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Assessing seismic vulnerability and prioritizing railway tunnels for seismic rehabilitation are critical components of railway infrastructure management, especially in seismically active regions. This study focuses on a railway network in Northwest I...

Emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases pose a significant threat to global health and economic security. This threat is further aggravated by amplifying drivers of change, including climate hazards and landscape alterations induced by climate cha...

Security requirements Engineering (SRE) is an activity conducted during the early stage of the SDLC. SRE involves eliciting, analyzing, and documenting security requirements. Thorough SRE can help software engineers incorporate countermeasures agains...

The prioritization of energy renovations is critical to achieving sustainability goals and addressing socio-economic disparities in building stock. This study proposes a novel hybrid MultiCriteria Decision-Making framework for identifying and priorit...

Companies face multi-criteria problems every day, such as prioritizing projects, investments, and suppliers. In this respect, the literature offers countless methods, some of which provide partial and flawed solutions. Therefore, identifying and repl...

This study presents a framework for determining the prioritization of vaccine introduction in the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the Republic of Korea, with a focus on case examples assessed in 2021 and 2023. We describe the predefined criter...

This paper addresses a pragmatic and well-articulated qualitative methodology for the identification, prioritization, and consultation of stakeholder groups for a higher education institution as a key element for the organization in the context of di...

This paper introduces a semi-automated approach for the prioritization of software features in medium- to large-sized software projects, considering stakeholders’ satisfaction and dissatisfaction as key criteria for the incorporation of candida...

Efforts to conserve rare plant species can be limited by a lack of time and funding for monitoring. Understanding species occurrence and distribution patterns within existing protected habitat and throughout the entire species range can help stewards...

We propose a system that helps decision makers during a pandemic find, in real time, the mass vaccination strategies that best utilize limited medical resources to achieve fast containments and population protection. Our general-purpose framework int...

Currently, in Chile, more than a quarter-million of patients are waiting for an elective surgical intervention. This is a worldwide reality, and it occurs as the demand for healthcare is vastly superior to the clinical resources in public systems. Mo...

Background: Disasters have caused suffering across the world throughout history. Different types of disaster events can manifest themselves in different ways, originating from natural phenomena, human actions and their interconnected interactions. In...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used to infer the genetic basis of traits in organisms; however, selecting appropriate thresholds for analysis remains a significant challenge. In this study, we introduce the Sequential SNP Prioritiz...

In response to the ongoing global extinction, conservationists must prioritize future conservation investments to ensure that such measures are biologically effective and economically viable. To propose an effective conservation plan for Orthoptera a...

Surgical waiting lists present significant challenges to healthcare systems, particularly in resource-constrained settings where equitable prioritization and efficient resource allocation are critical. We aim to address these issues by developing a n...

Nanosatellites increasingly produce more data than can be downlinked within a reasonable time due to their limited bandwidth and power. Therefore, an on-board system is required to prioritize scientifically significant data for downlinking, as descri...

Background: Disease prioritization aims to enhance resource use efficiency concerning human and animal health systems’ preparedness and response to the most important problems for the optimization of beneficial outcomes. In sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), s...

In response to concerns over hazardous chemicals in children’s products, Washington State passed the Children’s Safe Product Act (CSPA). CSPA requires manufacturers to report the concentration of 66 chemicals in children’s products. We describe a fra...

The development of wireless sensor networks for control and monitoring functions has created a vibrant investigation scenario, where many critical topics, such as communication efficiency and energy consumption, have been investigated in the past few...

Background: In Canada, requests for public reimbursement of cancer drugs are predominately initiated by pharmaceutical manufacturers. Clinician-led submissions provide a mechanism to initiate the drug funding process when industry does not submit a r...

Metamorphic testing is a valuable approach to verifying machine learning programs where traditional oracles are unavailable or difficult to apply. This paper proposes a technique to prioritize metamorphic relations (MRs) in metamorphic testing for ma...

Regression testing ensures that modified software code changes have not adversely affected existing code modules. The test suite size increases with modification to the software based on the end-user requirements. Regression testing executes the comp...

FMEA is a widely used tool for decades and is also used as an industrial standard. However, there are two main drawbacks of this analysis that have been specified from the beginning. The first one is risk prioritization, which is expressed by a risk...

Conservation approaches in tiger landscapes have focused on single species and their habitat. Further, the limited extent of the existing protected area network in India lacks representativeness, habitat connectivity, and integration in the larger la...

Systematic Regression Testing is essential for maintaining software quality, but the cost of regression testing is high. Test case prioritization (TCP) is a widely used approach to reduce this cost. Many researchers have proposed regression test case...

Continuous integration (CI), a crucial technology for accelerating software delivery, employs prioritization methods to optimize testing efficiency. Reinforcement-learning-based prioritization techniques of test cases can dynamically adjust the prior...

A combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system is a complex and repairable system containing a large number of components and series of subsystems. When a failure occurs in one component, it might cause a failure of a subsystem or whole system....

The state of Florida is renowned for its globally recognized biodiversity richness, but it currently suffers from an ongoing population boom and corresponding urban sprawl resulting in the emergence of severe conservation conflicts, especially in sou...

The information-security landscape continuously evolves by discovering new vulnerabilities daily and sophisticated exploit tools. Vulnerability risk management (VRM) is the most crucial cyber defense to eliminate attack surfaces in IT environments. V...

Ectopic pregnancy is a very dangerous complication of pregnancy, affecting 1%–2% of all reported pregnancies. Due to ethical constraints on human biopsies and the lack of suitable animal models, there has been little success in identifying functional...

The escalating number of aging sewer pipes necessitates an infrastructure asset management approach to achieve an efficient budget allocation for maintenance. This study suggests a risk-based prioritization framework for sewer pipe inspection conside...

Vulnerabilities represent a constant and growing risk for organizations. Their successful exploitation compromises the integrity and availability of systems. The use of specialized tools facilitates the vulnerability monitoring and scanning process....

The prioritization of capability gaps for weapon system of systems is the basis for design and capability planning in the system of systems development process. In order to address input information uncertainties, the prioritization of capability gap...

Genomic variant prioritization is crucial for identifying disease-associated genetic variations. Integrating facial and clinical feature analyses into this process enhances performance. This study demonstrates the integration of facial analysis (Gest...

There is a growing need to establish alternative approaches for mixture safety assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Due to limitations with current component-based approaches, and the lack of established methods for using whole mixt...

This paper shows a watershed prioritization analysis applied to municipal solid waste. The study area was the macrowatershed “Cañón del Sumidero”, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Geographic information systems, multi-criteria evaluation techniques,...

Osteosarcoma is the most common subtype of primary bone cancer, affecting mostly adolescents. In recent years, several studies have focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of this sarcoma; however, its molecular etiology has still not been de...

Collating vast test reports is a time-consuming and laborious task in crowdsourced testing. Crowdsourced test reports are usually presented in two ways, one as text and the other as images, which have symmetrical content. Researchers have proposed ma...

The implementation of the metaverse in Spanish ports poses challenges and opportunities, but it is crucial to identify and prioritize the key factors ensuring a successful transition to this new technological paradigm. To date, the literature has exp...

The growing global concern for climate change and the need for sustainable energy solutions have driven nations to explore renewable energy alternatives. This research focuses on a developing country heavily reliant on imported electricity and evalua...

Background: Target enhancement and non-target suppression are two critical mechanisms underlying representational prioritization in visual working memory (VWM). However, it remains unclear how VWM load modulates these prioritization mechanisms. Metho...

Ecosystem services (ES) are critical to human well-being, especially in developing countries. Improved understanding of the status of ES is required to help people improve their quality of life. The status of ES is largely unknown in many regions of...

Nanosatellites are being widely used in various missions, including remote sensing applications. However, the difficulty lies in mission operation due to downlink speed limitation in nanosatellites. Considering the global cloud fraction of 67%, retri...

Deep learning (DL) systems have been remarkably successful in various applications, but they could have critical misbehaviors. To identify the weakness of a trained model and overcome it with new data collection(s), one needs to figure out the corner...

The impacts of flooding on people’s livelihoods are profound. Therefore, the rapid restoration of safe conditions in existing buildings post-flood, through rational and effective emergency strengthening, constitutes a most urgent priority. Focu...

Requirements prioritization (RP), part of Requirements engineering (RE), is an essential activity of Software Product-Lines (SPL) paradigm. Similar to standard systems, the identification and prioritization of the user needs are relevant to the softw...

Rapid urban development in Southeast Asia is often the main cause of urban kampung formation, a cluster of sporadic and informal settlements. Kampungs possess the capacity to serve to build the local economy and provide culture conservation through h...

Port risk management (PRM) during port operations is a current problem that can negatively affect the environment, people, and economic issues. In the literature, there is an enormous amount of research related to supply chain risk management (SCRM)...

This paper focuses on an exciting and essential problem in software companies. The software life cycle includes testing software, which is often time-consuming, and is a critical phase in the software development process. To reduce time spent on test...

The tension brought about by sickbeds is a common and intractable issue in public hospitals in China due to the large population. Assigning the order of hospitalization of patients is difficult because of complex patient information such as disease t...