Aluminum alloy A356 (Al-7Si-0.3Mg) is widely employed in automotive structural components due to its favorable strength-to-weight ratio, yet its mechanical performance is highly sensitive to T6 heat-treatment processes. Conventional heat-treatment schedules are typically based on uniform, empirically derived&#x...

Background/Objectives: Menopause is accompanied by substantial changes in endogenous sex hormones that influence metabolic regulation. However, the associations of specific hormones with type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk in postmenopausal women remain inconsistent. This study aimed to quantify the relationsh...

Background/Objectives: Effective clinical leadership is a critical driver of healthcare quality, patient safety, and organisational performance. However, evidence on the leadership competencies of healthcare professionals in formal management roles remains fragmented. It is dispersed across professional groups,...

Artificial intelligence is one of the key technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is increasingly significant for companies’ economic performance. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the foundation of economic development in most national economies, face numerous challenges and opp...

Cellular steel beams are increasingly used in construction projects due to their decorative and economical characteristics, enabling long spans that reduce the number of columns and footings in the structure, thus shortening construction times and reducing infrastructure costs. The objective of&#...

Three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) has emerged as a promising digital construction technology that reduces material waste, eliminates formwork, and enables complex geometries. However, its sustainability remains constrained by the extensive use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and natural aggregat...

Systematic logistics plays a key role in fostering profitable development in supply chains. An intelligent logistics model can help create a more agile, sustainable, and resilient supply chain. In recent years, several brain-inspired deep learning architectures, such as long short-term memory...

Helicopter operations are often underrepresented in environmental assessments due to their relatively low number of movements and the use of aggregated indicators that do not capture their localised impacts. At the same time, rotorcraft activity typically occurs at low altitude within urban&...

Restaurants combine long opening hours, catering demand, kitchen ventilation, DHW, and mixed-fuel cooking loads, making their decarbonisation different from generic commercial retrofit. For small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) hospitality premises, this makes the transition to net-zero operation a dist...