Background and objectives: Since 2009, the decline of the Greek economy has been in the spotlight of the world’s financial agenda. This study assesses the economic crisis’ impact on assisted reproduction demand dynamics. Materials and Methods: Patien...
Optimizing the serviceability of highway bridges is a fundamental prerequisite to provide proper infrastructure safety and emergency responses after natural hazards such as an earthquake. In this regard, fragility and resilience assessment have emerg...
The progression of time and shifts in the environment have brought significant changes to traditional arts and crafts of intangible cultural heritage. Consequently, enhancing and objectively assessing the sustainable value of traditional arts and cra...
Industrial power has a large load base and considerable adjustment potential. Enterprises with a high degree of automation and adjustable potential can automatically adjust the production status according to the peak load, frequency of the power grid...
The increasing penetration of renewable energy into the grid has given rise to an emerging challenge of maintaining the supply–demand balance. Conventional supply-side regulation is now insufficient to maintain this balance, necessitating flexi...
The art market operates in a very different way from conventional economic markets, ranging from its behaviors of supply and demand, the trading of goods, and the economic agents intervening in it. In addition, it is a highly unregulated market, with...
The split delivery vehicle routing problem (SDVRP) is a relaxed variant of the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) where the restriction that each customer is visited precisely once is removed. Compared with CVRP, the SDVRP allows a reduction...
In today’s fast paced, attention-demanding society, executive functions and attentional resources are often taxed. Individuals need ways to sustain and restore these resources. We first review the concepts of attention and restoration, as insta...
The imperative demands placed on modern business management necessitate the exploration of novel approaches to adapt, innovate, and ensure effectiveness and efficiency. The integration of art into business management aligns with this rationale, indic...
6 December 2013
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a physiologically demanding sport that requires athletes to compete in weight restricted classes
Electric energy demand forecasting is very important for electric utilities to procure and supply electric energy for consumers sufficiently, safely, reliably, and continuously. Consequently, the processing time and accuracy of the forecast system ar...
This study investigates the ongoing transformation in galleries, auctions, and museums in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Singapore, where new models for art transactions and exhibiting practices lead to unprecedented evolution in the global art mar...
Rural public art is increasingly used to improve living environments and reactivate place-based culture in rural communities. However, existing evaluations remain fragmented and provide limited support for assessing intervention effectiveness and for...
For the last two decades, the international auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been at the forefront of global art market expansion. Their world-wide footprints have enabled auction house specialists to engage with emerging arti...
Autonomous-rail Rapid Transit (ART) systems operate on standard roadways while maintaining dedicated right-of-way privileges. Owing to their sustainability, punctual operation, and cost efficiency, ART systems have emerged as a promising solution for...
The quality of digital poetry or art—not merely as contained within our aesthetic reaction to digitally expressive works but as well our intellectual grounding in them—suggests that the digital’s seemingly ephemeral character is an indication of its...
Due to the inherent difficulty in direct observation of traffic demand (including generation, attraction, and assignment), the estimation of origin–destination (OD) poses a significant and intricate challenge in the realm of Intelligent Transpo...
The dairy industry faces unique challenges in demand forecasting due to the perishability of products and the variability in consumer demand. This paper explores the state of the art in demand forecasting for multi-retailers in the dairy industry, hi...
The author makes a strategic argument for the liberal arts grounded in realpolitik (that is, the “realistic” manipulation of the levers of power). In a time of neoliberal university governance, it is useful for fields of study to base app...
The growing demand for electronics engineers is one of the cornerstones of STEM education. Recent trends in education show an extension of the STEM principle into STEAM by mixing Arts with the traditional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math di...
The world is targeting fully sustainable electricity by 2050. Energy storage systems have the biggest role to play in the 100% renewable energy scenario. This paper presents an optimal method for energy storage sizing and allocation in a power system...
To date, martial arts involvement is often described in controversial terms. While some studies report increased anti-social behavior as a result of martial arts involvement, other findings refer to a more positive social and personal development. Th...
With rapid technological advancements and increasing environmental challenges, educational systems face demands for innovative teaching methods. This study integrates Virtual Reality (VR) technology into vocational high school art curricula, examinin...
In this paper, we present the generalities of the Compton interaction process; we analyse the different paradigms of Inverse Compton Sources, implemented or in commissioning phase at various facilities, or proposed as future projects. We present an o...
Infertility may have a very strong emotional impact on individuals, requiring adequate support, but few studies on patients' demands toward psychological support have been conducted. This study aims to explore the emotions related to the infertility...
Significant lymph node shrinkage is common in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) throughout radiotherapy (RT) treatment, causing ill-fitted thermoplastic masks (IfTMs). To deal with this, an ad hoc adaptive radiotherapy (ART) may be require...
Accurate estimation of spare part demand is challenging in the case of intermittent or lumpy demand, characterised by infrequent demand occurrence and variability in demand size. While prior research has considered the effect of exogenous variables o...
1 January 2004
Therapy with patients who have been traumatised in victim-perpetrator constellations, as it is the case in abuse, torture and war, demands special therapeutic skills. The condition for a therapeutic alliance, i.e. fundamental confidence in human rela...
At the end of the Amarna Period, a process of political and religious restoration began. This attempt at recovery went beyond the strictly official, as the Egyptian society seemed to demand a moral reparation. It was a much-needed change that would e...
This paper presents a hybridization of Strategic Oscillation with Path Relinking to provide a set of high-quality nondominated solutions for the Multiobjective k-Balanced Center Location problem. The considered location problem seeks to locate k out...
The increasing penetration rate of electric vehicles, associated with a growing charging demand, could induce a negative impact on the electric grid, such as higher peak power demand. To support the electric grid, and to anticipate those peaks, a gro...
11 June 2020
The accurate prediction of ambulance demand provides great value to emergency service providers and people living within a city. It supports the rational and dynamic allocation of ambulances and hospital staffing, and ensures patients have timely acc...
The power demand on the electric grid varies according to the time of the day following users’ needs and so does the cost of electricity supply because the electricity mix is formed using different generators of varying capacities. Demand respo...
Outcomes for glioblastoma (GBM) remain poor despite standard-of-care treatments including surgical resection, radiation, and chemotherapy. Intratumoral heterogeneity contributes to treatment resistance and poor prognosis, thus demanding novel therape...
Proper inventory management is vital to achieving sustainability within a supply chain and is also related to a company’s cash flow through the funds represented by the inventory. Therefore, it is necessary to balance excess inventory and insuf...
The automobile industry is one of the world’s largest manufacturing sectors and a key contributor to economic growth. Demand forecasting plays a critical role in supply chain management within the automotive sector. Reliable forecasts are essen...
Accurate forecasting of taxi demand has facilitated the rational allocation of urban public transport resources, reduced congestion in urban transport networks, and shortened passenger waiting time. However, virtual station discovery and modelling of...
Over the last three decades, the increasing development of smart water meter trials and the rise of demand management has fostered the collection of water demand data at increasingly higher spatial and temporal resolutions. Counting these new dataset...
The analysis of residential water demand has long attracted attention from researchers. However, the central topics at issue have evolved considerably, transitioning from estimating price and income elasticities to using experimental techniques that...
There is a growing need for increased flexibility in modern power systems. Traditionally, this flexibility has been provided by supply-side technologies. There has been an increase in the research surrounding flexibility services provided by demand-s...
This study examines the role of creative resistance, or “artivism”, in Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement, a youth-led campaign against police brutality that peaked in October 2020. Drawing on Robert Entman’s Framing Theory, it analy...
Taxi demand can be divided into pick-up demand and drop-off demand, which are firmly related to human’s travel habits. Accurately predicting taxi demand is of great significance to passengers, drivers, ride-hailing platforms and urban managers....
The power demand (kW) and energy consumption (kWh) of data centers were augmented drastically due to the increased communication and computation needs of IT services. Leveraging demand and energy management within data centers is a necessity. Thanks...
This article explores what alternative, or artist-led, spaces are in Mumbai today and their role within the city’s artworld. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two alternative spaces, it argues that these are artist attempts to exercise agenc...
18 October 2025
Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) reduces the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among people living with HIV (PLHIV), but its coverage remains suboptimal in most settings. We conducted a cross-sectional study to describe TPT uptake among PLHIV and...
The ongoing marketisation of education is a great loss for visual arts education since explorative learning processes are marginalised in favour of more goal-oriented learning. The empirical material analysed in this research derives from the visual...
Adopting battery electric vehicles (EVs) for vehicle fleets requires scheduling charging alongside day-to-day operations. This problem is complicated by complex utility cost structures, limited battery capacity, and competition for shared charging re...
Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is a concept that aligns with both current and future mobility demands of users, namely intermodal, personalized, on-demand and seamless. Although the number of shared mobility, electric mobility and multimodal passenger...
The growing adoption of decentralised renewable energy generation (such as solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines) and low-carbon technologies will increase the strain experienced by the distribution networks in the near future. In such a scenar...
A smart meter enables electric utilities to get detailed insights into their customer needs, allowing them to offer tailored products and services, and to succeed in an increasingly competitive market. While in an ideal world companies would treat ev...
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