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Algorithmic Strategies for Solving Complex Problems in Financial Cryptography
Cryptography is used in applications where subversion of the communication system could lead to financial loss, which is known as financial cryptography. In contrast to classical encryption, which has mostly been utilized for military and diplomatic purposes throughout recorded history, financial cryptography focuses on privacy and security. The techniques and algorithms required for the security of financial transfers as well as the development of new money types are included in financial cryptography. Financial cryptography includes proof of work and several auction mechanisms. Spam is being restricted by using hashcash. The applications of financial cryptography have been observed to be highly diverse. Financial cryptography is incredibly difficult and calls for knowledge from many different, incompatible, or at the very least, hostile disciplines. The higher risk factor that efforts to build financial cryptography systems will reduce or eliminate crucial strategies that they are trapped among financial application and cryptography, or between accountants and programmers. Digital finance is playing a big role in how financial services are organized globally. Digitalization, data analysis, and increased processing power enable a wide range of new financial services and transactions. The importance of economic development has attracted a lot of attention to this economic development enabled by digital financial technology (Fintech). Cryptography has begun to expand swiftly in the Fintech sector, and both investors and financial bankers are becoming more favorable toward digital assets. The observed market factors are directly related to how people behave when they engage in financial activity. The result analysis in this behavioral strategies of financial cryptography from a specific market analysis is still limited, despite the abundance of research and theories on the underlying motives of peoples behavior in financial frameworks. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. -
Machine learning approaches towards medical images
Clinical imaging relies heavily on the current medical services' framework to perform painless demonstrative therapy. It entails creating usable and instructive models of the human body's internal organs and structural systems for use in clinical evaluation. Its various varieties include signal-based techniques such as conventional X-ray, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound (US) imaging, and mammography. Despite these clinical imaging techniques, clinical images are increasingly employed to identify various problems, particularly those that are upsetting the skin. Imaging and processing are the two distinct patterns of clinical imaging. To diagnose diseases, automatic segmentation using deep learning techniques in the field of clinical imaging is becoming vital for identifying evidence and measuring examples in clinical images. The fundamentals of deep learning techniques are discussed in this chapter along with an overview of successful implementations. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Synthesis, Characterization of Chromium Oxide Powders and Coatings
The chromium oxide powders are transformed into plasma sprayable particles by using synthetic polymers for agglomeration. In order to carry out the agglomeration process, spray drying technique was employed. This research work highlights the significance of the process variables that control the synthesis of plasma spray powder and consequently, the properties that were suited for plasma sprayoating. Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) was used to characterize the elemental composition, while scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to analyse the morphology and powder grain sizes and X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to identify the phase structure. And for the development of coatings on the substrates, Atmospheric plasma spray (APS) technique was used. The plasma sprayable powders were created with the intention of investigating for use as corrosion-resistant coatings. 2023 Trans Tech Publications Ltd, All Rights Reserved. -
Intelligent Optimized Delay Algorithm for Improved Quality of Service in Healthcare Social Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) interconnects billions of devices by establishing a network that adheres to International Organization of Standardization (ISO) standards. These devices communicate with each other by sharing data regulated by the application. This is performed to accomplish a task or service that the application demands. The social or human-like behaviors are adapted in the IoT environment forming the Social IoT (SIoT). The SIoT integrates social networks in IoT-connected devices, making them unique and identifiable. Recent advancements in networking, intelligent network management, battery management, remote sensing, sensors, and other related technologies convinced users and designers to adopt IoT even for large-scale applications where the data involved is enormous. Leveraging the advancements in medical IoT, which focuses on healthcare to patients, can improve its service by removing redundant manual processes, long wait times, and providing other automated services. The advancements in real-time healthcare IoT devices and wearables make a strong case for implementing SIoT in the healthcare domain. SIoT in the healthcare domain has the potential to benefit users on a large scale. This chapter comprehends the challenges and solutions of using SIoT in medical and healthcare solutions from a networking quality of service (QoS) perspective. In addition, this chapter compares the intelligent algorithm, which can be used to improve the QoS of SIoT. Achieving higher QoS is necessary for healthcare services, especially while handling data from emergency and intensive care units. These data cannot tolerate errors and delays. Intelligent network management has become unavoidable in the health and medical services to achieve a higher degree of QoS system, which indirectly decreases data transfer time. The data from the sensor devices sent across the network leads to data loss and delay in data transmission due to congestion in the network and gateway devices. The optimized algorithms incorporated with the delay-based algorithm improves the QoS predominantly and reduces the delay in data transfer. Similarly, the particle swarm optimization algorithm allocates resources over the network and dynamically makes the network adapt to increased and reduced data flow, which reduces the delay and improves the QoS. Intelligent optimized delay algorithm (IODA) is proposed to improve the network performance by reducing the delay and using available bandwidth for data transfer in SIoT. 2023 selection and editorial matter, Gururaj H L, Pramod H B, and Gowtham M; individual chapters, the contributors. -
Does the cryptocurrency index provide diversification opportunities with MSCI world index and MSCI emerging markets index? Cryptocurrency and portfolio diversificaiton
The study is extending the ongoing discussion on Bitcoin as a diversification asset with the stock market. Some studies analysed cryptocurrencies as a diversification asset, and few challenged the same. During times of turbulence, it is crucial to gauge further diversification opportunities. Henceforth, the study revisits the opportunities of hedging and diversification with the crypto market from a broader perspective. Markets Index to Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund (BITW). The study has contributed methodologically to the existing literature by applying DY with symmetric and asymmetric dynamic conditional volatility models. The results provide in-depth shreds of evidence that BITW is insulated, neither taking volatilities from other countries nor contributing to the volatilities of other countries. The study provides insight to policymakers and investors.The study captures the spillover from MSCI World Index and MSCI Emerging Markets Index to Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund (BITW). The study has contributed methodologically to the existing literature by applying DY with symmetric and asymmetric dynamic conditional volatility models. The results provide in-depth shreds of evidence that BITW is insulated, neither taking volatilities from other countries nor contributing to the volatilities of other countries. The study provides insight to policymakers and investors. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Suicide and Youth: Positive Psychology Perspective
Suicidality and self-harm among adolescents and young adults need immediate attention and support. This is often seen as a cry for help where a feeling of entrapment experienced by individuals pushes them to see self-harm as a coping mechanism. Lack of social support and co-morbid emotional disorders influences suicidal ideation into planning and action. A general feeling of helplessness that gets triggered often leads to anguish. These emotions get internalized and directed inwards leading to self-directed anger which facilitates a suicidal act. Early detection and identification can prevent the loss of lives and help individuals to learn effective ways of coping. Gatekeeper Training for caregivers, teachers, and their peers will help in detecting the early signs of suicide risk. Intervention based on positive psychology will help not only in crisis management but also as preventive and maintenance therapy in holistic mental health. The concepts of hope, forgiveness, self-compassion, gratitude, and resilience can be incorporated into the intervention programs to build a better therapeutic system for youths dealing with suicidality. Practicing effective coping mechanisms every day and making it a ritual of ones daily life is the need of the hour. Integrating adaptive ways of emotional expression and learning matured means to deal with painful emotions and trauma is what needs to be incorporated into the intervention plan. The chapter focuses on these aspects and aims to make a connection between assessing and easy identification of youths in distress related to suicidality and providing a holistic intervention to help them cope with the situation. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. -
A Narrative Review on Experience and Expression of Anger Among Infertile Women
Infertility is stressful among women though there are several technological advancements in treating infertility. Anger is a powerful emotion resulting due to stigma and oppression due to infertility, especially among women. Studies have also proven that women have a poor quality of life in the context of infertility. Women are prone to suppressing anger rather than dealing with anger in the present. Psychosocial intervention and psychoeducation help women manage anger and maintain healthy quality of life. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. -
Transformative Learning, Community and Leadership for Sustainability Action
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The Need for Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education for the Specially-AbledAn Essay
Educators at any grade level or subject area can apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is a set of principles for curriculum development that attempts to give all students an equal opportunity to learn. The provision of instructional alignment between objectives, instructional design, methods of delivery and assessment of learning outcomes, which could be individualized and which works for all is blueprinted in a UDL framework. The approaches and methods for instruction in UDL are adaptable and not the same for all the learners or it is not one size fits all approach according to the National Center for Universal Design for Learning (Harper, 2018). The guiding principles of UDL include acceptance and practice of various means of equivalent representation or acquiring information, various means of equivalent expression or demonstrating the learning and various means of equivalent engagement to enhance learning. Given the multiple potentials of specially-abled (SA) students, inclusive learning through UDL provides an environment of diversity and unison. The key attempt is to provide instructional delivery of the same topic to different learners with different learning abilities and approaches in the same course, resulting in comparable outcomes. This chapter highlights the various strategies of UDL that may be extended to assist SA students transition through the pandemic, some of which include customizing learning contents with assured accessibility, individualizing learning goals as per student potential, flexible/customized assessments, and qualitative grading. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023, corrected publication 2024. -
Flow Cytometry Analysis of In Vitro Induced Polyploidy in Plants
Polyploidy is the condition of having more than two sets of chromosomes. The mechanism of polyploidy helps in deriving special traits like an increase in biomass, an increase in the size of various organ systems, and secondary metabolite content for the progeny. Various chemical compounds (colchicine, trifluralin, and oryzalin) that have the capacity to alter the mitotic cycle were used for the purpose of inducing polyploidy. Various techniques, such as counting of chromosome number, chloroplast number, determination of pollen diameter, and estimation of leaf stomatal density and size, were developed to analyze the polyploidy of the plants. However, these methods are not reliable for their regular use. Thus, of all the above-mentioned approaches, the estimation of ploidy level by flow cytometry (FCM) has been the most popular over the last few decades. Flow cytometry is now extensively used for the verification of haploidy, aneuploidy, and polyploidy. The ease of sample preparation, fast acquisition, and accurate measurements have made the method popular in the domains of plant cell biology, systematics, evolution, genetics, and biotechnology. The current chapter discusses the induction of polyploidy and its importance in plant breeding. It also emphasizes the importance of FCM in the analysis of polyploidy and enumerates the various polyploidy studies involving the application of FCM. 2023, Bentham Science Publishers. -
Mitigating Mental Health Burden of Youth During COVID-19 Through Resilience and Hope: Evidences from India and Germany
In the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, young professionals and graduating students experience considerable psychological adversity due to the uncertainty surrounding their futures. Given the positive psychological outcomes and the potential to alleviate stress, we examine the role of resilience and hope in causing a substantial variance in the stress response to anticipation of crisis among Indians living in India and Germany. Resilience, hope, crisis apprehension, and the psychological response to the COVID-19 pandemic were measured among participants from India and Germany (n = 650) via an online survey using non-probability convenient sampling. Parallel mediation and conditional indirect effects showcase the differential roles of resilience and hope among socio-culturally similar but geographically divergent groups. Hope mediates the effect of pandemic-led crisis apprehension on perceived stress among those residing in India; resilience operates to mitigate stress among those from Germany. Findings highlight the contradistinctive role of resilience and hope in reducing stress and imply an urgent need for promotion of ameliorative practices. Resilience effectively mitigates the psychological burden of the COVID-19 crisis and can be promoted to reskill individuals; however, elevating hope in a crisis obligates prudence. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. -
IoT Enabled Energy Optimization Through an Intelligent Home Automation
The benefit of IoT devices is that they allow for automation; nevertheless, billions of connected devices connected with one another waste a substantial amount of energy. IoT systems will have difficulty in wide adoption if the energy requirements are not adequately managed. This study proposes a solution for IoT devices to regulate their energy consumption. Both hardware and software aspects are taken into consideration. Using a mobile computer or smartphone with Internet connectivity to interact with actual scenarios has grown more prevalent as technology has advanced over the years. An intelligent home automation system based on android applications has been developed to save electricity and human energy. This study aims to create comprehensive Energy optimization through intelligent home automation utilizing widely available mobile applications and Wi-Fi technologies. The devices are turned on and off using Wi-Fi. Intelligent home, in the area of electronics, automation is the most purposely misused term. Numerous technological revolutions have occurred as a result of this demand for automation. These were more essential than any other technologies due to their ease of use. These can be used in place of household current switches, resulting in sparks and, in rare instances, such as fires. A unique energy optimization system was developed to control household appliances while taking advantage of Wi-Fi benefits. 2023, Bentham Books imprint. -
Date Palm: Genomic Designing for Improved Nutritional Quality
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is one of the oldest fruit trees known where a significant amount of breeding has been carried out to improve various agronomic and nutritional characteristics. Numerous studies have been done to improve the nutritional composition and quality of the fruit due to its significant biological properties. Various strategies have been formulated for improving the agronomic characters through biofortification as well as preserving through postharvesting techniques. Modern breeding practices using molecular markers have significantly helped to identify the phenotypic, as well as genotypic, diversity for the selection of superior date palm cultivars, advanced agronomic characters like nutritional quality, disease resistance, and yield. Availability of the whole genome sequence, organellar sequence, and genetic map of date palm has helped breeders in modification and improvement of the characteristics. With the availability of bioinformatic tools and gene editing knowledge, the nutritional composition of date palm can be effectively manipulated to develop better crops along with good agronomic characters and resistance to diseases. The authors have compiled the nutritional composition of date palm fruits and detail the strategies to edit the genome and improve nutritional quality. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. -
Dietary Plants, Spices, and Fruits in Curbing SARS-CoV-2 Virulence
Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection can suffer from a variety of neurological disorders; therefore, there is a demand to investigate specific treatments. As a part of this endeavor, academic databases related to clinical, neuropathological, and immunological biomarkers were examined for searching promising drugs to treat neurological disorders in the COVID-19 group. Also, the neuroprotective potential of herbs for patients with post-COVID-19 has been evaluated using PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, EMBASE, Google Scholar, EBSCO, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, WHO database, and ClinicalTrials.gov. The terms used for the Boolean search were Indian herbs and neuroprotective potential, post-COVID-19 symptoms, and so on. Based on our knowledge, nervous system immunity is an inherent characteristic of the nervous system because it is highly immunologically active. It was found that patients infected with COVID-19 often experience neurological symptoms such as muscle pain, headaches, confusion, dizziness, and loss of smell and taste. The most commonly used herbs for neurological disorders are Bacopa monnieri, Mucuna pruriens, Withania somnifera, Acorus calamus, Phyllanthus emblica, Blumea balsamifera, Asparagus racemosus, Cannabis sativa, Convolvulus prostratus, Swertia chirata, Vitex negundo, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Linn, Centella asiatica, Curcuma longa, Ocimum tenuiflorum. It is widely recognized that herbal drugs have the potential for treating neurological diseases such as Parkinsons, Alzheimers, and cerebrovascular diseases in COVID-19 patients. However, clinical trials are still limited. The suitability of drugs depends on the investigation of biomarkers and pathobiological mechanisms. Thus, it is necessary to use modern scientific approaches and technologies to conduct comprehensive mechanistic studies to understand the therapeutic potential of herbs for neurological disorders associated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. -
Current Trends in Career Decision in Youth: Opportunities and Challenges
In todays times, career is a crucial life decision. Due to its paramount importance in our lives, the youth experience diverse kinds of stresses and pressures while choosing their career in life. Contrary to earlier handful career options, current trends offer an unlimited mix of traditional as well as unconventional career roles which further create confusion and anxiety while making the final decision. Newer factors, challenges and opportunities have forced a change of frameworks and perspectives to career decision-making. In career counselling, current trends are shifting away from the traditional practice of matching skill-sets to the job. Todays career decision-making takes an inclusive approach by discussing the various internal influences, emotional management, cognitive thinking styles, coping strategies, adaptability, etc. as well as external influences of uncertainty, evolving lifestyle demands, changing economic tapestry, etc. In addition, the influences of gender, family and culture affect the nature of the goals and their acceptability. The current chapter throws light on the evolving scenario in the field of career decision-making among the youth and attempts to offer solutions to the challenges being faced by the youth. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023. -
Future Inclusive Education
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for promoting lifelong learning. Inclusive education fosters an environment for access to quality education by addressing diversity and barriers that can cause exclusion. COVID-19 has reimagined Higher Education with new challenges and opportunities for the present and future. Digital divide, gender inequality, addressing specially-abled students, and a non-inclusive learning environment are the major barriers to inclusive education. Inclusive education ensures that no one leaves behind, and higher education institutes can enhance their capacity building to promote inclusivity for the common good. Employability is one of the key concepts in higher education that builds the workforce and contributes to nation-building. With COVID-19, nature of work has seen radical changes; hence, graduate attributes have evolved with the 21st-century skills. The chapter emphasizes the role of inclusive education and reimagining higher education with suggestions to using existing strategies in life-long and futuristic inclusive learning. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023, corrected publication 2024. -
Development of high performance polymer composites by additive manufacturing
Additive manufacturing, often known as 3D printing, is a process that involves the manufacture of physical things in a manner that is similar to building them up layer by layer. As a result of its utilization of automated procedures to generate complicated three-dimensional forms, which are either difficult or impossible to produce using conventional methods, fused deposition modeling is a typical approach that uses heat to assist in the extrusion process. The term "high-performance polymer" refers to a group of polymer materials that are known to maintain their desirable mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties when subjected to harsh environments such as high temperatures, high pressures, and corrosive chemicals. This chapter starts off with a brief introduction of conductive and high-performance polymer composites, followed by a rundown of how these materials are utilized in the 3D printing process. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
The changing role of marketing: Industry 5.0 - the game changer
The preceding revolution, Industry 4.0, surfaced by way of the influx of digital and automation technologies. Industry 5.0 followed the suit and the world is on the threshold of this new evolution. Industry 5.0 attempts to bring together the competency of smart machines and the exceptional ingenious potentials of the human workforce. Industry 5.0 is humanizing the digital and automated systems. It recognizes both automated technology and the human innovative skills on an equal platform. Marketing in its new role revolves on the axis of automation and cyber technology of Industry 5.0. This new makeover of marketing processes generates superior marketing actions, restructures marketing workflows, and assesses the results of marketing promotions. Industry 5.0 tools make available a fundamental marketing catalog for all marketing content and communications, thus assisting marketers to fashion a fragmented, customized, and favorable marketing experiences for prospective buyers. These systems and spaces offer automation attributes across numerous phases of marketing including videos, blogs, emails, social media, lead generation, direct mails, digital advertising, and more. This chapter aims to introduce the concept of Industry 5.0, where robots and machines are interweaved with the human intellect and labor as teammate instead of opponent. The objective of the chapter is to examine and explore the different facets of marketing in the face of Industry 5.0. The chapter describes the challenges and future trends and practices in marketing field in the wake of Industry 5.0 as the way forward for the companies for sustainability and resilience. 2023 by Sunanda Vincent Jaiwant. All rights reserved. -
Industry 5.0 - The co-creator in marketing
The unavoidable connection between automation and digitalization is already in the business horizon in the name of Industry 5.0. Industry 4.0, the robotic and technological revolution were largely hit among the manufacturing industries, but Industry 5.0 is meant for all sectors across ranges from manufacturing to services. Evolution from the days of mechanization (Industry 1.0) to smart factory (Industry 4.0) witnessed the improvisation of metrics related to efficiency and optimization. And now its turn for the balance between optimization and efficiency with the support from robots in assisting the smarter generation's technologies and machineries and tools through Industry 5.0 in the domain of marketing too where the change is constant and dynamic would be more accommodative to opportunities and challenges through the next wave of 5.0. The disruption by Industry 5.0 will change existing nature of marketing in terms of customer experience, supply chain, procurement, product development, retail operations, etc. The market which predominantly flourishes with the help of customers in co-creation is going to have robot as bystander with the intervention of this Revolution 5.0 which will level up the existing customer experience. Marketing by its nature demands the cooperation at multiple levels and is becoming easier prey for the Industry 5.0 revolution as it's expected to create the cooperation between the humans and machines. Product development, customer engagement and customer experience will undergo the transformation due to this industry revolution and also there are other areas in the marketing domain to go through the impact are addressed in this chapter. 2023 by A. Mansurali, V. Harish and Swamynathan Ramakrishnan. All rights reserved. -
The emerging role of innovative teaching practices in tourism education in the post-COVID-19 era
The education sector has undergone a tremendous transformation during the last few decades with the advancement of information and communication technology. Traditional methods of teaching and learning are replaced with modern technology enabled methods such as virtual reality, 3D images and videos, augmented reality, and gamification. Tourism education involves learning about geographic regions, destinations, and sightseeing. The shift from offline mode of teaching to a completely online and digital platform during the COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the need to include such innovative practices in teaching and learning. This chapter focuses on the potential benefits of enabling technology infused teaching and learning methods and their implications on improving student motivation and engagement. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved.