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22 March 2025

Vast amounts of data are continuously collected through sensors fitted into various pieces of equipment and processes in semiconductor production lines. These integrated datasets often encompass tens of thousands of dimensions, making it challenging...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,110 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2024

In this paper, we propose autonomous cycles of data analysis tasks for the automation of the production chains aimed to improve the productivity of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the context of agroindustry. In the autonomous cycles o...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,275 Views
24 Pages

Advancing Efficiency Sustainability in Poultry Farms through Data Envelopment Analysis in a Brazilian Production System

  • Stefanni Marmelstein,
  • Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa,
  • Adilson Vilarinho Terra,
  • Ricardo Franceli da Silva and ,
  • Gabriel Pereira de Oliveira Capela,
  • Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira,
  • Claudio de Souza Rocha Junior,
  • Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes and
  • Marcos dos Santos
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

26 February 2024

The production efficiency factor is widely used to measure the zootechnical performance of a batch of broilers. The unit cost of production brings new elements to improve efficiency evaluation and financial sustainability for this activity in agricul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing Sustainable Poultry Production: Innovations in Management and Nutrition)
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  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,107 Views
14 Pages

28 September 2019

To promote sustainable agriculture worldwide, it is important to understand what constitutes eco-efficiency for rice, a staple food in many countries. This study examined whether expanding the scale of rice farming contributed to the improved eco-eff...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,675 Views
17 Pages

1 November 2019

The evaluation of vegetable production process efficiency is of great significance for energy saving and waste reduction in production processes. However, few studies have considered the effect of greenhouse vegetable production process efficiency on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Technologies for Production Processes)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,595 Views
22 Pages

Fracture Spacing Optimization Method for Multi-Stage Fractured Horizontal Wells in Shale Oil Reservoir Based on Dynamic Production Data Analysis

  • Wenchao Liu,
  • Chen Liu,
  • Yaoyao Duan,
  • Xuemei Yan and ,
  • Yuping Sun and
  • Hedong Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 December 2023

In order to improve the shale oil production rate and save fracturing costs, based on dynamic production data, a production-oriented optimization method for fracture spacing of multi-stage fractured horizontal wells is proposed in this study. First,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Reservoir Simulation and Carbon Utilization and Storage)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,960 Views
17 Pages

Improving Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Small Farm Wheat Production Scenarios Using Data Envelopment Analysis

  • Hassan A. A. Sayed,
  • Qishuo Ding,
  • Zeinab M. Hendy,
  • Joseph O. Alele and ,
  • Osamah H. Al-Mashhadany and
  • Mahmoud A. Abdelhamid
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 July 2023

Assessing the energy cycle and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of wheat production in small Egyptian farms is essential to improve wheat productivity to meet population growth and achieve sustainable development. This study aims to compare wheat produ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology for Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Management of the Agroecosystem)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,286 Views
23 Pages

14 November 2011

Numerous studies have concluded that connectivity is one of the most important factors controlling the success of improved oil recovery processes. Interwell connectivity evaluation can help identify flow barriers and conduits and provide tools for re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Petroleum Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1,518 Views
25 Pages

Time-Shifted Maps for Industrial Data Analysis: Monitoring Production Processes and Predicting Undesirable Situations

  • Tomasz Blachowicz,
  • Sara Bysko,
  • Szymon Bysko,
  • Alina Domanowska and ,
  • Jacek Wylezek and
  • Zbigniew Sokol
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 May 2025

The rapid advancement of computing power, combined with the ability to collect vast amounts of data, has unlocked new possibilities for industrial applications. While traditional time–domain industrial signals generally do not allow for direct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Integration of Sensors for Control, Planning and Deployment in Robotic Systems)
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  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,211 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2019

Corporate sustainability is the integration of environmental protection, financial benefit, and social responsibility into management and business operations. There is insufficient evidence for its relationship with operating performance and producti...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,846 Views
21 Pages

9 January 2025

Forest carbon sinks play a crucial role in mitigating global climate change and enhancing ecological sustainability. This study utilizes the production theoretical decomposition analysis (PDA) model to develop a decomposition framework for analyzing...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,494 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2015

Research and development (R&D) is a critical factor in sustaining a firm’s competitive advantage. Accurate measurement of R&D productivity and investigation of its influencing factors are of value for R&D productivity improvements. This s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business and Development II)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,054 Views
16 Pages

14 February 2025

The social value of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly important in recent years. Among these, safety performance stands out as a critical social mission for achieving business success in today’s economy. Enhancing safety capabi...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,558 Views
14 Pages

Productivity Benchmarking Using Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)

  • Shanta Mazumder,
  • Golam Kabir,
  • M. Ahsan Akhtar Hasin and
  • Syed Mithun Ali

Measuring productivity is the systematic process for both inter- and intra-organizational comparisons. The productivity measurement can be used to control and facilitate decision-making in manufacturing as well as service organizations. This study&rs...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,579 Views
17 Pages

Data Systematization and Preliminary Analysis of Accidental Oil and Petroleum Product Spills in the Russian Arctic and Far North

  • Marina Nevskaya,
  • Victor Belyaev,
  • Sergey Aleshichev,
  • Victoriya Vinogradova and
  • Dinara Shagidulina

19 September 2025

The effects of climate change, such as melting ice and permafrost in northern and Arctic regions, raise serious concerns about the risk of accidents at oil production, transportation, and storage facilities. This risk is compounded by the lack of com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Production Efficiency and Environmental Research for Responsible Mining)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,702 Views
30 Pages

16 September 2021

Food production systems can contribute to the degradation of the environment; thereby endangering the very resource, they depend on. However, while overall large, the environmental impacts of individual agricultural products are disparate. Therefore,...

(This article belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,278 Views
17 Pages

10 August 2021

Total factor productivity growth (TFPG) is an important indicator evaluating the enterprise development model. The aim of this study is to consider the imbalance between TFPG and enterprises growth patterns of sectors and regions in Vietnam. The resu...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,450 Views
17 Pages

Approximately 1000 chemicals have been reported to possibly have endocrine disrupting effects, some of which are used in consumer products, such as personal care products (PCPs) and cosmetics. We conducted data integration combined with gene network...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Health)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,372 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2020

Coal is the primary source of energy in India. Despite being the second-largest coal-producing

country, there exists a significant difference in demand and production in India. In this study, the relative

efficiency of twenty-eight selected opencast mi...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,609 Views
21 Pages

21 May 2021

Visible-near-infrared (vis-NIR) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) are key technologies becoming pervasive in proximal soil sensing (PSS), whose fusion holds promising potential to improve the estimation accuracy of soil attributes. In this paper, we exami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observation in Support of Sustainable Soils Development)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,297 Views
19 Pages

6 February 2024

The present analysis examines extensive and consistent data from automotive production and service to assess reliability and predict failures in the case of an engine control device. It is based on statistical evaluation of production and lead times...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Methods and Artificial Intelligence in Reliability and Maintenance, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,932 Views
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Heritage Spanish in Montreal: An Analysis of Clitics in Spontaneous Production Data

  • Noelia Burdeus-Domingo,
  • Anahí Alba de la Fuente and
  • Ismael I. Teomiro

20 November 2024

This study investigates clitic use in adult heritage speakers (HL speakers) of Spanish, with French as their dominant language. We conducted an exploratory case study using spontaneous production data from HL speakers of Spanish and first-generation...

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4 Citations
3,274 Views
14 Pages

1 March 2021

A comprehensive overview and analysis of the productivity of 1216 recently abandoned multi-stage hydraulically fractured horizontal wells from five shale formations in the United States (US) is presented in this study. In this study, two decline curv...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
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2,027 Views
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30 October 2023

This paper deals with two-level production and distribution planning problems in supply chain management where the leader is a distributor and the follower is a manufacturer. Assuming that the distributor can observe the input–output data in th...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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41 Citations
5,908 Views
21 Pages

Impact Analysis Using Life Cycle Assessment of Asphalt Production from Primary Data

  • Giuseppe Sollazzo,
  • Sonia Longo,
  • Maurizio Cellura and
  • Clara Celauro

9 December 2020

Road construction and maintenance have a great impact on the environment, owing to the huge volumes of resources involved. Consequently, current production procedures and technologies must be properly investigated, for identifying and quantifying the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability of Transport Infrastructures)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,889 Views
11 Pages

6 January 2018

Intensive rice production has contributed to feeding the world’s growing world population, but it has also increased fossil energy consumption. This paper examines the effect of increasing the scale of rice farming on the energy efficiency of intensi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,997 Views
22 Pages

23 August 2023

Big data analytics, described as the fourth paradigm of science breaking through Industry 4.0 technological development, continues to expand globally as organizations strive to attain the utmost value and sustainable competitive edge. Yet, concerning...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,876 Views
13 Pages

Interwell Connectivity Analysis Method Based on Injection–Production Data Time and Space Scale Coupling

  • Hong Ye,
  • Jibin Deng,
  • Jianjie Ma,
  • Kai Zhang and ,
  • Yujia Li,
  • Huaqing Zhang and
  • Kang Zhong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

29 January 2025

In this paper, aiming at the challenges of injection–production optimization, especially the contradiction between injection and production in water flooding development of oil and gas fields in China, an interwell connectivity analysis method...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances and Application in Intelligent Oil and Gas Field Development Technology)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,946 Views
18 Pages

11 April 2019

The environmental sustainability is a globally important issue, particularly in the global warming. There are many institutions and people who are interested in the greenhouse gases emissions issue and policies that attempt to improve the problem. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,547 Views
25 Pages

China’s raw milk production is confronted with problems such as high production costs, stringent environmental constraints, weak industrial interest linkages, etc. The extensive and inefficient operation mode seriously restricts the further dev...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,748 Views
18 Pages

Extended Fuzzy-Based Models of Production Data Analysis within AI-Based Industry 4.0 Paradigm

  • Izabela Rojek,
  • Piotr Prokopowicz,
  • Piotr Kotlarz and
  • Dariusz Mikołajewski

24 May 2023

Fast, accurate, and efficient analysis of production data is a key element of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. This applies not only to newly built solutions but also to the digitalization, automation, and robotization of existing factories and production...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IIoT-Enhancing the Industrial World and Business Processes)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
16,438 Views
29 Pages

19 December 2024

This study explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the efficiency of 3D animation production through Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA). While AI’s adoption in content creation is on the rise, its actual effect on different...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,666 Views
13 Pages

The traceability of typical foodstuffs is necessary to protect high quality of traditional products. It is well-known that several factors could influence metabolites content in certified foods, but soil composition, altitude, latitude and coded prod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Quality and Safety: Advances in Analytical Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2,864 Views
16 Pages

Background: This study develops a decision-making framework for the identification and performance preservation of strategic products using a non-parametric analysis of items within the product portfolio. Methods: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and...

(This article belongs to the Section Supplier, Government and Procurement Logistics)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,296 Views
19 Pages

2 November 2023

There is a lack of high correlation and reuse potential among multiple manufacturing data for textiles and apparel. Moreover, the material flow traceability between production workstations is not clear, making it difficult to detect potential product...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,917 Views
13 Pages

7 October 2021

Resources scarcity and environmental degradation have made sustainable resource utilization and environmental protection necessary worldwide. The development of the circular economy is considered an approach for more appropriate economic and environm...

(This article belongs to the Topic Industrial Engineering and Management)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,164 Views
19 Pages

Consistency Analysis and Accuracy Evaluation of Multi-Source Land Cover Data Products in the Eastern European Plain

  • Guangmao Jiang,
  • Juanle Wang,
  • Kai Li,
  • Chen Xu and ,
  • Heng Li,
  • Zongyi Jin and
  • Jingxuan Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 August 2023

Land-use and land-cover changes in the Eastern European Plain have important implications for regional and global ecological environments, food security, and socio-economic development. Here, three 30 m resolution global land cover data products (FRO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accuracy Assessment and Validation of Remotely Sensed Data and Product II)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,187 Views
15 Pages

Diversification and Management Practices in Selected European Regions. A Data Analysis of Arable Crops Production

  • Rosa Francaviglia,
  • Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes,
  • Claudia Di Bene,
  • Lingtong Gai and ,
  • Kristiina Regina and
  • Eila Turtola
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 February 2020

In the European Union, various crop diversification systems such as crop rotation, intercropping and multiple cropping, as well as low-input management practices, have been promoted to sustain crop productivity while maintaining environmental quality...

(This article belongs to the Section Farming Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,801 Views
22 Pages

Quantitative Analysis of Dynamic Behaviours of Rural Areas at Provincial Level Using Public Data of Gross Domestic Product

  • Yi Chen,
  • Guangfeng Zhang,
  • Yiyang Li,
  • Yi Ding and ,
  • Bin Zheng and
  • Qiang Miao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 December 2012

A spatial approach that incorporates three economic components and one environmental factor has been developed to evaluate the dynamic behaviours of the rural areas at a provincial level. An artificial fish swarm algorithm with variable population si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Urban Sprawl)
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765 Views
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Economic Performance of Precision and Conventional Maize Production: Comparative Analysis Using Hungarian Farm-Level Data

  • Dávid Horváth,
  • Levente Szabó,
  • László Hadászi,
  • Emese Szabó and ,
  • Péter Riczu,
  • András Nábrádi and
  • István Szűcs
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study evaluates the economic and agronomic performance of precision maize production under drought-stressed conditions using farm-level operational data from Hungary. A 2024 paired-field case study compared a conventionally managed field (46.65...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,419 Views
30 Pages

1 December 2022

Refracturing can alleviate the rapid decline of shale gas production with a low drilling cost, but an appropriate fracture layout and optimal refracturing time have been unclear without a heavy computation load. This paper proposes a combination appr...

(This article belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)
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  • Open Access
1,269 Views
26 Pages

28 May 2026

As the area occupied by static random access memory (SRAM) continues to increase in advanced integrated circuits, SRAM yield has become a critical factor that directly constrains chip cost and manufacturing efficiency. Conventional SRAM redundancy co...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,852 Views
21 Pages

Joined Efficiency and Productivity Evaluation of Tunisian Commercial Seaports Using DEA-Based Approaches

  • Mohsen Ben Mabrouk,
  • Manel Elmsalmi,
  • Awad M. Aljuaid,
  • Wafik Hachicha and
  • Sami Hammami

Seaports are important infrastructures to support international trade. Therefore, it is vital that port efficiency and productivity are continuously evaluated and improved. In this context, the objective of this article is to evaluate both the techni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Support Systems and Tools in Coastal Areas)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,573 Views
13 Pages

30 November 2016

Grape production is associated with some negative environmental externalities. However, they are not considered in the traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency assessment models and the research literature. Hence, the assessment results...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,966 Views
27 Pages

The Robust Malmquist Productivity Index: A Framework for Measuring Productivity Changes over Time Under Uncertainty

  • Pejman Peykani,
  • Roya Soltani,
  • Cristina Tanasescu,
  • Seyed Ehsan Shojaie and
  • Alireza Jandaghian

23 May 2025

The purpose of this study is to propose a novel approach for measuring productivity changes in decision-making units (DMUs) over time and evaluating the performance of each DMU under uncertainty in terms of progress, regression, and stagnation. To ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,720 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2021

Global competition and climate change are changing the nature of economic activity and impose the urgent need to have environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The paper addresses both desirable and undesirable output to assess technical efficie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Management and Economics Analyses)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,255 Views
18 Pages

Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Benin’s Cereal Production by 2050: A SARIMA and PLS-SEM Analysis of FAO Data

  • Kossivi Fabrice Dossa,
  • Jean-François Bissonnette,
  • Nathalie Barrette,
  • Idiatou Bah and
  • Yann Emmanuel Miassi

16 January 2025

Globally, agriculture is facing significant challenges due to climate change, which is seriously affecting grain yields. This research aims to analyze the significant effect of climate change (temperature and rainfall) on cereal production in Benin....

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27 Citations
13,056 Views
20 Pages

Methane Emission Factors from Vietnamese Rice Production: Pooling Data of 36 Field Sites for Meta-Analysis

  • Thi Bach Thuong Vo,
  • Reiner Wassmann,
  • Van Trinh Mai,
  • Duong Quynh Vu and ,
  • Thi Phuong Loan Bui,
  • Thi Hang Vu,
  • Quang Hieu Dinh,
  • Bui Tan Yen,
  • Folkard Asch and
  • Bjoern Ole Sander
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

10 June 2020

Rice production is a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the national budget of many Asian countries, but the extent of emissions varies strongly across agro-environmental zones. It is important to understand these differences in...

(This article belongs to the Section Climate and Environment)
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  • Open Access
1,351 Views
26 Pages

15 May 2026

Manufacturing productivity in ASEAN has become increasingly important as the region joins global value chains and recovers from COVID-19 disruptions. However, it remains uncertain whether output growth results from true productivity improvements or f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,438 Views
43 Pages

This study evaluates the eco-efficiency and eco-productivity of 141 countries using data-driven analytical frameworks over the period 2018–2023, covering the pre-COVID, COVID, and post-COVID phases. We employ an input-oriented Slack-Based Measu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Sustainable Growth in Economics and Finance: Global Trends and Challenges)

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