Background/Objectives: UK ports are central to maritime decarbonisation, but comparable evidence on implementation remains limited. This study examines documented practices at 16 major UK ports represented by 17 analytical cases. Methods: A documenta...
Regional climate change is affected by global warming, large-scale inter-regional circulation, and land use/cover. As a result of different ecological, economic, and social conditions, climate adaptation actions vary from region to region, including...
In recent years, tourism has established itself as one of the most important economic sectors worldwide. Given the economic importance of this activity, different international organizations have decided to bet on tourism as a development tool. Howev...
This article demonstrates how Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) can be applied to the study of case law, with an emphasis on the granular analysis of jurisprudence. This article’s empirical focus is a study of asylum decisions issued by th...
Clustered data are a complex and frequently used type of data. Traditional factor analysis methods are effective for non-clustered data, but they do not adequately capture correlations between multiple observed individuals or variables in clustered d...
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Over the past decade, the blockchain technology has been actively embraced by an increasing number of companies. Blockchain has proven its effectiveness not only in the financial sector, but also in logistics and supply chain management, and has rece...
Purpose: This study examines how large multinational corporations translate sustained macroenvironmental volatility into deliberate strategic reconfiguration processes, and how adaptive mechanisms differ across business models and sectors under share...
The integration of geodesign with vulnerability analysis offers a novel approach to landscape, urban, and environmental planning challenges. The interdisciplinary nature, engaged processes, and advanced spatial analytics in geodesign provide importan...
Medical buildings, particularly emergency rooms, can be challenging to navigate, leading to stress and time loss for users if spatial layouts are poorly organized. This study focused on the concept of wayfinding, particularly on oral and visual commu...
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plays a crucial role in the revitalization of the dairy industry and grassland agriculture in China. However, regional differences in economic and environmental performance have not been adequately specified or quantified...
Within the context of the large-scale application of industrial robots, methods of analyzing the life-cycle cost (LCC) of industrial robot production have shown considerable developments, but there remains a lack of methods that allow for the examina...
In the context of Disease X risks, how governments and public health authorities make policy choices in response to potential epidemics has become a topic of increasing concern. The tightness of epidemic prevention policies is related to the effectiv...
Background/Objectives: Oral focal mucinosis (OFM) and solitary cutaneous focal mucinosis (SCFM) are rare, benign lesions characterized by localized mucin deposition in the stromal connective tissue. While both share similar histological features, the...
Accessibility-oriented public transportation planning can improve the operational efficiency of public transportation, guide orderly urban development, and alleviate issues such as traffic congestion, environmental pollution, and resource consumption...
To achieve the international emission reduction targets, current researches underline the need to overcome the dominant techno-centric approaches to energy transition, in favor of analyses that explore in more detail those practices and organizationa...
It is a common sense expectation that the efficiency of wind turbines should decline with age, similarly to what happens with most technical systems. Due to the complexity of this kind of machine and the environmental conditions to which it is subjec...
Energy demand is a critical challenge for sustainable infrastructure, yet in road asset management, it is rarely considered a central decision criterion. Most decision frameworks remain focused on financial and structural performance. This study intr...
Among the most important trade bridges for Western Europe and the Balkans is the Port of Igoumenitsa in Western Greece, which experiences heavy traffic of goods and passengers. This case analysis primarily aims to investigate the effect of shipping a...
We describe two well-established, practice-based Master’s programmes as examples of existing competence development opportunities for practitioners and how such links between theory and practice can be developed and taught within the Higher Education...
This study examines healthcare system strains in rapidly aging societies through a comparative analysis of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. While existing research documents global aging and physician migration trends, few...
Functional analysis plays a critical role in early-stage aircraft system design by defining system functions that guide downstream architectural development and verification. In practice, many design deficiencies originate not from incorrect physical...
Private higher education now accounts for approximately 33% of global enrolment, yet comparative empirical research on quality assurance (QA) systems in this sector, particularly across contrasting governance regimes, remains limited. This study exam...
This study investigates the critical role of information systems and digital transformation in advancing sustainable supply chain management. Companies are increasingly adopting sustainable policies to protect the environment, enhance societal wellbe...
Foreign language speaking skills need much practice in order to be improved, which is why it is essential to use different teaching techniques to instruct students effectively. The multiplicity and multitasking of the foreign language teaching proces...
Urban Building Energy Modelling (UBEM) represents a comprehensive approach to investigate the intricate interplay of the various factors impacting energy use of groups of buildings, offering invaluable insights for urban planners, architects, buildin...
This study presents a comparative analysis of six DFS implementations representing different maturity levels and investigates the systemic gap between technological capabilities and regulatory approaches. A structured narrative review with case-based...
Object recognition represents the ability of a system to identify objects, humans or animals in images. Within this domain, this work presents a comparative analysis among different classification methods aiming at Tactode tile recognition. The cover...
Patient Pathway Coordination (PPC) improves patient care quality and safety, particularly in oncology. PPC roles, such as nurse coordinators (NCs), have positively impacted the quality of patient care and reduced financial costs. However, NCs and the...
This research investigated the exergy enhancement performance of a hybrid radiant cooling system adapting to a hot and humid summer conditions through comparative case studies and analyses. This study suggested three cooling systems: a general all-ai...
As the electrification of heavy-duty trucks accelerates, conventional charging methods face challenges, including long charging durations and reduced transportation efficiency. This paper compares and evaluates various charging methods for electric h...
The adoption of biopesticides in Mediterranean agriculture is shaped by environmental, economic, and socio-cultural factors. This study explores the push and pull factors influencing farmers’ decisions in Spain’s Ebro Delta, Tunisia&rsquo...
The sorption properties of polymers and the mobility of penetrants are the main factors which determine the trans-membrane processes. Other factors concern the membrane material structure and chemical nature. In this paper, we consider the case of po...
Warsaw experiences significant urban heat island (UHI) effects driven by low-albedo surfaces and urban geometry, which pose ongoing challenges for public health and climate adaptation. This study evaluates daytime SUHI intensity at satellite acquisit...
The financial implications of long-term restoration projects for cultural heritage, as compared to regular maintenance efforts, often underscore a flawed decision-making process. This can result from years of neglect versus consistent, organized main...
Mobility as a service (MaaS) is a promising lever to achieve a more sustainable, co-modal, and flexible urban system for daily mobility. MaaS is crucial to addressing the challenges imposed by hyper-urbanization, social changes, saturation of public...
The valuation of multiple ecosystem services requires the design of valuation processes able to integrate different dimensions of value and to cope with complexity. Following the “value-articulating institution” framework, we note that three core pro...
Cities are breeding spaces for innovations in the agro-food sector with the potential to foster the development of local niche networks and a food sustainability transition. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for the context-related dev...
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, there is strong evidence of a significant bounce in global e-commerce sales following the paradigm shift caused by COVID-19 in everyday life. The global e-commerce market size is projected to reach $6.33...
In wheat threshing, reducing total grain loss and energy consumption is crucial for both economic and sustainable food security. This study investigates the effects of threshing drum type (straight and helical row), drum peripheral speed (36.73&ndash...
Background. An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a simple and widely used assessment tool that allows one to analyze the bioelectric activity of the brain. As a result, one can observe brain waves with different frequencies and amplitudes that correspond...
This article examines how sexual violence against Indigenous women and girls is compounded by intersectional discrimination and secondary victimisation within state institutions. It conducts a structured, focused cross-regime comparative jurisprudent...
Background: Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder affecting connective tissues due to mutations in the fibrillin-1 gene. These genetic changes often result in severe cardiovascular conditions, including asymptomatic thoracic aor...
Diet-related fiscal policy is an effective NCD prevention strategy. However, current sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in Fiji and Tonga have not had the desired effect; SSB consumption in Fiji, for example, contributes to mortality more than doub...
Mechanised plow and shearer systems are widely applied in underground mines all over the world. Both systems are used in the exploitation of hard coal deposited in the form of seams of various thickness. The selection of the appropriate complex depen...
Software testing is a crucial yet time-consuming aspect of software development. Writing comprehensive unit tests that accurately verify whether a function or an entire program behaves as intended requires considerable effort from developers, particu...
South Korea’s main industry is the manufacturing industry, and it requires stable energy. Korea heavily relies on importing oils to produce energy, thus efficient energy management is critical. This is why many renewable and smart energy policies and...
Fluctuations in fossil fuel prices significantly affect the economies of countries, especially oil-importing countries, hence these countries are thoroughly investigating the increase in the utilization of renewable energy resources as it is abundant...
In recent years, flight delay costs the air transportation industry millions of dollars and has become a systematic problem. Understanding the behavior of flight delay is thus critical. This paper focuses on how flight delay is affected by operation-...
The built environment remains a strategic research and innovation domain in view of the goal of full decarbonization. The priority is the retrofitting of existing buildings as zero-emission to improve their energy efficiency with renewable energy tec...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have expanded global access to education but continue to struggle with high attrition rates. This study presents a comparative analysis of self-labeled Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) algorithms for predicting learn...
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