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05:16, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Predicting default probabilities in emerging markets by new conic generalized partial linear models and their optimization (Created page with "Nowadays, the importance of financial crises and defaults of countries are becoming clear due to the globalization in the economic area and investments. Generalized partial linear model (GPLM) is a combination of two different regression models connecting with the mean of the dependent variable with the help of a link function. It is adequate to high-dimensional, non-normal data sets having the flexibility to reflect all anomalies effectively. The nonlinear patterns are...")
05:15, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Lessons from the Asian crisis (Created page with "This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard created by operation of an international lender of last resort can promote financial instability. Third, although capital flows did contribute to the crisis, they are a symptom ra...")
05:14, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Finance, Economics and Nature: Stochastic Optimal Control under Shifts, Switches and Impulses (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber''' '''Abstract''' '''Outline''' -Introduction • Stock Price Dynamics, and Lévy Processes • Stochastic Hybrid Systems (with Jumps) and Markov Switching Models • Stochastic Control of Hybrid Systems I and II • Optimal Control of Stochastice Hybrid Systems with Jumps: 2 Approaches • Example • … under Delay: Maximum Principle • Example • Appendix: … and under Partial Information • Appendix: Insider Information;...")
05:12, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Bubbles, Crises, and Policy (Created page with "In many recent cases financial-liberalization has led to a bubble in asset prices. The bursting of the bubble results in a banking crisis and recession. It is suggested such bubbles are caused by an interaction of the risk-shifting problem arising from agency relationships in intermediaries and uncertainty concerning the expansion of credit. Link to material: http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~allenf/download/Vita/bubbles.pdf Category: Finance")
05:10, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Smart Cities: Earthquake “Prediction” (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard -Wilhelm Weber, Fatma Yerlikaya Özkurt, Aysegül Askan''' '''Introduction''' In the last decades, learning from data has become very important in every field of science and technology, e.g., in • computational biology, • medicine, • engineering, • financial sector, • earth science. Learning enables for doing estimation and prediction. Regression is mainly based on the ideas of • least squares estimation • maximum likelihood estimat...")
05:08, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Smart Cities: Better Evacuation (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Hediye Tuydes Yaman''' '''Civil Protection''' '''Cooperation''' - Prevention, preparedness and response - Information - Intervention - Post-disaster analysis and recovery '''Disaster Management''' '''A Disaster definition:''' “situations when the local resources of a community are not enough to overcome the event faced” (Quarantelli, 1998) Link to material: http://ifors.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Aveiro-2016-Disaster-Mangem...")
05:03, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Optimization for Supply Chain Planning after Disasters with Cooperative Game Theory under Uncertainty (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Part 1:Using Game Theory Applications for Assessment of Emergency Management Situations''' - Our aim  - Emergency Situations - Game Theory  - Conclusion '''Part 2: A New Approach for Post Disaster Housing Problem after Earthquake''' - Our aim - Earthquake  - Disaster Housing Problem  - Game Theory and Cooperative Game Theory - Solution concept: Shapley Value Link to material: http://ifors.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Wil...")
05:00, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Modelling of Sustainable Development Processes in Global and Regional Contexts (Created page with "by: '''Zgurovsky M., Boldak A., Yefremov K.''' '''Abstract''' This work considers the model of quantitative evaluation of processes of sustainable development in the context of quality and safety of human life. It also introduces the results of modeling for countries of the world and administrative regions of Ukraine. Developed tools of intelligent analysis and system agreement of interdisciplinary data a real so introduced. '''Introduction''' Metrics (indicators and...")
04:59, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Metric Aspects of Periodic Processes in Economy and Society (Created page with "by: '''M. Z. Zgurovsky''' The structural analysis is performed for Cn -waves of global systemic conflicts based on their empirical sequence, and metric approaches are proposed to study and forecast these processes. Global systemic conflicts and great Kondratieff waves of the development of the world economy are proved to correspond to a number of additional conditions, namely, to the modern concept on the acceleration of historical time, to the law of structural harmony...")
04:57, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Interrelation Between Kondratieff Cycles and Global Systemic Conflicts (Created page with "by: '''M. Z. Zgurovsky''' Based on the consideration of evolutionary development of the civilization as a holistic process determined by a harmonious interaction of its components, patterns of Kondratieff cycles of the development of the global economy and C-waves of global systemic conflicts are compared and an attempt is made to predict these processes in the 21st century using a metric approach. Keywords: global systemic conflicts, Fibonacci sequence, C-waves, K-cyc...")
04:55, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Global Analysis of Sustainable Development in Context of Quality and Security of Human Life (Created page with "by: '''M.Z. ZGUROVSKY''' A system of factors (indices and indicators) and a new method of quantitative and qualitative evaluation are developed. This system, named “Sustainable Development Gauging Matrix” (SDGM) and data presented by reliable international organizations culminated in a Global Simulation regarding quality of life and security of the world population. Specifically, this study focuses on analysis of the Systematic Regularity of World Conflicts over the...")
04:54, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Effective Information Media to Support Integration Efforts Experiences from Europe (Created page with "by: '''Ulrike Reisach''' '''Abstract''' Migration flows are partially triggered by networks and random pieces of information forwarded on social media. Volunteers and organizations provide information that aims at helping the new arrivals to understand their new environment and to tackle challenges like language, shelter/accommodation, jobs, education and many more. This paper analyzes how various actors use analogue and digital communication and explains the lessons t...")
04:52, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Disaster Management Strategies: Financial Perspectives/TCIP (Created page with "'''WB reports indicate:''' The economic losses from disasters over the past 30 years are estimated at 3.5 USD tn. - In 2011, estimated losses of around 380 USD bn occurred . - Floods in Thailand cost the equivalent of 5% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - Economic losses of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami were estimated as equivalent to 4% of GDP. - The economic impact of the Haiti earthquake in 2010 was equal to 120% of its GDP - The 2004 Grenada h...")
04:51, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Developing a Social Protection Policy for Somalia --- by Samuel Hall (Created page with "The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Somalia, with technical support from WFP, UNICEF and Samuel Hall, designed a National Social Protection Policy with the objective of protecting ‘all groups, particularly the poor and vulnerable, against shocks, helps them to manage risks, and provide them with opportunities to overcome poverty, vulnerability, and exclusion.’ After an initial desk review phase, Samuel Hall hosted twenty consultations across all Federal Memb...")
04:49, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Database of Chernobyl Center in Slavutych (Created page with "by: '''Yoshio Matsuki''' More than two decades after the Chernobyl accident, people living in the affected regions are now taking control of their lives once again [1]. The destroyed nuclear plant, the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant’s Unit No.4, is now being covered by the new shelter, while the impacts on human and environment have been assessed and reported at the International Conference, "Twenty years after Chernobyl accident. Future Outlook", held in Kiev in 2006 [2, 3]...")
04:48, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Analysis of the Influence of Global Threats on the Sustainable Development of Countries and Regions of the World Using Bayesian Belief Networks (Created page with "by: '''M. Z. Zgurovsky, A. A. Boldak and T. N. Pomerantseva''' '''Abstract''' Bayesian Belief Networks are used to establish qualitative causal relations between global threats and indicators of sustainable development. The method of belief network synthesis and a method of generalization of final results are proposed. This made it possible to obtain a holistic understanding of effects of global threats on the sustainable development of countries and regions of the wor...")
03:41, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Shining new light on the UN Migrant Workers Convention by Alan D. Desmond (Created page with "'''FOREWORD''' '''The urgent need to recognise migrants’ rights and dignity''' Migrants in a precarious situation are voiceless in any host society, North and South, be they undocumented or temporary migrant workers with very restrictive visas or contracts. They constantly exercise agency and make life-altering decisions on a regular basis – for some, simply taking the subway is a choice that can have huge consequences on the course of their life and that of peopl...")
03:40, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Research Implementation, Human Skills and Resource Management, and Sciences Education in Digital Era (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, M. Graczyk-Kucharska, M. Szafranski, S. Gütmen, A. Özmen, A. Cevik, Z. Wlodarczak, M. Golinski, S. Kuter, R. Filia Sari''' '''Introduction.''' Learning from data has become very important in every field of science and technology, e.g., in - financial sector, economics, - quality improvement in manufacturing, - computational biology, bioinformatics, medicine, - earth- and geosciences, engineering, - social sciences, and humanities....")
03:39, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Integrated Labour Market Assessment in Jigjiga and Kebribeyah --- by Samuel Hall (Created page with "Building on previous ILO work conducted in the Ethiopian regions and in Dadaab, Kenya, the study analysed labour market opportunities and constraints for refugees and hosts in Jijiga, Somali State through the prism of the Labour Market System (LMS). The analysis is conducted through the lens of decent work opportunities. This means that the study focuses on both the quantity and quality of jobs available for host communities and refugees. As such, the focus is not solely...")
03:38, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Institute for Security Studies (ISS) - Women in Africa’s Maritime Space (Created page with "by: '''Denys Reva and Liezelle Kumalo''' The maritime environment is male-dominated and women’s inclusion into the maritime sector remains a challenge. There are a number of cultural, structural and workplace barriers that render the maritime environment unattractive to many women. Comprehensive changes need to take place, not only within the maritime sector but also within societies, to create conditions conducive for women’s inclusion and meaningful participation....")
03:37, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page ILO – Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on labour markets in Ethiopia: A case study of the Somali and Tigray regions --- by Samuel Hall (Created page with "'''Executive Summary''' This report results from a collaboration between Samuel Hall and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on displacement-affected labour markets in Ethiopia’s Somali and Tigray regional states. These locations are target intervention areas for the Partnership for improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons (PROSPECTS), spearheaded by the Government of the Netherlands, to inform the design...")
03:35, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Webinar Deep Learning & Operations Research for Human Creativity (Created page with "Webinar “Deep Learning & Operations Research for Human Creativity”, Tunas Bangsa Institute, Siantar, Indonesia, August 22, 2020: o H. Mawengkang, G.-W. Weber, E. Babaee Tirkolaee, A. Goli, S. Gütmen and D. Hartama, Sustainable Aggregate Production Planning with Overtime and Outsourcing Options under Fuzzy Seasonal Demand, o G.-W. Weber, M.S. Atay and S. Sitepu, The Arts - Supported by Data Analytics, Deep Learning and OR: Human Creativity and the Art of Painting...")
03:33, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Transportation Interval Situations and Related Games (Created page with "by: '''Mehmet Onur Olgun, Osman Palanci, Sırma Zeynep Alparslan Gok, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber''' '''Introduction''' • In many situations, producers and retailers are aiming to minimize their costs or maximizing their profits. • Producers and retailers can form coalitions in order to obtain/save as much as possible. Constitutively, a transportation situation consists of two sets of agents called producers and retailers which produce/demand goods. The transport of the...")
03:32, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Supply Chains and The Transport Sector (Created page with "by: '''Lauri Ojala''' '''INTRODUCTION''' '''The ”Big Picture” of COVID-19 impact on world economy in end-March 2020''' '''OECD estimates on 2 March 2020 on the impact of COVID-19 on GDP for years 2020 and 2021''' '''OECD Base scenario: temporary blow''' • Severe, short-lived downturn in China, where GDP growth falls below 5% in 2020 after 6.1% in 2019, but recovering to 6.4% in 2021. • In Japan, Korea, Australia, growth also hit hard then gradual recovery....")
03:30, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page The Effects of Resource Bundling on Third-party Logistics Providers' Performance (Created page with "by: '''Noorliza Karia, Chee Yew Wong, Muhammad Hasmi Abu Hassan Asaari and Kee-hung Lai''' '''Abstract''' This research develops and tests a model of the effects of resources bundling on third-party logistics (3PL) providers’ performance. Based on data from a survey of Malaysian 3PLs, basic and advanced technology and equipment resources, knowledge and relational resources, and demand management interfaces are identified. The bundling of advanced technology, knowledg...")
03:28, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Sustainability in Healthcare: Combining Organizational and Architectural Levers (Created page with "by: '''Marta Pinzone, Emanuele Lettieri and Cristina Masella''' '''Abstract''' Healthcare has been progressively required to improve its environmental performance as have other industries in recent years. In this regard, many new healthcare facilities have been built worldwide adopting sustainability‐oriented approaches. However, results have been limited from an ecological and economic perspective, and many projects have rapidly become failures and then been abandon...")
03:19, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Study on Effect of Functional Competency on Performance of Indian Manufacturing Sector (Created page with "by: '''Rameshwar Dubey and Sadia Samar Ali''' '''Abstract''' India is one of the fastest emerging global manufacturing hub with a large number of firms shifting their manufacturing base to the country due to cheap labor and good supplier(s) base. Over the years, India has the largest number of companies, outside of Japan, that have been recognized for excellence in quality. As many as 21 companies have received the Deming Excellenceawards; 153 companies have achieved T...")
03:18, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Solving Complex Logistics Problems with Multi-Artificial Intelligent System (Created page with "By '''Y.K. Tse, T.M. Chan and R.H. Lie''' '''Abstract''' The economy, which has become more information intensive, more global and more technologically dependent, is undergoing dramatic changes. The role of logistics is also becoming more and more important. In logistics, the objective of service providers is to fulfill all customers’ demands while adapting to the dynamic changes of logistics networks so as to achieve a higher degree of customer satisfaction and ther...")
03:17, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Socially Responsible Drones (Created page with "by: '''Christopher Tang''' Besides military and delivery drones, one wonders if drones can be used for socially responsible applications. Apparently, they can. Here are some applications: 1. Increase hurricane forecast accuracy. It is difficult to improve the forecast accuracy about the path and the strength of hurricanes to save lives. A team of scientists at the University of Florida is investing the use of a swarm of six-inch-long drones to ride through hurricanes t...")
03:15, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Quality management in marketing communication: the concept of contradiction finding and classification (Created page with "by: '''Joanna Majchrzak, Agnieszka Chuda, Arkadiusz Kalemba and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber''' 1. Introduction: The reason for the investigations. 2. Research methodology: Qualitology, ENV and OTSM models of TRIZ, contradiction, Grey Incidence Analysis, Linear Correlation Coefficient. 3. Characteristics of the applied concepts of system thinking 4. Results: Stages of Contradiction Finding and Classification. 5. Conclusion and Outlook. '''Introduction: The reason for the...")
03:13, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Process Performance Management in Higher Education (Created page with "by: '''Vesna Bosilj Vukšić, Mirjana Pejić Bach and KatarinaTomičić-Pupek''' '''Abstract''' Process performance management (PPM) has become one of the most important management tools in profit organizations. However, non-profit organizations also started to benefit from PPM aimed at the efficiency improvement. The goal of the paper is to investigate usefulness of embedding the simulation modelling approach for process performance management based on the case study...")
03:12, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page On OR events of 2015 in Glasgow, UK, from the perspective of OR for Development and Developing Countries (2 articles) (Created page with "L. Lotero, E. del Rosario and G.-W. Weber, EURO 2015: Showcase of the Continuing Relevance of OR, International IFNA-ANS Journal "Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems", No 2(44), vol. 21 (2015) 182-185 (in English). ... ... and in International IFNA-ANS Journal "Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Systems", No 2(44), vol. 21 (2015) 186-189 (in Russian). Category: Industry")
03:11, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Inventory Analytics --- book by Prof. Roberto Rossi; Open Book Publishers (Created page with "'''About the book''' Inventory Analytics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of inventory control – a significant research area central to supply chain planning. The book outlines the foundations of inventory systems and surveys prescriptive analytics models for deterministic inventory control. It further discusses predictive analytics techniques for demand forecasting in inventory control and also examines prescriptive anal...")
02:40, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Factors Inhibiting the Adoption of a Uniform Pricing Mechanism for Building Services (Created page with "by: '''Ganiyu Amuda Yusuf, Sarajul Fikri Mohamed and Suhaila Binti Remeli''' '''Abstract''' This study describes an empirical investigation revealing the critical obstacles to the adoption of a uniform pricing mechanism for building services from the perspective of industry practitioners .A total of 157 questionnaires conducted on quantity surveyors (N=75), mechanical engineers (N=39) and electrical engineers (N=43) were collected and used for the study. T –test stat...")
02:37, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Case Study on Logistics Performance (Created page with "By '''Shahryar Sorooshian, Manimekalai Jambulingam and Javad Dodangeh''' '''Abstract''' The paper presents research carried out at a medium‐size manufacturing organization in east Asia. The study tries to highlight the importance of supply chain management; specifically, our aim for this study is to understand logistics and performance measurement in the logistics and supply chain, and we include a theoretical discussion of online data collected and a case study of t...")
02:35, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Blockchain can make global supply chains more efficient and secure (Created page with "by: '''Christopher Tang''' There are two sides of a bitcoin: a cryptocurrency that enables anonymous individuals to facilitate transactions using a decentralized digital currency without a middleman (such as a bank or credit card company). One side is labelled risks because bitcoin has involved in money laundering activities, ransom collections (e.g., victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 paid their ransoms in bitcoins), illegal transactions on the dark web,...")
02:31, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Application of Grey Clusters in the Development of A Synthetic Model of the Goals of Polish Family Enterprises' Successors (Created page with "by: '''Ewa Wiecek-Janka, Joanna Majchrzak, Magdalena Wyrwicka and Gerhard Wilhelm Weber''' '''Introduction: Family Enterprise''' Family Enterprise is defined as market system (organism) of a trigonal structure that encompasses family, business and individual, that functions according to various, but mutually adapted, goals to which it dedicates its energy with a multigenerational view, through management and control of its activity and ownership.” (Więcek-Janka, 2...")
02:29, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Robust Just-in-Time Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Outsourcing Option on Subcontractors (Created page with "by: '''Alireza Goli, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, and Mehdi Soltani''' '''Abstract:''' Scheduling is known as a great part of production planning in manufacturing systems. Flow Shop Scheduling (FSS) problem deals with the determination of the optimal sequence of jobs processing on machines in a fixed order. This paper addresses a novel robust FSS problem with outsourcing option where jobs can be either scheduled for inside or outsourced to one of the available subcontractor...")
02:27, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Novel Multi-Objective Model for Two-Echelon Green Routing Problem of Perishable Products with Intermediate Depots (Created page with "by: '''Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Shaghayegh Hadian and Hêriş Golpîra''' '''Abstract''' Multi-echelon distribution mechanism is common in supply chain design and logistics systems in which freight is delivered to the customers through intermediate depots (IDs), instead of using direct shipments. This primarily decreases the cost of the chain and consequences of environmental (energy consumption) and social (traffic, air pollution, etc.) logistic operations. This paper...")
02:25, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A new exact algorithm for solving single machine scheduling problems with learning effects and deteriorating job (Created page with "by: '''Soheyl Khalilpourazari and Mohammad Mohammadi''' '''Abstract''' In this paper, the single machine scheduling problem with deteriorating jobs and learning effects are considered, which is shown in the previous research that the SDR method no longer provides an optimal solution for the problem. In order to solve the problem, a new exact algorithm is proposed. Various test problems are solved to evaluate the performance of the proposed heuristic algorithm using dif...")
02:22, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Use of location-allocation models in health service development planning in developing nations (Created page with "by: '''Shams-ur Rahman, David K. Smith''' '''Abstract''' There is considerable evidence that because of poor geographical accessibility, basic health care does not reach the majority of the population in developing nations. Despite the view that mathematical methods of locational analysis are too sophisticated for use in many of these nations, several studies have demonstrated the usefulness of such methods in the locational decision-making process. This paper reviews...")
02:11, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Solving a Robust Capacitated Arc Routing Problem using a Hybrid Simulated Annealing Algorithm: A Waste Collection Application (Created page with "by: '''E. Babaee Tirkolaee, M. Alinaghian, M. Bakhshi Sasi, M. M. Seyyed Esfahani''' '''Abstract''' The urban waste collection is one of the major municipal activities that involves large expenditures and difficult operational problems. Also, waste collection and disposal have high expenses such as investment cost (i.e. vehicles fleet) and high operational cost (i.e. fuel, maintenance). In fact, making slight improvements in this issue lead to a huge saving in municipa...")
02:09, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Snow Extent Variability in Lesotho Derived from MODIS Data (Created page with "by: '''Stefan Wunderle, Timm Gross and Fabia Husler''' '''Abstract''' In Lesotho, snow cover is not only highly relevant to the climate system, but also affects socio-economic factors such as water storage for irrigation or hydro-electricity. However, while sound knowledge of annual and inter-annual snow dynamics is strongly required by local stakeholders, in-situ snow information remains limited. In this study, satellite data are used to generate a time series of snow...")
02:05, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Optimal control under stochastic, impulsive, regime switching and paradigm shifting environments (Created page with "Presentation of Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber at Kansai University, Osaka/Japan. Joint work of G.W. Weber, E. Savku, Y. Yolcu-Okur and A.S. Kestel from Middle East Technical University/Institute of Applied Mathematics. Hosted by Prof. Dr. Hiroshige Dan; recorded by Prof. Dr. Yoshihiro Yasumuro. Link to material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9hzv33iHY <html> <head> </head> <iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9E9hzv33iHY" framebo...")
00:56, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Environmental protection zones prioritization for the decision making support (Created page with "by: '''Luis Alejandro Builes Jaramillo, Laura Lotero Vélez & Joan Amir Arroyave Rojas''' '''Abstract''' '''Introduction''' Air quality assessment deal with emission, concentration levels and definition of polluted areas, the results are often related with command and control regulations or restriction to transportation and industrial activities. This kind of approaches gives to environmental and territorial planners areas for special management and use. '''Objective...")
00:53, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Developing an Applied Algorithm for Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows in Urban Waste Collection: A Case Study (Created page with "by: '''Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Parvin Abbasian, Mehdi Soltani and Seyed Ali Ghaffarian''' '''Abstract''' This paper studies a multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows specifically related to urban waste collection. Urban waste collection is one of the municipal activities with large costs and has many practical difficulties. In other words, waste collection and disposal is a costly task due to high operating expenses (fuel, maintenance, recycling, manpower,...")
00:51, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Designing an Efficient Optimization System to Maximize the Total Value of Reverse Logistics in Waste Management (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee and Alireza Goli''' '''Introduction''' - Uncontrolled urban expansion and the massive increase in urban populations have led to a vast amount of consumption and different types of waste generation over the past years. - In 2012, various cities in the world generated 1.3 billion tons of solid waste, equivalent to 1.2 kg per person per day. - It is expected that annual waste generation rate will reach 2.2 billion ton...")
00:49, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Climate Impact on Snow Extent Variability in Lesotho (Southern Africa) (Created page with "by: '''Stefan Wunderle, Timm Gross, Fabia Husler and Jorg Franke''' '''Why we should care about snow in Lesotho:Water management''' - Lesotho represents a water tower contributing approximately 40% of the water to the Orange River. Lesotho's economy relies on water export. - Due to its high elevation, snow is an important contribution for runoff during winter time. Link to material: http://ifors.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Climate-Impact-on-Snow-Extent-Variabilit...")
00:47, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Assessment of External Cost as an Aggregated Indicator of Sustainable Industrial Development - Air Pollution Case Study in Ukraine (Created page with "by: '''Y. MATSUKI''' '''INTRODUCTION''' The size of the Gross Domestic Production (hereinafter, “GDP”) is not the sole indicator for measuring the richness of a nation, because it doesn’t reflect the costs to public welfare, human health and environment as well as the other various costs that the macro-economy pays elsewhere within a nation such as energy security cost. In microeconomics theory, these unaccounted costs are called “external costs”. Traditional...")
00:46, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy (Created page with "by: '''Stijn van Ewijk and Julia Stegemann''' ''An open access textbook from UCL Press, 2023'' This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best practices and technologies for waste management, recycling, energy recovery and disposal. With helpful, full-colour diagrams throu...")