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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 +2 more
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AI‐Driven Circular Construction Waste Management for Advancing Sustainable Development
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
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Sustainable Production Planning: Insights Into Factors, Models, and Solution Methods
ABSTRACT Effective resource management remains a major challenge for organizations seeking to balance economic efficiency with environmental and social responsibility. In this context, production planning becomes a strategic mechanism for integrating sustainability into industrial operations.
Daysi Ortiz +2 more
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The article collects and organizes literary representations of queuing as experienced in the 80s of the 20th century, analysing – in the context of similar Russian works – “queuing” motives in the prose of Tadeusz Konwicki, Janusz Anderman, Jaroslaw ...
Jakowska, Krystyna
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Competitive concurrent distributed queuing
Distributed queuing is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, arising in a variety of applications. The challenge in designing a distributed queuing algorithm is to minimize message traffic and delay.
Srikanta Tirthapura +2 more
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Predicting Runtime in Spark‐Like Systems With Allocation‐Aware Deterministic Models
ABSTRACT Objectives Apache Spark is widely used for distributed data processing, but accurately predicting application execution time remains challenging because performance depends on application structure, resource configuration, and executor‐allocation behavior.
Hina Tariq, Olivia Das
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The queuing system M/G/Infinity is considered: the Poisson flow of customers’ arrivals, general distribution of service times, infinite number of servers.
Fiošina, Jeļena
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Quantum Machine Learning for Cybersecurity: A Taxonomy and Future Directions
ABSTRACT Context The rapid increase in cyber threats, coupled with increasingly sophisticated attack strategies and the exponential growth of data in recent years, has exposed significant limitations in classical machine learning, rule‐based, and signature‐based defense mechanisms.
Siva Sai +5 more
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ABSTRACT Organisations increasingly need modelling approaches that can support sustainable development decisions across economic, environmental and social dimensions. The triple bottom line (TBL) perspective provides a useful basis for such analysis, but it also introduces modelling challenges because the relevant dimensions are often interdependent ...
Masoud Fakhimi +2 more
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
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