Ontology- and Data-Driven Circularity Assessment of Waste-Derived Rigid PVC-u: A Micro–Macro Decision Framework for Sustainable Recycling and Smart Manufacturing See

The circularity of waste-derived rigid unplasticised poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC-u) is constrained by heterogeneous waste-stream sources, degraded material quality, legacy additives, and inconsistent decision criteria spanning technical, environmental, and economic aspects. In this work, we developed an ontology...

Effects of Key Processing Parameters on Microstructure Features and Mechanical Properties of Die-Cast Aluminium Alloy Wheels Assisted with AI and Intelligent Prediction See

Effects of key processing parameters including ingate velocity (IV) and intensification pressure (IP), on the average/maximum sizes, volume fraction and fractal dimension of defects/porosities and grain size, and mechanical properties of die-cast Al7SiMnMg alloy wheels, were investigated by exper...

Racialised Conditional Capital Conversion: Race, Class and the Limits of Recognition in Elite Organisations See

This paper examines how racial inequality persists within organisations alongside career advancement among racialised professionals. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with fifty Chinese professionals in Australia's Big Four firms, we examine how race shapes the recognition and conversion of economic, ...

Billable Hours and Work Flexibility: Navigating the Paradox in Law Firms See

Flexible work promises control over where and when work is performed, yet organisations still need credible performance evidence at a distance. Drawing on 30 interviews with women lawyers in UK‐based international firms, we examine how billable hours mediate these demands. Records of bi...

Standing shoulder-to-shoulder: Female solidarity and CEO–employee pay gap See

Drawing on an international sample of 20,576 observations between 2002 and 2021, we find that greater female employment is positively associated with a higher salary gap, implying that firms employing more women are more prone to a higher salary gap. However, a greater proportion&#...

Environmental Disclosure Versus Environmental Performance: Implications for Corporate Financial Performance and Risk See

Environmental considerations shape corporate strategy, risk management, and firm valuation. Yet, empirical evidence on the links between environmental performance, environmental disclosures and corporate financial performance is mixed and often omits risk implications. We develop a holistic framework to ex...

EEG-GANet: Simulating Electroencephalogram Data to Address Sample Imbalance in P300 Speller See

The P300 speller is a brain−computer interface (BCI) system that enables character selection using event-related potentials (ERPs). However, the inherent imbalance between target and non-target stimuli biases deep learning models. Reducing non-target samples to mitigate this issue risks underutilizing ...

Scale-Aware Gated Routing Distillation for Lightweight Remote Sensing Object Counting See

Remote sensing object counting remains challenging for lightweight models due to large scale variation, dense object distribution, and complex background interference. Existing lightweight counting methods usually rely on static multi-scale fusion, which limits adaptive receptive-field selection under heterogen...

An Ultrawideband and Low-Profile Phased Array Design for Satellite-assisted Internet of Things Vehicular Communication See

This article presents a low-profile dual-polarized phased array antenna featuring an improved feed structure and a multiresonant wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM) layer for satellite-assisted Internet-of-Things (SATA-IoT) vehicular communications across the L-, S-, C-, and X-bands. First, an improved fe...