The Future Technology (FUTECH) Journal presents its second issue of 2025, featuring a diverse collection of high-impact research that reflects the latest technological advancements and interdisciplinary innovation from around the world. This issue showcases ten original contributions that span critical domains such as artificial intelligence, energy systems, disaster management, advanced manufacturing, digital media, and healthcare technology.
Together, these papers reflect the journal’s ongoing commitment to advancing the frontier of global technological research and supporting solutions that address real-world challenges.

Published: May 15, 2025

Emergency action plan for Haditha dam failure scenario, Al-Anbar, Iraq

1-10 Yasmeen Hamid , Redvan Ghasemlounia, Thamer Mohammed, Abdulwahab Al-Ansi
647

Hybrid boost-cuk converter with bat-chicken swarm-optimized PI controller for photovoltaic grid systems

11-21 S. Hema, S. Sreedevi, K. Harinath Reddy, Siddheswar Kar, Ananthan Nagarajan, S. Sengottaian
608

Investigation and optimization of process parameters in the electrical discharge machining process for Inconel 660 using response surface methodology

22-29 Kunal Singh, Kishan Pal Singh, Mohd. Yunus Khan
580

Reframing the early-stage design process of residential buildings based on an energy-efficient, designerly decision support system (DDSS)

30-40 Mohamed Faisal Al-Kazee, Samand Negin Taji, Tahereh Nasr, Reza Mansoori, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad
694

An innovative ZFFinch-MLPNet architecture for improving cyber intrusion prediction efficiency and accuracy

41-50 Dinesh Kumar Budagam
585

Agenda setting theory in the digital media age: a comprehensive and critical literature review

51-60 Safran Safar Almakaty
878

Reconstructing pharmaceutical service competency framework: development of AI-informed competency indicators and localized practices in China

61-75 Yuqiu Wang, Hazrina Hamid
552

PNASFH-Net: Parallel NAS forward harmonic Network for colon cancer detection using CT images

76-91 V T Ram Pavan Kumar M, Chin-Shiuh Shieh , Siva Shankar S, Prasun Chakrabarti
288

Computational linguistic processing for evaluating policy effectiveness: textual analysis of China-Korea continuing education regulations

92-103 Tongle Li
142

Cascade CNN: a two-stage segmentation framework for efficient and accurate brain tumor segmentation in multi-modal MRI

104-118 Mangalapalli Vamsikrishna, Chin-Shiuh Shieh
132