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American Journal of Business and Operations Research | 2020

Future trends and Italian SMEs

The stagnation of the domestic market has brought the majority of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to their knees, leading them to reinvent their way of doing business and find new strategies in order to survive and grow when the environmental conditions are deeply changing. On the one hand, new trends create a strong disruption on a structural level among the productive fabrics, but on the other hand, they represent also an opportunity, which opens new scenarios and new possibilities for the relaunch of SMEs. Among the most important challenges for Italian SMEs is internationalization, which is the possibility for enterprises to trade their goods not only on the domestic market but also on the foreign markets trying to find new opportunities to obtain some advantages. This is a very complicated process, traumatic and challenging in term of resources, but the possibility to have a genetic patrimony and a productive value, as the ones of the “Made in Italy", gives to the products of Italian enterprises a high level of competition and strong differentiation, making this process more accessible.  The growth and competitiveness of enterprises, in particular SMEs, increasingly depend on the ability to apply new knowledge, working methods, and technologies as well as on the opportunity to participate in the commercialization of research developments in order to create new products, services or processes. Therefore, companies should strive to benefit from the opportunities and competitive advantages that innovation brings. SMEs play an important role in economic growth and provide most of the new jobs in Italy. Within the framework of this paper, the insight into the SMEs internationalization process is presented. The article provides an analysis of SMEs in the process of internationalization. Besides it concentrates on the new threats and opportunities represented by the new industrial revolution - Industry 4.0. Analyzing the impact of Industry 4.0 on the internationalization of Italian SMEs, the authors explain the solutions that are being used and the ones that should be taken.

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Corinne Celant mail -
Irina V. Pustokhina mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/AJBOR.010105

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International Journal of Wireless and Ad Hoc Communication | 2020

Blockchain technology in the international supply chains

The relevance of the study is that globalization and the integration of the international economy provide excellent opportunities for economic development through international trade and investment. It is necessary to make the product and services more competitive. One of the factors determining the competitiveness of trade is how quickly and how economically the goods can be delivered.  The competition in the logistics industry is continually growing, which forces participants to improve their efficiency, improve quality and reduce costs. In these conditions effective IT solutions are vital tools for logistics and the ability to manage the logistics processes in the business environment in the context of globalization is a factor of competitiveness.  Within the framework of this paper, the existing business processes of cargo delivery were described. The study of the process of interaction of international supply chain participants made it possible to identify the ineffectiveness of existing processes to understand what can be replaced and corrected with the introduction of blockchain technology. The main reason of inefficiency is the low level of business processes digitalization. The cases of existing blockchain projects for the logistics industry were investigated. The article provides possible cases of using blockchain for the logistics industry.

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Irina V. Pustokhina mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJWAC.010103

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International Journal of Wireless and Ad Hoc Communication | 2020

Performance of MAODV and ODMRP Routing Protocol for Group Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Network

A MANET is a self-conFigureuring system of mobile hosts connected by wireless links. The routers are free to move randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily; thus, the network's wireless topology may change rapidly and unpredictably. Routing is the process of exchanging information from one station to the other stations of the network.  Multicasting is a popular mechanism for supporting group communication. In a multicast session, the sender transmits only one copy of each message that is replicated within the network and delivered to multiple recipients. This multicast routing is  highly deal with self-organized network in recent days due to its broadcast characteristics. However, devising multicast protocols to provide group communications in mobile ad-hoc networks is significantly more complicated, because of the wireless medium, changing topology, battery power and available bandwidth as well.  This paper, evaluates two prominent on-demand multicast routing protocols for group communication, namely, Multicast Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (MAODV) and On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol(ODMRP) as increasing number of multicast sources and receivers in both single-active multicast group and multi-active multicast group in the network.   

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R.Pandi Selvam mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJWAC.010104

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International Journal of Neutrosophic Science | 2020

A STUDY OF NEUTROSOPHIC CUBIC MN SUBALGEBRA

In this paper, we present the new kind of MN-subalgebra for neutrosophic cubic set which is called neutrosophic cubic MN-subalgebra where M represents the initial of author’s first name Mohsin and N represents the initial of second author’s first name Neha. We investigate this neutrosophic cubic MN-subalgebra on BF-algebra through some significant properties of BF-algebra. We also use R-intersection, p-intersection, p-union upper bound, lower bound and some important characteristics to study the behaviour of neutrosophic cubic MN-subalgebra [NCMNSU] on BF-algebra.

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Mohsin Khalid mail -
Neha Andaleeb Khalid mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJNS.040203

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International Journal of Neutrosophic Science | 2020

The Special Neutrosophic Functions

In this study, we introduce the notion of special neutrosophic functions as new kinds of neutrosophic function defined in a neutrosophic logic. As particular cases, we present the notions of neutrosophic Floor (greatest integer), neutrosophic Absolute Function and neutrosophic Signum Function. Moreover, we draw its neutrosophic graph representation and discuss similarities and differences for these special neutrosophic functions between the classic case and neutrosophic case. We investigate some properties and prove them. However, we often need the definition of absolute value function, especially in the metric space. Therefore, we introduce its initial definition in this study.

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Ahmed Hatip mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJNS.040204

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International Journal of Neutrosophic Science | 2020

Proposal for a new theory of neutrosophic application of the evidence in the Ecuadorian criminal process

In this article, the main objective was to examine the articulation mechanism of the guiding principles of evidentiary law, the backbone of the criminal procedure directed at judges so as not to make inexcusable mistakes. A new theory called reasoned equivalence based on numerical neutrosophics by considering each evidentiary principle <A> along with its opposite or negation <Anti-A> and the spectrum of neutralities <Neut-A>. The data collection techniques responded to participant observation and the Delphi technique, after having gathered the opinion of 60 collaborating criminal lawyers about the problem through the exercise of the profession. The construction of the instrument fell to an observation guide. The results gave the judicial practice a marked formative value, by establishing relationships between the content of the evidence and the development of oral litigation techniques aimed at the promotion and evacuation of evidence to contribute to a certain criminal process, the evidence necessary to that the judge can come to the knowledge and conviction of the procedural truth of the facts.

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Luis Andrés Crespo Berti mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/IJNS.040205

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Fusion: Practice and Applications | 2021

Image Caption Generation and Comprehensive Comparison of Image Encoders

Image caption generation is a stimulating multimodal task. Substantial advancements have been made in thefield of deep learning notably in computer vision and natural language processing. Yet, human-generated captions are still considered better, which makes it a challenging application for interactive machine learning. In this paper, we aim to compare different transfer learning techniques and develop a novel architecture to improve image captioning accuracy. We compute image feature vectors using different state-of-the-art transferlearning models which are fed into an Encoder-Decoder network based on Stacked LSTMs with soft attention,along with embedded text to generate high accuracy captions. We have compared these models on severalbenchmark datasets based on different evaluation metrics like BLEU and METEOR.

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Shitiz Gupta mail -
Shubham Agnihotri mail -
Deepasha Birla mail -
Achin Jain mail -
Thavavel Vaiyapuri mail -
Puneet Singh Lamba mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/FPA.040202

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Vol. Volume 4 / Iss. Issue 2

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Journal of Cybersecurity and Information Management | 2020

Pre-Cursor microRNAs from Different Species classification based on features extracted from the image

The first MicroRNAs was discovered 27 years ago in the nematode C.elegans genomes. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) sequences are small and are expressed in various genomes to affect the translation or the stability of target mRNAs. These short RNA sequences are involved in targeting post-transcriptional gene regulation. The mature miRNAs are derived from longer sequence precursors (pre-miRNAs). Previous works have shown that pre-miRNAs can be classified by their species of origin using bioinformatics techniques combined with machine learning tools. In this study, we focus on the classification of Precursor microRNAs sequences, from 16 different species ranging from animals, plants, and viruses, based on the combination of the features extracted from images corresponding to DNA sequences and machine learning algorithms. As a result, our classification shows that the system based on features correspond to energy images of pre-miRNAs signals using the PNUC coding technique corresponding to the DNA sequence is very efficient in terms of miRNAs inter-genomics recognition

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Rabeb Touati mail -
Dr. Imen Ferchichi mail -
Dr. Imen Messaoudi mail -
Dr.Afef Elloumi Oueslati mail -
Dr. Zied Lachiri mail
link https://doi.org/10.54216/JCIM.030101

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Vol. Volume 3 / Iss. Issue 1

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