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Political strife, economic turmoil, and a global pandemic have caused massive changes throughout society over the past few years. Disruptions to work and school enforced a complete reliance on technology for the first time in many countries, while supply chain issues directly impacted societal comfort...

6G, as a platform for the internet of everything, supports high data rates and low latency and satisfies the requirements for services, massive data traffic, storage, and processing, thus providing new opportunities for accessing consumer goods and digital services. Due to its enhanced autonomy...

In 2022, the global economic space is seeing dramatic changes in current economic activity and financial instruments, which are used by both small companies and leading corporate giants. Technological progress in the field of digitalization and the emergence of private digital currencies have...

The current big data era has vast amounts of biomedical data that present great interest in processes related to the search of new drugs. Due to the information available in open access databases, many efforts have been directed towards the application of in silico discovery strategies aimed at drug...

Palmprint recognition is a technology that uses the unique composite texture information of the palm surface for automatic identification. In this chapter, first, the main research contents of touchless palmprint recognition are introduced. Second, the establishment of the CUHKSZ large-scale touchless...

The National Library of Spain (NLS, Biblioteca Nacional de España [BNE]) for the target audience of digital humanities (DH), within the last two decades, has taken up major challenges to be into line with other main national libraries (France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, and the Library...

This article explores the confluence of two subject areas that are at the forefront of technological change and the evolution of the democratic process. Internetization and digital democracy have emerged as game changers in the 21st century. Internetization has redefined global outreach and electronic...

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) are computational learning support systems based on the use of artificial intelligence. These systems can be used to customize educational content, learning paths, interfaces, and feedback according to learners' current capabilities. Among the learners'...

Among the terms for technology-enhanced education, ‘e-learning' may be an umbrella one to cover various types; on the mobile platform, ‘mobile learning' or ‘m-learning' has gained a solid foothold. A historical review of the development from e-learning to m-learning may help draw a clearer...

The 21st century brings great challenges in the information and knowledge areas. The information society boom and market globalization have opened up new ways of using the concept which has been in existence for a long time. Thus, it is urgent to find new ways for information management, mainly how...

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. The first one is to expose two methods that enable us to apprehend the problem of tanks and water towers by two different approaches: The first is a simplified one by using approximate formulas. The second is shell theory whose resulting equations are more...

This article presents a survey of current spectrum sensing (SS) research involving the application of image processing and deep learning techniques. This document includes approaches to narrowband, wideband, and cooperative SS. A current trend, automatic classification modulation (AMC), is also...

This chapter examines the contribution of artificial intelligence to the management of audience participation in the news production process. Although participatory journalism has revived expectations for strengthening community ties and restoring public trust in professional journalism, it is...

This chapter focuses on explainable video summarization, a technology that could significantly advance the content production workflow of Media organizations. It starts by presenting the current state of the art in the fields of deep-learning-based video summarization and explainable video analysis and...

Medical prognostication is the science of estimating the complication and recurrence of a disease. A Breast cancer recurrence (BCR) event is characterized by the cancer “coming back” after at least a year of remission after the treatment. Many factors, including tumor grade, tumor size, and lymph node...

The purpose of this article is to design a new SWOT model in which the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges are identified to gain insights into e-HRM adoption by organizations. Some suggestions are proposed for successful e-HRM adoption based on the reformulation of attitude theory. In...

Although virtual reality (VR) has been technologically possible for decades, both logistical and pedagogical limitations have slowed progress relating to collaborating with others in virtual reality environments. This article establishes a working framework, namely embodied social translucence, to...

This encyclopedia entry provides insight into the justification of pedagogy in the context of extended reality (XR), which itself encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed/hybrid reality (MR), and how all have evolved into an ongoing source of complex ambiguity over the last...

The implementation of e-learning holistic education has been widely carried out, but few have studied it related to aspects of the development of the use of communication and information technology in the world of education. Due to an abrupt outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the educational...