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POWER: Performance Optimization With Evaluated Results for HEV Battery Selection via MCDM‐TOPSIS

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasing transportation demands and environmental concerns in India necessitate the selection of optimal battery technologies for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). As the fifth‐largest car market globally, India faces rising vehicle demand, while the transportation sector remains a major contributor to air pollution.
Rinku Kumar Roy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of the Human–Equine Attachment Scale

open access: yesEquine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Human–horse relationships encompass diverse roles, from companion to competition partner. The impact of such bonds informs owner decision‐making regarding horse management and veterinary care, yet standardised instruments to measure these unique bonds are limited.
Richard H. Corrigan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

Nonthermal Food Processing Technologies: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesFuture Postharvest and Food, EarlyView.
The graphical abstract illustrates the shift from traditional thermal food preservation methods to advanced nonthermal technologies. Traditional methods, represented by heating, often compromise the nutritional and sensory quality of foods. In contrast, nonthermal approaches such as high‐pressure processing (HPP), pulsed electric field (PEF ...
Ashok Kumar Yadav   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The value of a "free" customer [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the problem of a firm that faces asymmetric information about the productivity of its potential workers. In our framework, a worker’s productivity is either assigned by nature at birth, or determined by an unobservable initial action of the ...
Carl F. Mela   +2 more
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Modeling customer loyalty using customer lifetime value

open access: yes, 2006
The definition and modeling of customer loyalty have been central issues in customer relationship management since many years. Recent papers propose solutions to detect customers that are becoming less loyal, also called churners. The churner status is then defined as a function of the volume of commercial transactions.
Glady, N.   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Review on the Significance, Sources, and Applications of Virtual Water on Global Platform

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
A conceptual framework of virtual water showing its sources, major applications, components of the virtual water footprint, and emerging future directions. The diagram emphasizes the growing role of virtual water in global sustainability and resource planning.
Priti Bhowmik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time-varying effects when analysing customer lifetime duration, application to the insurance market [PDF]

open access: yes
The Cox model (Cox, 1972) is widely used in customer lifetime duration research, but it assumes that the regression coefficients are time invariant. In order to analyse the temporal covariate effects on the duration times, we propose to use an extended ...
Ana Maria Perez-Marin   +3 more
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