Without demolishing an entire existing building, it is possible to sustainably expand its underground spaces to enhance the building’s functionality. However, there have been a few relevant studies exploring this option, and they did not consid...
Governments globally aim to boost productivity and enhance farmers’ livelihoods, addressing challenges like climate change, food security, and labor shortages through digital technologies. However, adoption rates in developing countries remain...
The primary purpose of this study is to solve the economic growth acceleration model with memory effects for the quadratic cost function (Riccati fractional differential equation), using Combined Theorem of Adomian Polynomial Decomposition and Kashur...
Sidetapa Village is located in Buleleng province, Bali, Indonesia. Economic resilience has become a priority due to the devastating impact of the recent pandemic on this village. This paper describes how Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) metho...
Climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, threatening the resilience of buildings and urban infrastructure. While technical solutions for climate adaptation in buildings are well documented, their economic v...
Entrepreneurship is crucial in promoting innovation, job creation, and poverty alleviation, particularly in developing economies. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach, using quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine macroeconomic factors...
1 January 2022
The economic burden is a major concern for parents/caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). This study used the sequential explanatory mixed-method approach to explorethe economic burden on parents/caregivers with a CP child in Malaysia and t...
In the present paper, two optimal control problems are studied using Lie geometric methods and applying the Pontryagin Maximum Principle at the level of a new working space, called Lie algebroid. It is proved that the framework of a Lie algebroid is...
With growing urbanization and increasing climate change-related concerns, green infrastructures (GIs) are recognized as promising solutions for mitigating various challenges and promoting sustainable development. Despite the important role of GIs, a...
This paper offers a historical review of the evolution of mathematical methods in economics, tracing their development from the earliest attempts in the 18th century to the sophisticated models of the late 20th century. The study begins by examining...
Forecasting stock market returns has great significance to asset allocation, risk management, and asset pricing, but stock return prediction is notoriously difficult. In this paper, we combine the sum-of-the-parts (SOP) method and three kinds of econ...
Conducting technical and economic evaluations is important for mining investment and mining operation decision-making. Traditional economic evaluation methods rarely address the issue of evaluation reliability and usually require complex calculations...
Gas nitriding, as a surface modification technology to improve the wear resistance of workpiece surfaces, is widely used in wind turbine gears, pressure vessel gears, high-precision die casting abrasives, and other areas. However, the gas nitriding t...
As the demand for power supply increases, the investment in the power transmission system constantly increases. An accurate economic evaluation of the power transmission system is essential for future investment decisions and management. Applying a s...
Park city policy is an exploration of the construction of urban ecological civilization under the background of the new era of China. The evaluation of the economic performance is an important step to improve and popularize this policy. The article t...
At present, the traditional scheduling mode of power grids generally dispatches according to the power generation cost within the safe range. Transmission costs are evenly distributed to customers according to their load ratios. There are no methods...
As the living standards of Chinese people have been improving, the energy demand for cooling and heating, mainly in the form of electricity, has also expanded. Since an integrated cooling, heating and power supply system (CCHP) will serve this demand...
The development of the construction industry has brought great convenience to people’s lives, but the problems of resource shortages and energy consumption are becoming more and more serious. In order to solve the problem of resource shortages...
With the increasingly prominent problems of resources and environment, thermal power enterprises in China are facing more severe challenges. To improve energy efficiency, a great number of thermal power enterprises implement the technical renovation...
The economic assessment of non-marketed resources (i.e., cultural heritage) can be developed with stated or revealed preference methods. Travel cost method (TCM) is based on the demand theory and assumes that the demand for a recreational site is inv...
This paper introduces an expanding research frontier in the landscape architecture discipline, landscape performance research, which embraces the scientific dimension of landscape architecture through evidence-based designs that are anchored in quant...
This article develops an innovative and intelligent method for analysing the criminal community’s influence on risk-forming parameters based on an analysis of regional economic processes. The research motivation was the need to create an intell...
Background: Ileitis is a wasting disease of pigs. Clinical symptoms are diarrhea in growing pigs, wasting and reduced performance. Ileitis is ubiquitous in pig producing countries all around the world. It is estimated that the economic losses caused...
This study presents an economical conditioning method for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells through a parametric study investigating the factors affecting online conditioning methods. First, we compared the operating conditions between co...
13 June 2021
Dengue fever, a mosquito-transmitted viral disease, is present in many neighborhoods in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia. One factor likely to affect its distribution is the socio-economic status of local neighborhoods; however, the absence of socio-economi...
The objective of this study is to estimate the use-value of Ichan Kala, a historical city located in Khiva, Uzbekistan, that is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It also investigates the visitors’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the econom...
Over recent years, the food industry has striven to reduce waste, mostly because of rising awareness of the detrimental environmental impacts of food waste. While the edible oils market (mostly represented by soybean oil) is forecasted to reach 632 m...
Introducing carbon trading is an essential way to decarbonize the power system. Many existing studies mainly consider source-side unilateral carbon trading (UCT). However, there are still rare studies considering source-load bilateral carbon trading...
The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive economic and energy efficiency analysis of selected digestate management methods, considering their implications on operational costs and resource management. To achieve this aim, the study focuses...
Petrochemical tail gases have various components and many separation methods, thus there are many possible design schemes, making it difficult to determine the optimal scheme. In this work, a graphic synthesis method was used to design a hybrid multi...
Determining differences in regional carbon emissions and the factors that affect these differences is important in the realization of differentiated emissions mitigation policies. This paper adopts the Theil index and the partial least square-variabl...
13 September 2016
Despite methodological advances in the field of economic evaluations of interventions, economic evaluations of obesity prevention programmes in early childhood are seldom conducted. The aim of the present study was to explore existing methods and app...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the economic performance of nurseries producing Sideritis propagation material using different propagation methods. Two nurseries were compared, each employing a different method that was experimentally tested at...
Peeling is a key step in the industrial production of canned peeled tomatoes, vital for optimizing efficiency, yield, product quality, waste reduction, and environmental impact. This study presents a comparative assessment of the economic and environ...
The accurate measurement of logging residue volume is essential for efficient resource management and economic planning in the biomass supply chain. This study compares 3D laser scanning using a mobile ZEB-HORIZON™ scanner and conventional manu...
To supply stable and high-quality power according to the advancement of industrial growth, electric power companies have performed maintenance of power facilities using various methods. In the case of domestic power distribution facilities, there are...
8 February 2019
Many suggested policy interventions for childhood and adolescent obesity have costs and effects that fall outside the health care sector. These cross-sectorial costs and consequences have implications for how economic evaluation is applied and althou...
This paper provides an overview of methods for assessing social impacts, their achievements, and possibilities of application in everyday practice for assessing the worth of investments in cultural heritage conservation, as well as its sustainable us...
The present study seeks to provide an overview of studies dealing with the grey systems theory from the perspective of socio-economic systems. A scoping review is conducted to explore the studies focusing grey systems theory and its applications in s...
This study evaluates cultural ecosystem services (CESs) provided by coastal beaches in Korea using two valuation methods: choice experiments (CEs) and the energy method (EM). CESs, which include non-material benefits like recreation and esthetic enjo...
High-tech zones (HTZs), as important economic growth poles, have played a key role in China’s economic boom. A method based on multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed to evaluate economic benefits...
Understanding how growth factors contribute to explaining the large differences in growth rates across countries remains an important research agenda. The common approach to exploring this issue is based on the use of multiple linear regression analy...
Shale gas, with its lower carbon content and pollution potential, is the most promising natural gas resource in China. When modeling the shale gas supply in a specific gas field, it is of paramount importance to determine the gas supply under economi...
Background: Return to work (RTW) is a fundamental aspect of recovery after stroke, importantly, for workers of working age. Evidence indicates there is little known about the clinical and systematic predictors of RTW in Hungary. We aimed to determine...
Blue hydrogen is a promising low-carbon alternative to conventional fossil fuels. This technology has been garnering increasing attention with many technological advances in recent years, with a particular focus on the deployed materials and process...
H2 is considered a practical substitute for fossil fuels, especially for transportation by road and air, created either from fossil fuels or through the process of electrolysis of water. Research questions were included based on numerous research and...
Selection indices enhance dairy cattle breeding by optimizing multiple traits simultaneously. This study analyzed 2181 lactation records from Holstein–Friesian cows at Sakha Experimental Farm, Egypt, to evaluate selection indices for 305-day mi...
District heating (DH) is a key solution for decarbonising heat supplies, improving energy efficiency, and generating multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits. Identifying, quantifying, and monetising these benefits is crucial to assessin...
In recent years, the marine economy has experienced rapid development, with increasing scale of marine exploration and utilization. Against this backdrop, the importance of the marine resource carrying capacity (MRCC) for sustainable development has...
Intercropping systems reduce ineffective evaporation between trees but also intensify interspecific competition and reduce productivity. To improve the water-use efficiency and the economic benefits of an intercropping system on the Loess Plateau, Ch...
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