Transylvania University of Brașov

Conditional Viability of Refurbished EV/PHEV Batteries: A Risk-Informed Decision Framework for Circular Pathway Selection

End-of-life electric-vehicle and plug-in hybrid (EV/PHEV) battery packs pose a recurrent decision: refurbish, redeploy in second-life storage, recycle, or reject. Technical condition, safety, economics, regulation, traceability, and environmental benefit interact, making pathway...

Smart Healthcare Engineering: A Data-Driven Educational Framework for Psychrometric Analysis and Air Handling Systems in Hospitals

This paper presents a data-driven educational framework for teaching psychrometry and air quality control in hospitals, developed within an international pilot project involving universities and hospitals in Spain, Romania, and Turkey. The objective of this pilot study is to exam...

Large Family Contexts in Inclusive Education: Lights and Shadows from a Bibliometric Perspective

Across the literature, family involvement is recognized as a key factor for academic progress, inclusive education and personal development. However, family size is rarely examined in bibliometric analyses, despite growing attention to socioeconomic and family-related factors inf...

Accurate Treatment of Solution and Flux Discontinuities in 2D Time-Dependent Interface Problems via Meshless Method

Interface problems frequently arise in applications including heat conduction with composite materials, fluid flow in porous media, and diffusion–reaction processes across heterogeneous domains. This paper presents a numerical method that combines radial basis functions with a fi...

Emerging and Re-emerging Threats to Global Forest Health: A Systematic Review of Fungal, Oomycete, Nematode, and Viral Pathogens in the Context of Climate Change and Biosecurity

Abstract Purpose of Review Forest ecosystems are increasingly threatened by a dynamic array of fungal, oomycete, nematode, and viral pathogens. Accelerating climate change, globalized trade, and the expansion of intensively managed plantations are simultaneously broadening pathog...