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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0025.v1

Resource Base Assessment of Acacia Seyal in Eastern Amhara Region

Andualem Ayalew, Derbie Wudu, Gezahagn Getachew, Tegabu Redae, Hoaddis kasshun

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Forestry Keywords: resource potential; point center quarter methods; Acacia seyal structure; species composition; diversity

Online: 2 August 2019 (09:27:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0451.v1

Aspects of Sustainable Management Control for Company Efficiency

Ionel Bostan, Aliona Barca, Neculai Tabara, Ligia Muntean Jemna

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Finance Keywords: sustainable management control; performance evaluation system; resource-based theory; sustainable balanced scorecard.

Online: 24 July 2018 (09:31:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202404.0373.v1

Protecting the High Seas from Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing with Overarching Management

Laura Nieminen, Mark Tupper, Ian Hendy

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Aquatic Science Keywords: high seas; illegal fishing; marine resource management; marine protected areas; subsidies; sustainable fisheries

Online: 4 April 2024 (11:02:27 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202403.1772.v1

A Comprehensive Review of Sustainable Assessment and Innovation in Jet Grouting Technologies

Shinya Inazumi, Sudip Shakya

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: environmental impact assessment; green building; green technology; resource optimization; social responsibility; sustainable evaluation

Online: 28 March 2024 (14:31:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202403.0274.v1

The Impact of Resource-Oriented Music Listening on Overseas Dispatch Employees’ Stress Relief

Yaming Wei, Kyoung suk Kim

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Music Keywords: Adaptation Stress; Stress Relief; Music Therapy; Resource-oriented Music Listening; Oversea Dispatch Employees

Online: 5 March 2024 (14:38:32 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.1920.v1

Green Human Resource Management as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: Unveiling the Role of Green Innovations

Wang Zihan, Zafir khan Mohamed Makhbul

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Human Resources And Organizations Keywords: Green Human Resource Management (GHRM); Environmental Sustainability; Sustainable Performance; Product Innovation; Responsible Leadership.

Online: 26 December 2023 (11:33:56 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.1096.v1

A Survey on Artificial Intelligence based Internet of Vehicles utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Syed Ammad Ali Shah, Xavier N Fernando, Rasha Kashef

Subject: Engineering, Telecommunications Keywords: Internet of vehicles; unmanned aerial vehicles; artificial intelligence; resource management; routing; machine learning

Online: 14 December 2023 (12:21:57 CET)

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The vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) when augmented with internet is called internet of vehicles (IoV). In the IoV, vehicles have on board units (OBUs), use communication technologies and customized software to communicate with infrastructure around them. The vehicles can have permanent connectivity and global network awareness based on cloud computing. IoV technologies are still being assessed to ensure that the network is protected from attacks, supports a dynamic vehicular mobility scenarios and meets the low latency communication requirements between the vehicles and the surrounding infrastructure. To meet these strict Quality of Service (QoS) demands, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in IoV ecosystems. An UAV can serve as a mobile roadside unit (mRSU) to transmit data between vehicles, stationery RSUs and other UAVs. The UAVs have better line of sight (LOS) connections which result in better channel states and lower path loss than fixed RSUs. Although the inclusion of UAVs in vehicular networks has improved the system performance by providing better resource management and routing solutions, the traditional optimization techniques with their limitations are often not applicable. Therefore, in recent years, research community is integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) into UAV based IoV ecosystem to better manage resource allocation, routing and mobility management issues to optimize the overall network performance. In this survey paper we review the existing research done in AI/ML based UAV-IoV networks and communications with focus on resource management and routing from year 2019 to 2023. We have studied different AI techniques, their training attributes and architectures in various research works. The limitations of AI-based approaches in terms of required computational resources, availability of real world data and AI models’ complexity for the UAV-IoV environment are also discussed. Finally, the future directions for UAV-IoV research opportunities that can leverage the full potential of AI are presented.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202311.1320.v1

Resource and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Effects through Recycling of Platinum-Containing Waste

Hyeon Jeong Hwang, Tack kwan Kweon, Hong Yoon Kang, Yong Woo Hwang

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science And Technology Keywords: circular economy; platinum recycling; greenhouse gas emission reduction; resource saving; life cycle assessment

Online: 22 November 2023 (02:28:07 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202311.0487.v1

Future Trade-off for Water Resource Allocation: The Role of Land Cover/Land Use Change

Onesmo Zakaria Sigalla, Sekela Twisa, Nyemo Amos Chilagane, Mohamed Fadhili Mwabumba, Juma Rajabu Selemani, Patrick Valimba

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Water Science And Technology Keywords: land use/land cover; remote sensing and GIS; water allocation; water resource management

Online: 7 November 2023 (16:22:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202309.1636.v1

Auditory Challenges and Listening Effort in School-Age Children with Autism: Insights from Pupillary Dynamics during Speech in Noise Perception

Suyun Xu, Hua Zhang, Juan Fan, Xiaoming Jiang, Minyue Zhang, Jingjing Guan, Hongwei Ding, Yang Zhang

Subject: Social Sciences, Language And Linguistics Keywords: Autism spectrum conditions; Atypical resource allocation; Listening effort; Pupillometry; Speech-in-noise recognition

Online: 26 September 2023 (03:10:24 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202309.0447.v1

Municipal Solid Waste Fly Ash-Derived Zeolites as Adsorbents for the Recovery of Nutrients and Heavy Metals – a Review

Christian Vogelsang, Muhammad Umar

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Water Science And Technology Keywords: waste-as-resource; zeolite-precursor; sorption; surface-modified zeolites; ammonium; phosphate; reuse; regeneration

Online: 7 September 2023 (05:03:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202308.2112.v1

Field Experiment for Prequalification Scheme of Distribution System Operator on Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations

JUNG-SUNG PARK, BAL-HO KIM

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: prequalification; distribution system operator; distributed energy resource aggregator; distribution constraints; wholesale market participation

Online: 31 August 2023 (04:06:30 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202308.0203.v2

Application of Cold Sintering Process for Stabilizing Heavy Metals in Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Fly Ash

Shih-Kai Liao, Zhong-En Wu, Yun-Hwei Shen

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Waste Management And Disposal Keywords: MSWI fly ash; cold sintering process; heavy metal solidification; resource utilization; Taguchi method

Online: 8 August 2023 (05:48:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202306.0364.v2

Enhancing Chinese Address Parsing in Low-Resource Scenarios through In-Context Learning

Guangming Ling, Xiaofeng Mu, Chao Wang, Aiping Xu

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Chinese address parsing; low-resource scenarios; In-context learning; GPT; BERT; k-nearest neighbors

Online: 9 June 2023 (04:28:59 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.0143.v1

Resource-Oriented Sanitation: On-Farm Septage Treatment and Nutrient Recycling for Sustainable Agriculture in the Philippine

Carla Mae Jabar Pausta, Michael Angelo Baliwag Promentilla, Alberto Longos Jr., Aileen Huelgas Orbecido, Arnel Bas Beltran, Regina Gador Damalerio, Maria Eda Apple Suplido, Devendra Saroj

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science And Technology Keywords: recovered phosphorus fertiliser (RPF); septage; onsite sanitation system; resource-oriented sanitation system; nutrients

Online: 3 May 2023 (11:19:25 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0508.v1

Imagining Sustainable Human Ecosystems with Power-to-x in-situ Resource Utilisation Technology

Mark Baldry, Nicholas Gurieff, Declan Keogh

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: Power-to-X; Space; energy storage; in-situ resource utilisation; ammonia; circular economy;

Online: 26 November 2021 (13:07:24 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0436.v1

River Basin Management Planning in the Republic of Ireland: Past, Present and the Future

Sarpong Hammond Antwi, Suzanne Linnane, David Getty, Alec Rolston

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science And Meteorology Keywords: Water Framework Directive; River Basin Management Plan; Water Resource Management; Water Governance; Stakeholders

Online: 16 June 2021 (10:29:51 CEST)

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The River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) is an essential component of the European Union Water Framework Directive that details an integrated approach required to protect, improve and sustainably manage water resources. RBMP were intended to be produced for the periods 2009-2015, 2016-2021 and 2022-2027. However, after two years of delays in the development processes, the Republic of Ireland produced its first RBMP in 2010. The second RBMP cycle was also implemented in 2018 and is expected to run until the end of 2021 to give way to the third RBMP, whose consultation processes have been ongoing since December 2019. This paper contributes to the forthcoming RBMP by assessing stakeholders’ perspectives on the second RBMP through a desk-based review and by conducting interviews with nine institutions (14 interviewees). The qualitatively analysed interviews reveal a broad spectrum of actors associated with water management and governance in the Republic of Ireland through a three-tier governance structure that has been delivered (with amendment) through the first two RBMPs. Organisations such as the An Fóram Uisce|The Water Forum, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Local Authority Waters, and the Agricultural Sustainability Support and Advisory Programme have responsibilities designated in the RBMPs to deliver improved water quality, integrated catchment management, community engagement and awareness-raising. Trust has also been building up among these organisations and other agencies in the water sector. Despite these responsibilities and progress, the interviews identified communication lapses, ineffective collaboration and coordination among stakeholders and late implementation to be hampering the successful delivery of the second RBMP, in addition to significant pressures acting on water bodies from agricultural activities and urban wastewater treatment. Towards the third RBMP, the paper concludes that optimised water sector finance, enhanced and well-resourced communications, and improved stakeholder collaboration are needed to foster effective and efficient water services delivery and quality. More so, given the cross-cutting impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on water resources and the interconnected relations among the goals, the paper further recommends the integration of the SDGs in the various plans of actions and a co-benefits approach to derive the triple benefits from biodiversity, climate change initiatives and water quality measures.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202103.0639.v1

Empirical Application of Generalized Rayleigh Distribution for Mineral Resource Estimation of Seabed Polymetallic Nodules

Gordon Yu, John Michael Parianos

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science And Meteorology Keywords: polymetallic nodules; mineral resource estimation; statistical analysis; Generalized Rayleigh Distribution; Clarion Clipperton Zone

Online: 25 March 2021 (16:00:34 CET)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0083.v1

Economics of the Natural Capital and The Way Forward

Gowhar Meraj, Suraj Kumar

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science And Meteorology Keywords: Ecosystem services; Natural resource management; Natural capital; Ecosystem service provisioning; Cost-benefit ratio

Online: 5 January 2021 (11:27:39 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0103.v1

Safe Laboratory Practices in the Light of Covid-19 Pandemic: Way Forward in a Resource Limited Setting

Kevin Odega, Ehijie Iyamah, Ephraim Ibadin, Festus Idomeh, Deborah odega

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Pathology And Pathobiology Keywords: Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; Medical Laboratory; Resource-limited setting, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)

Online: 7 April 2020 (12:11:35 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Exploiting Linguistic Knowledge for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Yirong Pan, Xiao Li, Yating Yang, Rui Dong

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: linguistic knowledge; source language; neural machine translation (NMT); low-resource; multi-source NMT

Online: 2 March 2020 (15:28:34 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0047.v1

The Dali Model in Risk Management Practice: The Case on Financial Services Firms

Rebecca Dalli Gonzi, Simon Grima, Murat Kizilkaya, Jonathan Spiteri

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: change management; decision-making model; risk management; resource management; process improvement; good governance

Online: 4 October 2019 (10:42:05 CEST)

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Endemics and Cosmopolitans: Application of Statistical Mechanics to the Dry Forests of Mexico

Michael G Bowler, Colleen K Kelly

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biophysics Keywords: statistical mechanics; resource partitioning; distribution of species; seasonally dry tropical forest; biotic resistance

Online: 3 April 2019 (10:36:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0506.v1

Commercial Bank Money, Seigniorage, and the Macroeconomy

Biagio Bossone

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Commercial banks, Interest rate, Money creation, Monetary circuit of production, Resource distribution, Seigniorage

Online: 29 August 2018 (16:02:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0103.v1

Crisis Resource Management in the Delivery Room. Development of Behavioral Markers for Team Performance in Emergency Simulation

Fabrizio Bracco, Gabriele De Tonetti, Michele Masini, Francesca Geretto, Danilo Celleno

Subject: Social Sciences, Psychology Keywords: Crisis Resource Management; obstetric hemorrhage; non-technical skills; High Fidelity Simulation; delivery room

Online: 15 December 2017 (08:54:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0035.v1

An Emergy-Based Hybrid Method for Assessing Sustainability of an Resource-Dependent Region

Lulu Qu, Xueyi Shi, Chang Liu

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: sustainability; resource-dependent city; emergy analysis; IPAT (Human Impact Population Affluence Technology); Taiyuan

Online: 7 November 2016 (05:15:13 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202403.0905.v1

Phosphoric Acid Pre-treatment Improves Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Weedy Biomass (Thysanolaena latifolia) for Bioethanol Production

Suwanan Wongleang, Duangporn Premjet, Siripong Premjet

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: weed biomass; Thysanolaena latifolia; renewable resource; glucose recovery; bioethanol; phosphoric acid pretreatment

Online: 15 March 2024 (07:26:15 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.1706.v1

Green Human Resource Management/Supply Chain Management /Regulation and Legislation and its effects on Sustainable Development Goals in Jordan

Lana Jamil Freihat, Mousa Sami Al-Qaaida, Maysam Abbod, Zayed Ali Huneiti

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Other Keywords: green human resource management; green supply chain management; regulation and legislation; sustainable development goals

Online: 22 December 2023 (05:21:33 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202307.2080.v1

Achieving Discharge Limits in Single-Stage Domestic Wastewater Treatment by Combining Urban Waste Sources and Phototrophic Mixed Cultures

Sandra Chacon-Aparicio, John Alexander Villamil, Fernando Martinez, Juan Antonio Melero, Raul Molina, Daniel Puyol

Subject: Engineering, Chemical Engineering Keywords: purple phototrophic bacteria; photo-biorefineries; domestic wastewater treatment; resource recovery; CSTR photobioreactors, Membrane photobioreactors

Online: 31 July 2023 (08:14:31 CEST)

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This work shows the potential of a new way of co-treatment of domestic wastewater (DWW) and a liquid stream coming from the thermal hydrolysis of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) mediated by a mixed culture of purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) capable of assimilating carbon and nutrients from the medium. The biological system is an open single-step process operated under microaerophilic conditions at an oxidative reduction potential (ORP) < 0 mV with a photoperiod of 12/24 h and fed during the light Stage only, so the results can be extrapolated to outdoors open ponds operation by monitoring the ORP. The effluent mostly complies with the discharge values of the Spanish legislation in COD and P values (<125mg/L <2 mg/L), respectively, and punctually on values in N (<15mg/L). Applying an HRT of 3 d and a ratio of 100:7 (COD:N), the presence of PPB in the mixed culture surpassed 50% of 16S rRNA gene copies, removing 78% of COD, 53% of N and 66% of P. Furthermore, increasing the HRT to 5 d, removal efficiencies of 83% of COD, 65% of N and 91% of P were achieved. In addition, the reactors were further operated in a membrane bioreactor, thus separating the HRT from the SRT to increase the specific loading rate. Very satisfactory removal efficiencies were achieved by applying HRT and SRT of 2.3 and 3 d, respectively: 84% of COD, 49% of N and 93% of P despite low presence of PPB due to more oxidative conditions, which anyway step-by-step re-colonized the mixed culture until reaching >20% of 16S rRNA gene copies after 49 d of operation. These results open the door to scale up the process in open photobioreactors capable of treating urban wastewater and municipal solid waste in a single stage and under microaerophilic conditions by controlling the ORP of the system. This novel urban biorefinery allows reducing treatment costs of two urban wastes and embed them in the circular bioeconomy through water recycling and valorizing PPB biomass as a source of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202301.0008.v1

Exploring Prosodic Features Modelling for Secondary Emotions Needed for Empathetic Speech Synthesis

Jesin James, Balamurali B.T, Catherine Watson, Hansjörg Mixdorff

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Secondary emotions; emotional speech synthesis; fundamental frequency contour; Fujisaki model; low-resource; empathetic speech

Online: 3 January 2023 (07:29:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0279.v1

Cognitive Radio Resource Scheduling using Multi agent QLearning for LTE

Najem Sirhan, Manel Martinez-Ramon

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Long Term Evolution; Radio Resource Management; Packet Scheduling; Cognitive Radio; Multi agent Qlearning; Matlab

Online: 21 June 2022 (03:57:22 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0454.v1

Sinkhole Flooding and Aquifer Recharge in Arid to Dry Sub-Humid Regions: A Systematic Review

Marco Delle Rose

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Geophysics And Geology Keywords: karst hydrology; closed karst basin; sinkhole discharge capacity; basin water storage; water resource planning

Online: 28 December 2021 (15:05:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0714.v1

Towards a Biomanufactory on Mars

Aaron Berliner, Jacob M. Hilzinger, Anthony J. Abel, Matthew McNulty, George Makrygiorgos, Nils J.H. Averesch, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, Alexander Benvenuti, Daniel Caddell, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Anna Doloman, Skyler Friedline, Desiree Ho, Wenyu Gu, Avery Hill, Paul Kusuma, Isaac Lipsky, Mia Mirkovic, Jorge Meraz, Vince Pane, Kyle B. Sander, Fengzhe Shi, Jeffrey M. Skerker, Alexander Styer, Kyle Valgardson, Kelly Wetmore, Sung-Geun Woo, Yongao Xiong, Kevin Yates, Cindy Zhang, Shuyang Zhen, Bruce Bugbee, Devin Coleman-Derr, Ali Mesbah, Somen Nandi, Robert W. Waymouth, Peidong Yang, Craig S. Criddle, Karen A. McDonald, Amor A. Menezes, Lance C. Seefeldt, Douglas S. Clark, Adam P. Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Automotive Engineering Keywords: space systems bioengineering; human exploration; mars; in situ resource utilization; life support systems; biomanufacturing

Online: 29 December 2020 (07:57:37 CET)

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Hoard or Exploit? Intergenerational Allocation of Exhaustible Natural Resources

Hala Abo-Kalla, Ruslana Rachel Palatnik, ofira Ayalon, Mordechai Shechter

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: Economic welfare; Energy; Exhaustible resource; General equilibrium model; Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF); Natural Gas

Online: 19 November 2020 (11:05:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0645.v1

Recognizing More Emotions with Less Data Using Self-supervised Transfer Learning

Jonathan Boigne, Biman Liyanage, Ted Östrem

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Speech Emotion Recognition; Emotion AI; Self-Supervised Learning; Transfer Learning; Low Resource Training; wav2vec

Online: 28 August 2020 (15:05:37 CEST)

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ARIMA-M: A New Model for Daily Water Consumption Prediction, Based on the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model and the Markov Chain Error Correction

Hongyan Du, Zhihua Zhao, Huifeng Xue

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Water Science And Technology Keywords: water resource management; water consumption prediction; Markov chain; autoregressive moving average model; error correction

Online: 10 January 2020 (07:09:20 CET)

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Multi-Resource Watershed Research in the Southwestern USA and the Four Forests Restoration Initiative: A Review

Gerald J. Gottfried, Daniel G. Neary

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: watershed; forest restoration; integrated resource management; Southwest USA; Beaver Creek; Thomas Creek; Castle Creek

Online: 11 September 2019 (05:11:42 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0327.v2

Results-Based Forest Conservation Funding: Amazon Fund 10 Years Later, Lessons from the World's Largest REDD+ Program

Juliano Correa, Richard Van der Hoff, Raoni Rajão

Subject: Social Sciences, Political Science Keywords: REDD+; amazon fund; results-based funding; benefit distribution; resource allocation; climate change funding; effectiveness.; forest conservation funding

Online: 13 February 2019 (09:59:35 CET)

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Results-Based Funding (RBF) for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become an important instrument for channeling financial resources to forest conservation activities. At the same time, much literature on conservation funding is ambiguous about the effectiveness of existing RBF schemes. Many effectiveness evaluations follow a simplified version of the principal-agent model, although in practice the relation between aid providers and funding recipients is much more complex. As a consequence, intermediary steps of conservation funding are often not accounted for effectiveness studies. This research paper aims to provide a nuanced understanding of conservation funding by analyzing the allocation of financial resources for one of the largest RBF schemes for REDD+ in the world: the Brazilian Amazon Fund. As part of this analysis, this study has built a dataset of information on Amazon Fund projects at unprecedented detail in order to accurately reconstruct the allocation of financial resources across different stakeholders (i.e. governments, NGOs, research institutions), geographies and activities. The results show that stakeholders seem to hold preferences with respect to the type of activities that they support, thereby suggesting that project owners exert much influence on how deforestation reduction is to be attained. There are evidences that governmental organizations lack financial additionality of their projects, which renders the growing share of funding to this type of stakeholder particularly worrisome. By contrast, the geographical distribution of financial resources seemed to follow a more focused rationale as financial support tends to concentrate in areas where deforestation threats are highest. Overall, the allocation of the financial resources from the Amazon Fund reflects an arbitrary support of different projects that adopt very diverging theories of change that are not primarily concerned with attaining further deforestation reductions. As projects owners exert influence on funding effectiveness to some extent, the Amazon Fund may either seek to regulate the allocation of financial resources more actively or adopt funding effectiveness evaluations that account for this influence more comprehensively.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0496.v1

Payoff Distribution in a Multi-Company Extraction Game with Uncertain Duration

Ekaterina Gromova, Anastasiya Malakhova, Arsen Palestini

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Applied Mathematics Keywords: differential games; non zero-sum games; cooperative games; resource extraction; random duration; IDP procedure

Online: 26 July 2018 (02:55:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0117.v1

Dual Methods for Optimal Allocation of Telecommunication Network Resources with Several Classes of Users

Erkki Laitinen, Igor Konnov, Aleksey Kashuba

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: telecommunication networks, wireless networks, service levels, resource allocation, optimization problem, decomposition methods, Lagrange duality

Online: 7 May 2018 (14:45:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0036.v1

A Structural Equation Model for Measuring the Impact of Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Loyalty on Employee Retention: An Indian Perspective

Deepa Naidu, Devi Rajesh

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: Organizational loyalty, human resource management practices, structural equation modeling, employee turnover and employee retention

Online: 6 October 2017 (10:00:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0168.v1

Examining the “Natural Resource Curse” and the Impact of Various Forms of Capital in Small Tourism and Natural Resource Dependent Economies

Petar Kurecic, Filip Kokotovic

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: natural capital; human capital; economic growth; small economies; Vector Auto regression; natural resource curse

Online: 18 August 2016 (05:13:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.1397.v1

Quantitative Planning Credit Policy for Business Management

Todor Atanasov STOILOV, Krasimira Petrova Stoilova

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: algorithm for active credit management; stochastic number and values of payments, conditional formalization; resource allocation

Online: 19 December 2023 (05:56:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.0619.v1

Optimization of N Fertilizer Type and Ridge/Furrow Ratio to Improve Resource Use Efficiency and Grain Yield of Rain‐Fed Winter Wheat in Loess Plateau, China

Shengcai Qiang, Yan Zhang, Junliang Fan, Fucang Zhang, Wen Lin, Zhiqiang Gao, Min Sun, Xiwang Tang

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Agricultural Science And Agronomy Keywords: Ridge-furrow ratio; nitrogen fertilizer type; Winter wheat; Soil hydrothermal; Resource use efficiency; Grain yield

Online: 8 December 2023 (12:09:06 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202311.1612.v1

An Extended UTAUT Model for Analyzing Users’ Acceptance Factors for Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Human Resource Recruitment: A Case Study of Thailand

Piriyapong Wongras, Tanatorn Tanantong

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Other Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Recruitment; Technology Adoption; UTAUT; Talent Acquisition; Human Resource; AI in Recruitment; Thailand 4.0

Online: 27 November 2023 (03:10:35 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202311.1501.v1

A Comparative Study of Stem Rot Severity in Mature Deciduous Trees in Latvia

Jānis Liepiņš, Kaspars Liepiņš, Andis Lazdiņš, Roberts Matisons, Āris Jansons

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Forestry Keywords: internal decay; stem quality; discoloration; old forests; tree cavities; decay assessment; resource management; political ecology

Online: 23 November 2023 (10:45:46 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202306.0946.v1

Valorisation of Madagascar’s Wildlife Trade and Wildlife Tourism; What are the Conservation Benefits?

Angus I. Carpenter, Franco Andreone

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: Madagascar; conservation; wildlife trade; wildlife tourism; wildlife valorisation; wildlife economics; community-based conservation; resource management

Online: 13 June 2023 (14:42:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.0148.v1

Understanding Saltwater Origins and Mechanisms in the Coastal Aquifers of Da Nang Area (Central Vietnam)

Thao Bach Nguyen, Nhan Duc Dang, Bang Duc Dao

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Water Science And Technology Keywords: saltwater intrusion; groundwater modeling; sustainable groundwater development; Coastal aquifers; Surface water interaction; Water resource management

Online: 3 May 2023 (12:39:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0303.v1

TWIENG: A Multi-Domain Twi-English Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation of Twi, a Low-Resource African Language

Gabriel Kwadwo Afram, Benjamin Asubam Weyori, Felix Adebayo Adekoya

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Twi; Parallel corpus; Tokens; Sketch Engine; Word sketch; Parallel concordance; Machine Translation; Low-Resource Language

Online: 23 March 2022 (02:28:21 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0698.v1

Emergency Online Learning in Low-Resource Contexts: Student Perceptions of Effective Engagement Strategies

Victoria Abou-Khalil, Samar Helou, Eliane Khalifé, MeiRong Alice Chen, Rwitajit Majumdar, Hiroaki Ogata

Subject: Social Sciences, Education Keywords: online learning; emergency; low-resource; engagement; distance learning; student perception; survey; COVID-19; Moore framework

Online: 27 November 2020 (15:19:57 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v1

Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran

Esmaeil Asadi, Mohammad Isazadeh, Saeed Samadianfard, Mohammad Firuz Ramli, Amir Mosavi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Kwok-Wing Chau

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: water quality index (WQI); groundwater quality; modeling irrigation water quality; Tabriz aquifer; water resource management

Online: 30 July 2019 (11:35:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0185.v1

Deep Learning on Low-Resource Datasets

Veronica Morfi, Dan Stowell

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: deep learning; multi-task learning; audio event detection; audio tagging; weak learning; low-resource data

Online: 10 July 2018 (16:05:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0317.v1

Performance of Resource Allocation in Device-to-Device Communication Systems Based on Evolutionally Optimization Algorithms

Hsu-Tan Tan, Bor-An Chen, Yung-Fa Huang

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: device-to-device; LTE systems; resource allocation; particle swarm optimization algorithm; genetic algorithm; system capacity

Online: 20 June 2018 (09:31:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0126.v2

Fog over Virtualized IoT: New Opportunity for Context-Aware Networked Applications and a Case Study

Paola G. V. Naranjo, Zahra Pooranian, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Jemal H. Abawajy, Mauro Conti

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC); Big Data Streaming (BDS); Energy-Efficiency; resource management; Infrastructure-to-Vehicular (I2V)

Online: 24 November 2017 (05:06:27 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202403.0695.v1

Exploring Scientific Management in County Departments of Sports and Youth (CDYS) in Romania: Insights, Challenges, and Pathways Forward

Gheorghe Cristian Dragoș, Raul Ioan Muntean

Subject: Public Health And Healthcare, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy And Rehabilitation Keywords: comprehensive; meticulous planning; systematic execution; regulatory compliance; internal norms; resource considerations; focused approach; effective management; challenges

Online: 12 March 2024 (08:42:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202402.1155.v1

Green Practices in Action: Examining HRM’s Role in Fostering Environmental Performance in Egypt's Hospitality Sector

Selma Abedelrahim, Amal Abdulmajeed Qassim, Fatmah Mohmmed H Alatawi

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Human Resources And Organizations Keywords: Green Human Resource Management; Green HRM; Environmental Performance; Green Employee Behavior; Environmental Awareness; Egyptian Hospitality Sector

Online: 20 February 2024 (14:42:08 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202308.1328.v1

Valorisation of Madagascar’s Wildlife Trade and Wildlife Tourism; what Are the Conservation Benefits?

Angus I. Carpenter, Franco Andreone

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: community-based conservation; conservation; Madagascar; resource management; wildlife eco-nomics; wildlife trade; wildlife tourism; wildlife valorisation.

Online: 18 August 2023 (07:26:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202306.1520.v1

Green Environmental Management System To Support Envi-Ronmental Performance: What Factors Influencing SMEs To Adopt Green Innovations?

Abdalwali Lutfi, Hamza Alqudah, Mahmaod Alrawad, Ahmad Farhan Alshira’h, Malek Hamed Alshirah, Mohammed Amin Almaiah, Adi Alsyouf, Mohamed Faisal Alardi

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: Environmental management accounting; Environmental Sustainability; green practices; institutional pressure; Resource-Based View; Technology, Organization-Environment Framework

Online: 21 June 2023 (10:03:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0407.v1

A Cloud Computing-Based Modified Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Ecosystem Sustainability

Ajoze Abdulraheem Zubair, Shukor Bin Abd Razak, Md. Asri Bin Ngadi

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Data Structures, Algorithms And Complexity Keywords: cloud computing; cloud resource management; task scheduling; ecosystem; geometric mean; symbiotic organisms search algorithm; convergence speed

Online: 23 September 2021 (12:31:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0307.v1

Fog Computing: Towards Dynamically Controlling the Offloading Threshold and Managing Fog Resources in Online Dynamic Systems

Faten Alenizi, Omer Rana

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Science Keywords: Fog Computing; Computational Offloading; Dynamic Offloading Threshold; Resource Management; Minimising delay; Minimising energy consumption; Maximising throughputs

Online: 12 February 2021 (14:44:22 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0341.v1

Transformative Sustainable Business Models in the Light of the Digital Imperative—A Global Business Economics Perspective

Barbara Brenner

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: sustainable transformative business model; shared-value, digitization; innovation management; dynamic capabilities; transformation management; resource based view

Online: 16 October 2018 (08:23:41 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0050.v1

Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecological Specialization of Baculoviruses: A Treasure Trove for Future Applied Research

Julien Thézé, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Jennifer S. Cory, Elisabeth A. Herniou

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Virology Keywords: cophylogeny; granulovirus; host shifts; Lepidoptera; mPTP; multitrophic interactions; niche conservatism; nucleopolyhedrovirus; phylogenetics; resource tracking; species delimitation

Online: 5 June 2018 (06:32:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202403.0918.v1

Raman Technology for Process Control: Waste Shells Demineralization to Produce Transparent Polymer Foils Reinforced with Natural Antioxidant, and Calcium Acetate By-Product

Simona Cinta Pinzaru, Iuliana-Cornelia Poplăcean, Karlo Maškarić, Danut-Alexandru Dumitru, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Tudor Liviu TĂMAȘ, Fran Nekvapil, Bogdan Neculai

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Biomaterials Keywords: Raman technology; recovery and resource utilization technology; process control; biogenic carbonate waste; chitin; calcium acetate drug; carotenoids.

Online: 15 March 2024 (12:01:12 CET)

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Waste biogenic materials from seafood exploitation are valuable resources of new compounds exploitation within the blue bioeconomy concept. Here, we describe the effectiveness of Raman technology implementation as an in-line tool for demineralization process control of crustaceans or gastropods. We produced transparent chitin polymer foils from three waste crustacean shells (C. sapidus, S. mantis and M. squinado) using a slow, green chemical approach employing acetic acid, and showed the progressive process of biogenic carbonate dissolution and increasing the Raman characteristic signal of chitin, in a time dependence manner. It turned that chitin foils obtaining is species-specific, and the demineralization bath of waste shell mixture can be effectively tracked by Raman spectroscopy, for solvent control and the recovery of the calcium acetate as valuable by-product. Comparatively, calcium acetate drug, a compound widely used in kidney failure diseases, or as additive in nutraceuticals and food industry, has been obtained here, following a green demineralization path of the sea snail Rapana venosa intact shell, assisted by Raman tech-nology, using 9% acetic acid (vinegar) solution for 14 days. To validate the final products identity and quality, The process of waste shells demineralization and the final products of the treatment were investigated using various Raman techniques and technologies, cross-validating the results with FT-IR, XRD and SEM-EDX techniques. NIR Raman spectroscopy revealed chitin bands in a time-dependent manner, while Resonance Raman spectroscopy showed the preservation of ca-rotenoids after two weeks of acetic acid treatment. A hand-held flexible TacticID Raman system with a 1064 nm excitation demonstrated its effectiveness as a rapid, in-line decision making tool during process control and revealed excellent reproducibility of the lab-based instrument signal, suitable for in situ evaluation of the demineralization status and solvent saturation control. The calcium acetate recovered from residual treatment solutions was assessed regarding its hydration status, purity, and suitability as recrystallized material for further use as pharmaceutical product or ingredient in complex formulations.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0891.v1

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Video Offloading and Resource Allocation in NOMA-Enabled Networks

Siyu Gao, Yuchen Wang, Nan Feng, Zhongcheng Wei, Jijun Zhao

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Networks And Communications Keywords: mobile edge computing (MEC); non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA); video offloading; resource allocation; deep reinforcement learning (DRL)

Online: 25 April 2023 (07:03:35 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0227.v3

A Review of Groundwater Management Models with a Focus on IoT-Based Systems

Banjo Aderemi, Thomas Otieno Olwal, Julius Musyoka Ndambuki, Sophia Sudi Rwanga

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); groundwater level; groundwater resource; groundwater management models; groundwater monitoring system; wireless sensor network

Online: 28 December 2021 (12:10:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0580.v1

Comparing Statistical and Neural Machine Translation Performance on Hindi-to-Tamil and English-to-Tamil

Akshai Ramesh, Venkatesh Balavadhani Parthasarathy, Andy Way, Rejwanul Haque

Subject: Engineering, Automotive Engineering Keywords: Machine Translation; Statistical Machine Translation; Neural Machine Translation; Terminology Translation; Low-resource Machine Translation; Byte-Pair Encoding

Online: 23 December 2020 (09:52:33 CET)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Where Freshness Matters in the Control Loop: Mixed Age-of-Information and Event-based Co-design for Multi-loop Networked Control Systems

Mohammad H. Mamduhi, Jaya Prakash Champati, James Gross, Karl H. Johansson

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: networked control systems; age-of-information; event-triggered sampling; scheduling architecture; resource constraint; asymptotic performance; estimation error

Online: 12 July 2020 (11:36:46 CEST)

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Preprint DATA DESCRIPTOR | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0232.v1

Preprint: Data from a Systematic Review of Crowdsourcing of Research Data from Wildlife Tourism Photographs and Comments Shared on Social Networking Sites

Greg D Simpson, Obelia Walker

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: citizen science; crowdsourced data; ecotourism; natural Resource management; social media; photo-elicitation; photovoice; wildlife conservation; wildlife tourism

Online: 22 August 2019 (11:32:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202404.1208.v1

Cellulose, Rice Husk and Polyvinyl Acetate-Based Composite: Flame Retardancy and Fungi Growth Experimental Study

Sergio González-Serrud, Nacarí Marín-Calvo

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Materials Science And Technology Keywords: recycled cellulose; rice husk waste; fire resistance; fungal growth; water absorption; density; natural fibers; resource sustainability; building sustainability

Online: 18 April 2024 (07:51:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.1394.v1

Methodology for Assessing the Technical Condition and Durability of Bridge Structures

Kostiantyn Medvediev, Anna Kharchenko, Anzhelika Stakhova, Vitalii Tsybulskyi, Yurii Yevseichyk, Adrián Bekö

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: technical condition of the bridge; durability; reliability; residual resource; degradation; 20 predicting the bridge’ s condition ;

Online: 19 December 2023 (05:48:57 CET)

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Запропонована методика спрямована на визначення та прогнозування технічного стану елементів мосту, що може слугувати прогресивним інженерним інструментом для оцінки надійності та довговічності. Розроблено на основі фундаментальних досліджень, які узагальнюють досвід вивчення фізико-механічних і фізико-хімічних властивостей матеріалів мостових конструкцій, що експлуатуються в реальних умовах. Теоретичною основою методики є модель надійності та прогнозування залишкового ресурсу елементів мосту на основі теорії Маркова. Розроблена методика призначена для оцінки технічного стану окремих елементів мосту з подальшою комплексною оцінкою всієї конструкції. За показник технічного стану прийнята надійність при експлуатації. Цей кількісний показник надійності в моделі є критерієм для: оцінки рівня безпеки елементів мосту; ранжування елементів мосту за необхідністю для конкретних видів ремонту, реконструкції або заміни; стратегічне планування витрат на ремонт або реконструкцію в умовах обмеженого фінансування; прогнозування залишкового ресурсу елементів. Для застосування розробленої методики запропоновано алгоритм оцінки та прогнозування технічного стану мостів. Було проведено математичний експеримент розробленої методики, який підтвердив адекватність висунутої гіпотези, тобто використання моделі надійності та прогнозування залишкового ресурсу елементів мосту. По-перше, запропоновано триступеневий механізм уточнення технічного стану мосту, суттєво підвищення точності розрахунків. Тому розроблена методика має практичне значення і може слугувати основою для інформаційно-аналітичних систем управління станом мостів.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202311.1998.v1

Energizing Workplace Dynamics: Exploring the Nexus of Relational Energy, Humor, and PsyCap for Enhanced Engagement and Performance

Medina Braha, Ahu Tuğba Karabulut

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: relational energy; humor; psychological capital; positive leadership; management; organizational behavior; human resource management; interpersonal communication; performance; COVID-19

Online: 30 November 2023 (14:30:31 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints202310.0768.v1

Sustainable Leadership in the Digital Era: The Role of Technology in Promoting Environmental Sustainability

Pitshou Moleka

Subject: Social Sciences, Decision Sciences Keywords: sustainable leadership; digital era; technology; environmental sustainability; interconnectedness; carbon footprint; resource efficiency; organizational culture; technological innovation; sustainability goals

Online: 12 October 2023 (04:07:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202309.1601.v1

Validation of FY-4A/AGRI LST and High Temporal-spatial Resolution Analysis of Surface Heat Resources in Hunan Province, Central China

Jiazhi Fan, Hao Lin, Qinzhe Han, Leishi Chen, Shiqi Tan, Wei Li

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: FY-4A/AGRI LST; In situ measurement; remote sensing product evaluation; surface heat resource; temporal and spatial analysis

Online: 25 September 2023 (10:09:45 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0520.v3

The Ecology of Plant Interactions: A Giant with Feet of Clay

Ciro Cabal, Fernando Valladares, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Keywords: plant-plant interactions; stress gradient hypothesis; functional trait ecology; inter-plant distance; individual-based models; consumer-resource models

Online: 17 February 2022 (19:37:10 CET)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0132.v1

A need for Recalibration of the Discussions on Access and Benefit Sharing

Rodrigo Sara, Markus Wyss, René Custers, Anouk in 't Veld, Dominic Muyldermans

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Other Keywords: Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS); resource mobilization; Digital Sequence Information (DSI); Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework; biodiversity crisis

Online: 7 September 2021 (16:07:18 CEST)

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Opening Closed Loop Ecological Life Support Systems with In-Situ Resources on the Moon

Alex Ellery

Subject: Engineering, Other Keywords: Bioregenerative life support; closed ecological life support; in-situ resource utilization; lunar industrial ecology; 3D bioprinting; gene editing

Online: 28 June 2021 (15:23:39 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0053.v1

Integrating Endemic Medicinal Plants into the Global Value Chains: The Ecological Degradation Challenges and Opportunities

Volenzo Tom, John Odiyo, Offoro Kimambo

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science And Technology Keywords: bio-prospecting; biopiracy; collective action; common property resources; ecosystem sustainability; natural resource management; institutions; property rights; value chain

Online: 2 November 2018 (11:06:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202401.2218.v3

Optimizing Travel Distance in a Synchronized-Zone Order Picking System: A Mathematical Programming Approach

Majedah Alnashmy

Subject: Engineering, Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering Keywords: Correlated Storage Assignment Strategy; FlexSim; Mathematical Programming Model; MINLP; Order Picking Optimization; Resource Allocation; Simulation; Synchronized-zone; Travel Distance

Online: 6 February 2024 (04:15:07 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202309.1927.v1

A Novel Approach for Integrating Community Knowledge into Fuzzy Logic-Adapted Spatial Modelling in the Analysis of Natural Resource Conflicts

Lawrence Ibeh, Kyriakos Kouveliotis, Wolfram Mauser, Deepak Rajendra Unune, Nguyen Manh Cuong, Noah Mutai, Anastasios Fountis, Anna Dr. Rostomyan, Svitlana Samoylenko, Olufunke Mercy Popoola

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: artificial intelligence; community; fuzzy logic; natural resource conflict management; transdisciplinary-based coupled approach; remote sensing; sustainable development; sustainable peace

Online: 28 September 2023 (08:38:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202307.1245.v1

Low Voltage Network Modeling and Analysis with Rooftop PV Forecasts: A Realistic Perspective from Queensland, Australia

Jake Anderson, Ashish Agalgaonkar

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: distributed energy resource; solar PV penetration; voltage rise; network constraints; network modeling automation; reverse power flow, inverter energy systems

Online: 19 July 2023 (07:48:48 CEST)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0329.v1

Biomanufacturing for Space-Exploration – What to Take and When to Make

Nils J.H. Averesch, Aaron J. Berliner, Shannon N. Nangle, Spencer Zezulka, Gretchen L. Vengerova, Davian Ho, Cameran A. Casale, Benjamin A.E. Lehner, Jessica E. Jessica Snyder, Kevin B. Clark, Lewis R. Dartnell, Craig S. Criddle, Adam P. Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Bioengineering Keywords: in-space biomanufacturing; space synthetic biology; space bioprocess engineering; biological life-support systems; in situ resource utilization; circular economy

Online: 21 July 2022 (11:01:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0244.v1

Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses Under a Rapidly Changing Climate?

Imtiaz Rangwala, Wynne Moss, Jane Wolken, Renee Rondeau, Karen Newlon, John Guinotte, William Riebsame Travis

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: Land Managers; Conservation; Resource Management; Climate Adaptation; Climate Change; Transformation; Biodiversity; Ecosystems; Projections; Uncertainty; Complexity; Scenario Planning; Species; SSA

Online: 15 November 2021 (10:39:13 CET)

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A Method for Calculation of a Hydro Resource Price Using the Operational Features of a Hydropower Plant

Yury Anatoljevich Sekretarev, Tatyana Vladimirovna Myateg, Olga S. Sergeevna Atamanova

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: hydropower plants, optimization, hydro resource price, incremental water rate characteristic, electricity market, complex criteria of ecological-and-economic efficiency.

Online: 15 June 2021 (11:35:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0695.v1

Performance Study of Integrated Solar-Water Supply System for Isolated Agricultural Areas in Thailand: Two Case-Study Villages of The Royal Initiative Project

Thanongsak Imjai, Kamon Thinsurat, Pakorn Ditthakit, Warit Wipulanusat, Monthian Setkit, Reyes Garcia

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Water Science And Technology Keywords: water resource management; solar-water; solar-water supply system; SWSS; decision support; solar pumping; climate change; royal initiative project

Online: 29 July 2020 (11:40:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0260.v1

Group Buying-based Data Transmission in Flying Ad-hoc Networks: A Coalition Game Approach

Lang Ruan, Jin Chen, Qiuju Guo, Xiaobo Zhang, Yuli Zhang, Dianxiong Liu

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); data transmission; resource allocation; coalition graph game; coalition formation game; stable coalition partition; Nash equilibrium

Online: 14 September 2018 (10:41:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202311.0265.v1

Organizational Measures to Protect the Mental Health of Healthcare and Social Services Staff during COVID-19: What Worked and What Didn’t according to Human Resources Advisors?

Mariève Pelletier, Nektaria Nicolakakis, Caroline Biron, Nathalie Jauvin, Marie-Claude Letellier, Maryline Vivion, Roxanne Beaupré, Marie-Ève Audy, Michel Vézina

Subject: Public Health And Healthcare, Public, Environmental And Occupational Health Keywords: psychosocial work environment; work-related psychosocial risk; healthcare worker; human resource advisor; COVID-19; mental health; psychosocial safety climate; Quebec

Online: 6 November 2023 (03:12:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0401.v2

Space Bioprocess Engineering on the Horizon

Aaron Berliner, Isaac Lipsky, Davian Ho, Jacob Hilzinger, Gretchen Vengerova, George Makrygiorgos, Matthew McNulty, Kevin Yates, Nils Averesch, Charles Cockell, Tyler Wallentine, Lance Seefeldt, Craig Criddle, Somen Nandi, Karen McDonald, Amor Menezes, Ali Mesbah, Adam Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Bioengineering Keywords: space systems bioengineering; biomanufacturing; space bioprocess engineering; biotransformation human exploration; in situ resource utilization; life support systems; biomanufacturing; space policy

Online: 27 December 2021 (15:48:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0104.v1

Comparison and Screening of NFC Options in View of Sustainable Performance and Waste Management

Aleksandra Schwenk-Ferrero, Andrey Andrianov

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: advanced nuclear fuel cycles; waste management; resource utilization; economics; performance comparison; multi-criteria decision analysis; sensitivity/uncertainty analysis; environmental footprint

Online: 30 August 2017 (12:35:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.0254.v1

Ultrafiltration Harvesting of Microalgae Culture Cultivated in a WRRF: Long-Term Performance and Techno-Economic and Carbon Footprint Assessment

Juan Francisco Mora-Sánchez, Josué González-Camejo, Guillermo Noriega-Hevia, Aurora Seco, Maria Victoria Ruano

Subject: Engineering, Chemical Engineering Keywords: Anaerobic digestion (AD); cross-flow; greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; harvesting; Membrane photobioreactor (MPBR); microalgae; ultrafiltration (UF); water resource recovery facility (WRRF).

Online: 5 December 2023 (15:09:12 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202306.1045.v1

EREMI: An Innovative Interdisciplinary Approach for Higher Education in Resource Efficient Manufacturing Environments

Axel Sikora, Tanya Titova-Kosturkova, Gordana janevska, Mitko Kostov, Simona Halunga, George Suciu, Georgi Georgiev

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science And Technology Keywords: higher education; resource efficiency; manufacturing industries; unique interdisciplinary international higher education approach; life-long learning; quality feedback survey and results assessment

Online: 14 June 2023 (10:32:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0329.v1

Economic Turbulence and EaaS Grid Computing

P.S. JosephNg

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: BOINC; cloud computing; economic uncertainty; framework; grid compu-ting; optimization; resource pooling; Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise; technology acceptance model; virtualization

Online: 20 September 2021 (11:49:41 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0302.v1

Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms on Resource-Constrained Devices

Thomas Xuan Meng, William Buchanan

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Vision And Graphics Keywords: Lightweight cryptography; Internet of Thing (IoT); Resource constrained devices; Encryption-decryption; Symmetric cipher; Asymmetric cipher; Speed; Efficiency; Security; Cost; Raspberry Pi

Online: 13 September 2020 (23:50:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202404.1100.v1

Harnessing the Power of Algorithmic HRM and HR Strategic Decision Making for Achieving the Organizational Success: An Empirical Analysis

Mahmoud Abdulhadi Alabdali, Sami A. Khan, Mohammed Awad Alshahrani

Subject: Social Sciences, Other Keywords: Algorithmic HRM; algorithmic HRM usage; HR strategy; digital HRM; e-HRM; Competitive advantage; HR digital maturity; resource-based view; EFA; PLS-SEM

Online: 17 April 2024 (15:14:51 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0290.v1

Nearshore Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Off-grid Islands: A Case Study in Cuyo Island, Palawan, Philippines

Jonathan Cabiguen Pacaldo, Michael Lochinvar Sim Abundo

Subject: Engineering, Marine Engineering Keywords: SWAN wave model; Nearshore wave energy resource assessment; Ocean renewable energy; Wave energy model simulation; Off-grid island electrification; Cuyo Island; Palawan

Online: 19 October 2022 (14:30:04 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0236.v1

Soil Water and High-Quality Development in Water-Limited Regions

Zhongsheng Guo

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Soil Science Keywords: goods and services; water-limited area; plant-water relationship; Soil water resource use limit by plants; Soil Water Carrying Capacity for Vegetation

Online: 9 February 2021 (11:49:54 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0290.v1

Diverse and Integrative Explanations for Plant Productivity–Richness Relationships

Zhenhong Wang, Juan Arratia, Ting Yan, Cong Zhang, Alessandro Chiarucci

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Plant Sciences Keywords: plant diversity; plant productivity; humped pattern; intrinsic rate of species richness; complementary effect; resource availability; disturbance; species pool effect; competition exclusion; process integration

Online: 10 November 2020 (08:28:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202312.1316.v1

The Application of Green Seismic Survey Technology in Forested Areas and Its Ecological and Economic Effectiveness: Methodology and Practice of Application

Olga Kalinina, Dmitry Metkin, Olga Bichevaya

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Other Keywords: resource-saving technology; industrial ecology; environmental management; green seismic; geological exploration for hydrocarbon raw materials; environmental and economic efficiency; hard-to-reach (forested) areas

Online: 18 December 2023 (13:49:16 CET)

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Abstract: The establishment of a circular economy in the mining sector, taking advantage of innovations in the exploration and development of hydrocarbon reserves, [ ], their [ ], transportation [ ] and subsequent processing [ ] are significant concerns. The issues surrounding the employment of technology targeted at enhancing environmental safety to increase the productivity of the reproduction process of the natural gas and oil resource base are equally important. The paper discusses the use of green seismic technology of survey to determine the oil and gas potential of the subsoil. A methodological toolkit is proposed for carrying out technical and economic calculations to determine indicators of the environmental and economic efficiency of using innovative resource-saving technology for geological survey in areas densely planted with forests. The purpose of the work is to establish the viability of employing resource-saving technology known as Green Seismic to search for promising hydrocarbon objects in forested areas and determine the expected environmental and economic benefits of geological exploration using the suggested enhanced methodology for their evaluation. The tasks set to achieve the goal were solved using methods of geological and economic assessment of the hydrocarbon raw material potential of territories and water areas, environmental assessment of the negative influence of anthropogenic environmental impact on the natural environment, economic and statistical methods of performing technical and economic calculations to determine performance indicators for the implementation of innovative projects in the field of geological exploration. The novelty of the results obtained lies in the proposed improved algorithm for conducting an environmental and economic assessment of geological exploration for hydrocarbon raw materials, a conceptual description of the Green Seismic technology, systematization of technical, economic, and environmental risks, justification of new regional directions for geological exploration using resource-saving seismic exploration technology.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0207.v1

Fast Confirmation of Antibody Identity by MALDI-TOF-MS Fingerprints

Georg Tscheuschner, Timm Schwaar, Michael G. Weller

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: Antibody ID; antibody registry; Research Resource Identifier; RRID; reproducibility; quality control; documentation; traceability; clones; biochemical reagents; diagnostics; immunoassays; ELISA; western blot; immunohistochemistry; microarray; biosensor

Online: 15 February 2020 (15:46:27 CET)

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Thousands of antibodies for diagnostic and other analytical purposes are on the market. However, it is often difficult to identify duplicates, reagent changes, and to assign the correct original publications to an antibody. This slows down scientific progress and might even be a cause of irreproducible research and a waste of resources. Recently, activities were started to suggest the sole use of recombinant antibodies in combination with the open communication of their sequence. In this case, such uncertainties should be eliminated. Unfortunately, this approach seems to be rather a long-term vision since the development and manufacturing of recombinant antibodies remain quite expensive in the foreseeable future. Also, nearly all commercial antibody suppliers may be reluctant to publish the sequence of their antibodies, since they fear counterfeiting. De-novo sequencing of antibodies is also not feasible today for a reagent user without access to the hybridoma clone. Nevertheless, it seems to be crucial for any scientist to have the opportunity to identify an antibody undoubtedly to guarantee the traceability of any research activity using antibodies from a third party as a tool. For this purpose, we developed a method for the identification of antibodies based on a MALDI-TOF-MS fingerprint. To circumvent lengthy denaturation, reduction, alkylation, and enzymatic digestion steps, the fragmentation was performed with a simple formic acid hydrolysis step. Eighty-nine unknown monoclonal antibodies were used for this study to examine the feasibility of this approach. Although the molecular assignment of peaks was rarely possible, antibodies could be easily recognized in a blinded test, simply from their mass-spectral fingerprint. A general protocol is given, which could be used without any optimization to generate fingerprints for a database. We want to propose that in most scientific projects relying critically on antibody reagents, such a fingerprint should be established to prove and document the identity of the used antibodies and to assign a specific reagent to a datasheet of a commercial supplier, a public database record or an antibody ID.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0488.v1

Influence of Temperature on Contact Pressures and Resource of Metal-Polymer Plain Bearings with the Filled Polyamide PA6 Bushing

Myron Chernets, Mykhaylo Pashechko, Anatolii Kornienko, Andrei Buketov

Subject: Engineering, Automotive Engineering Keywords: metal-polymer plain bearings; PA6 based polyamide composites; dispersed glass and carbon fibers; temperature; Young's modulus; maximum contact pressures and resource; boundary and dry friction

Online: 21 July 2021 (11:24:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202302.0315.v1

Characterising Hospital Admission Patterns and Length of Stay in the Emergency Department at Mater Dei Hospital Malta

Lalit Garg, Natasha Attard, Roberta J Caruana, Bhushan Dinkar Pawar, Sally I McClean, Sandra C Buttigieg, Neville Calleja

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Length of stay estimation; Admission rate characterization; Resource requirement forecasting; Patientcare modelling; Hospital capacity planning; Phase type survival trees; Machine Learning; Health ML Extended Health Intelligence

Online: 20 February 2023 (01:38:22 CET)

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