- Effect of annealing on the physical properties of WO3 thin films
- Synthesis and characterisation of lanthanum complex bis (5-choloro-8hydroxy quinoline) (2-2'bipyridine) lanthanum La(Bpy)(5-Clq)2
- Thin film of Yttria stabilised zirconia on NiO using vacuum cold spraying process for solid oxide fuel cell
- Modifications of optical properties in doped germanene nanosheet
- Analytical modelling of sensing performance of carbon nanotubes for gas sensing
- Silver nanoparticles from methanolic stem extract of Gymnema sylvestre and its characterisation studies
31 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials are now available here for free:
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Embedded Systems
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Embedded Systems are now available here for free:
- RFID IoT-enabled warehouse for safety management using product class-based storage and potential fields methods
- GO-CP-ABE: group-oriented ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption
- Efficient leakage-resilient blind and partially blind signatures
- A modified Q-learning algorithm to solve cognitive radio jamming attack
- Access-driven cache attack resistant and fast AES implementation
- An analytic evaluation on soft error immunity enhancement due to temporal triplication
- Area coverage estimation model for directional sensor networks
- A language-based intrusion detection approach for automotive embedded networks
Research pick: Accentuating the positives in breast cancer detection - "Microcalcifications segmentation from mammograms for breast cancer detection"
The presence of tiny deposits of calcified tissue in the breast remains an important indicator of early breast cancer. However, the standard diagnostic, the X-ray mammogram, cannot always distinguish between benign tissue artifacts and such microcalcifications because there is a great diversity in the shape, size, and distributions of these deposits. Moreover, there is only very the low contrast between malignant, cancerous areas and the surrounding bright structures in the mammogram.
Writing in the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, a team from Algeria explain how they have devised an effective approach based on mathematical morphology for detection of microcalcifications in digitized mammograms. The approach first extracts the breast area from the image, removes unwanted artifacts and then boosts contrast and eliminates noise from the image.
The team has now tested their approach on 22 mammograms with a known outcome. They successfully compared the “diagnoses” they obtained with their technology with a radiological expert manual examination of the mammograms. The team says that their approach is quick and very effective, especially in terms of sensitivity. They suggest that a digital analysis of this sort could be used to complement conventional examination of mammograms by a radiologist and perhaps help to reduce the number of false positives and false negatives that occur with X-ray mammography.
Hadjidj, I., Feroui, A., Belgherbi, A. and Bessaid, A. (2019) ‘Microcalcifications segmentation from mammograms for breast cancer detection’, Int. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.1–16.
Writing in the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, a team from Algeria explain how they have devised an effective approach based on mathematical morphology for detection of microcalcifications in digitized mammograms. The approach first extracts the breast area from the image, removes unwanted artifacts and then boosts contrast and eliminates noise from the image.
The team has now tested their approach on 22 mammograms with a known outcome. They successfully compared the “diagnoses” they obtained with their technology with a radiological expert manual examination of the mammograms. The team says that their approach is quick and very effective, especially in terms of sensitivity. They suggest that a digital analysis of this sort could be used to complement conventional examination of mammograms by a radiologist and perhaps help to reduce the number of false positives and false negatives that occur with X-ray mammography.
Hadjidj, I., Feroui, A., Belgherbi, A. and Bessaid, A. (2019) ‘Microcalcifications segmentation from mammograms for breast cancer detection’, Int. J. Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.1–16.
30 January 2019
Special issue published: "Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Systems and Applications" [includes free Open Access paper]
International Journal of Embedded Systems 11(1) 2019
- Designing a wireless sensor with ultra-capacitor and PV microcell for smart building energy management
- Analysing and modelling worm propagation speed in the smart grid communication infrastructure
- Adaptive FIR filter for frequency and power estimation of sinusoids
- Design of embedded atrial fibrillation detection scheme for wireless body area networks
- Neural network based study of PV panel performance in the presence of dust
- An efficient fuzzy logic-based and bio-inspired QoS-compliant routing scheme for VANET
- Radio-frequency and microwave spectroscopy investigation of bacteria solutions: determination of the aggregation threshold
- Experimental evaluation of various modified Smith predictor-based fractional order control design strategies in control of a thermal process with time delay
- Point clouds reduction model based on 3D feature extraction
- A fast video haze removal algorithm via mixed transmissivity optimisation
- A fast-blind IP watermark detection scheme based on position fuzzification [FREE OPEN ACCESS PAPER]
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sensor Networks
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Sensor Networks are now available here for free:
- An identity based routing path verification scheme for wireless sensor networks
- A traceable threshold attribute-based signcryption for mHealthcare social network
- Sensor data distribution and knowledge inference framework for a cognitive-based distributed storage sink environment
- Localised information fusion techniques for location discovery in wireless sensor networks
- CACA-UAN: a context-aware communication approach to efficient and reliable underwater acoustic sensor networks
Special issue published: "Advances and Applications of Computational Intelligence"
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics 7(1) 2019
- Performance evaluation of conventional and fuzzy control systems for speed control of a DC motor using positive output Luo converter
- Design of an adaptive sliding mode controller for efficiency improvement of the MPPT for PV water pumping
- Evolutionary-based method for risk stratification of diabetic patients
- Speed control of a doubly-fed induction machine based on fuzzy adaptive
- Whale optimisation algorithm-based controller design for reverse osmosis desalination plants
- POFGURST: an expert intelligent system for mechanised oil palm fruit evaluating framework
Research pick: Finding the energy for going viral - "Extremely small energy requirement by poliovirus to proliferate itself is the key to an outbreak of an epidemic"
The question of how much energy a virus needs to replicate in its host translates into how likely a single infection is to become an epidemic. Writing in the International Journal of Exergy, Sevgi Eylül Ferahcan, Ayşe Selcen Semerciöz, and Mustafa Özilgen of the Department of Food Engineering, at Yeditepe University, in Istanbul, Turkey, explain how poliovirus is an RNA virus which proliferates in the host’s intestines ultimately leading to a crippling disease.
Despite its apparent eradication through extensive worldwide vaccination, there have been major polio epidemics in modern times. In 1988, 350,000 cases were reported. The team has calculated mass, energy, and exergy balances to show that the energy and exergy leeched from a host cell by a single virus are 4.65 × 10-19 and 3.35 × 10–17 kilojoules, respectively. During the 1988 epidemic, a total of 1.627 × 10–9 kJ of energy and 1.174 × 10–7 kJ of exergy was exploited by the multitude of viruses in infecting more than a third of a million people. The energy and exergy are used in the biochemical machinations of replicating the virus and its RNA by exploiting the molecular machinery of the host cells.
These are small numbers in terms of energy and exergy, as such the team argues that it is the almost vanishingly small figures that facilitate the spread of the virus to epidemic levels so readily. It almost makes the disease “going viral” inevitable, the team suggests. As such, it serves as a cautionary tale that we must be ever vigilant as old and new viral diseases emerge or pay the toll in the huge numbers of people that might be afflicted during an epidemic.
Ferahcan, S.E., Semerciöz, A.S. and Özilgen, M. (2019) ‘Extremely small energy requirement by poliovirus to proliferate itself is the key to an outbreak of an epidemic’, Int. J. Exergy, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.1–28.
Despite its apparent eradication through extensive worldwide vaccination, there have been major polio epidemics in modern times. In 1988, 350,000 cases were reported. The team has calculated mass, energy, and exergy balances to show that the energy and exergy leeched from a host cell by a single virus are 4.65 × 10-19 and 3.35 × 10–17 kilojoules, respectively. During the 1988 epidemic, a total of 1.627 × 10–9 kJ of energy and 1.174 × 10–7 kJ of exergy was exploited by the multitude of viruses in infecting more than a third of a million people. The energy and exergy are used in the biochemical machinations of replicating the virus and its RNA by exploiting the molecular machinery of the host cells.
These are small numbers in terms of energy and exergy, as such the team argues that it is the almost vanishingly small figures that facilitate the spread of the virus to epidemic levels so readily. It almost makes the disease “going viral” inevitable, the team suggests. As such, it serves as a cautionary tale that we must be ever vigilant as old and new viral diseases emerge or pay the toll in the huge numbers of people that might be afflicted during an epidemic.
Ferahcan, S.E., Semerciöz, A.S. and Özilgen, M. (2019) ‘Extremely small energy requirement by poliovirus to proliferate itself is the key to an outbreak of an epidemic’, Int. J. Exergy, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp.1–28.
29 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics are now available here for free:
- EGSA: a new enhanced gravitational search algorithm to resolve multiple sequence alignment problem
- Application of multi-verse optimiser-based fuzzy-PID controller to improve power system frequency regulation in presence of HVDC link
- Local voting protocol step-size choice for consensus achievement
- Hybrid approach using multi-criteria methods and mathematical programming for outsourcing logistic problem
- Numerical program optimisation by automatic improvement of the accuracy of computations
- A two-stage hybrid method for the multi-scenarios max-min knapsack problem
- Ant colony optimisation combined with variable neighbourhood search for scheduling preventive railway maintenance activities
- Discovering dependencies between domains of redox potential and plant defence through triplet extraction and copulas
- Skewness map: estimating object orientation for high speed 3D object retrieval system
- Enhanced approach to cascade reconfiguration control design
- Tardiness minimisation heuristic for job shop scheduling under uncertainties using group sequences
Special issue published: "International Technology Strategy, Industry and Trade Policies, Innovation Processes, and Technology Sourcing and Transfer: The Search for Synthesis in a Global Economy"
International Journal of Technology Management 79(2) 2019
- Advanced analytics group and intraorganisational power
- Dynamics of ex post uncertainty and negative behavioural direction in alliances
- The impact of design architecture choices on competitiveness: comparison of Korean and Japanese shipbuilding firms
- What drives success in product innovation? Empirical evidence in high-tech and low-tech manufacturers in China
- What determines the range of supply chain integration? Comparison of Korean and Japanese steel firms
New Editor for International Journal of Information Systems and Management
Prof. Yue Guo from King's College London in the UK has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Information Systems and Management. The journal's previous Editor in Chief, Prof. Eldon Li, will remain with the journal as Honorary Editor.
Research pick: Tweeting in an emergency - "Social media in emergency management: exploring Twitter use by emergency responders in the UK"
Social media has become a useful tool for the rapid dissemination of information. Writing in the International Journal of Emergency Management, a UK team describes their investigations into whether or not the likes of Twitter can be integrated effectively into emergency management.
Sophie Parsons and Mark Weal of the Web and Internet Science Group, at the University of Southampton, Nathaniel O’Grady of the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute, at the University of Manchester, and Peter Atkinson of the University of Lancaster explain that at the moment integration remains ambiguous. The team has used the winter floods of 2013-2014 as a case study to reveal the pros and cons of social media in this context.
The team found that emergency responders were wont to post cautions and advice during an emergency. However, it seems from their results that information about structures and utilities affected by any given incident would be most likely to engage and be of use to the public. Moreover, the team found that responders do perceive social media as a useful tool for them to effectively deliver information to the public. However, while that might be the case, responders did not appear to fully exploit it in the emergency studied.
The team concedes that before they can say whether or not social media is an effective tool for emergency management, there remain several questions about how it might fulfill a useful role for emergency responders and the public that rely on them during an incident. Uppermost among those questions are: Who are the responders’ followers on social media? Are the responders actually reaching the public in emergency situations? Do the public find the responders’ social media activity useful in an emergency? What do the emergency responders actually gain by having a social media presence? If future research can answer these questions then we might be in a position to make the most of social media in the event of an emergency.
Parsons, S., Weal, M., O’Grady, N. and Atkinson, P.M. (2018) ‘Social media in emergency management: exploring Twitter use by emergency responders in the UK’, Int. J. Emergency Management, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp.322–343
Sophie Parsons and Mark Weal of the Web and Internet Science Group, at the University of Southampton, Nathaniel O’Grady of the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute, at the University of Manchester, and Peter Atkinson of the University of Lancaster explain that at the moment integration remains ambiguous. The team has used the winter floods of 2013-2014 as a case study to reveal the pros and cons of social media in this context.
The team found that emergency responders were wont to post cautions and advice during an emergency. However, it seems from their results that information about structures and utilities affected by any given incident would be most likely to engage and be of use to the public. Moreover, the team found that responders do perceive social media as a useful tool for them to effectively deliver information to the public. However, while that might be the case, responders did not appear to fully exploit it in the emergency studied.
The team concedes that before they can say whether or not social media is an effective tool for emergency management, there remain several questions about how it might fulfill a useful role for emergency responders and the public that rely on them during an incident. Uppermost among those questions are: Who are the responders’ followers on social media? Are the responders actually reaching the public in emergency situations? Do the public find the responders’ social media activity useful in an emergency? What do the emergency responders actually gain by having a social media presence? If future research can answer these questions then we might be in a position to make the most of social media in the event of an emergency.
Parsons, S., Weal, M., O’Grady, N. and Atkinson, P.M. (2018) ‘Social media in emergency management: exploring Twitter use by emergency responders in the UK’, Int. J. Emergency Management, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp.322–343
28 January 2019
Special issue published: "Synergising Environmental Management and Technology"
International Journal of Environmental Engineering 9(3/4) 2018
- Recent development in sanitary landfilling and landfill leachate treatment in Malaysia
- Food waste management through composting process in Malaysia: case study in selected area in Kuantan, Pahang
- Urbanisation in the George Town conurbation and its impact to the environment
- Characterisations and attenuation properties of corn starch-bonded Rhizophora spp. particleboards as water equivalent phantom material at 16.59-25.26 XRF photons and 99mTc gamma energies
- Preliminary study on heavy metal removal and turbidity reduction from groundwater by using apple pectin (bioflocculant)
- Utilisation of calcined Asian green mussel (Perna viridis) shells as partial cement replacement in concrete
- A review of agricultural waste activated carbon and effect on adsorption parameters
- Opportunities and challenges in supported liquid membrane technology for heavy metal extraction and recovery: a review
- Assessment and toxicity potential of the gaseous pollutants emitted from laboratory-scale open burning of scrap tyres
Special issue published: "Security and Privacy in Complex Large-Scale Computing Systems for Big Data Management"
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 13(2) 2019
- A high efficient map-matching algorithm for the GPS data processing intended for the highways
- Comparison analysis and efficient implementation of reconciliation-based RLWE key exchange protocol
- Distributed and personalised social network privacy protection
- A delegation token-based method to authenticate the third party in TLS
- A secure storage scheme with key-updating in hybrid cloud
- Survey of intrusion detection techniques and architectures in cloud computing
- ROI-based fragile watermarking for medical image tamper detection
- Negation scope detection with recurrent neural networks models in review texts
- The optimisation of speech recognition based on convolutional neural network
- Hybrid feature selection technique for intrusion detection system
- Spectrum prediction and aggregation strategy in multi-user cooperative relay networks
Research pick: Different strokes - "Dictionary learning-based classification of ink strokes in Vincent van Gogh’s drawings"
Vincent, we know you painted your palette blue and grey, but what about your different strokes with pen and ink?
Researchers in The Netherlands and the USA have used discriminative dictionary learning techniques to study and classify the brush strokes in historical artworks, specifically those created by Vincent van Gogh. Ultimately, the aim is to find a way to carry out the automatic classification of an ink drawing based on the type of stroke used by the artist.
Rosaleena Mohanty and William Sethares of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have worked with colleagues Teio Meedendorp and Louis van Tilborgh of the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam and discuss details of their research in the International Journal of Arts and Technology.
In a letter written in 1883, van Gogh stated that “drawings are the root of everything”. Indeed, he drew a variety of images with ink and pencil strokes and these can be seen clearly and distinctly in his work: cross-hatchings, dots, vertical, horizontal, blunt, curved strokes, some long, some short, some light and some dark. In his drawing, “Sower with Setting Sun”, it is possible to discern the various strokes he used and perhaps “segment” them by eye. There are bold slashes in the foreground that represent the field, thin vertical lines depicting the grain, dots capping the grain, smaller dots speckled throughout the sky, and the relatively complex cross-hatching that forms the clothes of the sower. However, to analyse a large body of work and to find an objective way to classify drawings perhaps for conservation and art fraud avoidance would require a huge amount of time and effort and would not necessarily provide a definitive segmentation of the collection.
The team’s approach takes a step closer to a generalised method for the classification of large bodies of artworks.
Mohanty, R., Sethares, W.A., Meedendorp, T. and van Tilborgh, L. (2019) ‘Dictionary learning-based classification of ink strokes in Vincent van Gogh’s drawings’, Int. J. Arts and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.80–98.
Researchers in The Netherlands and the USA have used discriminative dictionary learning techniques to study and classify the brush strokes in historical artworks, specifically those created by Vincent van Gogh. Ultimately, the aim is to find a way to carry out the automatic classification of an ink drawing based on the type of stroke used by the artist.
Rosaleena Mohanty and William Sethares of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have worked with colleagues Teio Meedendorp and Louis van Tilborgh of the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam and discuss details of their research in the International Journal of Arts and Technology.
In a letter written in 1883, van Gogh stated that “drawings are the root of everything”. Indeed, he drew a variety of images with ink and pencil strokes and these can be seen clearly and distinctly in his work: cross-hatchings, dots, vertical, horizontal, blunt, curved strokes, some long, some short, some light and some dark. In his drawing, “Sower with Setting Sun”, it is possible to discern the various strokes he used and perhaps “segment” them by eye. There are bold slashes in the foreground that represent the field, thin vertical lines depicting the grain, dots capping the grain, smaller dots speckled throughout the sky, and the relatively complex cross-hatching that forms the clothes of the sower. However, to analyse a large body of work and to find an objective way to classify drawings perhaps for conservation and art fraud avoidance would require a huge amount of time and effort and would not necessarily provide a definitive segmentation of the collection.
The team’s approach takes a step closer to a generalised method for the classification of large bodies of artworks.
Mohanty, R., Sethares, W.A., Meedendorp, T. and van Tilborgh, L. (2019) ‘Dictionary learning-based classification of ink strokes in Vincent van Gogh’s drawings’, Int. J. Arts and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.80–98.
27 January 2019
Special issue published: "Private and Public Legal Approaches to Green Economics"
International Journal of Green Economics 12(2) 2018
- The risk of environmental damage: a corporate governance perspective
- Sovereign wealth funds, shareholder activism and socially responsible investing: impact on corporate governance and sustainability
- Private responsibilities in the protection of the environment: how to involve SMEs in participatory regulations?
- Externalising the energy law: the domestic impact beyond the current domain of the European Union
- New approaches to safety regulation for offshore oil and gas exploration and production in the UK and Norway
26 January 2019
Inderscience journals to invite expanded papers from GABER Conference on The Impacts of Trade War, Stock Market Volatility, Fiscal and Monetary Policies on Global Economic Growth for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the GABER Conference: The Impacts of Trade War, Stock Market Volatility, Fiscal and Monetary Policies on Global Economic Growth (29-31 May 2019, New York, USA) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation are now available here for free:
- Adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system in modelling/detecting cracks and porosity using liquid penetrant test
- Experimental investigation of CNC machining of elliptical pockets on AISI 304 stainless steel
- Synergising mixture DoE with CFD for ash-slurry optimisation
- Uniform designs based on F-squares
- Parametric design for quality improvement of injection-moulded product in a consumer electronics conglomerate
- Measures of uniformity for space-filling uniform designs in a spherical region
- Practical comparison of traditional and definitive screening designs in chemical process development
Special issue published: "The Entrepreneurial University Across Regions"
International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development 8(4) 2018
- How entrepreneurial universities walk the talk or win the prizes: an online content and factor analysis
- A sub-regional innovation ecosystem? Life sciences and health in the Swansea Bay City Region
- Successful entrepreneurship ecosystems for regional development: a proposal for their modelling and creation
- Factors influencing academic entrepreneurship in Nigerian universities
- The entrepreneurial university as an engine for sustainable development
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets
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- The psychology of inflation on commitment bonds and citizenship intent: the case of Ghana
- Dividend policy of firms listed on Casablanca Stock Exchange: a panel data analysis
- International orientation and business group performance: moderating role of product diversification (evidence from India)
- A case study of spontaneous diversification: evidence from a small Thai family firm
- Poverty, sustainability and the demographic dividend
25 January 2019
Inderscience journals to invite expanded papers from GABER Conference "The Impacts of Trade Policies, Volatility in Equity Markets, and Interest Rates on Global & Regional Economic Growths" for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the GABER Conference: The Impacts of Trade Policies, Volatility in Equity Markets, and Interest Rates on Global & Regional Economic Growths (1-3 May, 2019, Orlando, USA) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing are now available here for free:
- Research on financial advertisement personalised recommendation method based on customer segmentation
- Cloud outsourcing computing security protocol of matrix multiplication computation based on similarity transformation
- An improved cluster-based routing algorithm for energy optimisation in wireless sensor networks
- The feature extraction of facial expression based on the point distribution model of improved kinect
- Many-to-one D2D for content delivery in cellular networks
- Design and optimisation of narrow dual bandpass filter using bell-shaped structure for RF receiver system
- Optimisation of the high-order problems in evolutionary algorithms: an application of transfer learning
- Multi-strategy artificial bee colony based on multiple population for coverage optimisation
- An investigation on wireless sensor networks pipeline monitoring system
- Wireless ad hoc network: detection of malicious node by using neighbour-based authentication approach
- A fuzzy priority based congestion control scheme in wireless body area networks
International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering Board Member wins national award
Prof. Yanxiong Liu, one of the Editorial Board Members of the International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering, is the second person-in-charge of the project "The Technology and Equipment of Combined Fine Blanking Process For High Precision and High strength Mid-Thick Plate Structural Components", which recently won Second Prize in the 2018 National Technological Invention Award.
The series of innovative achievements of the project has promoted the transformation and upgrading of mid-thick plates from blank production to precision manufacturing, thus greatly increasing the precision performance and production efficiency of mid-thick plate structural components, improving the working environment of workers, and achieving high-quality, highly efficient and green manufacturing.
More details are available here.
The series of innovative achievements of the project has promoted the transformation and upgrading of mid-thick plates from blank production to precision manufacturing, thus greatly increasing the precision performance and production efficiency of mid-thick plate structural components, improving the working environment of workers, and achieving high-quality, highly efficient and green manufacturing.
More details are available here.
Research pick: Online safety across the digital divide - "The digital divide: implications for the eSafety of children and adolescents"
“The digital divide is the gap between those who are digitally literate and those who are not, between those who do and do not have access to digital environments.” So begins a paper in the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning from Gila Cohen Zilka of the Department for Teaching Social Science and Communication, at Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel. She has now investigated the implications of the digital divide for the “online” safety of children and adolescents.
Cohen Zilka studied three hundred forty-five Israeli children and adolescents who participated in her mixed-method study. Fundamentally, the research found that youngsters who have digital equipment at home displayed higher eSafety skills and computer literacy than did children who have no digital equipment or those who have only a few such devices, as one might perhaps expect. A lack of access to information and communications technology (ICT) results in a lack of or limited skills in this critical area of modern life. One result is that those youngsters on the wrong side of the digital divide are at greater risk of cyberbullying and other problems, online hazards and the problem of predatory adults, than the more computer literate with better access to ICT at home.
She concludes on the basis of her research, that it would be desirable for children and adolescents who are part of a disadvantaged population in terms of access to ICT to be encouraged and educated and given greater access to computer time and eSafety skills in school or in public digital environments. The work corroborates the earlier research of others that those youngsters that are especially vulnerable to internet risks are often those whose families have financial difficulties, are part of a minority or immigrant group, are in poverty, have disabilities, or have simply moved from one educational setting to another.
Zilka, G.C. (2019) ‘The digital divide: implications for the eSafety of children and adolescents’, Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.20–35.
Cohen Zilka studied three hundred forty-five Israeli children and adolescents who participated in her mixed-method study. Fundamentally, the research found that youngsters who have digital equipment at home displayed higher eSafety skills and computer literacy than did children who have no digital equipment or those who have only a few such devices, as one might perhaps expect. A lack of access to information and communications technology (ICT) results in a lack of or limited skills in this critical area of modern life. One result is that those youngsters on the wrong side of the digital divide are at greater risk of cyberbullying and other problems, online hazards and the problem of predatory adults, than the more computer literate with better access to ICT at home.
She concludes on the basis of her research, that it would be desirable for children and adolescents who are part of a disadvantaged population in terms of access to ICT to be encouraged and educated and given greater access to computer time and eSafety skills in school or in public digital environments. The work corroborates the earlier research of others that those youngsters that are especially vulnerable to internet risks are often those whose families have financial difficulties, are part of a minority or immigrant group, are in poverty, have disabilities, or have simply moved from one educational setting to another.
Zilka, G.C. (2019) ‘The digital divide: implications for the eSafety of children and adolescents’, Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.20–35.
24 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development are now available here for free:
- Knowledge organisations in less innovative regions: what factors explain the emergence and development of their links with firms? A case study in Argentina
- Decentralisation of science and innovation policies in emerging countries: three key challenges that deserve further attention
- Factors determining user satisfaction of internet usage among public sector employees in Yemen
- How do research intensive systems emerge in less developed areas? The case of mechatronics in the Italian southern region Apulia
Special issue published: "Innovations and New Frontiers for International Marketing and Management"
International Journal of Business and Globalisation 22(1) 2019
- Cost of equity capital in small and medium sized private companies: theoretical considerations and empirical and case-study's results concerning SMEs in southwest Germany
- Industrial development in North Africa: a comparative analysis for the period 2004-2012
- Communicating sustainability practices and values: a case study approach of a micro-organisation in the UK
- Investigating Chinese audience-consumer responses towards TV character-based fashion related social media content
- New trends in luxury goods consumptions: a cross-cultural analysis
- The effects of rebranding on customer-based brand equity
- International flagship stores: an exploration of store atmospherics and their influence on purchase behaviour
- Examining corresponding project management and change management roles in practice
International Journal of Comparative Management announces 2017-2018 awards
The International Journal of Comparative Management's Editor in Chief, Prof. K.S. Reddy, after consulting his senior editorial board members, is pleased to announce the following awards for 2017-2018:
- Best Paper Award: Dr. Saif-ud-Din (King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia), Prof. Vishwanath V. Baba (McMaster University, Canada) and Prof. Louise Tourigny (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA) for the following paper: Emotional exhaustion and its consequences: a comparative study of nurses in India and China. International Journal of Comparative Management 2018, 1(1), 65-90
- Highly Commended Paper Award: Prof. Thierry Warin (HEC Montréal, Canada) and William Sanger (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada) for the following paper: Connectivity and closeness among international financial institutions: a network theory perspective. International Journal of Comparative Management 2018, 1(3), 225-254
- Outstanding Reviewers for 2017-2018: Prof. Virginia Bodolica (American University of Sharjah, UAE); Assoc. Prof. Sarah Philipson (University of Gävle, Sweden); Prof. Mario Henrique Ogasavara (ESPM: Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil); Prof. Tanuja Agarwala (University of Delhi, India); Dr. Jones Odei Mensah (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); Dr. Imlak Shaikh (Management Development Institute Gurgaon, India)
Research pick: Natives and foreigners - "The good, the bad and the ugly: images of the foreigner in contemporary criminal law"
After the Second World War of 1939-1945, Western democracies had attempted to reconcile their criminal law in democratic, “republican” terms aimed at the citizen. However, in the last two decades, new criminal law has been written that pertains not to the citizen, but to the foreigner. Writing in the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Alessandro Spena of the Department of Law, at the University of Palermo, Italy, discusses these new laws. The research focuses on how these new laws essentially treat foreigners as inferior to the citizen and proffer fewer human rights on those individuals when compared to the natives of a given nation.
Spena describes the ephemeral, and yet legally consequential notion of good and bad citizens, good and bad foreigners and ‘ugly’ mass-foreigners that invokes the neologism of “crimmigration”. He further explains how in contemporary criminal law, citizens have renewed importance despite the notion of globalization. Indeed, while globalization is apparent in many developed countries and those we might refer to as “developing” nations, the natural geological, geographical, and political obstacles to human mobility are becoming more apparent.
Indeed, globalization and an urge to become more cosmopolitan both have their opponents and populism and nationalism are on the rise with worries among some pundits and political observers that these are beginning to lead towards fascism in some arenas. Reaction and collective anxieties about political borders, and an “us and them” attitude that has arisen in some quarters during the last two decades are growing stronger as concerns about unfettered immigration get nudged higher up the agenda by those with their own political power agenda.
Of course, the notion of us and them is entirely artificial as is the notion of borders and national identity. Human mobility has been extant since we took our first steps from the cradle of humanity. Moreover, we are all the same within, there are good, bad, and ugly among us and our legal system recognize this and the humanity of us all whether “citizen” or “foreigner”.
Spena, A. (2018) ‘The good, the bad and the ugly: images of the foreigner in contemporary criminal law’, Int. J. Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.287–302.
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Spena describes the ephemeral, and yet legally consequential notion of good and bad citizens, good and bad foreigners and ‘ugly’ mass-foreigners that invokes the neologism of “crimmigration”. He further explains how in contemporary criminal law, citizens have renewed importance despite the notion of globalization. Indeed, while globalization is apparent in many developed countries and those we might refer to as “developing” nations, the natural geological, geographical, and political obstacles to human mobility are becoming more apparent.
Indeed, globalization and an urge to become more cosmopolitan both have their opponents and populism and nationalism are on the rise with worries among some pundits and political observers that these are beginning to lead towards fascism in some arenas. Reaction and collective anxieties about political borders, and an “us and them” attitude that has arisen in some quarters during the last two decades are growing stronger as concerns about unfettered immigration get nudged higher up the agenda by those with their own political power agenda.
Of course, the notion of us and them is entirely artificial as is the notion of borders and national identity. Human mobility has been extant since we took our first steps from the cradle of humanity. Moreover, we are all the same within, there are good, bad, and ugly among us and our legal system recognize this and the humanity of us all whether “citizen” or “foreigner”.
Spena, A. (2018) ‘The good, the bad and the ugly: images of the foreigner in contemporary criminal law’, Int. J. Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.287–302.
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23 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Swarm Intelligence
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence are now available here for free:
- Random weight-based ant colony optimisation algorithm for the multi-objective optimisation problems
- Web page ranking using ant colony optimisation and genetic algorithm for effective information retrieval
- Design and applications of a new DE-PSO-DE algorithm for unconstrained optimisation problems
- Novel hybridised variants of gravitational search algorithm for constraint optimisation
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications
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- BAMR: a novel bandwidth aware multipath reactive routing protocol for mobile ad hoc network
- Modelling and analysis of information-based target searching using mobile sensors
- Recurrent neuro-fuzzy control of grid-interfaced solid oxide fuel cell system
- Impact of black hole attack on reliability of mobile ad hoc network under DSDV routing protocol
- Fuzzy-based Wi-Fi localisation with high accuracy using fingerprinting
New Editor for International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management
Associate Prof. Li (Juliet) Hui from Tianjin University of Technology in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Chinese Culture and Management.
Research pick: Giving Napoleon wings - "A comparative study on global commercial advertisement perceptions – British and French viewers’ responses to Red Bull"
The seminal research on the concept of product globalization was published by Levitt in 1983. And yet, business, branding, and marketing researchers are yet to settle on a clear understanding of how an international product is perceived by people from different parts of the world. A product, such as the caffeinated soft drink, Red Bull, may well be considered an international brand but how is this originally Austrian product and its associated “cartoon character”, really perceived by people in France and Great Britain, for example? Researchers from Germany writing in the International Journal of Comparative Management hoped to find out.
Kerstin Bremser and Véronique Goehlich of the Department of International Business, in the Faculty of Business and Law, at Pforzheim University, Nadine Walter of the University’s Department of International Marketing carried out an exploratory study. They found through their analyses of viewers’ perceptions of advertisements that cultural background affects a person’s feelings towards the marketing character associated with this soft drink and in addition the articulation and style of the background music are perceived in different ways by the British and French respondents to the research.
The team points out that celebrity endorsement is often a strong factor in marketing products, but in the case of Red Bull, it uses more traditional advertising, especially on television, where cartoon-like advertisements that centre on the slogan that ‘Red Bull gives you wings’ is the focus rather than an association with a famous person who purportedly imbibes the drink. The advertisements are standardised between nations but for the language of any narration or written word display. That said, Red Bull used Napoleon as a famous character in their advertising campaign for 2012 and there would likely be a very different perception of that between the British and the French.
However, the team found that although the perception of Napoleon is very different, the branding and sloganising of the campaign transcended these cultural differences. The same famous person can still convey the same meaning to the consumer despite their feelings, positive, negative, indifferent, to that celebrity, in this case, a controversial historical figure.
Bremser, K., Walter, N. and Goehlich, V. (2018) ‘A comparative study on global commercial advertisement perceptions – British and French viewers’ responses to Red Bull’, Int. J. Comparative Management, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.333–354.
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Kerstin Bremser and Véronique Goehlich of the Department of International Business, in the Faculty of Business and Law, at Pforzheim University, Nadine Walter of the University’s Department of International Marketing carried out an exploratory study. They found through their analyses of viewers’ perceptions of advertisements that cultural background affects a person’s feelings towards the marketing character associated with this soft drink and in addition the articulation and style of the background music are perceived in different ways by the British and French respondents to the research.
The team points out that celebrity endorsement is often a strong factor in marketing products, but in the case of Red Bull, it uses more traditional advertising, especially on television, where cartoon-like advertisements that centre on the slogan that ‘Red Bull gives you wings’ is the focus rather than an association with a famous person who purportedly imbibes the drink. The advertisements are standardised between nations but for the language of any narration or written word display. That said, Red Bull used Napoleon as a famous character in their advertising campaign for 2012 and there would likely be a very different perception of that between the British and the French.
However, the team found that although the perception of Napoleon is very different, the branding and sloganising of the campaign transcended these cultural differences. The same famous person can still convey the same meaning to the consumer despite their feelings, positive, negative, indifferent, to that celebrity, in this case, a controversial historical figure.
Bremser, K., Walter, N. and Goehlich, V. (2018) ‘A comparative study on global commercial advertisement perceptions – British and French viewers’ responses to Red Bull’, Int. J. Comparative Management, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.333–354.
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22 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Big Data Intelligence are now available here for free:
- A big data-based RF localisation method for unmanned search and rescue
- A customised automata algorithm and toolkit for language learning and application
- Document stream classification based on transfer learning using latent topics
- Emotion-based topic impact on social media
- An unsupervised service annotation by review analysis
- Ontology-based faceted semantic search with automatic sense disambiguation for bioenergy domain
- Detecting spam web pages using multilayer extreme learning machine
- Sightseeing value estimation by analysing geosocial images
- Sign language recognition in complex background scene based on adaptive skin colour modelling and support vector machine
- Predicting baseline for analysis of electricity pricing
Special issue published: "Knowledge Management and Innovation Strategy in the Family Business: The Asia-Pacific Context"
International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation 16(2) 2018
- International technology transfer and the irruptive processes: an analysis model for the offset policy
- Regulatory focus and growth intentions: the mediating role of an opportunity register
- Accelerating research to business with Hilla Runway model
- The role of religiosity and brand perception in the brand preference for halal cosmetics: a case study of family-owned Islamic cosmetic business
- The effects of social media advertising on consumer purchase intention: a case study of Indonesian family start-up enterprises
- Environmental sustainability issues in Indonesian family business
- Innovative firms in transition economies: what do they have in common?
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Bonds and Derivatives
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- Long memory forecasting of yield spreads using a fractionally integrated ARMA model and its application in Islamic capital market
- Impact of seasoned equity and private placement disclosures on derivative prices: are the spot and option markets integrated?
- Real rate swaption and zero coupon inflation index swaption
- Optimal hedging using both regular and weather derivatives
Research pick: Googling stockmarket success - "Trading the stock market using Google search volumes: a long short-term memory approach"
Researchers in the USA have found a way to extract information from the well-known internet search engine, Google, that can be used to assist with understanding trading on the stock market. The approach follows, what the team refers to as “a long short-term memory approach”.
Writing in the International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Joseph St. Pierre, Mateusz Klimkiewicz, Adonay Resom and Nikolaos Kalampalikis of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, explain how they have extracted Google search indices from a Google trends tracking website. This allows them to study the putative investor interest in stocks listed on the Dow Jones index (Dow 30). Essentially, they accomplish this task by using a long short-term memory network that finds correlations between changes in the search volume for a given asset with changes in the actual trade volume for that asset.
“By using these predictions, we formulate a concise trading strategy in the hopes of being able to outperform the market and analyse the results of this new strategy by backtesting across weekly closing price data for the last six months of 2016,” the team reports. In that proof of principle based on historical data they demonstrated a success rate of 43% and suggest that their algorithm would be scalable beyond the narrow scope of their study and so might be applicable to numerous other assets on the market.
The study begins by citing the received wisdom that the “market” cannot be outperformed and that any attempt to predict stock market rises and falls is effectively doomed to failure. However, given that some investors do regularly “beat” the stock market and make a profit, this conventional theory perhaps does not hold universally and there might be algorithmic methods that look at live data that might allow some investments to predictably outperform the market. They say that their 43% success rate is significant and worth exploring further.
St. Pierre, J., Klimkiewicz, M., Resom, A.and Kalampalikis, N. (2019) ‘Trading the stock market using Google search volumes: a long short-term memory approach‘, Int. J. Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.3-18.
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Writing in the International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Joseph St. Pierre, Mateusz Klimkiewicz, Adonay Resom and Nikolaos Kalampalikis of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, explain how they have extracted Google search indices from a Google trends tracking website. This allows them to study the putative investor interest in stocks listed on the Dow Jones index (Dow 30). Essentially, they accomplish this task by using a long short-term memory network that finds correlations between changes in the search volume for a given asset with changes in the actual trade volume for that asset.
“By using these predictions, we formulate a concise trading strategy in the hopes of being able to outperform the market and analyse the results of this new strategy by backtesting across weekly closing price data for the last six months of 2016,” the team reports. In that proof of principle based on historical data they demonstrated a success rate of 43% and suggest that their algorithm would be scalable beyond the narrow scope of their study and so might be applicable to numerous other assets on the market.
The study begins by citing the received wisdom that the “market” cannot be outperformed and that any attempt to predict stock market rises and falls is effectively doomed to failure. However, given that some investors do regularly “beat” the stock market and make a profit, this conventional theory perhaps does not hold universally and there might be algorithmic methods that look at live data that might allow some investments to predictably outperform the market. They say that their 43% success rate is significant and worth exploring further.
St. Pierre, J., Klimkiewicz, M., Resom, A.and Kalampalikis, N. (2019) ‘Trading the stock market using Google search volumes: a long short-term memory approach‘, Int. J. Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.3-18.
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19 January 2019
International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology to invite expanded papers from 6th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering (ICCESEN 2019) (12-16 October 2019, Kemer-Antalya, Turkey) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology.
Free sample articles newly available from Middle East Journal of Management
The following sample articles from the Middle East Journal of Management are now available here for free:
- Risk examination in the Arabian Gulf Region construction industry from international firms' insights
- Cross-cultural training: a crucial approach to improve the success of expatriate assignment in the United Arab Emirates
- Impact of weather conditions on construction labour productivity in Qatar
- Causes of construction accidents in Oman
- Strategic adaptation to environmental jolts: an analysis of corporate resilience in the property development sector in Dubai
Special issue published: "As the World Turns: International Business Strategies from Cross-Cultural Perspectives"
Journal for Global Business Advancement 11(5) 2018
- A configuration of managerial assumptions and strategy: toward a synthesis
- Linking training and development to employee turnover intention: are performance management and compensation sequential mediators?
- Factors influencing the effectiveness of the accounting information system: a case from Vietnamese firms
- The relationship among distinctive capabilities, business strategy, environment and performance: a proposed model of manufacturing SMEs in Palestine
- The experiential image of North Cyprus destination as perceived by German tourists
- Workplace spirituality and well-being: examining the relationship on employee engagement in South Korea
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Private Law
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- CONTEST'ing Chicago origins and reflections: lest we forget!
- Sexual misconduct in academic setting: domestic law and practice in Malaysia
- Dynamic margin setting with EWMA volatilities
- The enforcement of foreign arbitral award merged with foreign judgement under the United Arab Emirate Civil Procedure Law
- Regulating over-the-top services in Australia - from universal service obligation scheme to OTT regulation
- The weighted average price determination in anti-dumping in South Africa: is there fowl play?
- The role of multinational corporations in Indonesian economic development through foreign direct investment and international trade
18 January 2019
Inderscience journals to invite expanded papers from International Conference on Global Health & Medical Tourism for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Global Health & Medical Tourism (GloHMT 2019) (7-10 March 2019, IIM Kozhikode, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the following journals:
Special issue published: "Technologies Applied in Arts"
International Journal of Arts and Technology 11(1) 2019
- How to see art through the eyes of an avatar: Cao Fei's progression to online immersion
- Hindi word correction using micro-parsing
- Developing new robust motion templates of martial art techniques using R-GDL approach: a case study of SSCM
- Dictionary learning-based classification of ink strokes in Vincent van Gogh's drawings
- Design of intensive self-suction multi-purpose household ironing table: based on kansei engineering
- Framework for ranking the cloud service providers of federated cloud architecture using probability ranking methodology
- The themes of metalworking in the Saljuqid period vis-à-vis Khorasan and Mosul schools
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining
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- Fuzzy logic-based single document summarisation with improved sentence scoring technique
- Multi channel selection using distributed mutual exclusion and multi-criteria decision in cognitive radio networks
- A novel channel state prediction technique for overlay cognitive radio-based emergency sensor networks
- Image optimisation using dynamic load balancing
- Towards a scalability approach for risk mitigation in electrical systems
- An analysis of the 2016 US presidential election using Chanakya - a knowledge discovery platform for text mining
- Performance improvement options of scientific applications on XeonPhi KNL architectures
Research pick: Democracy and development - "Democracy and economic growth"
Does the emergence of national democracy lead to economic wealth? Researchers in Hong Kong and the UK suggest that the face pace of change in a new democracy actually leads to detrimental effects initially to a country’s macro-economy. However, if the state reaches the well-developed stage, then ultimately it will become democratised without external pressure.
Writing in the International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, Rita Yi Man Li and Edward Chi Ho Tang in the Department of Economics and Finance, at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and Tat Ho Leung in the School of Environment, Education and Development, at the University of Manchester, UK, explain how they have carried out research on 167 countries. They used the democracy index, corruption perception index, inflation, population, number of internet users, the balance of trade, foreign direct investment, and other factors to determine democratic state and national wealth. They also included sub-indices such as the electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, culture, and civil liberties, to ensure they got a clear picture of each country’s specific level of democracy.
The received wisdom always seemed to suggest that democratization leads to economic growth. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the Soviet Union are often cited in such discussions. But, the flip side of this is the examples of China and Singapore, which are not considered democratic nations in the “Western” sense where economic freedom and equality do not prevail. It seems apparent that an electoral system leads to the establishment and protection of personal rights and private property, which are often precluded in the non-democratic nation. However, the team has found that with the assistance of the political sector, the economic sector cannot perform at as high a level as it otherwise might and so it is demonstrable that the emergence of democracy can slow economic growth indirectly for a short period at least until it is well established and a nation “developed”.
Li, R.Y.M., Tang, E.C.H. and Leung, T.H. (2019) ‘Democracy and economic growth’, Int. J. Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.58–80.
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Writing in the International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, Rita Yi Man Li and Edward Chi Ho Tang in the Department of Economics and Finance, at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and Tat Ho Leung in the School of Environment, Education and Development, at the University of Manchester, UK, explain how they have carried out research on 167 countries. They used the democracy index, corruption perception index, inflation, population, number of internet users, the balance of trade, foreign direct investment, and other factors to determine democratic state and national wealth. They also included sub-indices such as the electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, culture, and civil liberties, to ensure they got a clear picture of each country’s specific level of democracy.
The received wisdom always seemed to suggest that democratization leads to economic growth. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the Soviet Union are often cited in such discussions. But, the flip side of this is the examples of China and Singapore, which are not considered democratic nations in the “Western” sense where economic freedom and equality do not prevail. It seems apparent that an electoral system leads to the establishment and protection of personal rights and private property, which are often precluded in the non-democratic nation. However, the team has found that with the assistance of the political sector, the economic sector cannot perform at as high a level as it otherwise might and so it is demonstrable that the emergence of democracy can slow economic growth indirectly for a short period at least until it is well established and a nation “developed”.
Li, R.Y.M., Tang, E.C.H. and Leung, T.H. (2019) ‘Democracy and economic growth’, Int. J. Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.58–80.
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17 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Arts and Technology
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Arts and Technology are now available here for free:
- Exploring the educational impact of diverse technologies in online virtual museums
- Trancing: applying evolution's cognitive adaptation via web art/music
- Fractal analysis of tree paintings by Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
- The structure of extracting a character's appearance components
Special issue published: "New Technologies and the Law"
International Journal of Private Law 9(1/2) 2018
- Threats of the internet of things in a techno-regulated society: a new legal challenge of the information revolution
- Online copyright infringement, techno-cultural creations and the copyright-technology nexus
- A consumer's case for regulating electronic credit and debit transfers in South Africa
- Artificial reproductive technologies and international law: the role of human rights
- Good governance for consumer welfare and accountability in the age of digital aggregators: the case of Amazon India
- Regulation of Uber in São Paulo: from conflict to regulatory experimentation
- Financial liberalisation versus the regulation of capital outflows: reflections on capital movement restrictions in South Africa on the backdrop of South African Reserve Bank and Another v Shuttleworth and Another 2015 (5) SA 146 (CC)
- Reflections on recent developments regarding wage garnishment in South Africa
New Editor for International Journal of Cultural Management
Associate Prof. David Schein from the University of St. Thomas in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Cultural Management.
Research pick: Should we sloganise competence in the EU? - "The European Union’s smart specialisation launch and brand slogan management"
Rauno Rusko of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Lapland, in Rovaniemi, Finland, has studied the roots of and the features of smart specialisation associated with brand slogan management. Writing in the International Journal of Public Policy, he explains how the European Union is using the smart specialisation concept in its documents, plans, and regional fieldwork to portray itself as a growth-efficient organisation.
However, it is obvious that smart specialization is not the sole preserve of the EU. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) all utilize this concept, although perhaps to a lesser degree than the EU. Moreover, within the EU itself the concept has been used with greater success in regions within the EU than the EU as a whole. Rusko suggests that the temptation exists to simply see this concept as little more than a slogan, however, its benefits and utility are apparent. Indeed, it is a process in which the EU is the rule maker and gatekeeper for funding innovations and investments in the region as a whole.
Intellectual reform intellectual was launched to achieve as wide an influence as possible and to enhance competence and to boost regional learning and research and development. Rusko has shown that “The instruments of marketing research, such as brand, slogan, brand management, and brand slogan management, provide incremental value to public management discussions, such as the smart specialisation discourse. ” However, although place branding does not necessarily need sloganisation, “It is easy to understand that, if the EU is a brand, then smart specialisation is supporting this brand in a way that is typical for slogans in the business sector,” Rusko adds.
Rusko, R. (2018) ‘The European Union’s smart specialisation launch and brand slogan management’, Int. J. Public Policy, Vol. 14, Nos. 5/6, pp.320–342.
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However, it is obvious that smart specialization is not the sole preserve of the EU. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation And Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) all utilize this concept, although perhaps to a lesser degree than the EU. Moreover, within the EU itself the concept has been used with greater success in regions within the EU than the EU as a whole. Rusko suggests that the temptation exists to simply see this concept as little more than a slogan, however, its benefits and utility are apparent. Indeed, it is a process in which the EU is the rule maker and gatekeeper for funding innovations and investments in the region as a whole.
Intellectual reform intellectual was launched to achieve as wide an influence as possible and to enhance competence and to boost regional learning and research and development. Rusko has shown that “The instruments of marketing research, such as brand, slogan, brand management, and brand slogan management, provide incremental value to public management discussions, such as the smart specialisation discourse. ” However, although place branding does not necessarily need sloganisation, “It is easy to understand that, if the EU is a brand, then smart specialisation is supporting this brand in a way that is typical for slogans in the business sector,” Rusko adds.
Rusko, R. (2018) ‘The European Union’s smart specialisation launch and brand slogan management’, Int. J. Public Policy, Vol. 14, Nos. 5/6, pp.320–342.
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16 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Applied Nonlinear Science
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Applied Nonlinear Science are now available here for free:
- A comparison of different lower bounding procedures for the routing of automated guided vehicles in an urban context
- Determinants of Malaysian bank efficiency: evidence from bootstrap data envelopment analysis
- Multi-objective decision making in macro- and micro-economics with application of the MULTIMOORA method
- A multi-criteria policy set optimisation framework for large-scale simulation models
- An evaluation of the impact of foreign direct investment on Bahraini economy
- Public investment management system in Kuwait
- Multi-objective methods in development planning
Special issue published: "Regionalisation of the Asian Automotive Industries and Markets: Part 2"
International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 18(4) 2018
- Production networks of the Asian automobile industry: regional or global?
- Examining the realignment strategies of automobile production bases in Southeast Asia: the case of Japanese automakers
- Regional economic integration and the automobile industry: automobile policies, division of labour, production network formation and market development in the EU and ASEAN
- Growth strategy from the suppliers' viewpoint: a case study of Denso and Hitachi Automotive Systems
- Product innovation in emerging economies: product architecture and organisational capabilities in Geely and Tata
New Editor for International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
Prof. Tao Wu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications.
Research pick: Unemployment and unhappiness - "The analysis of unemployment, happiness and demographic factors using log-linear models"
A new research paper in the International Journal of Economics and Business Research uses log-linear models to study the correlation between happiness, employment and various demographic factors.
Sultan Kuzu of the Department of Quantitative Methods, in the School of Business, at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey together with Sevgi Elmas-Atay and Merve Gerçek of the Department of Human Resources Management there, explain how unemployment is an important economic measurement. It is studied in the context of a nation’s development as well as in a sociological context. Importantly, it is known to be closely associated with welfare, quality of life and psychological health of individuals.
The team has now looked at unemployment not as an abstract, statistical concept in the macroeconomic arena but from the personal perspective based on “micro” level data acquired from household surveys carried out by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). Log-linear models were used to analyse the data and these showed clearly that employment is related to a person’s happiness and gender and that there is a statistically significant difference between happiness and gender in a developing country such as Turkey.
Kuzu, S., Elmas-Atay, S. and Gerçek, M. (2019) ‘The analysis of unemployment, happiness and demographic factors using log-linear models’, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp.87–105.
Sultan Kuzu of the Department of Quantitative Methods, in the School of Business, at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey together with Sevgi Elmas-Atay and Merve Gerçek of the Department of Human Resources Management there, explain how unemployment is an important economic measurement. It is studied in the context of a nation’s development as well as in a sociological context. Importantly, it is known to be closely associated with welfare, quality of life and psychological health of individuals.
The team has now looked at unemployment not as an abstract, statistical concept in the macroeconomic arena but from the personal perspective based on “micro” level data acquired from household surveys carried out by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK). Log-linear models were used to analyse the data and these showed clearly that employment is related to a person’s happiness and gender and that there is a statistically significant difference between happiness and gender in a developing country such as Turkey.
Kuzu, S., Elmas-Atay, S. and Gerçek, M. (2019) ‘The analysis of unemployment, happiness and demographic factors using log-linear models’, Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp.87–105.
15 January 2019
Free Editor's Pick of sample articles newly available from International Journal of Comparative Management
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Comparative Management are now available here for free:
- A comparative study on glocal commercial advertisement perceptions - British and French viewers' responses to Red Bull
- The impact of corporate governance on earnings management in emerging economies: the Greek evidence
- Connectivity and closeness among international financial institutions: a network theory perspective
- India's outward foreign direct investment: the home-country economic perspective
- Outward foreign direct investment from Indian manufacturing firms - does transaction cost theory explains early choices?
- Location choices at the subnational level perspective: the case of the Volkswagen Group in BRIC countries
- Emotional exhaustion and its consequences: a comparative study of nurses in India and China
- Institutional, stakeholder, and cultural influences on corporate social performance: an institution-based view
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Water
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Water are now available here for free:
- Status of domestic water supply and prospects of rainwater harvesting in Southeastern Nigeria
- Spatio-temporal analysis of groundwater level in an arid area
- Evaluating water productivity of tomato, pepper and Swiss chard under clay pot and furrow irrigation technologies in semi-arid areas of northern Ethiopia
- Hydraulic interconnections study of Seropan-Ngreneng-Bribin underground rivers in Gunung Kidul karst area using tracer technique
- Comparison of two statistical climate downscaling models: a case study in the Beijing region, China
- Modelling and sensitivity analysis of river flow in the Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan
New Editor for International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering
Dr. Erol Kalkan from the United States Geological Survey has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering.
Research pick: Recycling electronic waste - "Current practice and policy for transforming e-waste into urban mining: case study in Taiwan"
Taiwan is one of the most important suppliers of electrical and electronic products in the world; as such it is itself also an important consumer of those products. This means that the amount of electronic waste, e-waste, generated from information technology (IT) products, home electrical appliances and lighting, is increasing rapidly there.
Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, Wen-Tien Tsai of the Graduate Institute of Bioresources, at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, in Pingtung, Taiwan, explains how he has investigated the regulatory promotion of e-waste recycling in Taiwan. He found that although the annual quantity of e-waste recycling through the implementing agencies seemed to increase more than tenfold from 7,321 tons in 2001 to 74,421 tons in 2015, there is evidence that the recycling market in Taiwan has matured in recent years partly because of the country’s ageing population and slow economic growth. Tsai also highlights the case of fluorescent lighting tubes and how mercury can be successfully recovered from these at end-of-life.
He points out how the waste composition is still shifting as new products emerge in the realm of personalised medicine, electric vehicles, IT products, novel consumer electronics products, and an increased diversity of food products and home electrical appliances.
We must address these novel waste streams and find ways to recycle such goods, especially those that contain toxic materials, including mercury. Tsai adds that the improper management and disposal of waste or discarded items could lead to significant environmental harm and harm to human health. In addition, there is a need to retrieve from such goods rare elements that are of limited supply such as precious metals and mineral elements.
Tsai, W-T. (2019) ‘Current practice and policy for transforming e-waste into urban mining: case study in Taiwan‘, Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.1-15.
Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, Wen-Tien Tsai of the Graduate Institute of Bioresources, at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, in Pingtung, Taiwan, explains how he has investigated the regulatory promotion of e-waste recycling in Taiwan. He found that although the annual quantity of e-waste recycling through the implementing agencies seemed to increase more than tenfold from 7,321 tons in 2001 to 74,421 tons in 2015, there is evidence that the recycling market in Taiwan has matured in recent years partly because of the country’s ageing population and slow economic growth. Tsai also highlights the case of fluorescent lighting tubes and how mercury can be successfully recovered from these at end-of-life.
He points out how the waste composition is still shifting as new products emerge in the realm of personalised medicine, electric vehicles, IT products, novel consumer electronics products, and an increased diversity of food products and home electrical appliances.
We must address these novel waste streams and find ways to recycle such goods, especially those that contain toxic materials, including mercury. Tsai adds that the improper management and disposal of waste or discarded items could lead to significant environmental harm and harm to human health. In addition, there is a need to retrieve from such goods rare elements that are of limited supply such as precious metals and mineral elements.
Tsai, W-T. (2019) ‘Current practice and policy for transforming e-waste into urban mining: case study in Taiwan‘, Int. J. Environment and Waste Management, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.1-15.
13 January 2019
Special issue published: "New Energy Materials and Nanotechnology: Modelling and Experiment – Part 2"
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing 15(1/2) 2019
- Multiferroic behaviours of Mn-doped Bi4NdTi3FeO15 ceramics
- Molecular dynamics simulation of shear deformation of multi-layer graphene sheets with Tersoff potential
- The luminescent properties of GdAlO3:Tb3+ phosphors based on molten salts addition
- Hollow microellipsoid lithium silicate with mesoporosity and its formation mechanism
- Preparation of poly(3-hydroxybutyrateco-3-hydroxyvalerate) supported cobalt phthalocyanine thin membranes and its catalytic degradation of methylene blue
- Preparation and characterisation of cMWCNTs-mSA/mCS bipolar membrane for electrochemical synthesis
- Photocatalytic properties of magnesium aluminate spinel nanoparticles prepared by chemical precipitation method
- Experimental investigation on the surface tension and contact angle of Al2O3-oil and SiO2-oil nanofluids
- Growth of NiCo2O4 nanotubes @MnO2 sheet core-shell arrays on 3D hierarchical porous carbon aerogels as superior electrodes for supercapacitors
- Scalable synthesis of Sn nanoparticles encapsulated in hierarchical porous carbon networks for high-rate reversible lithium storage
- Silicon-based anode materials with three-dimensional conductive network for high-performance lithium ion batteries
- Khaki-coloured niobium oxide nanochains with enhanced lithium storage performances
- Influence of shear-induced crystallisation on the rheological behaviour of polyethylene
- Low temperature dependence of mechanical process of ultrathin aluminium films: molecular dynamics simulations
- Surface modification of TiO2 nanorod arrays with Ag3PO4 @ PANI nanoparticles for enhancing photoelectrochemical performance
- Creating binder-free supercapacitor electrodes from biomass resources: a nitrogen-doped pomelo peel derived carbon foam
- Sulphur-doped banana peel-derived activated carbon as electrode materials for supercapacitors
- Enhanced photocatalytic activity of AgVO3/TiO2 nanorod array composite film under visible light irradiation
- The study on flexible AgVO3 nano paper and its visible light photocatalytic activity
- The effect of nano-zirconia on the morphology and mechanical properties of PVDF/PAN membrane as separators in super capacitors
- One-dimensional Z-scheme TiO2/WO3 composite nanofibres for enhanced photocatalytic activity of hydrogen production
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
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12 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Nanomanufacturing
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International Journal of Precision Technology to invite expanded papers from International Conference on Functional Materials, Manufacturing and Performances 2019 for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Functional Materials, Manufacturing and Performances (ICFMMP) (12-13 September 2019, Phagwara, Punjab, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Precision Technology.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Exergy
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Special issue published: "European Financial Systems in the Post-Crisis Period"
International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 11(4) 2018
- Are banks in financial conglomerates more profitable than other commercial banks? Evidence of banking sectors in Visegrad countries
- Profitability and efficiency of the Croatian banking sector: impact of bank size
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- Importance of financial ratios for predicting stock price trends: evidence from the Visegrad Group
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11 January 2019
Special issue published: "Advances in Smart Learning Systems"
International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing 10(1) 2019
- Educational data modelling using curve fitting and average uniform algorithm
- Energy harvesting techniques for routing issues in wireless sensor networks
- Evaluating the affordances of wearable technology in education
- High-speed gesture modelling through boundary analysis of active signals from wearable data glove
- How mutual information interprets anomalies using different clustering
- A novel integrated framework for securing online instructor-student communication
- A data replication strategy for document-oriented NoSQL systems
- Cost-aware hybrid cloud scheduling of parameter sweep calculations using predictive algorithms
- Towards providing middleware-level proactive resource reorganisation for elastic HPC applications in the cloud
International Journal of Comparative Management to invite expanded papers from International Conference on Advances in Management Practices 2019 for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Management Practices (ICAMP 2019) (27 April 2019, Rohini, Delhi, India) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Comparative Management.
International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism to invite expanded papers from Humic Conference 2019 for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the Humic Conference 2019 (5-8 June 2019, Riga, Latvia) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Tourism.
Research pick: Data mining syndromes - "Data mining and ontology-based techniques in healthcare management"
With every news story, the concepts of data mining healthcare information move higher still up the research and policy agenda in this area. Clinical information and genetic data contained within electronic health records (EHRs) represents a major source of useful information for biomedical research but accessing it in a useful way can be difficult.
Writing in the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics, Hassan Mahmoud and Enas Abbas of Benha University and Ibrahim Fathy Ain Shams University, in Egypt, discuss the need for innovative and effective methods for representing this huge amount of data. They point out that there are data mining techniques as well as ontology-based techniques that can play a major role in detecting syndromes in patients efficiently and accurately. A syndrome is defined as a set of concomitant medical symptoms and indicators associated with a given disease or disorder.
The team has reviewed the state of the art and also focused on reviewing the well-known data mining techniques such as decision trees (J48), Naïve Bayes, multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and random forest (RF) techniques and compared how well they each perform in the classification of a particular syndrome, heart disease.
The team concludes that in experiments with a public data set, the RF classifier provides the best performance in terms of accuracy. In the future, they suggest that data mining will benefit healthcare and medicine significant for building a system able to detect a specific syndrome.
Mahmoud, H., Abbas, E. and Fathy, I. (2018) ‘Data mining and ontology-based techniques in healthcare management’, Int. J. Intelligent Engineering Informatics, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp.509–526.
Writing in the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics, Hassan Mahmoud and Enas Abbas of Benha University and Ibrahim Fathy Ain Shams University, in Egypt, discuss the need for innovative and effective methods for representing this huge amount of data. They point out that there are data mining techniques as well as ontology-based techniques that can play a major role in detecting syndromes in patients efficiently and accurately. A syndrome is defined as a set of concomitant medical symptoms and indicators associated with a given disease or disorder.
The team has reviewed the state of the art and also focused on reviewing the well-known data mining techniques such as decision trees (J48), Naïve Bayes, multi-layer perceptron (MLP), and random forest (RF) techniques and compared how well they each perform in the classification of a particular syndrome, heart disease.
The team concludes that in experiments with a public data set, the RF classifier provides the best performance in terms of accuracy. In the future, they suggest that data mining will benefit healthcare and medicine significant for building a system able to detect a specific syndrome.
Mahmoud, H., Abbas, E. and Fathy, I. (2018) ‘Data mining and ontology-based techniques in healthcare management’, Int. J. Intelligent Engineering Informatics, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp.509–526.
10 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Learning and Change
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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment
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- Academic staff perspectives on operating beyond industrial actions for sustainable quality assurance in public universities in Kenya
- Household labour allocation to forest extraction and other activities in areas adjacent to tropical forests: the case of Kakamega forest, Western Kenya
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Special issue published: "Advancements in Global Business Research Across Emerging Countries"
Journal for Global Business Advancement 11(4) 2018
- Comprehending ambidexterity in the emerging-market context: the moderating role of learning capability and environmental dynamism on e-commerce firms' performance
- Influence of institutional investors on firms' corporate social performance in an emerging market
- Sequels of HRM praxes on service quality of employees in boutique hotels: a Thailand perspective
- Unpacking the 'black box' in the relationship between pay-for-performance, employee benefits and performance
- Bangladeshi consumers' intentions towards purchasing meat
- Impact of HPWS on employees' performance within the Bangladeshi telecom sector
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies
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- A capabilities-based service development process for industrial manufacturers
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- Enhancing knowledge articulation in communities of practices: the role of the community leader
- Knowledge management practices and economic complexity in BRIC countries from 2001 to 2014
Research pick: The seven ages of face recognition - "Human age classification using appearance and facial skin ageing features with multi-class support vector machine"
Face recognition is becoming an increasingly common feature of biometric verification systems. Now, a team from India has used a multi-class support vector machine to extend the way in which such systems work to take into account a person’s age. Jayant Jagtap of Symbiosis International (Deemed) University in Pune, and Manesh Kokare of the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Nanded, India, explain that human age classification has remained an important barrier to the next generation of face recognition technology but could be a useful additional parameter in security and other contexts.
The team’s novel two stage age classification framework based on appearance and facial skin ageing features using a multi-class support vector machine (M-SVM) can classify, the team suggests, classify images of faces into one of seven age groups. Fundamentally, the system examines characteristics of the image coincident with facial skin textural and wrinkles and is accurate 94.45% of the time. It works well despite factors such as genetics, gender, health, life-time weather conditions, working and living environment tobacco and alcohol use. Indeed, accuracy is more than 98% in the first step wherein adult and non-adult faces are distinguished.
“The proposed framework of age classification gives better performance than existing age classification systems,” the team reports. They add that future research will look to improve accuracy still further for use in real-time applications. This will be done through the development of an algorithm for extracting facial skin ageing features and through the design of an efficient age classifier, the team concludes.
Jagtap, J. and Kokare, M. (2019) ‘Human age classification using appearance and facial skin ageing features with multi-class support vector machine‘, Int. J. Biometrics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.22-34.
The team’s novel two stage age classification framework based on appearance and facial skin ageing features using a multi-class support vector machine (M-SVM) can classify, the team suggests, classify images of faces into one of seven age groups. Fundamentally, the system examines characteristics of the image coincident with facial skin textural and wrinkles and is accurate 94.45% of the time. It works well despite factors such as genetics, gender, health, life-time weather conditions, working and living environment tobacco and alcohol use. Indeed, accuracy is more than 98% in the first step wherein adult and non-adult faces are distinguished.
“The proposed framework of age classification gives better performance than existing age classification systems,” the team reports. They add that future research will look to improve accuracy still further for use in real-time applications. This will be done through the development of an algorithm for extracting facial skin ageing features and through the design of an efficient age classifier, the team concludes.
Jagtap, J. and Kokare, M. (2019) ‘Human age classification using appearance and facial skin ageing features with multi-class support vector machine‘, Int. J. Biometrics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.22-34.
9 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems
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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Education Economics and Development
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- The teachers' impact on policy making for the improvement of the school performance (the case of Kosovo)
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- Is the interaction between human capital and financial development one of the determinants of FDI in emerging markets?
- Child labour and school dropout in least-developed countries: empirical evidence from Lao PDR
Rotating Editorship for International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy
Associate Prof. Joseph Amankwah-Amoah from the University of Kent in the UK has been appointed to take on a rotating editorship of the International Journal of Multinational Corporation Strategy, and will be Editor in Chief of the journal for the duration of 2019.
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- A template for formalising reliable Acme-based software architecture
- An emerging multi-paradigm for representing mobile applications' architectures using heterogeneous conceptual bricks
Research pick: Twitter sentiment - "An innovative and efficient method for Twitter sentiment analysis"
Sentiment analysis is an increasingly important part of data mining, especially in the age of social media and social networking where there is endless opinion and commentary that could be of use to a wide range of stakeholders in commerce, other businesses, and even politics.
Now, an innovative and efficient method of sentiment analysis of comments on the microblogging platform, Twitter, is reported in the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management by a team from India. Hima Suresh of the School of Computer Sciences, at Mahatma Gandhi University, in Kottayam, Kerala and Gladston Raj. S of the Department of Computer Science, Government College, also in Kerala explain how sentiment analysis centres on analysing attitudes and opinions revealed in a data set and pertaining to a particular topic of interest. The analysis exploits machine learning approaches, lexicon-based approaches and hybrid approaches that splice both of the former.
“An efficient approach for predicting sentiments would allow us to bring out opinions from the web contents and to predict online public choices,” the team suggests. They have now demonstrated a novel approach to sentiment analysis surrounding the discussion of a commercial brand on Twitter using data collected over a fourteen-month period. Their method has an unrivalled accuracy for gleaning the true opinion almost 87% of the time in their tests using a specific smart phone model as the target brand being studied. They suggest that accuracy could be improved still further by incorporating a wider lexicon that included Twitter slang, for instance.
Suresh, H. and Raj. S, G. (2019) ‘An innovative and efficient method for Twitter sentiment analysis‘, Int. J. Data Mining, Modelling and Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.1-18.
Now, an innovative and efficient method of sentiment analysis of comments on the microblogging platform, Twitter, is reported in the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management by a team from India. Hima Suresh of the School of Computer Sciences, at Mahatma Gandhi University, in Kottayam, Kerala and Gladston Raj. S of the Department of Computer Science, Government College, also in Kerala explain how sentiment analysis centres on analysing attitudes and opinions revealed in a data set and pertaining to a particular topic of interest. The analysis exploits machine learning approaches, lexicon-based approaches and hybrid approaches that splice both of the former.
“An efficient approach for predicting sentiments would allow us to bring out opinions from the web contents and to predict online public choices,” the team suggests. They have now demonstrated a novel approach to sentiment analysis surrounding the discussion of a commercial brand on Twitter using data collected over a fourteen-month period. Their method has an unrivalled accuracy for gleaning the true opinion almost 87% of the time in their tests using a specific smart phone model as the target brand being studied. They suggest that accuracy could be improved still further by incorporating a wider lexicon that included Twitter slang, for instance.
Suresh, H. and Raj. S, G. (2019) ‘An innovative and efficient method for Twitter sentiment analysis‘, Int. J. Data Mining, Modelling and Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.1-18.
8 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Vehicle Performance
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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
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- Complexity reduction of throughput optimal link scheduling algorithm through topology control in wireless networks
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New Editor for International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development
Prof. Francisco Javier Carrillo from the World Capital Institute in Mexico has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management
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Research pick: Defeating credit card fraud - "Combating credit card fraud with online behavioural targeting and device fingerprinting"
Online behavioural targeting and device fingerprinting could be used to combat credit card fraud according to a team from Botswana International University of Science and Technology, in Palapye, Botswana. Writing in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Motlhaleemang Moalosi, Hlomani Hlomani, and Othusitse Phefo explain how there are numerous existing credit card fraud detection techniques employed by card issuers and other stakeholders. Nevertheless, billions of dollars are lost each year to fraudsters.
The team has now combined behaviour and fingerprinting technology to boost the efficiency and efficacy of the fusion approach using Dempster-Shafer theory and Bayesian learning for fraud detection. The approach can spot odd behaviour that is not characteristic of the legitimate user of a given credit card and so detect fraudulent activity on the account. The approach discussed in the paper is at present a theoretical treatise, the next step will be to simulate actual behaviour using synthetic data sets and then apply to a real-world scenario for testing its efficacy. So far efficacy has been demonstrated with data from devices that have already been used in known fraudulent activity.
The team suggests that their approach goes well beyond simply tweaking existing fraud-detection algorithms and could offer what they say is a ground-breaking approach that performs far better than trial and error approaches and reduces the number of false positives.
Moalosi, M., Hlomani, H. and Phefo, O.S.D. (2019) ‘Combating credit card fraud with online behavioural targeting and device fingerprinting‘, Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.46-69.
The team has now combined behaviour and fingerprinting technology to boost the efficiency and efficacy of the fusion approach using Dempster-Shafer theory and Bayesian learning for fraud detection. The approach can spot odd behaviour that is not characteristic of the legitimate user of a given credit card and so detect fraudulent activity on the account. The approach discussed in the paper is at present a theoretical treatise, the next step will be to simulate actual behaviour using synthetic data sets and then apply to a real-world scenario for testing its efficacy. So far efficacy has been demonstrated with data from devices that have already been used in known fraudulent activity.
The team suggests that their approach goes well beyond simply tweaking existing fraud-detection algorithms and could offer what they say is a ground-breaking approach that performs far better than trial and error approaches and reduces the number of false positives.
Moalosi, M., Hlomani, H. and Phefo, O.S.D. (2019) ‘Combating credit card fraud with online behavioural targeting and device fingerprinting‘, Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.46-69.
7 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Services and Operations Management
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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management
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- The mediating role of work engagement between psychosocial safety climate and organisational citizenship behaviours: a study in the nursing and health sector in Quebec
- Engagement as an antecedent of the satisfaction-performance relation: a study with line managers
- Enablers of employee engagement and its subsequent impact on job satisfaction
Special issue published: "Future Trends on Software Based Knowledge Management Process"
International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies 10(1) 2019
- Knowledge management based supplier selection of wind turbine manufacturer supply chain
- Knowledge based non-functional software distinguishing quality effort estimation using fuzzy use case point approach
- Retrieving knowledgeable information from cloud using trapezoid-based multi-keyword query ranking with weighted distributed function
- Reliable army knowledge management process using perception tacit knowledge with xenogeneic deep neural networks
- Development of knowledge based sentiment analysis system using lexicon approach on twitter data
- Implementing cooperative bacterial foraging optimisation algorithm based resources and VM management in IaaS cloud
- An integrated approach to performance measurement, analysis, improvements and knowledge management in healthcare sector
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
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- Estimating data stream tendencies to adapt clustering parameters
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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Information Systems
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6 January 2019
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing
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- An analysis of critical success factors on hosting professional golf tournaments using analytic hierarchy process - Korean experts' perspective
- Identify and prioritise factors affecting sports consumer behaviour in Iran
- On estimating the determinants of yearling thoroughbred prices
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International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems to invite expanded papers from 2019 International Conference of Advanced Research in Applied Science, Engineering and Technology for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the 2019 International Conference of Advanced Research in Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (1-2 March 2019, Houston, TX, USA) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems.
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