This study explores the operational implications and safety considerations of using non-primary fuels—AVGAS, MOGAS, and F76 Dieso—in military transport aircraft, against the backdrop of standard aviation fuels. Through an analysis of fuel...
As the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) continues to rise, the simultaneous import and export of energy can lead to excessive voltage violations. Therefore, calculating dynamic operating envelopes (DOEs), which represent time-varyin...
The operation envelope of distribution networks can obtain the independent p-q controllable range of each active node, providing an effective means to address the issues of different ownership and control objectives between distribution networks and...
The integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) into power grids presents significant challenges to grid performance, requiring innovative solutions for effective operation. Dynamic Operating Envelopes (DOEs) offer a promising approach by opti...
Landing a helicopter to the ship flight deck is most demanding even for the most experienced pilots and modeling and simulation of the ship-helicopter dynamic interface is a substantially challenging technical problem. In this paper, a coupling numer...
Federated learning (FL) for distributed smart-grid monitoring is shaped jointly by statistical heterogeneity and communication timing. This study evaluates protocol operating envelopes rather than proposing a new aggregator. A frozen confirmatory cam...
The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, battery energy storage systems (BESSs), and electric vehicles (EVs) in low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) distribution networks is reshap...
The selection of a temperature probe for aerodynamic applications involves a critical trade-off between the measurement accuracy and structural robustness. While the existing literature typically treats thermal performance and structural limits as is...
Many intensive care unit bedside devices lack interoperable digital outputs, so clinically important readings are transferred into records by intermittent manual charting. Camera-based optical character recognition (OCR) offers an interface-independe...
Human movement is vital for life, with active engagement affording function, limiting disease, and improving quality; with loss resulting in disability; and the treatment and training leading to restoration and enhancement. To foster these endeavors...
Rolling element bearings (REBs) are vital in rotating machinery, making fault detection essential for optimal performance and system reliability. This study assesses the effectiveness of a simple convolutional neural network (SCNN) and a transfer lea...
Unmanned surface vehicle (USV) formations operating under GNSS denial require accurate relative localization using proprioceptive sensors and inter-vehicle ranging. This paper presents an anomaly-aware adaptive extended Kalman filter for four-USV for...
Reliable condition indicators are necessary to perform effective diagnosis and prognosis. However, the vibration signals are often corrupted with non-Gaussian noise and rotating machines may operate under time-varying operating conditions. This imped...
Container terminals comprise multiple interdependent operational areas, yet conventional data envelopment analysis models often treat terminal operations as a single production process or represent them using only broad ship-side and landside functio...
Market globalisation, shortened patent lifetimes and the ongoing shift towards personalised medicines exert unprecedented pressure on the pharmaceutical industry. In the push for continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing, processes need to be shown to...
With the increasing penetration of renewable energy and the intensification of load fluctuations, power electrical equipment frequently operates under complex conditions such as heavy loads. Traditional spinning reserve allocation methods based on fi...
Back-up heaters are essential for sustainable retrofit heat pump systems to achieve low capital costs and high system temperatures. Despite its importance, current literature focuses primarily on single aspects of the interaction between the back-up...
Finding the most appropriate configuration of building components at the design stage can reduce energy consumption in new buildings. This study aims to optimize the design of the envelope of a new residential building located in a warm climate (sout...
Operational risk assessment has received considerable attention in bank risk management. However, current assessment methods are primarily designed to assess the risk profile of individual banks. To enable cross-bank operational risk assessment, we p...
Malaysia has great geo-economic advantages, especially in becoming a major logistics and investment hub. However, as operational risk events create uncertainties, logistics companies suffer from supply and demand issues which affect their bottom line...
The efficiency of an industrial park’s operations is an indicator of how well the park can serve the companies located there. These supports include support for environmental water resources and business operations. In this study, a model for m...
It is yet to be determined whether the firms’ operational inefficiency is reflected on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) engagement approach. This paper aims to examine this association and specifically analyzes to which of the dimensio...
To date, along with the rapid development of urban rail transit (URT) in China, the evaluation of operational efficiency and energy efficiency has become one of the most important topics. However, the extant literature regarding the efficiency of URT...
Air transport provides important transportation services for economic development; meanwhile, its operation requires massive resource inputs into the air transport sector (ATS). In order to ensure sustainable development of air transport industry, im...
Since the 1990s, market liberalization of the electricity industry has advanced all around the world. To survive in the drastically changing business environment, incumbent electric utility companies have conducted operational reforms, including Merg...
Textile membrane systems are increasingly used in sports halls because of their low structural weight, rapid assembly, and ability to span large areas. Their operational performance, however, is strongly affected by local climate conditions, envelope...
This paper proposes an extended data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for deriving eco-efficiency. In order to derive eco-efficiency, the proposed model utilizes the concepts of operational efficiency and environmental efficiency. Since DEA can separ...
This study aims to evaluate the operational efficiency of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and explore optimization strategies to enhance resource utilization and service performance. A systematic review approach was first applied to identify...
To delineate admissible operating conditions of hydrostatic guideways under coupled multi-degree-of-freedom pose variations, a deterministic pose space envelope based on geometric contact and vertical-stiffness performance criteria was developed. The...
In this paper, we present a novel variational wavelet inpainting based on the total variation (TV) regularization and the l1-norm fitting term. The goal of this model is to recover incomplete wavelet coefficients in the presence of impulsive noise. B...
The expansion of global tourism development has led to an increase in environmental burdens. This study aimed to assess the operational performance and the environmental impacts associated with food service establishments in Phuket, an international...
As one of the important pillar industries in China, the automotive industry (i.e., the traditional vehicle and the new energy vehicle (NEV) sub-industries) plays a significant role in the national economy and social development. In this paper, by usi...
Phosphene-based visual neuroprostheses require encoding schemes that preserve task-relevant information while remaining feasible under safety-constrained stimulation. This study proposes a stress-based evaluation framework that reframes phosphene enc...
The objective of this paper is to propose a method for evaluating the eco-efficiency of business organizations. In order to adequately capture the inherent properties of eco-efficiency, we present a decision support model that can evaluate an organiz...
Since the 1980s, many electricity markets around the world have undergone restructuring aimed at improving efficiency. In 2002, the Chinese government also introduced a vertical unbundling reform to dismantle vertical monopolies and boost efficiency...
Hydropower units often operate under complex conditions caused by water head change, guide-vane regulation, and load adjustment. These condition changes make it difficult to identify gradual performance degradation from monitoring signals alone. To s...
Background/Objectives: The human performance envelope (HPE) is a multidimensional model that represents the range in which an individual operator’s performance is acceptable or begins to become dangerous. Although several alternative models hav...
Responding to cost inefficiency in the Indonesian cadastral mapping system, this study aimed to analyze the implementation of integrated mapping activities, namely complete systematic land registration, assessing land value zones, and regional land s...
The objective of this study is to assess the efficiency of the operations strategy matrix in the healthcare system of U.S. states amid COVID-19. Output-Oriented Data Envelopment Analysis was used to assess the efficiency of the operations strategy ma...
Globalization is embedded in socioeconomic development at the glocal scale (local to global). Drawing up from Kate Raworth’s Doughnut economics framework coupled with UN Sustainable development goals, we interrogate the relationship of globalization...
Today, over 80% of global trade is seaborne. In a world of global supply chains and complex industrial development processes, seaports and port operators play an integral role of utmost importance and act as an incentive to the development of the mar...
Effective decision-making techniques are essentially dependent on the capacity to balance (symmetry) requirements and their fulfilment, that is, the capacity to accurately identify a collection of factors that have the greatest influence on performan...
The sustainable integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) with the next-generation distribution networks requires robust, adaptive, and accurate hosting capacity (HC) forecasting. Dynamic Operating Envelopes (DOE) provide real-time constraint...
Stand-alone microgrids have become reliable and efficient solutions for remote areas and critical infrastructures. However, the converters within these microgrids experience long-term complex power fluctuations caused by random variations in micro so...
For years, China has adopted environmental regulations in developing ports to improve their sustainability. Based on the data of Chinese ports from 2009 to 2018, this paper presents a data envelopment analysis model with subdividing input-output indi...
It is widely recognised that improving the visibility and controllability of distributed energy resources (DERs) within electricity distribution networks will have significant benefits, particularly for the management of low-voltage (LV) and medium-v...
In recent years, the air transport sector has played a significant role in the economy of the areas served. The demand for air travel has doubled every fifteen years and has grown faster with respect to other industries. This is also due to the intro...
Improving municipal efficiency and governance resilience has become increasingly critical in the face of fiscal pressure, demographic growth, service delivery complexity, and the growing demand for evidence-based operational sustainability and munici...
Road transport is the principal means of transporting freight and passengers in most developing countries, but several factors, both alone and in conjunction, contribute to increased inefficiency, risk and instability in the sector. The main factors...
The sustainable growth of the AI industry depends not only on market expansion and technological advancement but also on whether AI supplier firms can efficiently transform their resource investments into stable economic outcomes. This study examines...
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