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The compatibility of shipping with environmental protection is a subject that the international community is becoming increasingly concerned about, considering the threat of climate change. The current study aims to assess the worldwide shipping sect...

Although previous studies have explored the formation and effects of dynamic capabilities, much remains to be learned on this topic. There has been little research on the formation and effects of exploitative dynamic capabilities and explorative dyna...

Taiwan is currently an aging society and will be a super-aging society in the near future. The purpose of this research is to use two models of data envelopment analysis (DEA)—the slacks-based measurement (SBM) model and the dynamic slacks-base...

Prior studies have shown mixed findings on the role of financial slack. This study examines how environmental factors such as munificence, dynamism, and complexity moderate the relationship between financial slack and innovation activity. Using data...

In Mixed-Criticality (MC) systems, multiple functions with different levels of criticality are integrated into a common platform in order to meet the intended space, cost, and timing requirements in all criticality levels. To guarantee the correct, a...

Green innovation has emerged as a key catalyst for the sustainable growth of logistics enterprises. Green innovation not only helps logistics enterprises reduce operating costs but also enhances their competitiveness and promotes the entire industry&...

Automobile windshields are typically curved, creating an oblique angle of attack between the wiper blade and the windshield. This attack angle means that the wiper may jump off the windshield while wiping, causing a chattering noise and preventing th...

This paper develops a new network data envelopment analysis (DEA) model that simultaneously integrates the non-convex metafrontier and undesirable outputs and which is super efficient at performing dynamic network slacks-based measures. The model is...

The progress of environment-friendly technology is an important means and fundamental way to achieve high-quality agricultural development. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces of China from 2000 to 2010, the study used the slack-based models (SBM...

The contradiction between economic development and the ecological barrier function of the wood processing sector is increasingly deepening. However, China has not yet established a life cycle database for the wood processing industry, which makes it...

Improving forest carbon sink efficiency (FCSE) is the key to mitigating climate change and achieving sustainable forest resource management in China. However, current research on FCSE remains predominantly focused on static perspectives and singular...

Carbon emissions from the logistics industry have been rising year after year. Correct handling of the relationship between economic development and environmental protection is of great significance to the implementation of green logistics, which is...

The traditional method of constructing a Lyapunov functional for dynamical systems with time delay is usually dependent on positive definite matrices in the quadratic form. In this paper, a new Lyapunov functional is proposed and the corresponding pr...

Dunelands are one of the most dynamic environments on Earth, which greatly hinders their conservation and management. In the dune slacks along the Manawatū coast, New Zealand, lies a zone of small, temporary, freshwater wetlands that host early...

In order to achieve its 2030 carbon emission peak target, China needs to adjust and allocate energy consumption and initial carbon emission allowances for each province in a phased and planned manner. Thus, this study applied an improved dynamic unde...

The large-span, relaxed antenna network is a large deformation flexible structure due to its low pre-tension level of the wires. Its dynamic analysis under a wind load belongs to dynamic and geometric nonlinear problems, which is very complex to accu...

Ecological efficiency (eco-efficiency) reflects the synergetic degree of the development of resource, economic, and environmental systems. This paper measures urban eco-efficiency based on a nonconvex metafrontier data envelopment analysis (DEA) appr...

Long-distance submarine cable systems, such as the transoceanic system, generally consist of a series of cables and repeaters. Repeater units are spaced at regular intervals to boost the attenuated optical signal and presently contain optical amplifi...

In hard real-time task systems where periodic and aperiodic tasks coexist, the object of task scheduling is to reduce the response time of the aperiodic tasks while meeting the deadline of periodic tasks. Total bandwidth server (TBS) and advanced TBS...

This study investigates the interplay between budget planning and budgeting evaluation functions in relation to company budget management performance, specifically focusing on the phenomenon of budgetary slack among manufacturing companies in China....

This paper presents a numerical parametric study of a dynamic lumped-parameter model of a hoisting mechanism driven by a DC electric motor. The analysis focuses on two operating scenarios: hoisting with an initially tight rope and hoisting with an in...

This study investigates the dynamic behavior of a three-body tethered satellite system with a flexible tether, focusing on a scenario in which a payload is transported along the tether connecting two satellites. Traditional models use rigid tethers,...

In Africa, energy plays an important role in the processes of economic and sustainable development. However, inefficiency such as mismanagement of resources constrains productivity. Prior energy efficiency studies in Africa have failed to provide the...

Branching structure is often used as a supporting structure of the grid shell due to its geometrical and force-transferring features, and the rationality of its shape is very important. The “physical” and “numerical” hanging models can be used for th...

Background: In the era of Health 4.0, Emergency Departments (EDs) face increasing crowding and complexity, necessitating smart management solutions to balance efficiency with equitable care. Effective scheduling is critical for optimizing patient thr...

Global economic growth has led banks to expand their operations all over the world. The purpose of this research was to understand the efficiency of 18 large bank from all over the world during the period from 2013 to 2017. The performance was estima...

The objective of this work is to analyze the relevance of governance (corporate and ownership concentration) for the divisional inter-temporal dynamic efficiency in piped natural gas utilities in Brazil. The main innovative contribution of this work...

Marine cables are primarily designed to support axial loads. The effect of bending stiffness on the cable response is therefore often neglected in numerical analysis. However, in low-tension applications such as umbilical modelling of ROVs or during...

Although studies on the impact of senior executives on corporate social responsibility (CSR) are relatively sufficient, they take a static perspective when investigating the different attitudes of senior executives towards fulfilling social responsib...

A political involvement in any organisation has often proved to be profitable for such firms that are seeking support and favourable regulatory conditions. Though many studies have investigated the effect of the corporate lobbying activities on the o...

Electrical power distribution is the most important division in the power supply chain. However, its sustainability in terms of efficiency is very important for the growth of every country. This main objective of the paper is to assess the productivi...

Previous studies have investigated how government policies on renewable energy technology (RET) affect economic performance at the industrial level. However, each firm in the RET industry is heterogeneous in terms of their capacities, resources, and...

In the era of digital transformation and data-driven decision-making, big data analytics capability (BDAC) is crucial for firms to enhance innovation and sustainable competitive advantage in highly dynamic markets. Grounded in dynamic capability theo...

The structural, dynamical, electrical, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties of CoMRhSi (M = Cr, Mn) quaternary Heusler alloys (QHAs) were investigated using density functional theory (DFT). The Y-type-II crystal structure was found to be the most...

Dynamic properties at intermediate strain rate are inherently difficult due to the dynamic interactions between the test specimen and the test machine. These effects obscure the interpretation of test results and therefore can make the derivation of...

This research utilizes the dynamic slack-based measure (DSBM) model to evaluate health output efficiencies in Taiwan’s administrative districts from 2014 to 2018. To measure health output efficiency, it adopts four input variables, one output v...

While UAV-aided reconnaissance data collection grows rapidly, its path optimization is severely hindered by environmental dynamics, node mobility, and overlapping security/interference risks. This paper addresses the problem of data collection from m...

The exponential emergence of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has accelerated research on hardware implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Among all DNN processors, domain-specific architectures such as Google’s Tensor Processor Un...

The dynamics and instability of economic policies exercise considerable influence on firm behaviors. This study aims to explore the impact of economic policy uncertainty on the level of CSR that firms are engaged in and the heterogeneity of this impa...

This study evaluates the impact of industrial energy efficiency on agricultural development in the 31 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2015 to 2019. Using dynamic network slack-based measures (...

The paper discusses the effects of mooring configurations on the dynamic response of a submerged floating offshore wind turbine (SFOWT) for intermediate water depths. A coupled dynamic model of a wind turbine-tower-floating platform-mooring system is...

The installation of subsea equipment is a critical step in offshore oil and gas development. A dynamic model to evaluate the lowering process is proposed. The cable–payload system is discretized as a series of spring dampers with the lumped-mas...

The article deals with the design of an innovative system for scheduling piece and small series discrete production using a combination of parametric simulation models and selected optimization methods. An innovative system for solving production sch...

To investigate the vibration behavior of ship-borne tethered UAVs under taut–slack conditions, the Hamilton principle is used to establish the three-dimensional dynamic equations of the ship-borne tethered UAVs while taking into account geometr...

In this study, the static and dynamic performance efficiencies of container terminals are analyzed and compared for the main container terminals in China and Korea. The static performance efficiency is calculated using the Super-SBM model based on sl...

A dynamic model is established to investigate the shimmy instability of a landing gear system, considering the influence of nonlinear damping. The stability criterion is utilized to determine the critical speed at which the landing gear system become...

Studying the evolution of the efficiency of the electricity generation sector is a relevant task for policy makers, and requires the undesirable outputs derived from the activity to be considered in the evaluation. In this work, we propose a dynamic...

This paper investigated the tracking problem of mixed H∞ and L2−L∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) for continuous-time interval type-2 fuzzy systems (IT2FSs). For the membership function mismatch and uncertainty between the mo...

Ignoring the presence of non-performing assets makes efficiency measurement inappropriate and incomplete. Thus, the present study considers non-performing assets as an undesirable output and applies the slack-based efficiency model to measure the eff...

The zeroing neural network (ZNN) is an important kind of continuous-time recurrent neural network (RNN). Meanwhile, the existence of forward and backward simulations and bisimulations for weighted finite automata (WFA) over the field of real numbers...