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Central Bank Digital Currencies and the European Framework for Payments: Friends or Foes?

Central bank digital currencies have triggered important theoretical, policy-oriented questions and normative concerns regarding their integration within the current set-up of the payment system.
M. Cecilia del Barrio Arleo, G. Gimigliano   +1 more
core   +1 more source

When Biology Meets Medicine: A Perspective on Foundation Models

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence, and foundation models in particular, are transforming life sciences and medicine. This perspective reviews biological and medical foundation models across scales, highlighting key challenges in data availability, model evaluation, and architectural design.
Kunying Niu, Yuxing Wang, Limin Zou, Jing Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retinal Vessel Segmentation: A Comprehensive Review From Classical Methods to Deep Learning Advances (1982–2025)

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal, Jan Kubíček, Jana Bahrová, Alice Varyšová, Martin Augustýnek, Marek Penhaker, Juraj Timkovič   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

CEMLA’s survey on central bank digital currencies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin American Journal of Central Banking
In late 2021 and early 2022, CEMLA conducted a thorough survey involving 12 central banks to analyze key aspects related to the potential implementation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
Gerardo Hernández del Valle, Karla Chua Mejía, Bernardo Paniagua Zabal, Matias Alfredo Gutierrez Girault, Pablo Villalobos González   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Talk to Your Data: An Agentic Artificial Intelligence‐Driven Decision‐Support Framework for Prosumer Energy Optimization and Recommendations

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
An agentic AI‐driven decision‐support framework for prosumers is proposed, integrating PV generation, load profiling, and multihorizon optimization within a four‐agent architecture. The approach significantly reduces grid dependence, enhances self‐sufficiency and prevents system oversizing.
Adela BÂRA, Simona‐Vasilica OPREA
wiley   +1 more source

Digital transformation in Vietnam: cashless payment adoption in informal family‑run and traditional market businesses

Cogent Business & Management
This study examines the adoption of cashless payment systems among informal family-run businesses and traditional market vendors in Vietnam, focusing on adoption readiness, organizational inertia, switching costs, and entrenched cash-based practices and ...
Bang Nguyen-Viet, Yen Thi Hoang Nguyen, Bac Nguyen-Viet, Hai Ho Nguyen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source

An integrated framework for understanding innovative digital payment adoption and continued usage by small offline retailers

Cogent Economics & Finance
Traditional small retailers in India account for 85% of goods sold but have slowly adopted digital technology. Despite digital payments’ significant impact on customer satisfaction and policy, there is limited research on small retailers’ adoption of ...
Jayanthi Thanigan, N. Srinivasa Reddy, Moutusy Maity, Priya Sethuraman, J. Irudhaya Rajesh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Open‐Source Paradox: Africa's Digital Sovereignty and the Structural Limits of Artificial Intelligence Autonomy

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence Challenges for Knowledge Innovation Cycles

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on knowledge innovation and its contemporary reshaping, with particular attention to the growing role of AI in this process. This article first examines the general structure and phases of knowledge innovation cycles, aiming to identify AI's role within them.
Aharon Kellerman
wiley   +1 more source