Safety stock (SS) is an appropriate tactic to deal with demand and supply uncertainty with the aim of preventing inventory shortages. In the literature, previous work on SS estimation assumes that the forecast error distributions (FED) are independen...
This study extends the application of behavioral portfolio optimization by estimating the return of behavioral stocks (B-stocks). With the cause-and-effect relationships of the respective irrational behaviors on the stock price movements and the uniq...
With climate change and urbanization expansion, wetlands, which are some of the largest carbon stocks in the world, are facing threats such as shrinking areas and declining carbon sequestration capacities. Wetland carbon stocks are at risk of being t...
In recent years, with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent applications in various fields, such as intelligent manufacturing, have been prioritized. The most important issue in intelligent manufacturi...
From a sustainable material management perspective, vacant houses represent material stock and still have potential in the circular economy. This article addresses two aspects of understanding and managing vacant houses: the difficulty of understandi...
The ability to assess the risks of the functional safety of railway tracks allows harmonizing characteristics of track elements under certain operating conditions under certain maintenance for the efficient use of the track structure throughout its l...
26 September 2019
Amid high-profile food scares, health concerns and threats of information imperfection and asymmetry, the Chinese pork industry faces increasing demands from consumers for assurances regarding quality and production methods in both the domestic and e...
Rich and real-world variants of the well-known vehicle routing problem (VRP) involve customer demands that are uncertain and influenced by contextual factors. Classical metaheuristics rely on deterministic demand estimates, while simheuristics incorp...
In beef cattle, horn management is practiced to physically or surgically remove horns for the safety of animals and workers. However, invasive practices of dehorning and disbudding are a great threat to animal welfare, health, production and human sa...
29 December 2022
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in people living with HIV (PLWHIV). Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) prevents TB in PLWHIV, but estimates of its effects and actual implementation vary across countries. We r...
This study investigates Italian fishery discards through the lens of neglected and underutilized species (NUS). It estimates the potential loss of value (PLoV) to identify pathways for sustainable valorization under the European Union landing obligat...
The intensive use of various sensors in industrial machines has the potential to indicate the real-time health status of critical equipment. This is achieved through the connectivity of their automation systems (PIMS and MES), enabling the optimizati...
The assessment of seismic performance of existing buildings has traditionally focused on structural safety and damage limitation, often neglecting the explicit quantification of the associated economic consequences. In recent years, performance-based...
Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) are beginning to replace conventional forest plot mensuration through their use as low-cost and powerful remote sensing tools for monitoring growth, estimating biomass, evaluating carbon stocks and detecting weeds; h...
Flood recession farming practiced in flood-prone areas and on the banks of rivers and lakes in arid or semi-arid environments essentially depends on the soil water stock after the flood has receded. During these last few decades, this coveted agricul...
This study examines macroeconomic risk factors to investigate how they affect working capital management (WCM) and, ultimately, firm performance. Additionally, we examine the effect of credit default swaps (CDSs) as a countermeasure for WCM in the pr...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have addressed environmental and social issues in cities, such as insecure land tenure, climate change, and vulnerability to natural disasters. SDGs have motivated authorities to adopt urban land policies that...
Recreational, reclaimed and drinking source waters worldwide are under increasing anthropogenic pressure, and often contain waterborne enteric bacterial, protozoan, and viral pathogens originating from non-point source fecal contamination. Recently,...
The Boerboel dog breed (BBD) is indigenous to South Africa (SA) and plays an important role in safeguarding homes and farms. The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development (DALRRD) classifies the BBD as a protected species, and it...
The durability of building façades is critical to sustainable construction because it affects maintenance demand, safety, and long-term service performance. As building stocks age, especially in rapidly urbanizing countries such as China, reli...
The Italian territory is largely prone to seismic risk and 6 million buildings require seismic retrofitting. In the last three main seismic events (Abruzzo 2009, Emilia Romagna in 2012 and in Lazio in 2016) 633 people died and considerable financial...