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Fan Ding, Min Liu, Simon M. Hsiang, Peng Hu, Yuxiang Zhang and Kewang Jiang
The complexity and uncertainty of construction projects contribute to low efficiency in the construction industry. This research applied the Takt-time planning method to optimize the construction working process, and proposed a risk control framework bas...
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Daqing Wu, Jiyu Li, Jiye Cui and Dong Hu
With continuous improvements in people?s consumption levels, consumers? demands for safe and fresh agricultural products increase. The increase in the number of vehicles and serious congestion on roads has led to problems, such as the weak timeliness of ...
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Antti Valkonen and Branko Glisic
A key goal of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems applied to infrastructure is to improve asset management. SHM systems yield benefits by providing information that allows improved asset management decisions. Often, improvement is measured in mone...
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Carla Sahori Seefoo Jarquin, Alessandro Gandelli, Francesco Grimaccia and Marco Mussetta
Understanding how, why and when energy consumption changes provides a tool for decision makers throughout the power networks. Thus, energy forecasting provides a great service. This research proposes a probabilistic approach to capture the five inherent ...
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Claudio Lombardi, Luís Picado-Santos and Anuradha M. Annaswamy
Value of time (VOT) is a crucial aspect of travel demand modeling. VOT impacts most mobility projects and the evaluations therein. It has been noted to be influenced by multiple factors, mainly related to individuals? demographics and trips? characterist...
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Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Ermioni D. Pasiou, Andronikos Loukidis, Ilias Stavrakas and Dimos Triantis
The quantitative determination of the current load carrying capability of already loaded structural elements and the possibility to detect proper indices that could be considered as signals for timely warning that the load carrying capacity is exhausted ...
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Matteo Taroni, Giorgio Vocalelli and Andrea De Polis
We introduce a novel approach to estimate the temporal variation of the b-value parameter of the Gutenberg?Richter law, based on the weighted likelihood approach. This methodology allows estimating the b-value based on the full history of the available d...
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Khurram Naeem, Bok Hyeon Kim, Dong-Jin Yoon and Il-Bum Kwon
We propose a weighted singular value decomposition (WSVD) to reduce the random noise in the Rayleigh backscattering signal of the phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry (F-OTDR) to enhance the detection performance of the distributed vibration...
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Alvise Benetazzo, Francesco Barbariol and Silvio Davison
There is general consensus that accurate model predictions of extreme wave events during marine storms can substantially contribute to avoiding or minimizing human losses and material damage. Reliable wave forecasts and hindcasts, together with statistic...
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Rana M. Aly, Amira Zaki, Waleed K. Badawi and Moustafa H. Aly
For 5G and beyond cellular communication systems, new coding and modulation techniques are suggested to reach the requirements of high data rate and quality of service. In this paper, a new space-time coded orthogonal transform division multiplexing (STC...
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This study aims to construct a reduced thermodynamic cycle model with high accuracy and high model execution speed based on artificial neural network training for real-time numerical analysis. This paper proposes a method of constructing a fast average-v...
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Xiaohong Chen, Changqing Ye, Jiaming Zhang, Chongyu Xu, Lijuan Zhang and Yihan Tang
The stationarity assumption of hydrological processes has long been compromised by human disturbances in river basins. The traditional hydrological extreme-value analysis method, i.e., “extreme value theory” which assumes stationarity of the ...
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Goran Avlijas
Pág. 11 - 23
Research Question: This paper investigates whether the Monte Carlo simulation can be widely used as a practicable method for the analysis of the risks that impact project duration. Motivation: The main goal was to explore the use of the Monte Carlo simul...
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Adam Poulsen,Oliver K Burmeister
A rising elderly population and diminishing number of family and professional carers has led to calls for the intervention of care robots. This leaves the quality of robot-delivered care to be determined by designers, for profit companies, nursing codes ...
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Yiqing Li, Weiguo Yang, Lixin Tian and Jie Yang
This paper presents a policy benefit model of a photovoltaic (PV) power generation project based on real options analysis (ROA) and the two-factor learning curve model. The main purpose is to examine the investment behavior of developing a PV project in ...
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Wilton Bernardino,Leonardo Brito,Raydonal Ospina,Silvio Melo
Pág. 573 - 610
In this paper, we have explored operational risk in Brazil by considering different sectoral indices of the Brazilian economy and the GACH Value-at-Risk (GARCH-VaR) estimation approach. We have carried a statistical evaluation of the eight Brazilian sect...
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Hisa Morisugi
Pág. 5144 - 5159
This paper focuses on how value of time and its accrued time saving benefits for freight trips can be expressed and measured in terms of market information such as freight fee, freight time, observable freight service consumption and observable freight s...
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Shirlenne Ferreira, Maria Carneiro, Ricardo Edvan, Elzânia Pereira, Luiz de Morais. Neto, Andréa Pinto, Danilo Camilo
Pág. 35 - 42
This research was conducted to evaluate the agronomic characteristics and chemical composition of Gliricidia sepium grown under different residual heights in different seasons. Experimental design used was a complete randomized block in a split-plot. Plo...
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I.C. Athira, C.P. Muneera, K. Krishnamurthy, M.V.L.R. Anjaneyulu
Pág. 116 - 123
Value of travel time (VOT) is one of the key inputs to travel demand models and is important for management and appraisal of transport investment decisions. The value of travel time can be defined as the price people are willing to pay to acquire an addi...
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Nicolas van Zeebroeck
Pág. 37
Relying on a comprehensive dataset including detailed information on all patent applications filed to the EPO from 1980 to 2000 and on the renewal of those of them that were granted, this paper presents the first survival time analysis of the determinant...
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