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Ivan Soukal
This paper presents an online calculator for bank charges, motivated by information asymmetry in the market for payment accounts. The calculator provides users with a personalized list of the most suitable bank accounts based on required services and mon...
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De Zhi Ning, Xuan Lie Zhao, Li Fen Chen and Ming Zhao
The cost of wave energy converters (WECs) can be reduced significantly by integrating WECs into other marine facilities, especially in sea areas with a mild wave climate. To reduce the cost and increase the efficiency, a hybrid WEC system, comprising a l...
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Davide Chiarella
The underwater environment is a harmful environment, yet one of the richest and least exploited. For these reasons the idea of a robotic companion with the task of supporting and monitoring divers during their activities and operations has been proposed....
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Rok Varga, Bojan ?lender and Primo? Jelu?ic
The design of a gravity retaining wall should be simple to construct, quick to build and the best economic solution to a problem. This can be achieved by using advanced optimization methods. Since geotechnical engineers are not always able to determine t...
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Chunjin Zhang, Xihuan Sun, Yongye Li, Xueqin Zhang, Xuelan Zhang, Xiaoni Yang and Fei Li
With the rapid growth of agricultural trade volumes, the transportation of agricultural products has received widespread attention from society. Aiming at these problems of low transport efficiency and high transport cost in long-distance transport of ag...
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Carolina Bona-Sánchez, Heidi Salokangas and Kaisa Sorsa
This study explores the complexities of cost behavior in the textile industry, conducting a comparative analysis between firms in the Nordic countries and Spain. Our main goal is to examine how distinct economic and corporate governance models impact the...
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Adam Szabo, Daniel Karoly Doba, Szilard Aradi and Peter Kiss
The number of highly automated machines in the agricultural sector has increased rapidly in recent years. To reduce their fuel consumption, and thus their emission and operational cost, the performance of such machines must be optimized. The running gear...
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Yu Fu, Shuqing Hao, Junhao Zhang, Liwen Yu, Yuxin Luo and Kuan Zhang
This paper proposes an active?reactive power collaborative scheduling model with cluster division for the flexible distributed energy resources (DERs) of smart-building systems to resolve the high complexity of the centralized optimal scheduling of massi...
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Yunlong Qu, Guiling Sun, Bowen Zheng and Wang Liu
Aiming at the difficulty in obtaining environmental parameters in dairy cattle breeding, this paper proposes and implements a dairy cattle breeding environment monitoring system based on Bluetooth and B/S architecture. In order to reduce the cost of cros...
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Stefano Ercolessi, Giovanni Fabbrocino and Carlo Rainieri
Recent collapses and malfunctions of European bridges threatened the service conditions of road networks and pointed out the need for robust procedures to mitigate the impact of material degradation and overloading of existing bridges. Condition assessme...
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Mathew B. R. Topper, Sterling S. Olson and Jesse D. Roberts
Hydrokinetic tidal energy converter (TEC) technology is yet to become cost competitive with other renewable energy sources. Understanding the interaction between energy production and the costs incurred harvesting that energy may unlock the economic pote...
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Sirajo Aliyu,Rosylin Mohd Yusof
Pág. 1736 - 1743
This study aims to investigate the significant elements that predict profitability behavior of Islamic banks within the composition of cost efficiency. It is not clear whether Islamic banks can simultaneously achieve higher profitability with cost effici...
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Riccardo Colella,Danilo De Donno,Luciano Tarricone,Luca Catarinucci
Pág. 83 - 89
The design of fully-passive UHF RFID tags preserving cost-effectiveness, yet supplying augmented capabilities, represents an ambitious and stimulating challenge, as such devices would pave the way to a large class of applications where identification, co...
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Nicola Casari, Ettore Fadiga, Stefano Oliani, Mattia Piovan, Michele Pinelli and Alessio Suman
Automotive fans, small wind turbines, and manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (MAVs/UAVs) are just a few examples in which noise generated by the flow?s interaction with aerodynamic surfaces is a major concern. The current work shows the potential of a n...
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Hyojae Jung and Chanjin Chung
This study estimates consumers? willingness to pay (WTP) for sustainability turfgrass attributes such as low-input and stress-tolerance attributes, while considering potential trade-off relationships between aesthetic attributes and sustainability attrib...
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Ziyad Almudayni, Ben Soh and Alice Li
The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionised our interaction with the environment, facilitating seamless connections among sensors, actuators, and humans. Efficient task scheduling stands as a cornerstone in maximising resource utilisati...
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Fausto Ferreira, Juraj Obradovic, Ðula Nad, Ivan Loncar, Luka Mandic, Igor Kvasic, Natko Kra?evac and Nikola Mi?kovic
Marine robotics is a complex field with a potentially high demanding logistics and high deployment cost. This is a barrier to many research groups. On the other hand, some research groups have substantial equipment and infrastructure that are typically u...
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Paul Christoph Gembarski and Pauline Gast
Configuring complex computer-aided design (CAD) assemblies just by modifying parameters requires the attention and abstraction of the users. This interaction cost can be lowered significantly by graphical interactive control elements that allow for drag ...
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Hamed Raoofi, Asa Sabahnia, Daniel Barbeau and Ali Motamedi
Traditional methods of supervision in the construction industry are time-consuming and costly, requiring significant investments in skilled labor. However, with advancements in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and deep learning, these methods ca...
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Mengzhen Wu, Xianghong Xu, Haochen Zhang, Rui Zhou and Jianshan Wang
As a traditional numerical simulation method for pantograph?catenary interaction research, the pantograph?catenary finite element model cannot be applied to the real-time monitoring of pantograph?catenary contact force, and the computational cost require...
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