Academic Articles & Research Papers

Evaluation of a distribution model for a new beer company production site

Ambev dominates the beer market in Brazil with a 70% share. The group formed in the 1990s by the merger of the two largest companies in the industry at the time, Brahma and Antarctica. Even with new entrants in the market AmBev kept growi...

Research Progress of Composite Phase Change Thermal Storage Materials

A phase change material is a popular functional material, and owing to its high heat storage density, maintains a constant temperature during the process of storing and releasing energy, or is stable within a certain temperature range, whic...

Understanding the relationship: Financial inclusion's influence on bank stability in emerging economies

This study examines the impact of financial inclusion on bank stability across 36 emerging economies, utilizing bank-level data from over 1,500 commercial banks spanning the period 2004 to 2023. Despite the recognized benefits of financial ...

Modeling the process of applying anti-crisis management in the system of ensuring financial security of the enterprise

The methodological approach to the application of anti-crisis management in the system of ensuring financial security of the enterprise, unlike the existing ones, summarizes and systematizes the theoretical and methodological features of de...

Meeting unmet needs following minor stroke: the SUN randomised controlled trial protocol

Abstract Background Whilst there are comprehensive guidelines for the rehabilitation of people with severe impairments from stroke, there has been less attention on the health and rehabilitation needs of people with minor stroke. Our study ...

Study the Effectiveness of Implementing Quality Management System In the Corporations Won the ISO Certificate (Case Study: The Ministry of Energy’s Subsidiaries in Isfahan)

Nowadays most organizations have found that improving the quality of goods and services is the necessary condition to attend and survive in the market and in universal competition. ISO quality management system encompasses requirements for ...

Challenges and Strategies in Healthcare Workforce Management: A Scoping Review

Objective: Employees’ management is the process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling human resources within an organization, which is of great importance and it is necessary to pay attention to its various dimensions, includi...

Instrumentos de control documental para la Dirección de Planificación Física de un municipio

Objetivo: Diseñar instrumentos de control documental para la Dirección Municipal de Planificación Física de Santo Domingo, provincia Villa Clara, Cuba, para fortalecer dicha gestión de documentos. Métodos: El estudio se clasifica como de...

Lightweight MS-DSCNN-AttMPLSTM for High-Precision Misalignment Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbines

Wind turbine (WT) misalignment fault diagnosis is constrained by critical signal processing challenges: weak fault features, intense background noise, and poor generalization. This study proposes a lightweight method for high-precision faul...

Rethinking avian influenza control: a systems-oriented One Health perspective for family poultry

Early detection and control of high- and low-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI, LPAI) in family poultry flocks remain challenging in settings where mortality from enzootic diseases such as Newcastle disease (ND) and infectious bursal dise...

Physical Education of Schoolchildren as a Managed Learning Process: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations, a Systems Perspective, and Modelling

Objectives. To synthesize contemporary scientific approaches to interpreting physical education of schoolchildren within the logic of a managed learning process and to clarify the role of pedagogical control, modelling, and age-related deve...

Visual Context and Behavioral Priming in Pedestrian Crossing Decisions: Evidence from a Stated Preference Experiment in Ecuadorian Urban Areas

Pedestrian safety in developing countries faces critical challenges from rapid urbanization and infrastructure deficiencies. This study investigates how visual context influences pedestrian crossing preferences through a controlled stated p...

Wearable ECG Device and Machine Learning for Heart Monitoring

With cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remaining a leading cause of mortality, wearable devices for monitoring cardiac activity have gained significant, renewed interest among the medical community. This paper introduces an innovative ECG monit...

sEMG-controlled forearm bracelet and serious game-based rehabilitation for training manual dexterity in people with multiple sclerosis: a randomised controlled trial

Abstract Background Muscle strength and dexterity impairments are common among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) producing limitations in activities of daily living related to the upper limb (UL). This study aimed to evaluate the effect...

Estimation of EMG-Based Force Using a Neural-Network-Based Approach

The dynamics of human arms has a high impact on the humans' activities in daily life, especially when a human operates a tool such as interactions with a robot with the need for high dexterity. The dexterity of human arms depends largely on...

It Pays to Manage Health Protection and Safety at Work

Under European Union directives, employers have responsibilities for the safety and health of their workers. Directive 89/391 provides the general framework for health and safety management, risk identification and prevention. The directive...

An Operations Measurement System

Design of Fatigue Life Test System of the Energy Efficient Heavy Transmission

During the development process of heavy transmission,a cyclic loading fatigue life test is required to carry out in a certain load to verify the reliability of the internal gear,shaft,bearing,box,and the overall system. In order to adapt th...

Extrapolative prediction in multiphase flow pipelines: a multi-fidelity surrogate approach with stacking ensemble

Accurate extrapolation of multiphase flow behaviour in offshore pipelines is hindered by limited field data, simulator bias, and strong nonlinearities. A multi-fidelity surrogate approach with stacking ensemble is proposed to address these ...

Physical model test study on shear strength characteristics of slope sliding surface in Nanfen open-pit mine

A physical model for the footwall slope of Nanfen open-pit mine, China was established using a self-developed deep geological engineering disaster model test system. A thermosensitive similar material, paraffin, was selected to simulate a w...