Scholars and engineers have increasingly focused on the safety of steel-structure buildings. An accurate analysis can substantially reduce the collapse probability of these buildings. This paper proposes a novel risk analysis model to assess the safe...
Digital transformation projects in the construction sector are usually implemented through staged processes involving changing technical conditions, organizational priorities and expert participation. Existing risk assessment studies are often based...
Construction can be analyzed at industry, firm, project, and activity/task levels. Given that there are differences between the concepts of productivity and uses of productivity data, depending on the level of analysis, there is no single meaning of...
With the advancement of new food processing technology, triploid technology has emerged as a viable option to enhance plant yield and improve crop stress resistance. However, like many emerging technologies, food produced using triploid technology ha...
In the current digital transformation to Industry 4.0, the demands on the ability of countries to react responsibly and effectively to threats in the field of cyber security (CS) are increasing. Cyber safety is one of the pillars and concepts of Indu...
Companies attempt to improve the performance of their supply chain (SC) by distinguishing and presenting feasible sustainable development practices (SDP). Considering SDP without focusing on sustainability risks may disturb the company’s future. Very...
Global agricultural value chains (GVCs) face growing structural risks that threaten long-term sustainability, yet traditional methods often miss these systemic risks. Using complex network analysis and OECD data, this study examines the structural ri...
With the rapid development of the global economy, urban flood events are occurring more frequently. Scientific risk assessment methods are of great significance in reducing the loss of life and property. This study is devoted to developing an integra...
Workplace sexual harassment is a persistent human rights and public-health problem. This study analyzes in-person, online, and hybrid victimization using microdata from the EU-GBV survey (2021) across 17 countries, applying multilevel logistic models...
This study investigates the seismic response of two 20-story adjacent reinforced concrete structures with differing lateral load-bearing systems, emphasizing the influence of soil–structure interaction. In total, 72 numerical models explored th...
Fintech innovation has greatly improved the operation efficiency of the financial industry and promoted the sustainable development of the real economy. On the other hand, fintech also brings the problem of risk spillover. Through a time series analy...
The forward converter is divided into two circuit topologies depending on the method of resetting the energy stored in the magnetizing inductance of the transformer: a single-ended structure using a reset circuit and a double-ended structure called a...
Structural collapses are a major threat to urban safety and infrastructure resilience and as such there is growing research interest in understanding the causes and improving the prediction of risk to prevent human and material losses. Whether caused...
This study maps the conceptual structure of the body of knowledge concerning bank risk to understand this research strand better. A bibliometric analysis including 671 publications from January 1978 to October 2022 was conducted to achieve the aim of...
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)...
Urban climate resilience is shaped by both direct exposure to environmental risks and cognitive, socioeconomic and institutional factors. This study investigates climate change risk perception (CCRP), psychological distance (PD) and adaptive capacity...
Road safety assessment has played a crucial role in the theory and practice of transport management systems. This paper focuses on risk evaluation in the Asian region by exploring the interaction between road safety risk and influencing factors. In t...
23 August 2022
When a coastal town transforms from a rural area to an emerging city, it faces many safety risks. Some are new risks from urban construction, while some are traditional risks that belong to this coastal area. The joint efforts of these risks may lead...
This study presents an exploratory methodological framework for examining structural changes in regulatory risk disclosure using sentence embeddings, multivariate anomaly detection, and explainable artificial intelligence. Prior research typically re...
The optimal size of a diversion structure should be carefully studied to ensure economic viability and safety during construction. In practice, to determine the size of a diversion structure, design flood frequency is selected as the suggested return...
Over the past decade, the fields of civil engineering, i.e., structural engineering, have increasingly used the building information modelling (BIM) approach in both professional practice and as the focus of research. However, the field of structural...
This study investigates the transformation of energy security in distributed energy systems under growing uncertainty, geopolitical shocks, and fuel market volatility. A risk-based multi-objective optimization framework is proposed that integrates ec...
This study presents a transformative dynamic amplification factor for assessing the resilience of over-river bridges, informed by the real-world conditions of flood events. Through advanced finite element analysis, we unveil how the interplay between...
Ship collisions pose substantial risks to maritime safety, causing vessel damage, casualties, and environmental impacts. Efficient extraction and analysis of key navigational and causal information from accident reports are important for risk assessm...
Background: Imaging-based logistic models are widely used for non-invasive risk stratification; however, their structural robustness and transportability across heterogeneous biological contexts remain insufficiently examined. Purpose: This study aim...
14 February 2022
Health systems are recognised as playing a potentially important role in many risk management strategies; however, there is strong evidence that health systems themselves have been the victims of unanticipated risks and have lost their functionality...
To reduce the impact of safety risks on assembled buildings, this paper explores the factors affecting the safety risks of constructed buildings from the perspective of linkage between the design and construction phases. The method identifies 10 firs...
The rapid integration of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Platforms) introduces new operational capabilities but also raises critical challenges. This paper presents a quantitative risk assessment approach for evaluating the risks related to drone-assisted syst...
Supply chains involve several stakeholders, with different environmental, social, economic, and ethical attributes, and are exposed to various risks along all stages. One of these risks relates to conditions or events related to sustainability that h...
The assessment of seismic performance of existing masonry structures is a key aspect for the risk mitigation strategies of existing buildings and preservation of historical heritage. The increasing availability of modelling approaches for the assessm...
17 October 2021
Modifiable risk factors are of interest for chronic disease prevention. Few studies have assessed the system of modifiable and mediating pathways leading to diabetes mellitus. We aimed to develop a pathway model for Diabetes Risk with modifiable Life...
Undoubtedly, it is important to have an empirically effective credit risk rating method for decision-making in the financial industry, business, and even government. In our approach, for each corporate bond (CB) and its issuer, we first propose a cre...
This study illustrates the intellectual structure of research in the domain of supply chain risk management (SCRM) from the year 2000 to the year 2022. This paper employs a bibliometric analysis to investigate the foundations of the discipline and a...
Post-disaster reconstruction projects are critical for restoring communities and infrastructure, yet they are fraught with complex risks and interdependent challenges. This study aims to identify and analyze key risk factors in post-disaster reconstr...
This research focuses on the risk management of reinforced concrete heritage constructions in coastal environments, with an emphasis on preserving their cultural significance. It addresses a critical gap in existing risk-related research, since this...
The classic credit risk structured model assumes that risky asset values obey geometric Brownian motion. In reality, however, risky asset values are often not a continuous and symmetrical process, but rather they appear to jump and have asymmetric ch...
The existing Scoggins Dam and reservoir are in Washington County, Oregon, and the title is held by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). Reclamation has previously identified dam safety concerns related to the existing embankment dam. Regiona...
This paper presents a predicted information and predicted action (PIPA) decision-analysis approach with Bayesian material updating for planning material testing in existing reinforced concrete members. The objective is to select the number of concret...
Generative AI, particularly tools like ChatGPT, is reshaping higher education by enhancing academic engagement, streamlining processes, and fostering innovation. This study investigates the determinants of ChatGPT adoption intentions (CGPTAIs) by ext...
Dams are essential structures in the growth of a region due to their ability to store large amounts of water and manage it for different social activities, mainly for human consumption. The study of the structural behavior of dams during their useful...
In recent decades, profound transformations in work organization, employment conditions, and organizational change processes have intensified workers’ exposure to psychosocial risks, with significant consequences for occupational health and wel...
Identifying factors/latent constructs deemed to influence internal audit effectiveness (IAE), through identifying variables used as measures of effectiveness and hypothesising which variables have a statistically significant relationship with IAE was...
Commodity futures markets exhibit pronounced non-stationarity, nonlinearity, and multifractal characteristics that challenge traditional linear models. We employ a multiscale framework integrating four methodologies—MF-DCCA, PG irreversibility...
Polio viral proteinase 2A performs several essential functions in genome replication. Its inhibition prevents viral replication, thus making it an excellent substrate for drug development. In this study, the three-dimensional structure of 2A protease...
Background: The Lingnan region is characterized by a hot and humid climate and abundant, diverse natural resources, while the Central Plains region experiences distinct four seasons and has a rich agricultural culture. Both regions possess unique die...
The effect of (1) initial imperfections and (2) material degradation of reinforced concrete columns on their safety in emergency situations was investigated. The research was limited to low- and medium-flexibility columns. Numerical modeling and prov...
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is one of the most used non-parametric techniques for technical efficiency assessment. DEA is exclusively concerned about the minimization of the empirical error, satisfying, at the same time, some shape constraints (c...
Stream networks are the transportation channels of pollutants that can significantly influence water environment risk (WER). However, the influences of stream network structure and connectivity (SC) on WER at the national scale and its regional varia...
This paper provides a starting point for researchers and practitioners from biology, medicine, physics and engineering who can benefit from an up-to-date literature survey on patient-specific bone fracture modelling, simulation and risk analysis. Thi...
Like other cities in the Kathmandu Valley, Bhaktapur faces rapid urbanisation and population growth. Rivers are negatively impacted by uncontrolled settlements in flood-prone areas, lowering permeability, decreasing channels widths, and waste blockag...
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