15 November 2026
A two-stage supervisory model predictive control (MPC) framework is developed for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) coverage during mission transit and reconfiguration after single-agent loss. A synchronized predictive supervisory layer coord...
Industrial energy and environment efficiency evaluation become especially crucial as industrial sectors play a key role in CO2 emission reduction and energy consumption. This study adopts the additive range-adjusted measure data envelope analysis (RA...
The electrification of the mobility and heating sectors will significantly change the electrical behavior of households in the future. To investigate this behavior, it is important to include the heating and mobility sectors in load profile models. E...
The activities of economic entities of the public sector in the conditions of uncertainty are associated with many risks, which manifest themselves in negative consequences, i.e., the lower effectiveness of executing assigned powers. Many subjective...
24 November 2021
The aims of this qualitative grounded theory study were to explore how politicians accountable for Swedish elderly care viewed their assignment, their beliefs and knowledge regarding the psychosocial work environment for elderly care employees, the f...
This study presents an optimisation algorithm to solve a collaborative vehicle routing problem with time windows. The algorithm was developed and tested on a real-world case study to investigate the potential for a shared-fleet operation involving pu...
This paper deals with a sustainable personnel scheduling problem of personnel working in a large-scale natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Turkey. The proposed model focuses on employee complaints due to unfair work schedules and the results of...
The primary aim of this article is to demonstrate that using the average of ratios as a representative value for measuring the health of a sector does not constitute a valid procedure. After mathematically demonstrating this objective, the article wi...
This study, set in Nors Construction Equipment ST in Canada, addresses logistical challenges by enhancing commercial team evaluation and market sectorization. Traditional performance assessments relied only on sales, lacking other efficiency measures...
Background/Objectives: The psychosocial and organizational demands of healthcare work intensify during public health crises, with implications for professional functioning. This study aimed to identify the occupational demands and workplace resources...
The role of talent management is to ensure that employees’ special skills and talents are identified, and that the right jobs are assigned along their career paths. This study examines the relationship between talent management and employee ret...
Strategic noise maps represent a valuable tool for the characterisation of urban soundscapes, but their transformation into indicators related to the exposed population and health effects remains a matter of methodology, particularly in the absence o...
Circular building design could significantly reduce the environmental impact of buildings and the pressure on natural resources. However, most buildings today are not designed according to the principles of the circular economy. Most literature has f...
Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a key Circular Economy strategy that promotes resource efficiency through collaboration among companies. While previous research has largely focused on established IS business models, increasing attention has been given t...
This paper addresses waste collection problems in which urban household and solid waste are brought from waste collection points to waste disposal plants. The collection of waste from the collection points herein is modeled as a multi-depot vehicle r...
With the advances in industry and commerce, passengers have become more accepting of environmental sustainability issues; thus, more people now choose to travel by bus. Government administration constitutes an important part of bus transportation ser...
Scalar centrality measures assign one score to each sector of a production network and cannot compare its exposure to two shock sources. We develop a matrix-algebraic framework for this comparison. The Asymmetry Multiplier
The recovery efforts of the tourism and hospitality sector are compromised by the emergence of COVID-19 variants that can escape vaccines. Thus, maintaining non-pharmaceutical measures amidst massive vaccine rollouts is still relevant. The previous w...
Advances in the decision-making field and the growing adoption of hybrid mathematical methods, combined with practitioners’ and managers’ interest in more efficient systems, have intensified the search for improved combinations of mathema...
The charged-lepton masses are free Yukawa-sector parameters in the Standard Model, whereas their measured pole-mass ratios display a highly structured hierarchy and satisfy the Koide relation to notable accuracy. This paper develops a conditional mat...
Intelligent transportation and advanced mobility techniques focus on helping operators to efficiently manage navigation tasks in smart cities, enhancing cost efficiency, increasing security, and reducing costs. Although this field has seen significan...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the entertainment sector face significant challenges managing seat assignments through manual processes that are error-prone and time-consuming. This paper presents an intelligent agent-based system that automat...
Forestry professionals are expected to be well trained and skilled. This facilitates progress in multiple global efforts to ensure a synergistic contribution of forests and the forest sector to sustainability goals. In recent years, societal demands...
The development of a resilient and circular bio-based economy is of paramount importance, notably in the EU, where current climate policies and evolving regulations strongly demand more sustainable practices, impacting monitoring and reporting, as we...
8 August 2021
Work-related mental health issues, accounting for high worker absenteeism in the world’s developed economies, are increasing, with the main cause being workplace conditions. The health services sector is especially experiencing great problems with th...
Some graduate education programs support experiential learning but do not require practical experiences for students specializing in international agriculture development. We examined U.S. land grant university graduate international agricultural edu...
The activities conducted in the building and construction sector should be guided by circular economy principles, which will result in the implementation of greener practices fostering both the development of economy and protection of the environment...
Dividing large areas into smaller sub-areas is a common practice across many disciplines, with specific requirements determined by their intended use. This study focuses on preparing search sectors for locating missing persons in non-urban environmen...
We review the recent progress in the study of line defects in three-dimensional Chern–Simons-matter superconformal field theories, notably the ABJM theory. The first part is focused on kinematical defects, supporting a topological sector of the theor...
28 October 2020
User reviews are a new source of information in the hospitality and tourism sector. Usually, these reviews contain comments of users and assessments expressed through ordered qualitative scales. The website Booking.com uses a smiley face scale to ask...
Catering for human operators is a critical aspect in the sustainability of a manufacturing sector. This paper presents a task allocation problem in human–machine manufacturing systems. A key aspect of this problem is to carefully consider the c...
The most frequent drawback of ISO 14001 observed in existing studies relates to the cost of certification and implementation process. This drawback requires scaling the benefits of adopting the standard to assign organizations limited resources based...
The aim of this study is to analyze the perception of the meaning of sustainability in the food sector. A sample of 268 University students belonging to the Millennial generation was identified and a survey was carried out to assess the interaction b...
This paper presents an improved model of the interaction among transport system elements, which identifies six levels of interaction and their analysis. A framework of eight factors (criteria) and their interactions that improve the quality of life i...
Data classification and grading is an information governance mechanism through which information resources are categorized, assigned responsibilities, linked to differentiated controls, and updated over time. Using China as the main case, this review...
The tourism sector is a vital contributor to Thailand’s economy but also a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study aims to align Thailand’s Sustainable Tourism Goals (STGs), established in late 2023, with the nati...
In Sweden, municipal social services provide help and support for vulnerable people with a variety of needs. Although the family has long been understood to be a focus of social work interventions, it is unclear how it is brought into the casework pr...
Israel’s water and vegetative agriculture sectors are interdependent, as the latter constitutes the solution for wastewater disposal. We employ a dynamic mathematical programming model that captures this interdependence for evaluating the econo...
Despite the institutional establishment of Regional Adaptation Action Plans (RAAPs), no systematic cross-regional assessment has examined their structure and implementation dynamics. The objective of this research is to categorize various adaptation...
The charcoal industry, specifically charcoal production, is tremendously valuable to Kenya for its contribution to economic, social and environmental nexus. Considering the degradation of ecosystems and charcoal production’s critical role, the govern...
The logistics sector should strive for sustainability alongside productivity by protecting its order pickers’ health and welfare. Existing storage assignment models are mainly based on the criterion of order picking time and, to a lesser extent, the...
The rapid development of the logistics industry poses significant challenges to the sorting work within this sector. The fast and precise identification of moving express parcels holds immense significance for the performance of logistics sorting sys...
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Because of the comprehensiveness and urgency of environmental challenges, every stakeholder needs to be engaged in reducing environmental impacts. The healthcare sector has rarely been studied, despite its intense effects on the environment, particul...
The agricultural and food production sectors have a predominant role in the bioeconomy of the European Union (EU), followed by wood production. These sectors make significant contributions not only to national economies but also to local areas, in pa...
To ensure transparent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), climate impacts from cattle production must be consistently allocated among meat, milk and raw hides. This review examines allocation boundaries, compares physical and economic methods, and evaluates...
Health tourism is an increasingly vital sector for both Kayseri and Türkiye, contributing significantly to exports and foreign currency inflows. Recent investments in health tourism infrastructure have positioned Kayseri as one of the leading ci...
This paper reviews previous efforts to assign monetary value to climatic or meteorological information, such as public information on drought, climate, early warning systems, and weather forecast information. Methods and tools that have been explored...
In this paper, a compact direction-finding system based on a deep neural network (DNN) with a single-patch multi-beam antenna is proposed. To achieve multiple beams, the patch is divided into four sectors by metal vias, and the pattern is tilted in t...
Increasing economic and population growth has put immense pressure on energy, water and land resources to satisfy national and supra-national demand. Through trade, a large proportion of such a demand is fulfilled. With trade as one of its key priori...
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