In this paper, we revisit the entrepreneurship and poverty relationship under a eudaimonic perspective that brings together conversion factors, and future prosperity expectations. Based on an fsQCA of changes in life ...

ABSTRACT Lead time reduction results in significant gains. This reduction is achieved through improvements programs in six different shop floor parameters. Two approaches, namely, Lean Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints ...

The notion of lower bound on awards has been introduced in the literature to analyze the establishment of guarantees that ensure a minimum award to each agent involved in situations of conflicting claims, such as the ...

The diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a global health problem, is challenging in resource-constrained settings. Spirometry with an obstructive pattern after the administration of bronchodilators ...

In this doctoral thesis, an optimization model is developed in order to provide a solution strategy to the scheduling problem in new product development projects. This projects face diferent risks that affect the normal ...

A new concept that describes a federated framework that provides computing (processing), networking, and storage as a virtual slice framework, Cloud Network Slicing (CNS) enables new approaches to IoT applications and ...

Digital teaching platforms (DTPs) are aimed to support personalization of classroom education to help optimize the learning process. A trend for research and development exists regarding methods to analyze multimodal data, ...

Food availability varies substantially throughout animals' lifespans, thus the ability to profit from high food levels may directly influence animal fitness. Studies exploring the link between basal metabolic rate (BMR), ...

Integration of renewable generation can lead, to both diversification of energy sources (which can improve the overall economic performance of the power sector) and cost increase due to the need for further resources to ...