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Allocation of Indivisible Items With a Common Preference Graph: Minimizing Total Dissatisfaction

Networks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent measure for the overall quality of an allocation which does not rely on numerical valuations of the items.
Nina Chiarelli, Clément Dallard, Andreas Darmann, Stefan Lendl, Martin Milanič, Peter Muršič, Ulrich Pferschy   +6 more
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Looking for the European Voter: Split-Ticket Voting in the Belgian Regional and European Elections of 2009 and 2014

Politics and Governance, 2016
While European elections are often seen as remote from EU issues, considerations specifically linked to the EU came to the forefront in the wake of the 2014 European elections: the economic and financial crisis, the new process of designation of the ...
Camille Kelbel, Virginie Van Ingelgom, Soetkin Verhaegen   +2 more
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Mechanisms and impacts of future plant invasions: research agendas and management needs under disruptive social‐ecological change scenarios

Oikos, EarlyView.
No‐analogue futures are characteristic of the Anthropocene, but how global change, and societies' responses, will affect plant invasions remains unclear. Conducting research now to address future needs is crucial for guiding invasion management and policy.
Jennifer L. Bufford, Angela J. Brandt, Rowan Sprague, Christopher E. Buddenhagen, Richard P. Duncan, Nichola Harcourt, Philip E. Hulme, Hao Ran Lai, Kate G. McAlpine, Chris McGrannachan, Fiona J. Thomson, Vincent van Uitregt, Duane A. Peltzer   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz, Jesús A. Anaya, Nicola Clerici, Lina M. Estupinan‐Suarez, Isabel Lopera, Solveig Richter, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos A. Sierra, Andrés Tangarife‐Escobar, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Montero, Pablo Palacios‐Rodríguez, Pablo Ramos, Santiago Botía   +13 more
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Electronic Voting Worldwide: The State of the Art

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Electronic voting allows people to participate more easily in their country’s electoral events. Nevertheless, its adoption is still far from widespread. In this paper, we provide a detailed survey of the state of adoption worldwide and investigate which ...
Paolo Fantozzi, Marco Iecher, Luigi Laura, Maurizio Naldi, Valerio Rughetti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time‐series digital camera photos combined with machine learning algorithms can realize accurate observation of flowering phenology

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Intelligent approaches are required to extract valuable phenological information from time‐series digital camera photos. In this research, we employed YOLO‐based object detection and semantic segmentation models to identify flowers and flower pixels, acquire flower count and flower cover data, and extract phenophases such as first, peak, and end ...
Chuangye Song, Yuan Jia, Lin Zhang, Dongxiu Wu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Passive Acoustic Identification of Social Groups in the Hainan Gibbon

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Passive acoustic monitoring offers a non‐invasive means of assessing visually hard‐to‐survey wildlife species with distinctive vocalizations. We evaluated whether deep learning can identify Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) social groups from their calls.
Emmanuel Kabuga, Emmanuel Dufourq, Nonhlanhla L. Luphade, Samuel T. Turvey, Heidi Ma, Susan M. Cheyne, Hui Liu, Jessica V. Bryant, Qing Chen, Wenyong Li, Zhiwei Liu, Zhaoli Zhou, Stefan Britz, Bubacarr Bah, Ian Durbach   +14 more
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Localising the Sustainable Development Goals. A Place‐Based Analysis of Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Areas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo, Paul Holloway, John Barimo, Mary O'Shaughnessy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Industry 5.0 for Sustainable Healthcare Services: Analyzing the Prospects and Obstacles for the Indian Healthcare System

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fifth industrial revolution (I5.0), which is based on the utilization of interconnected data for efficient resource usage in meeting human requirements, proposes efficient solutions to resource constraint situations. However, the transition to I5.0 in the health sector is not easy and has to face several obstacles.
Ajay Jha, Dindayal Agrawal, Reena Agarwal, Anupam Saxena, Ashish Dwivedi, Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source