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Bailei Li, Xue Wu, Bin Bao, Ruihua Guo and Wenhui Wu
New trends on marine biomaterials.
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Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat and Weibo Liu
In recent years, building resilient communities to disasters has become one of the core objectives in the field of disaster management globally. Despite being frequently targeted and severely impacted by disasters, the geographical extent in studying dis...
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Alexandros Bartzokas Tsiompras, Yorgos N. Photis
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Promotion of daily walking activity is the focal point of urban mobility in many cities, since it tackles issues that stem from the proliferation of auto-dependent lifestyles. The idea of walkability can be defined as the extent to which the built enviro...
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Md. Mostafizur Rahman and György Szabó
In urban land use optimization problems, different conflicting objectives are applied. One of the most significant goals in urban land use optimization problems is to maximize environmental benefits. To quantify environmental benefits in land use optimiz...
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Seyed Amirhossein Hosseini, Ahmad Alhasan and Omar Smadi
This paper describes the process and outcome of deterioration modeling for three different pavement types (asphalt, concrete, and composite) in the state of Iowa. Pavement condition data is collected by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) and sto...
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Jovana Rakicevic, Maja Levi Jaksic, Milica Jovanovic
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Research Question: This paper explores the potential for technology entrepreneurship development at the country level through the creation of a new composite index. Motivation: Motivation for this paper arises from the fact there is a lack of the composi...
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Noureddine Bijaber, Driss El Hadani, Mariam Saidi, Mark D. Svoboda, Brian D. Wardlow, Christopher R. Hain, Calvin Christian Poulsen, Mohammed Yessef and Atmane Rochdi
Drought is one of the most serious climatic and natural disasters inflicting serious impacts on the socio-economy of Morocco, which is characterized both by low-average annual rainfall and high irregularity in the spatial distribution and timing of preci...
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Noureddine Bijaber, Driss El Hadani, Mariam Saidi, Mark D. Svoboda, Brian D. Wardlow, Christopher R. Hain, Calvin Christian Poulsen, Mohammed Yessef and Atmane Rochdi
Drought is one of the most serious climatic and natural disasters inflicting serious impacts on the socio-economy of Morocco, which is characterized both by low-average annual rainfall and high irregularity in the spatial distribution and timing of preci...
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Patrick Miller, Alexandre G. de Barros, Lina Kattan, S.C. Wirasinghe
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Composite Sustainability Indices (CSI) present an opportunity to understand the holistic sustainability performance of a transit system through rigorous analysis. Each CSI is based on processing data through a set of indicators, normalizing the indicator...
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Guoyuan Yang, Zhi Li and Xu Xiao
To clarify the soil nutrient status and identify the safety risks of heavy metals in Camellia oleifera planting regions, the integrated soil fertility status was assessed using the improved Nemero composite index method, weighted average method, and coef...
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Yuanmei Jiao, Zhiqin Zha and Qiue Xu
Understanding the influence of landscape patterns on the water quality of agricultural wetlands is critically important for their management and related decision-making. However, the question of how to quantify this objectively remains a challenge in the...
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Johannes P. Steyn,Suzette Viviers
AbstractOrientation: Investors are increasingly weighing up the cost of investing in companies with adverse impacts on society and the natural environment.Research purpose: In light of the shift to responsible investing, this study compared the risk-adju...
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Petr Procházka, Vladimír Hönig, Mansoor Maitah, Ivana Pljucarská and Jakub Kleindienst
The primary goal of this article is to evaluate water scarcity in selected countries of the Middle-East and assess the impact on agricultural production. To begin with, the Weighted Anomaly Standardized Precipitation (WASP) Index from 1979 to 2017 was sp...
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Andrea De Montis, Vittorio Serra, Giovanna Calia, Daniele Trogu and Antonio Ledda
Composite indicators (CIs), i.e., combinations of many indicators in a unique synthetizing measure, are useful for disentangling multisector phenomena. Prominent questions concern indicators? weighting, which implies time-consuming activities and should ...
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