Smallholder beef cattle farms in South Africa have had low reproductive performance, which has been associated with management practices. Considering current farm management practices, a multi-stage selection study was conducted to assess reproductiv...
In the trend sport CrossFit®, international competition is held at the CrossFit® Games, known worldwide as the definitive fitness test. Since American athletes are the best in the world regarding CrossFit®, there might be influencing factors on inter...
The purpose of this study was to emphasize that the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method is an important benchmarking tool which provides necessary information for improving business performance. To fulfil the abovementioned goal, we used a sample...
Temperature control systems are a series of processes with large time-delay and non-linear characteristics. Research shows that using fractional-order modeling and corresponding control strategies can better control these processes. At the same time,...
An objective measure of building energy performance is crucial for performance assessment and rational decision making on energy retrofits and policies of existing buildings. One of the most popular measures of building energy performance benchmarkin...
This paper describes the development of three main functionalities for a domestic mobile service robot and an automatic benchmarking system used for the systematic performance evaluation of the robot’s functionalities. Three main robot function...
The inefficient water use, and variable and low productivity in Kenyan public irrigation schemes is a major concern. It is, therefore, necessary to periodically monitor and evaluate the performance of public irrigation schemes. This prompted evaluati...
This study aims to collect GPU rendering programs and analyze their characteristics to construct a benchmark dataset that reflects the characteristics of GPU rendering programs, providing a reference basis for designing the next generation of graphic...
Systems for graph processing are a key enabler for insights from large-scale graphs that are critical to many new advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and blockchain. In this study, we benchmark another two widel...
The emergence of large-scale quantum computing presents an imminent threat to contemporary public-key cryptosystems, with quantum algorithms such as Shor’s algorithm capable of efficiently breaking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Thi...
Climate change, increased government efforts towards sustainable economic growth, and all types of resource constraint have raised concern among academics and practitioners about the path to follow for keeping firms’ competitive advantage in su...
As one of the top contributors to global environmental impact, the building and construction sector has significant potential to mitigate resource consumption both during and after construction. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED...
The National Cookstove Program has been launched by the Federal Government of Mexico, attempting to reach one million rural homes by the year 2030. Voluntary ISO emission standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and carbon monoxide (CO) relate e...
Published database comparisons usually cover engine pairs, conflate engine and schema effects, and compare queries that compute different results. StreamCart, a realistic e-commerce benchmark, decomposes performance across an optimized relational bas...
The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) mandates European Union Member States (MS) to conduct cost-optimal studies using the national calculation methodology (NCM), typically through non-calibrated asset-rating software. Nearly zero-ener...
In an effort to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, it is necessary to first evaluate the energy performance of those buildings. Since it is difficult to obtain detailed information on existing buildings, the challenge is how to cond...
We consider the portfolio selection problem faced by a manager under the performance ratio with position and portfolio insurance (PI) constraints. By making use of a dual control method in an incomplete market setting, we find the unique pricing kern...
Assessing model performance is a continuous challenge for modelers of land use change. Comparing land use models with two neutral models, including the random constraint match model (RCM) and growing cluster model (GrC) that consider the initial land...
Benchmarking techniques are useful and simple tools to analyze the performance of the collective irrigation in the Water User Associations (WUAs) towards an increase in service sustainability. Several benchmarking techniques have been proposed to pro...
Considering the large number of optimisation techniques that have been integrated into the design of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) over the last three decades, the Java interpreter continues to persist as a significant bottleneck in the performance...
Engineering benchmark problems with specific characteristics have been used to compare the performance and reliability of metaheuristic algorithms, and water distribution system design benchmarks are also widely used. However, only a few benchmark de...
This study investigates the strategic decision-making abilities of large language models (LLMs) via the game of Tic-Tac-Toe, renowned for its straightforward rules and definitive outcomes. We developed a mobile application coupled with web services,...
Automated Essay Scoring (AES) automatically allocates scores to essays at scale and may help teachers reduce the heavy burden during grading activities. Recently, researchers have deployed neural-based AES approaches to improve upon the state-of-the-...
In Canada, higher educational institutions (HEIs) are responsible for a significant portion of energy consumption and anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Improving the environmental performance of HEIs is an important step to achieve nation...
The aim of the study is to discern benchmarks for the indicators L water cow−1 day−1 and L water kg milk−1 day−1 per type of production system and season. A total of 876 commercial dairy farms underwent comprehensive water con...
The proliferation of sensor networks in critical infrastructure, healthcare monitoring, and smart city applications demands robust privacy-preserving mechanisms for data verification. Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk...
CrossFit® began as another exercise program to improve physical fitness and has rapidly grown into the “sport of fitness”. However, little is understood as to the physiological indicators that determine CrossFit® sport performance...
Efficient interaction between PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) applications and MySQL databases is essential for the performance of modern web systems. This study systematically compares the two most widely used PHP APIs for working with MySQL databases&...
In recent years, optimization problems have received extensive attention from researchers, and metaheuristic algorithms have been proposed and applied to solve complex optimization problems. The wild horse optimizer (WHO) is a new metaheuristic algor...
Benchmarking has been central to performance evaluation for more than four decades. Reinhold P. Weicker’s 1990 survey in IEEE Computer offered an early, rigorous critique of standard benchmarks, warning about pitfalls that continue to surface i...
This paper deals with a comparative analysis and benchmarking of drinking water supply systems and water supply sector in the selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe. These include the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The artic...
Schemes for the assessment of farm animal welfare and assurance of welfare standards have proliferated in recent years. An acknowledged short-coming has been the lack of impact of these schemes on the welfare standards achieved on farm due in part to...
Serverless computing has grown massively in popularity over the last few years, and has provided developers with a way to deploy function-sized code units without having to take care of the actual servers or deal with logging, monitoring, and scaling...
Optimizing HPC systems based on performance factors and bottlenecks is essential for designing an HPC infrastructure with the best characteristics and at a reasonable cost. Such insight can only be achieved through a detailed analysis of existing HPC...
Mobile application workloads are inherently driven by user interactions and are characterized by short execution phases and frequent behavioral changes. These properties make it difficult for traditional micro-architecture analysis approaches, which...
In 2008, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE TM46 UC) presented an annual-fixed thermal energy benchmark of 240 kWh/m2/yr for university campus (UC) buildings as an attempt to reduce energy consumption in public buildings....
20 December 2022
The literature reports some experiences regarding the design of integrated healthcare Performance Evaluation Systems (PES) applied in Low- and Middle-income Countries (LMIC). This study describes the design of an integrated and bottom-up PES aimed at...
In sustainability and environmental performance assessment, as in many other multidimensional policy contexts, Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) composite indicators are widely used to compare units across multiple dimensions. However, their interpretation...
Selecting a data-management subsystem is a consequential decision in data-intensive applications, including AI pipelines that rely on low-latency storage. Such decisions are often informed by lightweight, application-specific benchmarks whose measure...
OpenFOAM is a CFD software widely used in both industry and academia. The exaFOAM project aims at enhancing the HPC scalability of OpenFOAM, while identifying its current bottlenecks and proposing ways to overcome them. For the assessment of the soft...
Lung cancer arises from mutations in lung cells, disrupting their normal growth cycle and leading to uncontrolled cell division. These rapidly dividing cells lose function and fail to form healthy lung tissue. Several factors contribute to the diffic...
Based on an analysis of TOP500 results, a functional dependence of the performance of clusters without accelerators according to the Linpack benchmark on their parameters was determined. The comparison of calculated and tested results showed that the...
26 June 2021
In arid regions such as Saudi Arabia, wastewater treatment (WWT) facilities (meeting promulgated standards) need to adapt their continuous performance improvement (CPI) for long-term sustainability. To achieve this, the facilities need to improve the...
Key exchange mechanisms are foundational to secure communication, yet traditional methods face challenges from quantum computing. The Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) is a post-quantum cryptographic key exchange protocol with...
The calibration of suspension geometry involves highly nonlinear kinematic relationships and leads to challenging optimization landscapes that are difficult to explore efficiently with classical local methods. Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimizat...
Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) is a powerful technology used to detect and analyze malicious software inside Virtual Machines (VMs) from outside. Asynchronously accessing the VM’s memory can be insufficient for efficiently monitoring what...
Cloud computing is now established as a viable alternative to on-premise infrastructure from both a system administration and cost perspective. This research provides insight into cluster computing performance and variability in cloud-provisioned inf...
Point cloud registration is the process of aligning point clouds collected at different locations of the same scene, which transforms the data into a common coordinate system and forms an integrated dataset. It is a fundamental task before the applic...
The flexible packaging industry has registered a significant growth over the last years, especially due to rising demand from healthcare, automotive, construction, food, beverage, and retail industries. It is essential for the production plants to re...
Benchmarking railway infrastructure managers (RIMs) has become a crucial tool in the context of European transport market liberalization, facilitating efficiency improvements and strategic decision-making. RIMs face challenges in increasing capacity,...
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