High land use efficiency is the key to improving total factor productivity, and also an important force behind achieving sustained economic growth. Existing studies have mainly focused on the land use efficiency of the industry sector. Yet, the issue...
As there are more and more available Web services with the same or similar functionalities but different Quality of Service (QoS), the challenge of QoS-aware service composition is to efficiently select appropriate component services to achieve maxim...
With the adoption of service-oriented manufacturing modes, more and more manufacturing services are released over manufacturing service platforms. As it is known, the problem of the QoS (Quality of Service)-aware manufacturing service composition is...
20 May 2022
Background: The widening gap in health service utilization between different groups in mainland China has become an important issue that cannot be avoided. Our study explored the existence of differences and the causes of the differences in the healt...
Forest ecosystem services are fundamental for human life. To protect and increase forest ecosystem services, the driving factors underlying changes in forest ecosystem service values must be determined to properly implement forest resource management...
16 October 2018
The objective of this paper is to analyze the provincial efficiency of the Chinese community health care service and its differences. This study allows us to predict the provincial differences in the efficiency of the Chinese community health care se...
In cloud manufacturing systems, the multi-granularity of service resource and design task models leads to the complexity of cloud service matching. In order to satisfy the preference of resource requesters for large-granularity service resources, we...
Under the current power trading model, especially in the context of the large-scale penetration of renewable energy and the rapid integration of renewable energy into the power system, reasonable medium- and long-term decomposition can reduce the flu...
The aerospace alloy Ti-6246 was subjected to inductive heat treatments with high heating and quenching rates (up to 1500 K/s) while being applied to an in situ diffraction study at the HEMS beamline P07B at DESY. Thereby, the characterization of the...
In the automotive industry, the supply of service parts—such as bumpers, batteries, and aero parts—is required even after the end of vehicle production, as customers need them for maintenance and repairs. To earn customer confidence, manu...
With increasing urbanization and the demand for efficient, flexible transportation solutions, demand-responsive transportation services (DTRS) has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional public transit. However, determining the optimal fleet s...
Abundant and functionally diverse earthworm communities in perennials deliver ecosystem services like increasing nutrient availability by incorporating organic matter. This study aimed to analyse the decomposition of annual and perennial energy crop...
By constructing a translogarithmic stochastic frontier production model, this study explores the total factor productivity (TFP) of service-oriented manufacturing in 30 provinces in China during 2004–2020. We carried out decomposition analysis...
Microservices architecture has emerged as a dominant approach for developing scalable and modular software systems, driven by the need for agility and independent deployability. However, designing these architectures poses significant challenges, par...
This study aims to investigate the impact of ICT capital services on economic growth and energy efficiency in China at both national and industrial levels during the period 2000–2020. To achieve this aim, this study introduces a measurement met...
Recently, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) have attracted many mobile operators. For the flexible deployment of Network Functions (NFs) in an NFV environment, NF decompositions and control/user plane separat...
We consider a general problem of optimal allocation of limited resources in a wireless telecommunication network. The network users are divided into several different groups (or classes), which correspond to different levels of service. The network m...
Wood pastures are home to a variety of species, including the dung beetle. Dung beetles are an important functional group in decomposition. Specifically, in terms of livestock manure, they not only contribute to nutrient cycling but are key players i...
The auxiliary regulation capacity of pumped-storage power stations can be utilized as an effective method to regulate the output of a hydro-photovoltaic complementary system, further mitigating the power fluctuations of the system and enhancing the p...
14 October 2017
In contrast with the case of health care, distributional fairness of long-term care (LTC) services in Europe has received limited attention. Given the increased relevance of LTC in the social policy agenda it is timely to evaluate the evidence on ine...
Long-term surface ozone observations at 25 National Park Service sites across the United States were analyzed for processes on varying time scales using a time scale decomposition technique, the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD). Time scal...
The energy embodied in construction services consumed by industrial sectors used to increase capacities has led to massive energy-related carbon emissions (ERCE). From the perspective of consumer responsibility, ERCE embodied in construction services...
The Cox proportional hazard model may predict whether an individual belonging to a given group would likely register an event of interest at a given time. However, the Cox model is limited by relatively strict statistical assumptions. In this study,...
The numbers of web services are growing rapidly in recent years. One of the most challenging issues in service computing is the personalized recommendation of Web services. Most of the current research recommends services based on Quality of Service...
The accurate forecasting of server performance metrics, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and network bandwidth, is critical for optimizing resource allocation and ensuring system reliability in large-scale computing environments. In this paper,...
With the acceleration of the digital revolution and free trade, the producer services industry has become a new driving force for countries to enhance their global value chain (GVC). The further integration of GVCs has promoted the formation of a glo...
Wetland plants are important components in constructed wetlands (CWs), and one of their most important functions in CWs is to purify the water. However, wetland plant litter can also increase eutrophication of water via decomposition and nutrient rel...
High uncertainty is an inherent behavior of geotechnical materials. Nowadays, random field theory is an advanced method to quantify the effect of high uncertainty on geotechnical engineering. This study investigates the effect of spatial variable soi...
(1) Green infrastructure, such as green roofs, is emerging as an important way to improve environmental quality and protect crucial ecosystem services in urban areas across the globe. However, limited data exist on the specific ecosystem services pro...
As a new service-oriented manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing (CMfg) realizes the optimal allocation of resources in the product manufacturing process through the network. Task decomposition is a key problem of the CMfg system for resource sc...
17 March 2022
Skilled birth attendance is critical to reduce infant and maternal mortality. Health development plans and strategies, especially in developing countries, consider equity in access to maternal health care services as a priority. This study aimed to m...
To realize the efficient decomposition and allocation of collaborative production tasks and resources among multiple enterprises, a task decomposition and allocation model for collaborative production among multiple manufacturing enterprises is propo...
Intensive agriculture practices often results in decomposition of organic matter, thus causing soil CO2 emissions. Agro-ecological service crop could be profitably cultivated to improve soil characteristics and reduce CO2 emissions under Mediterranea...
Organic matter (OM) decomposition is a fundamental ecosystem service in conservation agriculture, but the response of this process to the conversion from conventional tillage (CT) to no-tillage (NT) systems is not fully understood, especially during...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted an enormous impact on the Indonesian economy. In 2020, the country’s economy contracted by 2.7%. However, the impact has been spatially heterogeneous. Based on provincial GDP across industrial sectors, this stu...
Over the past decade, many software enterprises have migrated from monolithic to microservice architectures to enhance scalability, maintainability, and performance. However, this transition presents significant challenges, requiring considerable dev...
Rangeland management in former tropical rainforest areas may affect ecosystem services. We hypothesized that management practices like burning and overgrazing reduce supporting (soil quality) and consequently also provisioning (forage productivity an...
Wood is a renewable resource and a promising construction material for the growing bio-based economy. Efficiently utilising wood in the built environment requires a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics regarding its usability. Durability is an...
Gardening has the potential to influence several ecosystem services, including soil carbon dynamics, and shape progression towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, (e.g., SDG 13). There are very few citizen/community science projects that have b...
Teak Tectona grandis Linn is still used as the main product in the form of wood, while other products, especially environmental services have not received much attention. This study analyzed biomass, carbon stocks and decomposition rate of leaf litte...
The effect of temperature on the service life of stranded carbon fiber composite core conductors was studied based on the kinetic theory of material pyrolysis. The thermal decomposition activation energy calculation for stranded carbon fiber composit...
Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) applications demand significant communication, computing and caching resources to support an efficient amalgamation of augmented reality objects (AROs) with the physical world in multiple video view streams. In this pap...
Collaborative designing of service networks using multiple logistics carriers can bring advantages in both economic and environmental terms, and these carriers have symmetry in their service areas. To enable such a collaborative service network and t...
In this study, various thermal analyses were carried out on a self-developed and commerce-oriented Ag-filled isotropic conductive adhesive (ICA) and its unfilled matrix resin through which glass transition temperature (Tg) and thermal endurance could...
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a significant role in the nutrient supply, energy flow, and pollutant transportation in the wetland ecosystem. However, little is known about the effect of the decomposition of different organic materials in alpin...
The maintenance service network is always designed as a multi-level service network to provide timely maintenance service for failed machinery, and is rarely studied in agriculture. Thus, this paper focuses on a three-level maintenance service networ...
Plant functional traits are useful in tracking changes in the environment, and play an important role in determining ecosystem functioning. The relationship between plant functional traits and ecosystem functioning remains unclear, although there is...
The paper suggests a method of early detection of cyber-attacks by using DDoS attacks as an example) using the method of extreme filtering in a mode close real time. The process of decomposition of the total signal (additive superposition of attackin...
The Internet of Things (IoT) revolution leads to a range of critical services which rely on IoT devices. Nevertheless, they often lack proper security, becoming the gateway to attack the whole system. IoT security protocols often rely on stream ciphe...
Spatial inequalities in urban public transportation are a major concern in many countries but little of this research has focused specifically on taxi services. The taxi situation has grown more complex, as traditional ride-for-hire services face gro...
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