Secure Cooperative Spectrum Sensing and Allocation in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks by Hui Lin, Jia Hu, Chuan Huang, Li Xu, Bin Wu

“…Despite their promising characteristics, CRNs also introduce new security threats, especially the internal attacks during the spectrum sensing and allocation process, which can degrade the efficiency of spectrum sensing and allocation. …”
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Optimized Allocation of Flood Control Emergency Materials Based on Loss Quantification by Wei Wang, Yunqing Wang, Li Huang, Yue Song

“…Compared with the initial allocation, the optimized scheme reduces out‐of‐stock losses by approximately $392,000, lowers transportation costs by over $110,000, and improves the efficiency of flood control emergency scheduling, which can help management make better decisions on the allocation of flood control emergency materials in the future.…”
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Advanced Queueing and Location-Allocation Strategies for Sustainable Food Supply Chain by Amirmohammad Paksaz, Hanieh Zareian Beinabadi, Babak Moradi, Mobina Mousapour Mamoudan, Amir Aghsami

“…<i>Background:</i> This study presents an integrated multi-product, multi-period queuing location-allocation model for a sustainable, three-level food supply chain involving farmlands, facilities, and markets. …”
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An analytical approach to assessing the spatial equity and allocation of healthcare resources in Shanghai by Hong-Yan Li, Jing Guo, Chuang-Hao Yang

“…By utilizing GIS's statistical analysis and data visualization functions, this study provides a more efficient and intuitive analysis of Shanghai's spatial healthcare resource allocation and a more comprehensive assessment of its current allocation status. …”
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Modeling the spread of bed bug infestation and optimal resource allocation for disinfestation by Ali Gharouni, Lin Wang

“…A patch-structured multigroup-like $SIS$ epidemiological model is proposed to study the spread of the common bed bug infestation.It is shown that the model exhibits global threshold dynamics with the basic reproduction number as the threshold parameter.Costs associated with the disinfestation process are incorporated into setting up the optimization problems.Procedures are proposed and simulated for finding optimal resource allocation strategies to achieve the infestation free state.Our analysis and simulations provide useful insights on how to efficiently distribute the available exterminators among the infested patches for optimal disinfestation management.…”
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Optimal allocation of resources between control and surveillance for complex eradication scenarios by Mahdi Parsa, David Ramsey, Belinda Barnes

“…Abstract To ensure the success of complex invasive‐species eradication programs across large areas, efficient and effective resource allocation is crucial. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Resources Allocated to Rural Healthcare Facilities in South Africa by Skhumbuzo GCABASHE, Mohamed SAHEED BAYAT, France Khutso Lavhelani KGOBE

“…This paper investigates the critical issue of resource allocation in rural healthcare facilities in South Africa, focusing on the case study of Christ the King Hospital. …”
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Decentralizing Coordination in Open Vehicle Fleets for Scalable and Dynamic Task Allocation by Marin Lujak, Stefano Giordani, Andrea Omicini, Sascha Ossowski

“…One of the major challenges in the coordination of large, open, collaborative, and commercial vehicle fleets is dynamic task allocation. Self-concerned individually rational vehicle drivers have both local and global objectives, which require coordination using some fair and efficient task allocation method. …”
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Efficiency Advantages and Incentive Mechanism of PPPs: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis under the Chinese Scenario by Xiaowei Dong, Yali Du, Xianhua Wu

“…Based on the PPP efficiency system which consists of allocation efficiency, process efficiency, and individual efficiency, we use qualitative comparison analysis of fuzzy sets to study the efficiency advantages of the public-private partnership under the Chinese scenario. …”
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Prioritizing the location of vaccination centres during the COVID-19 pandemic by bike in the Netherlands by Adel Al-Huraibi, Sherif Amer, Justine Blanford

“…The centre-to-population ratio ranged from 1 centre serving 22,000 people (Noord en Oost Gelderland) to 1 centre serving 672,000 people (West Brabant region). The location-allocation analysis identified several regions that would benefit by adding more centres, most of which would serve densely populated regions previously neglected by the existing vaccination strategy. …”
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Improvement of personnel management of internal affairs bodies on the basis of system analysis procedures by A. V. Rybak, R. M. Danilov

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THE LEGAL REGIME OF BUDGETARY FUNDS: BALANCING EFFICIENT USE AND CONTROL by Anton Shukhnin

“… The purpose of the paper is to summarise and present the legal, institutional and practical dimensions of balancing efficient use and control of budgetary funds in Ukraine. …”
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Technical Efficiency of Polish Independent Public Health Care Centres: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach by Joanna Podgórska

“…The pace of demographic, technological and market changes forces an increase in financial expenditures on health, while at the same time the resources allocated to these objectives are still lacking. The present paper assesses the technical efficiency of 24 independent public health care centers (IPHCCs) in 2010–2014 with the use of the data envelopment analysis method and evaluates changes in the examined efficiency categories using the Malmquist Index. …”
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Incorporating Contextual Factors into a Comprehensive Analysis of Operational Efficiency and Service Quality in Healthcare Sector by Utsav Pandey, Sanjeet Singh

“…In the first stage, an output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis is employed to model the interdependency between operational efficiency and service quality by assessing the allocation of the input resources for achieving these two objectives. …”
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Performance Analysis of a Full-Duplex MIMO Decode-and-Forward Relay System With Self-Energy Recycling by Mohd Hamza Naim Shaikh, Vivek Ashok Bohara, Anand Srivastava

“…Specifically, this work proposes an antenna allocation scheme for S-ER as well as analytically evaluates the performance of this proposed scheme in terms of spectral efficiency (SE), energy efficiency (EE), outage and symbol error rate (SER). …”
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Smart agriculture resource allocation and energy optimization using bidirectional long short-term memory with ant colony optimization (Bi-LSTM–ACO) by M. Rathi, C. Gomathy

“…Nevertheless, increased node density, constrained energy supplies, and unstable environmental circumstances present barriers to resource allocation and communication efficiency.MethodsTo address these limitations, a hybrid system combining deep learning and metaheuristic optimization was developed, integrating Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) with Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). …”
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Fuzzy cooperative game analysis within the international railway freight coalition framework by Jiao Wu, Shansong Wu

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Economies of Scale and Efficiency in the Wastewater Treatment Sector: A Decision Tree Approach by Vicent Hernández-Chover, Águeda Bellver-Domingo, Lledó Castellet-Viciano, Francesc Hernández-Sancho

“…In this study, we use the efficiency analysis trees (EAT) model to evaluate the efficiency of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), focusing on identifying the key variables that enhance their performance. …”
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DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING COMPREHENSIVE INDICATORS TO EVALUATE THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF HYDROGEN ENERGY INVESTMENTS by Galevskiy S. G., Haidong Qian

“…The study emphasizes policy frameworks and technology for project efficiency and market growth. Strategic financial planning and risk mitigation are needed because sensitivity analysis shows how discount rates, hydrogen prices, and capacity utilization affect project viability. …”
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DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING COMPREHENSIVE INDICATORS TO EVALUATE THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF HYDROGEN ENERGY INVESTMENTS by Galevskiy S. G., Haidong Qian

“…The study emphasizes policy frameworks and technology for project efficiency and market growth. Strategic financial planning and risk mitigation are needed because sensitivity analysis shows how discount rates, hydrogen prices, and capacity utilization affect project viability. …”
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