Academic Articles & Research Papers

International Business

It is difficult to trace the origins of international business (IB) activity in Greece. Fragmentation of research, lack of documented and centrally stored evidence and practical limitations do not allow us to understand exactly the ‘when’ a...

Minimizing the Sum of Makespan and Total Weighted Tardiness in a No-Wait Flowshop

This paper presents a cloud theory-based iterated greedy (CTIG) algorithm for solving the no-wait flowshop scheduling problem (NWFSP) with the objective of minimizing the sum of makespan and total weighted tardiness. The performance of the ...

Modernizing GNSS data acquisition, pre-processing, and distribution at volcanological observatories

In recent years, the field of geodetic monitoring is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the transition from GPS-only positioning to a fully multi-GNSS environment. With Galileo, BeiDou, and modernized GPS & GLONASS constella...

Lits, souches, camps : circulations et proliférations écoféministes dans deux romans de Jean Hegland

Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest (1996) concludes with two sisters and their infant Burl abandoning their family home to embrace life in a neighbouring forest. Western domesticity, symbolised by private bedrooms, is replaced by the plural, bi...

Stormwater characterisation and modelling for Sungai Air Hitam in Selangor, Malaysia using model for urban stormwater improvement conceptualisation (music)

The aim of this study is to evaluate the current water quality status of one of the urban rivers in Malaysia, called Sungai Air Hitam. The river's water supply is not only unsuitable for the inhabitants but also hazardous to the aquatic spe...

Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of Nanoparticle Deposition from Tongue Morphological Variations

The human tongue has highly variable morphology. Its role in regulating respiratory flows and deposition of inhaled aerosols remains unclear. The objective of this study was to quantify the uncertainty of nanoparticle deposition from the va...

A three-pillar approach to assessing climate impacts on low flows

The objective of this paper is to present a framework for assessing climate impacts on future low flows that combines different sources of information, termed pillars. To illustrate the framework three pillars are chosen: (a) extrapolation ...

Amphibious Worlds:Environments, Infrastructures, Ontologies

Presently, we are witness to a global intensification of water-related disasters related to flooding, sinking erosion, and drought, reflecting changes in global water circulation, rising sea levels and changing weather patterns. Indeed, wat...

The accumulation cost of relaxed fixed time accumulation mode

Abstract Studying the wagon accumulation process and the laws of accumulation cost is of great significance for determining the suitable conditions of wagon accumulation and shortening the accumulation time. Here, the process of relaxed fix...

Structure of Spatial Correlation Network and Influencing Factors of Urban-Rural Integration in China

Urban-rural integration is a necessary way to realize the strategy of rural revitalization in the new era, and exploring the characteristics of the spatial correlation network of China's urban-rural integration and its formation mechanism i...

An agent-based modeling framework for the design of a dynamic closed-loop supply chain network

Abstract The supply chain is a dynamic and uncertain system consisting of material, information, and fund flows between different organizations, from the acquisition of the raw materials to the delivery of the finished products to the end c...

Topologically protected loop flows in high voltage AC power grids

Geographical features such as mountain ranges or big lakes and inland seas often result in large closed loops in high voltage AC power grids. Sizable circulating power flows have been recorded around such loops, which take up transmission l...

Improved InSAR Deformation Time Series with Multi-Stable Points Technique for Atmospheric Correction

Potential tropospheric noise is a critical factor that undermines the effectiveness of deformation monitoring in Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) technologies. In most scenarios, many point targets within the InSAR deformatio...

The application of supercritical CO2 in nuclear engineering: A review

Due to its advantages of low critical pressure and temperature, stability, non-toxic, abundant reserves and low cost, supercritical CO2 becomes one of the most common supercritical fluids in modern researches and industries. This paper pres...

Advances in the modeling of multiphase flows and their application in nuclear engineering—A review

Hidden Markov model based P2P flow identification technique

To identify various P2P flows accurately in real-time,a hidden Markov model(HMM)based P2P flow identification technique was proposed.This approach made use of packet size,inter-arrival time and arrival order to construct flow identification...

Towards an Ethical Electronics? Ecologies of Congolese Conflict Minerals

This paper asks how coltan, casseterite, wolframite and gold ores mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo relate networked microelectronics to brutal warlords, and what legal and industrial actions have been enacted by activists, NGOs, po...

The Small Motherland as a Sociological Category: Reflections on the Book — Boronoev A.O., Tkhakakov V.Kh., Mironov D.V. The Phenomenon of a Small Homeland and the Problems of Constructing a Civic Identity. St Petersburg: Asterion publ., 2024

This new book by St. Petersburg sociologists translates the concept of a small homeland, which is popular in journalism, local history and pedagogy, into a sociological category, which provides an impetus for methodological reflections on i...

Kazakhstan's Banking Sector: Between Domestic Regulation and Macroeconomic Trends

The banking sector plays a fundamental role in economic stability and development by facilitating financial intermediation, credit allocation, and liquidity management. In emerging economies such as Kazakhstan, the financial system is chara...

Optimal Selection of Conductors in Distribution System Designs Using Multi-Criteria Decision

The growth in the demand for electrical energy, which is driven by the constant growth of the metropolises and the expansion of the productive capacities of the industrial sector, entails the inevitable development of the electrical system ...