Stock repurchases have become a preferred method of distributing cash to stockholders. However, given the high level of information asymmetry and weak corporate governance as well as poor investor protection in Vietnam, many Vietnamese firms use stoc...
In line with global carbon-neutral policies, wind power generation has received widespread public attention, which can enhance the security of supply and social sustainability. Since wind with non-stationarity and randomness makes power systems unsta...
Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture states that if a graph G is a union of the n edge-disjoint copies of complete graph
Data sharing helps to make full use of each other’s data and enable the digital economy. With the gradual rise of corporate data sharing, the frequent occurrence of data leakage events highlights the dilemma of data sharing, leakage and supervi...
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This paper investigates a single-machine scheduling problem of a software test with shared common setup operations. Each job has a corresponding set of setup operations, and the job cannot be executed unless its setups are completed. If two jobs have...
We consider the downlink of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cell that services calls from many service-classes. The call arrival process is random (Poisson) or quasi-random, i.e., calls are generated by an infinite or a fin...
Open-market repurchase is a popular corporate payout method that public limited company (PLCs) use, and once they have made this decision an announcement is made. However, the announcement does not necessarily mean that the firm will implement the pa...
Currently, research on automated vehicles is strongly related to technological advances to achieve a safe, more comfortable driving process in different circumstances. The main achievements are focused mainly on highway and interurban scenarios. The...
The Complete Streets policy has gained popularity in recent decades. This paper traces the evolution of the policy in the United States by reviewing the relevant literature. It examines the conceptual framework, objectives, and design requirements, f...
In this paper, we propose an innovative spaceborne isoflux scanning digital phased array (ISDPA) design with two-stage digital beamforming (DBF) for geostationary satellites. To achieve isoflux scanning, a novel technique is presented to obtain an is...
Finding a sustainable mobility solution for the future is one of the most competitive challenges in the logistics and transportation sector nowadays. Researchers, universities, and companies are working intensively to provide novel mobility options t...
The idea behind the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) project was to provide EU citizens with access to various types of information, including environmental protection and spatial management data. These resources can be view...
Shared bicycle users with commuting purposes generally need to take a traditional public transit and then use the shared bicycle to complete the first/last mile transport. While shared bicycle provides convenient travel for travelers, it also brings...
In dynamic environments characterized by information asymmetry, swarm robots encounter significant challenges in efficiently collaborating to complete tasks. This study investigates the effects of factors such as resource information, shared costs, t...
How the sharing economy can move toward sustainable development is an important research topic. This paper attempts to explore the mediating effect of ecosystem strategy on the relationship between sharing characteristics and sustainable development...
Against the background of carbon neutrality, the impact of carbon quota allocation mechanism on supply chain’s decision-making of emission reduction has received increasing attention. This study analyzes the optimal decision-making behavior of...
The IMPACT-FH study implemented strategies (packet, chatbot, direct contact) to promote family member cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). We evaluated the impact of genetic counseling (GC) on medical outcomes, strategy selection,...
This paper introduces the Symmetric Extensible Quantum Secret Sharing protocol, a novel quantum protocol for secret sharing. At its heart, it is an entanglement-based protocol that relies on the use of maximally entangled GHZ tuples, evenly distribut...
Despite the abundant research on energy-efficient rate scheduling polices in energy harvesting communication systems, few works have exploited data sharing among multiple applications to further enhance the energy utilization efficiency, considering...
As its name indicates, the bearingless switched reluctance motor does not have windings or permanent magnets on the rotor. This has the advantages of simple structure, high reliability and easy control. The sharing-suspension-windings bearingless swi...
XOR-based Visual Cryptography Scheme (XOR-based VCS) is a method of secret image sharing. The principle of XOR-based VCS is to encrypt a secret image into several encrypted images, called shares. No information about the secret can be obtained from a...
COVID-19 significantly impacts coffee production, which smallholders dominate. Unaddressed impacts will affect coffee production sustainability. However, smallholders face some constraints. This study aims to determine the impact of COVID-19 from the...
We have previously reported specific swine leukocyte antigen (SLA) haplotype associations with significant effects on several reproduction performance traits in a highly inbred miniature pig population of Microminipigs (MMPs). In this study, to clari...
In the paper, we propose a novel method to analyze the rebalancing of the free-floating bike-sharing system. First, we construct a visualization method to analyze the rebalancing of the system. Then, for the first time, we set up a coarse-grained way...
The sharing economy allows consumers to share spare resources through online platforms and to reduce the transaction costs by using platform services. Shared enterprises use idle resources in a more intelligent manner and share the resulting benefits...
As Internet technology continues to profoundly impact our lives, techniques for information protection have become increasingly advanced and become a common discussion topic. With the aim to protect private images, this paper splits a secret image in...
Food waste has increased significantly and become a global issue amidst a growing concern regarding famine in several countries. Food sharing constitutes the solution to the problem provided an appropriate framework is developed that guides its appli...
Local electricity generation and sharing has been given considerable attention recently for its disaster resilience and other reasons. However, the process of designing local sharing communities (or local grids) is still unclear. Thus, this study emp...
Network slicing is a novel key technology in 5G networks which permits to provide a multitude of heterogeneous communication services over a common network infrastructure while satisfying strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Since radio spec...
Existing multimodal federated learning methods typically assume complete modality availability and struggle with heterogeneity between training and testing data distributions, making them unsuitable for handling missing modalities and distribution dr...
This paper proposes an innovative shared scooter service whereby scooter owners can authorize the rental of their scooters to others through a mobile service platform. It constitutes a public short-distance mobility service for travelers and increase...
Recently, an interesting experiment was completed in Greece concerning photovoltaic penetration into the electricity production sector. Based on the relevant laws and in accordance to the related European directives, an explosive penetration process...
Mobile apps are essential for communication, transactions and leisure and frequently rely on access to personal data. This study examines Google Play’s Data Safety section and declared permissions five years after the GDPR came into force, focu...
Shared bikes are frequently parked in disorder, resulting in low efficiency of manual collection and transfer and heavy workload for maintenance staff. Random parking across various areas forces shared bikes to occupy sidewalks and fire exits, damagi...
Finding a fair and efficient multi-resource allocation is a fundamental goal in cloud computing systems. In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-resource allocation with a bounded number of tasks. We propose a lexicographic max–min maxi...
This paper uses numerical techno-economic modelling to analyse the effect of current national renewable targets and climate goals on the cost and structural composition of the Mexican energy system. For this, we construct a scenario base analysis to...
Little is known about how consumers of direct-to-consumer personal genetic services share personal genetic risk information. In an age of ubiquitous online networking and rapid development of social networking tools, understanding how consumers share...
27 April 2020
In recent years, more and more health data are being generated. These data come not only from professional health systems, but also from wearable devices. All these ‘big data’ put together can be utilized to optimize treatments for each u...
24 May 2013
To date, the sharing behaviors associated with the homemade tobacco waterpipe used in rural areas of the Western Pacific Region have not been studied. Evidence from studies of manufactured waterpipes raises the possibility of infectious disease trans...
Recently, technology startups have leveraged the potential of blockchain-based technologies to govern institutions or interpersonal trust by enforcing signed treaties among different individuals in a decentralized environment. However, it is going to...
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe-Frailty Instrument (SHARE-FI) is a frailty assessment tool designed for primary care settings comprised of four self-report questions and grip strength measurement, yet it is not known how SHARE-F...
Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) has been applied in China’s hydropower projects for its value-added advantages compared with traditional project delivery systems in theory. However, the actual performance of large EPC hydropowe...
Objective: Adolescents with chronic rheumatic disease must increasingly take on more responsibility for disease management from parents as they transition from pediatric to adult care. Yet, there are limited resources to inform and support parents ab...
12 November 2020
China’s construction industry developed rapidly and safety production has become a vital issue. Improving the safety behavior of construction workers is an important measure to effectively decrease construction safety accidents. At present, a N...
Cruise shipping has been extremely popular in recent years, and one of the fastest-growing areas has been the Mediterranean. In the paper, we examine the evaluation of possible competitive–cooperative relationships among Mediterranean cruise po...
Private-key loss can permanently prevent access to blockchain-based assets, motivating recovery mechanisms that avoid retaining an entire key at a single location. Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS) distributes a secret across multiple shares, but o...
One of the possibilities to reduce diesel fuel consumption and at the same time reduce the emission of diesel engines, is the use of alternative gaseous fuels, so far most commonly used to power spark ignition engines. The presented work concerns exp...
Despite the importance of the human/social dimension of organizational sustainability, this area of scholastic endeavor has received relatively little attention when compared to the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. On the basi...
The copyright of data is a key point that needs to be solved in spatial data infrastructure for data sharing. In this paper, we propose a decentralized digital rights management model of spatial data, which can provide a novel way of solving the exis...
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