In the planning of public charging facilities and the charging activity network of users, there is a decision-making conflict among three stakeholders: the government, charging station enterprises, and electric vehicle users. Previous studies have de...
This paper introduces a novel approach to tree modeling architecture integrated with blockchain technology, aimed at enhancing landscape spatial planning and forest monitoring systems. The primary objective is to develop a low-cost, automated tree CA...
Truck-drone collaborative delivery has attracted increasing attention as an effective means to enhance flexibility and efficiency in complex distribution systems. However, the resulting Vehicle Routing Problem with Drones (VRPD) is NP-hard, and exist...
New York State’s Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs) were created to support sustainable, equitable, community-driven growth by distributing state funding across diverse regions. While allocations are geographically widespread, our r...
Rural logistics faces persistent challenges such as high distribution costs, dispersed demand, and limited transport infrastructure, which hinder efficient last-mile delivery. To address these issues, this study proposes a bus–heterogeneous dro...
Cyber–physical systems (CPSs) increasingly rely on complex software components whose vulnerabilities may affect both digital services and physical processes. Fuzzing is a practical technique for discovering such vulnerabilities in CPS-facing pa...
To address the deepening electro-carbon coupling and flexibility shortages in active distribution networks with high renewable energy penetration, this paper proposes a bi-level collaborative planning strategy considering dynamic electro-carbon facto...
Software-defined measurement (SDM) is a simple and efficient way to deploy measurement tasks and collect measurement data. With SDM, it is convenient for operators to implement fine-grained network-wide measurements at the flow level, from which many...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world since early 2020 and its health, social, economic, and societal negative impacts at the global scale have been catastrophic. Since the early days of the pandemic, development of safe and effective vaccines w...
To enable distributed target searches by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, it is essential to collaboratively process multi-source sensing data and construct a globally consistent map. In response to the challenges posed by constrained communicat...
Vaccine equity and access remain critical challenges in global health, particularly in regions with complex socio-political landscapes, like the Middle East. This review examines disparities in vaccine distribution within the Middle Eastern context,...
Ecological concerns on the climatic effects of the emissions from electricity production stipulate the remuneration of electricity grids to accept growing amounts of intermittent regenerative electricity feed-in from wind and solar power. Germany&rsq...
The conversion of manufacturing functional areas towards services implies a paradigm of Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS). It transforms the product fulfillment process to a distributed one via a service-oriented manufacturing platform. Successful Ma...
The high efficiency, flexibility, and low cost of robots provide huge opportunities for the application and development of intelligent logistics. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the non-contact nature of robots effectively helped with preven...
In pursuit of widespread adoption of renewable energy and the realization of decarbonization objectives, this study investigates an innovative system known as a wind-solar-hydrogen multi-energy supply (WSH-MES) system. This system seamlessly integrat...
Modern food production-distribution processes represent a critical stressor for the environment and for natural ecosystems. The rising flows of food across growing and consumption areas couple with the higher expectations of consumers for the quality...
The U.S. EPA’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Collaborative Problem-Solving (CPS) Model represents a systematic, community-based approach for bringing together various stakeholders to develop solutions to address local EJ and public health concerns...
The rapid advancement of intelligent unmanned systems has brought new opportunities to mobile crowd sensing (MCS). Compared with traditional homogeneous frameworks, heterogeneous air-ground collaborative multi-agent frameworks consisting of unmanned...
The present cross-sectional survey was carried out to investigate the distribution and risk factors of FMD in Pakistan’s northern border regions. About 385 serum samples were compiled from small ruminants (239) and large ruminants (146) and tes...
(1) Background: SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 97 million people worldwide and caused the death of more than 6 million. (2) Methods: Between 1 October and 31 December 2020, 764 patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection were selected based on RT...
Allocating adequate water supplies under the increasing frequency and severity of droughts is a challenge. This study develops an optimal reservoir system operation method to allocate water supplies from upstream reservoirs to meet the downstream wat...
This study evaluates the current state of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Mexico, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Using a mixed-methods approach, it combines quantitative analysis of charging station dis...
To support families during the COVID-19 pandemic, the USDA allowed all US schools to offer meals at no cost regardless of family income, a policy referred to as Universal Free Meals or Healthy School Meals for All (HSM4A). Despite the recognized bene...
The quantity of wind and photovoltaic power-based distributed generators (DGs) is continually rising within the distribution network, presenting obstacles to its safe, steady, and cost-effective functioning. Active distribution network dynamic reconf...
The COVID-19 pandemic, with over 775 million cases and 7 million deaths by May 2024, has drastically impacted global public health and exacerbated existing healthcare inequalities. The swift development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines have been...
Under the “Dual Carbon” strategy, high-penetration integration of distributed generators (DG) into distribution networks has triggered bidirectional power flow and reactive power-voltage violations. This phenomenon undermines the accuracy...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health crisis that threatens the efficacy of antibiotics and modern medical interventions. The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens, exacerbated by the misuse of antibiotics in healthcare...
Fully leveraging the four-wheel independent drive characteristics of distributed-drive electric vehicles has become essential for enhancing their driving range. However, conventional regenerative braking strategies applied to such vehicles often fail...
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Although various attempts have been made to build collaborative cultures for data sharing, their effectiveness is still questionable. The Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Vanguard Center (JHSVC) at the NIH-funded Research Centers in Minority Institutions (R...
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The purpose of this study was to clarify coaches’ competencies (COM) regarding dual-career (DC) support for student athletes in Japan. The questionnaire survey was conducted at 31 universities with an online survey URL that was distributed to 3...
Nuclear fusion is understood as an energy reaction that does not emit greenhouse gases, and it has been considered as a long-term source of low-carbon electricity that is favourable to curtail rapid climate change. Fusion offers a pathway to resolve...
Individuals in the southeastern United States of America (USA) have an increasing risk of contracting a tick-borne disease. Land use changes, changing climate, and redistribution of both ticks and their hosts make systematic tick and tick-borne patho...
This paper addresses a human resource allocation problem with spatial-temporal constraints (HRAP-SC) in the parallel assembly of complex products, such as satellites and aircraft. It involves coordinating a limited pool of multi-skilled workers acros...
The new national IdroGEO web platform allows the navigation, social sharing and download of data, maps, reports of the Italian Landslide Inventory, national hazard maps, and risk indicators. It is a tool for communication and dissemination of informa...
The integrated energy system effectively improves the comprehensive utilization of energy through cascade utilization and coordinated scheduling of various types of energy. Based on the independent integrated energy system, the thermal network intera...
Currently, microgrids are a reliable solution for integrating distributed energy resources and managing demand on electricity grids, serving as a pathway towards a responsible energy transition. However, the evolving needs of the sector require speci...
Quantum computing is a new discipline that uses the ideas of quantum physics to do calculations that are not possible with conventional computers. Quantum bits, called qubits, could exist in superposition states, making them suitable for parallel pro...
Fairness is critical in delay-sensitive group applications—multiplayer online games, live collaborative editing, and distributed interactive simulations—where every participant should receive each message within a bounded delay and with m...
This study presents DEDICA (Database of Hydrogeological Instability Events in Calabria, southern Italy), developed by the District Basin Authority of the Southern Apennines (ABDAM) in collaboration with the CNR-IRPI. The database integrates digitized...
River–sea direct transport systems emerging along the Pinglu Canal connect coastal and inland port clusters through shared lock facilities. When berth and lock resources are planned independently, uneven port workloads, mismatched vessel flows,...
Background: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitors represent a novel class of medications for the prevention and treatment of migraines. Given their expanding role in migraine management, pharmacists are increasingly expected to be knowled...
Variable-rate pesticide spraying and fertilizer application require coordinated operation of heterogeneous agricultural machines, particularly in irregular fields where task demands, vehicle mobility, payload capacity, energy consumption, and resuppl...
Reintroduction has been recognized as a vital approach to protecting and restoring wild populations of rare and endangered species. Although numerous reintroduction programs have been launched worldwide, in-depth studies on population establishment,...
It has been found that a cloud building energy management system (BEMS) alone cannot support increasing numbers of end devices (e.g., energy equipment and IoT devices) and emerging energy services efficiently. To resolve these limitations, this paper...
Beginning in 2003, the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) enabled an open-access network of distributed sensors and linked computer models through the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Predicting (SCOOP) program. The goal was to sup...
Milk, provided it is safe, provides important micronutrients that can combat hidden hunger (undernutrition). Many peri-urban poor people in Tanzania and Kenya use informal markets to purchase milk in order to provide nutritional benefits to their fam...
Technology transfer (TT) is a mechanism designed to accurately make knowledge, innovations, and advancements available to the general population. TT is conducted through scientific papers, educational and governmental initiatives, and the commerciali...
Northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus, NFS) are a vulnerable species broadly distributed throughout the north Pacific. Although commercial hunting stopped in 1984, the population has continued to decline for unknown reasons. The goal of this scopin...
The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) is one of the most endangered and least known wild cat species in the Americas and the world in general. We describe new records of the Andean cat in the central Andes of Chile, in Parque Andino Juncal, obtained as...
Collaborative vehicle platoon control with full drive-by-wire vehicles with four-wheel independent driving and steering (FWIDSV) has attracted broader research interests. However, the problem of cooperative vehicle platoon control in two-dimensional...
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