2022 October-2 - 745 articles
Oil spill incidents threaten the marine ecological environment. Detecting sea surface oil slicks by remote sensing images provides support for the efficient treatment of oil spills. This is important for sustainable marine development. However, tradi...
One of the biggest threats to agro-ecosystems, especially in arid and semiarid areas, is the deterioration of soil quality, which is associated with low soil organic matter levels. Despite the elevated volume of publications related to soil quality a...
To analyze the differences in the optimal urban scale of a country, a government, and residents under different urban development goals and to provide a reference for urban development, an urban development model is constructed based on the constant...
Green manufacturing is becoming an important emerging field in the new round of global industrial revolution and scientific and technological competition. Scientific evaluation of China’s regional green manufacturing level has far-reaching sign...
Further investigation is needed to study the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent lifestyle changes. The global pandemic caused a high degree of uncertainty, leading to extreme anxiety. These feelings were also compounded by the sudden cha...
The noise problem in hotel rooms is strictly connected to noise generated by heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) devices. Hospitality industry companies in many countries have specific requirements and monitor the noise level with techn...
For some time, traditional food packaging has not been able to meet the current market demand in some segments. This is mainly due to the advancing market globalization, increasing product complexity, the changing and increasingly high expectations a...
China’s steel industry’s carbon emissions accounted for more than 60% of global carbon emissions, approximately 15% in China in 2020. China’s steel industry accounted for approximately 16% of China’s total carbon emissions in...
Among the current challenges facing the energy sector is finding environmentally friendly and high-performance forms of energy generation. One such form of energy generation is from the wind. In addition to the fluctuations that cause changes in the...
Shared manufacturing provides a new development direction for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. This paper took a manufacturing company that masters core technology and has strong knowledge creation and spillover capabil...
The internet and green innovation are important driving forces to promote industrial high-quality and sustainable development at present. Studying their independent and interactive effects on industrial upgrading is of great practical and theoretical...
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) fruits are widely grown in rural areas of arid Rajasthan of India. The grown date palm fruits are generally dried in forced convection mode. However, given the socio-economic status of farmers, dryer facility afford...
Land is the basis of development, and the unique patterns of the spatio-temporal evolution of land use in resource-based cities can reflect regional development, help land resources to be used efficiently and rationally, promote scientific regulation...
Renewable energy systems are technologies that can generate electricity from solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, and other renewable energy resources. This research project aims to find the best renewable energy technology combinations for several s...
Mixed data is a combination of continuous and categorical variables and occurs frequently in fields such as agriculture, remote sensing, biology, medical science, marketing, etc., but only limited work has been done with this type of data. In this st...
Introduction. Intrinsic motivation is essential for establishing life-long positive behaviors. In Physical Education (PE), this variable may have a significant impact on students’ choice of adhering to an active lifestyle both in the short and...
This study aimed to find the optimal thickness combination of the two-layered absorbing system combinated with an expanded polystyrene (EPS) cushion and a soil layer in a steel shed under dynamic loadings. The coupled Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic met...
While the degradation of natural resources has a substantial impact on the livelihood of farmers in rural areas, there is scant empirical evidence about livelihood status and benefits from communal resources, especially whether the benefits are equal...
Since finance is the core of economic development, the green development of the financial industry is an essential driving force not only for achieving the dual “carbon” goal of China but also for economic and social sustainable developme...
Green roofs are very popular and their individual surface area is constantly growing. Considering that the organo-mineral materials used in planting growing media (GM) are often non-renewable resources, the search for alternative materials from waste...
Carbendazim (CBZ), a widely used fungicide in agriculture, is frequently detected in aquatic environment and causes significant concerns because of its endocrine-disrupting activity. This study investigated the degradation kinetics of CBZ in ferrate...
Saline soils usually cannot satisfy the requirements of engineering projects because of their inappropriate geotechnical properties. For this reason, they have always been known as one of the problematic soils worldwide. Moreover, the lack of access...
Green innovation is critical for promoting environmental protection but largely relies on the support of bank financing. How the participation of banks facilitates green innovation remains largely unexplored. Using a sample of A-share listed firms in...
In recent years, concerns regarding issues such as climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, fossil reserve dependency, and petroleum price fluctuation have led countries to focus on renewable energies. Meanwhile, in developing countries, designing a...
Sustainability literature has largely focused on business practices that result in environmental benefits that might not always be profitable to the firm, and thus, tend to be less appealing to the corporate board rooms. In this study, I examine if t...
Despite the fact that the olive tree is one of the best-adapted species in Mediterranean hydroclimate conditions, climate extremes impose negative effects on olive fruit set and development and subsequently on crop yield. Considering that the frequen...
Construction tool detection is an important link in the operation and maintenance management of professional facilities in public works. Due to the large number and types of construction equipment and the complex and changeable construction environme...
With the increasing use of cloud computing by organizations, cloud data centers are proliferating to meet customers’ demands and host various applications using virtual machines installed in physical servers. Through Live Virtual Machine Migrat...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching was considered one of the most stressful occupations, one that could provoke burnout in workers. Continuing to provide educational services despite the pandemic and the new methodologies was a challenge for...
Access to clean water, reliable energy services and adequate food supply are basic needs for life and contribute to the reduction of national and global levels of human poverty and forced migration. This study concentrated on reviewing progress made...
Traffic control systems are crucial for managing traffic flows. Their main function is to reduce interactions among users for safety reasons, while minimizing the travel times. Researchers often concentrate on the cycle length, whose impact on travel...
The most frequent parameter used to quantify seismic site response in ground motion models is time-averaged shear wave velocity in the top 30 m of a site (Vs30), used by many engineering design codes and most recently by published empirical-scaling e...
The crop production and limited freshwater resources in the Central Rift Valley (CRV) Lake Basin of Ethiopia have been facing pressure from warmer and drier climates. Thus, irrigation with the goal of increasing water use efficiency and the productiv...
The current health and economic crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated some of the trends that began with the counter-reform of capitalism in 1970. This paper deals with one of those trends—the retail apocalypse. The starti...
Water is an important resource for crop production; identifying the spatial pattern of the crop water footprint (WF) is of great significance for the optimization of water resource consumption and management in agricultural production. This study qua...
Drawing on crisis management and organizational resilience literature, this study adopts a firm’s capability-based perspective of organizational resilience to examine how different sets of firm-based resilient capabilities a firm has developed...
Shared autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon be introduced in public transportation as cities and their transportation systems become ‘smarter’. This brings long-term environmental, economic and societal benefits to cities. However, shared...
The purpose of this study is to propose an appropriate model to predict chemical composition during water purification at the Regional Water Company (PDAM) Surabaya, in order to achieve proper drinking water standards. Drinking water treatment is ver...
In recent years, since edge computing has become more and more popular, its security issues have become apparent and have received unprecedented attention. Thus, the current research concentrates on security not only regarding devices such as PCs, sm...
Aiming to promote further the application of alkali-activated soda residue-ground granulated blast furnace slag (SR-GGBS) cementing materials, this study explored the optimal curing method for enhancing mechanical performance. The optimal curing meth...
To progress towards sustainable development, more companies are voluntarily committing to move from a linear economy to a circular economy (CE), mitigating resource consumption and waste generation. Despite the commitment of companies, there is a lac...
This study explored the international research collaboration in BRICS’s leading universities and their performance in the past decade. Based on the literature on the international educational policies in BRICS countries and the world university...
Nutrient recovery in domestic wastewater treatment has increasingly become an important area of study as the supply of non-renewable phosphorus decreases. Recent bench-scale trials indicate that co-generation of struvite and hydrogen using electroche...
This study investigates the effect of social preference on the recycling decision and coordination in an E-closed-loop supply chain (E-CLSC). Firstly, we set the dynamic E-CLSC game model including a manufacturer, an E-commerce platform (E-platform)...
The observation that firms are greenwashing in their advertisements to consumers has attracted regulatory false claim concerns; thus, we built a three-stage game theoretical model to explore how a firm’s efficiency in greenness information acqu...
In the context of the fading demographic dividend, rising labor costs present both opportunities and challenges to China’s green and sustainable development. This paper aims to investigate the impact of rising labor costs on the inter-provincia...
Recent events involving the rupture of tailings dams in Brazil have motivated the search for alternatives to incorporate the material into the production chain. At the same time, the consumption of raw materials by the civil construction sector is hi...
A reduction in CO2 emissions from transportation is of great significance to achieve the goal of “peak carbon and carbon neutrality” in China. For 2003–2019, this paper calculates the transportation CO2 emissions in Shanghai and con...
This paper analyses how 224 students from the fifth and sixth grade recognise the key aspects, i.e., the causes, consequences, and solutions of the eutrophication problem affecting the relevant ecosystem in their region. Two instruments were used: a...
This paper aims to empirically test the impact of entrepreneurial competencies on the performances of SMEs in Bangladesh. The data are obtained from 115 entrepreneurs by a structured questionnaire. The partial least square structural equation modelin...
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