This study investigates the operational response of a two-sensor electronic heat cost allocator (HCA) installed on a high-inertia cast-iron radiator in a multi-family building. Over 164 days, reference temperatures recorded at 2-s intervals and aggre...
The principle of degressively proportional apportionment of goods, being a compromise between equality and proportionality, facilitates the application of many different allocation rules. Agents with smaller entitlements are more interested in an all...
This paper analyses the voting behavior of the parliamentary groups in the Regional Assembly of Madrid to appoint the Bureau, its representative body, in all the legislatures since its inception (1983–2021). To this end, the actual result of th...
We experimentally study how people resolve a tension between favoritism and fairness when allocating a profit in a team production setting. Past research shows that people tend to favor their ingroup at the cost of an outgroup when allocating a given...
The allocation of seats in a legislative body to groups based on their size is a crucial issue in legal and political studies. However, recent findings suggest that an optimal allocation of seats may not be proportional to the size of the groups. For...
Although the allocation of biomass among floral organs reflects critical trade-offs in plant reproductive strategies, the scaling relationships governing biomass allocations remain poorly resolved, particularly in flowers. Here, we report the fresh m...
Cooperative communication techniques have recently enabled wireless technologies to overcome their challenges. The main objective of these techniques is to improve resource allocation. In this paper, we propose a new protocol in medium access control...
Long-acting spot-on formulations are widely used for parasite control in cats, yet the pharmacokinetics of combined fluralaner and moxidectin remain incompletely defined beyond the recommended dose. This study evaluated the pharmacokinetics, absolute...
How free-riding behavior can be avoided is a constant topic in public goods problems, especially in persistent and complex resource allocation situations. In this paper, a novel allocation policy for public goods games with a complex network, called...
Wherever there is group life, there has been a social division of labor and resource allocation, since ancient times. Examples include ant colonies, bee colonies, and wolf colonies. Different roles are responsible for different tasks. The same is tru...
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During responses to outbreaks, the collection and analysis of data on employed case patients’ industry and occupation are necessary to better understand the relationship between work and health outcomes. The occurrence of mpox by occupation and...
The issue of how to improve the usability of data publishing under differential privacy has become one of the top questions in the field of machine learning privacy protection, and the key to solving this problem is to allocate a reasonable privacy p...
Power supply is the cornerstone for the sustainable socio-economic development of any country. In a developing country like Pakistan, shortage of power supply is the main obstacle to its economic growth, making it a disputed and contested resource am...
In this paper, efficient gradient updating strategies are developed for the federated learning when distributed clients are connected to the server via a wireless backhaul link. Specifically, a common convolutional neural network (CNN) module is shar...
Textile and clothing (T&C) products contribute to a substantial proportion of the non-food product recalls in the European Union (EU) due to various levels of associated risks. Out of the listed 34 categories for product recalls in the EU’s...
This review proposes that selected micronutrients may contribute to mitohormetic readiness, defined here as the pre-existing biochemical and regulatory capacity of a cell, tissue, or organism to sense, buffer, and transduce a bounded mitochondrial st...
As a new direction of smart grids, the smart microgrid is a self-sufficient energy system that can generate and distribute energy in limited areas. However, existing work faces issues such as data privacy security, single-power supply mode, and unrea...
Swine influenza viruses (SIV) produce a highly contagious and worldwide distributed disease that can cause important economic losses to the pig industry. Currently, this virus is endemic in farms and, although used limitedly, trivalent vaccine applic...
Airport stand allocation research has traditionally focused on optimizing assignments within fixed infrastructure configurations, while strategic decisions regarding stand category composition remain underexplored. This study investigates how differe...
Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) are increasingly applied in agriculture to enhance soil water retention, reduce nutrient loss, and mitigate drought stress—challenges expected to intensify under global climate change. While their benefits for cro...
With the continued recognition of the devastating effects of natural hazards, the construction of shelters has become essential in urban disaster preparedness planning systems. After analyzing the deficiency of the conventional spatial allocation mod...
A large number of state-owned companies were privatized in the Czech Republic after the end of the communist regime, mostly through their transformation into joint-stock companies. The water management sector was no exception from this process. The o...
The optimal location of renewable distributed generations (DGs) into a radial distribution system (RDS) has attracted major concerns from power system researchers in the present years. The main target of DG integration is to improve the overall syste...
The widespread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is critically dependent on the deployment of efficient charging infrastructure. However, existing facility location models typically treat charging duration as an exogenous parameter, thereby neglect...
The 6G wireless systems are expected to have higher capacity, reliability, and energy efficiency than the existing cellular systems. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies offer high capacity at the cost of high attenuation and blockage losses. Reconfi...
More than 90% of children who are HIV positive were infected via mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). In Sudan, HIV testing rates during pregnancy remain low. This study aimed to understand the key determinants of HIV testing and their association wi...
Groundwater resources are depleting due to phenomena such as significant climate change and overexploitation. Therefore, it is essential to estimate water production and identify potential groundwater zones. An integrated conceptual framework compris...
Quantum image processing provides significant storage benefits over classical methods. However, current quantum image representation techniques exhibit limitations regarding encoding efficiency, circuit complexity, and adaptability to image content....
The accelerating expansion of Brazilian urban areas intensifies competition for water, energy, and land in peri-urban zones where smallholder agriculture, residential development, and distributed solar generation coexist. Brazil’s resource gove...
The use of the perennial grain intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & D.R. Dewey) may have the potential to sustain soil health and fertility through the development of an extensive root system. However, references are...
The Federated Cloud Computing (FCC) paradigm provides scalability advantages to Cloud Service Providers (CSP) in preserving their Service Level Agreement (SLA) as opposed to single Data Centers (DC). However, existing research has primarily focused o...
Thailand is among many countries severely affected by COVID-19 since the beginning of the global pandemic. Thus, a deliberate planning of health care resource allocation against health care demand in light of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, is c...
Agricultural cooperatives in developing economies struggle with capital access and typically depend on subsidized credit with rigid repayment schedules that create vulnerability during low-production cycles. In this paper, we present a mathematical f...
Mediterranean ecosystems in the central region of Chile face seasonal water limitations and increasing aridity. The belowground structure of their woody species remains poorly known. We characterised root system architecture and biomass allocation in...
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This paper describes the methods of the Wave 1 (2018) International Tobacco Control (ITC) Japan Survey. The respondents were adults aged 20 years and older in one of four user groups: (1) cigarette-only smokers who smoked at least monthly and used he...
Conventional evaluations of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in office spaces are typically disproportionately influenced by expert experience, often overlooking the cognitive gap between decision makers (experts) and users (employees). To quantify...
The impact of increased road user costs on optimal pavement rehabilitation plans has been investigated using a simplified pavement management model. The increased road user costs include elevated vehicle operating costs (VOCs) due to work-zone lane c...
Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) have been an eligibility requirement for Horizon Europe funding since 2022, yet formal adoption does not necessarily alter organizational routines, culture, or resource allocation. This article examines the process of mov...
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a rapidly expanding network of medical devices, sensors, and software that exchange patient health data. While IoMT supports personalized care and operational efficiency, it also introduces significant privacy...
Background: Pharmaceutical expenditures serve as key indicators of healthcare system efficiency, innovation, and sustainability. South Korea has implemented policies such as the economic evaluation exemption (EEE) and risk-sharing agreements (RSAs) t...
The emergency response is crucial in preventing and mitigating urban floods. Both remote sensing and social media data offer distinct advantages in large-scale flood monitoring and near-real-time flood monitoring. However, current research lacks a th...
Although small and medium enterprises (SMEs) anchor employment and output across Sub-Saharan Africa, their uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) lags global benchmarks, and prevailing explanations dwell on capital, infrastructure, and institutional...
We estimate Oregon’s mass timber-related market value and economic contribution using two complementary valuation strategies and two IMPLAN implementations. Although mass timber includes CLT, glulam, nail-laminated timber, dowel-laminated timbe...
The implementation of Indonesia’s Merdeka Belajar policy requires transformative leadership approaches to address post-COVID-19 educational disruption. This study examines the associations between e-leadership, the adoption of disruptive learni...
The Hetao Plain Irrigation District of Inner Mongolia faces critical agricultural sustainability challenges due to its arid climate, exacerbated by tightening Yellow River water allocations and pervasive water inefficiencies in the current wheat cult...
Ash dieback Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (T. Kowalski), is an alien fungal disease probably introduced to Europe from Asia that currently presents a significant threat to native ash (Fraxinus L. spp.). In the United Kingdom a large proportion of ash trees...