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Background: Climate change has a negative impact on smallholder farming, affecting both agricultural production and livelihoods. Agricultural extension services offer an essential role in enabling smallholder farmers to...

Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) technologies are vital for enhancing the climate resilience of high-value, climate-sensitive crops like vanilla in Sub-Saharan Africa. While institutional support through agricultural ext...

Rapid urbanisation across Africa is placing increasing strain on urban governance systems, intensifying long-standing challenges such as infrastructure deficits, inefficient service delivery, and limited institutional ca...

Abstract A crucial factor for smart cities, which are more vulnerable to cyber threats, is Cyber Resilience (CR). Nevertheless, the conventional frameworks didn’t concentrate on assuring the Backup Data (BD) integrity ...

Timetable management is a controversial but core administrative activity at tertiary learning institutions, normally saturated with timetabling clashes, resource wastage, and communication breakdowns. This study describe...

Background: Wearable electrocardiography (ECG) devices such as smartwatches offer a novel means for detecting cardiac arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation (AF), and ST-segment abnormalities. Their role in comple...

Decision Support Systems (DSS) are widely recognized as important tools supporting decision making processes, quite little adopted yet to support sustainable spatial and mobility planning, despite a wide range of literat...

The field of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and intelligent automation has become pervasive in our modern digital world. It extends from business and public services to environmental management and even i...

Abstract Objective This study aims to evaluate student acceptance of a Smart Learning Platform (SLP) (based on the Chaoxing Learning System™) to deliver a cardiopulmonary physiotherapy curriculum. The SLP leverages AI-...

Background and Objectives: With rapid population growth and increasing urban complexities, there is a need for innovative and practical solutions. In this context, smart living can play a fundamental role in improving ur...

The Security systems using cameras as monitors or what is commonly known as Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) have recently become more prevalent. However, to have a monitoring system or monitoring requires a fairly expen...

Steganography currently holds a vital position in information security, reflecting its growing importance within the energy industry. Steganographic methods are employed to ensure data integrity and authentication in Sma...

In the past years, the consumption of energy produced by wind turbines had an exponential growth. This requirement gave momentum to the development of larger turbines with the goal of producing more energy at the same si...

Background: The Gauteng Department of Basic Education introduced smartboards into education early in 2010 and provided continuous training to teachers around the province. However, 15 years later, a discernible gap stil...

Smart environments play a crucial role in achieving sustainable development goals, particularly those related to environmental protection and public health. In recent years, environmental degradation caused by air and wa...

Abstract Smart home networks are a rapidly evolving part of the Internet of Things (IoT), where connected devices exchange information to automate energy use, enhance comfort, and improve user safety. Despite their benef...

Abstract Background Around a third of suicides in the United Kingdom occur in public spaces, such as on the railways, at bridges, or coastal locations. Increasingly, the use of Artificial Intelligence and other smart tec...

Abstract Wearable sensor–based human activity recognition (HAR) is central to smart sport and health-monitoring applications, yet existing deep learning models often rely on ad hoc multimodal fusion and offer limited i...

Cross-city transfer learning (CCTL) has emerged as a crucial approach for managing the growing complexity of urban data and addressing the challenges posed by rapid urbanization. This paper provides a comprehensive revie...

Public service organisations, particularly universities, lack structured methods to evaluate their operational readiness for digital transformation, hindering strategic planning in the Industry 4.0 era. This paper addres...

This study aims to analyze the institutional design of regulatory management bodies in various countries and assess their applicability to the Indonesian context, particularly in overcoming hyper-regulation and regulator...

Özge Özen Gökmuharremoğlu,1 Aysel Çoban Taşkın2 1Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kastamonu University, Kastamonu, Turkey; 2Department of Neurology, Izmir Tepecik Trainin...

Abstract Nowadays, communication and networking technologies are essential for Oil & Gas industries in order to guarantee reliability, safety and low costs in the producing process. Information access and commands and se...

Abstract Background Thalassemia is the most prevalent single-gene disorder in Sri Lanka, imposing a significant socioeconomic and healthcare burden. Early carrier detection is essential for genetic counselling and the pr...