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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,023 Views
19 Pages

18 September 2025

Climate change threatens human health and healthcare systems while also contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. NHS England has addressed this with the Health and Care Act 2022, which mandates NHS trusts to develop green plans for emission reductio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,428 Views
34 Pages

A Review on Blockchain-Based Trust and Reputation Schemes in Metaverse Environments

  • Firdous Kausar,
  • Hafiz M. Asif,
  • Sajid Hussain and
  • Shahid Mumtaz

The metaverse represents a transformative integration of virtual and physical worlds, offering unprecedented opportunities for social interaction, commerce, education, healthcare, and entertainment. Establishing trust in these expansive and decentral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,525 Views
23 Pages

The Enhancement of Special-Use Real Estate Properties: The Case of Hospital Facilities

  • Marta Dell’Ovo,
  • Francesca Torrieri,
  • Alessandra Oppio,
  • Stefano Capolongo,
  • Marco Gola and
  • Andrea Brambilla

21 August 2023

In the Italian context, public investments for the redevelopment and securing of the National Health Service’s real estate assets are a crucial topic in the context of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) within the Next Generation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,307 Views
10 Pages

The Increasing Investment of Real Estate in the Health System—A Comparison between the USA and Europe

  • Marta Bachmann,
  • Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz,
  • Vincent Ochs,
  • Daniel. M. Frey,
  • Bassey Enodien,
  • Urs Eriksson and
  • Anas Taha

25 November 2021

Background: This study aimed to compare property development and increasing investment in real estate by the healthcare system organizations in the USA and Europe. Real estate investments have upsurged in healthcare due to the multiple benefits to pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,568 Views
21 Pages

16 January 2023

This paper empirically investigates the heterogeneous impacts of the media sentiment about policies with different themes on the real estate market in China. Based on the policy texts collected from both official and unofficial sources, we construct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,013 Views
15 Pages

Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Bulgarian Stock Market Returns

  • Lilko Dospatliev,
  • Miroslava Ivanova and
  • Milen Varbanov

24 February 2022

The purpose of this paper is to provide the first empirical research analysing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Bulgarian stock market before its onset and in the four pandemic waves. For this purpose, we used a fixed effect panel data reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
24,425 Views
15 Pages

There has been growing acknowledgment among scholars, prison staff and policy-makers that gender-informed thinking should feed into penal policy but must be implemented holistically if gains are to be made in reducing trauma, saving lives, ensuring e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
15,066 Views
16 Pages

Forging a Frailty-Ready Healthcare System to Meet Population Ageing

  • Wee Shiong Lim,
  • Sweet Fun Wong,
  • Ian Leong,
  • Philip Choo and
  • Weng Sun Pang

The beginning of the 21st century has seen health systems worldwide struggling to deliver quality healthcare amidst challenges posed by ageing populations. The increasing prevalence of frailty with older age and accompanying complexities in physical,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,001 Views
48 Pages

31 July 2025

Urban health planning requires a multi-scalar understanding of the territory, capable of capturing socio-economic inequalities and health needs at the local level. In the case of Rome, current administrative subdivisions—Urban Zones (Zone Urban...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
19,275 Views
35 Pages

This systematic review investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in cost estimation within project management, focusing on its impact on accuracy and efficiency compared to traditional methods. This study synthesizes findings from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,763 Views
37 Pages

This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sector volatility in sub-Saharan Africa by drawing evidence from two large and two small stock exchanges in the region. The analysis included stock-specific data, COVID-19 metrics, and macroe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,929 Views
21 Pages

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Architecture for Software Version Control

  • Muhammad Hammad,
  • Jawaid Iqbal,
  • Ch Anwar ul Hassan,
  • Saddam Hussain,
  • Syed Sajid Ullah,
  • Mueen Uddin,
  • Urooj Ali Malik,
  • Maha Abdelhaq and
  • Raed Alsaqour

27 February 2023

Version control is an important component of configuration management, and most enterprise-level software uses different tools and technologies to manage the software version control such as CVS, Subversion, or Perforce. Following the success of bitc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,617 Views
21 Pages

Emerging stock markets provide great opportunities for investment growth and risk diversification. However, they are more vulnerable to extreme market events. This study examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock performance in sub-Sahara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,029 Views
31 Pages

26 February 2024

Currently, the management of public real estate stocks is one of the most challenging activities. In this case, facility management emerges as a strategic but complex discipline that requires a great amount of integrated and structured data and infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,397 Views
13 Pages

Smart Facility Management: Future Healthcare Organization through Indoor Positioning Systems in the Light of Enterprise BIM

  • Tor Åsmund Evjen,
  • Seyed Reza Hosseini Raviz,
  • Sobah Abbas Petersen and
  • John Krogstie

1 August 2020

Synthesizing the Internet of Things (IoT) with building information modeling (BIM) can improve the performance of the data collection. In this regard, BIM endeavors to enable real-time monitoring conditions of buildings. This paper is focused on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,686 Views
20 Pages

23 December 2022

There is a growing interest in identifying the benefits that companies may have once they disclose financial and sustainability information in integrated reports. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between integrated thinking and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
476 Views
18 Pages

10 December 2025

The dual Hukou system, originating in China’s planned economy period, structured Chinese society into separate urban and rural segments, thereby generating distinct sets of rights and benefits for agricultural and non-agricultural residents reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,695 Views
16 Pages

Implied Tail Risk and ESG Ratings

  • Jingyan Zhang,
  • Jan De Spiegeleer and
  • Wim Schoutens

8 July 2021

This paper explores whether the high or low ESG rating of a company is related to the level of its implied tail risk, measured on the basis of derivative data by implied skewness and implied kurtosis. Previous research suggests that the ESG rating of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
399 Citations
73,744 Views
30 Pages

Sustainable Business Models: A Review

  • Saeed Nosratabadi,
  • Amir Mosavi,
  • Shahaboddin Shamshirband,
  • Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas,
  • Andry Rakotonirainy and
  • Kwok Wing Chau

19 March 2019

During the past two decades of e-commerce growth, the concept of a business model has become increasingly popular. More recently, the research on this realm has grown rapidly, with diverse research activity covering a wide range of application areas....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,208 Views
27 Pages

Analyzing Systemic Risk Spillover Networks Through a Time-Frequency Approach

  • Liping Zheng,
  • Ziwei Liang,
  • Jiaoting Yi and
  • Yuhan Zhu

22 June 2025

This paper investigates the spillover effects and transmission networks of systemic risk within China’s national economic sectors under extreme conditions from both time and frequency domain perspectives, building upon the spillover index metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,319 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2023

As urbanization continues to advance globally, the issue of “urban ailments” has become increasingly prominent. To promptly identify problems arising from urban development, it is crucial to investigate not only the quality of human habit...