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Bruno Martins, Adélia Nunes, Luciano Lourenço and Fátima Velez-Castro
São Vicente Island (Republic of Cape Verde) lies within the Sahelian zone and faces several natural hazards, one of which is flash flooding. With the purpose of understanding what factors determine flash flood risk perception, a questionnaire entitled Fl...
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Tianlong Jia, Hui Qin, Dong Yan, Zhendong Zhang, Bin Liu, Chaoshun Li, Jinwen Wang and Jianzhong Zhou
Traditional reservoir operation mainly focuses on economic benefits, while ignoring the impacts on navigation. Thus, the economic operation of reservoirs considering navigational demands is of great significance for improving benefits. A navigation capac...
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Huaxiang He, Aiqi Chen, Mingwan Yin, Zhenzhen Ma, Jinjun You, Xinmin Xie, Zhizhang Wang and Qiang An
The rational allocation of water resources in the basin/region can be better assisted and performed using a suitable water resources allocation model. Rule-based and optimization-based simulation methods are utilized to solve medium- and long-term water ...
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Viktoriya Tsyganskaya, Sandro Martinis and Philip Marzahn
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is particularly suitable for large-scale mapping of inundations, as this tool allows data acquisition regardless of illumination and weather conditions. Precise information about the flood extent is an essential foundation ...
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Vedat Dogan and Steven Prestwich
In a multi-objective optimization problem, a decision maker has more than one objective to optimize. In a bilevel optimization problem, there are the following two decision-makers in a hierarchy: a leader who makes the first decision and a follower who r...
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Rola R. Hassan, Manar Abu Talib, Fikri Dweiri and Jorge Roman
Implementing the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) business excellence model in organizations is time- and cost-consuming. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the EFQM business excellence model is a promising approach to ...
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Achini Adikari, Su Nguyen, Rashmika Nawaratne, Daswin De Silva and Damminda Alahakoon
The proliferation of online hotel review platforms has prompted decision-makers in the hospitality sector to acknowledge the significance of extracting valuable information from this vast source. While contemporary research has primarily focused on extra...
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Vladimir Ulansky and Ahmed Raza
Maintenance strategies play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and performance of complex systems. Imperfect inspections, characterized by the probabilities of false positives and false negatives, significantly impact the effectiveness of mainten...
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Sara M. Marcelino, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Arminda do Paço, Tânia M. Lima, Ana Monteiro, José Carlos Franco, Erika S. Santos, Rebeca Campos and Carlos M. Lopes
Agriculture intensification has driven the loss of biodiversity at a global level. The implementation of strategies to conserve and promote biodiversity in agricultural areas can be favoured by adequate assessment methods that foster the awareness of dec...
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Hamad Almaghrabi, Ben Soh and Alice Li
Effective and efficient use of information and communication technology (ICT) systems in the administration of educational organisations is crucial to optimise their performance. Earlier research on the identification and analysis of ICT users? satisfact...
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