Students from Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs are usually split into teams. In light of the generalistic nature of MBA programs, diversity within every team is desirable in terms of gender, major, age and other criteria. Many schools...
Secondary cell wall (SCW) thickening has a significant effect on the growth and development of plants, as well as in the resistance to various biotic and abiotic stresses. Lignin accounts for the strength of SCW. It is synthesized through the phenylp...
Chrysanthemum × morifolium is a commercially important flower worldwide. Chrysanthemum lavandulifolium is the main model plant for the research on Chrysanthemum. Enhancing stress resistance in C. lavandulifolium is highly significant for improv...
Silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) is an economically important species in Northern Europe. The current research focused on the molecular background of different xylogenesis scenarios in the birch trunks. The study objects were two forms of silver bi...
Stockyard–port planning is a complex combinatorial problem that has been studied primarily through simulation or optimization techniques. However, due to its classification as non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), the generation of...
Xylem vessels are important for water conduction in vascular plants. The VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN (VND) family proteins, master regulators of xylem vessel cell differentiation in Arabidopsis thaliana, can upregulate a set of genes required for xyl...
Variable machine efficiency (VME) and maintenance activities (MA) are critical factors often unexplored in job scheduling problems. This paper introduces a new problem termed the job-shop scheduling problem with variable machine efficiency and mainte...
Background/Objectives: Functional dyspepsia is associated with abdominal pain and nausea, which leads to reduced quality of life, loss of productivity, and economic loss for patients. Itopride hydrochloride (itopride) stimulates the gastrointestinal...
This article studies the Generalized Steiner Problem with Node-Connectivity Constraints and Hostile Reliability and introduces a metaheuristic resolution approach based on Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure and Variable Neighborhood Descent....
This paper aims to solve the space robot pathfinding problem, formulated as a multi-objective (MO) optimization problem with a variable number of dimensions (VND). This formulation enables the search and comparison of potential solutions with differe...
The study investigates how the depreciation of the Vietnam dong (VND) against the US dollar (USD) affected export turnover and the stock market in Vietnam during the period from 2000 to 2020. A Markov triple regime-switching model is developed for ti...
NAC proteins are one of the largest families of plant-specific transcription factors (TFs). They regulate diverse complex biological processes, including secondary xylem differentiation and wood formation. Recent genomic and transcriptomic studies of...
9 September 2020
We examined factors associated with healthcare cost, health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and kidney disease quality of life (KDQOL) in hemodialysis patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study on 160 patients from January to April 2019 at a hem...
Venous needle dislodgement (VND) is a major healthcare safety concern in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Although VND is uncommon, it can be life-threatening. The main objective of this study was to implement a real-time multi-bed monitoring system...
Mangroves play an important role in providing livelihoods, ecological services, and values to communities in Vietnam. However, mangrove forests are being significantly reduced due to socioeconomic development. This study assessed the awareness of man...
Heatwaves are increasingly recognized as a severe natural hazard that pose substantial threats to human wellbeing and sustainability with physical, mental, and economic impacts. Heatwave Early Warning Systems (HEWSs) have emerged as a promising solut...
This paper addresses a problem faced by maintenance service providers: performing maintenance activities at the right time on geographically distributed machines subjected to random failures. This problem requires determining for each technician the...
The pulsating assembly line is widely used in modern manufacturing, particularly in high-precision industries such as aerospace, where it greatly enhances production efficiency. To achieve overall optimization, both product scheduling and Automated G...
30 December 2018
Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) have been found to contribute, predominantly, to increasing costs of COPD—a major public health issue. This study aimed to fill the gap in literature concerning costs of AECO...
Operational management of multiple reservoirs and hydropower plants in the Red River Basin (RRB) in Vietnam was investigated for optimal benefit of hydropower generation and to ensure the water supply for agricultural and social–economic develo...
The REDD+ program provides a mechanism for providing financial rewards to forest owners and users who contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. This paper determines the potential impact of the REDD+ p...
Plant hormones are critical regulators of graft union healing, yet the specific role of exogenous naphthylacetic acid (NAA) in graft union healing efficiency and grafted seedling growth remains unexplored. In this study, we investigated the effects o...
In May 2018, an outbreak of virulent Newcastle disease (vND) affected backyard and commercial premises in Southern California. The re-occurrence of these outbreaks since the 1970s suggests that some poultry communities may not have reliable and stabl...
Background: Pasteurized donor milk (PDM) is typically prescribed to preterm or low birthweight newborns when their mother’s own milk is unavailable. In surplus, PDM is prescribed to meet the nutritional needs of healthy newborns in the first few days...
22 December 2020
The incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer (CRC) has increased rapidly in Vietnam, but the economic burden of this disease has never been estimated. We estimate the direct and indirect cost of CRC patients in Vietnam in 2018 using a prevalence-...
Accurate travel route optimization is essential to promote and grow tourism in modern society. This paper investigates a travel route optimization problem alongside the urban railway line and proposes a hybrid teaching–learning-based optimizati...
The aim of this study is to construct and validate an expert system to predict the adaptation of irrigation technologies, water-saving strategies, and monitoring tools by small-scale farmers in Egypt. The research investigates the impact of economic,...
This study aims at determining if organic tea farming results in higher net income than conventional tea farming in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. Our sample includes 226 traditional and 319 organic tea-producing households in the provinc...
This paper presents matheuristics for routing a heterogeneous group of capacitated unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) for complete coverage of ground areas, considering simultaneous minimization of the coverage time and locating the minimal number of refue...
The increasing variety in last-mile delivery demands requires diverse vehicle-drone collaboration models to meet various scenarios. Meanwhile, growing environmental concerns demand that we optimize not just delivery efficiency but also sustainability...
This study is devoted to investigating the asymmetric effects of geopolitical risks (GPRs) on Vietnam’ exports during the period from January 2010 to December 2024. Using a nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) bounds testing model,...
The LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES DOMAIN (LBD) gene family comprises plant-specific transcription factors that control cell proliferation and differentiation during growth and development in many plant species. However, to date, no studies of the LBD gene...
Existing truck–drone collaborative routing models predominantly assume fixed flight speeds, overlooking the non-linear coupling among speed, payload, and energy consumption, which limits urban delivery efficiency. To bridge this gap, this paper...
This study investigated the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) on social equity, utilizing information from a stated preference survey conducted in Vietnam. Social equity was examined across the population of four cities representing the northern, centr...
Energy conservation, emission reduction, and green and low carbon are of great significance to sustainable development, and are also the theme of the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. This paper concentrates on studying the...
The NAC transcription factor superfamily is one of the most prominent plant-specific regulatory gene families, extensively participating in multiple metabolic processes that govern plant growth, tissue development and stress adaptation. Masson pine (...
This study attempts to optimize the scheduling decision to save production cost (e.g., energy consumption) in a distributed manufacturing environment that comprises multiple distributed factories and where each factory has one flow shop with blocking...
Access to a reliable and safe domestic water supply is a serious challenge for many developing countries worldwide. In the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, the municipal government is facing a number of difficulties in providing sufficient water in a susta...
Hybrid flowshop scheduling problems are encountered in many real-world manufacturing scenarios. With increasingly fierce market competition, the production mode of multiple varieties and small batches has gradually been accepted by enterprises, where...
Melatonin (MT) is a vital hormone factor in plant growth and development, yet its potential to influence the graft union healing process has not been reported. In this study, we examined the effects of MT on the healing of oriental melon scion grafte...
Local Positioning Systems (LPS) have become an active field of research in the last few years. Their application in harsh environments for high-demanded accuracy applications is allowing the development of technological activities such as autonomous...
Vietnam is located in the tropical monsoon region and it often faces many types of extreme weather events, especially storms and droughts. In addition to the effect of climate change, extreme weather events have been becoming more complicated and dif...
Wood plays a vital role in human life. It is important to study the thickening mechanism of tree branches and explore the mechanism of wood formation. Elm (Ulmus pumila) is a strong essential wood, and it is widely used in cabinets, sculptures, and s...
Background/Objectives: Dyslipidemia is becoming a significant economic healthcare burden in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) due to its role in heightening cardiovascular-related mortality. Statins are the first-line treatment for reducing LDL...
4 February 2021
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-assisted smartphone applications in the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in Vietnam. A cross-sectional study was performed in two urban outpatient clinics in Hanoi from...
Integrating an efficient feeder bus network is critical to maximizing the passenger-carrying capacity of urban mass transit systems. This study proposes a Kirchhoff’s Current Law-based Network Flow Model (KCL-NFM) that integrates Mixed-Integer...
The single-row facility layout problem (SRFLP) orders unequal-length facilities on a line to minimize flow-weighted center distances. We present a time-adaptive multi-start simulated annealing (AMSA) framework that coordinates one spectral start, ran...
Climate change continues to pose a constant threat to nature and human beings, and thus demands adaptability and flexibility in forestry and domestic land use management. In this context, the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradatio...
The evolution of delta and riverbank erosion within the river basin can significantly impact the environment, ecosystems, and lives of those residing along rivers. The Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD), counted among the world’s largest deltas, has...
Waste pollution is becoming a major health issue in many developing nations. Waste-reduction options have been investigated and proposed, but environmental culture-based initiatives have not. This study explores and advances Vietnamese families&rsquo...
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