Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...

This article aims to analyze the situation of Romanian companies from an environmental point of view. Environmental issues are addressed very often nowadays, and they reach and affect every domain, including the economical one. Implementing an environmental management system will not only help the companies to comply with laws and regulations, but, above all, will offer them an important compet...

Congestion pricing strategy has been recognized as an effective countermeasure in the practical field of urban traffic congestion mitigation. Despite the positive effects of congestion pricing, its implementation has faced problems. This paper investigates the issue of environmental equity in cordon pricing and a park-and-ride scheme. Although pollution decreases inside the cordon by implementa...

The real world presents interpretable visual detail at different scales in situations. While empowering face recognition, augmented reality, and other computer vision tasks, mobile systems should be able to dynamically adapt the spatiotemporal resolution of sensing pipeline capture image frames high resolutions for task precision low energy savings. Facilitating real-time decisions reconfigure ...

extended abstract introduction a lot of activities in environmental economics scope have concentrated on this question that why some developing countries suffer from environmental degradation, whereas other countries can maintain or enhance the environmental quality. with the collapse of communism and economic evolution of china, most people live, work and bargain in free market economies. henc...

In this paper, we provide a method based on quantiles to estimate the parameters of finite mixture Fréchet distributions, for large sample strongly dependent data. This is situation that appears when dealing with environmental data and there was real need such method. We validate our approach by means estimation goodness-of-fit testing over simulated data, showing an accurate performance.

The everyday auditory environment is complex and dynamic; often, multiple sounds co-occur and compete for a listener's cognitive resources. 'Change deafness', framed as the auditory analog to the well-documented phenomenon of 'change blindness', describes the finding that changes presented within complex environments are often missed. The present study examines a number of stimulus factors that...