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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐Assisted IoT‐Enabled ECG Monitoring: Integrating Foundational and Generative AI Tools for Sustainable Smart Healthcare—Recent Trends

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly advanced the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, enabling real‐time, remote, and patient‐centric cardiac care. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of AI assisted IoT‐based ECG monitoring systems, focusing on the integration of emerging technologies such as ...
Amrita Choudhury, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Lachit Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing the resource allocation in a private pension company [PDF]

Risk in Contemporary Economy, 2012
Computerized mathematical models are forecasting processes and support decision making in the management of insurance. Using the Linear and Integer Programming module of the WinQSB software, we have made a simulation on an actual specific situation of a ...
Manuela Panaitescu, Angela Eliza Micu
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Managerial Delegation in a Mixed Duopoly with a Foreign Competitor [PDF]

We examine firms' decisions to hire managers in a duopoly where a public firm competes with a foreign private firm. In contrast with the case in which the public firm competes with a domestic private firm -where only the private firm decides to hire a ...
Jorge Fernández-Ruiz
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes toward Women’s Layoffs during Recessions: Evidence from Chinese Firms

Socius
Sociological research has identified persistent disadvantages that face women in hiring and promotion opportunities in firms. This article extends this research on gender inequality to examining firm preferences for women’s layoffs when faced with the ...
Anson Au
doaj   +1 more source

Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs, Deena Shariq, Emily Yang, Giselle Maya, Taylor L. Wilds, Collin W. Mueller, Arianna M. Gard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Delegation and Semipublic Firms [PDF]

By considering a mixed oligopoly and considering that public firms are less efficient than private firms, White (2001) shows that if private firms hire managers then the public firm does not do so. We show in this paper that if we consider that a private
Juan Carlos Barcena-Ruiz
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Parents' WhatsApp coping resources in the context of ongoing political conflicts: An ecological exploration

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment.
Daphna Yeshua‐Katz, Stav Shapira, Orna Braun‐Lewensohn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption of a Cleaner Technology by a Monopoly Under Incomplete Information [PDF]

We consider a model consisting of a monopolistic firm producing a certain good with pollution. This firm can adopt a cleaner technology within a finite time by incurring an investment cost decreasing exponentially with the adoption date.
Ben Youssef, Slim
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