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Behind the Seven Veils of Inequality. What if it's all about the Struggle within just One Half of the Population over just One Half of the National Income?

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1133-1213, September 2019., 2019
ABSTRACT This article addresses three main issues: why there is such a huge diversity of disposable income inequality across the world, why there is such a deterioration of market inequality among countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and why inequality seems to move in ‘waves’.
José Gabriel Palma
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Analysis of Corporate Environmental Performance in Terms of Eco‐Innovation: Developing a Dominance Index (DMI) Approach

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 7119-7145, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The consequences of climate change have underscored the need for greater environmental responsibility, leading companies to increase their efforts in developing sustainable practices, including eco‐innovation strategies. Such initiatives have aroused the interest of academics and professionals worldwide, particularly in the last decade ...
Germán López‐Pérez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Survey on the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem: Variants and Solution Approaches

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
In order to ensure high‐quality and on‐time delivery in logistic distribution processes, it is necessary to efficiently manage the delivery fleet. Nowadays, due to the new policies and regulations related to greenhouse gas emission in the transport sector, logistic companies are paying higher penalties for each emission gram of CO2/km.
Tomislav Erdelić   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MPACT: Mesoscopic Profiling and Abstraction of Crowd Trajectories

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, Volume 44, Issue 6, September 2025.
The MPACT framework enables crowd generation with implicit user control. Users input a set of crowd data, with the behaviours they want to see in the generations, and author novel environments distributing the behaviours via explainable high‐level behaviour profiles, optimised by the MPACT model, for example, flock‐like crowd (far right).
Marilena Lemonari   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficient taxation of sugar‐sweetened beverages and missing markets for sugar content

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 576-612, July 2025.
Abstract This paper identifies missing markets for the sugar content of sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs) as a novel foundation of soft drink taxation. If the social marginal value of sugar content is negative, then missing price signals imply an inefficiently high sugar content. Efficiency is restored with a tax on the sugar content per unit of the SSB,
Thomas Eichner, Marco Runkel
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Benchmark and Test Functions for Global Optimization Algorithms and Metaheuristics

open access: yesWIREs Computational Statistics, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Benchmarking in optimization is a critical step in evaluating the performance, robustness, and scalability of machine learning algorithms and metaheuristics. While trends in benchmark design continue to evolve, synthetic functions remain vital for fundamental stress tests and theoretical evaluations.
M. Z. Naser   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

El efecto de la volatilidad del peso mexicano en los rendimientos y riesgo de la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
El efecto de las colas pesadas originado por los eventos extremos y los diferentes niveles de asimetría asociados a la alta volatilidad en aglomeraciones en los mercados financieros de economías emergentes requieren de modelos más sofisticados para su ...
DE JESUS GUTIERREZ, RAUL   +3 more
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Propuesta de creación del Servicio Express para vehículos de mantenimientos limpios y periódicos en el taller "Granados" de automotores y anexos S.A. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis project analyzes the mechanical service for periodic maintenances in Taller “Granados” of TallerAuto S.A. To do this, processes involved in the service are taken into account giving more emphasis on the maintenance and cleaning processes ...
Hidalgo Bravo, Beatriz Alejandra   +1 more
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Abstract Book: 25th Congress of the European Hematology Association Virtual Edition, 2020

open access: yes, 2020
HemaSphere, Volume 4, Issue S1, Page 1-1168, June 2020.
wiley   +1 more source

On modelling insurance data by using a generalized lognormal distribution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper, a new heavy-tailed distribution is used to model data with a strong right tail, as often occurs in practical situations. The distribution proposed is derived from the lognormal distribution, by using the Marshall and Olkin procedure.
García, Victoriano J.   +2 more
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