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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2018Publisher:MDPI AG Bruna Grimberg; Selena Ahmed; Colter Ellis; Zachariah Miller; Fabian Menalled;doi: 10.3390/su10051687
This study explored whether Montana agricultural stakeholders’ perceptions and observations of climate change vary according to four socio-ecological variables: income, political view, agricultural occupation, and production region. A survey including 27 questions was developed into five sections: (1) agricultural background information; (2) perceptions about climate change; (3) observed changes in climate-related variables; (4) adaptation practices and strategies; and (5) demographic information. The survey included Likert-scored responses and multiple-choice questions, and was completed by 452 participants, including conventional and organic farmers and ranchers, extension agents, crop consultants, and researchers. The results indicate that while a notable fraction of agricultural stakeholders are alarmed about climate change and optimistic about the human capacity to reduce climate change, the degree of concern and optimism significantly varies depending on the stakeholder’s political views, production region, and agricultural occupation group. We found that observations of changes in climate, perceptions about climate change, and potential risks to agricultural production are driven mainly by political views. Both perceptions and observations drive the choice of adaptation and mitigation practices. It is thus essential to understand farmers’ socio-ecological characteristics when designing agricultural outreach programs in order to reduce barriers for the adoption of climate-resilient agriculture.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2022Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Dongdong Yang; Carolyn A. Lin;doi: 10.3390/su141811383
The current study drew from emotional contagion and source credibility theories to investigate whether watching differentially sourced panda videos may influence attitudes toward the “brand” image of China. An experiment (N = 245) conducted with a U.S. college student sample showed that perceived source credibility and nature relatedness were positively linked to emotional response toward the video. A non-governmental video source was perceived to be more credible than a governmental video source in influencing attitude toward Chinese culture, emotional response toward the video, and attitude toward wildlife conservation. The latter two variables and nature relatedness likewise positively predicted attitude toward Chinese culture, which in turn had a positive effect on attitude toward Chinese people; attitude toward Chinese people further positively affected attitude toward Chinese government. These findings suggest that panda diplomacy as a soft-power nation-branding device might have been relatively effective in building goodwill toward Chinese culture, people, and government overtime.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2021Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Jacqueline Tsz Yin Lo; Calvin Kam;doi: 10.3390/su13169038
It is known that organizations can gain a competitive advantage only by managing effectively for today, while simultaneously creating innovation for tomorrow, and sustainability is one of the innovative strategies in major architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) organizations. Innovation is vital to AEC organizations’ growth, yet most do not have a comprehensive measurement of innovation performance. Similar to the balanced scorecard approach, key indicators should be identified for the measuring of innovation performance to facilitate management. This article presents a study by using a triangulation approach that integrates systematic literature reviews and two-step consultations with experienced senior professionals to compile a set of key indicators for innovation performance measures for the AEC Industry.
Sustainability arrow_drop_down SustainabilityOther literature type . 2021License: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/16/9038/pdfData sources: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2023Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Fazal Ur Rehman; Basheer M. Al-Ghazali; Adel Ghaleb Haddad; Ehab Abdullatif Qahwash; +1 AuthorsFazal Ur Rehman; Basheer M. Al-Ghazali; Adel Ghaleb Haddad; Ehab Abdullatif Qahwash; M. Sadiq Sohail;doi: 10.3390/su15065181
The current study aims to examine the reverse association between circular economy innovation (CEI) and digital sustainability (DS), as well as the dual mediation of government incentives (GI) among firms. Data was collected through a structured-questionnaire-based survey among financial institutions (banks, insurance, and financial companies) in Pakistan, Malaysia, and China. The study collected data via structured questionnaires in an online survey and analysed the data using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), to find results. The results revealed that CEI has a two-way relationship with the DS among firms in the defined context. Furthermore, the results confirmed the dual mediating role of GI between CEI and DS among firms. The outcomes can guide the policy makers to focus on the practices of CEI in the settings of the relevant state support schemes, to enhance the practices of DS among firms in emerging markets. The implications of the study are presented at the end of this study.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022Publisher:MDPI AG Shahida Anusha Siddiqui; Prachi Singh; Sipper Khan; Ito Fernando; Igor Spartakovich Baklanov; Tigran Garrievich Ambartsumov; Salam A. Ibrahim;doi: 10.3390/su141710993
Cannabis consumption has become the center of much debate globally. The positive public perception of the medicinal benefits of cannabis and the rise of recreational usage of cannabis necessitate dramatic changes in cannabis reform policy. As a consequence, there is an increase in cannabis legalization around the globe, although it is still facing many rejections. It is crucial to understand the factors affecting public acceptance of cannabis use to support the contextualization and success of cannabis legalization. This review aims to address consumer cultural, social and psychological factors regarding the legal use of cannabis. Based on this review, cultures influence the endorsement or rejection of cannabis use depending on political views, religious sentiments and affiliated subcultures (adult, youth and adolescent subcultures). Regarding the social factors, socioeconomic status, measured by income, education level and occupation, is a key determinant of cannabis use. The beliefs opposing cannabis legalization are due to the negative stigma surrounding cannabis use. Nevertheless, growing awareness about the pharmaceutical and therapeutic effects of cannabis has led to an increase in positive attitudes towards cannabis legalization. Thus, dissemination of cannabis use benefits reaffirmed by scientific evidence could be a strategic way to alleviate the public’s negative feedback on cannabis legalization.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 2021Publisher:MDPI AG Funded by:NSF | SRN: Integrated Urban Inf...NSF| SRN: Integrated Urban Infrastructure Solutions for Environmentally Sustainable, Healthy and Livable Cities.Authors: Richard C. Feiock; So Young Kim;doi: 10.3390/su13063344
This essay introduces the political market framework (PMF) and discusses its implications for understanding local sustainability policy. The PMF conceptualizes public policy related to sustainability as the product of exchange between governmental policy suppliers and voter and interest group policy demanders. After presenting a political market model, the role of political institutions is introduced. Institutions structure exchange relationships by determining transaction costs of searching for mutually beneficial agreements, bargaining over outcomes, and monitoring and enforcing decisions. The central implication for research is the need to account for the moderating role that political institutions play in sustainability policy decisions. A research agenda based on the PMF is advanced. The conclusion addresses the limitations of the framework as well as its implications for policy adoptions, program designs, and individual behavior.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2016Publisher:MDPI AG Richelle Winkler; Lorri Oikarinen; Melissa Michaelson; Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez; Heather L. Simpson;doi: 10.3390/su8030284
Cycles of boom and bust plague mining communities around the globe, and decades after the bust the skeletons of shrunken cities remain. This article evaluates strategies for how former mining communities cope and strive for sustainability in the decades well beyond the bust, using a case study of Calumet, Michigan. In 1910, Calumet was at the center of the mining industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but in the century since its peak, mining employment steadily declined until the last mine closed in 1968, and the population declined by over 80%. This paper explores challenges, opportunities, and progress toward sustainability associated with arts-related development in this context. Methods are mixed, including observation, interviews, document review, a survey, and secondary data analysis. We follow Flora and Flora’s Community Capitals Framework to analyze progress toward sustainability. Despite key challenges associated with the shrunken city context (degraded tax base, overbuilt and aging infrastructure, diminished human capital, and a rather limited set of volunteers and political actors), we find the shrunken city also offers advantages for arts development, including low rents, less risk of gentrification, access to space, and political incentive. In Calumet, we see evidence of a spiraling up pattern toward social sustainability resulting from arts development; however impacts on environmental and economic sustainability are limited.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2022 MalaysiaPublisher:MDPI AG Arash Moradzadeh; Sahar Zakeri; Waleed A. Oraibi; Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo; Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek; Reza Ghorbani;doi: 10.3390/su142214898
Today, introducing useful and practical solutions to residential load disaggregation as subsets of energy management has created numerous challenges. In this study, an intelligence hybrid solution based on manifold learning and deep learning applications is presented. The proposed solution presents a combined structure of Laplacian eigenmaps (LE), a convolutional neural network (CNN), and a recurrent neural network (RNN), called LE-CRNN. In the proposed model architecture, LE, with its high ability in dimensional reduction, transfers the salient features and specific values of power consumption curves (PCCs) of household electrical appliances (HEAs) to a low-dimensional space. Then, the combined model of CRNN significantly improves the structure of CNN in fully connected layers so that the process of identification and separation of the HEA type can be performed without overfitting problems and with very high accuracy. In order to implement the suggested model, two real-world databases have been used. In a separate scenario, a conventional CNN is applied to the data for comparing the performance of the suggested model with the CNN. The designed networks are trained and validated using the PCCs of HEAs. Then, the whole energy consumption of the building obtained from the smart meter is used for load disaggregation. The trained networks, which contain features extracted from PCCs of HEAs, prove that they can disaggregate the total power consumption for houses intended for the Reference Energy Disaggregation Data Set (REDD) and Almanac of Minutely Power Dataset (AMPds) with average accuracies (Acc) of 97.59% and 97.03%, respectively. Finally, in order to show the accuracy of the developed hybrid model, the obtained results in this study are compared with the results of similar works for the same datasets.
Sustainability arrow_drop_down SustainabilityOther literature type . 2022License: CC BYData sources: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia: Institutional RepositoryArticle . 2022Data sources: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2021 FinlandPublisher:MDPI AG Vildjiounaite, Elena; Kantorovitch, Julia; Kinnula, Atte; López; Miguel Bordallo; Kallio, Johanna;doi: 10.3390/su13042003
Modern knowledge work is highly intense and demanding, exposing workers to long-term psychosocial stress. In order to address the problem, stress detection technologies have been developed, enabling the continuous assessment of personal stress based on multimodal sensor data. However, stakeholders lack insights into how employees perceive different monitoring technologies and whether they are willing to share stress-indicative data in order to sustain well-being at the individual, team, and organizational levels in the knowledge work context. To fill this research gap, we developed a theoretical model for knowledge workers’ interest in sharing their stress-indicative data collected with unobtrusive sensors and examined it empirically using structural equation modeling (SEM) with a survey of 181 European knowledge workers. The results did not show statistically significant privacy concerns regarding environmental sensors such as air quality, sound level, and motion sensors. On the other hand, concerns about more privacy-sensitive methods such as tracking personal device usage patterns did not prevent user acceptance nor intent to share data. Overall, knowledge workers were highly interested in employing stress monitoring technologies to measure their stress levels and receive information about their personal well-being. The results validate the willingness to accept the unobtrusive, continuous stress detection in the context of knowledge work.
Sustainability arrow_drop_down SustainabilityOther literature type . 2021License: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/4/2003/pdfData sources: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteUniversity of Oulu Repository - JultikaArticle . 2021Data sources: University of Oulu Repository - Jultikaadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2022 Netherlands, BelgiumPublisher:MDPI AG Authors: Arien Arianti Gunawan; Jose Bloemer; Allard C. R. van Riel; Caroline Essers;The implementation of sustainability-oriented practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been discussed frequently over the years. Recent studies on sustainability have focused mainly on links between ecological and economic sustainability. This exploratory study aims to explore institutional barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of sustainability-oriented practices in the Indonesian batik industry and to provide policy recommendations. The Indonesian batik industry is well-known for its cultural heritage and for being part of the Indonesian identity. Batik products are mostly hand-crafted by women crafters. The study used in-depth insights from two focus groups conducted with entrepreneurs active in the batik industry, while also building on earlier empirical insights. The lack of customer knowledge and socio-cultural and regulatory factors were found to be barriers to sustainability in batik SMEs. Ecological, technological, socio-cultural, and political factors were found to facilitate achieving sustainability objectives. This study contributes to the sustainable entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship literature by considering facilitators and barriers as they are experienced by batik entrepreneurs and by furthering the conceptualization of sustainable entrepreneurs as either “committed” or “followers”.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2018Publisher:MDPI AG Bruna Grimberg; Selena Ahmed; Colter Ellis; Zachariah Miller; Fabian Menalled;doi: 10.3390/su10051687
This study explored whether Montana agricultural stakeholders’ perceptions and observations of climate change vary according to four socio-ecological variables: income, political view, agricultural occupation, and production region. A survey including 27 questions was developed into five sections: (1) agricultural background information; (2) perceptions about climate change; (3) observed changes in climate-related variables; (4) adaptation practices and strategies; and (5) demographic information. The survey included Likert-scored responses and multiple-choice questions, and was completed by 452 participants, including conventional and organic farmers and ranchers, extension agents, crop consultants, and researchers. The results indicate that while a notable fraction of agricultural stakeholders are alarmed about climate change and optimistic about the human capacity to reduce climate change, the degree of concern and optimism significantly varies depending on the stakeholder’s political views, production region, and agricultural occupation group. We found that observations of changes in climate, perceptions about climate change, and potential risks to agricultural production are driven mainly by political views. Both perceptions and observations drive the choice of adaptation and mitigation practices. It is thus essential to understand farmers’ socio-ecological characteristics when designing agricultural outreach programs in order to reduce barriers for the adoption of climate-resilient agriculture.
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The current study drew from emotional contagion and source credibility theories to investigate whether watching differentially sourced panda videos may influence attitudes toward the “brand” image of China. An experiment (N = 245) conducted with a U.S. college student sample showed that perceived source credibility and nature relatedness were positively linked to emotional response toward the video. A non-governmental video source was perceived to be more credible than a governmental video source in influencing attitude toward Chinese culture, emotional response toward the video, and attitude toward wildlife conservation. The latter two variables and nature relatedness likewise positively predicted attitude toward Chinese culture, which in turn had a positive effect on attitude toward Chinese people; attitude toward Chinese people further positively affected attitude toward Chinese government. These findings suggest that panda diplomacy as a soft-power nation-branding device might have been relatively effective in building goodwill toward Chinese culture, people, and government overtime.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2021Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Jacqueline Tsz Yin Lo; Calvin Kam;doi: 10.3390/su13169038
It is known that organizations can gain a competitive advantage only by managing effectively for today, while simultaneously creating innovation for tomorrow, and sustainability is one of the innovative strategies in major architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) organizations. Innovation is vital to AEC organizations’ growth, yet most do not have a comprehensive measurement of innovation performance. Similar to the balanced scorecard approach, key indicators should be identified for the measuring of innovation performance to facilitate management. This article presents a study by using a triangulation approach that integrates systematic literature reviews and two-step consultations with experienced senior professionals to compile a set of key indicators for innovation performance measures for the AEC Industry.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2023Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Fazal Ur Rehman; Basheer M. Al-Ghazali; Adel Ghaleb Haddad; Ehab Abdullatif Qahwash; +1 AuthorsFazal Ur Rehman; Basheer M. Al-Ghazali; Adel Ghaleb Haddad; Ehab Abdullatif Qahwash; M. Sadiq Sohail;doi: 10.3390/su15065181
The current study aims to examine the reverse association between circular economy innovation (CEI) and digital sustainability (DS), as well as the dual mediation of government incentives (GI) among firms. Data was collected through a structured-questionnaire-based survey among financial institutions (banks, insurance, and financial companies) in Pakistan, Malaysia, and China. The study collected data via structured questionnaires in an online survey and analysed the data using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM), to find results. The results revealed that CEI has a two-way relationship with the DS among firms in the defined context. Furthermore, the results confirmed the dual mediating role of GI between CEI and DS among firms. The outcomes can guide the policy makers to focus on the practices of CEI in the settings of the relevant state support schemes, to enhance the practices of DS among firms in emerging markets. The implications of the study are presented at the end of this study.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022Publisher:MDPI AG Shahida Anusha Siddiqui; Prachi Singh; Sipper Khan; Ito Fernando; Igor Spartakovich Baklanov; Tigran Garrievich Ambartsumov; Salam A. Ibrahim;doi: 10.3390/su141710993
Cannabis consumption has become the center of much debate globally. The positive public perception of the medicinal benefits of cannabis and the rise of recreational usage of cannabis necessitate dramatic changes in cannabis reform policy. As a consequence, there is an increase in cannabis legalization around the globe, although it is still facing many rejections. It is crucial to understand the factors affecting public acceptance of cannabis use to support the contextualization and success of cannabis legalization. This review aims to address consumer cultural, social and psychological factors regarding the legal use of cannabis. Based on this review, cultures influence the endorsement or rejection of cannabis use depending on political views, religious sentiments and affiliated subcultures (adult, youth and adolescent subcultures). Regarding the social factors, socioeconomic status, measured by income, education level and occupation, is a key determinant of cannabis use. The beliefs opposing cannabis legalization are due to the negative stigma surrounding cannabis use. Nevertheless, growing awareness about the pharmaceutical and therapeutic effects of cannabis has led to an increase in positive attitudes towards cannabis legalization. Thus, dissemination of cannabis use benefits reaffirmed by scientific evidence could be a strategic way to alleviate the public’s negative feedback on cannabis legalization.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 2021Publisher:MDPI AG Funded by:NSF | SRN: Integrated Urban Inf...NSF| SRN: Integrated Urban Infrastructure Solutions for Environmentally Sustainable, Healthy and Livable Cities.Authors: Richard C. Feiock; So Young Kim;doi: 10.3390/su13063344
This essay introduces the political market framework (PMF) and discusses its implications for understanding local sustainability policy. The PMF conceptualizes public policy related to sustainability as the product of exchange between governmental policy suppliers and voter and interest group policy demanders. After presenting a political market model, the role of political institutions is introduced. Institutions structure exchange relationships by determining transaction costs of searching for mutually beneficial agreements, bargaining over outcomes, and monitoring and enforcing decisions. The central implication for research is the need to account for the moderating role that political institutions play in sustainability policy decisions. A research agenda based on the PMF is advanced. The conclusion addresses the limitations of the framework as well as its implications for policy adoptions, program designs, and individual behavior.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 2016Publisher:MDPI AG Richelle Winkler; Lorri Oikarinen; Melissa Michaelson; Mayra Sanchez Gonzalez; Heather L. Simpson;doi: 10.3390/su8030284
Cycles of boom and bust plague mining communities around the globe, and decades after the bust the skeletons of shrunken cities remain. This article evaluates strategies for how former mining communities cope and strive for sustainability in the decades well beyond the bust, using a case study of Calumet, Michigan. In 1910, Calumet was at the center of the mining industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but in the century since its peak, mining employment steadily declined until the last mine closed in 1968, and the population declined by over 80%. This paper explores challenges, opportunities, and progress toward sustainability associated with arts-related development in this context. Methods are mixed, including observation, interviews, document review, a survey, and secondary data analysis. We follow Flora and Flora’s Community Capitals Framework to analyze progress toward sustainability. Despite key challenges associated with the shrunken city context (degraded tax base, overbuilt and aging infrastructure, diminished human capital, and a rather limited set of volunteers and political actors), we find the shrunken city also offers advantages for arts development, including low rents, less risk of gentrification, access to space, and political incentive. In Calumet, we see evidence of a spiraling up pattern toward social sustainability resulting from arts development; however impacts on environmental and economic sustainability are limited.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2022 MalaysiaPublisher:MDPI AG Arash Moradzadeh; Sahar Zakeri; Waleed A. Oraibi; Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo; Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek; Reza Ghorbani;doi: 10.3390/su142214898
Today, introducing useful and practical solutions to residential load disaggregation as subsets of energy management has created numerous challenges. In this study, an intelligence hybrid solution based on manifold learning and deep learning applications is presented. The proposed solution presents a combined structure of Laplacian eigenmaps (LE), a convolutional neural network (CNN), and a recurrent neural network (RNN), called LE-CRNN. In the proposed model architecture, LE, with its high ability in dimensional reduction, transfers the salient features and specific values of power consumption curves (PCCs) of household electrical appliances (HEAs) to a low-dimensional space. Then, the combined model of CRNN significantly improves the structure of CNN in fully connected layers so that the process of identification and separation of the HEA type can be performed without overfitting problems and with very high accuracy. In order to implement the suggested model, two real-world databases have been used. In a separate scenario, a conventional CNN is applied to the data for comparing the performance of the suggested model with the CNN. The designed networks are trained and validated using the PCCs of HEAs. Then, the whole energy consumption of the building obtained from the smart meter is used for load disaggregation. The trained networks, which contain features extracted from PCCs of HEAs, prove that they can disaggregate the total power consumption for houses intended for the Reference Energy Disaggregation Data Set (REDD) and Almanac of Minutely Power Dataset (AMPds) with average accuracies (Acc) of 97.59% and 97.03%, respectively. Finally, in order to show the accuracy of the developed hybrid model, the obtained results in this study are compared with the results of similar works for the same datasets.
Sustainability arrow_drop_down SustainabilityOther literature type . 2022License: CC BYData sources: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia: Institutional RepositoryArticle . 2022Data sources: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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Modern knowledge work is highly intense and demanding, exposing workers to long-term psychosocial stress. In order to address the problem, stress detection technologies have been developed, enabling the continuous assessment of personal stress based on multimodal sensor data. However, stakeholders lack insights into how employees perceive different monitoring technologies and whether they are willing to share stress-indicative data in order to sustain well-being at the individual, team, and organizational levels in the knowledge work context. To fill this research gap, we developed a theoretical model for knowledge workers’ interest in sharing their stress-indicative data collected with unobtrusive sensors and examined it empirically using structural equation modeling (SEM) with a survey of 181 European knowledge workers. The results did not show statistically significant privacy concerns regarding environmental sensors such as air quality, sound level, and motion sensors. On the other hand, concerns about more privacy-sensitive methods such as tracking personal device usage patterns did not prevent user acceptance nor intent to share data. Overall, knowledge workers were highly interested in employing stress monitoring technologies to measure their stress levels and receive information about their personal well-being. The results validate the willingness to accept the unobtrusive, continuous stress detection in the context of knowledge work.
Sustainability arrow_drop_down SustainabilityOther literature type . 2021License: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/4/2003/pdfData sources: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteUniversity of Oulu Repository - JultikaArticle . 2021Data sources: University of Oulu Repository - Jultikaadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2022 Netherlands, BelgiumPublisher:MDPI AG Authors: Arien Arianti Gunawan; Jose Bloemer; Allard C. R. van Riel; Caroline Essers;The implementation of sustainability-oriented practices in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been discussed frequently over the years. Recent studies on sustainability have focused mainly on links between ecological and economic sustainability. This exploratory study aims to explore institutional barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of sustainability-oriented practices in the Indonesian batik industry and to provide policy recommendations. The Indonesian batik industry is well-known for its cultural heritage and for being part of the Indonesian identity. Batik products are mostly hand-crafted by women crafters. The study used in-depth insights from two focus groups conducted with entrepreneurs active in the batik industry, while also building on earlier empirical insights. The lack of customer knowledge and socio-cultural and regulatory factors were found to be barriers to sustainability in batik SMEs. Ecological, technological, socio-cultural, and political factors were found to facilitate achieving sustainability objectives. This study contributes to the sustainable entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship literature by considering facilitators and barriers as they are experienced by batik entrepreneurs and by furthering the conceptualization of sustainable entrepreneurs as either “committed” or “followers”.
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