Academic Articles & Research Papers

Correction : Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective

The impact of preservation technology investments on lot-sizing and shipment strategies in a three-echelon food supply chain involving growing and deteriorating items

Food production systems are complex industrial operations that often involve multiple parties. This study proposes inventory management strategies for a multi-echelon perishable food supply chain with growing and deteriorating items. The up...

RFID Applications and Security Review

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is widely used in several contexts, such as logistics, supply chains, asset tracking, and health, among others, therefore drawing the attention of many researchers. This paper presents a review of the m...

Applying Industrial Internet of Things Analytics to Manufacturing

The proliferation of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies has created a new manufacturing landscape for manufacturing, requiring that companies follow I4.0 trends to stay competitive. However, in this novel digital automated environment, these ...

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...

A Meta Analysis of Sustainable Supply Chain Management from Different Aspects

In recent times there is surge in the sustainable supply chain field. The focus of the present work is targeted towards viewing the major aspects of SSCM by focusing towards SSCM through the lens of meta-analysis by performing a structured ...

Analysis of Supply Chain Risks in Concrete Dam Construction

This study identifies 35 risks related to the supply chain of concrete dams, of which 25 were selected as critical risks using the Delphi method. Risks were categorized into three groups based on their sources including environmental, netwo...

Transfer of Risk in Supply Chain Management with Joint Pricing and Inventory Decision Considering Shortages

This study is the first to consider a distribution-free approach in a newsvendor model with a transfer of risk and back-ordering. Previously, in many articles, discrete demand is considered. In this model, we consider a newsvendor selling a...

Implications of climate change on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity

Global warming is a phenomenon whereby the planet's exposure to the sun's radiation worsens from the high emission of gasses believed to trap heat within the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading greenhouse gas majorly responsible...

Should the fashion industry confront the sustainability challenge with 3D prototyping technology

In this paper, coming out of a broader research project on how the digital prototype can be effectively integrated in the product development process of the clothing industry, the authors investigate the relationship between Corporate Socia...

ANALYSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN THE NORTH-WEST REGION OF ROMANIA FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF CLUSTER EXCELLENCE

The cluster of excellence in the agri-food sector could function as a significant driver for promoting innovation and advanced technologies throughout all aspects of the supply chain. This collaboration can facilitate the exchange of knowle...

Securing Electric Vehicle Performance: Machine Learning-Driven Fault Detection and Classification

Electric vehicles (EVs) are commonly recognized as environmentally friendly modes of transportation. They function by converting electrical energy into mechanical energy using different types of motors, which aligns with the sustainable pri...

Raw diffraction data preservation and reuse: overview, update on practicalities and metadata requirements

A topical review is presented of the rapidly developing interest in and storage options for the preservation and reuse of raw data within the scientific domain of the IUCr and its Commissions, each of which operates within a great diversity...

Circulating tumour cell enumeration, biomarker analyses, and kinetics in patients with colorectal cancer and other GI malignancies

ObjectiveMost of the work in terms of liquid biopsies in patients with solid tumors is focused on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of using circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood samples fro...

Characterization of metabolic responses, genetic variations, and microsatellite instability in ammonia-stressed CHO cells grown in fed-batch cultures

Abstract Background As bioprocess intensification has increased over the last 30 years, yields from mammalian cell processes have increased from 10’s of milligrams to over 10’s of grams per liter. Most of these gains in productivity can be ...

Prospects for developing allergen‐depleted food crops

Abstract In addition to the challenge of meeting global demand for food production, there are increasing concerns about food safety and the need to protect consumer health from the negative effects of foodborne allergies. Certain bio‐molecu...

OsAAI1 is dependent on the nitrate pathway toregulate rice root development in response to high salt stress

Salt stress limits plant growth and yield. Though nitrogen fertilizer can alleviate salt damage, the effects of salt and nitrate on the stress resistance gene OsAAI1 are unclear. This study examined the Salt stress sensitivity of OsAAI1 tra...

Heavy top quark mass in the minimal universal seesaw model

We study the hierarchy between MT , vL, and vR, the relevant energy scales of the Minimal Universal Seesaw Model (MUSM), where the two lightest quark families remain massless at tree level. We also predict the heavy top quark mass, mt′ . We...

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...

Time-domain image processing using photonic reservoir computing

Photonic computing has attracted much attention due to its great potential to accelerate artificial neural network operations. However, the processing of a large amount of data, such as image data, basically requires large-scale photonic ci...