Industry 5.0 is increasingly understood as a human-centric, resilient, and sustainable extension of digital industrial transformation, yet empirical evidence on its implementation at firm level remains limited. Existing studies have relied largely on conceptual discussion or expert-based prioritisation techniques, while the structural relationships among implementation…

We study the effects of batch normalization and spatial dropout on the performance of VGG-11, Network in Network, and GoogLeNet architectures. We incorporate these regularization techniques into each model and evaluate their impact on classification accuracy and average loss. Experimental results show that spatial dropout…

Greenwashing refers to deceptive green marketing strategies used by companies and organizations to enhance their competitive edge and generate higher profits by appealing to environmentally conscious consumers. This practice arises when the actions of these entities do not align with the claims they make regarding…

A sequel to research from previous years, this article deals with a very controversial topic of recent times, namely the need to urgently start exploiting hydrocarbon reserves in the Black Sea continental shelf, and the benefits that the Romanian state can obtain from these operations.…

This paper examines Thomas Piketty’s proposals for reducing economic inequality through the lens of New Institutional Economics (NIE) as the primary analytical framework, complemented by Public Choice Theory as a secondary explanatory layer addressing political constraints. Inequality is conceptualized as an institutional outcome embedded in…

This paper examines institutional factors influencing the implementation of public investments by local government units in Poland using public-private partnerships (PPP). The study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach supported by statistical analysis and grounded in the theoretical framework of new institutional economics. The empirical analysis is…