Development of Future Rule Curves for Multipurpose Reservoir Operation Using Conditional Genetic and Tabu Search Algorithms by Anongrit Kangrang, Haris Prasanchum, Rattana Hormwichian

“…The Ubolrat Reservoir located in the northeast region of Thailand was an illustrative application including historic monthly inflow, future inflow generated by the SWAT hydrological model using 50-year future climate data from the PRECIS regional climate model in case of B2 emission scenario by IPCC SRES, water demand, hydrologic data, and physical reservoir data. …”
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The Complexity Analysis for Price Game Model of Risk-Averse Supply Chain Considering Fairness Concern by Huang Yi-min, Li Qiu-xiang, Zhang Yu-hao

“…The results find that the system is more likely to lose stability and fall into chaos with the customer demand fluctuating greatly. The system enters into chaos through flip bifurcation with the increase of the price adjustment speed; adjusting the risk-aversion levels or the fairness concern levels of the two retailers can make the system be in a stable state or delay the occurrence of system instability. …”
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Empowering drones in vehicular network through fog computing and blockchain technology. by Shivani Wadhwa, Divya Gupta, Shalli Rani, Maha Driss, Wadii Boulila

“…Despite the increasing demand for drone flying automation, there is a significant absence of a comprehensive drone network service architecture tailored for secure and efficient operations of drones. …”
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Passenger Flow Scale Prediction of Urban Rail Transit Stations Based on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) by Luzhou Lin, Yuezhe Gao, Bingxin Cao, Zifan Wang, Cai Jia

“…Accurately predicting passenger flow at rail stations is an effective way to reduce operation and maintenance costs, improve the quality of passenger travel while meeting future passenger travel demand. The improvement of data acquisition capability allows fine-grained and large-scale built environment data to be extracted. …”
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Opportunity Loss Minimization and Newsvendor Behavior by Xinsheng Xu, Hong Yan, Chi Kin Chan

“…It is proven that the newsvendor’s optimal order quantity is related to the density function of market demand when the newsvendor exhibits risk-averse preference, which is inconsistent with the results in Schweitzer and Cachon (2000). …”
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Rethinking Economics Education: Student Perceptions of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Higher Education by Asier Arcos-Alonso, Itsaso Fernandez de la Cuadra-Liesa, Amaia Garcia-Azpuru, Mikel Barba Del Horno

“…Utilizing a free-association questionnaire and Iramuteq software analysis, the findings reveal a strong demand for a more inclusive educational framework that incorporates heterodox economic theories, especially the SSE. …”
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Study on the whole lifecycle energy consumption scenarios of expressway by Peiqiang Cui, Qi Yu, Jie Liu, Ning Mao, Yizheng Wu

“…This paper constructs a set of energy consumption scenarios for typical expressway construction, operation and maintenance phases, and analyses the energy demand under each scenario. Firstly, a comprehensive lifecycle energy consumption framework for expressway is established, detailing the energy consumption scenarios during construction, operation, and maintenance phases. …”
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Green Supplier Selection for Process Industries Using Weighted Grey Incidence Decision Model by Jing Quan, Bo Zeng, Dai Liu

“…Proper supplier selection to meet production demand is a major aspect of all manufacturing and process industries. …”
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Optimal and Economic Programming in a Reconfigured Competitive Electricity Market Considering Dispersed Generation Sources with the Firefly Algorithm by Muhammad Sibtain, Snoober Saleem

“…Nowadays, the majority of electric energy demand in different countries is supplied by using fossil fuels. …”
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Predicting Intensive Care Unit Admissions in COVID-19 Patients: An AI-Powered Machine Learning Model by A. M. Mutawa

“…Intensive Care Units (ICUs) have been in great demand worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating organized allocation. …”
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MANAGING SUPPLY CHAIN RISKS: A FUZZY-FAILURE MODE AND EVALUATION APPROACH FOR RANKING THREATS by AYODELE OLUWASEGUN OLUWOLE, BABATUNDE OMONIYI ODEDAIRO, VICTOR OLUWASINA OLADOKUN

“…From the conventional FMEA, demand variation (SCT42) and long-distance sourcing (SCT27) had the highest and lowest RPN, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of the Influencing Factors of Using Underground Space of Abandoned Coal Mines to Store Hydrogen Based on the Improved ANP Method by Wang Liu, Peng Pei

“…Hydrogen storage in abandoned coal mines can achieve the effective use of underground space while meeting the growing demand for energy storage facilities, which can bring economic and environmental benefits. …”
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Emerging organic electrode materials for sustainable batteries by P. M. Hari Prasad, G. Malavika, Anuraj Pillai, Sachu Sadan, Zeena S. Pillai

“…Therefore, with the increased demand for renewable energy, the synthesis and testing of carbonyl-based OEMs continue to be performed in energy research. …”
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Bat population dynamics: multilevel model based on individuals' energetics by Paula Federico, Dobromir T. Dimitrov, Gary F. McCracken

“…Studying population dynamics of bats presents particular challenges, but bats are essential in some areas of concern in conservation and disease ecology that demand immediate investigation.…”
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The place of the higher education system in the innovation sphere in solving the problem of staffing the innovative economy. Part II by I. S. Prokhorova, Yu. N. Kafiyatullina

“…The purpose of the study is to determine the external factors of innovative susceptibility to network interaction by universities that provide innovations. Low demand in the labour market is said to be the main barrier to the innovative susceptibility towards an innovation manager. …”
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Architecture-Level Exploration of Alternative Interconnection Schemes Targeting 3D FPGAs: A Software-Supported Methodology by Kostas Siozios, Alexandros Bartzas, Dimitrios Soudris

“…In current reconfigurable architectures, the interconnection structures increasingly contribute more to the delay and power consumption. The demand for increased clock frequencies and logic density (smaller area footprint) makes the problem even more important. …”
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Exploring the innovation potential of urban space at the micro scale: a case study of Suzhou’s main urban area by Shumin Wang, Hao Liu, Yingcheng Li, Mingxing Hu

“…In this study, an urban spatial innovation potential measurement system was proposed from a demand-side perspective, the structural equation model (SEM) was employed to investigate the direct and indirect influences of factors, and micro-scale empirical analysis was conducted in the main urban area of Suzhou, China. …”
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Tourists’ Views on Sustainable Heritage Management in Porto, Portugal: Balancing Heritage Preservation and Tourism by Makhabbat Ramazanova, Fátima Matos Silva, Isabel Vaz de Freitas

“…Porto attracts a growing number of tourists due to its rich heritage, encompassing cultural, architectural, and scenic elements. This rising demand necessitates sustainable management practices to protect the city’s heritage and ensure long-term sustainability. …”
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Exploring Influencing Factors of Intercity Mode Choice from View of Entire Travel Chain by Xiaowei Li, Siyu Zhang, Yao Wu, Yuting Wang, Wenbo Wang

“…Exploring the influencing factors of intercity travel mode choice can reveal passengers’ travel decision mechanisms and help traffic departments to develop an effective demand management policy. To investigate these factors, a survey was conducted in Xi’an, China, to collect data about passengers’ travel chains, including airplane, high-speed railway (HSR), train, and express bus. …”
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Digital twins in the building sector: Implementation and key features by Lemian Diana, Bode Florin

“…The building industry is a major contributor to global CO2 emissions and energy consumption, accounting for 37% of CO2 emissions and 36% of global energy demand in 2020. Traditional construction practices and reliance on fossil fuels exacerbate the environmental impact of this sector. …”
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