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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,994 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2019

High-quality evaluation of city sustainability is an important part of city policy making and development. In this paper, we evaluated the sustainability of the 14 cities in Liaoning, China, from 2015 to 2017. Based on the comprehensive consideration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
381 Views
28 Pages

16 December 2025

With the continuous expansion of urban metro systems, balancing passenger experience and operational efficiency has become a central concern in contemporary public transportation design. However, most existing metro service studies continue to focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,671 Views
17 Pages

Safety and Economic Evaluations of Electric Public Buses Based on Driving Behavior

  • Yiwen Zhou,
  • Fengxiang Guo,
  • Simin Wu,
  • Wenyao He,
  • Xuefei Xiong,
  • Zheng Chen and
  • Dingan Ni

29 August 2022

The widespread adoption of electric public buses has a positive effect on energy conservation and emission reduction, which is significant for sustainable development. This study aims to assess the safety and economy of electric buses based on driver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,592 Views
15 Pages

Results of Behavioral Evaluations Predict Length of Stay for Shelter Dogs

  • Betty McGuire,
  • Jordan Chan,
  • Kennedy Jean-Baptiste,
  • Philippa Kok and
  • Emma Rosenbaum

16 November 2021

Most animal shelters conduct behavioral evaluations before making dogs available for adoption. However, little information exists on whether behaviors displayed during these assessments predict a dog’s length of stay at the shelter. We reviewed nearl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,578 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2021

With the rapid and wide implementation of adaptive cruise control system (ACC), the testing and evaluation method becomes an important question. Based on the human driver behavior characteristics extracted from naturalistic driving studies (NDS), thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,902 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Driving Safety Evaluation Through Correlation Analysis of Driver Behavior

  • Majun Fei,
  • Weiqi Zhou,
  • Hai Zhao,
  • Chaofeng Pan,
  • Dehua Shi and
  • Xinke An

30 April 2025

This paper presents a method for evaluating driving behavior safety based on real-world urban driving data collected from on-road experiments. The aim of this study is to develop a comprehensive and interpretable evaluation framework to improve the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
986 Views
13 Pages

An Energy-Saving Evaluation Method for Driving Behavior Based on the SHAP Scorecard Model

  • Guowen Zheng,
  • Deyang Kong,
  • Chenyang Ding,
  • Jiaming Hu and
  • Zhanping Liu

In order to fully examine how driving behavior affects vehicle energy consumption and further cut down on excessive energy use while driving, an energy-saving evaluation method for driving behavior based on the SHAP (Shapley Additive exPlanations) sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,321 Views
14 Pages

Ecology Health Evaluation System Based on Fish Movement Behavior Response

  • Yuequn Huang,
  • Rongcong Pang,
  • Xiangtong Li,
  • Wenjing Li,
  • Zhanpeng Yang,
  • Dunqiu Wang and
  • Kun Dong

23 November 2023

Using fish as indicator organisms to monitor water quality can accurately reflect the pollution status of aquatic environments in real time. Currently, there are limited quantitative and empirical studies on fish movement behavior. An experimental st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,268 Views
25 Pages

How Do Repeated Viewings in Forest Landscapes Influence Young People’s Visual Behaviors and Cognitive Evaluations?

  • Mengyun Wu,
  • Yu Gao,
  • Zhi Zhang,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Huan Meng,
  • Weikang Zhang and
  • Tong Zhang

Background: With the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, it has gradually become normal to periodically visit and enjoy forest landscape resources in the suburbs of cities. For designers and managers of forest landscapes, exploring change in the visual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,482 Views
17 Pages

23 October 2023

Trucking is an important production link in most open-pit mines, and its transportation cost accounts for more than 50% of the total production cost of open-pit mines. The quality of the driver’s driving behavior plays a crucial role in the fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,280 Views
19 Pages

An Evaluation of a Virtual Food Safety Program for Low-Income Families: Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior

  • Juan C. Archila-Godínez,
  • Han Chen,
  • Leah Klinestiver,
  • Lia Rosa,
  • Tressie Barrett,
  • Shauna C. Henley and
  • Yaohua Feng

26 January 2022

Low-income families are reported to have a limited knowledge of food safety and resources to follow food safety practices compared with the rest of the population. This paper evaluated a virtual food safety educational program targeting food handlers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,945 Views
19 Pages

Evaluation of Different Sensor Systems for Classifying the Behavior of Dairy Cows on Pasture

  • Barbara Pichlbauer,
  • Jose Maria Chapa Gonzalez,
  • Martin Bobal,
  • Christian Guse,
  • Michael Iwersen and
  • Marc Drillich

3 December 2024

Monitoring animal behavior using sensor technologies requires prior testing under varying conditions because behaviors can differ significantly, such as between grazing and confined cows. This study aimed to validate several sensor systems for classi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,021 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2024

Currently, the operational risk assessment of quay crane operators at ports relies on manual evaluations based on experience, but this method lacks objectivity and fairness. As port throughput continues to grow, the port accident rate has also increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,706 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2021

With the development of society and information technology, people’s dependence on the Internet has gradually increased, including online shopping, downloading files, reading books, and online banking. However, how to ensure the safety and legitimacy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,493 Views
29 Pages

The unsafe behavior of miners seriously affects the safety of deep mining. A comprehensive evaluation of miners’ unsafe behavior in deep coal mines can prevent coal mine accidents. This study combines HFACS-CM, SEM, and SD models to evaluate mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,172 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2025

Background: Health behavior consultations support self-management if delivered by skilled practitioners. We summarize here the results of a collaborative training intervention program delivered to health and care practitioners working in a remote-isl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,789 Views
24 Pages

17 December 2024

For enterprises, exploring the influence mechanism of consumer satisfaction evaluation behavior (CSEB) holds significant research value for the advancement and further development of social e-commerce platforms. The existing literature primarily focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,651 Views
17 Pages

20 September 2020

Some shelters in the United States consider dogs identified as food aggressive during behavioral evaluations to be unadoptable. We surveyed adopters of dogs from a New York shelter to examine predictive abilities of shelter behavioral evaluations and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,062 Views
26 Pages

16 October 2024

Progressive climate change (CC) forces people—particularly in the Global South—to adapt to its consequences, some of which include droughts, flooding, and new diseases. This study investigates the determinants of behaviors for adapting to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
26 Pages

13 October 2025

A good merger and acquisition (M&A) cannot be achieved without a good matching that not only ensures high satisfaction for both bidders and targets but also operates as a two-sided process based on their mutual evaluations. Previous studies mostl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,436 Views
15 Pages

Clinical practitioners treating moyamoya disease recognize the need for a systematic approach to better manage the disease in adolescent patients with the disease. Methods: This study aimed to develop and evaluate the validity and reliability of a di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,432 Views
14 Pages

22 July 2024

Lane changing behavior (LCB) prediction is a crucial functionality of advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. Predicting whether or not the driver of a considered ego vehicle is likely to change lanes in the near future plays an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,041 Views
20 Pages

10 August 2022

A green building is believed to promote green behaviors from energy-saving to waste recycling. Green building certifications have attracted wide interest, and some were made mandatory for publicly funded developments in cities such as Hong Kong. Poli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
191 Citations
12,823 Views
16 Pages

25 January 2011

For wireless sensor networks (WSNs), many factors, such as mutual interference of wireless links, battlefield applications and nodes exposed to the environment without good physical protection, result in the sensor nodes being more vulnerable to be a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,520 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2019

Coatings, either soft or hard, are commonly used to protect steel against corrosion for longer service life. With coatings, assessing the corrosion behavior and status of the substrate is challenging without destructive analysis. In this paper, fiber...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,595 Views
23 Pages

This research focuses on the evaluation of a heritage office building in the town of Kenadsa in the Southwest of Algeria (a famous oasis in the arid regions of the country). Emphasizing user’s perception as a metric key for performance assessme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,794 Views
19 Pages

Evaluating a Community-Based Citizen Science Project: Attitude as a Key Mediator of Behavior Intention Toward Biodiversity Conservation

  • Chia-Hsuan Hsu,
  • Jiefeng Kang,
  • Liang-Yu Yeh,
  • Lei Chai,
  • Wei-Cheng Kao,
  • Chang-Po Chen,
  • Hwey-Lian Hsieh and
  • Hsing-Juh Lin

Community-based citizen science plays a vital role in biodiversity conservation by engaging the public in scientific research while fostering environmental awareness. This study evaluates a citizen science project conducted in the Taoyuan Algal Reef...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,903 Views
20 Pages

Economic Evaluation of Health Behavior Interventions to Prevent and Manage Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Asia: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

  • Padam Kanta Dahal,
  • Lal B. Rawal,
  • Rashidul Alam Mahumud,
  • Grish Paudel,
  • Tomohiko Sugishita and
  • Corneel Vandelanotte

Health behavior interventions implemented in Asian countries often lack economic evaluations that effectively address the problems of type 2 diabetes mellitus. This review systematically assessed the existing literature on economic evaluation of heal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,513 Views
17 Pages

Research into Heat Stress Behavior Recognition and Evaluation Index for Yellow-Feathered Broilers, Based on Improved Cascade Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network

  • Yungang Bai,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Heyang Yao,
  • Chengrui Xin,
  • Sunyuan Wang,
  • Jiaqi Yu,
  • Cairong Chen,
  • Maohua Xiao and
  • Xiuguo Zou

The heat stress response of broilers will adversely affect the large-scale and welfare of the breeding of broilers. In order to detect the heat stress state of broilers in time, make reasonable adjustments, and reduce losses, this paper proposed an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,570 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of Behavior Change Communication Campaigns to Promote Modern Cookstove Purchase and Use in Lower Middle Income Countries

  • William Douglas Evans,
  • Michael Johnson,
  • Kirstie Jagoe,
  • Dana Charron,
  • Bonnie N. Young,
  • A. S. M. Mashiur Rahman,
  • Daniel Omolloh and
  • Julie Ipe

Nearly three billion people worldwide burn solid fuels and kerosene in open fires and inefficient stoves to cook, light, and heat their homes. Cleaner-burning stoves reduce emissions and can have positive health, climate, and women’s empowerment bene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,252 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2024

Drawing on the costly signaling theory (CST), this study examined the need for status as a hidden motive to increase organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and result in the focal employee’s overall evaluation. Moreover, as the activating cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,836 Views
20 Pages

Combining Effect and Process Evaluation on European Preschool Children’s Snacking Behavior in a Kindergarten-Based, Family-Involved Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial: The ToyBox Study

  • Marieke De Craemer,
  • Vera Verbestel,
  • Maïté Verloigne,
  • Odysseas Androutsos,
  • Luis Moreno,
  • Violeta Iotova,
  • Berthold Koletzko,
  • Piotr Socha,
  • Yannis Manios and
  • Greet Cardon

This study aimed at (1) studying the effect of the standardized ToyBox intervention on European preschoolers’ snacking behavior, and (2) studying whether a higher process evaluation score from teachers and parents/caregivers was associated with...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
55 Citations
20,089 Views
15 Pages

23 November 2020

Health care and human service providers may include dogs in formal intervention settings to positively impact human physical, cognitive and psychosocial domains. Dogs working within this context are asked to cope with a multitude of variables includi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,419 Views
15 Pages

Good Things in Small Packages? Evaluating an Economy of Scale Approach to Behavioral Health Promotion in Rural America

  • John P. Bartkowski,
  • Xiaohe Xu,
  • Jerri S. Avery,
  • Debbie Ferguson and
  • Frankie J. Johnson

26 June 2018

Rural American youth exhibit pronounced health disparities. This study enlists insights from an economy of scale paradigm to determine the relative effects of serving smaller versus larger client groups in an assembly-style school-based behavioral he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,042 Views
13 Pages

15 December 2020

The aim of this study was to analyse the behavioral aspects of suckling piglets after an intradermal vaccination method in comparison to an intramuscular vaccination applied on the seventh day of life. Possible effects on piglet welfare should be eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,387 Views
15 Pages

Maternal and under five-year-old mortality rates have reduced in the last two decades globally due to concerted effort, yet newborn deaths remain unacceptably prevalent. Behavior change is an important component of interventions to address newborn he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,728 Views
21 Pages

Validation and Evaluation of a Behavioral Circuit Model of an Enhanced Electrostatic MEMS Converter

  • Mona S. Salem,
  • Abdelhalim Zekry,
  • Mohamed Abouelatta,
  • Ahmed Shaker and
  • Marwa S. Salem

In this current study, the validation and evaluation of a behavioral circuit model of electrostatic MEMS converters are presented. The main objective of such a model is to accurately find the converter behavior through the proper choice of its circui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,950 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2020

Evaluations of enrichment are critical to determine if an enrichment program is meeting stated goals. However, nocturnal species can present a challenge if their active periods do not align with caretakers’ schedules. To evaluate enrichment for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,374 Views
13 Pages

Physiological and Behavioral Evaluation of Shelter Dogs During Veterinary Routine Health Checks

  • Valentina Gazzano,
  • Maria Claudia Curadi,
  • Paolo Baragli,
  • Chiara Mariti,
  • Francesca Cecchi,
  • Stefano Cavallo,
  • Luigi Sacchettino and
  • Angelo Gazzano

13 June 2025

Shelter environments can be inherently stressful for dogs, a highly social species that forms strong attachment bond with humans. This study evaluated stress responses in 26 shelter dogs during routine veterinary examinations, analyzing behavioral sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,056 Views
21 Pages

Can Eco-Driving Evaluation Cross Cities? Data Localization and Behavioral Heterogeneity from Beijing to Toronto

  • Leqi Zhang,
  • Guohua Song,
  • Zeyu Zhang,
  • Zhiqiang Zhai,
  • Junshi Xu,
  • Pengfei Fan and
  • Yan Ding

28 April 2025

The framework of eco-driving evaluation relying on vehicle trajectory data is to quantify the disparities of the fuel consumption for individual driving behavior and to develop a baseline under various traffic conditions. The baseline represents the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
900 Views
13 Pages

Taste Preferences in Broilers: Behavioral Evaluation for Varying Concentrations of Four Essential Amino Acids

  • Jaime Figueroa,
  • Paloma Cordero,
  • Sofía Herrera-Alcaíno and
  • Sergio A. Guzmán-Pino

28 May 2025

Umami taste compounds are perceived in broilers through taste buds that detect peptides and amino acids, which can positively or negatively affect their feeding behavior. In this study, we evaluated the intake behavior for four essential amino acids...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,980 Views
29 Pages

Evaluation of Waste in Food Services: A Structural Equation Analysis Using Behavioral and Operational Factors

  • Mario dos Santos Bulhões,
  • Maria da Conceição Pereira da Fonseca,
  • Darlan Azevedo Pereira and
  • Márcio A. F. Martins

15 May 2023

To make the activities of food service companies more sustainable, it is essential to continuously improve their production processes. Understanding which factors are associated with the phenomenon of waste, as well as how they are causally related,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,262 Views
10 Pages

Evaluation of Euthanasia Methods on Behavioral and Physiological Responses of Newly Hatched Male Layer Chicks

  • Xi Wang,
  • Dan Zhao,
  • Allison C. Milby,
  • Gregory S. Archer,
  • E. David Peebles,
  • Shailesh Gurung and
  • Morgan B. Farnell

17 June 2021

Newly hatched male layer chicks are considered as “by-products” in the egg industry and must be humanely euthanized at the hatchery. Instantaneous mechanical destruction (maceration) is the predominant euthanasia method applied in poultry hatcheries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,527 Views
18 Pages

27 December 2022

Public health problems, such as the spread of COVID-19 and chronic diseases, are mainly caused by the daily life activities of community residents. Therefore, there is a need to build a healthy and safe community living circle through the evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,425 Views
21 Pages

(1) Background: Public space is an important carrier for maintaining the cultural values of a village and the production and living customs of the villagers, but the use rights and boundaries are in an unstable and ambiguous state, and it is not a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,969 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2021

Background: Developer experience should be considered a key factor from the beginning of the use of development platform, but it has not been received much attention in literature. Research Goals: The present study aimed to identify and validate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,953 Views
11 Pages

27 September 2022

College students are at a high risk of mental health problems due to continuous exposure to considerable stress as they transition into adulthood. It is necessary to reflect on young people’s needs and provide brief, personalized support interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,052 Views
22 Pages

MWB_Analyzer: An Automated Embedded System for Real-Time Quantitative Analysis of Morphine Withdrawal Behaviors in Rodents

  • Moran Zhang,
  • Qianqian Li,
  • Shunhang Li,
  • Binxian Sun,
  • Zhuli Wu,
  • Jinxuan Liu,
  • Xingchao Geng and
  • Fangyi Chen

14 July 2025

Background/Objectives: Substance use disorders, particularly opioid addiction, continue to pose a major global health and toxicological challenge. Morphine dependence represents a significant problem in both clinical practice and preclinical research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,476 Views
11 Pages

10 April 2024

In objective behavioral rating (BR), dogs are rated for behavior based on the observations made during a behavioral test. However, behavioral definitions can differ between raters, and the definitions proposed by artificial intelligence (AI) can help...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,125 Views
14 Pages

29 August 2022

Proactive socialization involves an active attempt to integrate into an organization, which can help an individual complete the transition from student to employee. This study—conducted via a survey involving college graduates (one year after g...

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