Studies have demonstrated the influence of the cultural values of individualism and collectivism on individuals’ economic behavior (e.g., competition and trade). By using individualistic and collectivistic texts to prime participants’ min...
CCTV-based behavior recognition systems have gained considerable attention in recent years in the transportation surveillance domain for identifying unusual patterns, such as traffic jams, accidents, dangerous driving and other abnormal behaviors. In...
In construction projects, contractors often exhibit opportunistic behaviors, which harms the project performance, and risk allocation between clients and contractors affects the contractors’ opportunistic behaviors (strong and weak). In this st...
This study examines experimental evidence showing how ethics power allocation mechanisms affect an individual’s in-organization resource division and ethical behavior. We used two two-stage lab experiments to explore power seeking and usage; th...
The performance of volatility-based trading strategies depends, among other factors, on the asset selection and the associated risk preference. For this study, we conducted a representative survey for Germany to determine the asset preferences of ind...
Protecting cropland quality is a fundamental national policy that China must adhere to for the long term. This study examines the impact of market-oriented allocation of land factors on farmers’ cropland quality protection behaviors and its mec...
In a unique case-study approach in which I served as both the research participant and the experimenter, I wore eye-tracking glasses while teaching a brief music lesson to two university students learning trumpet, then approximately two weeks later,...
Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training across edge devices without exposing raw user data, but it is vulnerable to privacy leakage through shared model updates, making differential privacy (DP) essential. Exis...
Plants exhibit various behaviors of growth and allocation that play an important role in plant performance and social interaction as they grow together. However, it is unclear how Cucumis sativus plants respond to different neighbors. Here, we perfor...
With the improvement in automation technology, humans have now become supervisors of the complicated control systems that monitor the informative human–machine interface. Analyzing the visual attention allocation behaviors of supervisors is ess...
Water markets have been used by Australian irrigators as a way to reduce risk and uncertainty in times of low water allocations and rainfall. However, little is known about how irrigators’ bidding trading behavior in water markets compares to other m...
The expansion of telecommunication technologies touches almost all aspects life that we are living nowadays. Indeed, such technologies have emerged as a fourth essential utility alongside the traditional utilities of electricity, water, and gas. In t...
In precision grazing, pasture allocation decisions are made continuously to ensure demand-based feed allowance and efficient grassland utilization. The aim of this study was to evaluate existing prediction models that determine feed scarcity based on...
In this article, we propose a creation order reconstruction method of deleted files for the FAT32 file system with Windows operating systems. Creation order of files is established using a correlation between storage locations of the files and their...
Due to the limited availability of medical facilities and the urgency and irreplaceability of medical-seeking behaviors, the transportation processes used to access these resources inherently result in high carbon emissions. Unfortunately, pediatric...
This study aims to unravel the resource allocation problem (RAP) by using a consensus-based distributed optimization algorithm under dynamic event-triggered (DET) strategies. Firstly, based on the multi-agent consensus approach, a novel one-to-all DE...
Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) is crucial but challenging in robotics, especially in heterogeneous MASs where robots have different capabilities. Nowadays, the key issue in research on collaboration in MASs is to fully utilize the capabi...
This study examines the individual behavior of workers of the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shirkai, on two consecutive days of tunnel construction. In each trial, a group of 30 termite workers was observed continuously during...
Uneven distribution of passenger flows across metro entrances/exits is prevalent. Previous studies primarily examined built-environment factors influencing established exit-level flow disparities from an objective perspective. This study, however, in...
In the shipping network optimization, the feeder liner companies not only need to decrease the operation cost by comprehensively optimizing the route, schedule, and fleet but also try to increase the operation income by attracting more shippers, with...
In 2023, 95.5 million Europeans were aged over 65, falling within the definition of the “elderly population”. According to statistics, this number will rise to 129.8 million by 2050, making Europe the oldest continent in the world. One of...
Despite increasing evidence of kin recognition in natural and crop plants, there is a lack of knowledge of kin recognition in herbicide-resistant weeds that are escalating in cropping systems. Here, we identified a penoxsulam-resistant barnyardgrass...
Against the backdrop of the marketization of data as a production factor, the configuration of enterprise data rights has become a core legal issue for incentivizing data production and promoting data circulation and utilization. However, the complex...
This paper investigates a UAV-assisted wireless communication system that integrates optical wireless communication (LiFi) with conventional RF links to enhance network capacity in crowd-gathering scenarios. While the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) se...
The things in the Internet of Things are becoming more and more socially aware. What social means for these things (more often termed as “social objects”) is predominately determined by how and when objects interact with each other. In this paper, an...
In recent years, frequent natural disasters have brought huge losses to human lives and property, directly affecting social stability and economic development. Since the driving factor of disaster management operations is speed, it will face severe c...
Studies have found that competitive products’ online review ratings (ORRs) have a spillover effect on the focal product’s sales. However, the spillover effect of online review sentiment (ORS) as an essential component of online review ana...
This study compares two risk tolerance scales used in the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), namely the long-standing 4-point scale and the newer 11-point scale, to determine which better captures an individual’s investment risk preferences. Th...
Insider threats are malicious activities by authorized users, such as theft of intellectual property or security information, fraud, and sabotage. Although the number of insider threats is much lower than external network attacks, insider threats can...
As global environmental problems worsen, there is a concern for future generations who may face an unfairly degraded environment. In this study, we asked individuals from the current generation questions about using and bequeathing a common local ass...
Traditionally, foraging behavior has been explained as the response to a trade-off between energetic gain from feeding resources and potential costs from concomitant risks. However, an increasing number of studies has shown that this view fails to ex...
By using text mining techniques, this study identifies the topics of sustainable consumption that are important during the COVID-19 pandemic. An Application Programming Interface (API) streaming method was used to extract the data from Twitter. A tot...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the order of grass silage (GS) and maize silage (MS) supplementation on milk yield, grazing behavior and nitrogen (N) partitioning of lactating dairy cows during autumn. Thirty-six Holstein-Friesia...
This study investigates the impact of theory of mind, anticipated emotions before actual behavior, and consequential emotions following the behavior on sharing and allocation behavior in 4–6-year-old children. In Experiment 1, 95 children were...
Recently, owing to the trend of cross-disciplinary research in various fields, it is imperative to optimize the resource-allocation performance by analyzing allocation behavior and strategies from different perspectives as well as based on ideas from...
The covariance allocation principle is one of the most widely used capital allocation principles in practice. Risks change over time, so capital risk allocations should be time-dependent. In this paper, we propose a dynamic covariance capital allocat...
This paper investigates how the possibility of affecting group composition combined with the possibility of repeated interaction impacts cooperation within groups and surplus distribution. We developed and tested experimentally a Surplus Allocation G...
In order to address the issue of the quantitative allocation of quality responsibility among different subjects in engineering general contracting projects, this paper proposed a quantitative model (M-ResQu) for multi-subject quality responsibility a...
Automated container terminals have been constructed to reduce emissions and labor cost. Resource allocation problems in automated container terminals have a critical effect on handling efficiency and cost. This paper addresses this problem with quay...
In water shortage regions, water rights trading would be much useful for increasing water use inefficiency through changing users’ water demand. In this study, a water optimal allocation modelling system is proposed by considering water rights...
To determine the ES allocation based on a specific number of EVs connected to a combined WPESS, this paper develops an ESS allocation model that considers the impact of EV charging behavior on LSD, ES allocation cost, new energy utilization rate, and...
To achieve the global temperature control target under the background of climate warming, it is necessary to establish a systematic carbon dioxide (CO2) emission accounting method system in the field of water resources as soon as possible. In this st...
The present paper is dedicated to investigating weighted allocation rules under fuzzy multicriteria situations. In real-world situations, participants may represent administrative departments of different natures in the management system; participant...
Agricultural insurance is instrumental in consolidating the gains of poverty alleviation and advancing rural revitalization. It significantly aids in the efficient allocation of agricultural production factors, which in turn enhances agricultural out...
It has recently become imperative to analyze relevant issues to improve the efficiency of resource allocation by means of different perspectives and ways of thinking. There exist numerous decisive factors, such as changes in forms of allocation, reac...
Autonomous air combat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a typical and difficult problem that must be studied in the field of military intelligence. The UAVs are required to work together to accomplish different tasks in the air combat. In this no...
This paper develops a portfolio construction methodology integrating behavioral finance principles with machine learning to model how cognitive biases systematically alter asset allocation decisions. We introduce a Distorted Value Transformation fram...
Water-rights trade has proved to be an effective method for coping with water shortages through the transfer of water resources between users. The water allocation system is classified into two categories based on information transparency and water r...
In Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, the first step is to find all of the neighboring peers in the network by performing a peer discovery process. Most previous studies use the social behaviors of the users to adjust the sending rates of the pee...
This study extends the existing research on carbon trading policies from the perspective of mediating effects. Based on the difference-in-differences method, this study helps to understand the relationship between China’s carbon trading policie...
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