Sustainability issues in supply chains have received increasingly significant concern. Facing incentives such as environmental tax and consumer environmental awareness, firms and even retailers have started to make sustainability investments. To eval...
With the rapid growth of the electric vehicle industry, the recycling of power batteries has attracted significant attention. In light of current circumstances, the question of how the government can incentivize relevant stakeholders to actively enga...
In the trade environment of a globalized economy, tariffs play a crucial role in transnational supply chains. At the same time, the power structure of the supply chain also plays an important role in the decision making and income distribution of a t...
This paper investigates the optimal financing decisions of capital-constrained manufacturers under different power structures. Using a Stackelberg game model, it analyzes the optimal equilibrium operational decisions of capital-constrained manufactur...
Against the backdrop of the digital economy, digital transformation has increasingly evolved from a firm-level upgrading process into a collaborative decision-making issue among supply chain members. From the perspective of intelligent supply chain m...
Environmental issues have increasingly received attention in both industry and academia. Many firms have started to make sustainable investments, such as adopting the pollution-abatement technologies, to reduce carbon emissions. To investigate the im...
In addition to its economic potential and environmental significance, remanufacturing shows strategic importance in competition. Product recovery, a fundamental part of the remanufacturing system, should be aligned with the competition between supply...
Recent frequent food safety incidents have heightened consumer concern about agricultural product traceability, driving companies to build more robust supply chain traceability systems. However, enhancing traceability level is not only driven by cons...
In Russia, a significant number of power facilities built in the 1960s and 1970s are located in regions where seismic effects were revised upward. This has led to an increase in the seismicity of the sites of facilities’ locations by magnitude...
In this study, power/ground noise suppression structures were designed based on a proposed dispersion analysis for packages and interposers with low-loss substrates. Low-loss substrates are suitable for maintaining signal integrity (SI) of high-speed...
This study advances the hypothesis that supply chain power structure is a critical contingency factor for realizing investment value from integrating blockchain and big data. We develop a game-theoretic model of a two-tier supply chain to analyze inv...
Lead-containing piezoelectric materials typically show the highest energy conversion efficiencies, but due to their toxicity they will be limited in future applications. In their bulk form, the piezoelectric properties of lead-free piezoelectric mate...
A livestreaming supply chain composed of a single manufacturer and a single streamer in the low-carbon market is examined. Motivated by the actual production and operation, both the manufacturer and the streamer have a chance to dominate the supply c...
Fixed-dollar and flexible markups are two markup pricing strategies commonly adopted in the retail industry, but their impacts on green behaviors of enterprises remain unknown. This paper investigates how the two markup pricing strategies influence f...
Accurate seismic safety assessment of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures with pile foundations on soft soil sites requires consideration of soil nonlinearity and pile–soil–structure interaction (PSSI). This study develops an efficient p...
This paper explores two Omnichannel retail models consisted of one online platform and one brick-and-mortar store under different power structures considering cost-sharing mechanisms. In retail supply chain dominated by the online platform and brick-...
Considering a supply chain with fashion products comprising of a supplier and a retailer, we study the sustainability of the supply chain with alternative power structures (either the supplier or the retailer has the option of acting as a leader to m...
22 October 2020
In the market, once consumers have a low-carbon preference, they will choose green low-carbon products. The market demand for green products is not only related to product price, but also consumers’ low-carbon preference. In this way, enterpris...
In the current digital competition environment, e-commerce platforms have increased their investment in targeted advertising, improving advertising efficiency while also influencing the choice of product sales modes. This study aims to deeply explore...
This paper considers a dual-channel supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a capital-constrained retailer, where the retailer makes certain sales efforts and the manufacturer may hitch a ride on the retailer’s sales efforts. Deferred pay...
The dynamics of carbon transfer and shifting consumer preferences toward low-carbon products significantly influence firms’ strategic choices and accelerate their transition to greener practices. This study models a secondary supply chain invol...
The rapid expansion of new energy vehicles (NEVs) has intensified concerns over power battery safety, making consumer safety preferences an important driver of firms’ innovation and supply chain decisions. From the perspective of structural sym...
With the global climate problem becoming increasingly severe, governments have adopted policies to encourage enterprises to invest in low-carbon technologies. However, the opacity of the carbon emission reduction process leads to incomplete consumer...
This paper presents the performance improvement of a circularly polarized (CP) retrodirective array (RDA) through the suppression of mutual coupling effects. The RDA is designed based on CP Koch-shaped patch antenna elements with an inter-element spa...
As an important power facility for transmission corridors, automatic three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the pylon plays an important role in the development of smart grid. In this study, a novel three-dimensional reconstruction method using air...
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sustainability of the food supply chain (FSC) was greatly challenged. Enterprises and governments have taken various measures to enhance the resilience of the FSC and to achieve sustainable development...
As data product transactions become increasingly standardized, the operational strategies of data product manufacturers and service providers play a pivotal role in shaping market outcomes. This study develops a game-theoretic framework that incorpor...
Few studies have assessed the safety issues involved in decommissioning nuclear facilities, especially from a structural and job perspective; in most developed countries, the focus is generally on the radiological risks. This study highlights the ina...
The recycling and remanufacturing of e-waste is linked to a worldwide emphasis on the establishment and implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility system (ERP), which has become an important problem in the process of cycling economy. Meanwhil...
Concrete, an integral part of a nuclear power plant (NPP), experiences degradation during their operational lifetime of the plant. In this review, the major causes of concrete degradation are extensively discussed including mechanisms that are specif...
Irregularity in the plane layout of a building structure and the vertical discontinuity of lateral resistance components could lead to torsion and result in the brittle failure of a structure. According to the characteristics of the conventional isla...
With the rapid development of internet technology, consumers have increasingly higher requirements for product quality. High-quality products can win consumers’ trust. Enhancing both product quality and sales in e-commerce platform transactions...
This paper studies the selection of selling modes in a monopolistic and a competitive supply chain circumstance, where each supply chain comprises a supplier and an e-platform. The e-platform usually acts as a product reseller or serves as an online...
The paper describes the process of obtaining geopolymer composites using raw materials from critical waste, i.e., mixed power plant ash and furnace slag powder. Using such geopolymer composites, structural insulation panels were made in the laborator...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the optimal earthquake intensity measures (IMs) for probabilistic seismic demand models (PSDMs) of the base-isolated nuclear power plant (NPP) structures. The numerical model of NPP structures is developed usi...
Under two different power structures, where the supplier and the distributor, respectively, are modeled as the leader, this paper studies water pricing strategies in two competing water resources supply chains. We assume that each water supply chain...
While carbon emissions reduction brings about environmental benefits, it can also create financial pressure on many manufacturing enterprises. Many manufacturing enterprises have begun to pledge their own carbon emissions right quotas for financing a...
Latest unified power flow controller (UPFC) projects adopt novel device structures to meet the requirements of practical applications. Developing power flow calculation methods for these new UPFC structures is of great significance for the design and...
The aim of this study was to further research the mechanical properties of epoxy thick-layer rubber isolation bearings, adopting orthogonal design and efficacy coefficient methods in order to optimize the geometric dimensions and material parameters...
The development of commercial aviation is being driven by the need to improve efficiency and thereby lower emissions. All-electric aircraft present a route to eliminating direct fuel burning emissions, but their development is stifled by the limitati...
This paper proposes a new unified power flow controller (UPFC) topology. A single phase of them system with the proposed topology consists of an N:2 transformer with a center tap at the low-voltage side and a power converter module comprising full- a...
Over the past decades, the store brand has undergone a key change and achieved a remarkable improvement. Based on the industry observations, there is a wide belief that the retailers are more and more inclining to add values that cater to the consume...
Maintenance strategies based on structural health monitoring can provide effective support in the optimization of scheduled repair of existing structures, thus enabling their lifetime to be extended. With specific regard to reinforced concrete (RC) s...
This paper proposes an alterable structure power router (PR) topology which shares the ability of general Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) port. This alterable structure PR aims to better implement the interconnections among micro-gri...
In this study, we provide a thorough analysis, conducted on a company-by-company basis, of the impact of bank concentration and the bank-relative power of banks on firm profitability, financing costs, and capital structure in a small economy like Por...
In this paper, a novel one-way single-wire power transfer structure is proposed. Different from the traditional single-wire power transfer system, power is one-way transmitted from the power source to the load, and no loop is constituted. The structu...
Capacitive power transfer (CPT) is an attractive wireless power transfer (WPT) technology and it has been widely studied in many applications. Symmetrical structures and high-order compensation networks are always produced as optimization results and...
With the increasing of renewable energy penetration rate in power source structure, the impact of its uncertainty on the stability of the power system is becoming increasingly apparent. The power system faces dual pressures of ensuring power supply a...
27 March 2020
As awareness of environmental protection increases worldwide, enterprises have been building their supply chains in ways that conserve natural resources and minimize the creation of pollutants. One of the practical ways to make supply chains more sus...
The anti-corrosion performance of coating systems (cathode protection, organic coating, and duplex coating) applied to prevent the corrosion of offshore wind power plants was assessed. As an assessment method, the adhesion strength of each coating sy...
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