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Margarida Mendonça and Álvaro Figueira
As social media (SM) becomes increasingly prevalent, its impact on society is expected to grow accordingly. While SM has brought positive transformations, it has also amplified pre-existing issues such as misinformation, echo chambers, manipulation, and ...
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Rafaela Dezidério dos Santos Rocha and Márcio Laurini
The multifactor asset pricing model derived from the Fama?French approach is extensively used in asset risk premium estimation procedures. Even including a considerable number of factors, it is still possible that omitted factors affect the estimation of...
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Junke Xu, Jiwei Zhu and Jiancang Xie
The risk transmission mechanisms of urban river ecological management engineering projects are examined in this study. Using the Susceptible Exposed Infectious Recovered Susceptible (SEIRS) model for risk transmission, a model of risk propagation delay f...
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Jan Kosny, Jay Thakkar, Tlegen Kamidollayev, Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Juan Pablo Trelles, Cordula Schmid, Sampson Phan, Saibhargav Annavajjala and Peter Horwath
PCMs are attractive for the future generation of buildings, where energy efficiency targets and thermal comfort expectations are increasingly prioritized. Experimental analysis of local thermal processes in these dynamic components and whole-building ene...
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Fahim Sufi
The surge in cybercrime has emerged as a pressing concern in contemporary society due to its far-reaching financial, social, and psychological repercussions on individuals. Beyond inflicting monetary losses, cyber-attacks exert adverse effects on the soc...
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Nguyen Van Tam, Tsunemi Watanabe and Nguyen Luong Hai
Work autonomy (WA) is an important factor in improving work performance, yet such freedom and its role in construction workforce management have rarely been discussed. To address this gap, this study quantitatively measured the WA of onsite construction ...
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Octavio Loyola-González, Emilio Francisco Ferreira Mehnert, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez and Raúl Monroy
We study the impact of minutiae errors in the performance of latent fingerprint identification systems. We perform several experiments in which we remove ground-truth minutiae from latent fingerprints and evaluate the effects on matching score and rank-n...
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Jialu Sui and Jian Yin
Nowadays, as the number of items is increasing and the number of items that users have access to is limited, user-item preference matrices in recommendation systems are always sparse. This leads to a data sparsity problem. The latent factor analysis (LFA...
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Kyeong Eun Min, YongSuk Lee and Jihong Park
To examine individual or combined effects of static stretch and explosive contraction on quadriceps spinal-reflex excitability (the peak Hoffmann?s reflex normalized by the peak motor-response) and the latency times of the Hoffmann?s reflex and motor-res...
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Xingkun Xu, Joey J. Voermans, Qingxiang Liu, Il-Ju Moon, Changlong Guan and Alexander V. Babanin
While sea spray can significantly impact air?sea heat fluxes, the effect of spray produced by the interaction of wind and waves is not explicitly addressed in current operational numerical models. In the present work, the thermal effects of the sea spray...
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