Potential Use of Silk Waste in Sustainable Thermoplastic Composite Material Applications: A Review by Tommaso Pini, Matteo Sambucci, Marco Valente

“…Global warming and climate change demand rapid and swift action in terms of reducing resource consumption, gas emissions, and waste generation. …”
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Fragility Analysis of a Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge Based on Structural Health Monitoring Data by Yuyao Cheng, Jian Zhang, Jiajia Wu

“…Thus, the suggested ground motions are more realistic, and the seismic demand model is much closer to the actual results. …”
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MORAL SEARCH IN MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION by I. A. Donnikova

“…Mezhuev), in which the moral search of every person is actualized; 2) in justifying the demand for inter-individual communication of "negative" ethics (A. …”
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Mobile language app learners’ self-efficacy increases after using generative AI by Audrey K. Kittredge, Elise W. M. Hopman, Ben Reuveni, Danielle Dionne, Cassie Freeman, Xiangying Jiang

“…The purpose of these studies was to investigate self-efficacy development in a generative AI-based language learning experience.MethodsIn two studies, learners (N = 385) of French/Spanish used AI-based features offering conversation practice and on-demand explanations in a mobile app (Duolingo) for 1 month. …”
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A Scientometric Review of Digital Currency and Electronic Payment Research: A Network Perspective by Qing Shi, Xiaoqi Sun

“…Second, several research trends can be inferred using sliding window analysis and burst detection, namely, how the introduction of digital currencies changes consumers’ choice in payment instrument and their money demand; how social media and investor sentiment affect the market of digital currencies; and the impact of digital currencies on the central bank, monetary policy, and central bank digital currency. …”
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A pedagogical approach: toward leveraging mathematical modeling and AI to support integrating humanities into STEM education by Quintana M. Clark

“…The integration is motivated by the increasing complexity of global challenges, such as climate change, which demand solutions that extend beyond traditional STEM boundaries and incorporate ethical, cultural, and societal considerations. …”
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Recent application of carbon nanotubes in energy storage and conversion devices by Abdulazeez Tunbosun Lawal

“…Worldwide energy demand is increasing at an unprecedented rate due to rapid population growth and industrialization. …”
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A Unified Assessment Approach for Urban Infrastructure Sustainability and Resilience by Liang Wang, Xiaolong Xue, Zeyu Wang, Linshuang Zhang

“…The assessment index system of urban infrastructure SR-GPA is constructed from five dimensions including demand, status, influence, resource, and measure. …”
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Four-level Resonant Flying Capacitor Converter Operating under Resonance featuring Soft-Switching and Voltage Regulation capabilities by Augusto M. Medeiros, Yales R. de Novaes

“… Multilevel resonant converter topologies have been addressed to increase the power density and efficiency of step-down intermediate conversion stages, for low-voltage (LV) systems, due to the higher current demand, in addition to its inherent benefit of soft-switching capability and fixed static-gain ratio, while operating at, or above, resonance. …”
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Dual-Layer Dynamic Optimization Model for Carbon-Conscious Transport Mode Allocation by Jing Gan, Dongmei Yan, Linheng Li

“…When government officials establish travel structure targets, they may not adequately consider the intricate balance between residents’ travel demands and low-carbon development objectives. To address this issue, this paper presents a dual-layer optimal allocation model for transport modes, which simultaneously addresses travel demand management and carbon emission control. …”
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Study energy consumption, evaporation rate of the blue swimming crab hatchery system by Thongplu Suwapitchakorn, Jiamrittiwong Prayut, Puangngernmak Nutdechatorn

“…The rising demand for blue swimming crab products has led to a decrease in their coastal populations. …”
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Requirements engineering for crossover services: Issues, challenges and research directions by Zhengli Liu, Bing Li, Jian Wang, Rong Yang

“…Requirements analysis of crossover services often requires the collaboration of engineers in different domains and various organizations. The industry has a demand for sophisticated requirements engineering (RE) methods to address challenges brought by crossover and convergence. …”
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The Dimensional Structure of Tourism Festival and Special Event Innovation and Their Impacts on Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions by Chaojun Li, Ping He

“…Based on the perspective of product supply and consumer demand integration analysis, this paper constructed an integrated model of tourism festival and special event innovation and its impacts on tourists’ behavioral intentions. …”
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Integrating Bus Holding Control Strategies and Schedule Recovery: Simulation-Based Comparison and Recommendation by Weitiao Wu, Ronghui Liu, Wenzhou Jin

“…In the absence of control strategies, headway fluctuation and bus bunching are commonly observed in transit operation due to the stochastic attributes such as travel time and passenger demand. Existing research on real-time control largely focused on developing operational tactics to maintain bus arrival regularity at stops without fully considering the effect of schedule recovery. …”
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On the Usage of GPUs for Efficient Motion Estimation in Medical Image Sequences by Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam, Daniel Goodman, Julia A. Schnabel, Anne Trefethen, Vicente Grau

“…With the rapid increase in resolution, dimensionality of the images and the need for real-time performance in many applications, computational requirements demand proper exploitation of multicore architectures. …”
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Thermal Conductivity of Dry Sands Treated with Microbial-Induced Calcium Carbonate Precipitation by Zhaoyu Wang, Nan Zhang, Fei Lin, Jinhua Ding, Huimin Yang

“…With an increasing energy demand, exploration and utilization of new energy resources become more significant recently. …”
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Water Reservoir Multiobjective Optimal Operation Using Grey Wolf Optimizer by Alireza Donyaii, Amirpouya Sarraf, Hassan Ahmadi

“…Comparison of the reservoir release rate and water demands for all of the Pareto points indicates a rise in release rates for climate change conditions relative to the baseline one; as the result, the higher adjustment in the reservoir release rates to its demand volumes will be highlighted as the higher dam efficiency in climate change conditions.…”
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Big Data-Driven Based Real-Time Traffic Flow State Identification and Prediction by Hua-pu Lu, Zhi-yuan Sun, Wen-cong Qu

“…With the rapid development of urban informatization, the era of big data is coming. To satisfy the demand of traffic congestion early warning, this paper studies the method of real-time traffic flow state identification and prediction based on big data-driven theory. …”
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Could the Incentive Policy of Shared Parking Be Sustainable? The Viewpoint of Personal Risk Aversion by Liangpeng Gao, Yue Zheng, Wenliang Jian, Yanjie Ji, Dounan Tang

“…The analytical results show that operational rules based on risk aversion can enable profit-seeking with a bounded capability to obtain considerable economic benefits and release parking resources in an environment of demand competition. Particularly in some scenarios, FlexPass would sacrifice a certain monetary income to ensure the perceived benefits of parking space providers. …”
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Peculiarities of Chickpea Growing Technology in the Steppe Zone of Ukraine by Zhuk Mykola, Rudenko Viacheslav, Khodjibekov S.

“…These years provide grounds for highlighting a number of pressing issues in the modern vision of crop development. Growing demand and market prices have necessitated an increase in the cultivation area and promotion of chickpeas in the southern regions of Ukraine. …”
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