Abstract Standard-setting organizations (SSOs) establish goal-directed networks for innovators to jointly shape technology and markets through standards. The degree to which this can succeed depends to a large extent on network characteristics, which may differ substant...

A pivotal topic in agriculture and food monitoring is the assessment of the quality and ripeness of agricultural products by using non-destructive testing techniques. Acoustic testing offers a rapid in situ analysis of the state of the agricultural good, obtaining globa...

In times of climate change, growing world population, and the resulting scarcity of resources, efficient and economical usage of agricultural land is increasingly important and challenging at the same time. To avoid disadvantages of monocropping for soil and environment...

Abstract As digital transformation is changing entire industries, organizations are struggling to keep up with these changes. Scholars are viewing organizational capabilities as a central mean for organizations to master digital transformation. Based on a comprehensive ...

Background Digitalization affects all areas of society, including the health care sector. However, the digitalization of health care provision is progressing slowly compared to other sectors. In the professional and political literature, physicians are partially portra...

Deep learning (DL)—in particular convolutional neural networks (CNN)—methods are widely spread in object detection and recognition of remote sensing images. In the domain of DL, there is a need for large numbers of training samples. These samples are mostly generated ba...

Welcome to the 5th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE’21), where scientists and representatives of industry meet to exchange ideas, experiences, and other contributions regarding the state of the art of Crowd-Based Requirements Engin...

In this study, the dimensional stability and mechanical properties of plywood made from untreated and plasma-pretreated beech veneers were compared. The wood veneers used (native and thermally modified) were impregnated with melamine resin in a simple dipping process pr...

AbstractThe variable brightness of the night sky affects plants as well as animals and humans. However, knowledge about this variability is still insufficient. Outstanding questions regarding how significant the influence of the moon, clouds, and artificial lighting rem...

Abstract Die Herstellung von Batteriezellen setzt sich aus einer Vielzahl von Einzelprozessen mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Qualitätsansprüchen zusammen. Mit dem Ziel, eine hochwertige und leistungsstarke Batteriezelle zu produzieren, ist daher für die interprozessuale ...