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Applied Sciences, 2020 Beyond 5G networks will be fundamental towards enabling sustainable mobile communication networks. One of the most challenging scenarios will be met in ultra-dense networks that are deployed in densely populated areas.
Carmen Botella-Mascarell +3 more
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The Analysis and the Measurement of Poverty: An Interval-Based Composite Indicator Approach
Economies, 2021 The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as various weighting
Carlo Drago
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MethOSM: a methodology for computing composite indicators derived from OpenStreetMap data
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2019 The task of computing composite indicators to define and analyze complex social, economic, political, or environmental phenomena has traditionally been the exclusive competence of statistical offices.
Dumitru Roman +2 more
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Frontiers in Water, 2023 The assessment of flood vulnerability is a complex task that involves numerous uncertainties. Within this context, sensitivity analyses are crucial to better understand the variability of vulnerability index outcomes according to different input ...
Luana Lavagnoli Moreira +5 more
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Measuring Progress towards Sustainability in the European Union within the 2030 Agenda Framework
Mathematics, 2022 The adoption of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) revived the challenge to efficiently address economic prosperity, environmental quality and social welfare goals.
Marianela Carrillo
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Improvements and Spatial Dependencies in Energy Transition Measures
Energies, 2021 This article aims to improve one of the newest energy transition measures—the World Economic Forum WEF Energy Transition Index (ETI) and find its driving forces. This paper proposes a new approach to correct the ETI structure, i.e., sensitivity analysis,
Marta Ewa Kuc-Czarnecka +2 more
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Animal, 2016 Eco-efficiency is a useful guide to dairy farm sustainability analysis aimed at increasing output (physical or value added) and minimizing environmental impacts (EIs). Widely used partial eco-efficiency ratios (EIs per some functional unit, e.g. kg milk)
A.D. Soteriades +5 more
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Consistency between innovation indicators and national innovation performance in the case of small economies [PDF]
Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2012 he paper bridges two approaches to assess national innovation performance based on the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) composite indicators as well as on innovation indicators elaborated by us with implementing a factor analysis.
Helen POLTIMÄE, Tiiu PAAS
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Digital transformation and economic growth – DESI improvement and implementation
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2022 The paper aims to improve the methodology of the Digital Economic and Society Index (DESI), the European Commission’s newest index to assess the development of the digital economy.
Magdalena Olczyk, Marta Kuc-Czarnecka
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Modelling Deprivation of the 50-plus Population of the Czech Republic Based on the Share Survey [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2019 In the paper, two composite indicators – the indices of material and social deprivation – are analyzed based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe exploring the population aged 50 and over.
Ivana Malá
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