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The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19): A review Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 4.3 million confirmed cases and over 290,000 deaths globally. It has also sparked fears of an impending economic crisis and recession. Social distancing, self-isolation and travel restrictions hav…
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Circular economy as an essentially contested concept Open
The Circular Economy (CE) is currently a popular notion within the policy and business advocacy groups. Despite being visionary and provocative in its message, the research on the CE concept is emerging. The two intertwined objectives of t…
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Convergence of Edge Computing and Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Survey Open
Ubiquitous sensors and smart devices from factories and communities are\ngenerating massive amounts of data, and ever-increasing computing power is\ndriving the core of computation and services from the cloud to the edge of the\nnetwork. A…
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A Survey on 5G Networks for the Internet of Things: Communication Technologies and Challenges Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology which tends to revolutionize and \nconnect the global world via heterogeneous smart devices through seamless connectivity. The current \ndemand for machine-type communications (MTC) ha…
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Engaging patients to improve quality of care: a systematic review Open
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Towards a consensus on the circular economy Open
The growing importance of the concept of the circular economy as a way to attain sustainable development has encouraged scholars to propose different ways to understand it. Given the large number of studies done on the circular economy, th…
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Principles for a sustainable circular economy Open
The pressure that the human species exerts on the natural environment through the extraction of materials and generation of wastes is widely recognised. Circular economy has emerged as a potential solution to make better use of resources. …
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Network Slicing in 5G: Survey and Challenges Open
5G is envisioned to be a multi-service network supporting a wide range of verticals with a diverse set of performance and service requirements. Slicing a single physical network into multiple isolated logical networks has emerged as a key …
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges Open
The fourth industrial revolution, a term coined by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, describes a world where individuals move between digital domains and offline reality with the use of connected tec…
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A critical review of comparative global historical energy consumption and future demand: The story told so far Open
This review presents a critical combined energy analysis of demand in developed/developing countries, including the load requirements of the various business sectors. It summarizes on-demand time-series, energy supply, overall trade in gas…
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Enhanced haze pollution by black carbon in megacities in China Open
Aerosol‐planetary boundary layer (PBL) interactions have been found to enhance air pollution in megacities in China. We show that black carbon (BC) aerosols play the key role in modifying the PBL meteorology and hence enhancing the haze po…
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When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction Open
The collection and circulation of data is now a central element of increasingly more sectors of contemporary capitalism. This article analyses data as a form of capital that is distinct from, but has its roots in, economic capital. Data co…
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Municipal solid waste management and waste-to-energy in the context of a circular economy and energy recycling in Europe Open
This paper proposes an overarching review of national municipal waste management systems and waste-\n\t\t\t\t to-energy as an important part of it in the context of circular economy in the selected countries in\n\t\t\t\t Europe. The growth…
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Platform labor: on the gendered and racialized exploitation of low-income service work in the ‘on-demand’ economy Open
How does one value something one cannot and often does not want to see? How do contemporary digital platforms and their infrastructures of connectivity, evaluation, and surveillance affect this relationship between value and visibility, wh…
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Labour process theory and the gig economy Open
What are the distinctive traits that characterize work(ing) through (and for) a digital platform? In the burgeoning debate on the ‘gig economy’, a critical examination that comprehensively addresses this issue beyond specific examples or c…
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Atmospheric new particle formation from sulfuric acid and amines in a Chinese megacity Open
A puzzle of new particles Atmospheric particulates can be produced by emissions or form de novo. New particle formation usually occurs in relatively clean air. This is because preexisting particles in the atmosphere will scavenge the precu…
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Influences of the Industry 4.0 Revolution on the Human Capital Development and Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Review Open
Automation and digitalization, as long-term evolutionary processes, cause significant effects, such as the transformation of occupations and job profiles, changes to employment forms, and a more significant role for the platform economy, g…
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Roads, Railroads, and Decentralization of Chinese Cities Open
We investigate how urban railroad and highway configurations have influenced urban form in Chinese cities since 1990. Each radial highway displaces 4% of central city population to surrounding regions, and ring roads displace about an addi…
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0): A Social Innovation Perspective Open
The rapid pace of technological developments played a key role in the previous industrial revolutions. However, the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) and its embedded technology diffusion progress is expected to grow exponentiall…
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Federated Learning: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Protocols, and Applications Open
This paper provides a comprehensive study of Federated Learning (FL) with an emphasis on enabling software and hardware platforms, protocols, real-life applications and use-cases. FL can be applicable to multiple domains but applying it to…
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Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data Open
Urban boundaries, an essential property of cities, are widely used in many urban studies. However, extracting urban boundaries from satellite images is still a great challenge, especially at a global scale and a fine resolution. In this st…
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Sharing for people, planet or profit? Analysing motivations for intended sharing economy participation Open
The sharing economy is a fast-growing and heavily debated phenomenon. This study provides an overview of motivations of people willing to participate in different forms of the sharing economy. A survey was held amongst 1330 respondents fro…
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Governance in the Blockchain Economy: A Framework and Research Agenda Open
Blockchain technology is often referred to as a groundbreaking innovation and the harbinger of a new economic era. Blockchains may be capable of engendering a new type of economic system: the blockchain economy. In the blockchain economy, …
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Blockchain in global supply chains and cross border trade: a critical synthesis of the state-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities Open
Blockchain possesses the potential of transforming global supply chain management. Gartner predicts that blockchain could be able to track $2 T of goods and services in their movement across the globe by 2023, and blockchain will be a more…
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Is the Sample Good Enough? Comparing Data from Twitter's Streaming API with Twitter's Firehose Open
Twitter is a social media giant famous for the exchange of short, 140-character messages called "tweets". In the scientific community, the microblogging site is known for openness in sharing its data. It provides a glance into its millions…
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Scheduling Policies for Minimizing Age of Information in Broadcast Wireless Networks Open
In this paper, we consider a wireless broadcast network with a base station sending time-sensitive information to a number of clients through unreliable channels. The Age of Information (AoI), namely the amount of time that elapsed since t…
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Performance Analysis of Google Colaboratory as a Tool for Accelerating Deep Learning Applications Open
Google Colaboratory (also known as Colab) is a cloud service based on Jupyter Notebooks for disseminating machine learning education and research. It provides a runtime fully configured for deep learning and free-of-charge access to a robu…
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Measuring Geopolitical Risk Open
We present a monthly indicator of geopolitical risk based on a tally of newspaper articles covering geopolitical tensions, and examine its evolution and effects since 1985. The geopolitical risk (GPR) index spikes around the Gulf War, afte…
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Piezo‐Catalytic Effect on the Enhancement of the Ultra‐High Degradation Activity in the Dark by Single‐ and Few‐Layers MoS<sub>2</sub> Nanoflowers Open
Single- and few-layer MoS2 nanoflowers are first discovered to have a piezo-catalyst effect, exhibiting an ultra-high degradation activity in the dark by introducing external mechanical strains. The degradation ratio of the Rhodamine-B dye…
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Google Vizier Open
Any sufficiently complex system acts as a black box when it becomes easier to experiment with than to understand. Hence, black-box optimization has become increasingly important as systems have become more complex. In this paper we describ…