Despite the significant role emotions play in business-to-business (B2B) sales transactions, the impact of salesperson emotional labor on well-being, specifically job satisfaction, has garnered limited attention. To address ...

The Middle East, with its diverse cultures and adherence to social norms, offers a relevant case study for exploring the current research question. Using established theories of social interaction and technology acceptance, ...

This chapter briefly describes how Industry 4.0 technologies have placed digital multimedia data at the center of organizations of all sizes and across many industries. It describes the potential of harnessing the power ...

Background Global research on gender bias has highlighted key trends in discrimination and inequality across various fields, including medicine. In Lebanon, a nation celebrated for its diverse cultural landscape and ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is ushering-in the era of connected environments, i.e., networks of physical objects that are embedded with sensors and softwar, connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems. ...

Low-light image (LLI) enhancement techniques have recently demonstrated remarkable progress especially with the use of deep learning (DL) approaches. Yet most existing techniques adopt an image-to-image learning paradigm ...

Spoken dialogue system interfaces are gaining increasing attention, with examples including Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and numerous other products. Yet most existing solutions remain heavily data-driven, and face ...