Unrestrained urban development and rapid expansion of motorized vehicles inevitably lead
to unsustainable transportation systems from economic, social and environmental points of …

Scholars recently urged for research able to unlock the link between sustainable
development (SD) strategy and intellectual capital (IC) at the organization level. In line with …

Transportation systems play a key role in urban development by providing access for people
to markets and education, employment, health care, recreation, and other key services …

It is well documented that the interference of noise in the classroom puts younger pupils at a
disadvantage for speech perception tasks. Nevertheless, the dependence of this …

ABSTRACT Multivariate Fay-Herriot (MFH) models become popular methods to produce
reliable parameter estimates of some related multiple characteristics of interest that are …

Pupils inside primary school classrooms can be exposed to extraneous noise, impairing
their performance in the speech reception process. The different noises show a peculiar …

Sample surveys and related inferential statistical methods are suitable tools to support
decision-making practices for policymakers. For instance, to achieve the environmental …

Commodity price volatility is a major source of instability in those countries that are primarily
commodity‐dependent and has a negative impact, especially on economic growth. With this …

In many applications of the multivariate analyses of variance, the classic parametric
solutions for testing hypotheses of equality in population means or multisample and …

Permutation tests are highly versatile non-parametric procedures that can be used to
address a wide set of statistical problems, without strict assumptions on data distribution …