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Australian infrastructure audit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Examines the drivers of future infrastructure demand, particularly population and economic growth. Summary The Australian Infrastructure Audit takes a strategic approach to assessing our nation\u27s infrastructure needs.
Infrastructure Australia
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Photonic‐Enabled Energy‐Efficient Transparent Neuromorphic Computing Devices: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Transparent photonic neuromorphic computing devices merge optics and brain‐inspired computing to overcome von Neumann bottlenecks with ultrafast, low‐energy processing. By exploiting transparent oxides, 2D materials, phase‐change materials, and hybrid heterostructures, these platforms enable photonic synapses, memory, and logic for see‐through edge ...
Shuvaraj Ghosh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a composite index to measure environmental sustainability in the telecom sector: A comprehensive approach towards carbon emission reduction

open access: yesIIMB Management Review
Telecommunication provides the infrastructure to deliver core services but contributes to extensive CO2 emissions. To address the problem, this paper introduces environmental sustainability index for the telecom sector to reduce carbon emissions.
Kamlesh Kukreti, Kunal K. Ganguly
doaj   +1 more source

Conformal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cylindrical Geometry Perspective

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Cylindrical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are explored for low‐complexity beam steering using one‐bit meta‐atoms. A multi‐level modeling approach, including optimization‐based synthesis, demonstrates that even minimal hardware can support directive scattering.
Filippo Pepe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Productivity, Infrastructure Endowment, and Regional Spillovers in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper assesses whether disparities in regional public infrastructure endowments can explain regional disparities in labor productivity among European regions.
Bouvet, Florence.
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
wiley   +1 more source

Study on Sugarcane Production Efficiency Based on DEA-Malmquist Index: A Case Study of 8 Cities in Guangdong Province

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021
This article takes the evaluation model of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Malmquist index change and its decomposition method, from 2014 to 2018, of sugarcane production in 8 cities in Guangdong province as the research object and the selection of ...
Xiaohui Wang, Xin Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Alcohol and Other Drug Vocational Education and Training in Australia: Changes in the Landscape From 2011 to 2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People impacted by alcohol and other drugs (AOD) are supported across a range of health and social service settings, often by workers in generalist roles who may not have specialist training. Vocational education and training (VET) plays a key role in equipping AOD workers with the knowledge and skills required for practice, yet there is no ...
Kirrilly Thompson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rating of Regions of Kazakhstan in Terms of Readiness for B2C E-commerce: Evaluation Methodology and Recommendations

open access: yesЭкономика: стратегия и практика, 2023
The purpose of the work is to develop a methodology for assessing readiness for e-commerce in the B2C sector, which allows for assessing the conditions and factors for the development of e-commerce in the context of the regions of Kazakhstan.
A. B. Zhanbozova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sport, Agency and Pigeon Snaring in the Ancient Tongan Chiefdom

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pigeon snaring was an élite sport in the traditional Tongan chiefdom, undertaken on purpose‐built mounds known as sia heu lupe. LiDAR imagery combined with field survey and mound documentation on the island of Tongatapu has identified a comprehensive corpus of these sites.
David V. Burley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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