The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted diabetes care globally and created a complex bidirectional health crisis. Recent forecasting efforts using pre-pandemic data projected substantial increases in diabetes mortality through 2030, raising concerns about ac...
One of the most common ways to investigate changes in future rainfall extremes is to use future rainfall data simulated by climate models with climate change scenarios. However, the projected future design rainfall intensity varies greatly depending...
This paper examines some of the most popular protocols for transmitting sensor data to cloud structures from publish/subscribe and request/response IoT models. The selection of a highly efficient message transmission protocol is essential, as it depe...
The capstone experience in engineering curriculums is a critical component focused on the unification of several years of student learning, but its unique nature can present challenges to engineering departments in faculty assignment and ensuring con...
Wildfires burn annually over 400,000 ha in Mediterranean countries. By the end of the 21st century, wildfire Burnt Area (BA) and associated Green House Gas (GHG) emissions may double to triple due to climate change. Regional projections of future BA...
The main participants in construction projects are the client, contractors, material suppliers, and consultants such as the project supervisor. They play the most important roles in implementing construction projects, and their behavior has a signifi...
Cost and time overruns in public mega-projects have been widely studied and considered as interdependent factors in the literature on project management and the public economy. On the other hand, small-scale projects for public works (costing under &...
Predicting the duration of construction projects with acceptable accuracy is a problem for contractors and researchers. Numerous researchers and tools are involved in sorting out this problem. The aim of the study is to predict the construction durat...
In recent years, there has been a remarkable rebirth of the streetcar in China, with dozens of projects under consideration, in planning and construction, or already completed in cities throughout the country. The development of such a relatively meg...
The research focuses on analyzing historical climate variability over the period 1982–2022, as well as future projections of climate change over the period 2025–2099, with regard to the Souss-Massa watershed, a semi-arid region with high...
This paper constitutes an innovative attempt to analyse the risks and negative phenomena dependencies within a project portfolio. Based on the available literature, the risks and negative phenomena (that is, the problems with the availability of reso...
Global land surface temperature (LST) data derived from satellite-based infrared radiance measurements are highly valuable for various applications in climate research. While in situ validation of satellite LST data sets is a challenging task, it is...
Estimates of the projected changes in precipitation and temperature have great significance for adaption planning in the context of climate change. To obtain the climate change information at regional or local scale, downscaling approaches are requir...
The sustainable development of infrastructure construction projects heavily depends on favorable cooperation of all parties and ethical code of conduct, while Un-ethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) may undermine the mutual efforts and cause ser...
Nowadays, machine learning projects have become more and more relevant to various real-world use cases. The success of complex Neural Network models depends upon many factors, as the requirement for structured and machine learning-centric project dev...
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project was signed between China and Pakistan in the year 2013. This mega project connects the two countries to enhance their economic ties and give them access to international markets. The initial investm...
Imaging systems have an indisputable role in revealing vegetation posture under diverse flow conditions, image sequences being generated with off the shelf digital cameras. Such sensors are cheap but introduce a range of distortion effects, a trait o...
Accurate real-time prediction of labor productivity is crucial for the successful management of construction projects. However, it remains a significant challenge due to the dynamic and uncertain nature of construction environments. Existing models,...
The idea of sustainable development and the resulting environmentally friendly attitudes are increasingly used in construction projects. Designing in accordance with the principles of sustainable development has an impact on the costs of construction...
Currently, hydropower is the principal renewable energy source; however, climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme events, such as floods, droughts, erosion, and sedimentation of rivers, which produce uncertainty with regard to hydroelect...
The largest disaster reduction and relocation project was conducted in Shaanxi Province, China, in an effort to reduce the threat of natural disasters and preserve the environment. Although the literature has attempted to assess the economic and ecol...
The criticality of sustainable development to control the unprecedented consequences of climate change is clear. A vital element in launching sustainability projects is financing, especially for projects by small and medium enterprises. The first and...
The article is occupied with the evaluation of the transboundary transport of pollutants in the Czech–Polish border region (between the Moravian-Silesian region and the Silesian Voivodeship) in Central Europe. It focuses on the evaluation of co...
Revitalization of cities varies depending on the scale of a city, type of challenges, and the socio-environmental context in each case. While revitalization projects carried out in globally known cities are well described, there is still a gap in cha...
Resource endowment serves as the foundational condition and strategic pillar for the sustainable improvement of rural project quality, determining the capacity for sustainable development. Clarifying the intrinsic mechanisms through which resource en...
There is a consistent lack of consensus on critical elements in the study of construction governance. To advance the practice and theoretical development of project governance, this paper aims to construct a scale for the governance capabilities of p...
Effective project management depends on a deep understanding of the human attributes that influence project success. This study aims to quantify the causal relationships between human resource variables in order to establish a prioritisation criterio...
Cone-beam dental CT can provide high-precision 3D images of the teeth and surrounding bones. From the 3D CT images, 3D models, also called digital impressions, can be computed for CAD/CAM-based fabrication of dental restorations or orthodontic device...
In Brazil, the maintenance and expansion of the federal road network conflict with the country’s climate neutrality goals. The National Department of Transportation Infrastructure (DNIT), responsible for Brazil’s federal highways, lacks t...
Recent developments in NLP and web-scale document analysis have increasingly emphasized the importance of interpretability and contextual dependence in semantic representations. Although modern word embeddings achieve remarkable empirical performance...
This research aimed to investigate the green practices in the mega construction project of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Over recent years, there has been an increasing need for adopting and implementing more green and sustainabl...
Wind energy projects represent, currently, a valid opportunity to support United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7. However, these projects can appear financially unattractive considering the unfavorable meteorological conditions, uncertain elec...
Coastal environments are some of the most dynamic environments in the world. As they are constantly changing, so are the technologies and techniques we use to map and monitor them. The rapid advancement of sUAS-based remote sensing calls for rigorous...
We present an open, scripted reconstruction pipeline for the ADRON-55 ionization calorimeter at the Tien Shan station (3340 m a.s.l.) and apply it to
Hybrid Clarias catfish account for more than 90% of farmed catfish production in Thailand, making hatchery resilience relevant to the continuity of freshwater fish supply. This secondary-data modelling study evaluated how early-life thermal stress ma...
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have increasingly been adopted worldwide as policy instruments for industrialization, export promotion, and employment creation. However, despite their rapid expansion, the long-term sustainability of SEZ projects remain...
Curve-fitting means the determination of the set of parameters that best fit the input data set as expressed by a given function that is usually non-linear. The paper addresses the curve fitting of Debye and Cole–Cole models to a dielectric per...
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) depends on connections between spatial planning, project delivery and long-term operation. This article develops a conceptual, document-based assessment of those connections using Singapore as a reference case and Sha...
Accurate and fast contact detection between a robot manipulator and objects is crucial for safe robot–object and human–robot interactions. Traditional collision detection techniques relied on force–torque sensors and Columb friction...
The purpose of this research is to study the communication network among the participants in a construction project. The proposed approach contains the solving of the following tasks: identification of the key factors that affect the communication qu...
Challenge-based learning (CBL) is a student-centered approach engaging learners in complex, open-ended problems. While such openness can foster deeper learning and creativity, it also demands high self-direction. Teachers must therefore provide suffi...
Reality Capture (RC) is a state-of-the-art technology for digital data gathering and visualization of the actual environment through virtual means. In recent years, RC has contributed significantly to the digitalization of the construction industry g...
The construction industry is under mounting pressure to enhance its sustainability performance. Increasing project complexity and risk require real-time data collection, monitoring, and assistance in decision making via the Internet of Things (IoT)....
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a multi-billion transformative project. It is expected that the CPEC will cause a massive change in every sphere of life in Pakistan, especially in business organizations. The successful accomplish...
The representation of arbitrary data in a biological system is one of the most elusive elements of biological information processing. The often logarithmic nature of information in amplitude and frequency presented to biosystems prevents simple encap...
Intelligent transport system (ITS) integration is not solely a technological task; its implementation also depends on organizational conditions, stakeholder coordination, professional competencies, data governance, and managerial decision-making. Exi...
The engineer-to-order (ETO) production strategy plays an important role in today’s manufacturing industry. This paper studies integrated multi-project scheduling and hierarchical workforce allocation in the assembly process of ETO products. The...
Due to the varied ideas of lean philosophy adopted in the construction industry, it is challenging to trace the development of lean philosophy in terms of how the field evolved by adopting the lean ideas and how the topic shifted. However, it is chal...
Due to climate change, the Iberian Peninsula is suffering an increasing trend of extreme temperature events. The main objective of this study is to analyse this trends in frequency, duration and intensity of warm events and heat waves. The datasets u...
A collection of 24 hexacoordinate Co(II) complexes was investigated by ab initio CASSCF + NEVPT2 + SOC calculations. In addition to the energies of spin–orbit multiplets (Kramers doublets, KD) their composition of the spins is also analyzed, al...
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