Changing Perspectives of Research with Higher Education 4.0: Challenges and Opportunities

Digital society has changed the life style. It has impacted the behavior of the learners too, and calls for redefining the higher education to respond to the innovative society. The integration of innovative skills and the life skills has become the schema of Education 4.0. Mobile technologies, Cloud computing and Artificial intelligence have become the order of the day. They are wide-ranging tools that enable people to rethink how to integrate information, analyze data and use the resulting insights to improve the decision making. Al-based Technologies are being developed and implemented to assist both authors and publishers in tackling issues related to peer review, searching published content, detecting plagiarism and identifying data fabrication. Researches are also able to address complex problems in biomedical sciences, drug combinations and predicting diseases using Al. Thus, Al not only helps to expedite scientific communication but also reduce human bias. Machines don't have emotions therefore, nothing is going to affect their performance. On the other hand, machines are deficit of compassion and sympathy and there is challenge of misuse or exploitation of these technologies. The book aims to address the issues of how to maximize the benefits of technology while avoiding potential pitfalls.

Key Features

• Highlights on the aspects of emotions as determinants of well-being, brand loyalty of online shoppers, information needs and seeking behavior of faculties, Anglo-Irish relations in William Trevor's novel and folk elements in paintings of Bal-Gopal stuti.
• Describes innovative solutions to power saving dynamics in road lighting, prediction of human mental state using different deep learning solutions, real time detection of potato plant diseases with the integration of Edge Computing and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, News article classification models based on event trigger and arguments, and Smart Contract using Blockchain technology.
• Throws light on the techniques and their applications for characterization of pen ink, determination of gender on the basis of handwriting, effect of inclination of writing surface on handwriting, differentiation of genuine over forged signatures, and detection of drug abuse from pubic hair.
• Focusses on the nanocomposites and their properties, basic reproduction number and its importance in predicting disease outbreak model, impact of oil pollution on soil fungal community.
• Academicians, researchers, practitioners and students would be highly benefitted by reading this book.