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Graeme Shanks
The case study research approach is widely used in a number of different ways within the information systems community. This paper focuses on positivist, deductive case study research in information systems. It provides clear definitions of important con...
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Abeer M. Shoaib, Amr A. Atawia, Mohamed H. Hassanean, Abdelrahman G. Gadallah and Ahmed A. Bhran
Water is the meaning of life for humans, agricultural and industrial processes; controlling the distribution of water and wastewater between industrial processes is very vital for rationalizing water and preserving the environment. This paper addresses a...
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Amir Vadiee, Ambrose Dodoo and Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari
Floor heating and radiators are two of the most common types of hydronic heating systems used for space heating in single-family houses in cold climate regions. Notwithstanding, there are few comparative studies on indoor temperature distribution and sys...
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Claudio Amadio, Luca Bomben and Salvatore Noè
In this work, a general method for the design of concentric braced steel frames (CBF) with active tension diagonal bracings, applicable to single- and multi-storey structures, is presented. The method is based on the use of an elastic modal analysis with...
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Mario Montopoli, Nicoletta Roberto, Elisa Adirosi, Eugenio Gorgucci and Luca Baldini
Near surface quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) from weather radar measurements is an important task for feeding hydrological models, limiting the impact of severe rain events at the ground as well as aiding validation studies of satellite-based...
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Lorena Hernández von Wobeser
This teaching case reviews the basis of Life Cycle Model in order to understand the transitional stages in organizations. It focuses particularly on Adizes ten stages model. The single case presented here helps us to reflect on life cycle of a micro size...
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Xiaohua Wei, Wenfei Liu and Peicong Zhou
Forest change and climatic variability are two major drivers for influencing change in watershed hydrology in forest?dominated watersheds. Quantifying their relative contributions is important to fully understand their individual effects. This review pap...
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Stephen Draper
Most analyses of how humans use artifacts, and interactive software in particular, have a strong tendency to assign 1:1 correspondences between goals and methods: to see software as supporting one task, users as having one way of executing a task, one th...
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Yuyilan Chen, Yuqian Dai, Li Li, Chenqu Ma and Xiaogang Liu
Fashion color research takes the color information of fashion apparel as the major focus for further studies, such as style categorization or trend prediction. However, the colors in apparel are treated as isolated elements from each other, disregarding ...
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Daniel H. Stolfi, Matthias R. Brust, Grégoire Danoy and Pascal Bouvry
In this article, we propose SuSy-EnGaD, a surveillance system enhanced by games of drones. We propose three different approaches to optimise a swarm of UAVs for improving intruder detection, two of them featuring a multi-objective optimisation approach, ...
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Enrico Bianchi and Paolo Penna
This work studies clustering algorithms which operates with ordinal or comparison-based queries (operations), a situation that arises in many active-learning applications where ?dissimilarities? between data points are evaluated by humans. Typically, exa...
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Fezzeh Abanavaz,Morteza Khakzar Bafruei
Pág. 170 - 176
In the supply chain, the return of goods is of great importance. For different reasons, the flow of materials and goods is inevitable in the opposite direction of the chain. Therefore, dealing with the subject of the reverse logistics network and managem...
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Wenwei Liu and Chuan-Yu Wu
Particle?fluid flows are ubiquitous in nature and industry. Understanding the dynamic behaviour of these complex flows becomes a rapidly developing interdisciplinary research focus. In this work, a numerical modelling approach for complex particle?fluid ...
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Dmitry A. Ruban, Anna V. Mikhailenko and Vladimir A. Ermolaev
Accurate nomenclature of geological heritage sites (geosites) is necessary to facilitate their description and territorial geodiversity evaluation (both important for sustainable development and efficient land-use planning). As suggested by previous geol...
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Jiangping Zhou, Qihao Wang, Haitao Liu
In this study, transit-served areas (TSAs) are defined as areas within a reasonable distance (e.g., 800 meters) of transit services. TSAs have two key dimensions: physical features (e.g., land-use density and mix) and performance (regarding human behavio...
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Alexander J. Koutsouris, Jan Seibert and Steve W. Lyon
This study explored the potential for bias correction of global precipitation datasets (GPD) to support streamflow simulation for water resource management in data limited regions. Two catchments, 580 km2 and 2530 km2, in the Kilombero Valley of central ...
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Sergey Voronin and Jarmo Partanen
A forecasting methodology for prediction of both normal prices and price spikes in the day-ahead energy market is proposed. The method is based on an iterative strategy implemented as a combination of two modules separately applied for normal price and p...
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Ali Belmeziti, Olivier Coutard and Bernard De Gouvello
The practice of rainwater harvesting (RWH) is spreading rapidly in urban areas. This article studies the impact of a possible generalization of this practice for municipalities by proposing a new method to quantify the potential for potable water savings...
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Cláudio Luiz Melo da Luz,Gustavo Gobbo,Rosália Aldraci Barbosa Lavarda
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This study aims to examine how is characterized the participation of middle manager considering Floyd and Wooldridge (1992) studies, in the implementation process of deliberate strategy. The four different roles that managers play are synthesizing inform...
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Mark Borman
Organisations are increasingly looking to realise the benefits of shared services yet there is little guidance available as to the best way to proceed. A multi-dimensional framework is presented that considers the service provided, the design of the shar...
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