31 December 2024
Background: The estimation of body fat percentage (BF%) in wrestling is used to determine the minimum wrestling weight (MWW) and lowest allowable weight class (MWC) in which wrestlers are eligible to compete. A 12% minimum threshold is currently used...
Globalization has driven the promotion of international vocational qualification and certification (IVQC) to unify certification systems and standards. We explore IVQC promotion paths through the introduction and development of China’s Internat...
We develop two-sided, order-free bounds for the Sylvester matrix differential equation
Against the backdrop of China’s dual-carbon targets and the construction of a new-type power system, the coordinated development of the electricity market, carbon market, and tradable green certificate (TGC) market is critical for energy system...
Green product certification (GPC) is an important means of eliminating the asymmetry of information between consumers and manufacturers in the context of sustainable development. This study examined the critical risk factors in GPC and provided relev...
Prescribed performance control (PPC) guarantees that tracking errors evolve within user-defined envelopes, yet the design of the performance certificate
We establish explicitly conditioned multivariate Hermite–Hadamard–Fejér (HH–F) upper certificates for modified
Certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) remains rare among forest management units (FMUs) in natural tropical forests, presenting a challenge for impact evaluation. We demonstrate application of the synthetic control method (SCM) to eva...
30 September 2025
Background The purpose of this study was to examine the percentage of wrestlers who compete in their minimal weight class (MWC), and the magnitude of weight loss. Methods Data from the 2023–2024 collegiate season were retrospectively analyzed resulti...
This study examines the influence of sustainability certifications on the real estate market, particularly highlighting the advantages they offer compared to uncertified buildings and their recognition within the industry. A survey targeting various...
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that discouraged Taiwan hoteliers from applying for green hotel certification. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was used to perform a weighted analysis that comprehensively iden...
With the increasing penetration of wind power, enhancing the renewable energy accommodation rate and reducing the carbon footprint of the IES, this study proposes a comprehensive evaluation method to assess the impact of a novel dynamic Green Certifi...
The connection between the green certificate market and the CCER market can further achieve the dual carbon goals, so it is imperative for the green certificate market, CCER market, and the connection market to coexist. it is necessary to convert gre...
The continuous pursuit of reducing weight and optimizing manufacturing processes is increasingly demanded in transportation vehicles, particularly in the aerospace field. In this context, additive manufacturing (AM) represents a well-known technique...
This study develops the BIO-SPA Certification Model, a novel framework for evaluating the spatial organisation and biophilic design performance of spa centres within hotel and resort facilities. The research focuses on spa environments in five-star a...
Healthy buildings are the future of industrial development and a global trend. This study is based on the local demand in Taiwan for the certification of healthy building assessments. It consolidates fifteen relevant assessment indicators and the lit...
Growing uncertainty in the external environment has heightened concerns about supply chain security and resilience. Existing studies mainly examine the effects of China’s Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative (SRDI) “Little Gi...
The Strategic Criticality Index (SCI) is a boundary-sensitive measure of agent importance in monotone simple games that weights maximal losing coalitions by their deficiency. Exact SCI computation is #P-hard in general, and the existing FPRAS require...
The increasing frequency of interior renovation and fit-out in office buildings raises concerns about indoor environmental quality, occupant health, and sustainability performance, yet existing certification systems remain largely design-stage or who...
The certification information of wheat varieties contains valuable breeding knowledge and plays an important role in germplasm resource management and breeding research. However, most certification information is stored in unstructured text form, mak...
Aviation has become an essential part of the modern world’s ability to grow personal, market and international connections. To enable continued benefits while reducing emissions, future aircraft will need radical redesign and novel, complementa...
Against the backdrop of global sustainable development, university campuses are typical high-energy-consuming entities and important carriers for practicing green and low-carbon concepts. However, China’s unified assessment standard for green c...
This research reports the ongoing design of the HISMACITY (Historical Small Smart City) Protocol, a planning tool with a certification system. The tool is designed for small municipalities in Europe. Through the award-winning certification system, th...
7 October 2021
Complex multimorbidity (CMM) has been proposed as a more nuanced concept of multimorbidity (MM). We sought to quantify the association of CMM and MM on the incidence of long-term care (LTC) needs in a cohort of older Japanese people. Our follow-up wa...
Rural tourism brand certification is widely regarded as a policy tool for synergistically promoting rural development and ecological protection, yet the theoretical premise that “certification equals protection” has long lacked rigorous e...
Green-building research has examined energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality in depth, whereas site-related strategies are often represented through aggregate certification outcomes with limited visibility into criterion-level evidence and...
With the sharp increase in winter heating demand in northern China, the carbon emissions of combined heat and power (CHP) units remain high. This paper proposes a low-carbon optimal scheduling model for the system, considering the dynamic carbon-gree...
Consumers have realized the importance of a healthy diet, hoping to reduce the occurrence of obesity and chronic diseases. Therefore, healthy boxed meals with low calories and high protein are gaining attention. This study divided the attributes of h...
The building sector is responsible for a high environmental impact, namely during construction, maintenance, demolition, and lifetime. It is then urgent to develop tools for guiding all stockholders to make buildings more sustainable. In order to mak...
This survey research sampled 1000 US (United States) consumers of meat, eggs, and dairy on their attitudes towards the welfare of farm animals and the willingness to pay for products with trustworthy welfare certifications. Most respondents (70%) rep...
In the context of the intensifying global climate crisis, the power industry, as a significant carbon emitter, urgently needs to promote low-carbon transformation using market mechanisms. In this paper, a multi-objective stochastic optimization sched...
This study simultaneously addresses two issues: (a) defining what counts as ‘small farms’ in the rose sector, taking the geographical and socioeconomic context into account and (b) whether the requests for certification form barriers for small farms....
Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) are widely used to promote and guide sustainable development across the built environment. However, a significant gap remains between certification achievement and actual operational performance, limiting the abi...
Interest for high speed weigh-in-motion of vehicles, or HS-WIM keeps growing worldwide. The main purpose of such systems is checking weights of vehicles in a self manner, in order to impose a penalty to overloaded ones. Overloaded vehicles may cause...
This research focuses on the creation and implementation of a digital Decision Support System for building inspections at the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Romblon, Romblon. For a long period, the agency has relied on traditional, paper-heavy wo...
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate urban congestion and support low-carbon transportation by utilizing low-altitude airspace. However, its large-scale deployment requires governance mechanisms that simultaneousl...
Due to the uncertainty of wind power outputs, there is a large deviation between the actual output and the planned output during large-scale grid connections. In this paper, the green power value of wind power is considered and the green certificate...
To address the limitations of single evaluation methods, complex risk factors, and subjective weight allocation in university mining lab safety management, this study proposes an improved EW-FCE model integrating entropy weighting and fuzzy comprehen...
High-speed weighing systems are considered a potential tool to restrain overloaded vehicles traffic, since this practice promotes threats to the infrastructure’s durability and to citizens’ safety. In view of the discussion on the certifi...
Diplomas and academic transcripts issued at the conclusion of a university cycle have been the subject of numerous studies focused on developing secure methods for their registration and access. However, in the context of high school teachers, these...
DLK1 is a paternally expressed gene encoding a transmembrane protein belonging to the Delta-Notch signaling family, increasingly recognized for its role in fetal growth regulation. This study explores the relationship between DLK1 genetic variants (S...
Multifunctional composites offer a higher strength to weight ratio, electrical properties, etc., thereby providing possible solutions for replacing the physical electrical wirings in aircraft. The lack of research on the coupled multifunctional chara...
Export participation in emerging economies depends not only on structural firm characteristics but also on internal organizational capabilities that support international readiness. This study examines whether managerial practices and sustainability...
In order to accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, China set the provincial weight of responsibility for renewable energy power consumption and established a renewable energy power absorption guarantee m...
One of the essential activities for sustainable local economic development is continuous improvement of business environment which can be carried out through the business-friendly certification as objective benchmarking process, which is influenced b...
Vastedda della Valle del Belìce Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) is a traditional Sicilian stretched-curd cheese produced from raw sheep’s milk. This study analysed data generated during routine certification and control activities...
National building registers can provide complete stock coverage, but missing energy performance data constrain renovation prioritisation. This study assessed all 4736 building objects officially registered for educational purposes across all 60 Lithu...
Green building certification is one of the few instruments that reach directly into private development, yet it was designed around mitigation. This study aims to determine how far six systems (LEED v4 BD+C, RELi 2.0, PHIUS+ 2018, BREEAM Internationa...
Road transport represents a major contributor to air pollution, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions in Switzerland. In response, stringent emission regulations, penalties for non-compliance, and incentives for electric vehicles have been...
In order to ensure quality work, the main contractor chooses suppliers based upon various quality attributes. The key to quality work on mega projects is to select best-quality suppliers. This research shows the data analysis results of preference ra...
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