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WELCOME to the spring issue of Highlights.

Contents

3 new journal titles have been published and uploaded to our online database since the previous Highlights. Here are their contents; to find the free full text of the articles of these inaugural issues, please click on the links provided:

International Journal of Hydromechatronics

• Real-time implementation of Kalman filter for unsteady flow measurement in a pipe
• The influence of rolling bearing clearances on diagnostic signatures based on a numerical simulation and experimental evaluation
• An electro-hydrostatic actuator for hybrid active-passive vibration isolation
• A pin-moment model of flexoelectric actuators
• Independent metering systems
• Autonomous energy efficient wheel loader research at TUT
• Academic fluid power research in the USA

International Journal of Humanitarian Technology

• Usable technology for the differently abled-hearing impairment
• Cancer tissue sample classification using point symmetry-based clustering algorithm
• Design of near optimal user interface with minimal UI elements using evidence based recommendations and multi criteria decision making: TOPSIS method
• Evaluating the feasibility of maintaining Web 2.0 communications during civil emergencies
• Augmenting WAMPAC with machine learning tools for early warning and mitigation of blackout events

International Journal of Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance

• Semantically enabling IoT trust to ensure and secure deployment of IoT entities
• Main factors and good practices for managing BYOD and IoT risks in a K-12 environment
• Internet of things: a survey of challenges and issues
• Towards trusted mobile payment services: a security analysis on Apple Pay
• A study of security and privacy issues associated with the Amazon Echo

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Craig C. Julian

Editor in Chief, Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development

Many different theoretical frameworks have been used to explain the globalisation/internationalisation process over the last 50 years. New theory is important in international business (IB) research, as much has already been studied via the numerous theoretical lenses used to understand the globalisation/internationalisation process. Insufficient new contribution to theory is one of the main reasons competitive research papers get rejected from being published in high-ranked journals after the review process has been completed. The higher the journal is ranked, the greater the contribution to theory that is required for the article to be published... More

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