Empirical research on the impact of the digital economy on sustainable development is hampered by severe methodological challenges. Discrepancies in the theoretical foundations and construction logic of measurement frameworks have led to diverse and...
In the context of a dry port, sustainable operations involve developing and implementing policies and procedures that reduce adverse effects on the environment, advance economic viability, and strengthen social responsibility. Several factors contrib...
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The 2007 U.S. National Institutes of Health EPR-3 guidelines emphasize the importance creating a provider-patient partnership to enable patients/families to monitor and take control of their asthma, so that treatment can be adjusted as needed. Howeve...
Measurement and Verification (M&V) aims to quantify savings achieved as part of energy efficiency and energy management projects. M&V depends heavily on metered energy data, modelling parameters and uncertainties that govern the energy system...
Accurate oil–water interface measurement in small transparent test tubes is important for subsequent volume readout in laboratory analysis. However, manual observation and conventional vision-based methods are easily affected by illumination va...
The confluence of financial constraints, climate change mitigation efforts, and evolving user expectations has significantly transformed the concept of facility management (FM). Traditional FM has now evolved to enhance sustainability in the built en...
To be applicable to real-world networks, a realistic evaluation of network measurement tools requires the conditions of the test network to be as similar as possible to the networks in which they are later deployed. Thus, having an existing real-worl...
The safety and reliability of modern power systems are increasingly challenged by adverse environmental conditions. (1) Background: Ice accumulation on power transmission lines is recognized as a severe threat to grid stability, as tower collapse, co...
Personal Branding (PB) has gained significant attention in recent years, especially in career advancement and business success. This study addresses the research gap in Personal Brand Equity (PBE) measurement by developing and validating a standardiz...
Digital literacy (DL) is a cornerstone of sustainable digital transformation in education, yet its systemic cultivation among pre-service teachers in resource-constrained regions remains critically under-theorized. This study develops and validates a...
User experience (UX) has drawn the attention of the banking industry in the past few decades. Although banking systems have a complete service process to ensure financial safety for customers, the mobile banking UX has much potential to be improved....
The Chinese space station is a complex structure with large flexible appendages. Obtaining the on-orbit response characteristics of such a structure under different working conditions is a traditional and classic challenge in the field of dynamics. T...
Effective incorporation of new technologies into the education system has become a basic need in today’s globalized world, especially in adapting life to the new normal, which is seen by an increase in online learning. Thus, a blended learning...
The escalating prominence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria within contemporary corporate practice has generated a proliferation of measurement and reporting frameworks, creating substantial challenges regarding comparability an...
In the context of the “dual carbon” goals, this study examines the spatiotemporal patterns and evolution of urban low-carbon coordinated development (LCCD). Based on the integrated Economy–Energy–Environment–Society (3E1...
Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (IAHS) are complex adaptive systems that are multidimensional and exhibit strategic values of sustainability. In the context of modernization, IAHS have been increasingly challenged. Thus, the heritage sites mu...
Buildings consume large amounts of energy resources and emit considerable amounts of greenhouse gases, especially existing buildings that do not meet energy standards. Building retrofitting is considered one of the most promising and significant solu...
Universities are increasingly expected to contribute to societal and environmental challenges, yet the concept of the fourth mission remains fragmented and weakly operationalized in the literature. This study aims to develop a measurement framework f...
In recent years, the food processing industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has faced increasing pressures to improve operational efficiency while improving its environmental performance. This research examines whether Lean Six Sigma (LSS) me...
In recent years, organisations have increasingly transitioned their workloads from on-premise infrastructures to cloud environments, while leveraging edge computing to meet the rising demand for scalable and distributed applications. This shift has a...
The concepts of resilience and livelihood resilience are growing in prominence with water resource development that aims to measure and build resilience to specific disturbances and shocks. However, practical frameworks to measure livelihood resilien...
In recent years, the concentration risk of the Internet has intensified, with traffic being concentrated in the hands of a few service providers. However, existing research focuses on the client-side perspective and lacks a centralized measurement of...
A road network is an important spatial carrier for the efficient and reliable operation of urban services and material flows. In recent years, the “high road density, small block size” trend has become a major focus in urban planning prac...
Despite good ideas, great efforts, and high investments, many projects do not end with success. Projects often fail due to a lack of understanding of the project requirements and constraints necessary for overall success. Five selected projects were...
The digital divide (DD) reflects the inequality of the digital economy, while existing research lacks a comprehensive framework for investigating the measurement of DD and its determinants. This study constructs a new framework with a five-dimensiona...
As sustainability becomes more critical to corporate strategy and performance, firms, investors, and researchers must continue to refine methods for measuring and addressing the gap between rhetoric and reality. Closing this gap is crucial to ensurin...
International migration research is entering a phase in which digitalization reshapes how migration processes are measured, modeled, and governed. At the same time, recent scholarship emphasizes the need to further develop migration theory so that it...
This study proposes a framework that leverages natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning techniques to measure, identify, and classify examinees’ writing strategies. The framework integrates three categories of writing strat...
The measurements of the diameter of different layers, the thickness of different layers and the eccentricity of insulation layer in the cross-section of power cables are important items of power cable test, which currently depend on labor-intensive m...
How to objectively evaluate the effect of different vectorization models in measuring similarity between patents is a fundamental issue, which can help to select high-performance vectorization models to support advanced patent services. Based on the...
Childhood myopia is increasingly discussed in relation to digital device use, yet total screen duration is biologically nonspecific (not tied to a single biological cause) and may combine outdoor-light deficit, near work intensity, educational routin...
Image-based measurement of chopped maize stalk length remains difficult because the fragments are often slender, curved, touching, or partly overlapped. Bounding-box dimensions are therefore not reliable for length estimation, and manual measurement...
This paper presents a photogrammetry-based volume measurement framework for the particle density estimation of Lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA). The results are compared with computed tomography (CT) and Archimedes’ method measurement...
Binary actuator systems are widely used in industrial and agricultural automation because of their simple structure and low implementation cost. However, sensing delay and measurement noise can cause repeated triggering when threshold conditions are...
Wind characteristics (e.g., mean wind speed, gust factor, turbulence intensity and integral scale, etc.) are quite scattered in different measurement conditions, especially during typhoon and/or hurricane processes, which results in the structural en...
Financial instability is traditionally measured using indicators such as volatility levels, financial stress indices, or forecast errors, limiting the ability to capture the state-conditional and distributional properties of market dynamics. In this...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled the development of various applications for energy, exploiting unprecedented data collection, multi-stage data processing, enhanced awareness, and control of the physical environment. In this context, the avai...
The reduced density matrix that characterises the state of an open quantum system is a projection from the full density matrix of the quantum system and its environment, and there are many full density matrices consistent with a given reduced version...
Historically, technological progress has driven shifts in the labour market, leading to the disappearance of certain jobs while simultaneously creating new roles fueled by the need to work with emerging technologies. The technological advancements of...
Online hotel booking intention is commonly examined through technological, experiential, marketing-related, relational, and social constructs; however, measurement content remains fragmented across studies, with limited attention to transparent proce...
Organizations face significant challenges in measuring and enhancing sustainability performance across complex operational processes. Current assessment methods frequently lack granularity, real-time capability, and integration with operational data....
Recently, the number of people who are members of multiple online social networks simultaneously has increased. However, if these people share everything with others, they risk their privacy. Users may be unaware of the privacy risks involved with sh...
Background/Objectives: Health systems globally are transforming toward population-based, person-centred care, yet measurement systems frequently remain anchored in provider-centric or disease-specific frameworks. This paper presents the Systemic Heal...
Accurate reconstruction of transient pressure histories using polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensors is challenging because the measured electrical signals are influenced by both circuit dynamics and the time-dependent mechanical response of the meas...
Urban heat exposure is one of the most critical and rapidly intensifying impacts of climate change in metropolitan areas. Reliable measurement of outdoor thermal comfort is therefore essential not only for long-term climate-adaptation planning but al...
The evolution from Industry 4.0 to Industry 6.0 represents a paradigm shift—moving from automation toward an integrated model that incorporates intelligentization, sustainability, and human-centric resilience. While numerous conceptual framewor...
A semi-automated framework for vertebral measurement has been developed to overcome clinical limitations of subjectivity and poor reproducibility in spinal assessment. The framework integrates watershed segmentation with level-set functions and deter...
Robotic assistive devices, such as exoskeletons, are increasingly employed in walking rehabilitation. Therefore, the measurement of both movement kinematics and cognitive workload is important to understand this human–robot interaction in real-...
Accurate assessment of radiographic bone loss (RBL) is essential for periodontal diagnosis and staging; however, manual measurement from dental radiographs is labor-intensive, time-consuming and subject to inter- and intra-examiner variability. Exist...
Financial competence is seen as a complex ability necessary for people to deal with personal financial issues on a daily basis. To foster young peoples’ financial competence via sophisticated and tailored educational programs, the identificatio...
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