Next Wave Of Research Research Articles

Towards explainable artificial intelligence in deep vision-based odometry

Visual Odometry (VO) is a crucial process for estimating camera motion in real-time based on visual information captured. The emergence of deep learning has significantly transformed VO and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Deep Vision-Based Odometry. This survey paper explores the latest advancements in VO facilitated by deep learning methods, focusing on explainability and interpretability. It provides an overview of state-of-the-art deep learning techniques and dissects each model into its elemental building blocks to understand their explainable and interpretable aspects. The survey also highlights research gaps in optical flow robustness, occlusion and dynamic objects, real-time processing, drift correction, semantic awareness, and sensor integration. The aim is to catalyze future innovations in deep learning-based VO and stimulate dialogue about potential directions for the next wave of research, emphasizing explainability and interpretability as integral components of advanced systems.

Short-term traffic forecasting model: prevailing trends and guidelines

Abstract The design parameters serve as an integral part of developing a robust short-term traffic forecasting model. These parameters include scope determination, input data preparation, output parameters and modelling techniques. This paper takes a further leap to analyse the recent trend of design parameters through a systematic literature review based on peer-reviewed articles up to 2021. The key important findings are summarized along with the challenges of performing short-term traffic forecasting. Intuitively, this paper offers insights into the next wave of research that contributes significantly to industries.

Challenging the status quo of sport injury psychology to advance theory, research, and applied practice: An epilogue to a special issue

In this epilogue to the Special Issue of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology on sport injury psychology, we consider how the five papers presented within have advanced this field of research in three meaningful ways: (a) moving beyond models (theoretical diversification); (b) working “with” rather than “on” participants (research diversification); and (c) moving beyond the “usual suspects” (applied diversification). We hope the next wave of research on sport injury psychology builds upon these studies to keep pushing the boundaries of our understanding of sport injury. Lay summary: In this epilogue to the Special Issue, we consider how the papers presented within extend our understanding of sport injury and push the boundaries of the field of sport injury psychology. A shift toward more diverse scholarship to extend theory, research, and practice is encouraged.

"A New Hope" for Positive Psychology: A Dynamic Systems Reconceptualization of Hope Theory.

In this review of the central tenets of hope theory, we examine the meta-theoretical, theoretical, and methodological foundations of the literature base. Our analysis moves from a broad examination of the research landscape in hope theory across disciplines, to a deeper investigation of the empirical literature in university students. This review highlights the significant impact of this body of research in advancing our understanding of aspects of thriving characterized by hope. However, we also evidence several limitations that may impede the advancement of the next wave of growth in this field. To address these limitations, we argue for an interdisciplinary approach to expanding the meta-theoretical, theoretical, and methodological horizons, enabling a more dynamic systems approach to the study of hope. Drawing on the intersection of positive psychology with systems thinking, we describe a methodological approach that enables a deeper examination of the processes and interactions through which hope emerges, using an analysis of the lived experience of young people. It is proposed that this research agenda will bring to life an alternate story about the resourcefulness of our youth through their own voice, enabling us to leverage this in the design of more effective strategies to facilitate hope in the future. This research agenda provides a roadmap that will provide alternative methodologies that address the current limitations in the field of hope research and, importantly, can provide fuel to spur on the acceleration of the next wave of research and practice in the field of positive psychology more broadly.

Translating Teamwork into School Effectiveness: A Systematic Review of Two Decades of Research

<p style="text-align:justify">Over the last two decades, research has reached the conclusion that educator teamwork is necessary to ensure the achievement of school goals. No attempts, however, have been made to provide integrative evidence regarding its contribution to school effectiveness. To fill this void, the authors review two decades of professional team research in the context of schools. Specifically, the article has two objectives: (1) To review the existing conceptualizations of the terms 'team' and 'teamwork' in the school context; (2) To provide a systematic review of the impact of teamwork on school effectiveness. The systematic search resulted in 23 papers reporting three non-empirical and 20 empirical studies. The results of the review revealed a lack of agreement concerning the conceptualization of the terms 'team' and 'teamwork', which may affect comparability among studies. Furthermore, no comprehensive picture emerges regarding the consequences of teamwork for the individual teacher, the team, or the school as a whole. Indeed, studies refer to a wide range of variables within different contexts and configurations. This review contributes several important insights that may set the agenda for the next wave of research on teamwork in schools.</p>

Introduction: The Future of Research on Peer Relations

The history of research on peer relations consists of stability and change. Even as our questions about how the features and processes of experiences with peers affect development have remained constant, our methods and the measures we use have evolved. The goal of the six articles in this special issue is to push peer research into the future. Two articles focus on well-known peer constructs, specifically friendship and withdrawal; another focuses on a basic peer-related process, specifically peer influence. Two other articles show how the study of peer relations can intersect with emerging areas of research, specifically social developmental neuroscience and the study of computer-mediated communication. Another article shows how multilevel modeling can be used to assess in a single model effects from different levels of social complexity. Together these articles provide guidance about the next wave of research on peer relations.

Single-molecule Protein Sequencing using Biological Nanopores

The next wave of research in bioinformatics and fundamental biology will revolve around sequencing the enormous and dynamic variations in the proteome. A method for sequencing proteins and detecting PTMs at the single-molecule level would be revolutionary for proteomics research. We report proof-of-concept and initial results for a new single-molecule protein sequencing technique. We use a typical enzyme-controlled biological nanopore sequencing setup, with the addition of a peptide fragment covalently linked to the end of the DNA strand. The nanopore sequencer first reads the DNA, then the peptide fragment as the DNA-peptide conjugate is pulled up through the nanopore. The readout is then used to decode the peptide sequence, map substitutions and post-translation modifications, or identify the peptide from a library of proteins. Similarly to nanopore DNA sequencing, this technique is in principle capable of single-molecule measurements, high throughput, low experimental overhead and minimal sample preparation, and sensitivity to changes in individual monomers.

Boosting Microbial Electrocatalytic Kinetics for High Power Density: Insights into Synthetic Biology and Advanced Nanoscience

Microbial electrochemical systems are able to harvest electricity or synthesize valuable chemicals from organic matters while simultaneously cleaning environmentally hazardous wastes. The sluggish extracellular electron transfer (EET) between “non- or poor-conductive” microbes and electrode involves both bio- and electrocatalytic processes but is one of the main impediments to fast microbial electrode kinetics. To boost EET, researches have been focused on engineering electrochemically active microbes, constructing a unique nanostructured electrode endowed with a large amount loading of microbes and enhancing biotic–abiotic interactions for rapid electrode kinetics. After surveys of fundamentals of microbial electrocatalysis, particularly the diverse EET mechanisms with discussions on scientific insights, this review summarizes and discusses the recent advances in bioengineering highly active biocatalytic microbes and nanoengineering unique electrode nanostructures for significantly improved microbial EET processes. In particular, this review associated with our researches analyzes in more detail the EET pathways, which contain direct and mediated electron transfer. The confusion between the energy efficiency and electron transfer rate is clarified and the approaches to elevate the EET rate are further discussed. These discussions shed both theoretical and practical lights on further research and development of more high-performance microbial catalysts by using synthetic biology coupled with nanoengineering approach for high energy conversion efficiency while achieving high power density for practical applications. The challenges and perspectives are presented. It is believed that a next wave of research of microbial electrochemical systems will produce a new generation of sustainable green energy technologies and demonstrate great promise in their broad applications and industrializations.

Mindfulness-based treatment of addiction: current state of the field and envisioning the next wave of research

Mindfulness-based treatment of addiction: current state of the field and envisioning the next wave of research

Family Resilience Amid Stigma and Discrimination: A Conceptual Model for Families Headed by Same‐Sex Parents

Despite policy advancements ensuring equality for lesbians and gay men, families headed by LG individuals still experience stigmatization and discrimination, both of which are chronic forms of adversity that can compromise healthy family functioning. Yet research demonstrates that many families headed by same‐sex parents are functioning well. Research using deficit‐comparison approaches has not contributed to a deeper understanding of variations in child rearing and child outcomes that may contribute to, or impede, healthy family functioning among the population of LG families. We describe a model of family resilience, grounded in minority stress theory, that may help inform the research agenda on families headed by same‐sex parents. Our conceptual framework of family resilience can guide the next wave of research with LG families and may help programs to promote key family strengths.

Giant cells around bone biomaterials: Osteoclasts or multi-nucleated giant cells?

This review article presents 19 specific cell-surface markers to distinguish between osteoclasts and MNGCs including an array of CD-cell surface markers. Furthermore, the concept of now distinguishing between pro-inflammatory M1-MNGCs (often previously referred to as FBGCs) as well as wound-healing M2-MNGCs is introduced and discussed. The proposed concepts and guidelines aims to guide the next wave of research facilitating the differentiation between osteoclast/MNGCs formation, as well as provides the basis for increasing our understanding of the exact function of MNGCs in bone tissue/biomaterial homeostasis.

Smart Grid: ICT Control for Distributed Energy Resources

The fact that the electrical grid represents a critical and complex infrastructure has prevented it from experiencing major breakthroughs during decades. Therefore, some problems and inefficiencies have been carried around for a long while, up to the point that traditional electrical grid is far away from being prepared to face incoming challenges, such as properly integrating the foreseen high penetration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), mainly intermittent and stochastic renewable generation, electric vehicles and energy storage, or proactively controlling the energy demand bymeans of the so-called Demand Response (DR) programs. As a result, the electrical grid is currently undergoing slowly but surely its inexorablemetamorphosis under the new paradigm of the so-called Smart Grid. This metamorphosis basically entails evolving from a highly centralized and static system, where few energy generators supply electricity to a huge number of consumption points without exchanging information in real time, into a highly distributed and dynamic system, with many low capacity, geographically distributed generators, which are able to communicate with the consumption points in order to coordinate and optimize their operation. Ensuring the balance and stability of the electrical grid under this new paradigm requires the deployment of a vast number of sensors and actuators which will generate an unprecedented huge amount of data. Thus, highperformance, reliable, secure, and scalable communications networks and Information Technologies (IT) systems play a central role in the Smart Grid, which is driving the next wave of research and innovation in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The aim of this special issue was to gather high-quality cutting-edge research papers addressing the use of distributed sensor and actuator networks in SmartGrids, including topics such as novel ICT architectures, wireless and wired communications technologies, interoperability and conformance testing, big data and analytics, and cloud computing, and applications such as Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMIS), Demand Response (DR), Wide Area Monitoring Systems (WAMS), or transportation electrification. The special issue has attracted the submission of 17 papers. After a thorough peer-review process, seven papers have been accepted for publication. The topics covered in these papers range from Advanced Metering Infrastructures and Demand Response to substation automation and smart lighting, including wireless and powerline communications networks and cybersecurity.

Comprehensive community initiatives: The road ahead for research and practice

In this concluding article, we summarize the body of articles in this special issue to identify and explore themes for the next wave of research and practice in CCIs. We suggest that these articles reveal that while evaluation, data, and assessments are a powerful way to frame clear, actionable tactics within complex systems, any efforts to be data-driven in CCIs must be grounded in strong relationships built on trust between stakeholders. We propose that people who wish to use data more effectively in the work of CCIs should not take the position of the removed analyst, but rather that of an engaged, data-informed leader, taking responsibility for enabling members of the CCI to build and maintain the relationships and collective identity of the CCI. To explore this proposal, we articulate a vision for what data-informed CCI leadership could look like, based on theories of sense-making grounded in developmental science. We then examine how these theories play out in real-life using examples of how three CCI leaders have tried to engage in data-driven work. Finally, we propose implications of this conception of leadership for collaborative, community-based efforts in the future.

The Interpersonal Consequences of Processing Ease

Existing theories of prejudice formation focus primarily on the contents of social cognition (stereotypes, emotions) as laying the foundation for interpersonal animus. However, recent studies have revealed that experiential cues associated with the process of social cognition may also fuel prejudice. In particular, fluency—the metacognitive ease or difficulty of processing a stimulus—has emerged as an important factor contributing to prejudice. Across diverse operational definitions and at various levels of analysis, fluent processing is associated with positive social evaluations whereas disfluent processing is associated with negative social evaluations. Here, we review this burgeoning literature and highlight continued knowledge gaps to guide the next wave of research on the social consequences of fluency.

Pathways in gut-brain communication: evidence for distinct gut-to-brain and brain-to-gut syndromes.

The rich interconnectedness between gut and brain is increasingly being identified. This article reviews the evidence for brain-gut and gut-brain syndromes, particularly recent epidemiological evidence, and animal studies demonstrating bi-directionality at the formative stage of development. Narrative literature review with selection for relevance and quality. Population surveys show a strong correlation between anxiety, depression, and functional gastrointestinal disorders, contradicting early suspicions that the high prevalence of anxiety and depression in the clinic was mainly due to neurotic health seeking behaviour. Five and 12 year follow-up shows that psychological distress can predict later onset of a functional gastrointestinal disorder and vice versa. Brain-gut pathways include the autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis including corticotrophin releasing factor directly acting on the gut. Gut-brain pathways include ascending pain pathways, cytokines including tumour necrosis factor alpha in response to bacterial translocation and inflammation, 5-hydroxytryptamine secretion by entero-endocrine cells and psychoactive chemicals of bacterial origin which may enter the blood stream, such as gamma-aminobutyric acid, fatty acids and 5-hydroxytryptamine precursors. The ability to control rodent temperament and HPA responsiveness with early modification of gastrointestinal flora, and the effects of early stress on the barrier function of the gastrointestinal tract and flora, suggests an ability of both systems to prime each other in early life for later problems. This hypothesis seems to be supported by a possible protective effect of a probiotic strain of bacteria in a model of early rat psychological trauma. Psychological treatments are known to improve functional gastrointestinal disorders, the next wave of research may involve preventative microbiological gut based treatments for primary psychological presentations, both to treat the presenting complaint and inoculate against later functional gastrointestinal disorders.

Paving the road toward Smart Grids through large-scale advanced metering infrastructures

Upgrading current electricity grid to the so-called Smart Grid represents one of the major engineering challenges ever. Hence, the road toward the Smart Grid will be long and needs to be paved gradually, certainly driving the next wave of research and innovation in both the energy and the ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) sectors. Currently, the earliest stages of such a complex project are being undertaken and AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructures) stand out as the first steps toward the Smart Grid. The Spanish R&D (Research and Development) demonstration project PRICE-GEN aims to be a flagship AMI project at both national and international level. It is focused on increasing the awareness of the status of the low voltage power distribution network through an optimal and interoperable communications architecture which provides detailed information on customers’ consumption and generation. The project entails the deployment of over 200,000 smart meters in the area of Madrid, such a pilot scheme being also used as reference in other European R&D projects, such as the IGREENGrid (IntegratinG Renewables in the European Electricity Grid). This paper presents the communications architecture and technologies which are deployed in the field, analyzing how they fit some specific Smart Grid communications requirement. In addition, the paper describes in detail the pilot itself along with the services which are currently been delivered as well as with the foreseen ones. Finally, the main trends in AMI from the ICT perspective are also discussed.

On the Management and Analysis of Our LifeSteps

Huge volumes of location information are available nowadays due to the rapid growth of positioning devices (GPS-enabled smartphones and tablets, on-board navigation systems in vehicles, vessels and planes, smart chips for animals, etc.). In the near future, it is unavoidable that this explosion will contribute in what is called the Big Data era, raising high challenges for the data management research community. Instead of trying to manage bigger and bigger volumes of raw data, future Moving Object Database (MOD) systems need to extract and manage (the minimum necessary) semantics of movement. Such semantics can foster next-generation location-based services (LBS) and locationbased social networking (LBSN) applications, building more efficient and effective applications, while in parallel opening new research directions in the field of transportation, urban planning etc. In this article, we first present a novel model that enables the unified management of (raw GPS) trajectories and their semantic counterpart, and then we discuss challenges and solutions on the multidimensional analysis of such real-world semantic-aware mobility databases and data warehouses. Our recent experience from an interdisciplinary EU project we've been participating makes us confident that the envisioned approach will inspire the next wave of research in mobility data management and exploration field.

Survey of Green Vehicle Routing Problem: Past and future trends

Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system-wide costs related to economic and environmental issues. Reflecting the environmental sensitivity of vehicle routing problems (VRP), an extensive literature review of Green Vehicle Routing Problems (GVRP) is presented. We provide a classification of GVRP that categorizes GVRP into Green-VRP, Pollution Routing Problem, VRP in Reverse Logistics, and suggest research gaps between its state and richer models describing the complexity in real-world cases. The purpose is to review the most up-to-date state-of-the-art of GVRP, discuss how the traditional VRP variants can interact with GVRP and offer an insight into the next wave of research into GVRP. It is hoped that OR/MS researchers together with logistics practitioners can be inspired and cooperate to contribute to a sustainable industry.

Interpersonal Trust in Organizations: Dyadic Dynamics and Cross-Referent Relationships

Despite the progress that the field has made on interpersonal trust in organizations, the extant research is limited in its focus on only one party within a dyadic relationship and on only one work relationship and referent at a time. In this symposium, we showcase emerging research that can expand our knowledge of interpersonal trust by adopting a more nuanced approach, one that considers both parties in a dyadic relationship (i.e. a bi-lateral approach) and that acknowledges that individuals have trust relationships with multiple referents (e.g., a multi-foci approach). They address issues including interpersonal and intrapersonal predictors of trust, the consequences of trust asymmetry, and trust across referents and cultures. With these studies and the discussion, this symposium aims to help generate the next wave of research to offer novel insights into the complexities of interpersonal trust. Cultural Differences in Trust Behaviors with Supervisors and Subordinates Presenter: Jaee Cho; Columbia U. Presenter: Hwee-Hoon Tan; Singapore Management U. Presenter: S. Arzu Wasti; Sabanci U. Presenter: Krishna Savani; National U. of Singapore Trust in Direct Leaders and Top Leaders: A Trickle-up Model Presenter: Ashley Fulmer; National U. of Singapore Presenter: Cheri Ostroff; U. of Maryland Noise and Trust Asymmetry in Dyads Presenter: Matt Call; U. of South Carolina Presenter: Audrey Korsgaard; U. of South Carolina Disentangling Actor and Partner Effects to Understand the Role of Trust Perceptions in Negotiation Presenter: Dejun Tony Kong; U. of Richmond Presenter: Donald L. Ferrin; Singapore Management U. Presenter: Kurt T Dirks; Washington U. in St. Louis Presenter: Changhong Lu; Singapore Management U.

Understanding the inherent complexity of sustainable consumption: A social cognitive framework

This article explores the potential of a theoretical framework, based on social cognitive theory (SCT), to inspire future research into sustainable consumption. The SCT framework provides a dynamic perspective on sustainable consumption through exploring the interactive nature of personal, environmental and behavioral factors of consumption. The SCT framework, which builds on prior theoretical models of sustainable consumption, incorporates the concept of reciprocal determinism, wherein personal, environmental and behavioral factors create a feedback loop to influence each other. Two examples, toy sharing in New Zealand and water conservation in Australia, illustrate the dynamic nature of sustainable consumption and the potential of an SCT based framework to provide a more nuanced view of behavioral change in this context. From these two examples, several ideas for future research emerge to help illustrate the potential of SCT to inform and inspire the next wave of research on sustainable consumption.