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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐Driven Circular Construction Waste Management for Advancing Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) represents up to 40% of global solid waste, posing a significant barrier to achieving circular economy (CE) objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11 and SDG 12. However, construction waste management (CWM) systems remain constrained by fragmented data environments ...
Mohamed T. Elnabwy, Pablo Martinez
wiley   +1 more source

From Tripods to Bipods: Reducing the Queue Number of Planar Graphs Costs Just One Leg

CoRR
As an alternative to previously existing planar graph product structure theorems, we prove that every planar graph $G$ is a subgraph of the strong product of $K_2$, a path and a planar subgraph of a $4$-tree. As an application, we show that the queue number of planar graphs is at most $38$ whereas the queue number of planar bipartite graphs is at most $
openaire   +2 more sources

A study of some M[x]/G/1 type queues with random breakdowns and bernouilli schedule server vacations based on a single vacation policy

, 2008
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Queueing systems arise in modelling of many practical applications related to computer sciences, telecommunication networks, manufacturing and production ...
Maraghi, Farzana Abdulla
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Data Schema Evolution for the Self‐Adaptive Software Domain: A Systematic Mapping Study

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Context Self‐adaptive Software (SaS) is a special category of software systems that enables adaptation at runtime to address new user requirements or changes in its execution environment. This article focuses on a specific category of SaS named SaS2DB, which encompasses systems that require the storage of data in a database. In short, a SaS2DB
Gabriel Nagassaki Campos, Fernando Rodrigues de Moraes, Nathalia Rodrigues de Almeida, Daniel de Almeida, Frank José Affonso   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leverage Points for Meaningful Participation: A 5‐Point Framework From a Rural South African Landscape

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative forms of natural resource management are required. Participation of local actors is necessary but not sufficient, for moving away from the conventional top‐down approaches. This paper develops a 5‐point framework for enabling meaningful participation in rural landscape governance.
Anthony S. Fry, Jai K. Clifford‐Holmes, Carolyn G. Palmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Queuening is Better than Push and Shove [PDF]

We address the scheduling problem of reordering an existing queue into its efficient order through trade. To that end, we consider individually rational and balanced budget direct and indirect mechanisms.
Paul Schweinzer, Alex Gershkov
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Thai Translation and Validation of Chronic Rhinosinusitis‐Patient Reported Outcome (CRS‐PRO)

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The Chronic Rhinosinusitis Patient‐Reported Outcome (CRS‐PRO) questionnaire was recently developed for use in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) patients. This instrument was developed using current diagnostic criteria. This study aimed to translate and validate CRS‐PRO for Thai CRS patients.
Wirach Chitsuthipakorn, Vorachai Pooldum, Juthaporn Phetpong, Saranath Lawpoolsri, Dichapong Kanjanawasee, Patlada Kowatanamongkon, Kittichai Mongkolkul, Kachorn Seresirikachorn, Kornkiat Snidvongs   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimal impact of spotted hyenas on livestock and endangered species in a prey‐rich ecosystem

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The diet of large carnivores is of great interest to conservation managers, as it can reveal the extent of human–carnivore conflict and the impact of carnivores on species of high conservation priority. Metabarcoding of environmental DNA can identify species and is often more reliable than observational or morphological methods, particularly when it ...
Arjun Dheer, Renita Danabalan, Antonia Pellizzone, Philemon Naman, Eve Davidian, Camila Mazzoni, Oliver P. Höner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

MultiRobot Motion Planning Based on Diffusion and Time–Space Path Planning

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering, EarlyView.
This diffusion‐based framework for multirobot motion planning reuses a pretrained single‐robot Motion Planning Diffusion model, employing an alternating trajectory generation scheme guided by inter‐robot collision costs, resulting in coordinated planning without additional multi‐robot training.
Tianle Zhang, Sheng‐Jen Hsieh, Cheng Niu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source