Academic Articles & Research Papers

Designing a Model for Improving Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Business improvement has always been one of the basic issues in the business world. Due to the growing changes in technology, pervasive competition and the changing needs of customers, companies must pay attention to the permanence and impr...

Hybrid spatio-temporal transformer and variational autoencoder framework for advanced sports injury prediction and analysis

Sports injuries significantly affect sports performance and overall health, making using accurate and reliable prognostic models imperative. Conventional algorithms for injury prediction, e.g., random forest and XGBoost, generally cannot un...

Structural analysis of inclusive metaverse spaces for the sustainability of future smart cities (Case study: Tehran Metropolis)

The Metaverse, as a hypothetical virtual environment utilizing advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, has the potential to contribute to the sustainability of future smart cities, enhancing urban e...

A Review of the Insider Threat, a Practitioner Perspective Within the U.K. Financial Services

The insider threat within organisational cybersecurity continues to be of great concern globally. The current insider threat detection strategies are acknowledged as ineffective, evidenced by the increased reported events in high-profile in...

The Evolution of Phytochemical and Medicinal Plant Research in Chile: Status, Opportunities, and Challenges

Background: The global use of herbal medicines and research on plant bioactive compounds have steadily increased. In Chile, this growth is linked to ethnobotanical knowledge and advances in phytochemistry, although gaps persist in its evolu...

Equity and efficiency of public hospitals’ health resource allocation in Guangdong Province, China

Abstract Background To better meet people’s growing demand for medical and health services, 21 cities in Guangdong Province were involved in the reform of public hospitals in 2017. This paper evaluates the equity and efficiency of public ho...

Modelling the trends of the healthcare funding in the EU countries

Healthcare is one of the most important sectors of the public economy in the EU countries. An important task in the analysis and prediction of the values for healthcare funding is the development and application of quantitative models based...

Dietary effects of protein and lipid levels on growth performance and flesh quality of large-size largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)

The aim of this trial was to investigate the effects of dietary protein and lipid levels on growth performance and flesh quality of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). A 3 × 3 two-factor design was used, including three crude protein l...

Research Frontiers in the Field of Agricultural Resources and the Environment

From the perspective of project and paper datasets, research frontier recognition in the field of agricultural resources and the environment using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic extraction model was studied. By combining the wi...

Competitiveness of the Russian space industry in the global space services market

The article carries out an analysis of the competitiveness of the Russian space industry in the international space services market according to the following indicators: the volume of budget of national space organizations, the volume of t...

Optimizing respiratory virus replication in human bronchial/tracheal epithelial air-liquid interface cultures through practical quality indicators and key characteristics.

Machine Unlearning: A Perspective, Taxonomy, and Benchmark Evaluation

Machine Learning (ML) models trained on large-scale datasets learn useful predictive patterns, but they may also memorize undesired information, leading to risks such as information leakage, bias, copyright violations, and privacy attacks. ...

Economic Activity Forecasting Based on the Sentiment Analysis of News

The outbreak of war and the earlier and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic determined the need for real-time monitoring of economic activity. The economic activity of a country can be defined in different ways. Most often, the country’s economic act...

SAM-trace: a fuzzy logic approach in identifying interaction effects in the exacerbation of childhood malnutrition severity

Abstract Pediatric malnutrition remains a major global health challenge. Conventional WHO-based binary classification (Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) / Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) relies solely on anthropometric thresholds. It fails ...

Which factors influence public perceptions of urban attractions? — A comparative study

To better serve the public, urban attractions must understand the public's likes and dislikes and continually adapt and optimize their service in response. However, traditional methods for gauging public opinion, such as questionnaires and ...

Methods for Analyzing the Contents of Social Media for Health Care: Scoping Review

BackgroundGiven the rapid development of social media, effective extraction and analysis of the contents of social media for health care have attracted widespread attention from health care providers. As far as we know, most of the reviews ...

Explainable Sentiment-Based Reputational Risk Modelling in Ugandan Megaprojects

Reputational risk reflected in digital public discourse can significantly influence stakeholder perceptions, public trust, and decision-making surrounding government megaprojects. Existing computational approaches primarily focus on sentime...

Advanced Swine Management: Infrared Imaging for Precise Localization of Reproductive Organs in Livestock Monitoring

Traditional methods for predicting sow reproductive cycles are not only costly but also demand a larger workforce, exposing workers to respiratory toxins, repetitive stress injuries, and chronic pain. This occupational hazard can even lead ...

Research on Landscape Perception and Visual Attributes Based on Social Media Data—A Case Study on Wuhan University

With the rapid rise of social media, the photo-taking behavior of tourists and their uploaded photos provide a new perspective to explore landscape visual characters. In this study, we provide methodological advancements for assessing lands...

Assessment of the possibility of machine learning for electronic equipment quality prediction

The major algorithms and methods of machine learning are considered. A possibility of machine learning and neural network using for electronic equipment quality prediction is assessed. The paper provides examples of the successful applicati...