Electrically conductive and biodegradable materials are desired for a range of applications in wearable electronics to address the growing ecological problem of e-waste. Herein, we report on the design and fabrication of ...

Various research prove that happy nations are prosperous in numerous areas containing GDP, productivity, social support and inclusion, health, lower corruption and environmental sustainability. The analysis in this multicriteria ...

Planning decentralised community-level hybrid energy systems has emerged as a solution to the various environmental and economic issues associated with conventional centralised energy supply systems. However, the optimal ...

This paper describes a human search system that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The use of robots to search for people is expected to become an auxiliary tool for saving lives during a disaster. In particular, because ...

The building sector accounts for 40% of the energy use and one-third of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally. Buildings deteriorate with age, which leads to a decrease in their energy performance. Therefore, it is ...

While much has been written on e-waste in developed countries and some developing countries, the challenges of sustainable urban mining in e-waste in Sri Lanka remain largely unexplored. However, understanding these ...

The emergence of Industry 4.0 has resulted in a rapid increase in the demand for bandwidth due to the proliferation of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Increased utilization of the network also gives rise to undesirable ...

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, ...

One of the key decisions made during initial stages of chemical plant design and development is the chemical route selection. A chemical route is considered as the raw material(s) and the sequence of reaction steps that ...

For manufactured items sold by weight or volume, this article considers mixed acceptance criteria that put limits on the sample mean or on an upper confidence limit based on the sample mean and on the number of individual ...