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Performance Evaluation of Construction Consultants Using Smart-PLS and IPA

Journal of Educational Management Research
Evaluating the performance of construction consultants is crucial to the success of a project, particularly in ensuring adherence to quality, budget, and timeline.
Aryani Nova, Rizal Muhamad, Pramesti Safira Farras, Johara Rosita Mutiara, Metta Made, Y. Dwi, Muhammad Isradi   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Expanded Farm Safety Net Payments Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) strengthens the agricultural risk coverage (ARC) and price loss coverage (PLC) programs by aligning program parameters more closely with recent market dynamics and allows for an expansion in program acres. This study projects the increases in ARC‐County and PLC payments for corn, soybeans, and wheat under
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Tayatorn Pongspikul, Alejandro Plastina, Anup Paudel, Chandan Bhattarai, Jennifer Ifft   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Specifying Simulation Commitments Early in System Design: Introduction to the EFSUT Methodology

Systems
Engineering programs increasingly rely on simulation for early design decisions, yet a simulation’s obligations—the specific questions it must answer and observations it must provide—are often left implicit until late in development.
Bernard P. Zeigler
doaj   +1 more source

Making a Water Data System Responsive to Information Needs of Decision Makers

Frontiers in Climate, 2021
Evidence-based environmental management requires data that are sufficient, accessible, useful and used. A mismatch between data, data systems, and data needs for decision making can result in inefficient and inequitable capital investments, resource ...
Alida Cantor, Alida Cantor, Alida Cantor, Michael Kiparsky, Michael Kiparsky, Susan S. Hubbard, Rónán Kennedy, Lidia Cano Pecharroman, Lidia Cano Pecharroman, Kamyar Guivetchi, Gary Darling, Christina McCready, Roger Bales, Roger Bales   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cow or the Credit: Causal Relationship Between California Dairy Herd Consolidation and Anaerobic Digesters

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The California dairy industry has experienced considerable consolidation over the past 30 years. During this period, there has also been substantial technological innovation, implementation of the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program, and rapid adoption of anaerobic digesters.
Michael McCullough, Jarrett Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Maturity of Software Modelling and Model Driven Engineering: a Survey in the Italian Industry [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The main claimed advantage of Model-driven engineering is improvement in productivity. However, few information is available about its actual adoption during software development and maintenance in the industry.
Tiso, Alessandro, Tomassetti, Federico Cesare Argentino, Gianna Reggio, Reggio, Gianna, F. Tomassetti, F. Ricca, Federico Tomassetti, G. Reggio, Alessandro Tiso, M. Torchiano, A. Tiso, Filippo Ricca, Ricca, Filippo, Torchiano, Marco, Marco Torchiano   +14 more
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decision support model for evaluating renewal strategies to enhance the vitality of historical districts

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The renewal of historic districts requires a delicate balance between preserving cultural heritage and stimulating urban vitality. However, existing evaluation mechanisms often fail to systematically translate qualitative stakeholder demands into ...
Yanqing Xu, Yi-Kai Juan
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Large Language Models for Goal Model Extraction

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
User stories, expressed in snippets of natural language text, are commonly used to elicit stakeholder's needs in agile software development. Requirement engineers model user stories to interpret the relations among goals and requirements.
Vaishali Siddeshwar, Sanaa A. Alwidian, Masoud Makrehchi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa, Silvia Bobba, Cynthia E. L. Latunussa, Enrica Leccisi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source