16 January 2020
Demand calculation, which is the base of most logistics decisions and activities, is a critical work in humanitarian logistics (HL). However, previous studies on demand calculation in HL mainly focus on demand forecasting methodology, with many negle...
Accurately forecasting emergency material demand during the initial stages of disaster response is challenging due to communication disruptions and data scarcity. This study proposes a hybrid model integrating regression analysis and intelligent anal...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) supports research, development, and deployment of efficient, sustainable transportation technologies that will improve energy efficiency and fuel economy, and enable America to use les...
In a public health emergency, residents urgently require a large number of rescue materials for treatment or protection. These rescue materials are usually located far from the emergency area. The government must organize rescue materials transportat...
Underground hydrogen storage in porous formations requires numerical models able to represent multiphase flow, gas dissolution, diffusion, capillary effects, and gas mixture behaviour under conditions that may involve temperature changes, salinity an...
Effective emergency relief allocation in dynamic post-disaster environments depends critically on accurate and timely demand information. From a sustainability perspective, improving allocation accuracy is essential for using scarce rescue resources...
Earthquakes are sudden and highly destructive events that severely disrupt infrastructure and logistics systems, making accurate and timely emergency material demand forecasting a critical challenge in disaster response. However, the scarcity of reli...
The Demand-Driven Material Resource Planning (DDMRP) method is one of the newer methods of inventory management in an enterprise. Its creation was initiated by a change in the business environment and the characteristics of today’s supply chain...
Timely, differentiated distribution of emergency materials reduces flood losses and supports resilient, sustainable cities, and yet demand urgency is rarely quantified jointly with routing. We propose an integrated framework combining game-theoretic...
Central air-conditioning systems play a significant role in the demand response (DR) strategies of buildings due to their high energy consumption and flexible energy use. Previous simulation-based studies have shown that the use of phase change mater...
In this paper, we describe a novel human interaction platform in a car, called buttons on demand, that will serve as buttons inside the interior of a car, which can be called upon and activated when required but remain concealed and inactive when not...
In the context of long-term infectious disease epidemics, guaranteeing the dispatch of materials is important to emergency management. The epidemic situation is constantly changing; it is necessary to build a reasonable mechanism to dispatch emergenc...
Post-disaster emergency perishable material distribution is an essential part of emergency relief, which is of great significance to reducing disaster losses and casualties and improving rescue efficiency. However, in actual rescue, the demand inform...
The distribution of emergency perishable materials after a disaster, such as an earthquake, is an essential part of emergency resource dispatching. However, the traditional single-period distribution model can hardly solve this problem because of inc...
Nowadays, batteries for electric vehicles are expected to have a high energy density, allow fast charging and maintain long cycle life, while providing affordable traction, and complying with stringent safety and environmental standards. Extensive re...
Effective supply and demand matching for construction materials is a crucial challenge in large-scale railway projects, particularly in complex and hazardous environments. We propose a two-stage stochastic programing model that incorporates environme...
Accurate demand forecasting with uncertainty quantification is critical for materials management in power grid enterprises, yet existing methods struggle to capture multi-scale temporal dynamics across heterogeneous material categories while providin...
The performance of cover concrete is acknowledged as a major factor governing the degradation of concrete structures. Curing plays a vital role in the development of concrete durability. The effects of different water-binder ratios and mineral admixt...
Femtosecond laser processing combines highly accurate structuring with low residual heating of materials, low thermal damage, and nonlinear absorption processes, making it suitable for the machining of transparent brittle materials. However, with hig...
Circular economy is a crucial strategy for achieving sustainable development. The use of solar PV, which is a renewable energy source, has been considered a popular indicator to measure and evaluate the circularity of an economy and enterprises. The...
Objectives: Biobanks collect biological material prospectively for future, yet unspecified research needs. The relationship between collection strategy and actual utilization remains poorly documented, yet understanding usage patterns is critical for...
Background: In the current context of increasing competitiveness and complexity in markets, accurate demand forecasting has become a key element for efficient production planning. Methods: This study implements recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to pre...
The environmental pollution problem caused by the construction industry has been paid attention to by scholars. However, few existing studies on supply chain management explore the interplay between information-sharing strategies and green-effort str...
This manuscript integrates the experimental findings of recently developed epoxy-phase change material (PCM) formulations with modeling efforts aimed to determine the energy demands and savings derived from their use. The basic PCM system employed wa...
The electrification of mobility increases the need for efficient local distribution and charging infrastructures. In this context, direct current (DC) architectures may reduce conversion stages, transmission losses, and material demand compared with...
The chemical industry has to deal with increasing uncertainties regarding the boundary conditions of their production processes. On the one hand, uncertainties affect the availability, quality, and prizes of raw material and energy. On the other hand...
The motivation for research to help address climate change is a continuous process of searching for eco-friendly materials in the building industry, which will allow minimizing the negative impact of this sector on the environment. The main objective...
The ambitious targets for renewable energies in Germany indicate that the steady growth of installed capacity of the past years will continue for the coming decades. This development is connected with significant material flows—primary material deman...
Background: this research presents an integrated approach to enhancing the sustainability of plastic bag supply chains in Indonesia by addressing critical issues related to ineffective post-consumer waste management and low recycling rates. The objec...
Urbanization is a global trend: Since 2007 more than 50% of the world’s population have been living in urban areas, and rates of urbanization are continuing to rise everywhere. This growth in urbanization has led to an increased demand for natu...
Urban buildings consume raw material and energy, and they produce waste and greenhouse gasses. Sustainable urban development strategies aim to reduce these. Using the case study of buildings in Vienna, this article evaluates the impact of a defined u...
This model extends the classical economic production quantity (EPQ) model to address the complexities within a two-echelon supply chain system. The model integrates the cost of raw materials necessary for production and takes into account the presenc...
Controlling the phase-separated structure of polymer alloys is a promising method for tailoring the properties of polymers. However, controlling the morphology of phase-separated structures is challenging. Recently, phase-separated structures have be...
In recent years, epidemic disasters broke through frequently around the world, posing a huge threat to economic and social development, as well as human health. A fair and accurate distribution of emergency supplies during an epidemic is vital for im...
Factory announcements for battery production are increasing in number as European demand for battery cells grows. Using a Monte Carlo simulation (108 projects as of October 2025) with risk factors for individual projects, the predicted theoretical pr...
Domestic refrigeration and freezing appliances can be used for electrical load shifting from peak to off-peak demand periods, thus allowing greater penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) and significantly contributing to the reduction of CO2 e...
In this article, thermal performance of different waste materials and by-products of industrial processes is investigated experimentally. A geopolymer concrete block with 7.5 cm thickness and cross-sectional area of 5 × 5 cm was considered as a...
A concentrated photovoltaic system is evaluated as a thermal energy source employing phase change material to meet the domestic water heating demand. A paraffin wax-based phase change material is selected with a 58 °C melting point to store enoug...
(1) Background: Patient education materials are frequently used by dietitians to support counselling and reinforce key concepts. No studies have examined the quality of dietetic patient education materials for diabetes and common gastrointestinal con...
This paper aims to critically review the current body of literature relating to the calculation methods of construction material stock. To this end, this study adopts a systematic literature review technique in order to identify the relevant studies....
As critical minerals required for the production of new energy batteries, the demand forecasts and trends for Li, Co, Ni, and Mn are of crucial importance for ensuring the energy transition and China’s sustainable development. This study has de...
The characteristics of the envelope of a building determine, together with other factors, its consumption of energy. Additionally, the climate zone and insulation material may vary the minimum insulation thickness of walls and roofs, making it differ...
Extraordinary emergencies trigger disruptive demand surges that frequently exceed the operational limits of existing supply chains. While traditional studies focus on optimizing stock resource efficiency, the mobilization of emergency production to g...
The future availability of mineral resources has attracted much attention; therefore, a quantitative evaluation of the potential impacts of resource use on future availability is important. Although the surplus cost model is often recommended among t...
Humanity is using mineral resources at an unprecedented level and demand will continue to grow over the next few decades before stabilizing by the end of the century, due to the economic development of populated countries and the energy and digital t...
The boom in technological advances in recent decades has led to increased demand for rare earth elements (REEs) (also known as rare earth metals) across various industries with wide-ranging industrial applications, including in the clean energy secto...
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As the land ecosystem provides the necessary basic material resources for human development, land ecological security (LES) plays an increasingly important role in sustainable development. Given the degradation of land ecological security under rapid...
Modern residential balconies have the potential to function as passive solar buffer spaces, yet their thermal performance in cold-region high-rise apartments remains insufficiently explored. This study proposes a stepwise glazing–phase change m...
Phase change material (PCM)-based thermal energy storage (TES) can provide energy and cost savings and peak demand reduction benefits for grid-interactive residential buildings. Researchers established that these benefits vary greatly depending on th...
LUSI mud obtained from the mud volcano in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, is a viable aluminosilicate material to be utilized as pozzolanic material. LUSI is an abbreviation of the local name of the mud, i.e., Lumpur Sidoarjo, meaning Sidoarjo mud. This paper r...
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