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Call for papersThe 2026 special issue on Climate & Health is open for submissions.Learn more
All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Parisa Sabbagh
In this study, a new and applicable model is proposed which represents the opportunities of implementing blockchains into IoT framework in the sensor data acquisition. We aim to propose a simple perspective of blockchain in IoT which is flexible with high thr…
Jamilah A. Alokluk, Aisha Al-Amri
The development of digital libraries has changed the handling and access to information. Using such a library involves a computer-human interface as well as commands and search strategies to retrieve information. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a di…
Sharon Cullinane, Kevin Cullinane
Online shopping for clothes continues to increase apace and with it, clothing returns. Returns create a whole logistics flow which has negative environmental consequences. Although there is a growing literature on reverse logistics and returns management, the…
Jacob Hornik
Shopping is a major household activity that consumes time and other resources. This paper represents an attempt to construct a unified model of shopping activity by drawing on the households’ production approach. A formal treatment is presented that takes int…
Zhixiang Chen, Baiyi Wang, Yu Lin, Changwang Luo, Fei Li, Shengshi Lu, Juncheng Guo
Human resources for health are the most important and valuable asset in an organization, and the performance of human resources is an important factor affecting the success of each organization. Hospitals play an important role in people’s health and depend o…
Hongbin Deng
This paper mainly studies whether the inclusion of China’s A-shares in the MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) index improved the trading activity. Taking all China’s A-share stocks as samples and using the trading data of four years from 2016 to 2019…
Lishan Su, Sekar Raju, Russell N. Laczniak
When service providers make an effort to recover from service failures, customers may respond more favorably at certain times as compared to other times. This article attempts to explain psychological mechanisms underlying this phenomenon. The results of a sc…
Mounir El Khatib, Hamda Al Falasi, Maryam Al Moosawi, Sara Bin Shafi
Unknown-unknown risks are unknown risks with unknown consequences. This type of risk is the most difficult to deal with. From this perspective, innovative solutions and technologies are needed like robotics. Many studies dealt with how robotics raise the effi…
Yitong Deng, Ying Tang
Festival has been taken advantaged by destination marketing organization (DMO) for promoting their destination. This paper focuses on the role of food festival in the development of tourism destination, and explores the relationships among the experiential va…
Shengjun Gan, Jie Xu
In order to provide a scientific basis for the government to manage the risk aversion of large-scale public health events of cruise ships and coordinate the handling of the crisis brought by cruise ship docking under the epidemic situation, a set of process m…
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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields: All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit in Microsoft Word or LaTeX with figures at 300 dpi minimum. Structure research articles as Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.
Use the journal's numbered (Vancouver) reference style. Cite sources consecutively in the order they appear, and ensure every reference is complete and retrievable.
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