{"title":"Digital Technology Integration Among Eastern European Companies, Based on Digital Economy and Society Index","authors":"Tünde Zita Kovács, András Nábrádi, Beáta Bittner","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.5.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.5.1","url":null,"abstract":"The European Commission has given special attention to the digital evolution of the European economy and society since the early 2000s. Starting with 2014, the Digital Economy and Society Index has become a key monitoring and assessment instrument. In 2021, the main indicators of the Digital Economy and Society Index were matched with the Digital Agenda 2030 targets, which encompass four dimensions: human capital, connectivity, digital technology integration, and digital public services. The article aims to verify the convergence amongst Member States in integrating digital technologies, which is the third dimension of the Digital Economy and Society Index yearly database. The σ-convergence analysis assessed decreased disparities in digital technology integration between Member States over time. The β-convergence analysis was used to evaluate the pace of catch-up from the initial development level. The σ-and β-convergence were not confirmed. The specific digital technology integration indicators (11) are studied to identify crucial areas that must be addressed in the future to guarantee that digital inclusion is as widespread as feasible. The present research is concentrated on the member countries that joined the EU during the Eastern enlargements. All individual indicator performance is typically behind the EU average, and as the β-convergence study indicates, the average catch-up rate is not encouraging.","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135105596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ranking of Hungarian Scientists using H-Index","authors":"Gyula Mester","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135953689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Media as a Driver for Societal Value Degradation: the Nigerian Perspective","authors":"Edward Ositadinma Ofoegbu","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"Social Media facilitates the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests to virtual communities and networks using interactive technologies. The benefits of such seamless communication are immense and critical to national growth and development. However national growth and development cannot be achieved without a sound value and moral system guiding the conducts of its people. This article investigates the role social media plays in eroding the value system of Nigerian youths. It highlights problematic areas and concludes by making suggestions for the regulation of social media content through content filtering based on generally acceptable cultural values","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80493189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Relationship between Sensory Branding, Brand Awareness and Preference after a Blind Tasting Test: An Application on Tea Brands","authors":"Yusuf Öcel, Ismail Durak","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research is to explore whether there is a relationship between sensory branding and brand awareness and blind taste. A questionnaire and an experiment were used together on 101 volunteers who were familiar with tea brands in the University of Düzce, Turkey. The questionnaire was applied to the participants to measure their sensory branding and brand awareness perceptions. In addition, for the blind taste test, the experiment was conducted. Frequency, Spearman’s Rank Correlation, Cochran Q, McNemar, Mann Whitney U Test, and Logistic Regression tests were used to test the hypotheses. According to the results of the analysis, there were low and moderate relationships between sensory branding and brand awareness in tea brands. In addition, according to the results of the Cochran Q and McNemar tests, there was a difference between the tea brands based on the participants’ blind taste test responses. Moreover, it was determined that the sensory brand perception of the participants did not differ according to the blind taste test results. Similarly, the findings of the blind taste test revealed that the participants’ brand awareness perceptions did not differ. Furthermore, according to the logistic regression analysis findings, sensory branding and brand awareness did not have any effect on the blind taste test. According to the findings of this research, even though the product contents were same, brand studies created awareness in the consumer.","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82085755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researcher's Choice or Just a Necessity? The Consequences of Publishing in a Predatory Journal","authors":"László Berek","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135954286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Comparison on Safety Management Systems, Identifying Opportunities for Companies Manufacturing and using Hazardous Substances","authors":"Joseph Lakatos, Á. Drégelyi-Kiss","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"In the life of companies operating with hazardous substances, the daily task is to maintain the safety on a high level and to introduce actions to increase safety performance. The companies covered by the Disaster Prevention Act have a special task, to operate a safety management system that also satisfies industrial safety aspects. To make this as efficient as possible, good practices from other safety management systems can be built into the currently used management system at the company. Perhaps the most frequently operated safety management systems for organizations producing and processing hazardous substances are the Occupational Health and Safety Management according to the ISO 45001 standard and the Process Safety Management systems. A comparison of the latter with what is required by law points to several points that may designate areas for improvement in the certified safety management system. In this way, they provide a basis for the development of a new system, that complying with the prescribed requirements, helps to maintain a high level of safety, to prevent the occurrence of accidents, and to work with safety-conscious employees and suppliers.","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80326812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Simple Method for an Efficient Organization of the Learning Process","authors":"Massimo Rogante, C. Santelli","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79273745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ćosić Lesičar Jelena, Čanić Krešimir, Cerin Igor, J. Stepanic
{"title":"Initial Consideration of the Enterpriseness of the Undergraduate Students in Croatia","authors":"Ćosić Lesičar Jelena, Čanić Krešimir, Cerin Igor, J. Stepanic","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the interplay between the enterpriseness and higher education. Current attitudes toward enterpriseness of the Croatian undergraduate students of mechanical engineering were collected partially with a questionnaire. The attitudes are analysed and their alignment with the general technology trends discussed.","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78496471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the Use of Augmented Reality to Enhance the Indoor Running Experience on a Treadmill","authors":"János Simon","doi":"10.7906/indecs.21.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.21.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54126,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems","volume":"123 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135954298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}