Energy efficiency in the industries is one of the leading problems of the 21st century. The main aim for the companies to deal with the energy efficiency paradigm is to save the resources in the manufacturing operations. ...

Transition from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0, in other words Industry 3.5 stage, and moving to a circular economy are two significant concepts for organizations that need to make wholesale alterations to their current ...

The massive access problem of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the problem of enabling the wireless access of a massive number of IoT devices to the wired infrastructure. In this article, we describe a multiscale algorithm ...

Historic buildings need to be re-functionalized because of environmental factors, economic reasons, sociocultural changes. During the re-functionalization-renovation period, only the seismic performance of the building is ...

Environmental protection and sustainable development have become an inevitable trend in many areas, including the energy industry. The development of energy supply networks is strongly correlated with the economics of ...

Purpose As in line with eco benchmarking, the purpose of this paper is to solve a location selection problem in an emerging country by applying sustainability benchmarking principles. Design/methodology/approach A hybrid ...

The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) at three different time scales (i.e., SPEI-3, SPEI-6, and SPEI-12) from six meteorology stations located in Turkey are modeled in this study. To this end, two ...

This study replicates and extends the results presented in a top-cited article in this journal, Inglesi-Lotz (2016), which analyzes the impact of renewable energy consumption to economic growth for the OECD countries by ...

In this study, Regression in the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RRKHS) technique which is a non-linear regression approach formulated in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RRKHS) is applied for rainfall-runoff (R-R) ...

This research put forth exergy-based economic and sustainability analyses of a (J85-GE-5H) military turbojet engine (TJE). Firstly, sustainability, conventional exergoeconomic and advanced exergoeconomic cost analyses were ...

The permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSP) has been extensively explored in scheduling literature because it has many real-world industrial implementations. In some studies, multiple objectives related to production ...

The aim of this study is to transfer the international developments related to the process of diagnosis and monitoring of historical masonry structures to the national area. The method chosen is to test the recommendations ...

The basis of biometric authentication is that each person's physical and behavioural characteristics can be accurately defined. Many authentication techniques were developed over the years. Human gait recognition is one ...

Android is the mobile operating system most frequently targeted by malware in the smartphone ecosystem, with a market share significantly higher than its competitors and a much larger total number of applications. Detection ...

Lean principles, aiming at eliminating waste and increasing efficiency at a company, take their roots from the initiatives of Taiichi Ohno. After the implementation of the principles at the Toyota Motor Company for the ...

Innovation performance is a potential source of competitive advantage for any firm. A capable marketing department (MD) can contribute significantly to the market success of the new products and services offered. Therefore, ...

In manufacturing scheduling, sustainability concerns that raise from the service-oriented performance criteria have seldom been studied in the literature. This study aims to fill this gap in the literature by integrating ...

The number of studies that highlight demand-side and supply-side of environmental degradation are quite limited in the literature. The aim of this study is to analyze the energy-growth-environment nexus in cooperation with ...

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become a popular research topic among scholars as evidence suggests it has significantly contributed to achieve more environmentally conscious and socially responsible supply ...

Patient falls due to unattended bed-exits are costly to patients, healthcare personnel and hospitals. Numerous researches based on up to three predetermined factors have been conducted for preventing falls. The present ...