Significance Of New Technologies Research Articles

Machine Learning Model for Prediction of the Chemicals Harmfulness on Staff and Guests in the Hospitality Industry: A Pilot Study

This article examines the trend around the adoption of machine learning in the hotel business in light of the significance of new technologies. According to previous research, the hospitality industry uses a variety of chemicals for cleaning. Cleaning supplies are the housekeeping department's primary tool in their daily routine to keep rooms and common areas clean and tidy. Guest and staff don't know the harmfulness of these chemicals. Providing hospitality that meets the needs of guests requires not only a positive attitude, but also high-quality and excellent services that keep guests warm, relaxed, and comfortable. But in some incidents, we find that the guest and staff health is affected by the chemicals. Also, no one worked on predicting the chemical's effects on staff and guest health in the hospitality sector with the use of Machine Learning models. For this purpose, data is collected from different hotels of Delhi NCR in India. There were two distinct fields utilized for assessment and instruction. For the investigation, machine learning methods were employed. The research project employed five machine learning methods. The newly developed MHC-CNN algorithm achieved the highest accuracy (93.75) in comparison to other cutting-edge machine learning techniques. The created technique can be expanded upon and applied in many hotels all around the world.

Potential Integration of Metaverse, Non-Fungible Tokens and Sentiment Analysis in Quantitative Tourism Economic Analysis

With the emergence of the metaverse, countries’ digital efforts to create tourism opportunities have given rise to the possibility of capitalising on digital content which, along with physical tourism experiences, can generate further income and enhance a country’s reputation. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a unique application of blockchain technology, offer an enabling technology in several sectors, including tourism. Therefore, this study aims to explore the official tourism websites of Croatia and Slovenia and analyse current NFT applications in tourism economics. The methodology focuses explicitly on sentiment analysis, blockchain and machine learning. The paper introduces various applications currently in place, including Slovenia’s “I Feel Nft” project. The research shows that the main benefits of using NFT and sentiment analysis in the tourism economy are the promotion and presentation of major tourist destinations, exhibitions, works of art, and companies’ products in tokens, digital content and souvenirs. The adoption of sentiment analysis and NFTs in the tourism economy is still open to proposals for implementing public quantitative data metrics. Therefore, the scientific contribution of this research is essential in terms of operational recommendations and defining metrics for measuring the effectiveness of those methodologies and their applications in the tourism economy. On top of that, the practical contribution lies in monitoring the influx of tourists, and highlighting their increase over time and the significance of new technology in time series tourism research.

The impact of digitalization and digital logistics platform adoption on organizational performance in maritime logistics of Taiwan

ABSTRACT The significance of new technologies and digitalization have been recognized in maritime logistics operations amid COVID pandemic. Understanding the adoption of digitalization and collaborative digital platform between participants in industry is important, particularly the path of digital transformation and the impacts they create. However, these issues have not been fully explored in the maritime logistics industry. This study thus developed a model that incorporates digitalization, digital logistics platform adoption, organization’s digital transformation, as well as organizational performance, and examined the associations between them through six research hypotheses. Postal questionnaires were distributed to shipping companies, port operators, shipping agencies, and ocean freight forwarders in Taiwan. The survey yielded a total of 165 valid responses. Subsequently, CFA was applied to verify the model, and SEM was employed to examine the proposed hypotheses. The main findings of the study indicate that enhancing digitalization and embracing digital logistics platforms can significantly contribute to digital transformation. Both digitalization and digital transformation have a positive impact on organizational performance. However, the adoption of digital logistics platforms currently demonstrates an insignificant effect on organizational performance at this stage. Consequently, leveraging the lens of network effects theory, the findings are further discussed, and implications are suggested.

Precision farming technologies in vegetable growing

Precision farming technologies can help mitigate the environmental impact of agriculture by reducing the use of fertilizers and irrigation while reducing costs. Vegetable precision farming technology uses geographic positioning system (GPS), geographic information system (GIS), artificial intelligence (IoT), robotics, sensor technology, data-based genome editing, etc. to improve the production and quality of vegetables. Digital genome sequencing, developed over the past decade, has greatly reduced the cost and time required to map the DNA of plants and other organisms. Digital genome sequencing methods generate vast amounts of genome sequence data, which in turn aid in plant breeding for specific field conditions or desired traits. This maintains excellent prospects for growing vegetables in the current farming scenario, when climate change is forcing a rethink of all agricultural practices. This article provides useful information about precision farming technologies for vegetable growers, enthusiasts, farmers and researchers. Economic factors are important drivers and barriers to technology adoption. The practical significance of new technologies provided through communication and education has additional potential in terms of their promotion. 

Techno-Tradition: A Foray into Technology-Integrated Traditional Japanese Theatre

Traditional Japanese theatre is a broad category that usually refers to noh, kyōgen, kabuki and bunraku. These genres formed from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, and are still regularly performed. Despite the many significant roles of technologies in these genres today, their increasing presence in the genres and myriad manifestations are seldom discussed. This article is an initial examination of the presence and significance of new technologies and new media in the traditional Japanese theatre ecology, focusing on developments in the past two decades including the staging of a ‘fusion noh’ with holograms as performers, to the later kabuki and bunraku plays performed with vocaloid, as well as Virtual Reality noh. By examining select case studies and focusing on the technological aspects of traditional theatre, we hope to bring focus to a critical development in traditional Japanese theatre and open further discussions about this phenomenon. We also wish to widen discussions regarding the parameters delineating what constitutes ‘traditional’ when speaking of Japanese theatre genres.

COVID-19, International Human Rights Law and the State-Corporate Complex

This paper engages with some questions at the nexus of COVID-19 public health responses, civil-political rights under international human rights law, and the responsible governance of digital data and data-driven technologies. Section Two charts observations, since early 2020, about the claimed ‘pandemic’ of state surveillance and accumulation/processing of personal data in pursuit, at least ostensibly, of public health objectives. Section Three accordingly suggests some of the possible parameters one might erect to begin, consistent with IHRL, to evaluate the human rights compatibility of tech-assisted COVID-related state measures with respect to populations or parts thereof. Section Four then explores the utility and accuracy of analogies one might make between the sorts of COVID-related state measures under consideration here and the sorts of measures taken around the world in pursuit of public security in the ‘war on terror’ after September 2001. Section Five examines the adequacy of the international human rights law framework in the face of these two arguably somewhat distinctive aspects of the COVID era. It does so particularly in the context of both the lack of traction of the prevailing normative framework on ‘business and human rights’, as well as in the context of the degree of self-doubt expressed – by leading defenders of human rights values – about the relevance and suitability at all of the human rights frame to the governance of many social impacts of newer data-based technologies. Section Six concludes, arguing that the counter-terrorism analogy nevertheless remains apt in one respect.

The Role of Technology in Building a Competitive Advantage – Programmatic Buying and Its Impact on the Competitiveness of an Organization

Abstract Research background: Recent years have brought a real explosion of new tools and methods of conducting market activities based on new technologies. Solutions based on new technologies carry great development potential for an organization. There is a belief that new technologies – in particular, programmatic buying (analyzed in this article) – also impact an organization’s ability to compete. Programmatic buying (PB) is a tool but also a new model of sales and purchase of advertising, under which the current package approach (traditional) has been replaced by a fully automated individualized approach. Purpose: The aim of the article is to assess the impact of technology on an organization’s ability to compete with the example of PB. Research methodology: The empirical basis is both qualitative and quantitative research conducted in 2018–2019. Results: The empirical material provides the basis for rejecting the main research hypothesis which claims that the usage of PB increases the effectiveness and efficiency of advertising and thanks to this on a companies’ ability to compete. PB has a positive impact only on the effectiveness and efficiency of graphic ads. The same relation was not observed in terms of video ads. Nevertheless the results are not clear. It is recommended to deepen the analysis. Novelty: Due to the fact that programmatic buying is a relatively new technologic solution there is no research that proves its impact on the marketing activities efficiency as well as its role in building the competitive advantage of a company, especially on the Polish or European market. This research starts the discussion of the role of PB in companies’ market activities and fits in the dispute of the significance of new technologies.

Forum: Militarization 2.0: Communication and the Normalization of Political Violence in the Digital Age

Abstract Scholars of international relations frequently explore how states normalize the use of military force through processes of militarization, yet few have analyzed how new information and communication technologies impact on these processes. The essays in this forum address this gap, and consider the political significance of new technologies, new actors, and new practices that shape “Militarization 2.0” and normalize political violence in the digital age. The authors in this forum rely, to varying degrees, on common militarized tropes and dichotomies (such as authenticity, belonging, and (de)humanizing framings) that are key to militarization, including those devices that rest on gender, race/ethnicity, and heteronormativity. Moving beyond a military-centered approach to militarization, the authors’ questions cover ministries of foreign affairs; the embodied performances of celebrity leaders and insurgency groups; arms producers, the military video game industry, and private military and security companies; and violence entrepreneurs. The forum closes with reflections from Cynthia Enloe.

W. B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, and the Cinema, 1909–1939

ABSTRACTGiven the significance of new technologies to the literary and visual cultures of the early-twentieth century, it is surprising how little has been written about W. B. Yeats and cinema. Viewed by some scholars as emphatically resistant to what he termed “the leprosy of the modern,” Yeats has long been a difficult writer to situate in relation the progressive impulses of modernity. Building on Kevin Rockett’s identification of the parallels between the work of Abbey Theatre and a nascent Irish cinema culture, this article argues that Yeats played a prominent role in early attempts to develop an indigenous film industry, and to cultivate representations of Ireland on screen abroad. During the period I consider, the Abbey Theatre and the film industry were similarly affected by state censorship programmes and various forms of cultural nationalism. Exploring the Abbey Theatre Minute Books and archival materials discovered in Trinity College Dublin, I suggest that Yeats’s Abbey was a shaping force in Irish cinema history, despite the fact that most attempts to create a national cinema met with limited success.

Perspectivas en el estudio de la encuadernación artística: de los tratados generales a la web semántica

Se presenta una revisión de las distintas metodologías aplicadas a lo largo del tiempo en el estudio de la encuadernación artística. Para ello, se recurre a la visión del arte ligatorio en tratados generales primero, y en manuales específicos después. Se atiende, asimismo, al cambio de paradigma motivado por el movimiento bibliófilo del siglo XIX, y a su repercusión en los posteriores estudios de los siglos XX y XXI. En último término, se analiza la importancia de las nuevas tecnologías en la investigación y difusión de la encuadernación artística, en medida que establecen vínculos con la web semántica y la musealización virtual del libro.

Space matters: the relational power of mobile technologies

The ubiquitous presence of mobile telephony and proliferation of digital networks imply a critical role for these technologies in overcoming the constraints of space in fragmented cities. Academic literature draws from a range of disciplines but fails to address the significance of new technologies for African and South African cities. Debates on technologies and urban spaces reflect a Northern bias and case literature that dwells on the developmental aspects of ICT do not engage with the broader significance with regards to urban change in African cities. This research addresses these gaps by examining the local transformative qualities of mobile telephony in a South African city, Durban. It focuses on the ways in which informal traders active in the city use technology. Actor-network theory was used in the analysis of the field work, uncovering material and human actors, network stabilization processes and agency in determining the transformative potential of this form of digital networking at city and local scales. Findings indicate that appropriation of technology is informed by livelihood strategies. Innovation is enabled when translation extends to appropriation. More in-depth research is needed on how technology is molded and appropriated to suit livelihoods. Throughout the research the spatial dimensions of the relationship between mobile telephony and networks were considered. The network spaces that emerge from actor relations do not correspond with the physical spaces usually considered in policy.

Unions, technologies of coordination, and the changing contours of globally distributed power

This article explores the emergence and significance of new technologies of coordination for globally distributed social movements attempting to shape the power relationship between themselves and the forces of international business. It challenges the entrenched perspective that global markets are constructed and dominated by global capital and the idea that attempts to regulate for decent work and economic justice are futile. It argues that newly available power resources can be harnessed to promote the globalization of labor movements and overcome barriers to international solidarity. It cites case materials from both the developed and the developing world to highlight the dimensions of communication which contribute towards the initiation of new processes of political challenge and material advancement. The article concludes with a brief discussion of some of the dilemmas posed by labor globalization for labor itself.

Pedagogies of Design and Multiliterate Learner Identities

In an era of multiliteracies, teaching and learning have become knowledge performances at multiple levels. Instead of a singular, linear focus upon print technologies, the techno-oriented philosophy of teaching aims at providing a rhizomatic network of texts where there is a close link between, and often an overlap of, different designs—linguistic, visual, spatial, and gestural—to construct the multiliterate learner. In this paper, I discuss the role of multimodal literacies in a primary classroom, affirming the role of multiliteracies and decentring the pre-dominance of linguistic at the cost of other designs. While the print media are acknowledged as significant to literacy, the multimodality of print is enhanced through visual and spatial design (Kenner, 2004). Through graphic examples of ICT applications of designs in a primary classroom, I demonstrate that students are operating through multitextual and digitextual (Everett, 2003) practices. What follows is the complex positioning and re-situating of teacher and learner identities engaged in learning through the knowledge processes of experiencing, identifying, applying and critiquing concepts (Kalantzis & Cope, 2004). In particular, I argue that within the diversity of present day classrooms, the digital oriented, multiliterate learner is implicated in constant identity construction by drawing upon macro and micro social practices. I conclude by reiterating the significance of new technologies and new literacy practices as essential to the construction of new learner identities.

ICTs and Community and Suggestions for Further Research in Scotland

This paper reviews previous research exploring the significance of community based information and communication technologies (ICTs) for routine daily life. The paper then summarizes strategies and plans to develop ICTs in communities throughout Scotland. Short case studies of two different programs in Scotland are examined, and recent findings from assessments of these projects considered. Aspects of sustainability in relation to ICT and community are then examined. Finally, the paper suggests need for more collaborative research and more in-depth empirical work to clarify the implications of new relationships developing between ICT and community. Empirical research and critical analysis will help broaden understanding of Community Informatics by informing policy makers, practitioners, researchers and communities. In turn, greater knowledge about the significance of new technologies may help support community based technologies in a more sustainable fashion.

Job change and workplace learning in the public sector: the significance of new technology for unskilled work

Focussing here on local authorities and health services, this paper examines the significance of new technology to unskilled work in the public sector as it is developing and the implications for workplace learning. An argument is developed that new technology is central to a minority of examples of job change, although, significantly, it is more important to staff–initiated change and to workers’ ability to fully participate in life beyond the workplace.

Region-specific technology policy in Belgium: The significance of New Technology Based Start-ups

Since the beginning of the 1980s, strategic regional technology policies have been adopted in Belgium. A number of NTBFs are emerging in generic technology industries such as micro-electronics, biotechnology and information technology. These industries are particularly conducive to the formation of NTBFs since the advancing new technologies are constantly creating new and specialist product-market niches. High technology product groups are selected/supported in the fields of aerospace, medical technology, robotics and office automation, agro-business and energy.

The Growth of U.S. Factor Productivity: The Significance of New Technologies in the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century

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