competences to Tackle Current Entrepreneurial Challenges"
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 13(5/6) 2017
- Three official languages in multicultural Luxembourg
- Chinese direct investments in Germany: threat or opportunity for the German part of the merger or acquisition
- Old, new and third wine regions: a consumer perspective
- What image for ethical food?
- Spillover effects of research and development activity on the economic growth and exports of the Group 20
- The role of public-private partnerships in developing open social innovation: the case of GoogleGlass4Lis
- The organisational impact of SaaS adoption on CRM applications
- Management control practices and benefits: evidence from Italian family and non-family firms
- Teaching in virtual environments to enhance intercultural understanding between Germans and Peruvians
- Tourism destination management in sustainability development perspective, the role of entrepreneurship and networking ability: Tourist Kit
- Integrated management of the PGI 'Matera' Bread chain
- ExperimentaLab: a tool for the entrepreneurial university
- Early internationalising firms: the age effect on entrepreneurial behaviour
7 September 2017
Special issue published: "Mechatronic Systems in Automotive Engineering and Mobility Research"
International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems 7(3) 2017
- Transmission ratio calibration for electro-mechanically actuated continuously variable transmission
- Development of estimated disturbance rejection feedback for an armoured vehicle using active front wheel steering
- Analysis of boost conversion process for a thermoelectric module
- Tremor suppression for 4-DOFs biodynamic hand model using genetic algorithm
- Driving pattern analysis of hybrid and electric vehicles in a German conurbation including a drive system evaluation
- Modelling and control of piezoelectric actuators by a class of differential equations-based hysteresis models
- Super-twisting sliding mode controller with fuzzy logic based moving sliding surface for electronic throttle control
- Active suspension control with state estimation using finite Markov chains
International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions announces Best Paper awards
Dr. Jong-Hyouk Lee, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, has announced that the following paper will receive the 2016 Best Paper Award:
"A quantum-inspired evolutionary clustering algorithm for the lifetime problem of wireless sensor network", by Chun-Wei Tsai, Chun-Ting Kang, Kai-Cheng Hu and Ming-Chao Chiang.
This and other papers from the same issue are now freely available as part of the journal's sample issue.
"A quantum-inspired evolutionary clustering algorithm for the lifetime problem of wireless sensor network", by Chun-Wei Tsai, Chun-Ting Kang, Kai-Cheng Hu and Ming-Chao Chiang.
This and other papers from the same issue are now freely available as part of the journal's sample issue.
New Editor for European Journal of International Management
Prof. Ilan Alon from the University of Agder in Norway has been appointed to take over editorship of the European Journal of International Management.
Research Picks Bonus – September 2017
Making walnuts work harder
Energy and exergy are two important tools for evaluating power sources. Energy is essentially the calorific value of simply burning biomass, for instance, whereas exergy is the amount of usable work that might be done by that burning. Researchers in China and the USA are investigating walnut sawdust as one type of useful biomass for making syngas. The energy and exergy of such syngas depends on the reactor temperature used to process walnut sawdust and the mix of gases, carbon monoxide, methane, hydrogen, nitrogen, ethene and carbon dioxide that are produced. However, they have essentially demonstrated that the energy and exergy can be optimized by careful control of the entrained flow reactor temperature.
Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Li, B., Gao, X. and Jiang, B. (2017) ‘Energy and exergy characteristics of syngas produced from air gasification of walnut sawdust in an entrained flow reactor‘, Int. J. Exergy, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.244-262.
Glacial warming
Researchers in China have found that the temperature of the active layer of ice in a glacier has increased more on a cold glacier than a temperate glacier over a period of 30 years. The team analyzed data and historical documents for Baishui Glacier No. 1 (BG1), in the Yulong Snow Mountains of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and the Urumqi Glacier No. 1 (UG1), in the eastern Tien Shan Mountains, of Central Asia. There has been a daily mean increase of temperature of the BG1 has been almost a quarter of a degree Celsius July 1982 to July 10, 2009. But the active ice layer of UG1 has warmed considerably more despite it being the colder of the two. That said, the temperate glacier BG1 is still retreating faster than the cold glacier through global warming caused by the greenhouse effect.
Wang, S. and Ding, B. (2017) ‘The active-layer ice temperature increases more obviously on a cold glacier than a temperate glacier during the past 30 years‘, Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.103-111.
Drone power
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), often colloquially known as “drones” require a power supply like any other aircraft. Now, researchers in Turkey have invented a fuel cell/battery hybrid system for powering a UAV. A proton-exchange membrane fuel cell with a supplementary rechargeable lithium-ion battery onboard powers a permanent magnet synchronous motor. Simulations of the system show effective torque development and the team suggests that such hybrid UAVs could soon take off.
Kaya, U., Bayrak, Z.U. and Oksuztepe, E. (2017) ‘Fuel cell/battery hybrid powered unmanned aerial vehicle with permanent magnet synchronous motor‘, Int. J. Sustain. Aviat. 3:2, 130-150.
Coal fired
Coal-based electricity generation is likely to remain an important contributor to power supply in many nations and in the global energy mix despite efforts to displace it with non-carbon-based, sustainable and cleaner energy sources. Of course, such plants generate huge quantities of carbon dioxide and contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect. With ongoing use of coal forecast for decades to come there is thus an urgent need to develop carbon dioxide sequestration technologies to reduce the global impact of this source of power on climate change. Researchers in the USA have developed a mathematical model that can analyze all the costs of such systems in the face of essential environmental regulations. Their model should allow policymakers and the corporate world to look at a rolling horizon for the next 20 to 40 years of coal-fired power stations.
‘Longer term strategic decision making for coal-based power systems incorporating CO2 sequestration‘, Zhang, Y. and Karwan, M.H. (2017), Int. J. Math. Operat. Res. Vol. 11, No. 2, 219 – 270.
Energy and exergy are two important tools for evaluating power sources. Energy is essentially the calorific value of simply burning biomass, for instance, whereas exergy is the amount of usable work that might be done by that burning. Researchers in China and the USA are investigating walnut sawdust as one type of useful biomass for making syngas. The energy and exergy of such syngas depends on the reactor temperature used to process walnut sawdust and the mix of gases, carbon monoxide, methane, hydrogen, nitrogen, ethene and carbon dioxide that are produced. However, they have essentially demonstrated that the energy and exergy can be optimized by careful control of the entrained flow reactor temperature.
Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Li, B., Gao, X. and Jiang, B. (2017) ‘Energy and exergy characteristics of syngas produced from air gasification of walnut sawdust in an entrained flow reactor‘, Int. J. Exergy, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.244-262.
Glacial warming
Researchers in China have found that the temperature of the active layer of ice in a glacier has increased more on a cold glacier than a temperate glacier over a period of 30 years. The team analyzed data and historical documents for Baishui Glacier No. 1 (BG1), in the Yulong Snow Mountains of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau and the Urumqi Glacier No. 1 (UG1), in the eastern Tien Shan Mountains, of Central Asia. There has been a daily mean increase of temperature of the BG1 has been almost a quarter of a degree Celsius July 1982 to July 10, 2009. But the active ice layer of UG1 has warmed considerably more despite it being the colder of the two. That said, the temperate glacier BG1 is still retreating faster than the cold glacier through global warming caused by the greenhouse effect.
Wang, S. and Ding, B. (2017) ‘The active-layer ice temperature increases more obviously on a cold glacier than a temperate glacier during the past 30 years‘, Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.103-111.
Drone power
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), often colloquially known as “drones” require a power supply like any other aircraft. Now, researchers in Turkey have invented a fuel cell/battery hybrid system for powering a UAV. A proton-exchange membrane fuel cell with a supplementary rechargeable lithium-ion battery onboard powers a permanent magnet synchronous motor. Simulations of the system show effective torque development and the team suggests that such hybrid UAVs could soon take off.
Kaya, U., Bayrak, Z.U. and Oksuztepe, E. (2017) ‘Fuel cell/battery hybrid powered unmanned aerial vehicle with permanent magnet synchronous motor‘, Int. J. Sustain. Aviat. 3:2, 130-150.
Coal fired
Coal-based electricity generation is likely to remain an important contributor to power supply in many nations and in the global energy mix despite efforts to displace it with non-carbon-based, sustainable and cleaner energy sources. Of course, such plants generate huge quantities of carbon dioxide and contribute significantly to the greenhouse effect. With ongoing use of coal forecast for decades to come there is thus an urgent need to develop carbon dioxide sequestration technologies to reduce the global impact of this source of power on climate change. Researchers in the USA have developed a mathematical model that can analyze all the costs of such systems in the face of essential environmental regulations. Their model should allow policymakers and the corporate world to look at a rolling horizon for the next 20 to 40 years of coal-fired power stations.
‘Longer term strategic decision making for coal-based power systems incorporating CO2 sequestration‘, Zhang, Y. and Karwan, M.H. (2017), Int. J. Math. Operat. Res. Vol. 11, No. 2, 219 – 270.
6 September 2017
International Journal of Technology Management to publish expanded papers from 21st Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium - Globalisation 2.0
Extended versions of papers presented at the 21st Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium - Globalisation 2.0 (28-29 September 2017, The Møller Centre, Cambridge, UK) will be published by the International Journal of Technology Management.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management are now available here for free:
- A scenario-based exploratory study of cognitive moral development in information ethics
- Customisation of master data elements in ERP systems aligned with business goals
- Performance evaluation on supplier collaboration of agricultural supply chain
- Business ethical sensitivity of Chinese insurance agents: scale development and validation
New Editor for International Journal of Nuclear Law
Inderscience Publushers are pleased to announced that Dr. Wolf-Georg Schärf has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Nuclear Law.
Special issue published: "Model and Data Engineering – Part I"
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems 10(1/2) 2017
- Data model for health telemonitoring and persuasive system design
- BPM-based framework for e-government processes improvement: legal requirements integration
- Multi-viewpoint ontological representation of composite concepts: a description logics-based approach
- Using logic programming for adapting models to metamodel evolution
- Semi-automated integration of domain ontologies to DSL meta-models
- A model-based process for the modelling and the analysis of avionic architectures
- Repairing errors in probabilistic databases models using probabilistic abduction reasoning
5 September 2017
New Editor for International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering
Prof. Hong Hao from Curtin University in Australia has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering.
International Journal of Sustainable Economy indexed by Scopus
We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Sustainable Economy has been accepted by and will be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database. The journal will be listed on Scopus's database in due course.
Special issue published: "Information Security and Privacy"
International Journal of Applied Cryptography 3(3) 2017
- A new public remote integrity checking scheme with user and data privacy
- IBE and function-private IBE under linear assumptions with shorter ciphertexts and private keys, and extensions
- Preventing fault attacks using fault randomisation with a case study on AES
- A new authenticated encryption technique for handling long ciphertexts in memory constrained devices
- Sponge-based CCA2 secure asymmetric encryption for arbitrary length message (extended version)
- CCA-secure revocable identity-based encryption schemes with decryption key exposure resistance
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems are now available here for free:
- An incremental hash-based optimistic concurrency control scenario for failure management in HDDBs - an application approach
- Delta extraction in a limited collaborative environment
- Theory of sketches for database mappings
- Software fault prediction using BP-based crisp artificial neural networks
- Factors of data infrastructure and resource support influencing the integration of business intelligence into enterprise resource planning systems
4 September 2017
Special issue: "Innovations on Applied Nanotechnology and Nano-Materials"
International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials 6(3/4) 2016
- Kinetics study of the photocatalytic inactivation of Escherichia coli
- Growth and survival of Lactobacillus casei in rice bran and banana peel medium
- Prediction and simulation on DNA strand displacement for the analysis of DNA nanotechnology
- Nano copper oxide can penetrate as nutrient in seeds and plants in an economical nano-biofertiliser application
- Structural and characterisation analysis of zinc-substituted hydroxyapatite with wet chemical precipitation method
- A facile route to prepare reflective counter electrode for enhanced dye-sensitised solar cell efficiency
Free sample articles newly available from Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal
The following sample articles from Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal are now available here for free:
- The growth of the tourism industry and its effect on resource consumption in Macao SAR, China
- EU's sustainable growth strategy: some implications on Romanian labour market
- The social equity of energy parameters: the Romanian case
- Traditional vs. green energy in Romania
- The green economy: EU vision for competitive and sustainable development
- The education level of the human resources in the context of the green economy
- Economic sustainability and possibilities of action for the states, in the case of monetary integration: some notes for reflection
- Environmental and technical evaluation of the use of alternative fuels through multi-criteria analysis model
International Journal of Technology Marketing indexed by Scopus
Inderscience Publishers are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Technology Marketing has been accepted by and will be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database. The journal will be listed on Scopus's database in due course.
Call for papers: "Machine Learning in Multi Modality Recognition System"
For a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Design and Computing.
The machine learning approach provides a useful tool when the amount of data is very large and a model is not available to explain the generation and relation of the data set. It provides a set of practical applications for solving problems and applying various techniques in automatic data extraction and setting. This technique fills the gap between theory and practice, providing a strong reference for academicians, researchers, and practitioners. Also it covers exploratory as well as predictive modelling, deep and supervised learning, image analysis etc., which form a fruitful branch of machine learning in their own right. This extends beyond the design of non-linear algorithms to encompass also their evaluation, a critical and often neglected area of research, yet a critical stage in practical applications.
This is an ideal platform for researchers to come up with innovative ideas and approaches in the area of machine learning using these applied soft computing strategies. This gains much importance since it directly impacts the real life problem.
The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference for Phoenixes on Emerging Current Trends in Engineering and Management (PECTEAM-2018), 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:
Important Dates
Manuscripts due by: 20 May, 2018
Notification to authors: 1 August, 2018
Final versions due by: 20 October, 2018
The machine learning approach provides a useful tool when the amount of data is very large and a model is not available to explain the generation and relation of the data set. It provides a set of practical applications for solving problems and applying various techniques in automatic data extraction and setting. This technique fills the gap between theory and practice, providing a strong reference for academicians, researchers, and practitioners. Also it covers exploratory as well as predictive modelling, deep and supervised learning, image analysis etc., which form a fruitful branch of machine learning in their own right. This extends beyond the design of non-linear algorithms to encompass also their evaluation, a critical and often neglected area of research, yet a critical stage in practical applications.
This is an ideal platform for researchers to come up with innovative ideas and approaches in the area of machine learning using these applied soft computing strategies. This gains much importance since it directly impacts the real life problem.
The issue will carry revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Conference for Phoenixes on Emerging Current Trends in Engineering and Management (PECTEAM-2018), 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:
- Pattern analysis
- Pattern recognition
- Biometrics
- Performance evaluation of Recognition
- Deep Learning
- Optimization for deep learning
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Feature representation
- Content Based Image Retrieval
- Video surveillance
- Tumour Detection
- Neuroinformatics
- Health care System
Important Dates
Manuscripts due by: 20 May, 2018
Notification to authors: 1 August, 2018
Final versions due by: 20 October, 2018
3 September 2017
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems are now available here for free:
- Performance evaluation and analysis of lightweight symmetric encryption algorithms for internet of things
- The property of agent's sacrifice: definition, measure, effect and applications
- Secure social multimedia content distribution based on social network analysis
- Design of multi-agent-based online auction in mobile environment
- A new method of applying the ETC technology to the underground parking lot in the supermarket
- The system of protecting eyes and saving energy based on Android
- Research on CDN network architecture design and safety protection for power grid
- A fractional variation estimation algorithm for smart road traffic control network
- Coalition utility allocation based on agent's outstanding characteristics
- Optimisation of motion cueing position based on adaptive chaos PSO algorithm
- A survey on machine learning techniques used for software quality prediction
International Journal of Business and Globalisation to publish expanded papers from National Conference on Indian Economic Transformation Through Revival of Manufacturing Sector and Start-Up Ecosystem
Extended versions of papers presented at the National Conference on Indian Economic Transformation Through Revival of Manufacturing Sector and Start-Up Ecosystem (20-21 September, 2017, Kalkaji, South Delhi, India) will be published by the International Journal of Business and Globalisation.
International Journal of Sustainable Aviation added to Emerging Sources Citations Index
Inderscience Publishers are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Sustainable Aviation has been accepted by and added to Clarivate Analytics' (formerly Thomson Reuters) Emerging Sources Citations Index. The journal is now included in the ESCI journals list.
Special issue published: "Knowledge Management in Innovation and Intelligence"
International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence 6(1) 2017
- Representations of psychological function based on ontology for collaborative design of peer support services for diabetic patients
- Learning how to learn with knowledge building process through experiences in new employee training: a case study on learner-mentor interaction model
- Learning by redesigning programs: support system for understanding design policy in software design patterns
2 September 2017
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions are now available here for free:
- A software approach for stack memory protection based on duplication and randomisation
- A four-phase methodology for protecting web applications using an effective real-time technique
- Geo-based content naming and forwarding mechanism for vehicular networking over CCN
- A quantum-inspired evolutionary clustering algorithm for the lifetime problem of wireless sensor network
Inderscience is media partner for Global Medicinal Chemistry & GPCR Leaders Summit 2017
Inderscience is a media partner for Global Medicinal Chemistry & GPCR Leaders Summit (27-28 November 2017, London, UK).
The journals involved are:
The journals involved are:
- Int. J. of Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Int. J. of Computational Biology and Drug Design
Special issue published: "Advances in Computational Intelligence for Big Data"
International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems 9(1) 2017
- Rotation-invariant method for texture matching using model-based histograms and GLCM
- An improved HBA metaheuristic
- A 0-1 bat algorithm for cellular network optimisation: a systematic study on mapping techniques
- Multi-objective design optimisation of four-bar mechanisms using a hybrid ICA-GA algorithm
- Community detection using intelligent water drops optimisation algorithm
International Journal of Business Environment indexed by Scopus
We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Business Environment has been accepted by and will be indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database. The journal will be listed on Scopus's database in due course.
1 September 2017
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments are now available here for free:
- Perceptions of social media as a learning tool: a comparison between arts and science students
- Strategic implication in social media marketing based on social factors associated with the private university's admission in Thailand
- M-learning in Nigerian higher education: an experimental study with Edmodo
- Between virtual and real: exploring hybrid interaction and communication in virtual worlds
- The Twitter academic: supporting learning communications in 140 characters or less
Call for papers: "Transformative technologies and the design of next generation supply networks"
For a special issue of the International Journal of Technology Management.
Networked organisations are increasingly adopting a ‘smarter networking’ philosophy in their design of more agile and customer-focused supply models. Changing consumer behaviours and the emergence of transformative process and digital technologies—industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, the Internet of Things—are driving a series of innovations, in terms of ‘products’ and business models, with major implications for the industrial enterprise, in their design of more ‘digitalised’ supply chains.
Studies involving such transformative technologies continue to capture the interest of academics, industrialists, and government policy makers as often yet untapped sources of significant ‘value’ creation. In recent years, research in this area has typically focused on product R&D technologies, coupled with their particular technology commercialisation challenges.
However, industrial systems are growing more complex, and are not readily described by a single viewpoint. It is now widely recognised that manufacturing value chains (including subsequent stages for design for manufacture, engineering, production operations ramp-up, route-to-market, in-use activities) are critical to transforming new technologies and ideas into innovative products and services.
Running through all of this was a common thread that emphasised the need to connect, network and collaborate across the supply chain, whether through enterprise-wide IT integration at one end of the spectrum or by targeting engagement with supply chain partners at the other. However, the design, set-up and operation of enabling supply networks, in the context of transformative technologies, are still poorly understood.
This special issue focuses on transformative technologies and next-generation supply networks, drawing on examples of process technology innovations and more customer-focused supply chains that are actively exploiting the potential of, for example, big data analytics and social media to innovate in terms of the design of new production or supply chain replenishment models (e.g. new routes to market) and/or novel business models.
Consistent with the mission of IJTM, submitted papers should contain a significant empirical contribution and enable communication between academics, industrialists, and policymakers to further knowledge and research, as well as theory and practice, in the field of transformative technologies and management. Original research and development papers, review papers, and qualitative/quantitative studies are welcome. The relevance of next generation supply networks and/or transformative technologies encompassing, for example, industrial systems transformation, digitalisation, industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, the Internet of Things should be explicit. Such contexts could include (but are not limited to):
- Understanding the dynamics of transformative technologies and subsequent engagement with complex industrial networks
- Insights on the interaction between various stages of the manufacturing value chain and digitally-enabled consumer-centric supply chains
- Collaborative supply chain models, crowdsourcing and the sharing economy
- Digital supply chain design, analysis and operation
- Visualisation of value showing potential value streams for network partners
- Industrial network development from the perspectives of different stakeholders
- Trends and generic stages of supply network evolution
- Effective management of resources through the implementation of supply chain strategies
- Development of frameworks and their application to support the configuration of next generation supply networks
Important Date
Manuscripts due by: 1 December, 2017
Special issue published: "Advances in Environmental Management"
Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal 11(1) 2017
- Exploring perceptions on the importance of corporate social responsibility in industrial areas
- On the comparative financial and risk analysis of urban development projects: the case of Athens' Hellinikon airport
- A Green information technology governance framework for eco-environmental risk mitigation
- A computer algebra system approach in gene expression analysis
- Emerging approaches for industrial sustainability and feasible applications in India
- The diversity-logistics hypothesis: how animals and manufacturers stand to reduce inbound logistics and inventory costs through diversity
- Climatology in Mauritius 1983-2005: potential solar radiation modulation by Quasi-Biennial oscillation and El Niño-Southern oscillation
Research Picks – September 2017
Are smart phones educational?
Smart phones, tablets and other mobile information and communications devices are now almost ubiquitous in business, leisure, and even education in many parts of the world. Researchers in Greece suggest that we need a new perspective to help inform parents and educators as to how such devices can help children learn but also what might be the pitfalls. It is, for instance, difficult to assess the multitude of self-styled educational apps (software) without a major review of their pros and cons. With thousands of such apps in the online markets it is difficult for parents and educators to know which might be of genuine educational use for their children and students. With primary school aged children and even toddlers regularly using such gadgets, there is an urgent need for a holistic assessment.
Papadakis, S. and Kalogiannakis, M. (2017) ‘Mobile educational applications for children: what educators and parents need to know‘, Int. J. Mobile Learning and Organisation, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.256-277.
Degrees by value
Now that universities in England can charge students tuition fees, there is a pressing need to measure value of any given degree. UK researchers have now assessed a standard tool and applied it to a case study of degrees on offer at their own university. In grade point average (GPA) terms their principle finding is that less quantitative degrees – which might include marketing and international business – register a higher value added than the more quantitative degrees, such as economics and finance, on offer.
Dabir-Alai, P. and Oliveira, A. (2017) ‘Adding value by degree: a case study‘, Int. J. Education Economics and Development, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.78-84.
Digging for economic stability
The shockwaves of the 2008 global financial crisis are still resonating with ongoing poverty and austerity initiatives still commonplace, a resurgence in extremist political opinion, a growing financial gap between rich and poor, significant unemployment, and tense international relations, perhaps being the side effects of this ongoing problem. European researchers have carried out a global econometric study and suggest that agriculture is the buffer that protects nations when the world is in the midst of economic downturn. Indeed, the weight of agriculture within a national economy correlates well (across 151 countries studied) with national resilience and a lower variation in economic growth and unemployment during times of financial crisis, the team found.
Mare, C. and Dragos, C.M. (2017) ‘Agriculture – a possible lifesaver in times of crisis? A worldwide level econometric study‘, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.61-72.
Disruptive technology
Ever since early humans used twine to attach a hand axe a piece of wood and give it a handle, we have seen disruptive technologies. The printing press, the steam engine, even the ballpoint pen, all usurped earlier technology and caused varying degrees of shockwaves throughout society. Researchers from Brazil have focused on that latter invention the ballpoint pen to show how it disrupted the much older “fountain” pen technology and use this case study as a model of how innovation underpins technological disruption. The lessons learned from this case study could help inform our understanding of current innovation and disruptive technologies.
Ferasso, M., Pinheiro, I.A. and Schröeder, C.d.S. (2017) ‘Strategies of innovation in an ancient business: cases of the fountain pen industry‘, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.73-84.
Smart phones, tablets and other mobile information and communications devices are now almost ubiquitous in business, leisure, and even education in many parts of the world. Researchers in Greece suggest that we need a new perspective to help inform parents and educators as to how such devices can help children learn but also what might be the pitfalls. It is, for instance, difficult to assess the multitude of self-styled educational apps (software) without a major review of their pros and cons. With thousands of such apps in the online markets it is difficult for parents and educators to know which might be of genuine educational use for their children and students. With primary school aged children and even toddlers regularly using such gadgets, there is an urgent need for a holistic assessment.
Papadakis, S. and Kalogiannakis, M. (2017) ‘Mobile educational applications for children: what educators and parents need to know‘, Int. J. Mobile Learning and Organisation, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.256-277.
Degrees by value
Now that universities in England can charge students tuition fees, there is a pressing need to measure value of any given degree. UK researchers have now assessed a standard tool and applied it to a case study of degrees on offer at their own university. In grade point average (GPA) terms their principle finding is that less quantitative degrees – which might include marketing and international business – register a higher value added than the more quantitative degrees, such as economics and finance, on offer.
Dabir-Alai, P. and Oliveira, A. (2017) ‘Adding value by degree: a case study‘, Int. J. Education Economics and Development, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp.78-84.
Digging for economic stability
The shockwaves of the 2008 global financial crisis are still resonating with ongoing poverty and austerity initiatives still commonplace, a resurgence in extremist political opinion, a growing financial gap between rich and poor, significant unemployment, and tense international relations, perhaps being the side effects of this ongoing problem. European researchers have carried out a global econometric study and suggest that agriculture is the buffer that protects nations when the world is in the midst of economic downturn. Indeed, the weight of agriculture within a national economy correlates well (across 151 countries studied) with national resilience and a lower variation in economic growth and unemployment during times of financial crisis, the team found.
Mare, C. and Dragos, C.M. (2017) ‘Agriculture – a possible lifesaver in times of crisis? A worldwide level econometric study‘, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.61-72.
Disruptive technology
Ever since early humans used twine to attach a hand axe a piece of wood and give it a handle, we have seen disruptive technologies. The printing press, the steam engine, even the ballpoint pen, all usurped earlier technology and caused varying degrees of shockwaves throughout society. Researchers from Brazil have focused on that latter invention the ballpoint pen to show how it disrupted the much older “fountain” pen technology and use this case study as a model of how innovation underpins technological disruption. The lessons learned from this case study could help inform our understanding of current innovation and disruptive technologies.
Ferasso, M., Pinheiro, I.A. and Schröeder, C.d.S. (2017) ‘Strategies of innovation in an ancient business: cases of the fountain pen industry‘, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.73-84.
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