MIT University

The impact of geopolitical risk on energy and precious metal commodity markets using the DCC-GARCH MIDAS model

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact of geopolitical risk on selected energy and precious metal commodities, namely WTI crude oil, Brent crude oil, natural gas, gold and silver. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a Dynamic Conditional Correlation Generalized...

A YOLOv8x-Seg-based adversarial domain adaptation approach for construction and demolition waste instance segmentation

Effective construction and demolition waste (CDW) sorting is essential for improving resource recovery and supporting circular construction practices. Automated sorting systems require robust visual perception across changing material appearances, lighting, backgrounds, and opera...

Trustworthy Deployment of LLM-Based RAG Systems for Small Businesses: A Security and Confidence-Aware Framework †

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly deploying Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems to support customer service and internal knowledge management. However, practical deployment of retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) systems continues to be challe...