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Over-budgeting due to inflation is a common phenomenon in the construction industry of both developed and developing countries. Inflation, with time changes, leaves an adverse effect on the project budget. Hence, this study aims to focus on the const...

Inflation and CO2 emission are the two most deleterious elements in the construction industry. However, so far no linkage between the two has been estimated. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emission and th...

Focusing on Reinforced Concrete (RC), the main building material worldwide, inflation and CO2 emissions negatively impact the economic and environmental sustainability of the construction industry and the environment, respectively. Therefore, it is i...

The recent volatile behaviour of U.K. inflation has been officially attributed to a sequence of “unusual” price changes, prompting renewed interest in the construction of measures of “core inflation”, from which such unusual price changes may be down...

The Construction Cost Index (CCI) is an important tool that is widely used in construction cost management to monitor cost fluctuations over time. Numerous studies have been conducted on CCI development and forecasting models, including time series,...

This paper reviews the theoretical and phenomenological implications of the swampland conjectures from the perspective of inflationary cosmology, focusing on warm inflation. We demonstrate how the swampland conjectures appear to favor the strong diss...

Three-dimensional mapping is an essential component of autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) navigation. The paper focuses on the 3D spatial representation method of MAV to overcome the collision problem caused by soft constraints, control error, and...

Flexible inflatable film wings have many functional advantages that traditional fixed rigid wings do not possess, such as foldability, small size, light weight, convenient storage, transportation, and so on. More and more scholars and engineers are p...

Since the enforcement of Law 98/2016 on public procurement in Romania, the inclusion of price adjustment clauses in construction contracts has become a standard practice. This paper, which presents a comprehensive analysis of the financial implicatio...

This study aims to explore the relationship between market integration, foreign portfolio equity holding and inflation rates on international stock market linkages between Pakistan and India. To measure stock equity interlinkage, we constructed inter...

The ensemble Kalman filter is often used in parameter estimation, which plays an essential role in reducing model errors. However, filter divergence is often encountered in an estimation process, resulting in the convergence of parameters to the impr...

We consider the possible application of the two-Higgs-doublet potential of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) to construct inflation scenarios. [...]

Patent keyword analysis is used to analyze the technology keywords extracted from collected patent documents for specific technological fields. Thus, various methods related to this type of analysis have been researched in the industrial engineering...

We study a model of quintessential inflation constructed in R2-modified gravity with a non-minimally coupled scalar field, in the Palatini formalism. Our non-minimal inflaton field is characterised by a simple exponential potential. We find that succ...

Count data containing both excess zeros and ones occur in many fields, and the zero-and-one inflated distribution is suitable for analyzing them. Herein, we construct confidence intervals (CIs) for the parameters of the zero-and-one inflated cosine g...

The problem of strong edge coloring discusses assigning colors to the edges of a graph such that distinct colors are assigned to any two edges which are either adjacent to each other or are adjacent to a common edge. The least number of colors requir...

We propose a state-dependent Phillips curve (PC) where the regime has changed endogenously. Using this framework, a free-standing PC is constructed. This study tests the robustness of the model, various types of inflation, slack measures, and various...

In this paper, we consider skew-normal distributions for constructing new a distribution which allows us to model proportions and rates with zero/one inflation as an alternative to the inflated beta distributions. The new distribution is a mixture be...

This study examines the demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing housing prices in London from Q3 2014 to Q4 2022, focusing on the pre- and post-Brexit referendum periods. Using multiple regression analysis, the research evaluates the impact...

For text big data analysis, we preprocessed text data and constructed a document–keyword matrix. The elements of this matrix represent the frequencies of keywords occurring in a document. The matrix has a zero-inflation problem because many ele...

Tyre replacement and inflation is a common occurrence in the transportation, construction and mining industries, but in commercial, off-highway, or earth-moving vehicles, the rupture of an inflated tyre can cause serious or even fatal injuries to an...

We construct global phase portraits of inflationary dynamics in teleparallel gravity models with a scalar field nonminimally coupled to torsion scalar. The adopted set of variables can clearly distinguish between different asymptotic states as fixed...

Valid multipath error model is the prerequisite for high-performance GNSS integrity monitoring. It is indispensable to civil aviation and other Safety-of-Life (SoL) users. The model must perfectly bound multipath error while preventing the constructe...

In this paper, we construct and propose a new mathematical model to study the dynamics of economic growth, corruption, unemployment, and inflation. The proposed model includes several relationships between these social and economic factors that have...

The article suggests and supports a simulation-based methodology for determining whether the dynamic strength of tire inflation restraining devices for tire inflation meet quality requirements and ensure operator safety during a potential tire explos...

The de-Sitter spacetime is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant positive scalar curvature that plays a fundamental role in modern cosmology. Here, we investigate bulk-viscosity-assisted quasi de-Sitter inflation, that is the period...

The carbon tax is a crucial economic instrument for China; it aims to encourage the reduction of carbon emissions and provide additional revenue for the government in order to promote the transformation of society towards low-carbon and sustainable d...

Water risk has been continuously rising due to climate change and ownership disputes of water resources. Dam construction to secure water resources may lead to environmental problems and upstream immersion. On the other hand, rainwater harvesting sys...

We investigated the role of domestic and international economic uncertainty in the cross-sectional pricing of UK stocks. We considered a broad range of financial market variables in measuring financial conditions to obtain a better estimate of macroe...

Using panel data from 30 regions in China during the period 1999:01–2020:12, this paper evaluates the effects of national fundamentals affecting the movement of regional house prices by estimating a factor-augmented VAR model. We construct and...

This study empirically analyzes the impact of the financial structure and misery index on economic growth in Pakistan. We adopted Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) for a co-integration approach to the data analysis and used time series data from...

The construction industry significantly impacts the environment and uses natural resources that negatively impact the built environment. Conversely, green buildings can lead to several environmental, social, and economic benefits. The paper explores...

Polarizations of primordial gravitational waves can be relevant when considering an inflationary universe in modified gravity or when matter fields survive during inflation. Such polarizations have been discussed in the Bunch–Davies vacuum. Ins...

The vibration of the tires significantly impacts a vehicle’s ride comfort and noise level; however, the current analysis of tire vibration characteristics often involves excessive simplification in their models, leading to a reduction in model...

We propose a novel deep learning framework for counterfactual inference on the COMPAS dataset, utilizing a multi-task CNN-LSTM architecture. The model jointly predicts multiple outcome types: (i) count outcomes with zero inflation, modeled using zero...

Heavy rain in September (the middle of the rainy season in Thailand) can cause unexpected events and natural disasters such as flooding in many areas of the country. Rainfall series that contain both zero and positive values belong to the zero-inflat...

We review the models unifying inflation and Primordial Black Hole (PBH) formation, which are based on the modified (Starobinsky-type) supergravity. We begin with the basic (Starobinsky) inflationary model of modified gravity and its alpha-attractor-t...

We show how the dynamics of inflation as represented by the Phillips curve follow from a response formalism suggested by Phillips and motivated by the Keynesian notion that it takes time for an economy to respond to an economic shock. The resulting e...

In this review, we examine the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 on pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, drawing on a diverse range of sources to understand the perceptions of multiple stakeholders and professionals. Findings...

As a fundamental feature of green building cost forecasting, external support is crucial. However, minimal research efforts have been directed to developing practical models for determining the impact of external public and private support on green c...

Soft pneumatic robot-arm end-effectors can facilitate adaptive architectural fabrication and building construction. However, conventional pneumatic grippers often suffer from air leakage and tear, particularly under prolonged grasping and inflation-i...

Regions Hospital started a multidisciplinary antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in 1998. The program effectively shut down from 2002–2004 as key personnel departed and was then restarted but without the dedicated pharmacist and infectious diseases...

Many people who have had a near-death experience (NDE) describe, as part of it, a disturbed sense of having a “distinct self”. However, no empirical studies have been conducted to explore the frequency or intensity of these effects. We surveyed 100 N...

Pneumatic soft grippers have been widely studied. However, the structures and material properties of existing pneumatic soft grippers limit their load capacity and manipulation range. In this article, inspired by sea lampreys, we present a pneumatic...

We review the de Broglie–Bohm quantum theory. It is an alternative description of quantum phenomena in accordance with all the quantum experiments already performed. Essentially, it is a dynamical theory about objectively real trajectories in the con...

Construct-irrelevant variance (CIV), defined as excessive variance that is unrelated to the intended construct, poses a significant threat to the validity of test interpretations and applications. CIV can arise from two notable sources: construct-irr...

This paper aims to identify the economic factors that significantly affect the demand for and supply of housing in three major cities in Turkey, such as Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir. This study uses monthly data ranges from January 2010 to December 20...

This paper introduces a soft, cable-driven parallel robot for minimally invasive surgeries. The robot comprises a pneumatic inflatable scaffold, six hydraulic, folded pouch actuators, and a hollow, cylindrical end-effector offering five degrees of fr...

Aperiodic tilings with a small number of prototiles are of particular interest, both theoretically and for applications in crystallography. In this direction, many people have tried to construct aperiodic tilings that are built from a single prototil...

In this research, we consider monitoring mean and correlation changes from zero-inflated autocorrelated count data based on the integer-valued time series model with random survival rate. A cumulative sum control chart is constructed due to its effic...