The need to balance ecosystems and ensure the well-being of all people underlines the urgency of closing product life cycles. In recent years, the circular economy (CE) has emerged as one of the most relevant factors in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper presents a systematic...
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Over recent years, scholarly interest in universities' allocation and effective utilisation of financial resources has been growing. When used efficiently, financial resources may improve universities' quality of research and teaching, and therefore their positions in world university rankings....
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Impact of a regulatory target and external factors on the waste efficiency of Italian municipalitiesDue to increasing consumption and urbanisation, urban waste management and recycling are a primary concern in Italy. Italian waste collection underwent significant reform with the introduction of a sorted collection target of 65% of total collected waste in Legislative Decree No. 152/2006. In this...
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his paper analyses the waste management efficiency of European Union countries using a flexible nonparametric methodology known as directional data envelopment analysis (DEA). The study evaluates performance at the macro (country) level, considering waste generated as input, landfilled and...
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Directional distances are a popular tool in productivity and efficiency analysis due to their versatility in evaluating the distance of Decision Making Units (DMU) to the efficient frontier of the production set. The theoretical and statistical properties of these measures are well-established in...
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Chaos detection is the problem of identifying whether a series of measurements is being sampled from an underlying set of chaotic dynamics. The unavoidable presence of measurement noise significantly affects the performance of chaos detectors, as discerning chaotic dynamics from stochastic signals...
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In the Internet of Things era, the Internet demands extremely high-speed communication and data transformation. To this end, the tactile Internet has been proposed as a medium that provides the sense of touch ability, facilitating data transferability with extra-low latency in various applications...
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We consider the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of strategic agents with additive valuation functions. We assume no monetary transfers, and therefore, a mechanism in our setting is an algorithm that takes as input the reported- rather than the true-values of the...
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Microplastics derived from fiber shredding are recognized by the scientific community as one of the main sources of microplastic water pollution, thus actualizing the need for techniques able to identify them with high accuracy. The recently released Holography Micro-Plastic Dataset offers the...
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Attitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS) have achieved significant accuracy and reliability, making them suitable for various applications. This is possible through the integration of high-rate measurements, though they remain prone to errors, particularly sensor drift over time. As a...