Most users have at least one browser extension or plugin running in their software. These add-ons commonly enhance the web browsing experience by provide tools that simplify password management, document viewing and editing, or assist in the viewing and interaction with a given web page. However, as with all software, extensions are vulnerable to the attention of malicious users and programmers who might intercept an extension in order to take control of a user’s computer, spy on the user, or steal their personal and private data.
Writing in the International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, Kailas Patil of the Department of Computer Engineering, at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT), in Pune, India, points out that permission controls preclude certain kinds of malicious attack that exploits a browser extension. However, such controls do not block all possible scripts that might breach one’s system and many users simply grant extensions all permissions without due consideration. He points out that content scripts pose a serious threat to user confidentiality and the integrity of web application data.
One permission that is commonly accepted by lay users is to allow a script to inject content into a web page. This usually adds functionality, such as page touch-up, page content translation, user input capturing, and other beneficial characteristics. However, once a content script is injected into a web page it has full privileges to access the web application’s resources. If such a script is rendered malicious by a hacker or rogue programmer or is simply offered by an unscrupulous organization then a user may be readily compromised by that extension. In Patil’s study of 50 extensions from ten different categories in the Google web store, more than three quarters of extensions injected content scripts into arbitrary websites.
Patil has now developed a kind of browser sandbox, which he refers to as SessionGuard. This system isolates content scripts in their own environment, the shadow DOM. From this virtual shadow world, any given content script only gets to see an encrypted view of the web application data passing between client and server, It can still carry out the tasks for which it is designed but without the extension itself being able to reveal data to a (malicious) third party.
“We have developed a proof-of-concept prototype in the Google Chrome web browser with little effect on normal browsing experience,” Patil says. “Our experiments with real-world browser extensions demonstrate the effectiveness of the SessionGuard in protecting the confidentiality and integrity of web application data against malicious content scripts.”
Patil, K. (2017) ‘Isolating malicious content scripts of browser extensions’, Int. J. Information Privacy, Security and Integrity, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.18–37.
29 September 2017
28 September 2017
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity
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- A framework for privacy aware data management in relational databases
- Information assurance: a cyber security storm map
- Using non-verbal social signals and degree centrality to optimise a covert actor's detection scheme for a healthy networked community
- A computational framework for detecting malicious actors in communities
International Journal of Project Organisation and Management to publish expanded papers from 3rd Social Science & Business Research Network (SSBRN) Symposium
Extended versions of papers presented at the 3rd Social Science & Business Research Network (SSBRN) Symposium (11-12 October 2018, Osaka Japan) will be published by the Int. J. of Project Organisation and Management.
27 September 2017
Special issue published: "Managing Business Challenges Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Global Business and Economics Review 19(5) 2017
- Innovation in small and medium enterprises: the impact of open innovation practices on firm's performance
- The impact of R&D and information technology on innovation performance of Greek SMEs
- Public relations and reputation in small organisations: creating identity and building reputation for success
- Economic sustainability of the olive oil high and super-high density cropping systems in Italy
- Cross border acquisitions and R&D activities: a comparative study in the Italian red biotech industry
- Corporate finance in renewable energy investments - a review about theory and practice
- Management control in Italian SMEs
- Cooperating for competing - a small Italian wineries' internationalisation strategy case study
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Abrasive Technology
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- Chip root analyses in peripheral longitudinal up-grinding by means of a new quick-stop devic
- A review on properties of abrasive grits and grit selection
- Appropriate application of pneumatic barrier for improving grinding performance
- Polyolefins structure formation effected by addition of industrial natural diamond powders
- Two-axis ultrasonic vibration transducer driven by single actuator and its application in precision polishing
Coping with stressful organizational change
Stress is not a recent phenomenon, but the modern work environment seems to highlights its detrimental effects on employees. This is no more obvious than during times of organisational change. Research published in the International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, considers the impact of such changes on workers in a healthcare authority in New Zealand, highlighting the problems that any organization might face under such circumstances and pointing to possible methods to cope and remediate employee stress.
Stress is present to some degree in any organizational context as employees, including managers, grapple with a host of work demands, suggests Roy Smollan of the Department of Management, at Auckland University of Technology. Individuals all have different coping strategies although ultimately not everyone copes. It all depends on the specific stressors, the individual’s personality, emotional intelligence, and their social identity. Moreover, specific stressors need tailored coping strategies, suggests Smollan. He reports that stress is exacerbated when processes, such as organizational change exist in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty, when those processes are undertaken without consultation with employees, and when changes are either miscommunicated or not communicated at all.
Smollan’s case study of a New Zealand healthcare authority undergoing major restructuring represents a quite unique qualitative examination of the stresses of work life as those involved are caught up in the tumultuous processes of organizational change. It focused on how individuals attempted to maintain their psychological wellbeing during these changes and learned to cope with the stress. Fundamentally, while many people involved eschewed help from others and relied more on their strengths, in part for fear of appearing weak, accessing support networks was critical for others. For all involved being proactive in problem solving and managing one’s thoughts and emotions during stressful times were nevertheless important for everyone involved.
“Managers have a key role to play in anticipating when organizational change may elicit stress and in helping those affected to cope with it,” concludes Smollan.
Smollan, R.K. (2017) ‘Learning to cope with stressful organisational change’, Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.148–167.
Stress is present to some degree in any organizational context as employees, including managers, grapple with a host of work demands, suggests Roy Smollan of the Department of Management, at Auckland University of Technology. Individuals all have different coping strategies although ultimately not everyone copes. It all depends on the specific stressors, the individual’s personality, emotional intelligence, and their social identity. Moreover, specific stressors need tailored coping strategies, suggests Smollan. He reports that stress is exacerbated when processes, such as organizational change exist in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty, when those processes are undertaken without consultation with employees, and when changes are either miscommunicated or not communicated at all.
Smollan’s case study of a New Zealand healthcare authority undergoing major restructuring represents a quite unique qualitative examination of the stresses of work life as those involved are caught up in the tumultuous processes of organizational change. It focused on how individuals attempted to maintain their psychological wellbeing during these changes and learned to cope with the stress. Fundamentally, while many people involved eschewed help from others and relied more on their strengths, in part for fear of appearing weak, accessing support networks was critical for others. For all involved being proactive in problem solving and managing one’s thoughts and emotions during stressful times were nevertheless important for everyone involved.
“Managers have a key role to play in anticipating when organizational change may elicit stress and in helping those affected to cope with it,” concludes Smollan.
Smollan, R.K. (2017) ‘Learning to cope with stressful organisational change’, Int. J. Work Organisation and Emotion, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.148–167.
How old does your computer think you are?
Computerised face recognition is an important part of initiatives to develop security systems, in building social networks, in curating photographs, and many other applications. Systems that allow a computer to estimate with precision a person’s age based on an analysis of their face are discussed in the International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition.
Jayant Jagtap and Manesh Kokare of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, at the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Vishnupuri, Nanded, India, suggest that age classification adds a useful layer to such security systems, customer relationship management, and of course for surveillance. The team has carried out a detailed survey of age classification systems to reveal the pros and cons of each and to point new research in the right direction for the development of an even more accurate algorithm than any that currently exists. Indeed, their survey reveals that despite the best efforts of developers there is no real-time highly accurate algorithm for age classification yet in existence. The existing age classification systems commonly use geometric ratios of facial features and analysis of wrinkles in the skin.
One of the problems facing developers of such a tool is that databases containing images of a person’s face tend not to accumulate images at different ages. This limits how well an algorithm might be trained based on a database of photos at known ages. While there are many serious tools and many spurious or fun tools available on the internet, there are no public systems that allow a computer to guess how old you are with useful accuracy. This may well be a positive point to make from the personal privacy point of view but not for the wider implications of face recognition and age categorization.
Jagtap, J. and Kokare, M. (2017) ‘Human age classification via face images: a survey’, Int. J. Applied Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.246–260.
Jayant Jagtap and Manesh Kokare of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, at the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, in Vishnupuri, Nanded, India, suggest that age classification adds a useful layer to such security systems, customer relationship management, and of course for surveillance. The team has carried out a detailed survey of age classification systems to reveal the pros and cons of each and to point new research in the right direction for the development of an even more accurate algorithm than any that currently exists. Indeed, their survey reveals that despite the best efforts of developers there is no real-time highly accurate algorithm for age classification yet in existence. The existing age classification systems commonly use geometric ratios of facial features and analysis of wrinkles in the skin.
One of the problems facing developers of such a tool is that databases containing images of a person’s face tend not to accumulate images at different ages. This limits how well an algorithm might be trained based on a database of photos at known ages. While there are many serious tools and many spurious or fun tools available on the internet, there are no public systems that allow a computer to guess how old you are with useful accuracy. This may well be a positive point to make from the personal privacy point of view but not for the wider implications of face recognition and age categorization.
Jagtap, J. and Kokare, M. (2017) ‘Human age classification via face images: a survey’, Int. J. Applied Pattern Recognition, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.246–260.
26 September 2017
Chronic wasting disease
One of the most contagious of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is chronic wasting disease (CWD) which affects deer and represents a risk to human health and the health of farm animals. There are many problems facing livestock managers in North America in the face of CWD, a research paper published in the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, summarizes the efforts in disease surveillance and risk management of CWD and shows that past management strategies such as selective culling, herd reduction, and hunter surveillance have had only limited effectiveness. The summary points towards new advice for optimal, cost-effective strategies in aggressive disease control.
William Leiss of the University of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues there and elsewhere in Canada and the USA, explain how CWD is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of various species of animals in the cervid family of mammals. This family includes deer, elk, reindeer, caribou, and moose. The team points out that CWD is endemic in both wild (free-ranging) and captive (farmed) populations of these species which further complicates disease control. The disease is most prevalent among deer species, affecting in particular mule deer, but also black-tailed deer and white-tailed deer.
Chronic wasting disease is closely related to so-called “mad cow disease”, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the equivalent disease in sheep known as scrapie and the human disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). These various diseases are caused by the misfolding of proteins or protein fragments, known as prions, which self-replicate, or propagate, in tissue, specifically brain tissue, and lead to cell death and the ultimate demise of the affected organ.
The team points out that disease surveillance in North America has provided some qualitative assessments of the overall risk of CWD in Canada and the USA. Animals in almost half of all US states and two Canadian provinces are afflicted. The first case outside North America was identified in South Korea in 1997 and while the European Union has strict rules and surveillance in place, an afflicted farmed reindeer was identified in 2016 by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and subsequently two wild individuals. The problem is thus likely to become an intercontinental one unless more research is done to understand the disease and find ways to control it.
A new risk control strategy has been proposed for CWD in North America in which controlled forest fires are lit in areas where vegetation and soil are heavily contaminated with the pathogenic prions shed by animal waste and carcasses.
Leiss, W., Westphal, M., Tyshenko, M.G., Croteau, M.C., Oraby, T., Adamowicz, W., Goddard, E., Cashman, N.R., Darshan, S. and Krewski, D. (2017) ‘Challenges in managing the risks of chronic wasting disease‘, Int. J. Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.277-302.
William Leiss of the University of Ottawa, in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues there and elsewhere in Canada and the USA, explain how CWD is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of various species of animals in the cervid family of mammals. This family includes deer, elk, reindeer, caribou, and moose. The team points out that CWD is endemic in both wild (free-ranging) and captive (farmed) populations of these species which further complicates disease control. The disease is most prevalent among deer species, affecting in particular mule deer, but also black-tailed deer and white-tailed deer.
Chronic wasting disease is closely related to so-called “mad cow disease”, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the equivalent disease in sheep known as scrapie and the human disease variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). These various diseases are caused by the misfolding of proteins or protein fragments, known as prions, which self-replicate, or propagate, in tissue, specifically brain tissue, and lead to cell death and the ultimate demise of the affected organ.
The team points out that disease surveillance in North America has provided some qualitative assessments of the overall risk of CWD in Canada and the USA. Animals in almost half of all US states and two Canadian provinces are afflicted. The first case outside North America was identified in South Korea in 1997 and while the European Union has strict rules and surveillance in place, an afflicted farmed reindeer was identified in 2016 by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and subsequently two wild individuals. The problem is thus likely to become an intercontinental one unless more research is done to understand the disease and find ways to control it.
A new risk control strategy has been proposed for CWD in North America in which controlled forest fires are lit in areas where vegetation and soil are heavily contaminated with the pathogenic prions shed by animal waste and carcasses.
Leiss, W., Westphal, M., Tyshenko, M.G., Croteau, M.C., Oraby, T., Adamowicz, W., Goddard, E., Cashman, N.R., Darshan, S. and Krewski, D. (2017) ‘Challenges in managing the risks of chronic wasting disease‘, Int. J. Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp.277-302.
25 September 2017
Special issue published: "Data Analysis for Enabling Technological and Computational Enhancement in Design and Optimisation in Various Engineering Domains"
International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering 3(3) 2017
- CloudCampus: building an ubiquitous cloud with classroom PCs at a university campus
- Design of PID controller for magnetic leviation system using modified gravitational search algorithm
- Fast and effective image retrieval using colour and texture features with self-organising map
- TripletDS: a prototype of dataspace system based on triple data model
- A fireworks algorithm for solving travelling salesman problem
- Need for RADAR system utilisation for maritime traffic management: a case of Congo River Basin
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives
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- Stock market capitalisation and economic growth: empirical evidence from Africa
- Option pricing in stochastic volatility models driven by fractional Lévy processes
- An efficient grid lattice algorithm for pricing American-style options
- Price discovery and risk transfer in the Brent crude oil futures market
- Electricity prices forecast analysis using the extreme value theory
Special issue published: "Second Indo-Canadian Symposium on Nanoscience and Technology (ICSNST 2016)"
International Journal of Nanotechnology 14(9/10/11) 2017
- Colloidal synthesis and characterisation of oleic acid capped TiO2 nanorods
- Nanostructured metal-oxide thin film towards the electronic device applications
- Synthesis, characterisation and spectroscopic properties of GdOF:Eu3+ phosphors and their Judd-Ofelt analysis
- Simple flame etching of pencil electrode for dopamine oxidation in presence of ascorbic acid and uric acid
- Antimony oxide nanobelts: synthesis by chemical vapour deposition and its characterisation
- A feasibility study on photocatalytic degradation of methyl benzene using N doped TiO2 nanoparticles
- Influence of interface structure on performance of organic field effect transistors
- Effects of monovalent cation doping on the structure and photoluminescence of GdAlO3:Eu3+ phosphor
- Study of (La,Gd)OCl:Eu3+ phosphors for WLEDs application: photoluminescence and Judd-Ofelt analysis
- Influence of amino acid corona, metallic core and surface functionalisation of nanoparticles on their in-vitro biological behaviour
- Combustion synthesis and characterisation of Eu3+-activated Y2O3 red nanophosphors for display device applications
- Photoluminescence, Raman and conductivity studies of CaSO4 nanoparticles
- Inkjet printed electroadhesive pads on paper
- Influence of trivalent (Gd3+, Cr3+) ion substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of Ni0.4Zn0.6Cr0.5GdxFe1.5-xO4 ferrite nanoparticles
- Optical properties of (TiO2)1-x(CuO)x pseudo binary oxides thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis technique
- Zinc doping effects on the magnetic properties of Nd0.65Ca0.35Mn0.9Zn0.1O3 nanomanganite
- Effect of short glass fibre and fillers on friction and wear performance of multi-phased thermoplastic copolyester elastomer composites
- Enhanced grain surface effect on magnetic properties of Pr0.57Ca0.43MnO3 nanomanganite
- Optimisation of testing parameters on two-body abrasive wear behaviour of nano-oMMT filled carbon-epoxy composites based on the Taguchi method
- Co3O4/CuO composite nanopowder/sodium dodecyl sulphate modified carbon paste electrode based voltammetric sensors for detection of dopamine
- Investigations on tensile creep of CNT-epoxy shape memory polymer nanocomposites
- Concentration dependent dielectric, AC conductivity and sensing study of ZnO-polyvinyl alcohol nanocomposite films
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management are now available here for free:
- The relationships among information systems, knowledge sharing, and customer relationship management in banking industry
- Green marketing as a strategic tool for the sustainable development of less favoured areas of Greece: women's agro-tourism cooperatives
- The impact of leadership type, employee motivation and job satisfaction on the performance of Greek Lifelong Learning Training
- Viral marketing analysis and evaluation: the case of the Greek consumer market
- Determinants of consumers' behaviour toward alcohol drinks: the case of Greek millennials
- Business process automation in Greek telecommunications companies and marketing strategies
24 September 2017
Thematic issue published: "HRM Implementation Effectiveness in Europe: Mechanisms and Contextual Factors Within the International Arena for Human Resource Management and Line Management"
European Journal of International Management 11(5) 2017
- HRM implementation in multinational companies: the dynamics of multifaceted scenarios
- HR professionals' use of influence in the effective implementation of HR practices
- HRM frames of HR managers and line managers: congruence, consequences and context
- Born-again globals: generational change and family business internationalisation
- Entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurial intentions: a cross-cultural study of university students
23 September 2017
Special issue published: "Management and Internationalisation of Latin America’s Firms"
International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets 9(3) 2017
- Central American family business groups: internationalisation and diversification strategies
- Performance and consumer satisfaction with mobile telecommunications
- International expansion and performance of emerging multinationals: the case of Marcopolo
- Are there micromultinational enterprises in Brazil? Three cases studied from the perspective of their degrees of internationalisation and use of networking
- Co-evolutionary perspective on internationalisation: a multilevel analysis of Brazilian firms
- Nationalisation and privatisation in state-owned oil multilatinas
22 September 2017
Special issue published: "Efficiency, Demography and Poverty: A Multi-National Review"
International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies 10(3) 2017
- Enterprise risk management in China: the impacts on organisational performance
- The impact of supply chain management practices on competitive advantage
- Competitiveness as mediating variable in measuring supply chain performance
- Preparing ageing workers for the future: implication for facilitating middle-aged workforce following the decline of working age population in Korea
- Fishery poverty reduction in East Java: using sustainable livelihood approach
- The effectiveness analysis of grant scheme 'POKMAS' toward village community empowerment: a case study on Siak Regency of Riau province
15 September 2017
New Editor for International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems
Associate Prof. Sanghyuk Lee from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems.
Research Picks Extra – September 2017
The DNA decision maker
Scientists have long-recognised the information carrying and processing potential of the biological molecule we know as DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is the molecule of life and encoded within its sequence is the information necessary to build the proteins from which all life is built. The way in which biology transcribes and duplicates this information and the way in which proteins are assembled using the sequence of bases in DNA is at the heart of a possible future molecular computer built with DNA rather than the silicon chip. Researchers in Singapore have now demonstrated that DNA can be used to encode an algorithm that can make rational decisions when given a choice between various options themselves encoded in molecules to which the system is exposed.
Shu, J-J., Wang, Q-W. and Yong, K-Y. (2017) ‘Programmable DNA-mediated decision maker’, Int. J. Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.51–55.
Better bottles
Antimony trioxide is a well-known substance commonly used to make PET for soft drinks bottles and other packaging. It is deemed safe by the World Health Organization. One of its uses is as a flame retardant for plastics, paints, adhesives, rubber, and textile coatings. The manufacture of nanostructures commonly uses organic compounds, however, which themselves may not have the safety specification of the antimony oxide particles. As such, researchers have now developed a simple, room temperature method for manufacturing antimony oxide nanostructures for use in plastic bottle production that avoids the use of potentially toxic additives. As well as safety improvements, the process is inexpensive.
Shah, M.A. (2017) ‘Antimony oxide nanostructures synthesised in water and their possible use in packaging of mineral water’, Int. J. Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.343–349.
Bioremediation with blackberry leaves
The bioremediation of contaminated industrial sites and waste water is high on the environmental agenda and scientists are always looking for novel biological materials that might be used to sequester a particular contaminant. One rather troublesome chemical is the chromium(VI) ion. Researchers in India have now demonstrated that leaves from the blackberry (Rubus species) can absorb Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solution. Given the environmental health concerns with toxic and carcinogenic chromium(VI), also known as hexavalent chromium, the finding could represent and important biosorbent for remediation of water and soil contaminated with this chemical.
Mitra, T. and Das, S.K. (2016) ‘Adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution using blackberry leaves – column study’, Int. J. Environmental Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.225–244.
Accommodating advertising
It is more than two decades since the world wide web was opened up to the world of commerce and the diversity of advertising formats that users face each time they visit a website has grown considerably. From the user point of view, the advertisements are often an annoyance unless and so add-ons for web browsers that block those advertisements are widespread. From the advertisers’ point of view, however, it is the ad blockers that are the annoyance and they are forever looking for ways to work around such add-ons and to get their advertisements seen by users. Online advertising is growing in developing economies and now researchers from Vietnam and Australia have investigated consumer attitudes to the various formats of online advertisements in one such an economy to help advertisers offer consumers a more acceptable and effective form of advertising that keeps both seller and consumer/user happy. Fundamentally, the team found that the “conventional” banner advertisement, which is akin to the old-fashioned printed advertisement, has a much more positive response among users than so-called “pop-up” ads which users find irritating. This is especially true of the banner ad is very informative.
Le, T.D. and Vo, H. (2017) ‘Consumer attitude towards website advertising formats: a comparative study of banner, pop-up and in-line display advertisements’, Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.202–217.
Scientists have long-recognised the information carrying and processing potential of the biological molecule we know as DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA is the molecule of life and encoded within its sequence is the information necessary to build the proteins from which all life is built. The way in which biology transcribes and duplicates this information and the way in which proteins are assembled using the sequence of bases in DNA is at the heart of a possible future molecular computer built with DNA rather than the silicon chip. Researchers in Singapore have now demonstrated that DNA can be used to encode an algorithm that can make rational decisions when given a choice between various options themselves encoded in molecules to which the system is exposed.
Shu, J-J., Wang, Q-W. and Yong, K-Y. (2017) ‘Programmable DNA-mediated decision maker’, Int. J. Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.51–55.
Better bottles
Antimony trioxide is a well-known substance commonly used to make PET for soft drinks bottles and other packaging. It is deemed safe by the World Health Organization. One of its uses is as a flame retardant for plastics, paints, adhesives, rubber, and textile coatings. The manufacture of nanostructures commonly uses organic compounds, however, which themselves may not have the safety specification of the antimony oxide particles. As such, researchers have now developed a simple, room temperature method for manufacturing antimony oxide nanostructures for use in plastic bottle production that avoids the use of potentially toxic additives. As well as safety improvements, the process is inexpensive.
Shah, M.A. (2017) ‘Antimony oxide nanostructures synthesised in water and their possible use in packaging of mineral water’, Int. J. Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.343–349.
Bioremediation with blackberry leaves
The bioremediation of contaminated industrial sites and waste water is high on the environmental agenda and scientists are always looking for novel biological materials that might be used to sequester a particular contaminant. One rather troublesome chemical is the chromium(VI) ion. Researchers in India have now demonstrated that leaves from the blackberry (Rubus species) can absorb Cr(VI) ions from aqueous solution. Given the environmental health concerns with toxic and carcinogenic chromium(VI), also known as hexavalent chromium, the finding could represent and important biosorbent for remediation of water and soil contaminated with this chemical.
Mitra, T. and Das, S.K. (2016) ‘Adsorptive removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution using blackberry leaves – column study’, Int. J. Environmental Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp.225–244.
Accommodating advertising
It is more than two decades since the world wide web was opened up to the world of commerce and the diversity of advertising formats that users face each time they visit a website has grown considerably. From the user point of view, the advertisements are often an annoyance unless and so add-ons for web browsers that block those advertisements are widespread. From the advertisers’ point of view, however, it is the ad blockers that are the annoyance and they are forever looking for ways to work around such add-ons and to get their advertisements seen by users. Online advertising is growing in developing economies and now researchers from Vietnam and Australia have investigated consumer attitudes to the various formats of online advertisements in one such an economy to help advertisers offer consumers a more acceptable and effective form of advertising that keeps both seller and consumer/user happy. Fundamentally, the team found that the “conventional” banner advertisement, which is akin to the old-fashioned printed advertisement, has a much more positive response among users than so-called “pop-up” ads which users find irritating. This is especially true of the banner ad is very informative.
Le, T.D. and Vo, H. (2017) ‘Consumer attitude towards website advertising formats: a comparative study of banner, pop-up and in-line display advertisements’, Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp.202–217.
14 September 2017
Special issue published: "Intelligent Control: Design and Applications"
International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics 5(3) 2017
- Discrete and continuous emotion recognition using sequence kernels
- Control of a photovoltaic system by fuzzy logic, comparative studies with conventional controls: results, improvements and perspectives
- Synthetic aperture radar image compression based on multi-scale geometric transforms
- Power quality improvement using fuzzy logic controlled voltage source PWM rectifiers
- New CSMA/CA prioritisation based on fuzzy control mechanism
- Diagnosis and classification using ANFIS approach of stator and rotor faults in induction machine
- Vehicle recognition system based on customised HOG for automotive driver assistance system
- Fuzzy regional inequality measurement: a new stochastic dominance approach with application to Tunisia
Special issue published: "Managing Business Challenges Through Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Global Business and Economics Review 19(5) 2017
- Innovation in small and medium enterprises: the impact of open innovation practices on firm's performance
- The impact of R&D and information technology on innovation performance of Greek SMEs
- Public relations and reputation in small organisations: creating identity and building reputation for success
- Economic sustainability of the olive oil high and super-high density cropping systems in Italy
- Cross border acquisitions and R&D activities: a comparative study in the Italian red biotech industry
- Corporate finance in renewable energy investments - a review about theory and practice
- Cooperating for competing - a small Italian wineries' internationalisation strategy case study
13 September 2017
Special issue published: "Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems and Applications"
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 10(4/5) 2017
- Diagnosabilities of regular networks under three-valued comparison models
- A sprouting graph-based approach to analysing timed workflow processes with shared resources
- Detecting spammers using review graph
- Evaluation and comparison of ten data race detection techniques
- Reliable broadcast in anonymous distributed systems with fair lossy channels
- Communication-aware task scheduling algorithm for heterogeneous computing
- An adaptive hybrid ARQ method for coexistence of ZigBee and WiFi
- Thwarting Android app repackaging by executable code fragmentation
- A service industry perspective on software defined radio access networks
- U-Search: usage-based search with collective intelligence
- An energy-aware task consolidation algorithm for cloud computing data centre
- Kernel mechanisms for turning a 3D MMOG from single into multi-server architecture
- Communication-aware virtual machine migration in cloud data centres
- Para-Join: an efficient parallel method for string similarity join
- Hardware support for message-passing in chip multi-processors
- Reboot-based recovery of performance anomalies in adaptive bitrate video-streaming services
- An energy-aware cooperative content distributed strategy based on MST for the mobile environment
- Optimising the deployment of virtual machine image replicas in cloud storage clusters
- Addressing statistical significance of fault injection: empirical studies of the soft error susceptibility
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