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Practice and challenges of humanitarian logistics management within the Ethiopian public pharmaceutical supply chain

Biniam Bahiru Tufa, Shiferaw Mitiku Tebeka • BMC Health Services Research (2025)

Abstract Background Humanitarian logistics involves the coordinated movement of relief goods, personnel, information, and funds between beneficiaries, donors, and suppliers, which is crucial for successful emergency response operations. In ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-13279-3

Conservation and Preservation for Endangered Mangrove Species: Comprehensive Case Study of Swamp Forest on North Coast Area of Malaysia

Mona Fairuz Ramli, Ahmad Shabudin Ariffin, Marziah Zahar, Aizat Md Sin et al. • Ilmu Kelautan (2022)

Mangrove forests are special type of coastal ecosystem characterized by their adaptations that enable plants to thrive in saline soil. Despite accounting for only about 1% of global forest coverage, mangroves are keystone ecosystems that pr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14710/ik.ijms.27.4.297-306

Evaluation of artificial intelligence technology success factors for an effective supply chain using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy AHP method

Gülçin Büyüközkan, Celal Alpay Havle • Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi (2026)

The increasing complexity of supply chains in today's globalizing world has increased the importance of effective supply chain management. Consequently, businesses increasingly rely on new technologies to maintain flexibility, efficiency, a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.33707/akuiibfd.1689304

Flood Response System—A Case Study

Yogesh Kumar Singh, Upasana Dutta, T. S. Murugesh Prabhu, I. Prabu et al. • Hydrology (2017)

Flood Response System (FRS) is a network-enabled solution developed using open-source software. The system has query based flood damage assessment modules with outputs in the form of spatial maps and statistical databases. FRS effectively f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/hydrology4020030

Assessment of hazard recognition performance of thermal power plant workers: A case study of a combined cycle power plant

Romeo Danquah, Gidphil Mensah, Winfred Senyo Agbagah, Francis Davis • Cogent Engineering (2023)

Hazard recognition is a vital skill every thermal power plant worker needs to possess to enhance workplace accident prevention. Facilities and materials used in thermal power plants expose the workers to significant hazards. While some prio...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2023.2252621

Enhancing Los Angeles’ resilient energy systems amid wildfires

Alexis Pengfei Zhao, Mohannad Alhazmi, Shuangqi Li, Jiarong Li et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Wildfires pose a significant threat to urban regions, with cities like Los Angeles facing increasing challenges due to their vulnerability to frequent and severe wildfire events. This study proposes a novel framework for optimizing...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-02433-w

The Role of Islamic Finance in Confronting Natural Disasters through Collective Financing: A Case Study

Mohammed Er-Riyad Er-Riyad, Maroua El-Jihaoui, Ibrahim Bamohammed • Jurnal Iqtisad (2025)

Crowdfunding platforms are considered valuable tools within Islamic finance due to their potential compliance with Islamic Sharia principles and their absence of any suspicion related to usury (Riba). These platforms are new financing mecha...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.31942/iq.v12i1.13003

A hybrid technique to enhance the rainfall-runoff prediction of physical and data-driven model: a case study of Upper Narmada River Sub-basin, India

Sachin Kumar, Mahendra Kumar Choudhary, T. Thomas • Scientific Reports (2024)

Abstract Accurate streamflow prediction is crucial for effective water resource management and planning. This study aims to enhance streamflow simulation accuracy in the data-scarce Upper Narmada River Basin (UNB) by proposing a novel hybri...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-77655-5

Investigating the cost of mechanized unpaved road maintenance operations in Uganda

Andrew Moses Obeti, Lawrence Muhwezi, John Muhumuza Kakitahi, Chris Bic Byaruhanga • Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2024)

Force Account Mechanism (FAM) is the predominant road maintenance system in Uganda’s local government setup and a similar, though slightly different approach, is used in some large private sector agriculture plantations. With the Uganda Roa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2024.101135

Decision Support System for Technology Deployment Considering Emergent Behaviors in the Maritime Industry

Kazuo Hiekata, Zhinan Zhao • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2022)

The maritime industry is trying to utilize new technology for enhancing its competitiveness to overcome today’s severe economic situation, and some interact effects, or potentially emergent effects, will emerge during the introduction of th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jmse10020263

A case study on morphological aspects of distinct magnetized 3D hybrid nanoparticles on fluid flow between two orthogonal rotating disks: An application of thermal energy systems

Zahra Abdelmalek, M. Zubair Akbar Qureshi, S. Bilal, Qadeer Raza et al. • Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (2021)

The consolidation power of different nanomaterials such as metallic nanoparticles and metallic-oxides nanoparticles in a new-fangled and energetic hybrid material should give rise to fascinating properties that combine the advantages of eac...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2020.100744

Spatiotemporal patterns of remotely sensed phenology and their response to climate change and topography in subtropical bamboo forests during 2001-2017: a case study in Zhejiang Province, China

Xuejian Li, Huaqiang Du, Guomo Zhou, Fangjie Mao et al. • GIScience & Remote Sensing (2023)

Vegetation phenology has long been adapted to environmental change and is highly sensitive to climate change. Shifts in phenology also affect feedbacks of vegetation to environmental factors such as topography and climate by influencing spati...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/15481603.2022.2163575

Investigation the effects of economics – safety performance indices changes on average of lost work days (case study in the project refinery installation)

E ansari, Sh vosoghi • Salāmat-i kār-i Īrān (2016)

Background and aims: According to the International Labour Organization, 17% of fatal accidents occur in construction projects and development Workshop. While this number in Iran according to the Labor Department is 46%. In developing Asian...

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Managing Food Quality Risk in Global Supply Chain: A Risk Management Framework

Pablo Jose Arevalo Chavez MSc., Christopher Seow • International Journal of Engineering Business Management (2012)

Today, the food sector is one of the sectors most vulnerable to intentional contamination by debilitating agents [ 1 ]. Some cases of contaminated food have indicated that product quality risk is one of the vulnerabilities in the global sup...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5772/46116

THE IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORKS IN THE EU

Ana-Maria Coatu, Felix-Angel Popescu, Laurențiu Petrila • Agora International Journal of Economical Sciences (2025)

This study explores how socio-economic factors affect the effectiveness of public accountability frameworks in EU member states, with Romania as a case study. Using data from the World Bank, Eurobarometer, and cross-country comparisons, it ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15837/aijes.v19i1.7142

Using ERP Systems to Transform Business Processes: A Case Study at a Precession Engineering Company

C.K.M.Lee, Linda Zhang, P.X.Lee, K.O. Au • International Journal of Engineering Business Management (2009)

Enterprises nowadays strive to keep transforming their business processes in accordance with the fastchanging customer demands so as to survive the intense global competition. In an attempt to provide practitioners with an insight into ERP ...

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Modeling Air Pollutant Emissions in the Provincial Level Road Transportation Sector in Korea: A Case Study of the Zero-Emission Vehicle Subsidy

Minyoung Roh, Seungho Jeon, Soontae Kim, Sha Yu et al. • Energies (2020)

South Korea has been suffering from high PM2.5 pollution. Previous studies have contributed to establishing PM2.5 mitigation policies but have not considered provincial features and sector-interactions. In that sense, the integrated assessm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/en13153999