The development and management of an effective and efficient supply chain involve the selection of the suppliers. Only economic criteria, including cost and delivery, once used to be considered in the process of supplier selection. But, they do not suffice for the evaluation of suppliers anymore due to the rapidly changing environment, and different perspectives are needed to be considered. The...

BMR (Basal metabolic rate) is an important trait in animal life history as it represents a significant part of animal energy budgets. BMR has also been shown to be positively related to sustainable work rate and maximal thermoregulatory capacity. To this date, most of the studies have focused on the causes of interspecific and intraspecific variation in BMR, and fairly little is known about the...

Demand Response (DR) is a widely used technique to minimize the peak to average consumption ratio during high demands. An effective DR scheduling algorithm should minimize the curtailment error the difference between the targeted and achieved curtailment values to minimize the costs to the utility provider and maintain system reliability. Several polynomial time heuristics have been proposed in...

Software energy consumption has emerged as a growing concern in recent years. Managing the energy consumed by a software is, however, a difficult challenge due to the large number of factors affecting it – namely, features of the processor, memory, cache, and other hardware components, characteristics of the program and the workload running, OS routines, compiler optimisations, among others. In...

Software energy consumption has emerged as a growing concern in recent years. Managing the energy consumed by a software is, however, a difficult challenge due to the large number of factors affecting it – namely, features of the processor, memory, cache, and other hardware components, characteristics of the program and the workload running, OS routines, compiler optimisations, among others. In...

This work develops general fairness measures that may be used as criteria for sustainable project selection. Sustainable development, fair allocation objectives and empirical distance-based measures of fairness, and their evaluation are discussed. Generalized fairness measures are developed and extended for both intratemporal and intertemporal fairness comparisons. A preliminary application of ...

Background Epidemiologic evidence highlights the harmful consequences of unemployment on health and well-being. This emphasizes the need to design low-cost interventions to prevent the adverse mental health effects of unemployment. The main aim of this study was to create expert-consensus regarding development and implementation of a brief, sustainable, and effective intervention program for pr...