Amphibians are considered critical species in the nutrient flow within and across ecosystems, and knowledge on their trophic ecology and niches is crucial for their conservation. For the first time we studied the trophic ecology of the rare and endem...
The colors of traditional dwellings are an extremely intuitive manifestation of regional culture and an important reference for guiding rural housing. This study takes the Gutian district as the research region and explores the internal influence mec...
The deep integration of social media and e-commerce has fueled the rapid growth in community e-commerce, which has become a major trend in global e-commerce development. Researching the formation of brand preference in community e-commerce can promot...
Understanding the distribution pattern and its drivers of species is crucial for developing effective and sustainable management strategies. Amphioctopus fangsiao is the octopus of significant commercial and ecological value along the coast of China,...
This research aims to construct a group decision-making (GDM) method that considers decision makers’ (DMs’) willingness to adjust in a distributed hesitant fuzzy linguistic (DHFL) environment. First, to address the practical scenario where DMs may ex...
The ethical framework of cosmetic surgery is distinct from the one associated with clinical medicine. This distinctiveness has led to significant difficulties in conceptualizing the physician-patient relationship (PPR), as most models have been devel...
In this article, to address the uncertainty of preference information in interrelated conflicts in the real world, a hierarchical conflict modeling and analysis approach based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) is proposed. First, consid...
The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) exhibits significant intraspecific diversity globally, with distinct ecotypes identified in various regions. In the Guadeloupe archipelago, the citizen science NGO OMMAG has been monitoring these dol...
We extend the opinion formation approach to probe the world influence of economical organizations. Our opinion formation model mimics a battle between currencies within the international trade network. Based on the United Nations Comtrade database, w...
New energy vehicles (NEVs) have emerged as a promising solution to reduce carbon emissions and address environmental concerns in the transportation sector. In order to effectively accelerate market acceptance, it is crucial to prioritize the heteroge...
In contemporary theology, one can find an array of models of God to choose from. There are various types of arguments that one can put forth in order to reject one model, or to defend another model. In this paper, I wish to examine one popular type o...
Phenomena from a variety of disciplines, including biology, computer science and sociology, can be modeled by graph dynamics in which nodes are associated with states and the node-state association changes in time. Although general k-state dynamics h...
Irrigation facilities in the cold winter deserts (CWDs) of Uzbekistan are very traditional and poorly managed, resulting in low water use efficiency and low productivity. Improving the irrigation facilities in these deserts is a key priority for the...
Navigating cross-cultural food choices is complex, influenced by cultural nuances and various factors, with flavor playing a crucial role. Understanding cultural flavor preferences helps individuals make informed food choices in cross-cultural contex...
Walking exercise is a prevalent physical activity in urban areas, with streetscapes playing a significant role in shaping preferences. Understanding this influence is essential for creating urban environments conducive to walking exercise and improvi...
In the rapidly evolving business landscape of Thailand, the design and facilities of office buildings play a crucial role in enhancing employee satisfaction and productivity. This study seeks to answer the question: “How can office building fac...
The prediction of vessel trajectories plays a crucial role in ensuring maritime safety and reducing maritime accidents. Substantial progress has been made in trajectory prediction tasks by adopting sequence modeling methods, containing recurrent neur...
This article addresses the complex challenge of simultaneously enhancing contrast and detail in an image, where improving one property often compromises the other. This trade-off is tackled using a multi-objective optimization approach. Specifically,...
Objective: To evaluate the preference of primary HCWs and residents on vaccination consultation in community health services to provide evidence for vaccine hesitancy intervention strategies. Methods: A discrete choice model (DCM) was constructed to...
Millennials and Gen Z now dominate the global workforce, each with distinct reward preferences influencing motivation and creativity. Understanding these distinctions is critical for improving employee retention and performance. This research aims to...
The development of community ecotourism will require the integration of experience, culture, and information for management decision-making. We use a choice experiment to build a community ecotourism preference model incorporating aspects of profound...
The global proliferation of electric vehicles (EVs) has brought forth new challenges in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. This paper utilizes operational data from the 5G real-time system of EV and traffic platforms (5gRTS-ET) in China,...
Purpose: Fewer studies are about the influence of psychopath traits on moral judgment and the underlying psychological mechanism in Chinese cultural background. In this paper, we use the creative CNI (Consequences, Norms, Inaction versus action) mode...
To design profitable business models for electric vehicle (EV) charging it is necessary to understand user preferences. For this purpose, prior literature is analyzed to develop a conceptual framework linking a company’s assets, the surrounding value...
Occupant behaviour plays a significant role in shaping the dynamics of energy consumption in buildings, but the complex nature of occupant behaviour has hindered a deeper understanding of its influence. A meta-analysis was conducted on 65 published s...
The distinction between philosophical Daoism and religious Daoism is widely influential yet highly controversial. The current popular empirical methods often overlook the vicissitude of the concepts underlying the reception history of this distinctio...
The poetry of distant country with different culture and language is always distinctive and fascinating. Chinese and Romanian belong to Sinitic languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family and Romance languages of the Indo-European language family,...
This study investigates how Mexican Spanish/U.S. English heritage bilinguals process scope ambiguities in sentences containing the existential quantifiers a/una and the universal quantifiers every/cada in English and Spanish. Sentences like ‘A ...
This study aims to develop a strategic framework for biophilic residential design (BRD) tailored to the diverse health profiles of seniors. To achieve this, a nationwide survey of 424 seniors in South Korea was conducted to assess their health-relate...
Background/Objectives: Multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) are more effective in improving maternal and birth outcomes compared to iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation during pregnancy. High adherence to MMS is critical to achieving all the...
Urban green spaces, vital public infrastructure, have received limited research on how their morphology affects visual perception preferences. Using data from ten parks, we generated green space maps from high-resolution satellite imagery and calcula...
I. ricinus and D. reticulatus are among the most important vectors of pathogens causing tick-borne diseases in humans and animals. This study investigated their seasonal activity in Eastern Poland, a region with one of the highest incidence rates of...
Background: Behavioural heterogeneity in obesity is increasingly recognised, but how specific dietary patterns, food preferences and physical activity vary between obesity classes remains poorly characterised. Methods: We analysed behavioural, dietar...
Previous studies, constrained by the overly rigid stability requirements, often fail to adapt to complex systems and struggle to identify stable outcomes that align with the practical context of multi-agent resource allocation. To address the three-s...
The forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) and Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus) are browsers with a broad sympatric distribution in North and Southwest China. However, little is known about their spatial utilization of microhabitats and habitat...
The computer vision, graphics, and machine learning research groups have given a significant amount of focus to 3D object recognition (segmentation, detection, and classification). Deep learning approaches have lately emerged as the preferred method...
Next-point-of-interest (POI) recommendation aims to model user preferences based on historical information to predict future mobility behavior, which has significant application value in fields such as urban planning, traffic management, and optimizi...
A recommender system (RS) is highly efficient in extracting valuable information from a deluge of big data. The key issue of implementing an RS lies in uncovering users’ latent preferences on different items. Latent Feature Analysis (LFA) and d...
This study investigated the perceptions and preferences of Australian wine consumers towards different styles of sparkling wine, including French Champagne and Australian sparkling white, red and rosé wine, Moscato and Prosecco. An online surv...
The lack of individualized fitting of hearing aids results in many patients never getting the intended benefits, in turn causing the devices to be left unused in a drawer. However, living with an untreated hearing loss has been found to be one of the...
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer a viable technological solution for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation industry, addressing pressing societal concerns regarding climate change, air pollution, and sustainable energy consumption. T...
As augmented reality (AR) technology is increasingly permeating the automotive industry, this study investigates users’ attitudes towards AR automotive assistants and their impact on usage behavior. Using the theory of reasoned action (TRA) and...
Passenger heterogeneity in loyalty fundamentally influences their choice behaviors, and is pivotal to railway differentiated pricing. Thus, travelers are categorized into loyal passengers and non-loyal passengers. According to the generalized cost mi...
Forest ecosystems are increasingly degraded by natural disasters and human activities, intensifying the need for large-scale restoration. Because restoration outcomes are long-term, uncertain, and largely non-market, understanding how environmental a...
With the rapid development of renewable energy technologies, numerous distributed energy resources (DERs) have been integrated into power systems. How to fully exploit renewable energy while maintaining the stable operation of power systems remains a...
The Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France is well known today for producing full-bodied red wines. Yet wine grapes are not native to France. Additionally, wine was not developed indigenously first. In the 7th century B.C. Etruscan merchants...
In the context of expensive constraint multi-objective problems, it is evident that the feasible domain shapes and sizes of different problems vary considerably. The difficulty in finding optimal solutions presents a significant challenge in ensuring...
In this study, we demonstrate the importance of incorporating shippers’ preference heterogeneity into the optimization of the China Railway express network. In particular, a bilevel programming model is established to minimize the total constru...
Collective migration underlies key developmental and disease processes in vertebrates. Mathematical models describing collective migration can shed light on emergent patterns arising from simple mechanisms. In this paper, a mathematical model for col...
Educational systems globally, and notably in the Ibero-American context, underwent significant adaptations in response to the myriad challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pedagogical evolution unfolded through three discernible phases: pre...
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