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8 August 2025

Growing ozone (O3) pollution in industrial cities urgently requires in-depth mechanistic research. This study utilized multi-year observational data from Datong City, China, from 2020 to 2024, integrating time trend diagnostics, correlation dynamics...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,036 Views
16 Pages

10 March 2026

Late-life Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is increasingly defined by biomarkers, yet in adults aged ≥65 years the relationship between amyloid positivity and near-term cognitive decline is often discordant. Amyloid PET robustly detects fibrillar pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Special Issue: Recent Advances in Personalized Medicine)
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  • Open Access
351 Views
17 Pages

An Integrated Workflow for Activity-Associated Constituent Prioritization and Candidate Quality Marker Evaluation in Complex Herbal Medicines

  • Xiaojuan Zhou,
  • Hui Zhuge,
  • Bo Ma,
  • Zhiwei Ge and ,
  • Li Che,
  • Lihua Yang,
  • Xiyi Chen,
  • Cheng Jiang,
  • Shujing Zhang and
  • Yu Tang
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

28 September 2026

Herbal medicines (HMs) are chemically complex multi-component systems, yet analytical strategies that systematically connect chemical composition, biological activity, target prioritization, and quantitative analysis remain limited. Here, we establis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Analytical Methods in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
502 Views
19 Pages

Background: Antimicrobial resistance among Gram-positive veterinary pathogens has increased the need for more rational and experimentally grounded strategies to prioritize tylosin derivatives for antibacterial development. This study aimed to develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mastitis: Causative Agents, Drug Resistance, and Treatment Approaches—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
877 Views
12 Pages

Despite mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training for elementary school personnel in South Korea, current programs are often delivered as uniform, compliance-oriented sessions that prioritize procedural completion over sustained engageme...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,966 Views
20 Pages

Safety-Critical Manuals for Agricultural Tractor Drivers: A Method to Improve Their Usability

  • Maurizio Cutini,
  • Giada Forte,
  • Marco Maietta,
  • Maurizio Mazzenga and ,
  • Simon Mastrangelo and
  • Carlo Bisaglia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This work sets out the planning phases adopted for the first time to put together a manual on injury and accident prevention in the use of farm tractors. The goal is to convey information more effectively than at present, while taking the end users’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart machines, Remote Sensing, Precision Farming, Processes, Mechatronic, Materials and Policies for Safety and Health Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,063 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2023

To ensure safe, effective, and efficient marine operations, the optimization of maritime communication workflows with a task-oriented scheduling framework is of the utmost importance. Navigation, vessel traffic management, emergency response, and car...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sensor Technology in Smart Ships and Offshore Facilities)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,467 Views
10 Pages

28 November 2020

Background: This study aimed to compare the effect of traditional and stability-oriented strength exercises on trunk stability and deep stabilization system (DSS) activation in elite futsal players. Methods: Twenty elite futsal players (21–34 y...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,239 Views
18 Pages

13 May 2015

A common approach for understanding people’s domestic energy behavior is to study the influence of deterministic factors, such as attitudes, norms and knowledge, on behavior. However, few studies have succeeded in fully explaining people’s behavior b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Resources)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,686 Views
22 Pages

The Role of Personal Values in Sports Participation Among Young People with Disabilities: A Cluster and Profile Analysis

  • Anetta Müller,
  • Katalin Mező,
  • Ferenc Mező,
  • Éva Bácsné Bába and ,
  • Nóra Laoues-Czimbalmos and
  • Attila Lengyel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Sports participation among young people with disabilities offers significant physical, psychological, and social benefits, yet participation rates remain lower than among their non-disabled peers. This study, conducted in Hungary, explores how value...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,131 Views
20 Pages

Modeling a High-Efficiency BMS for Light Electromobility and Energy Storage in Critical Environments

  • Manuel J. Pasion-Fuentes,
  • Mauricio P. Galvez-Legua and
  • Diego E. Galvez-Aranda

Recent advances in energy storage systems and in increasingly efficient, safe, and energy-dense cell chemistries have driven the need for commercial Battery Management System (BMS) architectures with greater control, data acquisition, and communicati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy and Advanced Computing in the Age of Machine Learning: From Quantum to Grid)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
834 Views
17 Pages

6 April 2026

As the global learning environment increasingly aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), social sustainability, often described as the missing pillar of development, has gained a more central position in national education agendas. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainable Development: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,564 Views
35 Pages

14 October 2025

Cold-climate urban neighborhoods face mounting energy and thermal risks from extreme weather and power outages, creating trade-offs between different resilience capacities and objectives. This study develops a scalable, data-driven decision-making to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change in Power and Energy Systems: Challenges, Innovations, and Solutions)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,306 Views
43 Pages

Digital maturity models are widely used to support transformation; however, many remain organization-level, lack transparency, and are only weakly linked to implementation prioritization. These limitations are especially consequential in purchasing,...

(This article belongs to the Section Supply Chain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,668 Views
21 Pages

Latent Neighborhood Dynamics and the Logic of Community Engagement in American Policing

  • James J. Nolan,
  • Megan E. Gandy,
  • Taylor Williamson and
  • John Evans

7 March 2026

(1) Background: The purpose of this paper is to explicate the logic of community engagement in American policing. In the United States, the police are organized for crime control and social order through law enforcement. In fact, the terms police and...

(This article belongs to the Section Crime and Justice)
  • Review
  • Open Access
686 Views
16 Pages

Automated Processes and Artificial Intelligence in Generating Candidates for Oncology Drug Repurposing: Three-Year Scoping Review of Data

  • Antonio Ivanov,
  • Ines Hababa-Ivanova,
  • Savina Elitova,
  • Svetoslav Stoev and
  • Violeta Getova-Kolarova

Oncology conditions are increasingly defined by their molecular profiles, and drug repurposing exploits this new evidence to identify new therapeutic uses of authorized/investigational medicinal products outside their original indication(s). This sco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drug Repurposing: Strengthening Outcomes of Existing Pharmaceuticals to Shift Emerging Health Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
511 Views
37 Pages

12 June 2026

Urban freight distribution is essential for supplying commercial activities, but it also increases pressure on curb space, vehicular circulation, pedestrian movement, and public space management, especially in medium-sized cities where dedicated load...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Transport: Logistic, Optimization, Traffic Flow and Road Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,435 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2024

Background: The Active Recovery Triad (ART) model provides a framework for recovery-oriented care in the long-term mental health setting. The aim of this study is to gain insight into factors influencing the implementation process of the ART model. M...

(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
46 Pages

A Computational Workflow Integrating Explainable AI and Database Mining for the Prioritization of Antimicrobial Natural Products

  • Pietro Hiram Guzzi,
  • Annamaria Defilippo,
  • Pierangelo Veltri,
  • Giancarlo Ceccarelli and ,
  • Fabio Scarpa,
  • Massimo Ciccozzi and
  • Francesco Branda
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 October 2026

The escalating threat of antimicrobial resistance demands the discovery of antibacterial agents with unprecedented chemical scaffolds. Natural products have historically been the most prolific source of antibiotics, yet the vast majority of catalogue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational and Integrated Strategies for Natural-Product-Derived Antimicrobials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,622 Views
18 Pages

Waste Education in Teacher Training: Exploring the Role of Context in Shaping Perceptions and Didactic Approaches

  • María Ángeles García-Fortes,
  • Patricia Esteve-Guirao,
  • Isabel Banos-González,
  • Magdalena Valverde-Pérez and
  • Ana Ruiz-Navarro

12 December 2025

This study explores how 130 future teachers (FTs) perceive and address massive waste generation when it is framed through two socio-environmental contexts: waste export from affluent to vulnerable countries and microplastic pollution in natural envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Education for Recycling: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Innovative Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
584 Views
18 Pages

This study examines how investment priorities for sustainable rural development are shaped when financial, environmental, social, and institutional criteria are evaluated simultaneously. Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the study assesses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Finance and Policy Frameworks in Emerging Markets)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,040 Views
11 Pages

Psychological Factors and Sexual Risk Behaviors: A Multidimensional Model Based on the Chilean Population

  • Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina,
  • Patricio Mena-Chamorro,
  • Marcos Carmona-Halty and
  • Geraldy Sepúlveda-Páez

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a global health problem, with sexual risk behaviors (SRB) being the main routes of spreading the virus. Evidence indicates that different psychological factors influence SRB (e.g., attitude towards condoms, sexua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HIV Prevalence and Associated Factors)
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  • Open Access
137 Views
41 Pages

1 November 2026

This study presents a regional-scale, process-oriented assessment of active landslide-related deformation in TiziOuzou, northernAlgeria, over approximately 2429 km2, using dual-geometry Sentinel-1 SBAS-InSAR time-series analysis. Ascending and descen...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,991 Views
18 Pages

Navigating Time-Inconsistent Behavior: The Influence of Financial Knowledge, Behavior, and Attitude on Hyperbolic Discounting

  • Aliyu Ali Bawalle,
  • Sumeet Lal,
  • Trinh Xuan Thi Nguyen,
  • Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan and
  • Yoshihiko Kadoya

24 October 2024

Hyperbolic discounting is a psychological phenomenon in which individuals prioritize smaller immediate rewards over larger future rewards. Time-inconsistent behavior is deemed irrational as it negatively impacts savings and investment, investment in...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,328 Views
18 Pages

17 June 2025

This study explores the governance and implementation of local labor market programs (LLMPs) in Swedish municipalities, analyzing the tension between national mandates and local policy practices. Drawing on institutional ethnography (IE), intersectio...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Policy and Welfare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,324 Views
14 Pages

28 January 2019

In a fierce competitive industry, firms conducting a corporate social responsibility (CSR) differentiation strategy can build a relative advantage. However, there is lack of literature to discuss the approach to identifying companies’ CSR diffe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Developing Countries: Current Trends and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,694 Views
20 Pages

15 June 2024

This paper aims to examine the impact of corporate sustainable management (CSM) on earnings management (EM) activities using annual data from 2018 to 2022 for 37 non-financial Saudi indexed firms. A multi-measure approach was utilized to proxy for EM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility and Green Innovation)
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  • Open Access
2,042 Views
17 Pages

27 March 2025

Teacher professional development opportunities are woven into the structures of license renewal and school expectations, but the opportunity to profoundly develop in a professional and broad manner is still often a struggle for educators because of f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning for Sustainability: Challenges and Progress of Embedding Sustainability into Teaching and Learning and Beyond)
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  • Open Access
251 Views
28 Pages

Fast Frequency Control of VSC-Supported Low-Inertia Power Systems Using Enhanced Prioritized Reinforcement Learning

  • Lanlan Wu,
  • Fengquan Jia,
  • Xiaojie Jiang,
  • Xinxin Cai and ,
  • Wei Qiu,
  • Bing Li,
  • Yao Zheng and
  • He Yin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 September 2026

The increasing penetration of converter-interfaced renewable generation reduces power-system inertia and increases the severity of frequency deviations following active-power disturbances. To address this challenge, this paper formulates and evaluate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Electric Power and Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
362 Views
30 Pages

14 September 2026

Industrial production and logistics dashboards increasingly aggregate real-time data but remain monitoring tools with limited support for action prioritization, explainable recommendations, adaptive response, and organizational learning. This study p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Logistics Industry and Supply Chain)
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  • Open Access
834 Views
34 Pages

Cathepsin B-Oriented Screening, Isolation, and Antitumor Validation of Bioactive Metabolites from Sargassum polycystum

  • Wanchao Hou,
  • Lingqiu Zhang,
  • Kai Yu,
  • Jinhua Lu and ,
  • Congyao Qin,
  • Minmin Qin,
  • Xiuqing Xu,
  • Zhengcai Du,
  • Erwei Hao and
  • Xiaotao Hou
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

1 July 2026

Marine medicinal algae represent a valuable reservoir of bioactive metabolites for anticancer drug discovery, yet the efficient identification of target-relevant compounds from chemically complex marine matrices remains challenging. In this study, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Sea to Pharmacy: Comprehensive Perspectives on Algal Bio-Resources, Nutraceuticals, and Drugs)
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  • Open Access
86 Views
21 Pages

6 November 2026

The tourism industry is recognized as a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, significantly advancing climate change. Carbon offsetting is often suggested as an ancillary approach to alleviate or counterbalance inevitable emissions generated...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
33 Pages

21 September 2026

The relationship between campus built environments and university student health has received considerable attention; however, this issue remains systematically underexplored in the context of cold-climate cities, particularly during winter, and the...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,823 Views
18 Pages

Development of a Transdisciplinary Research-Based Framework for the Improvement of Thermal Comfort of Schools Through the Analysis of Shading System

  • Xabat Oregi,
  • Aitor Goti,
  • Heriberto Pérez-Acebo,
  • Irantzu Álvarez and ,
  • Maria-Isabel Eguia and
  • Elisabete Alberdi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2024

This article investigates a methodology for the application of the design of sunlighting and shading systems in educational settings, focusing on their impact on thermal comfort. As educational environments increasingly recognize the importance of ph...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,138 Views
37 Pages

Background: Last-mile logistics is one of the most complex and cost-intensive segments of supply chains, particularly in densely populated urban environments where rising customer expectations, sustainability requirements, and operational constraints...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Logistics and Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions in the Turbulent World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,370 Views
21 Pages

Visitor Typologies for Micro-Zoning in Forest Recreation Sites

  • Eran Ketter,
  • Yaara Spiegel and
  • Noga Collins-Kreiner

21 March 2026

Forest recreation sites provide accessible settings for everyday leisure while accommodating multiple, and often competing, uses, making zoning both a central planning challenge and solution. This study advances micro-zoning as a novel, site-scale ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism Spatial Planning Across Rural–Urban Landscapes: Integrating Economic Growth, Heritage Conservation, and Ecosystem Services)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2,575 Views
32 Pages

Amblyopia is increasingly conceptualized as a neurodevelopmental visual disorder that often arises from discordant binocular visual experience during early life and is associated with abnormal binocular interactions, interocular suppression, orientat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brain Plasticity in Health and Disease: From Molecules to Circuits)
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  • Open Access
546 Views
47 Pages

21 August 2026

The Old City of Sana’a, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, remains morphologically unclassified at the urban block scale, with understanding still grounded in descriptive narrative rather than quantitative data—leaving conservation decisions w...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Views
22 Pages

9 November 2026

Phytochemical differentiation between radish leaves and roots has implications for crop utilization and quality-oriented breeding, yet its association with tissue pigmentation and genotype remains unresolved. We quantified 18 glucosinolate (GSL) comp...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural and Synthetic Antioxidants)
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  • Open Access
573 Views
26 Pages

Determinants of Business Interest in Sustainable Entrepreneurship in a Transition Economy

  • Elona Pojani,
  • Fatma Jaupi,
  • Vesna Bucevska,
  • Arjan Tushaj and
  • Kristi Dashi

11 September 2026

This study investigates how environmentally sustainable and socially responsible entrepreneurship is perceived and prioritized within the Albanian business community and explores the factors that may further support it. Based on 200 structured survey...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,091 Views
25 Pages

30 January 2024

Walking and running activities (W&RAs), encompassing strolling, slow walking, brisk walking, jogging, and running, hold significant importance as popular forms of exercise within urban parks. Recognized for their efficacy in promoting public heal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape Design, Evaluation and Management Created by Novel Technologies)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,362 Views
24 Pages

Examining the Role of AI-Augmented HRM for Sustainable Performance: Key Determinants for Digital Culture and Organizational Strategy

  • Md. Alamgir Mollah,
  • Masud Rana,
  • Mohammad Bin Amin,
  • M. M. Abdullah Al Mamun Sony and ,
  • Md. Atikur Rahaman and
  • Veronika Fenyves
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 December 2024

In the wave of digitalization, organizations are increasingly focused on whether to prioritize digital culture or organizational strategy for the use of artificial intelligence (AI); there are mixed opinions, particularly when AI-augmented HRM draws...

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  • Open Access
476 Views
31 Pages

22 September 2026

Organizations face escalating cyber risk, expanding attack surfaces, increasingly automated adversaries, and constrained security resources. Organizations are looking for practical mechanisms to improve security resilience by transforming threat mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Secure Digital Transformation: Interdisciplinary Advancements in Cybersecurity and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,599 Views
18 Pages

Expression of Behavior and Attitudes toward Sustainable Tourism in the Youth Population: A Search for Statistical Types

  • Diana Šaparnienė,
  • Oksana Mejerė,
  • Jurgita Raišutienė,
  • Vita Juknevičienė and
  • Rasa Rupulevičienė

2 January 2022

Youth attitudes and behavior in tourism activities are crucial for sustainable tourism development. This study aims to identify the statistical types of youth according to their expressed behavior in sustainability and attitudes toward sustainable to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,627 Views
21 Pages

16 October 2025

The implementation of K–12 engineering education presents significant challenges for current teachers. To strengthen the instructional readiness of elementary school teachers in Taiwan for engineering education, this study developed a STEM-orie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Develop, Educate and Communicate Sustainability Through STEM Education and Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
543 Views
31 Pages

18 September 2026

Sustainable growth has become an increasingly important strategic objective for entrepreneurial firms facing resource constraints, technological change, and growing environmental and social pressures. Although previous studies have established a posi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Strategic Management in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,612 Views
23 Pages

Hainan Sport Tourism Development—A SWOT Analysis

  • Erwei Dong,
  • Bing Fu,
  • Yuntan Li,
  • Jianing Jin and ,
  • Hengyu Hu,
  • Yajing Ma,
  • Zecheng Zhang,
  • Qianwen Xu and
  • Zhu Cheng
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

5 October 2022

Hainan, as a popular tourism destination, is well-promoted by the Chinese central government. In particular, both central and local governments encourage Hainan’s sport tourism-related professionals to develop sport tourism as one of the most i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Culture, Tourism and Leisure Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,747 Views
29 Pages

This paper revisits the planning and design factors of “pedestrianized” and “walkable” urban streets to encourage physical activity, focusing on their prioritization according to public health and smart growth. The aim is to c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,445 Views
18 Pages

The need for transit oriented development (TOD) around railway stations has been well accepted and continues to be needed in cities looking to regenerate both transit and urban development. Large parts of suburban areas remain without quality transit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Real Estate and Resilient Cities: Management, Assessment and Innovations)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
667 Views
26 Pages

Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis of a Nonlinear Electrochemical Model as a Virtual Replica for Lithium-Ion Battery Design Under Uncertainty

  • Jurgita Dabulytė-Bagdonavičienė,
  • Gintarė Vaidelienė,
  • Edvinas Juozapaitis and
  • Robertas Alzbutas

17 June 2026

This paper presents a probabilistic sensitivity analysis of a nonlinear electrochemical model for lithium-ion batteries. The model is treated as a reduced virtual replica for uncertainty-aware analysis rather than as a full digital twin. A reduced el...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Models in Engineering Design Optimization)

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