Prior research on power-law distributions has primarily focused on modeling frequency patterns, with less attention given to rank distributions and how ranked positions reflect relative importance among elements. In discrete power-law distributions,...
In recent decades, the construction industry has developed rapidly. Delay was and remains one of the most important challenges negatively affecting not only this industry but also the economy and sustainable development. This study aims to conduct a...
The low-carbon transformation of the power industry is of great significance to realize the carbon peak in advance. However, almost a third of China’s CO2 emissions came from the power sector in 2019. This paper aimed to identify the key driver...
Debris flow is a type of special torrent containing numerous solid materials. With many types of factors affecting debris flow, there is no reliable basis for the selection of risk factors for debris flow risk assessment. Therefore, to study the fact...
Soil nutrient stoichiometry plays a substantial role in terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycling. However, the changes in soil nutrient stoichiometry with shrub encroachment (SE) remain poorly understood, especially in subalpine areas. We examined the...
Leaf stable isotope compositions (δ13C and δ15N) are influenced by various abiotic and biotic factors. Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia Kom.) as one of the dominant tree species in Qilian Mountains plays a key role in the ecological stab...
Advancing construction company competitiveness is a tremendous challenge. In approaching this challenge, it is useful to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) that impinge upon company competitiveness. This research aims to determine the CSFs...
Spring phenology is often considered the start of season (SOS) for vegetation, which can affect ecosystem photosynthesis, respiration, and evapotranspiration. However, the long-run variation of SOS remains unclear at the regional scale. In this resea...
The success of a construction project depends on different factors, the knowledge of the project managers, and the type of project being developed. In this paper, based on a review of the literature, 23 factors are identified as critical and they are...
Understanding the response of the mechanisms driving ecosystem services (ESs) to socioecological factors is imperative for regional sustainable ecosystem management. However, previous studies of the mechanisms driving ESs have focused more on the deg...
The execution of a construction project faces many potentials challenges, and delays are one of them. Communal construction projects in Burundi (CCP-Burundi projects) were considered as one field that could generate a Burundi government development p...
Prior studies have commonly examined organizational structure, managerial processes, construction logistics, productivity, and project complexity through separate research streams, leaving limited empirical evidence on how these domains are positione...
Fast-track construction has recently become the prevailing construction approach globally. It enables owners and developers to make rapid returns on investment through shortened construction periods. This strategy has many effects on the industry; th...
Earthquake-induced infrastructure disruption can delay emergency response and prolong recovery, yet many post-earthquake damage studies either focus primarily on superstructures or examine individual infrastructure sectors separately. This study pres...
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is rapidly transforming higher education, yet its integration within Mechanical Engineering Education (MEE) remains insufficiently explored, particularly regarding the perspectives of faculty and students on i...
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are central to global ocean conservation, yet the latent thematic organization of three decades of MPA research has not been systematically characterized. This study applies BERTopic, a transformer-based neural topic mod...
Based on the indicators of more than 3000 cities in China, this study shows that the relationship between the urban form and surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) demonstrates seasonal and diurnal variations, and also changes along urban develo...
A frequently reported finding is that general mental ability (GMA) is the best single psychological predictor of job performance. Furthermore, specific abilities often add little incremental validity beyond GMA, suggesting that they are not useful fo...
The relative value of specific versus general cognitive abilities for the prediction of practical outcomes has been debated since the inception of modern intelligence theorizing and testing. This editorial introduces a special issue dedicated to expl...
This study aims to identify the factors causing employer-induced disruption in construction projects and to examine why contractors do not file claims despite frequently encountering such losses. It also aims to develop a scale with tested reliabilit...
The construction sector is one of the essential sectors in the world; it aids in developing all the countries in the world because it is the foundation of other industries. However, delays in construction projects are a common issue that has been fou...
Rapid growth in construction activities as a result of a growing population and urbanization in many parts of the world generates a large amount of waste from construction. To reduce and manage these wastes, a comprehensive understanding of the const...
The purpose of the current study is to compare the extent to which general and specific abilities predict academic performances that are also varied in breadth (i.e., general performance and specific performance). The general and specific constructs...
Understanding the temporal and spatial variability of water quality is important in order to establish effective customized management strategies for polluted aquatic ecosystems. Although various water quality management methods have been proposed ba...
Various studies have confirmed that the increasing quality of safety climate has a positive influence on reducing the occurrence of accidents. The quality of safety climate is comprehensively affected in three domains: management, site, and enterpris...
Evapotranspiration by phreatophytes in riparian zones makes up a large component of the water balance. However, our understanding of the relative importance of controlling factors such as climatic conditions, species type, depth to groundwater and di...
The present study investigates the relative importance of human disturbance, local environmental and spatial factors on variations in bird community composition in natural Ethiopian wetlands with high biodiversity conservation value. We quantified bi...
This study primarily aims to evaluate the relative importance of factors influencing project risk management. In particular, we seek to identify and prioritize the key factors affecting the bidding process within the cross-strait political and econom...
This study identifies safety leadership factors affecting construction site safety and organizational safety climate, offering suggestions for adopting optimistic leadership styles and a zero-accident vision. The literature review is done exclusively...
18 February 2022
A large number of factors affect the energy consumption of a building. These factors can be categorized into building-related and space-related factors. The purpose of this study was to use the geospatial information system (GIS) to estimate and anal...
The wellbeing, socio-economic viability and the associated health of the inhabitant species of any ecosystem are largely dependent on the quality of its water resources. In this regard, we developed a protocol to measure the potential impact of vario...
29 August 2023
Aerosols, ozone, surface reflectivity, and clouds are, among other factors, important for the modulation of UV radiation levels at the Earth’s surface. In this study, these variables were extracted from climate model integrations that contribut...
This study examines integrating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems with performance management (PM) practices in the UAE healthcare sector, identifying key factors for successful adoption. It addresses a critical gap by analyzing the interpla...
Volunteer tourism is a vital formation of altruistic and sustainable tourism. This research is aimed to empirically find the relative importance of the motivation factors and the motivation realization factors for young tourists participating in the...
Exploring carbon allocation pattern and its influencing factors is of great significance for estimating the carbon sequestration rate and potential of forest ecosystems. Here, we investigate all carbon pool components (including above and belowground...
The beneficial cardiovascular effects of exercise are well documented, however the mechanisms by which exercise improves vascular function in diabetes are not fully understood. This study investigates whether there are (1) improvements in blood press...
The transportation of bulk or liquid cargo is crucial for ensuring the delivery of such cargo to areas lacking well-established infrastructure or favorable natural conditions. These areas may lack sufficient rail or air transport accessibility, or ma...
Conservation of our global natural resources is one of the most pressing concerns facing our international society. One of these crucial resources is water. The current study sought to understand how individual factors such as experience with water s...
To explore the relationships among factors influencing overall comfort in aircraft cabins, a scale-based method was developed. First, a weighted multi-level measurement model was used to determine the hierarchical relationships between comfort factor...
22 November 2018
Australian governments routinely monitor population household food insecurity (FI) using a single measure—‘running out of food at least once in the previous year’. To better inform public health planning, a synthesis of the determin...
Shallow landslides are destructive hazards and play an important role in landscape processes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the shallow landslide susceptibility and to investigate which predisposing factors control the spatial distribution...
Previous studies on island biogeography theory have limitations in that they are mostly focused on total plant species and the landscape factors of the islands. Our study was conducted to overcome these limitations by dividing the plants into five gr...
Recently, sarcopenia was identified as a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in adults. We here investigated the association between skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and NAFLD in non-obese children and adolescents. A retrospective med...
Alpine pastures are agricultural systems with a high provision of ecosystem services, which include carbon (C) stocking. Particularly, the soil organic C (SOC) stocks of Alpine pastures may play a pivotal role in counteracting global climate change....
Single-heading tunnels in underground metal mines have high air pollutant concentrations, chaotic airflow, and low pollutant diffusion efficiency in high-altitude areas, resulting in poor air exchange. Based on Pulang copper mine (China), a computati...
7 September 2026
Cigarette smokers have different levels of nicotine dependence, which affect their daily cigarette consumption and ability to quit. Genetic factors play a role, and there is interest in tailored nicotine therapy based on an individual’s rate of...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the relative importance and priority of what factors should be reflected in the administration to efficiently consider the needs of people with disabilities for the physical activity (PA) environment in South...
The feedback of vegetation on cloud cover is an important link in the global water cycle. However, the relative importance of vegetation and related factors (surface properties, heat fluxes, and environmental conditions) on cloud cover in the context...
It is imperative to develop a methodology to identify river impairment sources, particularly the relative impact of socioeconomic sources, to enhance the efficiency of various river restoration schemes and policies and to have an internal diagnosis s...
Natural and human factors co-drive changes in vegetation type and distribution. In this study, we constructed an index system covering 17 natural and human activity indicators in six dimensions by using climate data, county-level human activity data,...
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