Intertemporal decision making is the process by which individuals make judgments or choices regarding outcomes that occur at different times. Although intertemporal decision making is widely investigated, most studies explore it in terms of individua...
Different from an ordinary project, a large group mission like the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm cooperative strike mission is performed by multiple executors and needs to be strictly carried out according to the plan. Because of the complex co...
The emergence and popularity of social media have made large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problems increasingly common, resulting in significant research interest in this field. LSGDM involves numerous evaluators, which can lead to disagreemen...
31 October 2021
At present, income and welfare inequality between migrant workers and urban natives has improved in China, but there are still many “semi-urbanized” migrant workers, whose psychological integration into the migrant city is very important for their me...
E-Learning is a popular computer-based teaching–learning system that has been rapidly gaining global attention during and post COVID-19. The leaping changes in digital technology have enabled E-Learning to become more effective in recent years....
This study explores the experts’ opinions during the consultation stage before law-making for civilian drones. A thorough literature study is first undertaken to have the set of influencing factors that should be suitable for the investigation from t...
Thanks to its complexity, Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) has been one of the most intensively studied problems in computational mathematics. Although many solutions have been offered so far, all of them have yielded some disadvantages and none has...
Based on analyzing verbal and nonverbal features of small group conversations in a task-based scenario, this work focuses on automatic detection of group member perceptions about how well they are making use of available information, and whether they...
This paper investigates common (slack) due-date assignment single-machine scheduling with controllable processing times within a group technology environment. Under linear and convex resource allocation functions, the cost function minimizes scheduli...
Group learning is commonly used in a wide range of classes. However, effective methods used to form groups are not thoroughly understood. In this study, we explore a quantitative method for creating project teams based on student knowledge and intere...
Sustainability challenges in tourism are widely discussed. There is a huge need for education in the field of destination development. Students require appropriate problem-solving skills. This article examines the master’s course in destination...
Reverse transcriptases (RTs) are a family of enzymes that synthesize DNA using an RNA template and are involved in retrovirus propagation and telomere lengthening. In vitro, RTs are widely applied in various methods, including RNA-seq, RT-PCR, and RT...
Background: Coastal Norwegian heathlands have been regularly managed by burning for about 5000 years. This practice, supporting sustainable herbivore production, did, however, seize in the 1950s and was virtually absent for 60–70 years. Loss of...
We considerthe single-machine group scheduling problem with controllable processing times (i.e., resource allocation) under a common due-window (
Background: Burnout is a well-recognized problem among resident physicians. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the dynamics of the patient/resident relationship and introduced new stressors for medical trainees, such as new restrictions in the hospital,...
This article provides a review of modern technologies for processing chromite ores and beneficiation wastes, with a focus on the recovery of magnesium and platinum-group metals (PGMs). It reveals that the traditional use of chromites solely as a sour...
Aiming at the problem of spatial query processing in distributed computing systems, the design and implementation of new distributed spatial query algorithms is a current challenge. Apache Spark is a memory-based framework suitable for real-time and...
The research covered the process of nanofiltration of low molecular weight organic compounds in aqueous solution. The article presents the results of experiments on membrane filtration of compounds containing amino groups in the aromatic ring and com...
The paper focuses on the Solidarity Purchasing Group (SPG), defined as a group of households that establishes an organization primarily to provide food to its members. The study aims at illustrating and testing two hypotheses. The first is that withi...
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widely distributed in bacterial genomes and are involved in the adaptive response of microorganisms to stress conditions. Few studies have addressed TA systems in Lactobacillus and their role in the adaptation to food...
In this study, we study information processing by financial professionals benchmarked with non-professionals and how correlation among individual forecasts explains the group level forecast performance. In an experiment in which participants make pri...
Solution-processed CdTe semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have exhibited astonishing potential in fabricating low-cost, low materials consumption and highly efficient photovoltaic devices. However, most of the conventional CdTe NCs reported are synthe...
This research was conducted as a collaborative project between the West University of Timișoara (Romania) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) to develop a transnational learning activity. The students learned in virtual co...
The mixed traffic flow has an increasingly impact on the operation of urban traffic. To study the evolution law of multi-group behaviors in pedestrian crossing, we used the evolutionary game theory to establish a multi-group behavior evolution model...
Rare earth metals (REMs) are vital for high-tech industries, but their extraction from secondary sources is challenging due to environmental and technical constraints. This study investigates the ion-exchange extraction of light REMs (neodymium, pras...
Complex systems of classical physics in certain situations are characterized by intensive fluctuations of the quantities governing their dynamics. These include important phenomena such as (continuous) second-order phase transitions, fully developed...
An efficient nickel-catalyzed removal of alkene protection group under mild condition with high functional group tolerance through chain walking process has been established. Not only phenolic ethers, but also alcoholic ethers can be tolerated with t...
The paper compares two multi-criteria methods, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the best–worst method (BWM), in assessing criteria related to the quality of urban parks. The criteria assessed were accessibility, location, biodiversity p...
The rapid expansion of wireless communications has led to increasing demand and interference in the electromagnetic spectrum, raising the question of how to achieve reliable and adaptive monitoring in complex and dynamic environments. This study aims...
There is a growing consensus that knowledge drives firms’ process and product innovations. An important source of these innovations is from firms networking with R&D partners, such as those in the science system and other industries in the...
Aggregation methods in group decision-making refer to techniques used to combine the individual preferences, opinions, or judgments of group members into a collective decision. Each aggregation method has its advantages and disadvantages, and the bes...
The urban mobility system is an important factor in social development and must, therefore, be tackled in a way that enables balanced, sustainable development. The purpose of the present work was to introduce a new holistic approach to urban mobility...
The internal damage of red-bed soft rock induced by water is pervasive. The accumulation, growth, and localization of damage is a multi-scale process that can lead to significant strength loss in red-bed soft rock. Yet, research on the critical state...
Low-temperature, solution-processed, highly efficient hybrid organic/inorganic perovskite planar heterojunction solar cells were fabricated by incorporating reactive crystalline titania (h-TAc) into MAPbI3 layers. The h-TAc was prepared by the sol-ge...
Correlation diagnosis in multivariate process quality management is an important and challenging issue. In this paper, a new approach based on the optimal typical correlated component pair group (OTCCPG) is proposed. Firstly, the theorem of correlati...
The processes of formation of one-dimensional nanostructures by the method of matrix synthesis was studied in this work. Nanowires (NWs) from magnetic metals of iron-group and copper (3-d metals) were synthesized in the pores of matrix-track membrane...
Objective: This study aimed to develop a performance evaluation index system for a district-level public hospital in Chongqing, China, based on Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs), to provide a benchmark for performance assessment in similar hospitals. T...
Moving on in my recovery (MOIMR) is a new, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) based group intervention to support recovery from substance use disorder. It was co-developed by, and is co-facilitated with, people in recovery. This study used a gro...
Recovery of platinum group metals from spent materials is becoming increasingly relevant due to the high value of these metals and their progressive depletion. In recent years, there is an increased interest in developing alternative and more environ...
New product development (NPD) is essential to most business organizations to create new values and protect existing values for maintaining high profitability and sustainability. However, the success of NPD projects is deemed to be difficult and chall...
To support Group Decision-Making processes when participants are dispersed is a complex task. The biggest challenges are related to communication limitations that impede decision-makers to take advantage of the benefits associated with face-to-face G...
In this paper we outline a certain way of understanding of macroscopically uncontrollable emergence of the so called Mannesmann effect by means of its induced controllable quantum-mechanical background. In other words, we factually present a modus op...
The two procedures traditionally followed for group decision making with the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) are the Aggregation of Individual Judgments (AIJ) and the Aggregation of Individual Priorities (AIP). In both cases, the geometric mean...
Sunflower oil samples, both unenriched and enriched with four different concentrations of hydroxytyrosol acetate, were subjected to accelerated storage at 70 °C until a very advanced oxidation stage and the process was monitored by 1H NMR spectroscop...
Land-use and land-cover (LULC) classification using remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in many environment modeling and land-use inventories. In this study, a hybrid feature optimization algorithm along with a deep learning classifier is propo...
Over the last years, consumer demand for natural and healthy convenient food has increased, and with it the demand for organic convenience food. With convenience food, the processing level increases, which consumers are sceptical of. This holds espec...
Melted rocks (clinkers and paralavas) of the Mongolian combustion metamorphic (CM) complexes were formed during modern and ancient (since the Quaternary) wild-fires of brown coal layers in the sedimentary strata of the Early Cretaceous Dzunbain Forma...
(1) Background: Self-esteem plays an important role in developing emotional resilience and wellbeing in children. Yet, there has been little related research on Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy on this topic. Our aims were to assess the effect of t...
21 February 2021
Including an active participation of stakeholders along the transportation decision-making process is increasingly recognized as a necessary condition for reaching successful and high-quality decisions. This paper presents a framework for deciding on...
The complexity in collaborative work is mainly related to the difficulty in social interaction, which generates low levels of understanding among participants about what they should do and about the problem to be solved, resulting in problems in the...
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