It is significant to achieve the scientific forecast and quantitative analysis of construction output. In most existing construction economic forecasting methods, both time series models and BP neural network fail to consider the change in relevant i...
The total output value of the construction industry (TOVCI) reflects its own development level to a certain extent. An accurate prediction of the construction industry’s total output value is beneficial to the government’s dynamic regulat...
Wood construction is often proposed to reduce the construction sector’s greenhouse gas emissions due to its carbon sequestration potential. However, forestry significantly impacts natural water flows and increases water use—a critical con...
The energy embodied in construction services (EECS) to increase industrial production capacity, contributes to total primary energy consumption (TPEC) in developing countries like China. Forecasting EECS is important for creating energy policies, but...
Improving the poor sustainability of the construction industry requires long-term actions, especially in developing countries such as China. Regional sustainability assessment plays an indispensable role, contributing to a better understanding of the...
An unreasonable allocation of resources has led to a low rate of output in the industry–university–research collaboration network. A solution to this problem is to control and predict the input and output. However, the network has the cha...
This study aims to accurately predict abrasion resistance, measured through the Los Angeles (LA) abrasion test, and modulus of elasticity, assessed using the Micro-Deval Abrasion (MDA) test, to support structural integrity and efficient material use...
This study examines the convergence between green technology and building construction in Korea using both input-output and network analysis from 1990 to 2015. The industry type of the input-output tables used in the Bank of Korea is reclassified int...
Net-zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) that contribute to making annual energy consumption balances zero are effective measures for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the construction sector. As the application of ZEBs progresses, GHG emissions dur...
The cultivation of college students’ intercultural communication competence (ICC) for sustainable development is a hot research topic in English foreign language (EFL) education. What competencies are they required to have, and how to cultivate...
The energy embodied in construction services consumed by industrial sectors used to increase capacities has led to massive energy-related carbon emissions (ERCE). From the perspective of consumer responsibility, ERCE embodied in construction services...
With the fast-paced urbanization process, there will be a rapid development of China’s construction industry. However, it could also drive for considerable energy consumption, resulting in immense pressure on the environment. Based on non-competitive...
On the one hand, the twin perspectives of the construction industry and urban agglomeration proliferate economic prosperity. However, on the other hand, construction activities and increased population density give rise to environmental challenges. T...
Aero-engine control systems generally adopt centralized or distributed control schemes, in which all or most of the tasks of the control system are mapped to a specific processor for processing. The performance and reliability of this processor have...
Understanding the complex CO2 emissions in inter-sectoral and interregional interactions of the construction industry is significant to attaining sustainability in China. Many previous studies focused on aggregating the construction sector’s CO...
Escalating urban issues in Beijing call for comprehensive exploration of urban construction land expansion towards the goal of carbon neutrality. Firstly, urban construction land in Beijing during the period 2005–2020 was accurately detected us...
The construction sector is pivotal to China’s economy, with interregional trade driving carbon emission transfers. This study uses 2007–2017 panel data from 30 provinces to analyze provincial carbon transfer patterns, combining input-outp...
A one-dimensional dual-pressure steam turbine (ST) model for the marine Rankine cycle is built in this paper. Based on constructal theory, the optimal design of the dual-pressure ST is performed with a fixed total volume of the high- and low-pressure...
The decarbonization of the building sector is a critical challenge for achieving Japan’s net-zero targets. However, comprehensive assessments comparing residential construction methods and building heights at the national scale remain limited....
The current waste management literature lacks a comprehensive LCA of the recycling of construction materials that considers both process and supply chain-related impacts as a whole. Furthermore, an optimization-based decision support framework has no...
Carbon footprints have been widely employed as an indicator for total carbon dioxide released by human activities. In this paper, we implemented a multi-regional input-output framework to evaluate the carbon footprints and embodied carbon flows for...
Persistent cost overruns, schedule delays, and weak control mechanisms continue to hinder construction project delivery in Saudi Arabia, where 64% of projects exceeded their planned time and 53% experienced cost overruns. Although project control sys...
Refurbishing buildings helps reduce waste, and limiting the amount of embodied carbon in buildings helps minimize the damaging impacts of climate change through lower CO2 emissions. The analysis of embodied carbon is based on the concept of life cycl...
7 December 2021
One way to prevent work-related stress, is to implement primary occupational health interventions aimed at improving the psychosocial work environment. However, such interventions have shown a limited effect, often due to implementation failure and p...
A high-quality set of typical scenarios is significant for power grid planning. Existing construction methods for typical scenarios do not account for the spatiotemporal correlations among renewable energy plant outputs, failing to adequately reflect...
This study empirically examined the interrelationship between the construction sector, oil prices, and the actual gross domestic product (GDP) in Nigeria. Using annual economic data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the OPEC Annual Statis...
This paper focuses on a class of fractional-order systems with state delays and studies the design problem of the finite-time bounded tracking controller. The error system method in preview control theory is first used. By taking fractional-order der...
An n-person cooperative oligopoly is considered without product differentiation. It is assumed that the firms know the unit price function but have no access to the cost functions of the competitors. From market data, they have information about the...
The Kolmogorov–Arnold network (KAN) is a regression model that is based on a representation of an arbitrary continuous multivariate function by a composition of functions of a single variable. Experimentally obtained datasets for regression mod...
In this study, a hybrid method based on coupling discrete wavelet transforms (DWTs) and artificial neural network (ANN) for yield spread forecasting is proposed. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) using five different wavelet families is applied to...
Electric construction machinery can achieve zero emissions and be pollution free in the process of construction. In an electric excavator, to make full use of the output power of the power source, the output power of the electric motor (EM) should be...
Considering the limited availability of meteorological data in practice, this paper investigates the short-term photovoltaic output prediction problem based on data decomposition and error correction to further improve prediction accuracy. Firstly, a...
In this study, a multi-input, multi-output-based artificial neural network (ANN) was constructed by classifying output parameters into different groups, considering the physical meanings and characteristics of product quality factors in the injection...
It is crucial to clarify the relationship between ecological industry development and ecological civilization construction, as well as their driving forces, to promote high-quality local development. The ecological environment of the karst region is...
An S-box is the most important part of a symmetric encryption algorithm. Various schemes are put forward by using chaos theory. In this paper, a construction method of S-boxes with good cryptographic properties is proposed. The output of an S-box can...
30 November 2021
Measuring the efficiency of construction land utilisation is important for optimising the allocation of regional resources and guiding the sustainable development of the regional society and economy. Based on municipal panel data on urban land use fr...
The output of construction and demolition (C&D) waste in China has been rapidly increasing in the past decades. The direct landfill of such construction and demolition waste without any treatment accounts for about 98%. Therefore, recycling and u...
A thorough analysis of commercial banks’ product innovation performance is essential to promoting bank product innovation capabilities and sustainable development. In this paper, the product innovation performance of commercial banks is defined...
The 1.7 μm band eye-safe laser sources have recently received lots of attention thanks to the development of various applications. Although a variety of lasing configurations operating in this band have been demonstrated, one still needs to seek a...
In this paper, a surjective mapping that satisfies the Li–Yorke chaos in the unit area is constructed and a perturbation algorithm (disturbing its parameters and inputs through another high-dimensional chaos) is proposed to enhance the randomne...
Online purchasing has developed rapidly in recent years due to its efficiency, convenience, low cost, and product variety. This has increased the number of online multi-category e-commerce retailers that sell a variety of product categories. Due to t...
Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) language models such as ChatGPT have the potential to revolutionize the construction industry by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks. This paper presents a study in which ChatGPT was used to generat...
A quadrilateral table cartogram is a rectangle-shaped figure that visualizes table-form data; quadrilateral cells in a table cartogram are transformed to express the magnitude of positive weights by their areas, while maintaining the adjacency of cel...
Mechanical linkage systems are a very important issue for exoskeleton design to meet the required number of angular outputs. In this paper, a new methodology is developed for type synthesis of planar linkages to establish a complete set of one degree...
Hebei is a representative province facing the scarcity of water resource in China. China is promoting the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, as well as the establishment of Xiong’an New Area. Hebei Province therefore has to bear...
This paper presents an extensive study concerning a lithium-ion battery system for constructing high-performance power source systems intended to make advanced environmental vehicles a practical reality. Battery performance must be predicted and desi...
We consider the problems of state feedback and static output feedback preview controller (PC) for uncertain discrete-time multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems based on the parameter-dependent Lyapunov function and the linear matrix inequalit...
In the development trend of intelligent and high-performance construction machinery, the dual-spool electro-hydraulic valve, as a new-generation core control element, directly affects the operation accuracy and energy-efficiency level of construction...
Design approach of an output feedback tracking controller is proposed for a class of high-order nonlinear systems with time delay. To deal with the time delays, an appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii the tracking analysis is ingeniously constructed, and...
The paper solves the problem of constructing an evolutionary tree and the evolution of structures along it. This problem has long been posed and extensively researched; it is formulated and discussed below. As a result, we construct an exact cubic-ti...
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