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FlexMat, EarlyView.Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu +3 more
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Nadimi, Reza, Fariborz Jolai
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Food 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
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Evaluating the Location Efficiency of Arabian and African Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) [PDF]
In this paper the efficiency and performance is evaluated for 22 seaports in the region of East Africa and the Middle East. The aim of our study is to compare seaports situated on the maritime trade road between the East and the West.
Ahmed Salem Al-Eraqi +3 more
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How Does AI Empower Corporate ESG Practices? Mechanisms Based on Information Processing Theory
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the context of the latest technological revolution and industrial transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides new impetus for the development of corporate ESG practices. This study, based on data from 2630 A‐share listed companies in China from 2010 to 2022, examines the impact of AI on corporate ESG performance and its mechanisms
Qin Zhu, Shanshan Jiang, Anna Min Du
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Actuation Strategies for Underwater Jet‐Propelled Soft Robots
Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This review article examines jet‐propulsion mechanisms in underwater soft robotic systems, focusing exclusively on physically fabricated and experimentally validated robots. Covering research published from 2013 to 2025, this study classifies and evaluates jet‐propulsion robots based on their actuation mechanisms.
Angel Kitone +3 more
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MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF TWO-STAGE PRODUCTION SYSTEMS WITH SHARED INPUTS BY DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS [PDF]
As a non-parametric technique in Operations Research and Economics, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) evaluates the relative efficiency of peer production systems or decision making units (DMUs) that have multiple inputs and outputs.
A.B. Jaafar +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable development transforms production systems, requiring integrated environmental, social, and economic strategies. Energy systems are key agro‐industrial supply chains in developing countries. Brazil's soybean supply chain impacts Gross Domestic Product, mainly through exports.
Aline Veronese da Silva +3 more
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New Tools for Dealing with Errors-in-Variables in DEA. [PDF]
We develop a series of novel conceptual tools to systematically account for errors-in-variables in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). These tools allow for statistical inference while requiring minimal statistical distribution assumptions, and therefore ...
Laurens CHERCHYE +2 more
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Assessing the logistics efficiency of European countries by using the DEA-PC methodology
Transport, 2014 Data envelopment analysis is a non-parametric linear programming method widely used for the efficiency evaluation of decision making units active in the transport sector. However, it is seldom applied for the efficiency assessment of logistics efficiency
Rita Markovits-Somogyi, Zoltán Bokor
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