Search
Search Results
-
Tracking moral divergence with DDR in presidential debates over 60 years
Televised presidential debates, a communication form specifically designed to evoke meaningful clash of issue viewpoints, have been criticized for...
-
Evaluation of texture deterioration stages of rural settlements on the Tehran metropolitan fringe using the decision-making method of OW and CODAS
Evaluation and ranking of rural settlements based on the stages of texture deterioration is critical for rural renovation. However, far too little...
-
A Novel Reinforcement Learning Method for Improving Occupant Comfort via Window Opening and Closing
An occupant’s window opening and closing behaviour can significantly influence the level of comfort in the indoor environment. Such behaviour is,...
-
Stockyard Storage Space Allocation in Dry Bulk Terminals Considering Mist Cannons and Energy Expenditure
Storage space management in bulk terminals has become an important focus for research and practical operation due to the increasing demand for bulk...
-
Techné of Rock Engravings—the Timna Case Study
Traditionally, rock engravings were studied through their visual characteristics. They have been analyzed with comparative and interpretative...
-
Computation of the covariance matrix implied by a recursive structural equation model with latent variables
Structural Equation Modelling is a multivariate technique that allows us to analyze causal relationships between hypothetical constructs, each...
-
Tracking System for Inspection and Analysis Using the ToF Method Supported by Automatic Calibration
This article presents a tracking system for points of interest (colored marks) in a multiple and simultaneous way with the application of computer...
-
A Reactive-Periodic Hybrid Optimization for Internal Hospital Logistics
Internal hospital logistics (IHL) involves the scheduling of materials and patient transportations employing a fleet of transporters. The problem of...
-
Propositional claim detection: a task and dataset for the classification of claims to truth
This paper introduces Propositional Claim Detection (PCD), an NLP task for classifying claims to truth, and presents a publicly available dataset for...
-
The Persistence of Gender Inequality in e-Science: The Case of eSec
E-science, or networked, collaborative and multidisciplinary scientific research on a shared e-infrastructure using computational tools, methods and...
-
Psychedelic innovations and the crisis of psychopharmacology
In the 2010s, psychopharmacological research and development experienced a crisis: since no genuinely new drugs for the treatment of mental illness...
-
Synthesis of Planar Linkages Using Optimization Methods
This paper analyzes and discusses the main characteristics of four optimization methods used in the synthesis of planar mechanisms. Particularities...
-
A Radius-Based Approach for the Bi-Objective p-Center and p-Dispersion Problem
Facility location is a well-known class of problems which come with a variety of objective functions. In applications such as emergency facility...
-
Solving a School Bus Routing Problem in Rural Areas: An Application in Brazil
School transport is essential to guarantee the access and permanence of students in public schools, especially in rural regions, where students are...
-
Understanding the social construction of juvenile delinquency: insights from semantic analysis of big-data historical newspaper collections
Massive historical newspaper collections contain rich information about the historical development of social issues and constitute a unique resource...
-
Big Qual and the Future of Qualitative Analysis
In this final chapter, we pause to reflect on the emergence of big qual and the associated epistemological and methodological values. We summarise...
-
A Self-adaptive Hybrid Search Technique with Its Application to the Quadratic Semi-assignment and Berth Allocation Problems
Both the quadratic semi-assignment problem and the berth allocation problem are about assigning items (vessels) to sets (berths) and have various...
-
The Place and Value of Large-Scale Qualitative Data Analysis
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the rationale for, and value of, large-scale qualitative data analysis and the contribution of the...
-
Content Analysis in the Research Field of Terrorism Coverage
The relationship between terrorism and journalism has been described as symbiotic or parasitic, meaning that especially terrorists gain from news...
-
Three Fleet Smart Charging Categories of Electric Vehicles for the Grid Power Regulation
The use of electric vehicles (EVs) has been on the rise during the past decade, and the number is expected to keep increasing in the future. The...