This study examines black-box hyperparameter optimization for financial retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) retrieval under limited budget constraints. Using FinQA as the primary dataset, it compares Grid Search, Random Search, and Bayesian Optimiza...
Urban expansion encroaches on green spaces and weakens ecosystem services, potentially leading to a trade-off between ecological conditions and socio-economic growth. Effectively coordinating the two elements is essential for achieving sustainable de...
Recently, the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technique has been regarded as a promising approach to enhance performance of wireless sensor networks with limited energy supply. However, from a green communication perspect...
In disaster response logistics, it is critical to evaluate strategies for operational speed and efficiency and fairness in aid distribution. Therefore, we developed a simulation-based framework for assessing emergency delivery performance using the e...
Knowledge graphs (KGs) have gained prominence for representing real-world facts, with queries of KGs being crucial for their application. Aggregate queries, as one of the most important parts of KG queries (e.g., “ What is the average price of...
Today’s agricultural management decisions impact food security and sustainable ecosystems, even when operating with back-to-basic operations. In such endeavors, policymakers usually need a quantitative tool, such as trade-offs margins, to effectively...
The increase in domestic transportation in developing countries may adversely affect the energy efficiency of road transportation due to effective productivity and carbon dioxide emissions (CO2). When evaluating quantitatively the countries on the ef...
Production possibility frontier (PPF) in economics denotes the set of all efficient combinations of the amounts of two or more goods that can be produced from the given resources and within the given technology. In the ecosystem services context, it...
An increasing number of battery-powered devices that are used outdoors or in mobile systems put emphasis on the power and energy efficiency as a form of trade-off between application performance and system power consumption. However, lack of objectiv...
Considering the recent exponential growth in the amount of information processed in Big Data, the high energy consumed by data processing engines in datacenters has become a major issue, underlining the need for efficient resource allocation for more...
Plantation forestry is now an imperative to meet wood requirements efficiently on the finite land available for wood production. Three main determinants of profitability are productivity, price per unit of wood harvested, and harvest age (the sooner...
Specific forest restoration aims to maximum ecosystem services (ESs); however, the complex trade-offs among ecosystem services pose considerable challenges for fulfilling such goals. Based on forest restoration on Hainan Island, China, we integrated...
The aim of this review was to map synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development and energy efficiency and savings regarding exterior lighting. Exterior lighting, such as public road and street lighting, requires significant amounts of ener...
Vaccination is an essential tool for the management of infectious diseases. However, many vaccines are imperfect, having only a partial protective effect in decreasing disease transmission and/or favouring recovery of infected individuals and possibl...
The trade-offs between key functional traits in plants have a decisive impact on biomass production. However, how precipitation and nutrient deposition affect the trade-offs in traits and, ultimately, productivity is still unclear. In the present stu...
As reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been gradually brought to reality, a large amount of research has been conducted to investigate the immense benefits of RISs. That is because RISs enable us to artificially direct the radio wave prop...
Deploying independent plug-in chargers, wireless chargers and auxiliary power modules within a single Electric Vehicle (EV) leads to an increased system complexity, higher component count and reduced power density. Integrated charger architectures ad...
The study compares the overall sustainability of two organic and two conventional rice farming systems during the 2022 drought. The research aimed to develop an experiment exploring the ability of an integrated methodological approach to identify tra...
Membrane innovations have become a key solution for overcoming the bottlenecks in efficiency upgrade in many green energy fields. Membrane performance depends on two key parameters permeability and selectivity, which typically follow a trade-off rela...
Multi-objective optimization problems often face challenges in balancing solution accuracy, computational efficiency, and convergence speed. Many existing methods struggle with achieving an optimal trade-off between exploration and exploitation, lead...
Not many efficient similarity detectors are employed in practice to maintain academic integrity. Perhaps it is because they lack intuitive reports for investigation, they only have a command line interface, and/or they are not publicly accessible. Th...
In this paper, we design and compare seven meaningful hybrid one-bit full adders topologies that are optimized in terms of energy-delay trade-offs to operate in multibit ripple carry adders. The goal is to provide the designer with a simple and power...
It has been suggested that the distribution of refugees over host countries can be made more fair or efficient if policy makers take into account not only numbers of refugees to be distributed but also the goodness of the matches between refugees and...
A safer and securer public transport provides a wide range of sustainability benefits to a community. This paper explores passengers’ perception of security checks (SCs) in metro stations, with a focus on the safety and mobility of passenger flows. W...
Since ecosystem services (ESs) have become effective tools for urban planning, spatiotemporal analysis of regional ESs and a deep understanding of the trade-offs among ESs are of great significance to regional governance. In this study, the spatial a...
Multi-functional trade-offs and synergy research on land systems are hotspots in geography and land science research, and are of great significance for achieving sustainable development of land use and the effective allocation of land resources. Rece...
While continuously promoting agricultural water-saving and efficiency improvement, Ningxia is confronted with problems such as deepening groundwater tables and growing ecological vulnerability. Exploring the trade-off relationships and their evolutio...
Fault tolerance, performance, and throughput have been major areas of research and development since the evolution of large-scale networks. Internet-based applications are rapidly growing, including large-scale computations, search engines, high-defi...
Transcritical carbon dioxide waste heat recovery systems and the construction of scroll expanders have recently been hot topics. The flank clearance, located between the orbiting and fixed scroll, has a vital impact on the scroll expander performance...
Conventional Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in electric vehicles significantly penalize the driving range due to high power consumption, particularly during heating operation. While R744 heat pump systems are gaining tracti...
Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is a promising technology to achieve wide-area energy transfer by sharing the same radio frequency (RF) signal and infrastructure of legacy wireless communication systems. To enlarge the ef...
In industries, particularly in quality optimization, the trade-off between model bias and variance is inevitable, reflecting the tension between accuracy and uncertainty. Traditional methods often address these aspects separately, potentially leading...
Water scarcity, climate change, population growth, and rising water demand highlight the urgency of adopting effective water conservation measures. The transition from traditional irrigation systems, such as flood irrigation, to modern ones, like dri...
The nonparametric assessment of police efficiency and effectiveness is challenging due to the stochastic nature of criminal behavior and the subjective dependence on multiple decision criteria, leading to different prospects depending on the regulati...
The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) plays a crucial role in advancing sustainable development and circular economy goals across the European Union. In Italy, despite improvements in separate collection, significant regional disparities in M...
Rapid urbanization and escalating demands for pollution and carbon reduction pose significant challenges to the cement industry in China, characterized by high energy consumption and emissions. However, a multidimensional framework to assess the syne...
Outer rotor permanent magnet synchronous motors (ORPMSMs) are widely used in drone and aircraft propulsion due to their high power density. However, conventional arc-shaped designs involve an inherent trade-off between efficiency and torque ripple. I...
Deep learning accelerators play a crucial role in enhancing computation-intensive AI applications. Optimizing system resources—such as shared caches, on-chip SRAM, and data movement mechanisms—is essential for achieving peak performance a...
The increasing integration of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and industrial applications demands efficient power converter control strategies that reduce switching losses while maintaining high waveform quality. This paper presents a Finite-Con...
Architectural planning often involves balancing multiple and potentially conflicting objectives, such as safety, economy, functionality, and aesthetics. However, conventional benchmarking approaches typically focus on single performance dimensions an...
This paper proposes a novel offloading and super-resolution (SR) control scheme for energy-efficient mobile augmented reality (MAR) in multi-access edge computing (MEC) using SR as a promising generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology. Spec...
CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) are becoming increasingly important for real-time applications, such as image classification in traffic control, visual surveillance, and smart manufacturing. It is challenging, however, to meet timing constraints...
Accurate residual demand forecasting (RDF) is essential for stable peer-to-peer energy trading in developing economies. This study benchmarks three hyperparameter optimization paradigms, HEBO, PSO, and GP-BO, applied to XGBoost (2.1.4) forecasting us...
This study investigates the key determinants of firm profitability in the global automotive sector, examining whether superior returns on assets (ROA) stem from operational efficiency, strategic leverage, or innovation intensity, and highlighting the...
This study examines whether financial leverage promotes sustainable agricultural productivity by accounting for the trade-off between profitability and default risk. We construct a risk-adjusted total factor productivity (TFP) measure by incorporatin...
In this paper, an energy efficiency (EE)–spectral efficiency (SE) trade-off scheme is investigated for the distributed reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted backscatter vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication system. Firstly,...
China has set stringent fuel consumption rate (FCR) targets to address the serious environmental and energy security problems caused by vehicles. Estimating the technological progress and tradeoffs between FCR and vehicle attributes is important for...
Sustainability and buildability requirements in building envelope design have significantly gained more importance nowadays, yet there is a lack of an appropriate decision support system (DSS) that can help a building design team to incorporate these...
Recently, the supply chain in the pharmaceutical sector, which is important economically to the healthcare industry worldwide, has received special attention owing to different factors involved in the distribution of drugs. Furthermore, it has an imp...
Rapid and uncoordinated urban expansion in arid oasis city clusters intensifies land use conflicts and ecological pressure, threatening regional sustainability. This study investigates the Urban Agglomeration on the Northern Slopes of the Tianshan Mo...
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