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Sustainable collection center location selection in emerging economy for electronic waste with fuzzy Best-Worst and fuzzy TOPSIS
(Elsevier, 2021-05)
In emerging economies, electronic waste is an important problem, because it negatively affects the health of staff and people, and causes pollution. Moreover, the location of the collection center has a crucial role in ...
Compensatory Usage of the Internet: The Case of Mukbang Watching on YouTube
(Psychiatry Investig, 2021-04)
Objective: Accumulating empirical research has emphasized that a wide range of online activities-such as using social networking sites-can be performed in order to compensate unattained needs or to cope with negative affect ...
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?
(Nature Human Behaviour, 2021-01)
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov's valence-dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) ...
Study addiction and 'dark' personality traits: a cross-sectional survey study among emerging adults
(Taylor&Francis Online, 2021-01)
Background: Research has shown that personality traits can have an important role in the development and maintenance of behavioral addictions. However, the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, ...
User-Oriented Architectural Design of Separated Infill Walls to Prevent Soft Ground Story in Reinforced Concrete Low-Rise Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2021-09)
Buildings with open ground stories are more vulnerable to soft story mechanisms, which might lead to building collapse in a moderate quake. To mitigate these negative effects, retrofitting techniques typically introduce ...
Analysis of CO 2 emissions and energy consumption by sources in MENA countries: evidence from quantile regressions
(Springer, 2021-03)
The development of economies and energy usage can significantly impact the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the factors that determine ...
Predicting waiting and treatment times in emergency departments using ordinal logistic regression models
(Elsevier, 2021-03)
Background: Since providing timely care is the primary concern of emergency departments (EDs), long waiting times increase patient dissatisfaction and adverse outcomes. Especially in overcrowded ED environments, emergency ...
Understanding the Role of Digital Technologies in Supply Chain Risks Management
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)
Supply chain risks have been regarded as one of the most significant threats to business continuity. Digital technology is considered to reform human production and manufacturing methods. In the recent wake of COVID-19, ...
Stock market prediction in brics countries using linear regression and artificial neural network hybrid models
(World Scientific, 2021)
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) acronym was created by the International Monetary Foundation (IMF)-Group of Seven (G7) to represent the bloc of developing economies which crucially impact on the ...
Intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry for Industry 4.0: Seizing financial benefits from supply chain relationship capital through enterprise green management
(Elsevier, 2021)
Prior research and practices of Industry 4.0 mostly centered on the intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry from a technical perspective. However, it remains unclear how social and environmental factors ...