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N Mbuli, R Xezile, JHC Pretorius, P Sowa
Power system faults can cause voltage sags that, if they are less than voltage sensitivity threshold of equipment, can lead to interruption of supply and lead to incurring of financial losses. The impact of distributed generation (DG) on these financial ...
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Weiwen Zhou, Elise Miller-Hooks and Sagar Sahasrabudhe
Increasing popularity in gig employment has enabled the use of an at-will workforce of self-contracted couriers to participate in many service industries serving urban areas. This gig workforce has come to play a particularly important role in the growin...
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Zhu Wang, Junfeng Cheng and Hongtao Hu
Port operations have been suffering from hybrid uncertainty, leading to various disruptions in efficiency and tenacity. However, these essential uncertain factors are often considered separately in literature during berth and quay crane assignments, lead...
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Shayan Jorjam, Mohammed Mawlana and Amin Hammad
The traditional method of installing underground utilities (e.g., water, sewer, gas pipes, electrical cables) by burying them under roads has been used for decades. However, the repeated excavations related to this method cause problems, such as traffic ...
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Zhaohui Yan, Mingli Wang, Xujun Li and Hui Jiang
China?s African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, which started in 2018, has had a huge and far-reaching impact on China?s hog industry, and it has not been completely eliminated so far. This article analyzes the impact of the ASF epidemic on the costs and tec...
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Sifiso Themba Clement Mdletshe and Ajuruchukwu Obi
The frequent failures of government-funded broiler enterprises raise concerns about the viability and wisdom of government funding for smallholders. This study therefore investigates the scope for the profitability of the small-scale broiler production a...
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Kübra Kiziloglu and Ümit Sami Sakalli
Airlines face the imperative of resource management to curtail costs, necessitating the solution of several optimization problems such as flight planning, fleet assignment, aircraft routing, and crew scheduling. These problems present some challenges. Th...
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Ezra Wari, Weihang Zhu and Gino Lim
This paper proposes a continuous state partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) model for the corrosion maintenance of oil and gas pipelines. The maintenance operations include complex and extensive activities to detect the corrosion type, de...
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Abbas Al-Refaie and Ahmad Al-Hawadi
This research developed a framework for electronic planning and management of facility services utilizing blockchain technology. In this framework, an electronic Facility Service Record (eFSR) in blockchain form was developed to manage and control servic...
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Patrizio Vanella, Christina Benita Wilke and Doris Söhnlein
Demographic change is leading to the aging of German society. As long as the baby boom cohorts are still of working age, the working population will also age?and decline as soon as this baby boom generation gradually reaches retirement age. At the same t...
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