8 November 2021
Our work aimed to build a reasonable proxy for unmet medical demands of China’s urban residents. We combined health demand modeling and stochastic frontier analysis to produce a frontier medical demand function, which allowed us to disentangle unmet...
With the gradual liberalization of the energy market, the future integrated energy system will be composed of multiple agents. Therefore, this paper proposes an optimization dispatch method considering energy hub technology and multi-agent interest b...
Controlling the rapid growth of residential energy demand and enhancing energy efficiency are key policy issues in Japan. Thus, this study aims to estimate a residential energy demand function by conducting a stochastic frontier analysis and analyze...
Sustainability requires that policy makers be able to use market signals to implement energy and environmental policy and that energy consumers respond rationally to these signals. Therefore, it is essential to understand how consumers’ respons...
This Special Issue on “Applications of Econometrics in Agricultural Production” has aimed to rebuild and extend the approach to agricultural production analysis by including econometric methods for (a) developing a new paradigm for agricu...
Utilizing the Kolmogorov–Arnold representation theorem, KANs have emerged as a mathematically rigorous and easily interpretable alternative to traditional neural networks. These networks decompose high-dimensional functions into sums of univari...
The electronic structure and reactivity of 22 isorhodanine (IsRd) derivatives in the Diels–Alder reaction with dimethyl maleate (DMm) were investigated under two different environments (gas phase and continuous solvent
Industrial intelligence is gaining more prominence in the new era of the technical revolution. This paper conducts an empirical test based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) from 2006 to 2017. Firstly, t...
When a developing country is undergoing a rapid growth period, agricultural wastewater, domestic wastewater, industrial wastewater, and organic matter content in chemical oxygen demand (COD) usually increase in great amounts, causing environmental po...
This paper investigates relative aggregate energy efficiency for a panel of 39 developing countries by econometrically estimating an energy-demand function (EDF) using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach to provide relative energy efficie...
Surface engineering and architectural design represent key frontiers in total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) implant development. This narrative review examines biointegration strategies, focusing on porous structures, surface modification techniques, and...
There is a rivalry between policies on intensification of forest management to meet the demands of a growing bioeconomy, and policies on green infrastructure functionality. Evaluation of the net effects of different policy instruments on real-world o...
The yield and production of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) have not been significantly improved in Kansas for the last 30 years even though farmers are using improved varieties. We have noted a significant yield difference between average alfalfa yield...
Nanozymes constitute a rapidly advancing frontier in scientific research, attracting widespread international interest, particularly for their role in facilitating cascade reactions. Despite their initial discovery a few years ago, significant hurdle...
This paper examines not only the effectiveness of the South Korean emissions-trading scheme (ETS), but also the determinants of its performance. We apply a directional distance function and stochastic frontier analysis method to estimate environmenta...
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, the demand for enhanced device computing capabilities has significantly increased. Neuromorphic computing, an emerging computational paradigm inspired by the hum...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), especially deep learning, have profoundly transformed biology by enabling precise interpretation of complex genomic and proteomic data. This review presents a comprehensive overview of cutting-e...
The coming agenda for the European Common Agricultural Policy includes more incentives for the environmental compliance of farmer’s activities. This will be particularly important in the case of water risk management in Mediterranean countries. Among...
The ability to autonomously generate up-to-date 3D models of robotic workcells is critical for advancing smart manufacturing, yet existing Next-Best-View (NBV) methods often rely on paradigms ill-suited for the fixed-base manipulators found in dynami...
With the increasingly severe problem of water shortage and the increasing contradiction between supply and demand, the optimal allocation of water resources has become an essential method for alleviating the water crisis. In this context, natural-ele...
The demand for large-scale components continues to grow with the development of frontier technologies. Traditionally, these components are machined using machine tools, which are costly and have functional limitations. High-flexibility robots provide...
Natural antioxidants align with consumer demand for clean-label, sustainable, and health-promoting food solutions. Artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling deeper understanding, more rapid screening, and new application modalities in food systems. No...
The promise of lithium–oxygen batteries lie not merely in their record-breaking theoretical energy density, but in the challenge of making such energy truly reversible. Rising as the key obstacle is the lithium metal anode, whose remarkable cap...
In the context of escalating energy demands and environmental sustainability, the paradigm of global energy systems is undergoing a transformative shift to innovative and reliable energy-harvesting techniques ranging from solar cells to triboelectric...
Liver transplantation is increasingly dependent on the use of extended criteria donors (ECD) to increase the organ donor pool and address rising demand. This has necessitated the adoption of innovative technologies and strategies to protect these hig...
With the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in code generation tasks, geospatial code generation has emerged as a critical frontier in the integration of artificial intelligence and geoscientific analysis. This growing trend undersco...
Frontiers in theranostics are driving the demand for multifunctional nanoagents. Upconversion nanoparticle (UCNP)-based systems activated by near-infrared (NIR) light deeply penetrating biotissue are a powerful tool for the simultaneous diagnosis and...
Hydrolases, being most prominent enzymes used in industrial processes have left no stone unturned in fascinating the pharmaceutical industry. Lipases, being a part of acyl hydrolases are the ones that function similarly to esterases (except an interf...
Dihydromyricetin, the predominant bioactive constituent in vine tea, manifests diverse bioactivities, including anti-tumoral and anti-inflammatory effects. However, the deep processing of vine tea remains underdeveloped, thereby curtailing its econom...
In the highly competitive manufacturing environment, customers are increasingly demanding punctual, flexible, and customized deliveries, compelling enterprises to balance profit, energy efficiency, and production performance while seeking new schedul...
Finding an optimal balance between risk and returns in investment portfolios is a central challenge in quantitative finance, often addressed through Markowitz portfolio theory (MPT). While traditional portfolio optimization is carried out in a contin...
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand across clinical environments, healthcare is transitioning from static decision-support tools to dynamic, autonomous agents capable of reasoning, coordination, and continuous interaction. In the cont...
The persistent emergence of infectious diseases has underscored the critical demand for next-generation vaccine technologies that are safe, effective, and scalable. This review explores virus biomimetic delivery systems, focusing on virus-like partic...
With the increasing demand of achieving comprehensive perception in every aspect of life, optical fibers have shown great potential in various applications due to their highly-sensitive, highly-integrated, flexible and real-time sensing capabilities....
Global warming and other environmental problems are increasing the demand for green and low-carbon buildings. The development of high-performance computers and building information models has a significant impact on low-carbon buildings. Low-carbon b...
Background/Objectives: Primary liver cancer (PLC), encompassing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), constitutes a growing global health concern. Metabolic dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and Type 2 diab...
20 June 2019
Background: As our population ages at an increasing rate, the demand for nursing homes is rising. The challenge will be for nursing homes to maintain efficiency with limited resources while not compromising quality. This study aimed to review the nur...
Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) reduce the high profitability of many crops and degrade their quantitative and qualitative yields globally. Traditional nematicides and other nematode control methods are being used against PPNs. However, stakeholders...
Thermoelectric (TE) materials represent a critical frontier in sustainable energy conversion technologies, providing direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion with solid-state reliability. The optimizations of TE performance demand a nuanced com...