Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is kno...
The aim of this research is to determine the differential impact of accumulated career experiences (i.e., within a firm, industry, or sales occupation) on the compensation levels of sales managers and salespeople. This conceptualization is consistent with the observation that employees are sorted ...
migrants consider whether to live in the destination cities for a long time. There are many observations in research on the mechanisms driving migration, and the “push-pull” hypothesis is one of the most well-known explanations
You can. It is a process called strategic default. You stop paying, and the lender gets to sell your house at auction for the repayment of the debt. There are consequences. Your credit will be harmed, and you may need to declare bankruptcy to fully extinguish the debt. Lenders wil...
This paper presents a systematic mapping (SM) study with the aim to determine how Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodologies and technologies contribute to energy-related analyses over the course of the entire building life cycle. The method adopted in the study is based on a set of seven...
1 Because popular beliefs frequently related the activities of malignant spirits and demons to the unstable conditions of one’s home and threats to its inhabitants, a special emphasis was placed on finding ways to deal with these potentially troublesome entities. Ānzhái 安宅is still an ...
We demonstrate their interpretability and performance for the multilayer perceptron, support vector machines and gradient-boosting machines applied to synthetic data and several real-world data sets, namely Pima Diabetes, German Credit Card, and Statlog Shuttle from the UCI repository. The GAMs are ...
—An Empirical Study Based on a Panel of Chinese Cities by Xinhua Yang, Qicheng Li, Shuai Luo * and Qi Li School of Economics, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Sustainability 2023, 15(8), 6893; https://doi.org/...
The authors declare no conflict of interest. Appendix A Table A1. Sample firms, firm size, and interviewee positions. References Fawcett, S.E.; Brockhaus, S.; Knemeyer, A.M.; Fawcett, A.M. Sustainability as strategy: Caught in the luxury trap. Supply Chain Manag. Rev. 2015, 19, 16...
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