This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness of monetary circulation in Cyprus by applying the Index of the Cycle of Money, derived from the Theory of the Cycle of Money. The analysis focuses exclusively on the Cypriot economy over the period of...
This article focuses on the study of issues related to the functionality and structure of an economy. To achieve this, the theory of the cycle of money is used. The structural features of an economy are reflected in its operational characteristics, a...
Most deep energy renovation projects focus only on an operating energy reduction and disregard the added embodied energy derived from adding insulation, window/door replacement, and mechanical system replacement or upgrades. It is important to study...
As a major contributor to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, the building sector is crucial in shaping energy and climate change policies. Understanding building energy consumption is essential for developing effective policies,...
Reliable assessments of the operational conditions of LED lighting systems are important for maintenance planning and asset management. Conventional Wear Index (WI) approaches typically assume a fixed daily number of switching cycles, which may not a...
This article addresses the limited understanding of the landscape regarding Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Brazilian pavement infrastructure. It provides an overview of LCA’s application in assessing the environmental effects of pavements while...
To promote sustainable food choices, it is essential to provide easily understandable information that integrates health, environmental impacts and planetary boundaries. For this purpose, the Planet Health Conformity Index (PHC) was developed and tes...
Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction have become two of the most important issues to address in fighting climate change. Focused strategies have been implemented aiming at reducing the energy consumption of buildings since it is one of the...
A physical asset’s health is the consequence of a series of factors, ranging from the characteristics of the location where it operates to the care it is submitted to. These characteristics can influence the durability or the horizon of the use...
It is well-known that the necessary and sufficient condition for a connected graph to be unicyclic is that its omega invariant, a recently introduced graph invariant useful in combinatorial and topological calculations, is zero. This condition could...
In the context of energy storage systems, optimizing the life cycle of power converters is crucial for reducing costs, making informed decisions, and ensuring sustainability. This study presents a comprehensive methodology for calculating the life cy...
In product generation management, the assessment for sustainability, together with risks potential, requires a holistic life cycle management approach, especially when it comes to the question of obsolete management of components. But, so far, the ec...
(1) Background: Several researchers have investigated alternative markers related to ovarian responsiveness in order to better predict IVF outcomes, particularly in advanced reproductive-aged women. The follicular output rate (FORT), the follicle-ooc...
C-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data has been previously explored for estimating the leaf area index (LAI) of rice. Although the rice-growing cycle was partially covered in most of the studies, details for each phenological phas...
This study aims to develop and test a life-cycle-based sustainability index that incorporates patient-centredness for assessing and reporting the sustainability of healthcare buildings in Saudi Arabia. The research strategy follows a triangulation me...
Natural gas is a viable oil displacement agent in ultra-low-permeability reservoirs due to its good fluidity. It can also cause gas channeling during continuous injection, which limits its oilfield application. In order to relieve gas channeling duri...
Global climate change and the spread of COVID-19 have caused widespread concerns about food security. The development of smart agriculture could contribute to food security; moreover, the targeted and accurate management of crop nitrogen is a topic o...
Background/Objectives: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disorder worldwide and a key driver of cardiometabolic complications. Despite its growing burden, the underlying metabolic per...
Heat stress (HS) constrains livestock production under climate change, impairing health, welfare, productivity and survival. Because fixed resource use is then spread over less output, HS is also a systems-level sustainability problem. This narrative...
To investigate the effects of long-term freeze–thaw cycles on the physical and mechanical properties as well as the attenuation trend of rocks, this study conducted saturated freeze–thaw tests on coarse sandstone and fine sandstone sample...
The advent of fuzzy sets, and consequently fuzzy graphs, has solved many problems in ambiguous and uncertain contexts. It is interesting and necessary to study the Wiener index in a cubic fuzzy graph that employs both fuzzy membership and interval-va...
Existing systems for analyzing regional business cycles mostly select indicators from the macro perspective of consumption, investment, employment, etc., and use industrial value added or quarterly GDP as the benchmark cycle indicator. In order to be...
Inference of chemical compounds with desired properties is important for drug design, chemo-informatics, and bioinformatics, to which various algorithmic and machine learning techniques have been applied. Recently, a novel method has been proposed fo...
Individuals with chronic low back pain (LBP) report impaired somatosensory function and balance. However, there is a lack of investigation on limb motion similarities between subjects with and without LBP during gait. The aim of this study was to com...
Compacted loess is widely used as road subgrade filling in northwestern China, but its stability is threatened by traffic loads and repeated dry–wet cycles, leading to subgrade settlement or collapse. This study investigated the compression and...
This paper presents the extent to which the combination of extra-atmospheric and hydroclimatic factors can be deciphered to record their contribution to the evolution and forecasting of the Danube discharge (Q) in the lower basin. A combination of me...
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a technique used in rehabilitation, allowing the recreation or facilitation of a movement or function, by electrically inducing the activation of targeted muscles. FES during cycling often uses activation pa...
Smoothness is a hallmark of skilled, coordinated movement, however, mathematically quantifying movement smoothness is nuanced. Several smoothness metrics exist, each having its own limitations and may be specific to a particular motion such as upper...
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is the method of choice to assess aerobic fitness. Previous research was ambiguous as to whether treadmill (TE) and cycle ergometry (CE) results are transferrable or different between testing modalities in tria...
What causes cycles in oceanic oscillations, and is there a change in the characteristics of oscillations in around 1950? Characteristics of oceanic cycles and their sources are important for climate predictability. We here compare cycles generated in...
The Tei index, an important indicator of heart function, lacks a direct method to compute because it is difficult to directly evaluate the isovolumic contraction time (ICT) and isovolumic relaxation time (IRT) from which the Tei index can be obtained...
Frost damage to concrete proceeds by two distinct mechanisms: deep sustained freezing, which governs buried elements, and repeated freeze–thaw cycling, which governs exposed ones. Romanian practice still assigns durability requirements from map...
To investigate the disintegration and microstructure characteristics of carbonaceous shale in high-latitude cold regions, indoor, outdoor, initial particle size, and freeze–thaw disintegration experiments were conducted concerning dry–wet...
The reproductive performance knowledge of economically important bivalves is essential to establish better shellfishery management measures and aquaculture programs. The reproductive cycle, as well as the nutrient storage and utilization of two Portu...
For synthetic infra-red (IR) image generation, a new approach using CycleGAN based on the structural similarity index measure (SSIM) is addressed. In this study, how window sizes and weight parameters of SSIM would affect the synthetic IR image const...
Background: Glioblastoma (GBM) and metastatic brain tumours are the two malignant intracranial lesions most frequently encountered in adult neurosurgical practice, and their intraoperative separation may be difficult when imaging is atypical, when no...
No studies have focused on the trajectory of the average relative dose intensity (ARDI) during cycles of first-line chemotherapy for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. To evaluate the impact of attenuating ARDI during cycles on overall surv...
Montado is an agro-forestry system occupying a large surface in countries of the Mediterranean region. In this system, the natural dryland pasture is the principal source for animal feed in extensive grazing. The climatic seasonality associated with...
In the present study, recyclability of Laser PP CP 75 polypropylene powder from Diamond Plastics GmbH was determined by characterizing and comparing the used powder after each cycle with material from previous cycles and with fresh powder. The melt f...
The paper presents the Triads Geometric Consistency Index (
This study focused on investigating the bottoming power cycles operating with CO2-based binary mixture, taking into account exergetic, economic and exergo-environmental impact indices. The main intent is to assess the benefits of employing a CO2-base...
Freeze-thaw (F-T) cycle tests and triaxial shear tests are conducted under varying freezing ambient temperatures and different F-T cycles for remolded loess. The results indicate that nearly all stress–strain curves of remolded loess exhibit st...
Objective: Menopause is associated with multiple health risks. In several studies, a higher incidence or a higher risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in post-menopausal than pre-menopausal women is reported. This study was designed to verify such...
The overall purpose of the paper is overcoming the misunderstanding of the “naturalness” attribute of materials. This is due to the always-increasing innovative materials considered “environmentally sustainable” and “nat...
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The needs of children and their vulnerability to diseases, violence and poverty are different from those of adults. The Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI) was thus developed in previous work to evaluate the status of sustainable development f...
Tunisia is a destination where organised mass tourism has prevailed since 1985. This trend is still being observed, despite the unstable geopolitical situation in North Africa. Current reports from booking portals indicate that this country will be o...
The Wiener index is one of the most classic and widely used indicators in topology. It reflects the average distance of any node pair in the graph. It not only makes the boundaries of given graphs clearer but also continuously generates topological i...
Landslides frequently occur in the loess-rich Yili region of Xinjiang, China, due to the combined effects of wetting-drying and freeze-thaw (WD-FT) cycles, which cause changes in the soil/loess internal structure and shear strength. This paper explor...
Hydrological changes attributable to global warming increase the severity and frequency of droughts, which in turn affect agriculture. Hence, we proposed the Standardized Agricultural Drought Index (SADI), which is a new drought index specialized for...
Water distribution systems (WDSs) are crucial for providing clean drinking water, requiring an efficient design to minimize costs and energy usage. This study introduces an enhanced life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) model for an optimal WDS design, i...
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