Biomass is a key source of energy to power the world's growing hunger for energy, whilst replacing fossil fuels as the fight against greenhouse gas emissions intensifies. This has led to a significant focus on not only using biomass as a source of energy, but also on the need to use it...

Software development projects have been blamed for being behind schedule, cost overruns, and the delivery of poor quality product. This paper presents a simulation model of a data warehouse to evaluate the feasibility of different software development controls and measures to better manage a...

Thymidine phosphorylase (TP) is a multifunctional protein frequently overexpressed in many types of cancer. Considering the interest in new anticancer compounds, a QSAR study was carried out to investigate a set of uracil derivatives described as TP inhibitors. The only molecular descriptors...

Application of pesticides may have serious adverse consequences in environment. Birds are one of the most important non-target species that are harmed by agricultural chemical pesticides. In the current study, Monte Carlo optimization based Quantitative Structure Toxicity Relationship (QSTR)...

Businesses are shifting their marketing strategies towards social media for promoting their products and services. Online video advertisements are one of the fastest-growing platforms of social media advertising. This article provides detailed models to marketers providing knowledge of different...

The purpose of this article is to investigate and model retail consumer purchase behavior and determine factors affecting the purchasing decision. The following hypotheses were verified: H1 tests the influence of “Decision-making Time” over “Final Purchase”. H2 tests “Promotion” over...

This article presents a comparator module which aims to compare, in real time, executions of organizational transactions with patterns of behaviors of these transaction executions, allowing the determination of which execution pattern is being followed by running each transaction. This is...

Solution of inverse kinematics equations of robotic manipulators constitutes usually a demanding problem, which is also required to be resolved in a time-efficient way to be appropriate for actual industrial applications. During the last few decades, soft computing models such as Artificial...