Optimization of Stakeholder Relation Network of the Qingdao Elderly Livable Community Construction Project by Mingyuan Dong, Guolei Liu

“…Due to the population ageing, building an elderly livable community has become an urgent task of social welfare development. This Public-Private Partnership construction project faces a variety of pressures from its complex stakeholders. …”
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Strategic Analysis of Retrial Queues with Setup Times, Breakdown and Repairs by Ruiling Tian, Xinyu Wu, Liuqing He, Yunna Han

“…Finally, from the perspective of the customer and social planner, we construct the individual utility function and the social welfare function in the almost and fully unobservable cases, and then the optimal strategy of the customers is analyzed.…”
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Spirituality-based palliative care education on quality of life, death anxiety, and resilience of heart failure patients: Randomized controlled clinical trial by Roghayeh Balaghi Inaloo, Mostafa Bijani, Leila Nikrouz, Azizallah Dehghan, Abdulhakim Alkamel, Ali Taghinezhad, Zahra Khiyali

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Minimizing Investment Risk of Integrated Rail and Transit-Oriented-Development Projects over Years in a Linear Monocentric City by Ding Liu, Xi Jiang, Lingyun Meng, Ying-En (Ethan) Ge

“…The closed-form solutions are given explicitly under the assumption of social welfare maximization. It is found that underestimation exists for rail and TOD projects without consideration of the correlation of spatial and temporal population densities. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Quality of Life (QOL) Research in Hong Kong by Daniel T. L. Shek, Britta M. Lee

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Coordination of Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Dual-Source Supply and Low-Carbon Concern by Jing Li, Shuying Gong

“…Besides, recycling is beneficial to both low-carbon consumers’ utility and social welfare, but hurts the total profit of CLSC because of the high investment cost of collection. …”
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Process Evaluation of the Implementation of the Secondary 2 Program of Project P.A.T.H.S. in the Experimental Implementation Phase by Daniel T. L. Shek, Tak Yan Lee, Rachel C. F. Sun

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Spatial Analysis of Kermanshah province Regional Development by using multi-criteria decision-making models by Hossein nzmfar, Ameneh alibakhshi, Soheyla bakhtar

“…The difference and inequality exist in various sectors of infrastructure such as economic, health, education, culture, social welfare and social. Only one city Gilangharb is developed and the rest of cities are semi- developed and deprived. …”
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Optimizing Medical Enterprise’s Operations Management considering Corporate Social Responsibility under Industry 5.0 by Qian Zhang, Yuming Chen, Wanlong Lin, Yao Chen

“…A mixed-integer programming (MIP) model is developed to maximize the CSR with the consideration of the impact of precision medical technologies such as surgical robots (SRs) and 3D bone printing on employee social welfare, corporate profits, social environment, and customer surplus value. …”
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A Differential Game of Transboundary Pollution Control and Ecological Compensation in a River Basin by Yongxi Yi, Zhongjun Wei, Chunyan Fu

“…(iii) The efficiency-improving and cost-reducing learning by doing derived from abatement investment activity of both regions can decrease the optimal ecological compensation rate, increase abatement investment,and improve the social welfare.…”
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Dynamic Evaluation and System Coordination Degree of the Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Real Economy by Boxun Li

“…Third, AI creates consumer surplus and improves social welfare. Fourth, AI empowers government to correct government failure and improve government efficiency, which in turn corrects market failure and improves economic efficiency. …”
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Understanding the Internet of Nano Things: overview, trends, and challenges by Mainor Alberto Cruz Alvarado, Patricia Alejandra Bazán

“…Consequently, this work aims to investigate state of the art and analyze trends for the use of IoNT, its application and future challenges in different fields of social interest, because IoNT is presented as an option for research with the capacities needed to get involved in many fields of social welfare.  It is concluded that technologies prevail current IoNT literature, applications are focused on health care, and there is no international standardization regarding privacy, security or architecture of nano-networks. …”
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Standard Setting with Considerations of Energy Efficiency Evolution and Market Competition by Rui Dai, Jianxiong Zhang, Shichen Zhang

“…Also, both less information about the initial EE level and more competition among producers induce lower EE standard and social welfare.…”
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Multimodal Green Logistics Network Design of Urban Agglomeration with Stochastic Demand by Jiehui Jiang, Dezhi Zhang, Shuangyan Li, Yajie Liu

“…This study investigates a multimodal green logistics network design problem of urban agglomeration with stochastic demand, in which different logistics authorities among the different cities jointly optimize the logistics node configurations and uniform carbon taxes over logistics transport modes to maximize the total social welfare of urban agglomeration and consider logistics users’ choice behaviors. …”
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Production Decision and Coordination Mechanism of Socially Responsible Closed-Loop Supply Chain by Xiaofeng Long, Jiali Ge, Tong Shu, Chunxia Liu

“…In practice, improving the social responsibility consciousness of consumers and raising enterprises’ CSR level can achieve a win-win situation for revenues and social welfare.…”
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State organization for reconstruction of cities in Western Siberia in postwar period (Omsk situation) by V. S. Kuzevanov

“…In the postwar ten-year-old architectural community, the state authorities were involved in the process of economic modernization and social welfare, which raised the status of the profession. …”
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Accuracy Verification of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Technology for Lower-Limb Prosthetic Research: Utilising Animal Soft Tissue Specimen and Common Socket Casting Materials by Mohammad Reza Safari, Philip Rowe, Arjan Buis

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Evaluating the effects of guide plans on the mental health of villagers (Case study: Central district of Darab County) by Hamid Heidary mokarrar, Hamid reza Nasimi, Zohreh Ramezanpour

“…Various developmental proceedings of conducting guide plans have been considered as one of the main prerequisites for social welfare by providing a basis for comprehensive development and improvement of living conditions in the rural areas and promoting the mental health of villagers. …”
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Incorporating Accessibility Elements to the Software Engineering Process by Wesley Tessaro Andrade, Rodrigo Gonçalves de Branco, Maria Istela Cagnin, Débora Maria Barroso Paiva

“…Accessibility is one of these challenges and it is related to the digital inclusion and social welfare of the population. Thus, making accessible software available can contribute to solution of problems that currently exist in relation to access to information and services by all citizens. …”
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Data-Driven Repeated-Feedback Adjustment Strategy for Smart Grid Pricing by Bingjie He, Qiaorong Dai, Aijuan Zhou, Jinxiu Xiao

“…Meanwhile, profit and whole social welfare are more. The proposed strategy can obtain more steady and dependable consumption load close to the optimal power supply, which is conducive to the balanced supply of electric energy.…”
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