Crowdsourced delivery plays a key role in fresh food retailing, where tight time limits and perishability require fast, reliable fulfillment. However, real-time order–courier assignment is challenging because orders arrive in bursts, couriers&r...
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a crucial area of modern research. While the increasing number of IoT devices has driven significant advancements, it has also introduced several challenges, such as data storage, data privacy, co...
In the context of new power systems, reasonable capacity optimization of multiple power systems can not only reduce carbon emissions, but also improve system safety and stability. This paper proposes a situation awareness-based capacity optimization...
Most mobile ad hoc wireless networks have social features. It is a fundamental problem how to understand the performances of social-aware mobile ad hoc wireless networks. In this paper, we consider a wireless network area, with restricted mobility mo...
The demand for mass storage devices has become an inevitable consequence of the explosive increase in data volume. The three-dimensional (3D) vertical NAND (V-NAND) and quad-level cell (QLC) technologies rapidly accelerate the capacity increase of fl...
To process data from IoTs and wearable devices, analysis tasks are often offloaded to the cloud. As the amount of sensing data ever increases, optimizing the data analytics frameworks is critical to the performance of processing sensed data. A key ap...
Education could play a role in decreasing and mitigating damages caused by natural disaster. By analysing relationships between level of education and components of the World Risk Index, this study demonstrated an education’s role in natural ha...
An innovative methodology for characterizing Coping Capacity (CC), Adaptive Capacity (AC), and Transformative Capacity (TC) resilience determinants in a multi-hazard territorial context is applied to the Soccavo district (Naples, Italy), located in t...
Reversible data hiding (RDH) in dual images is a technique that shares secret messages into two similar shadow images, while the secret messages and the cover image can be restored only when those two shadows are gathered simultaneously. In this pape...
One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment, a concept that historically owes much to the study of brucellosis, including recent political and ethical considerations...
Battery-operated systems are always concerned about the proper management and sizing of a battery. A Traditional Battery Management System (BMS) only includes battery-aware task scheduling based on the discharge characteristics of a whole battery pac...
This article explores sustainable development from a gastronomic perspective. Humanistic perspectives on food offered by gastronomy are explored as an asset in cultivating self-awareness capacities needed for sustainable transformations of society. T...
Objectives: This study compares objective measures of cognitive performance with subjective perception of specific performance on neuropsychological tests examining basic cognitive domains, including, for the first time, financial capacity. Additiona...
In capital-intensive industries, operational knowledge is often trapped in unstructured technical manuals, creating a barrier to efficient and reliable maintenance planning. This work addresses the need for an integrated system that can automate know...
Static sink-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs) suffer from an energy-hole problem. This incurs as the rate of energy consumption on sensor nodes around sinks and on critical paths is considerably faster. State-of-the-art en-routing filtering schem...
Efficient cross-district police dispatching is vital for timely emergency response, yet it faces complex constraints involving coupled inter-district routing, task sequencing, escort capacities, and mandatory transfers at makeshift police posts. This...
Efficient and scalable inference is essential for deploying large-scale generative models across diverse hardware platforms, especially in real-time or resource-constrained scenarios. To address this, we propose a novel unified and resource-aware inf...
This study presents a novel sensitivity-driven distributionally robust optimization framework designed to enhance hosting capacity in renewable-powered distribution networks through targeted flexibility resource deployment. The proposed approach inte...
The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has introduced a new paradigm for constructing trusted digital economic infrastructure. However, its large-scale adoption remains constrained by dual challenges: on-chain and off-chain communication effi...
AI technologies are increasingly applied to optimize operations in both port and urban logistics systems, yet integration across the full maritime city chain remains limited. The objective of this study is to assess, using a simulation-based experime...
The importance of flood fighting is becoming increasingly apparent worldwide in the context of climate change. In light of the often-limited conditions and resources available for the deployment of military and professional rescue teams in emergencie...
26 August 2022
This work is devoted to presenting the communication activities carried out in the MED-Star project and the four joint projects (Intermed; Med-Coopfire; Med-Foreste; Med-PSS). MED-Star (“Strategies and measures to reduce wildfire risk in the Me...
This paper provides a rapid review of the literature on the current knowledge on health promotion for improved refugee and migrant health in the European region. The aim of the paper is to identify implications for future policy and practice. The lit...
This study presents an optimization-driven design of a wireless communications network to continuously transmit environmental variables—temperature, humidity, weight, and water usage—in poultry farms. The reference site is a four-shed fac...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for rubric-based assessment, yet reliability is limited by instability, bias, and weak diagnostics. We present EvalCouncil, a committee-and-chief framework for rubric-guided grading with auditable tr...
Identifying socio-spatial inequalities in flood resilience is crucial for effective disaster risk management. This study integrates flood susceptibility simulations and Weibo activity data to construct a flood susceptibility index and incorporates so...
Developing smart fast charging strategies can effectively balance the charging efficiency and battery performance. The current mainstream method is to optimize fast charging protocols based on electrochemical models that quantitatively detect lithium...
It is of great significance to clarify the impact and mechanism of environmental regulations on enterprises’ green innovation. This paper empirically studies the impact of command-and-control environmental regulation (CCER) and market-incentive...
Cities are growing and becoming more complex, and as they continue to do so, their capacity to deal with foreseen and unforeseen challenges derived from climate change has to adapt accordingly. In the last decade, an effort has been made to build cit...
The South African National Climate Change Response Policy (NCCRP) was instituted in October 2011. Amongst the policy’s priorities is building capacity and resilience in the country’s agricultural sector, with the public agricultural exten...
Sea level rise and increased storm events urge cities to develop governance capacity. However, a cohesive conceptual and empirical-based understanding of what governance capacity implies, how to measure it, and what cities can learn, is largely lacki...
13 September 2017
Community-based interventions to promote physical activity (PA) among older adults are of high interest in health promotion since they promise to be effective strategies to reach this population group. Community capacity building, that is, the local...
Background and Objectives: In 2014–2017, the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and partners implemented the project, ‘Development of the Model for the Strengthening of the Capacities to Identify and Reduce Health Inequalities&rsquo...
Downpours are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. Cities are particularly susceptible to flooding from downpours because of their large share of impervious surfaces. Minimising pluvial flood risk requires all involved stakehol...
22 July 2022
Body image involves perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs concerning one’s body, while body schema involves the sensorimotor capacities to control movement and posture. A review study is needed to obtain sufficient data to determine the effect of...
Project-based learning (PBL) is an important form of collaborative learning that has a significant positive impact on student capacity development. However, data generated during long periods of PBL are difficult to record in real time, and there is...
The advent of Internet of Things and the evolution of wireless communication systems (towards 4G and 5G systems, as well as wireless sensor networks) is leading towards the implementation of context aware environments. The adoption of such scenarios...
The key idea underlying many Ambient Intelligence (AmI) projects and applications is context awareness, which is based mainly on their capacity to identify users and their locations. The actual computing capacity should remain in the background, in t...
The Paris Agreement was a monumental stride towards global climate change governance. It unlocked the climate change gridlock, introducing country-subjective commitments and a five-year review mechanism. To support the implementation of the Paris Agr...
Environmental awareness and behavior play a crucial role in the improvement of the environment. Five dimensions of environmental awareness are considered here including environmental values, environmental knowledge, environmental responsibility, envi...
The concept of the bioeconomy is associated with sustainable development changes and involves transitions in both production and consumption within systems. Many of these transitions relate to using renewable resources, like forest biomass, to meet b...
Existing studies on adaptive capacity often focus on isolated theoretical aspects of the concept, without offering practical tools for climate policy. Moreover, gaps remain in integrating public participation into adaptation strategies and in extendi...
This study investigates energy label awareness among Gazi University staff, exploring the influence of demographic factors on attitudes and perceptions. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the research examines individual attitudes, subjectiv...
Environmental Education is essential to promote awareness and facilitate the development of environmental citizens. To contribute to the enhancement of environmental awareness, Iceland, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Romania have collaborated in...
In this study, we analysed the socio-demographic characteristics and disaster risk awareness of the Turkish migrants living in northern Italy. We initiated the study with an extensive face-to-face questionnaire with 544 individual respondents. With t...
While urban destinations have been affected by climate change, they are also at the vanguard of climate change adaptation. However, there is limited evidence from the urban destination point of view showing how they perceive or adapt to climate chang...
The awareness and the engagement of various stakeholders play a crucial role in the successful implementation of climate policy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 13, which refers to climate action, has three targets for combating climate...
Vehicular ad Hoc networks (VANETs) support a variety of applications ranging from critical safety applications to “infotainment” or “comfort” applications. In North America, 75 MHz of the spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band has been allocated for vehicular...
The irrational application of chemical fertilizer affects agricultural land’s supply capacity and yield quality and may lead to serious agricultural non-point source pollution. Through scientific and accurate fertilization, soil testing and for...
Many Korean local governments have enacted ordinances that enable resident participation in the supervision of public construction projects, yet an implementation gap persists between the legal framework and actual engagement. This study thus examine...
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