The concept of sustainability in agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) is gaining traction among researchers and practitioners. There has been a considerable effort to define and identify frameworks for assessing, monitoring, and improving sustainability p...
Smallholder farmers, key actors in agri-food supply chains, still face persistent challenges in applying sustainability strategies due to limited resources, context variability, and weak-performance monitoring systems. Their multidimensional needs, a...
As China’s urbanization enters the middle and late stages, urban regeneration has risen to the strategic level of building a new national development pattern and promoting high-quality urban development. Due to the wide range of disciplines and...
The cultural heritage of the Liao dynasty in Chifeng encompasses significant historical and cultural information that requires systematic digital preservation and management. However, heterogeneous data sources across museums, archives, and research...
This study considers an asset-liability optimization model based on constraint robustness with the chance constraint of capital to risk assets ratio in a safety-first framework under the condition that only moment information is known. This paper aim...
An important way to realize urban–rural integration and regional coordinated development is to attract labor forces back to rural areas. Most of the existing studies consider the impact of individual factors on population migration, they lack a...
The performance evaluation of the government venture capital guiding fund (GVCGF) has come into focus in the field of venture capital. Most of the existing studies, such as whether the GVCGF has guided social capital to start-up enterprises and has p...
Rural resilience building has gained increasing scholarly attention, yet existing literature overlooks the temporal dynamics of resilience evolution and lacks an integrative framework to explain cross-level mechanisms. This paper uses a longitudinal...
This paper presents a stakeholder engagement framework, which is built on the systems innovation approach (SIA). The framework is developed to facilitate a decision-analytic platform, structured on a multi-level integrated WEF (water-energy-food) mod...
The narrow conceptualization of capitalism is increasingly challenged as destinations recognize the need to integrate equity and resilience into tourism development. Increasingly, destinations have been using tourism to move away from extractive indu...
The development of the complex and multi-dimensional urban socio-economic system creates impacts on natural capital and human capital, which range from a local to a global scale. An emergy-based multiple spatial scale analysis framework and a rigorou...
Estimating the expected capital and its variability is a crucial objective for a non-life insurance company, which enables the firm to develop effective management strategies. Many studies have been devoted to this topic, with simulative approaches b...
21 September 2022
Based on the social and psychological capital framework, this study aimed to investigate the direct effect of bullying on adolescents’ subjective well-being and to reveal the potential psychosocial mechanisms in this relationship. Through the m...
Human Capital Agility is increasingly recognized as a critical capability for achieving sustainable project success in the highly dynamic construction sector, yet an original and empirically testable Human Capital Agility model rooted in Human Capita...
We propose a multi-cohort model that is able to capture the mortality correlation between different cohorts. The model is based on the Hull and White process to which we incorporate inter-generational risk factors, by modifying its stochastic part. W...
29 November 2021
Although hand hygiene (HH) is the most effective intervention to reduce the spread of infections, there are limited data on HH facilities, policy, and compliance in sub-Saharan Africa. This cross-sectional study is aimed at assessing HH using the WHO...
9 October 2021
Background: Rural US communities experience health disparities, including a lower prevalence of physical activity (PA). However, “Positive Deviants”—rural communities with greater PA than their peers—exist. The purpose of this study was to identify t...
This study investigates how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) contribute to rural revitalization in China through systemic interventions that enable the transfer of social capital. Addressing the gap between external resource inputs and internal develop...
In competitive organizations and projects, assessing risks related to human capital is essential for improving workplace conditions and ensuring project success. This study evaluates primary, secondary, and residual human capital risks in urban water...
The coordination of heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for complex, multi-stage tasks presents a significant challenge in robotics and autonomous systems. Traditional linear models often fail to capture the emergent synergistic effects and...
Techno-economic optimization of a standalone solar/wind/battery hybrid system located in Xining, China, is the focus of this paper, and reliable and economic indicators are simultaneously employed to address the problem. To obtain a more precise Pare...
To promote global sustainable development, this paper focuses on the identification of relative poverty. On the one hand, based on the sustainable livelihoods framework, a multi-dimensional relative poverty identification index system is constructed,...
Early-stage start-up selection is a critical yet challenging task for venture capital (VC) investors due to high uncertainty, limited historical data, and rapidly evolving business environments. Traditional evaluation processes often fall short in sy...
Sustainable livelihoods are those that are able to cope with and recover from stress and shocks, and that maintain or strengthen livelihood capacity and livelihood capital, without damaging the foundations of the natural environment. In this paper, t...
This article seeks to address knowledge gaps on sustainability indicators (SIs) in rural and natural resource-dependent communities, considering how they are used to contextualize sustainable development priorities and support local governance. We bu...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance has become a pivotal driver of firm valuation, investment flows, and capital market stability and a critical dimension of corporate sustainability and investor decision-making. Yet, emerging mar...
Development of distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms has attracted an increasing surge of interest lately. Generally speaking, conventional Model-Based (MB) or Model-Free (MF) RL algorithms are not directly applicable to th...
This study presents a sociotechnical framework for mitigating ethnic violent conflicts by integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) with community-based social capital. Drawing on longitudinal case studies from three conflict-pron...
Despite the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) on a global scale, a comprehensive framework that maps its end-to-end value chain is missing. The presented study employed a multi-layered framework to analyze the value creation and delivery...
This study examines the mobilization of social and cultural capital among first and second-generation Afro-Caribbeans in Canada, focusing specifically on Jamaican and Haitian populations. Employing an analytical model grounded in resistance and ident...
The urban built environment concentrates due to the growing urbanization trend, triggering construction and renovation works in urban areas. Although construction works often revitalize cities upon completion, the associated logistics activities enge...
The need for integrated methodological framework for sustainability assessment has been widely discussed and is urgent due to increasingly complex environmental system problems. These problems have impacts on ecosystems and human well-being which rep...
17 January 2026
This study investigates the valuation dynamics of 30 publicly listed fintech firms across six Asian economies from January 2021 to December 2025. It examines how intrinsic firm-level scale (market capitalization) and extrinsic macroeconomic condition...
This conceptual review article critically examines the systemic features and contradictions of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and the ‘opportunity/danger paradox’ in the development and deployment of large language models (LLM...
Through a systematic, holistic and transdisciplinary approach and by proposing five phases of “goal information”, “system analyzing”, “scenario construction”, “multi-criteria assessment” and “stra...
The maritime industry faces growing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reflected in the progressive adoption of stricter international energy regulations. Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems (WAPS) offer a promising solution by significa...
Access to finance is a key element of sustainable and inclusive landscapes. We conducted a literature review to identify the factors that contribute to or hinder inclusive financing for micro/small/medium-sized enterprises and projects across sectors...
Communities of practice (CoPs) interact with a range of external stakeholders who collectively influence the direction of the community and the achievement of its goals. In the case of multi-actor co-innovation partnerships, which are perceived as a...
The study aims to explore a conceptual model for the sustainable reciprocity relationships in sport-based initiatives and empirically test the model and its underlying mechanism in the context of a real sport-based national initiative. Adapting a sem...
Large-scale transitions to eco-friendly vehicle fleets present complex capital budgeting challenges, requiring the integration of extensive operational data with financial modeling while balancing economic profitability and environmental sustainabili...
As an important part of market-based reforms, the issue of “risk” has always been a part of the public–private partnership (PPP) debate, and the way in which risks are managed determines the sustainability of market-based reforms. T...
The “Ten-Year Fishing Ban” policy in the Yangtze River Basin aims to restore ecological diversity but poses significant challenges for the fishermen in their transition to alternative livelihoods. This study focuses on fishermen who worke...
This paper seeks to explore the sustainable development of contemporary Chinese villages by taking Nalu Village in China as a case study. Ethnographic in-depth interviews and observations are used to investigate the transformation of the rich history...
This research explores the least explored domain concerning the impact of monetary tactics on carbon dioxide emissions in China, thereby adding depth to environmental economics. The analysis spans 1982–2022 and explores the interplay between mo...
Resilience of human systems has increasingly become a popular topic of research. The aim of this article is to present a juxtaposition of public officials’ and residents’ perceptions of community resilience along the three-class typology...
Environmental Protection Plans (EPPs) are vital for mitigating the socio-ecological impacts of quarry operations, especially in emerging economies like Thailand, where rapid industrialization often intensifies air, water, noise, and land degradation....
In capital-intensive industries, operational knowledge is often trapped in unstructured technical manuals, creating a barrier to efficient and reliable maintenance planning. This work addresses the need for an integrated system that can automate know...
The detection of weak moving targets in heterogeneous clutter backgrounds is a significant challenge in radar systems. In this paper, we propose a track-before-detect (TBD) method based on information geometry (IG) theory applied to range-azimuth mea...
The wind turbine blade is subject to multi-source impacts, such as bird strikes, lightning strikes, and hail, throughout its extended service. Accurate localization of those impact sources is a key technical link in structural health monitoring of th...
Forest biomass is an appealing bioenergy feedstock due its renewability, availability and potential to stimulate local economies. It is, however, voluminous, with heterogenous fuel characteristics and uncertainties in its supply. The feasibility of a...
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