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A prototype for intelligent diet recommendations by considering disease and medical condition of the patient

The patient must follow a good diet to lessen the risk of health conditions. The body needs vitamins, minerals, and nutrients for illness prevention. When the human body does not receive the right amount of nutrients, nutritional disorders can develop, which can cause a number of different health issues. Chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension can be brought on by dietary deficiencies. The human body receives the nutrients from a balanced diet to function properly. This research has a prototype that enables patients to find nutritious food according to their health preferences. It suggests meals based on their preferences for nutrients such as protein, fibre, high-fibre, low-fat, etc., and diseases such as pregnancy and diabetes. The process implements the recommendation based on the patient's profile (content-relied, K-NN), recommendation relied on patients with similar profiles, and recommendation based on the patient's past or recent activity.




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International Journal of Business and Systems Research




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Mobile wallet payments - a systematic literature review with bibliometric and network visualisation analysis over two decades

The study aims to review the literature on mobile wallet payment and align research trends using a systematic literature review with bibliometric and network visualisation analysis over two decades. It uses bibliometric analysis of the literature research retrieved from the Web of Science database. The study period was from 2001 to 2021, with 1,134 research papers. It also provides the indicators like citation trends, cited reference patterns, authorship patterns, subject areas published on the mobile wallet, top contributing authors, and highly cited research articles using the database. Furthermore, network visualisation analysis, like the co-occurrence of author keywords and keywords plus terms, has also been examined using VOSviewer software. The bibliometric analysis shows that the Republic of China dominates mobile wallet payment, and India is a significant contributor. Furthermore, the constructions of the network map using a co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling shows an interesting pattern of mobile wallet payment.




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Agricultural informatics: emphasising potentiality and proposed model on innovative and emerging Doctor of Education in Agricultural Informatics program for smart agricultural systems

International universities are changing with their style of operation, mode of teaching and learning operations. This change is noticeable rapidly in India and also in international contexts due to healthy and innovative methods, educational strategies, and nomenclature throughout the world. Technologies are changing rapidly, including ICT. Different subjects are developed in the fields of IT and computing with the interaction or applications to other fields, viz. health informatics, bio informatics, agriculture informatics, and so on. Agricultural informatics is an interdisciplinary subject dedicated to combining information technology and information science utilisation in agricultural sciences. The digital agriculture is powered by agriculture informatics practice. For teaching, research and development of any subject educational methods is considered as important and various educational programs are there in this regard viz. Bachelor of Education, Master of Education, PhD in Education, etc. Degrees are also available to deal with the subjects and agricultural informatics should not be an exception of this. In this context, Doctor of Education (EdD or DEd) is an emerging degree having features of skill sets, courses and research work. This paper proposed on EdD program with agricultural informatics specialisation for improving healthy agriculture system. Here, a proposed model core curriculum is also presented.




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Cognitive biases in decision making during the pandemic: insights and viewpoint from people's behaviour

In this article, we have attempted to study the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has gradually increased and impacted the world. The authors integrate the knowledge from cognitive psychology literature to illustrate how the limitations of the human mind might have a critical role in the decisions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors show the correlation between different biases in various contexts involved in the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the ways in which we can nudge ourselves and various stakeholders involved in the decision-making process. This study uses a typology of biases to examine how different patterns of biases affect the decision-making behaviour of people during the pandemic. The presented model investigates the potential interrelations among environmental transformations, cognitive biases, and strategic decisions. By referring to cognitive biases, our model also helps to understand why the same performance improvement practices might incite different opinions among decision-makers.




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An empirical study on the nexus among the prices of commodities: an ARDL and bound test approach

This study investigates the nexus among the commodities: bitcoin, copper, gold, silver, crude oil, and iron ore. Previous studies on establishing the plausibility and the dynamic nexus among commodities are rare. This research attempts to fill this gap. This study investigates whether there are long-term and short-term links between commodities for the period 2010-2022 by applying the bounds testing method to co-integration and ECM, built using an ARDL model and establishing both short-term and long-term relationships among the economic variables analysed. The ECM confirmed the presence of some co-integration relationship for all the variables, both in the short and long term. A strong correlation was discovered among the commodities, which were greatly influenced by their lagged values. The results of this study provides an opportunity for policymakers and researchers to understand the nature of the relationship between the analysed variables and further support the development of new policies for economic sustainability.




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Performance improvement in inventory classification using the expectation-maximisation algorithm

Multi-criteria inventory classification (MCIC) is popularly used to aid managers in categorising the inventory. Researchers have used numerous mathematical models and approaches, but few resorted to unsupervised machine-learning techniques to address MCIC. This study uses the expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm to estimate the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), a popular unsupervised machine learning algorithm, for ABC inventory classification. The EM-GMM algorithm is sensitive to initialisation, which in turn affects the results. To address this issue, two different initialisation procedures have been proposed for the EM-GMM algorithm. Inventory classification outcomes from 14 existing MCIC models have been given as inputs to study the significance of the two proposed initialisation procedures of the EM-GMM algorithm. The effectiveness of these initialisation procedures corresponding to various inputs has been analysed toward inventory management performance measures, i.e., fill rate, total relevant cost, and inventory turnover ratio.




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International Journal of Enterprise Network Management




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Unveiling learner experience in MOOC reviews

The surge of learner enrolment in massive open online courses (MOOCs) has led to a wealth of learner-generated data, such as online course reviews that document learner experience. To unveil learner experience with MOOCs, this research uses machine learning methods to extract prominent topics from MOOC reviews and assess the sentiments expressed by learners within them. Furthermore, this research investigates the cooccurrence of the topics using association rule mining. The findings reveal six central topics discussed in MOOC reviews, such as "instructor", "design", "material", "assignment", "platform", and "experience". Notably, most learners express positive sentiments in their reviews. The sentiment indicated in reviews of skill-seeking MOOCs is higher than that in reviews of knowledge-seeking MOOCs. Furthermore, the association rule mining identifies four meaningful association rules. The findings offer valuable insights for MOOC instructors to enhance course design and for platform operators to ensure the long-term viability and success of MOOC platforms.




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LDSAE: LeNet deep stacked autoencoder for secure systems to mitigate the errors of jamming attacks in cognitive radio networks

A hybrid network system for mitigating errors due to jamming attacks in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) is named LeNet deep stacked autoencoder (LDSAE) and is developed. In this exploration, the sensing stage and decision-making are considered. The sensing unit is composed of four steps. First, the detected signal is forwarded to filtering progression. Here, BPF is utilised to filter the detected signal. The filtered signal is squared in the second phase. Third, signal samples are combined and jamming attacks occur by including false energy levels. Last, the attack is maliciously affecting the FC decision in the fourth step. On the other hand, FC initiated the decision-making and also recognised jamming attacks that affect the link amidst PU and SN in decision-making stage and it is accomplished by employing LDSAE-based trust model where the proposed module differentiates the malicious and selfish users. The analytic measures of LDSAE gained 79.40%, 79.90%, and 78.40%.




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The role of shopping apps and their impact on the online purchasing behaviour patterns of working women in Bangalore

The study aims to analyse the impact of shopping applications on the shopping behaviour of the working women community in Bangalore, a city known as the IT hub. The research uses a quantitative analysis with SPSS version 23 software and a structured questionnaire survey technique to gather data from the working women community. The study uses descriptive statistics, ANOVA, regression, and Pearson correlation analysis to evaluate the perception of working women regarding the significance of online shopping applications. The results show that digital shopping applications are more prevalent among the working women community in Bangalore. The study also evaluates the socio-economic and psychological factors that influence their purchasing behaviour. The findings suggest that online marketers should enhance their strategies to improve their business on digital platforms. The research provides valuable insights into the shopping habits of the working women community in Bangalore.




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Cognitively-inspired intelligent decision-making framework in cognitive IoT network

Numerous Internet of Things (IoT) applications require brain-empowered intelligence. This necessity has caused the emergence of a new area called cognitive IoT (CIoT). Reasoning, planning, and selection are typically involved in decision-making within the network bandwidth limit. Consequently, data minimisation is needed. Therefore, this research proposes a novel technique to extract conscious data from a massive dataset. First, it groups the data using k-means clustering, and the entropy is computed for each cluster. The most prominent cluster is then determined by selecting the cluster with the highest entropy. Subsequently, it transforms each cluster element into an informative element. The most informative data is chosen from the most prominent cluster that represents the whole massive data, which is further used for intelligent decision-making. The experimental evaluation is conducted on the 21.25 years of environmental dataset, revealing that the proposed method is efficient over competing approaches.




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International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations




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Informing with Workflow Technologies




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Location-Oriented Knowledge Management in a Tourism Context: Connecting Virtual Communities to Physical Locations




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Towards Egocentric Way-Finding Appliances Supporting Navigation in Unfamiliar Terrain




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Organisational Paradigms and Network Centric Organisations




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Connecting with the Y Generation: an Analysis of Factors Associated with the Academic Performance of Foundation IS Students




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Information Security Management: A Research Project




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Issues in Implementing CRM: A Case Study




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Human-Computer Interaction Gearing Up for Work




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Manufacturing Organizational Memory: Logged Conversation Thread Analysis




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Logical Soft Systems Methodology for Education Programme Development




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e-HR and Employee Self Service: A Case Study of a Victorian Public Sector Organisation




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The Usage of E-Learning Material to Support Good Communication with Learners




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Towards an Interactive Learning Environment for Object-Z




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Towards a Structural Model Connecting Hard Skills, Soft Skills and Job Conditions and the IS Professional: The Student Perspective




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Are All Learners Created Equal? A Quantitative Analysis of Academic Performance in a Distance Tertiary Institution




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Web-enhanced Course




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On the Idea of Organization Transformation: The IS/IT Design Challenge in Systems Thinking




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The Evaluation of a Computer Ethics Program




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Returning the ‘I’ in the ‘IT’ Education of MScIS/MBA Professionals




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A Markov Decision Process Model for Traffic Prioritisation Provisioning




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ICT Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multimode versus Traditional Distance Learning




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A Computer Hardware/Software/Services Planning and Selection Course for the CIS/IT Curriculum




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Exploring Change and Innovation by ICT Teaching Staff in the New Zealand Polytechnic Sector




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What to Teach Business Students in MIS Courses about Data and Information




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Higher Education Course Content: Paper-Based, Online or Hybrid Course Delivery?




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A Data Model Validation Approach for Relational Database Design Courses




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IT Educators and IT Adoption




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A Comparison of Learning and Teaching Styles – Self-Perception of IT Students




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Evaluation of Web Pages as a Tool in Public Relations




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Action-Guidance: An Action Research Project for the Application of Informing Science in Educational and Vocational Guidance




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Public Perceptions of Biometric Devices: The Effect of Misinformation on Acceptance and Use




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Visions of a Wireless Future in Education Technology




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Enterprise Applications Portfolio Management Utilizing COTS




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Factors Influencing the Decision to Choose Information Technology Preparatory Studies in Secondary Schools: An Exploratory Study in Regional/Rural Australia




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Challenge or Chaos: A Discourse Analysis of Women’s Perceptions of the Culture of Change in the IT Industry




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Creation of Anticipatory Information Support for Virtual Organizations between System(S) Theory and System Thinking




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