The hotel sector is characterized by high thermal demands and a large carbon footprint, which greatly contributes to the global warming effect. Consequently, there is a need to investigate solutions that can reduce energy usage within this sector by...
Possible threats on the environment and human health by the leaching of new building materials and composites in contact to water should be prevented from the outset. It is therefore necessary to assess and ensure their environmental compatibility. F...
Product Service Systems (PSS) integrate technical systems, digital infrastructure, and digital and physical services to deliver value to customers in a comprehensive way throughout the life cycle of the PSS. While the potential benefits of PSSs, such...
The concept of sensory space was first formulated over 25 years ago and has been widely adopted in oenology for around the last 15 years. It is based on both the common organoleptic characteristics of products and the mental representations built by...
Self-concept clarity is considered a crucial indicator of mental health. Although several studies have examined the correlation between self-concept clarity and loneliness, few studies have investigated the underlying mechanism. Based on the evolutio...
Education on the Big Food Concept, as a strategic framework for ensuring national food security and promoting high-quality agricultural development, represents a key nexus between ideological and political education and quality-oriented education for...
The design of modular product families enables a high external variety of products by a low internal variety of components and processes. This variety optimization leads to large economic savings along the entire value chain. However, when designing...
Early layout decisions in in vitro diagnostic devices can affect operators’ viewing, reaching, and sample-loading actions. This study examined a concept-stage workflow that combined a low-fidelity bench with single-smartphone markerless motion...
The weight of battery modules keeps hindering them from being commercially attractive as the sole power supply for short-range electric passenger flights. Furthermore, the challenging requirements for aerospace applications limit the range of options...
Product design and development are essential for a circular transition. Circularity decisions, such as those concerning the type of material, assembly method, and expected lifespan, made during the early design stages will significantly influence a p...
In this study, a framework regarding park and ride facilities is presented and demonstrated to evaluate different approaches of charging concepts. The innovation in this study is that the framework can be used to evaluate arbitrary conductive chargin...
In recent years, a variety of novel actuator concepts for the implements of heavy-duty mobile machines (HDMMs) has been proposed by industry and academia. Mostly, novel concepts aim at improving the typically low energy efficiency of state-of-the-art...
In this study, three different reactor concepts for the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction are examined at the miniplant scale. Their performance and response to variations in key process parameters, such as temperature and gas hourly space...
Modern biopharmaceutical products strive for small-scale, low-cost production. Continuous chromatography has shown to be a promising technology because it assures high-capacity utilization, purity and yield increases, and lower facility footprint. Me...
This study explores how concepts related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are represented in upper-primary school textbooks, with a focus on identifying patterns of inclusion, emphasis, and conceptual balance. Using a qualitative content e...
18 August 2022
Land efficient last mile delivery concepts are key to reducing the traffic in cities and to minimising its environmental impact. This paper proposes a decision support method that evaluates the autonomous delivery concept and applies it to one year&r...
The development of urban agglomerations and smart energy systems in China are tightly connected. However, basic concepts of this interdisciplinary connection are still lacking. To fill this gap, this paper proposed an item of “Smart Energy Urba...
The article deals with the further development of national innovative subway cars with asynchronous electric drives and energy recovery systems through the introduction of capacitive energy storage. It has been determined that the assessment of the e...
Although products can contribute to ecosystems positively, they can cause negative environmental impacts throughout their life cycles, from obtaining raw material, production, and use, to end of life. It is reported that most negative environmental i...
Gas hydrates show great potential with regard to various technical applications, such as gas conditioning, separation and storage. Hence, there has been an increased interest in applied gas hydrate research worldwide in recent years. This paper descr...
Energy consumption and carbon emission levels in the production process constitute an important basis for the selection of production equipment. The energy consumption and carbon emission levels of the same product produced by different kinds equipme...
In order to achieve significant savings in energy and an improved level of thermal comfort in retrofitted existing buildings, specific retrofitting concepts that combine new technologies and design need to be developed and implemented. Large radiant...
Since the use of digital media opens new possibilities in physics education, pre-service teachers should develop pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) regarding digital media during teacher education. In the joint project DiKoLeP (German for: digital c...
Grandparents often take sustained responsibility for school escort, daily care, safety supervision, and emotional companionship, yet frequent contact does not necessarily produce reciprocal participation. This study treats interaction between grandpa...
As contemporary global supply chains have become interconnected and exposed to diverse escalating cyber threats, Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) has rapidly evolved as a managerial imperative to safeguard security, robustness, and resilie...
In the blooming era of the Internet of Things (IoT), trust has been accepted as a vital factor for provisioning secure, reliable, seamless communications and services. However, a large number of challenges still remain unsolved due to the ambiguity o...
Adaptive design focuses on creating flexible products that meet evolving demands and enhance sustainability. However, evaluating adaptive design concepts poses significant challenges due to the dynamic nature of product features over time and the inh...
To increase the package space for the battery pack in the rear of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and thus extend their driving range, a novel rear axle concept called the multi-link torsion axle (MLTA) has been developed. In this work, the kinemat...
China’s Yellow (Bohai) Sea bird habitat is an important ecological region. Its unique ecology and challenges provide rich resources for research and study. Our course design concept is supported by AI technology, and improves students’ ab...
28 September 2022
Background: The lasting impact of colonization contributes to the disproportionate rates of homelessness experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Methods: This study used participatory mixed methods to evaluate an urban, Indigenous-led Housing Fir...
Evaluation by ranking/rating of data based on a multitude of indicators typically calls for multi-criteria decision analyses (MCDA) methods. MCDA methods often, in addition to indicator values, require further information, typically subjective. This...
Machine learning-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) deployed in real-world environments frequently degrade due to concept drift, where evolving traffic patterns invalidate assumptions learned during training. This challenge is especially pronoun...
Adhesive capsulitis is an idiopathic and disabling disorder characterized by intense shoulder pain and progressive limitation of active and passive glenohumeral joint range of motion. Although adhesive capsulitis has been traditionally considered a d...
Evaluation of document classification is straightforward if complete information on the documents’ true categories exists. In this case, the rank of each document can be accurately determined and evaluated. However, in an unsupervised setting,...
In recent years, it has become increasingly common to use UVs (unmanned vehicles) in both military and civilian operations. However, the lack of technical information about details such as building, customization, or the architecture used is a proble...
Machine learning models deployed under distribution shift suffer performance degradation whose root cause is rarely diagnosed before adaptation is attempted. Existing frameworks either lack a closed loop from shift diagnosis to method selection, requ...
Background: The occurrence of bone fractures is increasing worldwide, mainly due to the health problems that follow the aging population. The use of additive manufacturing and electrical stimulators can be applied for bioactive achievements in bone h...
The rapid deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across smart cities, healthcare systems, industrial automation, transportation networks, smart grids, and cyber-physical infrastructures has expanded the modern cyberattack surface. IoT devices...
Against the backdrop of the synergistic advancement of Industry 4.0 and the dual-carbon strategy, traditional university mathematics education struggles to meet the demands for cultivating engineering talents’ integrated competencies in mathema...
Traditional ergonomic risk assessment tools such as the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) are often not sensitive enough to evaluate well-optimized work routines. An implementation of kinematic data captured by inertial sensors is applied to compare...
During 2022 and 2023, Industry 5.0 attracted a lot of attention. Many articles and papers regarding the basics of Industry 5.0, its pillars, and a comparison of Industry 5.0 and Industry 4.0, Society 5.0, and Operator 5.0 have been published. Althoug...
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is increasingly used to ground large language model (LLM) tutors, but comparing tutoring architectures is expensive, because every design decision ordinarily requires a fresh study with students. We present a repr...
Hallux valgus is one of the common causes of forefoot pain in the field of foot and ankle surgery. This condition is characterized by valgus and pronation deformities of the first ray, leading to bunion pain, metatarsalgia, callus formation, and gait...
Around 65% of the mitigation needed for the targeted net-zero carbon aviation emissions in 2050 is expected to come from Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs). In this study, an alternative gasification-driven Biomass-to-Liquid (BtL) concept for the prod...
Knowledge reduction is a crucial topic in formal concept analysis. There always exists uncertain, symmetric linguistic-evaluation information in social life, which leads to high complexity in the process of knowledge representation. In order to overc...
Energy system optimization models used for capacity expansion and dispatch planning are established tools for decision-making support in both energy industry and energy politics. The ever-increasing complexity of the systems under consideration leads...
Temperature is one the most influential environmental factors for the germination and establishment of grass species. The specific objective of this study was to determine the effects of low constant temperature on the time needed to express the full...
This paper presents a proof of concept from which the metaphor of “fair trade” is validated as an alternative to manage the private information of users. Our privacy solution deals with user’s privacy as a tradable good for obtaining environmental se...
Over the years, granular packing models have evolved from linear to non-linear models in order to improve their predictive capabilities. Expressed in terms of specific volumes, the paper shows that the models have been structured around three main ap...
With a fascinating complexity, governed by multiple physiological processes, the skin is considered a mantle with protective functions which during lifetime are frequently impaired, triggering dermatologic disorders. As one of the most prevalent derm...
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