This study aimed to investigate the relationship between proactive personality and career-related decision-making self-efficacy, with generative artificial intelligence acceptance serving as a mediating factor. Additionally, the study examined the mo...
Railway infrastructure is generally classified as either fixed or movable infrastructure assets. Failure in any of the assets could lead to the complete shutdown and disruption of the entire system, economic loss, inconvenience to passengers and the...
Timely and informed decision-making is essential for the successful execution of construction projects, where delays and cost overruns frequently pose significant risks. Earned value analysis (EVA) provides a robust, integrated framework that combine...
Although procrastination has been extensively studied, precrastination remains an unsolved puzzle. Precrastination is the tendency to start tasks as soon as possible, even at the cost of extra effort. Using the near bucket paradigm with 81 undergradu...
The emergence of smart healthcare platforms has significantly enhanced the accessibility of medical services, yet it has also introduced critical challenges such as information overload and patient decision-making dilemmas. This study investigates th...
Reinforcement learning has shown a great ability and has defeated human beings in the field of real-time strategy games. In recent years, reinforcement learning has been used in cyberspace to carry out automated and intelligent attacks. Traditional d...
Ketosis is a major metabolic disorder that significantly impacts dairy cow health, welfare, and farm profitability, posing challenges to both farmers and veterinarians. This opinion paper, derived from expert panel discussions and a review of the sci...
Traditional irrigation management for tomatoes in solar greenhouses relies heavily on empirical manual experience and single soil moisture indicators, often leading to irrigation scheduling that lacks crop-specific physiological evidence and results...
Due to the severe impact of COVID-19 on public health, rollout of the vaccines must be large-scale. Current solutions are not intended to promote an active collaboration between communities and public health researchers. We aimed to develop a digital...
Cyber-security incidents show how difficult it is to make optimal strategic decisions in such a complex environment. Given that it is hard for researchers to observe organisations’ decision-making processes driving cyber-security strategy, we d...
Risk management driven by AI has the potential to play an important role in sustainable decision-making by offering predictive insights and scenario modeling capabilities. This proactive approach empowers top management to align informed decisions in...
With the rapid development of next-generation wireless communication systems, the increasing density of heterogeneous base stations and the dynamic nature of channel conditions have posed significant challenges to accurate and timely base station sel...
Pre-emptive kidney transplantation (PEKT) is considered one of the most effective types of kidney replacement therapies to improve the quality of life (QOL) and physical prognosis of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In Japan, living-dono...
To be able to compete in the domestic plastic industry, small and medium-sized enterprises producing plastic need to proactively find the supply of raw materials, avoiding shortages like in the previous years. Purchasing is extremely important and wi...
Proactive robotic assistance in human–robot collaboration (HRC) requires systems that can perceive evolving task contexts, anticipate user needs, and intervene appropriately without disrupting human workflow. We present the Agentic Unified Robo...
The circular economy (CE) in construction literature engages with individual CE concepts, mostly at the ‘macro’/‘meso’ levels, and lacks holistic frameworks of indicators for circularity assessments (CAs) to inform decision-making at the ‘micro’ (pro...
As boundaryless careers become mainstream, individuals need to enhance career decision-making self-efficacy (CDSE) during career transitions to secure better employment outcomes and sustainable career development, especially when moving from a school...
27 April 2026
Sustainable development results from the harmonious integration of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Building on available risk analysis capacities, this study employs risk perception as a diagnostic tool to evaluate t...
Well construction operations require continuous complex decision-making and multi-step action planning. Action selection at every step demands a careful evaluation of the vast action space, while guided by long-term objectives and desired outcomes. C...
Advancements of the virtual power plant (VPP) concept have aggregated buildings as their power plants and/or service providers. This paper proposes a peer-to-peer transactive computation–electricity trading framework for multiple-building virtu...
1 December 2025
In modern business conditions, where competitiveness is evident across all operational segments, it is necessary to adopt a proactive management approach, i.e., to actively manage business performance. To keep pace with evolving trends and technologi...
Background: Patients with head and neck cancer who are undergoing radiotherapy frequently suffer from oral mucositis and oral microecological disorders, which severely impair their quality of life. Oral microbiota transplantation is an emerging oral...
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (NEPA) paved the way for comprehensive federal environmental policy in the United States. NEPA has successfully allowed citizens and others to become active participants in the environmental decision-maki...
Sustainability is a long-term and ultimate goal for international shipping, although it is slowly making progress. The shipping perspective that moves away from “port-to-port” operations to “door-to-door” services also require...
In multi-agent systems, the Dynamic Distributed Constraint Optimisation Problem (D-DCOP) framework is pivotal, allowing for the decomposition of global objectives into agent constraints. Proactive agent behaviour is crucial in such systems, enabling...
The therapeutic management decision-making process for breast cancer is complex, and is influenced by multiple factors including patient age, comorbidities, ethnicity, education, and availability of immediate or delayed reconstruction options. Our st...
The goal of this paper is to examine how cultural differences moderate the effectiveness of an organization’s enterprise risk management (ERM) program in sustainable decision-making. Using an experimental design, this study found that Chinese p...
Cities at risk of extreme hydro-meteorological events need to be prepared to decrease the extent of the impacts. However, sometimes, authorities only react to catastrophes failing to proactively prepare against extremes. This can be a result of both...
In today’s dynamic and highly uncertain environment, organizations, particularly in the aviation sector, face increasing challenges that demand resilient, flexible, and data-driven change management decisions. Responding to the growing need for...
The Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN), a core architecture for 6G, faces formidable routing challenges stemming from its high-dynamic topological evolution and strong heterogeneous resource characteristics. Traditional protocols...
In the digital transformation era in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry, Cognitive Digital Twins (CDT) are introduced as part of the next level of process automation and control towards Construction 4.0. CDT incorporates c...
Digitalization represents an important potential for improving humanitarian logistics (HL) and supporting humanitarian organizations (HOs) in shifting from a reactive to a proactive approach, i.e., acting “one step ahead of the crisis”. T...
The use of shared decision-making (SDM) has recently attracted attention for building recovery-oriented therapeutic relationships with patients with severe mental illness (SMI). The purpose of this study was to describe a nursing process for SDM for...
Over the past decade, water professionals have begun to focus on a new paradigm for urban water systems, which entails the recovery of resources from wastewater, the integration of engineered and natural systems, and coordination among agencies manag...
28 April 2022
Advance care planning (ACP) facilitates individuals to proactively make decisions on their end-of-life care when they are mentally competent. It is highly relevant to older adults with frailty because they are more vulnerable to cognitive impairment,...
Background: The growing complexity of production processes in the metal–mechanical industry demands ever more effective strategies for managing machine and equipment maintenance, as unexpected failures can incur high operational costs and compr...
This paper presents the cloud vendor lock-in prediction framework (CVL), which aims to address the challenges that arise from vendor lock-in in cloud computing. The framework provides a systematic approach to evaluate the extent of dependency between...
Based upon social identity theory, having a strategic entrepreneurial orientation is crucial for ventures seeking funding, since entrepreneurial orientation (viewed as an entrepreneurial organizational culture) has a significant influence on investor...
Rising uncertainty in the business environment has coincided with a significant increase in unethical behaviors within organizations, posing substantial financial and reputational risks. Unethical conduct is estimated to cost organizations around the...
The usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in control loops and rule-based frameworks is a novel approach in automation and decision-making processes. Large Language Models (LLMs) are redefining conventional rule-based systems by introducing intuitive...
The field of environmental management, specifically flood risk management (FRM), emphasizes participatory decision-making to address diverse issues and conflicting interests among stakeholders. This approach recognizes the complexity of decisions and...
Ventricular tachycardia and sudden cardiac death remain the principal late causes of mortality in repaired tetralogy of Fallot. Clinical practice is evolving from a “reactive” paradigm centered on defibrillator therapy and post-event abla...
As AI decision support systems play a growing role in high-stakes decision making, ensuring effective integration of human intuition with AI recommendations is essential. Despite advances in AI explainability, challenges persist in fostering appropri...
This paper examines issues impacting parental choice for home-schooling in one state in Australia. Data were collected from 99 parents home-schooling at least one child during the 2022 academic year. Utilizing the newly developed Parent Perceptions o...
Effective and sustainable water reserve management faces increasing challenges due to climate-induced variability, data fragmentation, and the limitations of traditional, static modeling systems. This study introduces a conceptual framework designed...
8 September 2021
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a proactive and collaborative method for environmental management designed to integrate environmental considerations into decision-making; and it is good for Sierra Leone. To understand whether SEA would be...
Ensuring safety and preventing accidents in waterway channels are critical challenges for networked marine surface vessel systems (NMSVs). This study introduces a regulation-aware decision-making system designed to minimize traffic conflicts and enha...
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have intensified efforts to improve quality management in steel manufacturing. In this paper, we present the development and results of a system that aims to learn from the decisions made by experts to antic...
This paper constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model involving governments, shipping enterprises, and shippers to analyze the dynamic interactions and strategic decision-making regarding carbon emission reduction within the shipping industry. T...
Macro-level trends and patterns are commonly used in business, science, finance, and engineering to provide insights and estimates to assist decision-makers. In this research effort, macro-level trends and patterns were explored on the diffusion rate...
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