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Environmental Sciences
Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas
Summary: Megadams are controversial projects with significant negative impacts on local communities. However, through fierce protests and resistance, some dam constructions have been halted or altered.
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Business
Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Anthony Kwaku Kporsu, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Summary: Technological innovation reduces energy intensity and carbon emissions, supporting global economic growth sustainably; international knowledge spillover affects energy efficiency and sectoral performance, requiring enhanced understanding of mitigation opportunities and costs.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Business
Inchae Park, Giorgio Triulzi, Christopher L. Magee
Summary: This paper identifies the characteristics of the early stage of technology emergence by analyzing the initial patents in five different technologies. The research findings reveal strong linkage between technological and scientific knowledge in the emerging stage, with initial patents citing scientific papers more highly. However, these initial patents do not significantly contribute to the overall technological knowledge flow. Additionally, non-firm entities hold a larger proportion of patents in the early stage of technology emergence in most technological domains.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Social Issues
Marinko Skare, Domingo Riberio Soriano
Summary: This study, using fixed panel data modeling, found that six waves of technology from 1870 to 2019 had a significant impact on educational attainment. The impact varied across time and regions, with the most noticeable effects seen in advanced economies and Eastern Europe, while Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa are catching up with Sub-Saharan Africa.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2021)
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Education & Educational Research
Etienne Nzaramyimana, Odette Umugiraneza
Summary: This paper investigates how secondary school teachers in the Musanze district of Rwanda understand and integrate technology to teach mathematics, and explores the demographic factors associated with their use of technology. The results reveal variations in teachers' understanding and frequency of technology use, and significant associations with gender, level of education, and other factors. The study suggests the need for teacher training to enhance their use of technology in the classroom.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska, Nina Wroblewska
Summary: Citizen science is recognized as a social innovation with potential for increasing participation and civic awareness. Our research focused on the technological solutions used by environmental civic initiatives in Poland to assess their suitability for citizen science projects. We found that the full potential for launching citizen science projects has not been realized due to low recognition of the approach and a lack of advanced technologies tailored for grassroots movements.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Andreas Lachner, Armin Fabian, Ulrike Franke, Judith Preiss, Leonie Jacob, Carolin Fuehrer, Uwe Kuechler, Walther Paravicini, Christoph Randler, Philipp Thomas
Summary: This study aimed to investigate how to support pre-service teachers' development of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) by developing subject-specific TPACK modules and evaluating their effectiveness through a quasi-experimental field study. The results showed that the modules were beneficial for pre-service teachers in acquiring more TPACK, improving their technology-related self-efficacy, and increasing support for technology integration.
COMPUTERS & EDUCATION
(2021)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Ravijanya Chippagiri, Ana Bras, Deepak Sharma, Rahul Ralegaonkar
Summary: The construction industry has seen significant growth due to advancements in technology. Prefabrication, which involves casting construction elements in a controlled environment and assembling them on-site, has become widely adopted worldwide. This report analyzes the existing body of knowledge on prefab technology, its evolution, sustainability, and stakeholder views by evaluating technical articles published between 1991 and 2022. The findings show that prefab technology has contributed significantly to time saving, cost reduction, carbon emission reduction, and on-site wastage reduction, while also improving quality and offering environmentally conscious options.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Phillip H. Roth, Mariacarla Gadebusch-Bondio
Summary: In this article, we examine how the term "long COVID" coined by patients became widely accepted in public discourses. We show how subjective evidence shared online played a crucial role in recognizing and understanding long COVID as a key feature of the pandemic. Our study investigates how stakeholders utilized the term in online media to create illness and group identity, while also distinguishing the personal experience of long COVID from other sources. We argue that the mobilization of subjective evidence filled knowledge gaps and legitimized long COVID as a concern for official measures against the pandemic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Business
Kuei-Kuei Lai, Yu-Long Chen, Vimal Kumar, Tugrul Daim, Pratima Verma, Fang-Chen Kao, Ruirong Liu
Summary: Technology trajectory provides valuable information on technological development and its potential impact. This study takes E-Payment technology as an example by presenting the technological development trajectory, and by exploring the contribution of knowledge sources from different regions and various technical fields. The research results show that the United States dominates the E-Payment technology industry, and VISA and MasterCard demonstrate their leading position in technology development. Additionally, NFC technology and cloud computing-related technologies have significant development trends in the payment industry.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Business
Zhengyi Zhang, Jun Jin, Ting Wen, Zan Chen
Summary: This study investigates the determinants of enterprise innovation type in China's catch-up environment, specifically focusing on the relationship between knowledge base and technology innovation. The findings suggest that the width and depth of the knowledge base positively influence process innovation, while depth positively affects product innovation. Additionally, the study reveals that different technology gaps and development speeds lead to variations in the adoption of technology innovation activities by enterprises with different knowledge bases. This research contributes to a better understanding of the impact mechanism of knowledge base on innovation activities of knowledge-intensive enterprises and emphasizes the importance of considering the technology context when making innovation choices.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Parsa Asna Ashari, Knut Blind, Claudia Koch
Summary: Clean technologies are important for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the climate. Hydrogen is a promising energy carrier and fuel, but there is a need for greater involvement of researchers in standardization to ensure trust in its safety. Research on hydrogen safety has increased significantly, but patenting has stagnated. There is little recognition of scientific publications in safety patents, and publications are under-represented in international hydrogen and fuel cell standards.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yu Zhang
Summary: The advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) and the increasing interest in using the Internet for educational purposes have led educators to work in new virtual settings. The understanding and integration of technology into education is crucial for English educators. Teacher development in integrating ICT into the design, application, and assessment of practices in a virtual setting is critical. The objective of this review is to consider the role of practice in the virtual platform in developing EFL teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) and provide implications for EFL educational stakeholders.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Zhenzhen Tian, Xinhua Wang
Summary: The construction of the enterprise's technological and innovation management system is studied using knowledge base and edge computing technology. The DABC algorithm is found to efficiently complete multi-objective tasks in the edge-cloud collaborative model, thereby improving resource scheduling efficiency for enterprises.
JOURNAL OF SUPERCOMPUTING
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Bernard Tuffour Atuahene, Sittimont Kanjanabootra, Thayaparan Gajendran
Summary: This study identifies, maps and thematizes the barriers to the big data process in the construction industry, finding forty barriers and five main themes. The study offers insights and perspectives for professionals/construction firms to plan and deploy big data processes effectively.