A computer vision-based system for real-time component identification from waste printed circuit boards.

With an exponential increase in consumers' need for electronic products, the world is facing an ever-increasing economic and environmental threat of electronic waste (e-waste). To minimize their adverse effects, e-waste recycling is one of the pivotal factors that can help in minimizing the environmental pollution andto increase recovery of valuable materials. For instance, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), while they have several valuable elements, they are hazardous too; and therefore, they form a large chunk of e-waste being generated today.

Sustainable solid waste management system using technology-enabled end-of-pipe strategies.

Ever Increasing accumulation of solid waste, attributed to population growth and rapid urbanization, is a serious issue for all nations. This creates hindrance in implementing sustainable solid waste management systems (SWMS), which contribute to socio-economic-environmental-operational (SEEO) benefits for the nations and their citizens. Limited understanding of various solid waste management (SWM) practices, their operational sequence, and other system constraints pose numerous challenges for the concerned authorities and policymakers.

Modeling Opportunity Indicators Fostering Social Entrepreneurship: A Hybrid Delphi and Best-Worst Approach.

Opportunity as a construct has been widely examined in for-profit entrepreneurship research, but it is scarcely studied in the context of social entrepreneurship. It is being observed that many entrepreneurs venture into social enterprise because they perceive it as an opportunity. This study aims to address this phenomenon by extensively identifying the opportunity indicators that promote entrepreneurs to pursue social entrepreneurship.

Responsive strategies for new normal cold supply chain using greenfield, network optimization, and simulation analysis.

The global-local supply chains are affected by the forward and downward propagation of COVID-19. The pandemic disruption is a low-frequency and high-impact (black swan) event. Adapting to the "New Normal" situation requires adequate risk mitigation strategies.

Risk profiling of food security impediments using decision maker's behavioural preference towards operational risk management.

For different decision makers, their approach towards management of operational risks differs due to difference in background and behavioural preferences. For such reasons, they attach different importance to various perspectives to manage operational risks. Present study conducts and analyses risk profiling of food security impediments, in which operational risk has come up as an important impediment.

Benchmarking sustainable E-commerce enterprises based on evolving customer expectations amidst COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has seriously impacted the performance of all types of businesses. It has given a tremendous structural boost to e-commerce enterprises by forcing customers to online shopping over visiting physical stores. Moreover, customer expectations of the digital and operational capabilities of e-commerce firms are also increasing globally.

Decision-making framework for identifying regions vulnerable to transmission of COVID-19 pandemic.

At the beginning of 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified an unusual coronavirus and declared the associated COVID-19 disease as a global pandemic. We proposed a novel hybrid fuzzy decision-making framework to identify and analyze these transmission factors and conduct proactive decision-making in this context. We identified thirty factors from the extant literature and classified them into six major clusters (, , , , , and with the help of domain experts.

Hotel attributes and overall customer satisfaction: What did COVID-19 change?

The effect of hotel attributes on customer satisfaction has been well studied in hospitality literature. However, the importance of hotel attributes for customer satisfaction may change due to the prevailing global pandemic given (1) the negative health consequences of the disease, (2) the guidelines and advisories issued by health agencies, and (3) wide media coverage of the pandemic. These factors can affect the importance that customers attach to different attributes.

Does the Covid-19 pandemic affect faith-based investments? Evidence from global sectoral indices.

In this paper, we aim to investigate the influence of the Covid-19 on the behavior of the S&P 1200 Shariah and non-Shariah sectoral indices over the period from 1st October 2010 to 29th October 2020. We contribute to the global literature by examining the financial impact of the Covid-19 on the Shariah and non-Shariah sectoral indices. We find that the S&P 1200 Shariah Communication, consumer staples, financials, healthcare, industrials, IT, materials, and utility sectors earn higher average returns than their counterpart sectoral indices during the Covid-19 period.

Aerial Bots in the Supply Chain: A New Ally to Combat COVID-19.

The rapid global spread of COVID-19 has caused disruptions in various supply chains and people's lives. At the same time, it has paved the way for drone technology (Aerial bots). With the countries gone into lockdown for an unspecified time, it is self-evident that people will run out of food, medicine, and other essentials because of the middleman's unavailability to move products from supply to demand point.