Academic Articles & Research Papers

Importance and performance evaluation tools for small and medium companies: critical analysis of national versus international literature

The research aims to map the importance and performance evaluation tools for small and medium companies. This descriptive and qualitative study analyzed 33 national articles and 21 international ones. Regarding the importance of performance...

Forestry at the EU’s Doorstep – How Much are We Ready in the Area of Occupational Safety in Forestry?

According to the classification of business activities in the National Classification of Activities, agriculture, forestry and fishery together account for 3.43% of all injuries recorded in 2009, which places them in the lower part of the a...

CSR Assessment Model

The opportunities for measuring, assessing and reporting socially responsible practices are a relevant issue for modern business. They are studied by international organizations, research groups, scientists and practitioners who use various...

An Integrated Decision Support Model for Evaluating Public Transport Quality

Big cities suffer from serious complex problems such as air pollution, congestion, and traffic accidents. Developing public transport quality in such cities is considered an efficient remedy to obviate these critical issues. This paper aims...

Substantiation of Geometric Parameters of a Variable Inertia Moment Pulley

Purpose. The main purpose of our work is to substantiate the geometric parameters of a variable moment of inertia pulley, which can reduce the weight of a drive with such a pulley. Methodology. It was found that the masses of the pulley and...

Transportation engineering

Based on the existing VMS guidance effect maximization model, Niu’s work puts forth a fuzzyconstraint based VMS programming model. The model makes improvements on the original attenuation factor, increases the constraints of benefitcost, an...

International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology

International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology (IJTET) involves the design, manufacture and upkeep of aircraft, spacecraft and all types of transportation mean. The journal deals with the design, construction, and study ...

Assessment of Introductory Transportation Engineering Course and General Transportation Engineering Curriculum

Transportation engineering is a critical subdiscipline of the civil engineering profession as indicated by its inclusion on the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and overlap with other specialty areas of civil engineering and as recog...

Traffic and Transportation Engineering

The accomplishment of traffic engineering relies on the coordination among the stated three essential components that is the vehicles, the highways, and the street clients. This chapter explores the factors like human, vehicle, and road tha...

Transportation engineering: an introduction

1. Transportation as a System. 2. Transportation Economics. 3. The Land Use/Transportation System. 4. Vehicle and Human Characteristics. 5. Traffic Flow Characteristics. 6. Geometric Design of Highways. 7. Highway Capacity. 8. Intersection ...

ICESat‐2 Pointing Calibration and Geolocation Performance

Abstract ICESat‐2 science requirements are dependent on the accurate real‐time pointing control (i.e., geolocation control) and postprocessed geolocation knowledge of the laser altimeter surface returns. Prelaunch pointing alignment errors ...

A Terrain-Feature-Aware Multiscale PTD for Airborne LiDAR Ground Filtering

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has become an indispensable tool for earth observation, supporting applications such as digital terrain modeling, environmental monitoring, and geohazard assessment. A fundamental challenge in Li...

Glass as a biomaterial: strategies for optimising bioactive glasses for clinical applications

Bioactive glasses were the first synthetic materials to bond to human body tissue, making them ideal for replacing and regenerating bone. Since their first development over half a century ago, many new bioactive glass compositions have been...

Validation of Sentinel-2 (MSI) and Sentinel-3 (OLCI) Water Quality Products in Turbid Estuaries Using Fixed Monitoring Stations

It is common in estuarine waters to place fixed monitoring stations, with the advantages of easy maintenance and continuous measurements. These two features make fixed monitoring stations indispensable for understanding the optical complexi...

A Review on Modeling Environmental Loading Effects and Their Contributions to Nonlinear Variations of Global Navigation Satellite System Coordinate Time Series

Nonlinear variations in the coordinate time series of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reference stations are strongly correlated with surface displacements caused by environmental loading effects, including atmospheric, hydrologic...

Roots to roofs: Farmers' perceived socio-ecological impacts of converting mango orchards to urban areas in Multan, Pakistan

The process of urban growth often results in the conversion of agricultural spaces, including orchards. In Pakistan, Multan - widely known as the city of Mangoes - has seen exponential urban growth in the past couple of decades, resulting i...

Multi-trait evaluation of almond germplasm using the MGIDI method: optimizing yield and nutritional quality

Abstract Almond (Prunus dulcis) is a nutrient-rich tree nut of global economic and dietary importance, with Iran serving as a key center of genetic diversity. This study evaluated 78 Iranian almond genotypes for pomological traits and major...

Elucidating the functions of fabF1 and fabF2 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: implications for fatty acid metabolism and pathogenicity

Abstract Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for severe infections in immunocompromised individuals, including burn patients and those with cystic fibrosis. β-Ketoacyl-ACP synthases play essential role...

Plant Metabolomics: An Indispensable System Biology Tool for Plant Science

As genomes of many plant species have been sequenced, demand for functional genomics has dramatically accelerated the improvement of other omics including metabolomics. Despite a large amount of metabolites still remaining to be identified,...

Editorial: State-of-the-Art Technology and Applications in Crop Phenomics