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3 February 2020
First issue: International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering (free sample issue available)
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31 January 2020
Free sample articles newly available from Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal
The following sample articles from the Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal are now available here for free:
- Investigation of PEMFC performance with various configurations of serpentine and interdigitated flow channel
- Comparative RANS turbulence modelling of lost salt core viability in high pressure die casting
- Experimental and computational study of optically-driven electrothermal vortex
- Numerical simulation of liquid mass collision with a wall
- A local and fast interpolation method for mesh deformation
- Colocated pressure-velocity coupling in finite difference methods
Special Issue published: "Innovative Services and Emerging Technologies of Smart Cities"
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 33(1) 2020
- Using ubiquitous data to improve smartwatches' context awareness: a case study applied to develop wearable products
- Incentive mechanism-based influential maximisation scheme for social cloud service networks
- Base station assisted relay selection in device-to-device communications
- Sensor-based detection of abnormal events for elderly people using deep belief networks
- Task allocation for crowdsensing based on submodular optimisation
- Random forest, gradient boosted machines and deep neural network for stock price forecasting: a comparative analysis on South Korean companies
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sustainable Development
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Sustainable Development are now available here for free:
- Comparisons of inverse modelling approaches for predicting energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions: a case study for low-income countries
- Waste prevention: a misunderstood concept
- Knowledge and understanding of sustainability labels in Brazil
- Regional sustainable development indicators for developing countries: case study of provinces in Indonesia
- Livelihood vulnerability index: an application to assess the climatic vulnerability status of inland small scale fishing livelihood
- Human well-being after 2015 Nepal earthquake: micro-evidence from one of the hardest hit rural villages
- What are the sustainability principles guiding social life cycle assessment studies?
- Gender mainstreaming of the impacts of 2012 flood-induced migration on household livelihoods in Nigeria
- Closing the loop for resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and production: a critical review of the circular economy
Research pick: Attacking the clones - "A hybrid approach to find cloned objects in copy move forged images"
It is relatively easy to clone parts of an image with photo editing software to remove objects and backgrounds or even to duplicate objects. A skilful digital artist will be able to do this almost seamlessly. Such artists with malicious intent can use cloning tools and to fake and forge images and detecting such distortions of the originals can be difficult even to those trained in the art themselves.
Now, work published in the International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering shows how two distinct analytical techniques – ad hoc method and principal component analysis (PCA) based scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) method – can work together in a hybrid system to analyse an image and reveal where such cloning techniques have been used for illicit purposes. Ashish Kumar Chakraverti of IKG-Punjab Technical University, in Jalandhar, and Vijay Dhir of the M.K. Group of Institutes, in Amritsar, Punjab, India, provide details in the latest issue of the journal.
The approach involves a pre-processing step in which the image of interest is adjusted in terms of contrast and colour and other factors to create a version of the image that can be analysed more readily. The hybrid analytical technique then works its way through the image to reveal errant regions of the image. The team has tested its hybrid approach successfully on the CoMoFoD image database. They had fewer false positives and negatives than state-of-art detection programs, which bodes well for its application in defeating criminality involving such image manipulation.
Chakraverti, A.K. and Dhir, V. (2019) ‘A hybrid approach to find cloned objects in copy move forged images’, Int. J. Forensic Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.3–20.
Now, work published in the International Journal of Forensic Software Engineering shows how two distinct analytical techniques – ad hoc method and principal component analysis (PCA) based scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) method – can work together in a hybrid system to analyse an image and reveal where such cloning techniques have been used for illicit purposes. Ashish Kumar Chakraverti of IKG-Punjab Technical University, in Jalandhar, and Vijay Dhir of the M.K. Group of Institutes, in Amritsar, Punjab, India, provide details in the latest issue of the journal.
The approach involves a pre-processing step in which the image of interest is adjusted in terms of contrast and colour and other factors to create a version of the image that can be analysed more readily. The hybrid analytical technique then works its way through the image to reveal errant regions of the image. The team has tested its hybrid approach successfully on the CoMoFoD image database. They had fewer false positives and negatives than state-of-art detection programs, which bodes well for its application in defeating criminality involving such image manipulation.
Chakraverti, A.K. and Dhir, V. (2019) ‘A hybrid approach to find cloned objects in copy move forged images’, Int. J. Forensic Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.3–20.
30 January 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Exergy
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Exergy are now available here for free:
- Designing and exergetic analysis of a solar power tower system for Iskenderun region
- Energy and exergy analyses of a HCCI engine-based system running on hydrogen enriched wet-ethanol fuel
- Exergetic examination of a novel solar-thermochemical-based integrated system for multigeneration
- Energy and exergy analyses of Al2O3-diesel-biodiesel blends in a diesel engine
- Extremely small energy requirement by poliovirus to proliferate itself is the key to an outbreak of an epidemic
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research are now available here for free:
- Work planning optimisation in ports: a simplex application
- A fuzzy rough integrated multi-stage supply chain inventory model with carbon emissions under inflation and time-value of money
- Optimal strategy for an inventory model based on agile manufacturing under imperfect production process
- A new optimal multi-product (Q, R, SS) policy with multivariate Markov stochastic demand forecasting model
- Developing an integrated decision making model in supply chain under demand uncertainty using genetic algorithm and network data envelopment analysis
- Joint replenishment model of both-ways and one-way substitution among products in fixed time horizon
- Second order duality for variational problem via efficiency of higher order
- A new short-term energy price forecasting method based on wavelet neural network
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing are now available here for free:
- Dynamic group-based scheduling of machine-to-machine communication for uplink traffic in LTE networks
- An efficient node deployment method for indoor passive localisation
- Convex hull based trajectory design for mobile sink in wireless sensor networks
- Efficient two-party certificateless authenticated key agreement protocol under GDH assumption
- UAVs assisted queue scheduling in ground ad hoc networks
Research pick: Ozone levels and climate change - "Advanced algorithms for studying the impact of climate changes on ozone levels in the atmosphere"
The oxygen in the air that we breathe is O2. Two oxygen atoms joined together to form a diatomic molecule. It is essential to life. However, there is another form of oxygen where three oxygen atoms join together to make an O3 molecule. We call this triatomic oxygen, ozone. Ozone is present in the upper atmosphere and protects the planet to some extent from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. However, combustion and other processes at ground level generate ozone as a noxious and toxic pollutant that can cause smog and is deleterious to air quality and so human and environmental health.
Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, an international team has developed an advanced algorithm that can be used to investigate the impact of climate change on ozone levels. Zahari Zlatev of the Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University in Roskilde, Denmark, Ivan Dimov and Krassimir Georgiev of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria, and István Faragó and Ágnes Havasi of the MTA-ELTE Numerical Analysis and Large Networks Research Group in Budapest, Hungary, discuss details in the paper. Their model is built on a system of non-linear partial differential equations. They use it to analyse a sixteen-year timeframe across the whole of Europe and environs.
The team has to some extent overcome the complexities of the data and its uncertainties, but their conclusion is that climate change will ultimately lead to higher levels of an atmospheric pollutant like ozone.
Zlatev, Z., Dimov, I., Faragó, I., Georgiev, K. and Havasi, Á. (2019) ‘Advanced algorithms for studying the impact of climate changes on ozone levels in the atmosphere‘, Int. J. Environment and Pollution, Vol. 66, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.212-238.
Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, an international team has developed an advanced algorithm that can be used to investigate the impact of climate change on ozone levels. Zahari Zlatev of the Department of Environmental Science at Aarhus University in Roskilde, Denmark, Ivan Dimov and Krassimir Georgiev of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria, and István Faragó and Ágnes Havasi of the MTA-ELTE Numerical Analysis and Large Networks Research Group in Budapest, Hungary, discuss details in the paper. Their model is built on a system of non-linear partial differential equations. They use it to analyse a sixteen-year timeframe across the whole of Europe and environs.
The team has to some extent overcome the complexities of the data and its uncertainties, but their conclusion is that climate change will ultimately lead to higher levels of an atmospheric pollutant like ozone.
Zlatev, Z., Dimov, I., Faragó, I., Georgiev, K. and Havasi, Á. (2019) ‘Advanced algorithms for studying the impact of climate changes on ozone levels in the atmosphere‘, Int. J. Environment and Pollution, Vol. 66, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.212-238.
29 January 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics are now available here for free:
- Business ethics: a study of Portuguese social representation of business ethics
- Governance, product market competition and agency costs: evidence from the UAE
- Academic directors and IPO initial returns
- Accountants' whistle-blowing intentions: the impact of affective organisational commitment
- The relationship between corporate social responsibility disclosure and earnings management: is it a complement mechanism or a substitute mechanism?
New Editor for International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications
Prof. Jianbo Su from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology are now available here for free:
- Using worn out insole to express human foot
- Investigation on ROI size and location to classify mammograms
- Decision support system for type II diabetes and its risk factor prediction using bee-based harmony search and decision tree algorithm
- Three-dimensional MRI brain tumour classification using hybrid ant colony optimisation and grey wolf optimiser with proximal support vector machine
- Analysis of brainstem in Alzheimer MR images using Lattice Boltzmann level set
- Microcalcifications segmentation from mammograms for breast cancer detection
Research pick: Lean job satisfaction - "The effect of lean on job satisfaction"
Lean principles and lean management are business principles that aim to make manufacturing and other processes more efficient by only have the absolute requisite resources to hand at the right time in any given stage of the process. Thus, excess starting materials, equipment, and essentially redundant staff do not increase the burden on storage, systems, waste disposal, and other factors any one of which might reduce efficiency and so profits.
Now, writing in the International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, a team from India, discusses the implications of running a lean operation on employee job satisfaction. A. Varadaraj and S. Ananth of the Alliance School of Business, at Alliance University, in Bangalore, suggest that “Lean has shown visible effects in enhancing productivity, reducing wastage of time and materials while still maintaining customer satisfaction as well as employee satisfaction.” Part of the overall lean philosophy is about people understanding their motives and aspirations and lean relies on always focusing on employee motivation and work performance.
The team has carried out a detailed survey of employees working in a lean environment and used various statistical tools to analyse the results. They found that employees with a positive attitude coupled with good leadership style both play a vital role in the continuous improvement of lean implementation and have a big influence on job satisfaction. That said, they also found that “A dedicated employee can help the organisation to achieve its goals and benefits only when the leadership appreciates their contribution in the workplace.”
In order to be most effective, there has to be good awareness among employees of how lean can benefit them and the company they work for in different ways, training and management must also be positively linked to the whole ethos and what is commonly referred to as work-life balance must be maintained at an optimal level for the sake of employee job satisfaction and to the benefit of the organisation.
Varadaraj, A. and Ananth, S. (2020) ‘The effect of lean on job satisfaction’, Int. J. Intelligent Enterprise, Vol. 7, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.137–154.
Now, writing in the International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, a team from India, discusses the implications of running a lean operation on employee job satisfaction. A. Varadaraj and S. Ananth of the Alliance School of Business, at Alliance University, in Bangalore, suggest that “Lean has shown visible effects in enhancing productivity, reducing wastage of time and materials while still maintaining customer satisfaction as well as employee satisfaction.” Part of the overall lean philosophy is about people understanding their motives and aspirations and lean relies on always focusing on employee motivation and work performance.
The team has carried out a detailed survey of employees working in a lean environment and used various statistical tools to analyse the results. They found that employees with a positive attitude coupled with good leadership style both play a vital role in the continuous improvement of lean implementation and have a big influence on job satisfaction. That said, they also found that “A dedicated employee can help the organisation to achieve its goals and benefits only when the leadership appreciates their contribution in the workplace.”
In order to be most effective, there has to be good awareness among employees of how lean can benefit them and the company they work for in different ways, training and management must also be positively linked to the whole ethos and what is commonly referred to as work-life balance must be maintained at an optimal level for the sake of employee job satisfaction and to the benefit of the organisation.
Varadaraj, A. and Ananth, S. (2020) ‘The effect of lean on job satisfaction’, Int. J. Intelligent Enterprise, Vol. 7, Nos. 1/2/3, pp.137–154.
28 January 2020
International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics to invite expanded papers from International Workshop on New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing (NAMSP 2020) for potential publication
Extended versions of papers presented at the International Workshop on New Approaches for Multidimensional Signal Processing (NAMSP 2020) (Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-11 July 2020) will be invited for review and potential publication by the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics.
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise are now available here for free:
- Gandhian management perspective for enhancing productivity and innovation in public sector organisation
- Solving quadratic assignment problem by symbiotic organisms search algorithm
- Design of interleaved flyback converter
- Integrating the power of social media dataset impact in medical diagnosis
- Heterogeneous network security management
- Clustering of text documents with keyword weighting function
- Fuzzy association rule mining for economic development indicators
Special issue published: "Applications of Computing in Engineering, Science and Management"
International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics 5(4) 2019
- An analytical study of applications of human resource information system in modern human resources management
- Effect of the position of base station in square fields of energy efficient small, medium and large-scale wireless sensor networks - internet-of-things
- Exploration of multipath routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
- An improved hybrid algorithm for improving quality parameters in MANETs
- MODIS land surface temperature data for prediction of urban heat island effect
- Farmer's evaluation on conservative agriculture practices
Research pick: Motherly career paths in India - "Role of media in motivating career-oriented females in challenging the norms of patriarchy"
Marriage and motherhood are almost universal in India, writes a team from Amity University. They then ask in the International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, whether women have a choice in this matter or whether society so effectively defines their roles almost from birth that the majority do not recognise that there is a choice at all.
Priya Gupta of the Amity School of Fine Arts and Mili Sharma Amity School of Communication additionally ask whether those women who are in fact career-oriented can enjoy motherhood without marriage. They have studied the issues via focus group discussions, spread across four strata in the hope of answering some of the questions that face women in Indian society as it develops. They introduce the concept of “single mothers by choice” or what one might more colloquially call “choice moms” in a pseudo-American vernacular. Moreover, they argue the case of a choice for career women in India to use surrogacy and in vitro fertilisation for their aspirations of motherhood outside of marriage.
Those involved in the study were well aware that many women sacrifice their burgeoning careers to marry and have children. But, they were also aware of celebrity women who had taken unconventional routes to motherhood. Various advantages were perceived by the women in the study of unconventional approaches.
Most respondents believed that their feminine identity can remain intact, and they can retain their independence by side-stepping marriage in their lives, which challenges the patriarchy. However, many were torn on the idea of motherhood without marriage, or even a male partner, given society’s entrenched views on such matters. Indian society is changing, but there remain obstacles in the path of women hoping to have a career, avoid marriage, but still take the option of becoming a mother.
Gupta, P. and Sharma, M. (2020) ‘Role of media in motivating career-oriented females in challenging the norms of patriarchy’, Int. J. Gender Studies in Developing Societies, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp.243–255.
Priya Gupta of the Amity School of Fine Arts and Mili Sharma Amity School of Communication additionally ask whether those women who are in fact career-oriented can enjoy motherhood without marriage. They have studied the issues via focus group discussions, spread across four strata in the hope of answering some of the questions that face women in Indian society as it develops. They introduce the concept of “single mothers by choice” or what one might more colloquially call “choice moms” in a pseudo-American vernacular. Moreover, they argue the case of a choice for career women in India to use surrogacy and in vitro fertilisation for their aspirations of motherhood outside of marriage.
Those involved in the study were well aware that many women sacrifice their burgeoning careers to marry and have children. But, they were also aware of celebrity women who had taken unconventional routes to motherhood. Various advantages were perceived by the women in the study of unconventional approaches.
Most respondents believed that their feminine identity can remain intact, and they can retain their independence by side-stepping marriage in their lives, which challenges the patriarchy. However, many were torn on the idea of motherhood without marriage, or even a male partner, given society’s entrenched views on such matters. Indian society is changing, but there remain obstacles in the path of women hoping to have a career, avoid marriage, but still take the option of becoming a mother.
Gupta, P. and Sharma, M. (2020) ‘Role of media in motivating career-oriented females in challenging the norms of patriarchy’, Int. J. Gender Studies in Developing Societies, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp.243–255.
27 January 2020
Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Global Warming
The following sample articles from the International Journal of Global Warming are now available here for free:
- Determining the effect of deforestation on sustainable water supply in a semi-arid mountainous watershed by using storm water management model
- Patterns and influencing factors of spatio-temporal variability of soil organic carbon in karst catchment
- Future realities of climate change impacts: an integrated assessment study of Canada
- How to model a complex national energy system? Developing an integrated energy systems framework for long-term energy and emissions analysis
- Enhancement of landfill gas production and waste stabilisation by using geotextile filter in a bioreactor landfill
New Editor for Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development
Associate Prof. Luciana Oranges Cezarino from the Federal University of Uberlandia in Brazil has been appointed to take over editorship of the Latin American Journal of Management for Sustainable Development. She will be joined by a new Executive Editor, Prof. Lara Bartocci Liboni of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Special issue published: "Agile Approaches for Transdisciplinary Engineering"
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management 12(4) 2019
- Developing agile platform assets – exploring ways to reach beyond modularisation at five product development companies
- Glencoe – a tool and a methodology to manage variability within the product development process
- Knowledge management support in the engineering change process in small and medium-sized companies
- A should costing approach for manufacturing companies
- A multipath methodology to promote ergonomics, safety and efficiency in agile factories
- A proposal of integrated worker-monitoring system towards ergonomic manufacturing environment
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