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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...